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

Chapter 156 is another one-sentence summary.

the next day.

It was exactly 8 p.m.

The holographic recommendation spot in the very center of the homepage of Weiguang Literature's Eastern Region suddenly went dark.

The promotional images of several popular works that were playing simultaneously shrank, turning into tiny specks of light and disappearing on both sides of the screen.

Immediately afterwards, a deep blue sea slowly unfolded.

There was only one small boat on the sea.

A blurry old man sat at the stern of the boat, dragging an astonishingly large fish skeleton behind him.

In the center of the screen, four simple white characters slowly emerge.

The Old Man and the Sea.

[Author: Yu Huashi]

[Status: Completed]

Almost simultaneously, the corresponding English book title also appeared on the homepage recommendation page of the West Coast region.

"The Old Man and the Sea".

This new book, which has been causing a stir on the entire StarNet for several days, has finally been officially launched.

Longtime readers of "To Live," those drawn in by the bandwagon effect, peers who came specifically to nitpick, and operations staff from various platforms monitoring data all flooded the book's page almost simultaneously.

The number of readers began to rise rapidly.

One hundred thousand.

Three hundred thousand.

Eight hundred thousand.

One million.

Before the main text even opened, the comment section exploded.

the reason is simple.

Total word count: 52174 words

[Status: Completed]

Upon seeing these two lines of data, countless readers were stunned for a few seconds.

Immediately afterwards, comments flooded in like a tidal wave.

[ID Electronic Keyboardist]: 50,000 words? Is there a missing zero at the end?

[ID Deep Sea Dragon King's Son-in-Law]: After all this hype online for days, all the real person has to offer is 50,000 words? Who can read that many words?

[ID Bionic Chicken Farmer]: 50,000 words and they dare to get featured on the homepage with a holographic push? I heard the author is using ancient typing methods? I could scatter some rice on my keyboard and my chickens would peck more out in a whole night!

[ID is going to update again today]: It's already finished as soon as it's released? Is the author afraid that two days of serialization would be too tiring, so they simply gave up?

【ID Sea Emperor Development System】: The novel next door, "Old Man's Journey to the Sea," has already reached 2.8 million words, and the protagonist has just unified the Seventh Sea. What can you possibly write in your 50,000 words? The story ends as soon as the old man reaches the sea?

【The Cat in the ID Iron Box】: I suggest the author separate the punctuation marks and publish them as separate chapters, so that it will at least look like 100,000 words.

[ID Interstellar Speed Reader]: No, who can read 50,000 words? I switched to brain-computer reading mode once while I was in the bathroom, and when I came out, I had already read the book twice!

Those readers who hadn't read "To Live" and were only there because of its recent popularity were particularly vocal in their criticism.

These days, countless versions of "The Old Man and the Sea" have appeared on the StarNet.

Some elderly players awakened the Poseidon system at the start of the game and caught 100,000 mutated whales in one go.

Some elderly people piloted star-destroying fishing boats and built mechanical empires in the deep sea.

There is another book that has already been written for more than three million words. The old man has never seen the sea, but he has already married seventy-two daughters of wealthy families.

Compared to these works that easily start at a million words, Yu Huashi's 50,000 words are so meager that they seem like a sample chapter.

[ID Old Man and Sea Loyal Fan]: The book I'm following has over 400 chapters, and the old man just achieved the Sea Emperor Divine Body. Are you the original author? How come you haven't written as much as those who followed the trend?

[ID Data is Justice]: Only 50,000 words are featured in the highest-ranking recommendation slot on the homepage? Is Weiguang's resource allocation system broken?

[ID: 100,000 words per second]: Yu Huashi's novel "To Live" was short when he wrote it, and it is still short now. Is the author really short-sighted?

Amidst widespread complaints about the length and concerns, two accounts that had been dormant for a long time reappeared.

[ID Raven and Writing Table]: Fifty thousand words are enough. There wasn't much to delete from Yu Huashi's writing to begin with.

【ID: The Wind Above the Clouds】: And it's already finished. At least this time, the story will be delivered to the readers in its entirety, following the author's original pace.

These two comments did not engage in the argument and were quickly drowned out by more question marks and complaints.

Other longtime readers of "To Live" were unusually cautious.

Of course, they also thought it wasn't enough.

But no one dared to say that 50,000 words were not enough.

【ID Wasteland Old Shennong】: Newcomers, don't rush to laugh. Friendly reminder: "To Live" isn't long, but it buries a person every few pages.

【ID Pure Love God of War】: 50,000 words, completed... I don't know why, but I suddenly feel that it's more dangerous than serialization.

[ID Night City Ghost]: Last time, Weiguang only released 4,000 words a day, and I even scolded the platform for squeezing out information bit by bit. Later I found out that they were protecting us. This time, they released it all at once. Have they given up on saving the readers?

[ID Logic Analyst]: Fewer words do not necessarily mean less content. It is best not to judge Yu Huashi's book by the word count standard of ordinary online novels.

[ID Mingmingruyue]: Only 50,000 words, proving the structure must be very tight. I think this time it won't be like "To Live"—

【ID Pure Love God of War】: Shut up first.

【ID Wasteland Old Shennong】: Pre-analysis by Mingming Ruyue is prohibited.

【ID Night City Ghost】: I still remember his analysis of Fugui's awakening of the Shennong System and his prediction that Fugui would return to the Xu family mansion... But what happened?

[ID Mingmingruyue]: Let's not bring up the past anymore.

Soon, another familiar ID appeared.

【ID: Rampage Mechanical Arm】: 50,000 words, completed. I want to remind everyone that Yu Huashi's "short" is not the same as the short of a normal author.

【ID Pure Love God of War】: You're still alive?

【ID Night City Ghost】: Yeah, when "To Live" first became popular, didn't you lie to your coworkers and say it was a satisfying story of enduring and slapping people in the face?

[ID Electronic Keyboardist]: I remember your original words were "50,000 words guaranteed to be enjoyable", and you even sent the link to all the workers' groups.

【ID Wasteland Old Shennong】: What happened next?

……

【ID Rampage Mechanical Arm】: Let bygones be bygones.

【ID Pure Love God of War】: So did you get beaten up or not?

[ID Rampage Mechanical Arm]: I recently replaced three joints on this mechanical arm. You can judge for yourselves.

The comment was immediately met with a burst of gloating laughter.

As I continued reading, I began to notice the book's synopsis below the title.

Like "To Live", it still consists of only one lonely sentence.

A person can be destroyed but not defeated.

[ID明明如月]: As expected!

[ID Pure Love God of War]: ...

[ID Night City Ghost]: ...