I asked you to write a light novel, but you wrote about living?

The second wave consisted of the largest number of male-oriented fantasy novel studios and individual writers who were most eager to follow the trend.

This group of people don't care about literary merit or core themes at all. They just use the most popular and clichéd online novel formulas and force the words "old man" and "sea" into the story.

A freelance writer used AI to generate an invincible face-slapping novel overnight, titled "Old Man Zhenhai: Starting by Punching a Great White Shark."

This book perfectly blends the essence of "underdog's rise to success" and "extreme pretentiousness":

Chapter One: Two and a Half Years of Laughingstock

Chapter Two: Catching the Dragon King Fish

Chapter 3: One Punch Kills the Great White Shark

Chapter Four: The Guardian of the Whole Village

……

Besides this unparalleled, invincible style, other styles also flourished, creating a diverse and incredibly magical landscape:

"Blood Wolf" is an AI-powered literature production company specializing in "systematic" writing.

"Stop all those 'wasteland son-in-law' deals you're currently working on!"

The studio owner suddenly kicked over an empty nutrient solution tank and said to his dozen or so trainers wearing sensor helmets:

"Yu Huashi has revealed the title of his new book! 'The Old Man and the Sea'! These four words are trending across the entire internet! Same old routine, we'll focus on system-based novels, let's capitalize on this!"

Chief Trainer "Ghost Hand" immediately frantically typed parameters into the holographic keyboard: "Protagonist Setting: Old man, disabled. Cheat: Multiverse Fishing System. Setting: High Seas."

"Beep beep beep—" The old terminal emitted a sharp whistle.

In just ten minutes, a masterpiece titled "Old Man Leads the Sea: Starting with an Old Fishing Rod, Awakening the Fishing System of All Realms" was generated.

A disabled old man, rejected by his family from marriage, caught an ancient god's steel warship on his very first fishing rod in international waters, instantly defying fate.

"Boss, all done! Also, make a variant called 'Old Man by the Sea: Fishing in the Dead Sea with Divine Gear' as a backup, and send it out directly!"

Meanwhile, in countless cheap capsule hotels in the downtown area, tens of thousands of "AI freelance writers" opened their eyes all at midnight, like piranhas smelling blood.

A freelance writer named "Old Dog" earns a meager fee for traffic by writing the most brainless and invincible face-slapping stories.

He stared at the trending topics on his personal computer, grinned, and directly pulled up the pirated AI matrix he had bought:

"Others write systems, I write the ultimate in pretentious contrast!"

Enter the command and press the Enter key.

A new masterpiece by a retail investor, "Lao Tzu's Sea: Shocking! The Disabled Grandpa is Actually a Hidden Deep-Sea Martial God," has just been released.

In the book, an ordinary old man is sunbathing on the beach. When a conglomerate's warship comes to forcibly demolish the beach, the old man slaps the seawater in two, and ten thousand dragon kings kneel down and shout "Welcome, sir!"

The old dog, satisfied with the explosively satisfying moment, clicked "upload".

On the outskirts of the city center, the "Neon Matrix" studio, which specializes in "mecha sci-fi" games, also stayed up all night.

"We don't do cultivation novels, we do cyberpunk!"

The director, with an e-cigarette dangling from his lips, issued the order.

Thus, "Old Man He Hai: My Broken Fishing Boat Can Transform into a Planetary Mech" was born.

An old man who collects scraps unearths the core of an advanced alien civilization in the sea. His dilapidated fishing boat transforms into a star destroyer and bombards interstellar conglomerates.

There's also a small workshop called "Eye of the Abyss" that specializes in "grotesque and extreme" content, which stitched together the Cthulhu masterpiece "Old Man Bao Hai: I Contracted a Mutant Tentacle Beast in the Wasteland Ocean" overnight.

The old man, thrown into the sea by his enemies, not only survived but also underwent a genetic mutation that caused him to grow eighteen mechanical tentacles. In the very first chapter, he swallowed a nuclear submarine whole.

