Lu Chen: The Mad Genius Of Creativity

Lu Chen woke up to find himself participating in a live-streamed creative competition show!

Contestants were tasked with creating works based on themes given by the show.

When the theme ‘Countryside’ was announced, other participants quickly began crafting heartwarming rural stories, tales of pastoral love, and picturesque depictions of harmony and simplicity.

Lu Chen decided to take the road less traveled—he wanted to blow the audience away!

He chose ‘Operation Icebreaker’ as his inspiration.

At first, the audience thought they were getting a story about rural development. But as the plot unfolded, something felt… off.

A village of 20,000 people, every household with the same type of large pot, and a full-scale drug production operation?

The internet exploded.

[Countryside theme, and you’re writing about a drug-making village getting rich together?]

The producers were in chaos.

We said countryside! What’s this Taizhai nonsense?

Lu Chen, unfazed, replied, “Director, rural anti-drug campaigns are a countryside theme. Now, are we sticking to the theme or not?”

And thus, the Master of Sticking to the Theme was born.

Given the theme Fishmonger, he wrote The Legend of Gao Qiqiang.