I Submitted the Divine Brush Ma Liang System

The full story is complete. Please support the official version on Jinjiang. The author's next novel, She Is Playing Chess with the Gods, is now underway. Scroll down in the blurb to read it. Blurb: Zhong Dai, an illustrator from the industry's bottom ranks, finally got a commission after three months without work. Client: Draw me a picture of a handsome man taking a nap. Zhong Dai: OK. After finishing the drawing, Zhong Dai stared at the pillow that had suddenly fallen out of her computer. Who could tell her why a pillow had come out of her drawing when all she'd done was draw a handsome man? After trying a few things, Zhong Dai discovered that when she drew Chang'e shedding tears, the exquisite handkerchief she used to wipe them away became real; when she drew a beauty dancing with a sword, the sharp sword became real; when she drew Li Bai admiring the moon, the fine wine on the table became real... A sudden inspiration struck Zhong Dai, and she went online to search for the latest communications satellite launch... Zhong Dai (giving a thumbs-up): Think bigger. In the underground parking garage of an apartment building in a certain city, someone made an emergency call. Zhong Dai looked at the enormous satellite before her. "Hello, can I turn this satellite over to the authorities?" *The story is set in a fictional apocalypse. All place and country names in the text were made up on a whim by the author and have no connection to reality. Please don't read them as real. *This is a romance, but the female lead gets much more page time than the male lead. The romance is limited, but it is definitely there. Blurb for She Is Playing Chess with the Gods: When Huo Xi was tossed into the apocalypse, she had only two things: an empty cultivation space with a third of an acre of pumpkins growing in it, and an electronic contract that her lousy System had slowly shoved at her: "Notice of Your Inheritance of a Universe-Level Bankrupt Company." The System announced her debts in a mechanical voice: [Faith Points: -Infinity. We recommend immediately launching the slave-based faith harvesting plan.] You are permitted to borrow 100 Faith Points. Well, when you're already drowning in debt, what's a little more? She folded the contract into a paper airplane. "I found the loophole in your company." While Reborn A trampled on human decency with tens of thousands of tons of supplies, Huo Xi opened a "scam workshop" for the poor in a shipping container: "This is a cross-dimensional protective shield." (She covered the walls with glowing moss.) "Our company offers ability-awakening services." (She secretly poured a potion that unlocks potential into the spring water.) "Want a star destroyer? Memorize the Core Socialist Values first." (She built a holographic projector by hand.) Every day, the System popped up warnings: [Do not use chili powder to fake holy light.] [Please stop teaching believers to make up the company's history.] [You have triggered Violation No. 99...] Until one stormy night in the apocalypse, the ever-calm mechanical voice suddenly trembled: [There are only three jin of potatoes left in the warehouse. Don't trade them away for a child's dance.] Huo Xi chuckled in the rain. "You've finally learned to care about resources?" In countless little worlds, from the apocalypse to the stars to ancient times, she gained believers. Later, when the true god descended to destroy the world, she tore up the so-called divine decree and raised an eyebrow at the void. "You who keep the books, it's time to settle accounts." A being that shouldn't have had a physical form sighed and appeared, with the employee handbook she'd made up back then still lingering in its data stream. "I told you, you can't call yourself a god..." #StartingWithDebtInTheTrillionsIUseScamAestheticsToTurnThingsAround# A god-making project that starts in the red: the most important thing for a deity is to solve people's problems! Blurb for Handing Over the Interstellar Superstar System: Yan Qing, an actress from the very bottom of the industry, bound herself to a System just as she was preparing to go home and farm. System: [Do you want to become an interstellar superstar?] Yan Qing: I do! System: [Do you want to make it big in film, television, and music?] Yan Qing: Absolutely! System: [Do you want to reach the pinnacle of life?] Yan Qing, excited: Yes, yes! System: [Due to insufficient System energy, please raise the funds yourself to shoot your debut work, Host!] Yan Qing: ... Yan Qing smiled faintly and immediately turned herself and the System over to the authorities. Sorry, she's genuinely broke. The entertainment industry in the Interstellar Empire had always been calm and dull. Actors tried every trick in the book to get famous, and publicity stunts were constant. But at some point, the actress Yan Qing, who always paid for her own productions, gradually began to upend everyone's expectations... She starred in Three Kingdoms: A Storm of War, a big-budget film about warfare and political intrigue in the age of cold weapons, where every character had eight hundred schemes up their sleeve. Audiences were fired up and kept saying they felt utterly useless. But then she took an endorsement deal for fertilizer from an interstellar agricultural company, complete with high-yield seeds. Audience: "..." She starred in The Way Out of the Mountains, a poverty-relief TV drama that could bring viewers to tears without relying on melodrama. Audiences watched with tears in their eyes. But then she immediately endorsed thermal underwear from a traditional interstellar brand. In the commercial, she wore long underwear and looked utterly content. Audience: "..." She starred in the astonishing palace intrigue drama Palace, full of rivalry and hearts locked away from love. Audiences couldn't get enough of it. But then she immediately endorsed a home medical device essential for middle-aged and elderly people, in a model so simple even a fool could use it. Audience: "..." She sang distinctive music, sometimes elegant and harmonious, sometimes lilting and fresh. She danced graceful classical dances with exquisite poise, leaving audiences dazzled. But without hesitation, she endorsed unmanned agricultural machinery for a long-established farm equipment company, grinning as she sat on an interstellar planting machine. Audience: "..." It wasn't that her dramas and endorsements had nothing to do with each other. They were simply headed in completely opposite directions... Despite that, Yan Qing and her works gradually became famous throughout the Interstellar Empire, and she became a wildly popular star. Some naive interstellar citizens even planned to establish a country with a new system, just like the one portrayed in Yan Qing's dramas... Yan Qing had originally thought that, after handing the System over to the state, all she could offer the country would be the various advanced medicines awarded by the System. But when people learned that the money she earned in the interstellar world could be used to buy interstellar goods online, their eyes all lit up... The country gave the superstar everything a star could want, and even things no superstar had. "If cultural exports alone can make our country strong and our people prosperous, then let's make you a star, Xiao Yan! A huge star!" Theme: Give whatever warmth you have, and shine with whatever light you can.