Those freelance writers who followed the trend of the "Gou Dao Liu" and "Yu Shou Liu" styles were not to be outdone, and they all released works such as "Old Man and the Sea: I have been hiding in the deep sea for 100,000 years, and I am invincible when I come out of seclusion" and "Old Man and the Sea: The end of the world has come, and I am raising Kun on the seashore".

Overnight, the entire male-oriented online literature market was flooded with all sorts of old men on the beach, like dumping electronic waste, by hundreds of studios and tens of thousands of freelance writers.

……

However, this is only half of the celebration.

Because Yu Wen only mentioned the four words "The Old Man and the Sea" during the live broadcast, he didn't mention at all whether the "old man" was male or female!

In Chinese, "elderly" is a completely neutral term!

As a result, this huge piece of traffic is not only being fiercely contested by male-oriented writers, but also by female-oriented studios and freelance writers who are eager to enter the fray!

They created a magical "female-oriented middle-aged woman genre" in this cyber wasteland from an extremely bizarre and unique perspective!

In "Pink Dream," a large-scale OEM factory specializing in "female-oriented CEO angst romance,"...

"Quick! Apply the same 'real heiress vs. fake heiress' tactic to this eighty-year-old woman!"

The editor-in-chief slammed his fist on the table and shouted.

Thus, "The Old Woman and the Sea: The True Heiress Reborn at Eighty, the Sea King CEO Begs for Forgiveness with Red Eyes and Pinch His Waist" was released to great acclaim.

An eighty-year-old woman, pregnant and fleeing to international waters, was cornered by Gu Shao, the young master of the Imperial Deepsea Conglomerate, who was piloting a hundred hover fighters. Gu Shao, his eyes bloodshot, gripped her waist, marked by the marks of time, and roared:

"Old woman, you can't escape! You'll have to wear these dentures, whether you like it or not!"

On the other hand, "Sweet Strawberry," an independent female writer who specializes in the "playboy heartthrob" genre, directly deconstructs the "sea" into a "fishpond for raising fish."

She used her personal AI to generate the story "Old Woman and the Sea: Transmigrated as the 80-year-old mother of the villain in the entire interstellar universe, I raise fish in the sea".

An eighty-year-old woman, relying on her invincible maternal radiance, subdued a paranoid space pirate leader, a celibate Federation general, and a scheming mercenary in the high seas of interstellar space.

A group of top tycoons in their early twenties are vying for attention every day, all for the sake of bringing an old lady water to wash her feet.

The farming studio, which focuses on heartwarming stories of getting rich, was also busy and launched "Old Woman Opens the Sea: An octogenarian abandoned woman makes the whole intergalactic world drool with envy by relying on the sea-catching system."

An 80-year-old woman, driven out of her home by her wicked daughter-in-law, was exiled to the Dead Sea and unexpectedly awakened a god-level beachcombing system.

Not only did she grow abalone the size of a millstone on the beach, but she also set up a seafood barbecue stall, attracting the aloof and amnesiac Imperial Marshal to squat in front of the stall every day to wash dishes, just so he could have a bite of the old lady's homemade garlic oysters.

The studio, which specializes in "domestic power struggles and palace intrigues," produced "Old Lady and the Sea: The Old Lady of a Noble Family Fakes Her Death and Escapes, and the Whole Family Chases Her to the Crematorium on the High Seas."

The old lady, who kicked away the scumbag old marquis, took her billions of assets to the beach and kept eight android male models as mistresses. The scumbag's whole family knelt on the beach, crying and begging for forgiveness.

There are also articles written by casual readers on entertainment channels such as "Old Woman by the Sea: Eighty-year-old obscure grandma goes on a survival show on a deserted island, stunning the world," and "Old Woman Connects with the Sea: An octogenarian metaphysical master brings five 500-year-old adorable babies down the mountain, causing a sensation in the deep sea dragon palace."

There are even psychologically twisted freelance writers who have produced extremely abstract works such as "Old Man and the Sea: My Scumbag Ex-Husband Went Crazy After Scattering My Ashes into the Sea".