I'm Just an Ordinary Person, So Why Do I Have Three Thousand Strategists?

Jiang Ding graduated from college. With the job market so bleak that graduation meant unemployment, he was no exception: he went home and waited for work. While he was feeling down, a friend recommended a management and city-building game to help him relax. But as he kept playing, Jiang Ding gradually realized he seemed to have gone from an unlucky guy to a lucky one. ----- He could find money just by looking down while walking. Every lottery ticket he scratched won a prize. Even a demolition project that had been canceled more than ten years ago was back on, and his family stood to get several million. Just as he was about to successfully lie flat, and had earned every achievement in the game, the little character in the game popped up a dialogue box: [Congratulations, Your Reverence, on ascending to immortality!] Jiang Ding: ??? ------ Wait, wasn't I playing a farming game??? Game blurb: The Great Yan dynasty was plagued by endless civil unrest. The people were displaced, and corpses of the starving lay everywhere. But in Fengxian County, everyone had enough to eat and warm clothes to wear. A wandering Daoist visited the place and wrote with ink: [Fengxian County's wheat fields yield a thousand jin per mu. The people eat three meals a day. Every official road is paved with cement, and tens of thousands of vehicles pass through daily. Every household has a Western-style mansion with glass windows. Women can take part in government and public affairs. The poor can attend school for free. Surely only an immortal could achieve this.] The news shook the Great Yan dynasty! An immortal? Or a fraud? When more people poured into Fengxian County and saw it all with their own eyes, they were stunned. Everything the report said was true! And that wasn't all. Anyone who worked under the immortal's banner was guaranteed absolute personal safety! The refugees settled down. Even the Great Yan envoys sent there chose to rebel and stay behind. ----- As if! They could tell the difference between one full meal and a lifetime of full meals! Before long, refugees from across the nation gathered there. The Great Yan dynasty existed in name only, while statues of the immortal appeared all over the country, receiving offerings from the entire nation. Then, before everyone's eyes, the immortal ascended to immortality! The people spontaneously cried out, their voices echoing through the sky: [Congratulations, Your Reverence, on ascending to immortality!] While I'm at it, here's a plug for my next upcoming novel, "I Sacrificed So Much to Ruin the Marquis's Household." Song Huaiyu transmigrated into a book without warning. She had become the spendthrift mistress of a fallen marquis's household. When she arrived, the System told her that if she wanted to go home, she had to ruin the household as quickly as possible while maintaining her character. To get home, Song Huaiyu followed the System's instructions and dutifully squandered the family fortune. When faced with the hardworking, loyal servants in the estate, Song Huaiyu had already planned out their retirement in her mind. When faced with her legitimate son, who would grow up to become one of the Three Chief Ministers, Song Huaiyu stopped his lessons early, trying to raise him into a wastrel. When faced with her concubine-born son, who would one day betray the marquis's household, Song Huaiyu smiled sweetly and hired him the best tutor, hoping to make the betrayal all the more dramatic. When faced with her universally despised, spendthrift younger brother-in-law, Song Huaiyu handed him the household accounts and invited him to manage the family assets, hoping to bring about the household's financial collapse sooner. When faced with her saintess cousin, who would become the emperor's favorite, Song Huaiyu ignored the clan elders and forcibly took her away from the temple, trying to thwart the saintess's romance with the emperor and make his fury all the greater. The marquis's household was on the verge of collapse, and Song Huaiyu happily sipped her tea, waiting to go home. Instead, the household just kept getting better. Looking at everyone gathered around her with such loyalty, Song Huaiyu couldn't help feeling utterly confused. Wait a minute, was there something wrong with the guide? Meanwhile, the loyal servants, the true legitimate son who had been switched at birth, the misunderstood business genius, and the genius cousin who was being manipulated and controlled by the emperor all had tears in their eyes. "The Madam / Mother / Sister-in-law / Sister has treated me so well. Seeing how hard she's worked for the marquis's household, I'll definitely help her keep it going!" Theme: The struggles of a group of people