The original owner's personality underwent a significant change due to her father's death.
He was originally a person who liked stability, disliked change, disliked socializing, and was resistant to the unknown aspects of life.
During the five years he worked away from home, the last four of those years were spent in an industrial zone in a small county town in the east.
Although it was just a small county town, it had many industrial parks, which his hometown town did not have.
After his father's death, the original owner vowed to become a rich man.
He didn't want to live a day longer in this kind of predictable life.
So, he, who previously rarely paid attention to the news and basically didn't follow short videos, downloaded the short video app Shanyin.
He registered an account and positioned himself as a travel blogger, posting travel videos of himself in different parts of Zhou State from time to time.
In the video, he sometimes sleeps in parks, sometimes under bank ATMs, and sometimes he looks for unfinished buildings nearby and finds cardboard or wooden planks to spend the night in.
He ate very simply: steamed buns, dumplings, and vegetable noodles. Sometimes he would reward himself with an egg.
In the video, no matter how poor he looks, his hairstyle is never messy.
This became a minor viral moment for him, an obscure little joke about a small blogger.
As he continued to update his videos, he accumulated 20,000 followers.
One reason he earned 20,000 is that he is quite good-looking.
On the other hand, many people pay attention to him simply to criticize him.
Such as.
"You sleep in parks and train stations all day. You're worse than a beggar, yet you pretend to be a travel blogger. I suggest you find a job!"
"I feel really embarrassed. You're not ashamed, but I'm ashamed for you watching your videos. Why can't you be a decent person? Why do you have to act like a clown? Making short videos, trying to make money as a self-media creator? Are you crazy?"
"There are so many weirdos these days. I saw someone trying to sell barbecue, but when I looked through his old videos, I saw that he never washed the bowls after eating and then ate them the next day. It disgusted me."
"It's because there are too many people who daydream every day and want to make money through self-media that the internet is in such a mess."
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Before Hou Wenjie transmigrated, the original owner had just signed up for a self-produced variety show called "30 Days of City Survival" on Shanyin.
The show selects 50 contestants, each with an initial prize of 100 yuan. After one month, the three contestants who are doing the best and earning the most money will share a prize of 1 million yuan.
How should I put this variety show?
It's like a novel website that holds a contest to write fan fiction for a popular novel, with prize money for the best-written entries.
For this kind of novel, even slightly influential figures wouldn't bother to write it; it's a classic case of putting in a lot of effort for no reward.
The reason for placing it on short video platforms is that the platform's program production department saw that major video websites were making a fortune from their self-produced variety shows, and they also wanted to launch their own variety shows.
The program production department invited variety show production teams of different levels to produce multiple variety shows within the same time period.
Among these variety shows is "Idol Development," a top-tier project that cost a fortune to produce, featuring several popular celebrities and a large number of attractive trainees.
There is a high-investment A-level project, "Urban Palace Intrigue," which features several female celebrities who were once very popular but are now past their prime, but still maintain good figures.
There's also a comedy show called "Everyday Antics" featuring only the platform's top streamers.
"30 Days of City Survival" was purely a scrap of material produced by the production team.
After all, the total prize money is only 1 million.
The platform's top streamers earn more than that just from a single advertisement, not to mention the astronomical sums from live-streaming e-commerce.
The participants in this program are all small-time live streamers and bloggers.
Mid-level livestreamers with even a little bit of fame didn't choose to participate.
Firstly, each of these anchors has their own area of expertise, and participating in this program does not guarantee their ranking.
If you perform poorly, you'll easily be criticized by netizens, and your fan value might even drop significantly.
Secondly, the program's duration is too long, spanning 30 days. And the internet is forgetful.
For example, you're a comedy blogger who's just starting out, doing urban survival videos, and you're doing terribly, not updating your funny videos, and your fans have all left.
Therefore, "30 Days of City Survival," which was originally just a scrap of a popular variety show, didn't generate much buzz after no major streamers were announced to be participating.
Under these circumstances, the original owner was successfully selected by the program team.
Firstly, among the many applicants, he was quite good-looking.
Secondly, judging from his past videos, he is indeed suited to urban life, after all, he is a tough guy who sleeps under bridges.
Before he transmigrated, the original owner was sitting on a stone bench in the square waiting for the cameraman assigned to him by the program crew.
I didn't sleep well last night because there were a lot of mosquitoes, so I took a short nap.
As a result, Hou Wenjie traveled through time.
Regarding the original owner's experiences, Hou Wenjie may have felt a deep sense of sorrow because he had already gone through so much, even witnessing more bloody and unspeakable evils in the primitive era.
All I can say is that those who struggle to survive always endure countless hardships.
Having experienced multiple worlds, witnessed life and death, and established city-states, Hou Wenjie's understanding of the world has changed significantly since then.
In this world, only the fittest survive.
The laws of nature are, in fact, the most fundamental laws in the world.
The old wolf king will be driven out of the pack.
In the struggle for mating rights, male animals often fight each other, and bleeding to death is the most common occurrence. The best outcome is being driven out of their own group.
Hou Wenjie believes in Xunzi's doctrine that "human nature is inherently evil".
Because humans are also a type of animal.
Morality and law, learned through education, restrain a portion of human evil.
It can be said that morality and law have created a degree of fairness, enabling the human race to be distinguished from other creatures and to achieve unprecedented growth.
Of course, Hou Wenjie would naturally help the original owner get revenge for the unfair treatment he suffered.
With his exceptional memory now, many things become simple for him.
Moreover, after traveling back to a modern-like world, Hou Wenjie roughly grasped the reason for each time he traveled through time.
Desiring but not obtaining.
Each original owner, due to their own various circumstances, drifts further and further away from the self they aspire to be.
Then he transmigrated and helped the original owner complete what he had wanted to do.
Hou Wenjie closed his eyes slightly, his mind once again entering the stream formed from the original owner's memories.
The stream he stepped into had a deep whirlpool, and within the whirlpool was the original owner's obsession.
Among those obsessions, the original owner wanted to earn more and more money, and he wanted to live in his own big house.
His deepest hatred was for the real estate developer who had fled Liang Kingdom; he wanted to see that person suffer a terrible death.
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