Loess Burning Lamp

27-Year-old Chen Tiedan, a native of Huining, Gansu Province, graduated from three majors and could not find a suitable job, so he could only work as a night shift security guard in Shenzhen Science and Technology Park. During the long nights, in order to "not waste away", he filled the desk with old books and secretly wrote novels under the pen name "Brother Iron Egg". What he writes about is the "ordinary world" of their county - Huangtu Slope, girls who dropped out of school, migrant brothers... The manuscript was submitted to forums, but nothing came of it. Early one morning, a drunk programmer left his computer at the door. Chen Tiedan kindly put it away and opened it, only to find that the other person was the technical director of the AI ​​writing platform, and the latest "big model" was running on the computer. He accidentally fed his novel into it, and the AI ​​instantly generated a hit novel. The programmer was overjoyed the next day, and asked Tiedan to do a gray business of "earthy prototype + AI polishing": Tiedan provided real suffering, and the AI ​​packaged it into "local coolness", earning a monthly income of 100,000. Tiedan sent money home for the first time, and his father choked on the phone, "There is smoke coming from the ancestral grave." But not long after, readers questioned the "suffering of consumption", the platform blocked it, programmers blamed it, and Tiedan was accused by the Internet of "faking farm dogs". Faced with the tear between "authenticity and traffic", Chen Tiedan decided to resign, took the manuscript stolen by AI, returned to Huangtupo, and finished the final version in the real dust - this time, he no longer felt happy for anyone, and just wanted to leave a footnote for the disappearing dialect in the village. The most reversal of the story: when he completely gave up "red", his work unexpectedly became popular due to "truth", but the price was already beyond his imagination...