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

The girl was not even ten years old.

She didn't learn how to weigh the pros and cons, nor did she understand what the most rational choice was.

Even when she could no longer get anything from this world, she was still worried about another person.

There is no benefit.

There was no reward.

No one taught her how to do it.

She just couldn't bear to part with her mother.

Perhaps kindness is never something that is taught later.

It's not love either.

They already exist in people's hearts.

It existed even before people learned to calculate, weigh, and ask what the benefits of doing so would be.

However, as people grow up, the things they originally possess are often obscured by interests, desires, and the relentless noise of this world.

What literature can do is perhaps not to teach a person to be kind out of thin air.

A book doesn't have that much power.

It simply provides an outlet for emotions that already exist but for which there is no way to express them.

The novel *To Live* does not teach the girl how to save her mother.

Fu Gui didn't give her any standard answer either.

But from that story, she felt the weight of the words "to live".

Then, in his own way, he left this weight to his mother.

This was the real impact that letter had on Yu Wen.

These feelings churned within him for a long time.

But when actually facing the camera, Yu Wen didn't say any of it.

Because it's just too much of a feel-good, inspirational quote.

Life must go on.

When can everything be cured?

Everyone must eventually look forward.

He wasn't the one who lost his daughter.

What gives him the right to sit here and teach others how to cope with loss?

"I had prepared a lot to say."

Yu Wen spoke again.

"But later I realized that none of it was very useful."

"I haven't experienced her pain, so I'm not qualified to advise her to think more positively."

"Therefore, I won't go into the big principles."

Yu Wen glanced down at the letter beside him.

Saying only "She hopes you live well" is far too lenient.

The mother, of course, understood her daughter's wish.

The real challenge is how to get through those long, empty days after my daughter leaves.

He wanted to leave that mother something more concrete.

Even if all you can do is rely on a not-so-clever lie.

Yu Wen remained silent for a moment, then suddenly spoke.

"She also mentioned something else in the letter."

This statement is false.

The letter did not contain any further content.

But Yu Wen still looked at the camera and continued:

She said she regretted not being able to see my future works.

"So, if I write a new story in the future..."

She hopes you can read it for her.

The live stream room remained quiet.

Yu Wen had no idea what the mother was feeling at that moment.

He just wanted to leave her with one thing.

Something that doesn't have to be done immediately, and will never really be done.

As long as he continues to write new stories.

She can then continue watching for her daughter.

"So, I decided to write a book first."

Yu Wen said softly:

"Please take a look at this one for her."

Without waiting for any response, he continued:

This book will be free.

"I will not accept tips, and I will not participate in any rankings."

"I will make it publicly available for free; everyone can see it."

"But at first, I just wanted to write it for a mother who lost her daughter."

Soon, a book title appeared in the live stream.

"We Three".

The viewers in the live stream looked at those three words and didn't understand what they meant for a moment.

Yu Wen did not immediately explain.

He thought about it for a long time after receiving the letter.

He's bad at comforting people.

They can't possibly understand how a mother can get through the rest of her days after losing her daughter.

So, he finally decided not to say anything.

Find someone who has actually experienced these things.

This person is Ms. Yang Jiang.

She is more commonly known as Ms. Yang Jiang.

In traditional contexts, "先生" (xiānsheng) is a highly respectful title for a person who possesses both virtue and knowledge.

Ms. Yang Jiang is called Mr. Yang Jiang by the world precisely because of her integrity and achievements throughout her life.

When she passed away, many authoritative official media outlets, including Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily Overseas Edition, CCTV, and Guangming Daily, published memorial articles, all using the title "Mr. Yang Jiang." This respect was thus recognized by more people.

A prominent female writer once visited Ms. Yang Jiang and asked her, who was nearly 100 years old:

"How should I address you? Mr. Yang Jiang? Grandma Yang Jiang? Mother Yang Jiang...?"

[I heard Ms. Yang Jiang reply with a slightly playful tone, "Why not just call me Sister Yang Jiang?" I naturally wouldn't dare, but a sense of relaxed joy filled my heart, and Ms. Yang Jiang and I laughed together.]

Ms. Yang Jiang was a writer and a translator.

She translated "Lazarillo de Tormes", "Gil Blas", and Plato's "Phaedo".

The most famous is Cervantes' Don Quixote.

To translate this book, she even went to learn Spanish, and finally translated the entire work by directly comparing it with the original text.

However, Yu Wen first got to know her not because of these translations.

It is a text in the Chinese language textbook.

"Old Wang".

That article was about an ordinary person who was poor, lonely, and living on the margins of society.

There's no complicated plot.

There were no earth-shattering events.

Many years later, Yu Wen still remembered the remorse he felt at the end of the article.

That's what Yang Jiang's writing is like.

It's quiet.

It doesn't deliberately try to evoke emotions.

It simply presents a person or an event quietly to the reader.

As for "We Three," it is about her own family.

Her husband was Qian Zhongshu.

Her daughter, Qian Yuan.

And herself.

The three of them are "the three of us" in the book's title.

Later, the daughter left first.

Not long after, her husband also left.

Of the original three people, only Ms. Yang Jiang remained.

She didn't cry out about the injustice of fate in her book.

He also didn't repeatedly tell others how much pain he was in.

She simply turned around and rewrote the days that the family of three had lived together.

Those conversations.

Those walks.

Those little things that only one family will remember.

The person is no longer here.

But what happened still exists.

The home I once had is still there.

This is precisely why Yu Wen chose "We Three".

He did not experience the pain of losing a daughter.

No matter how correct his words are, they are still just a comfort from an outsider.

But Ms. Yang Jiang was different.

She is also a mother.

She also saw her daughter off.

He became the last person to stay.

Rather than having Yu Wen tell that mother through the live broadcast that she should be strong, should let go, and should continue living, it's better to...

It would be better to let another woman who has walked the same path sit quietly with her for a while.

I don't advise her to forget her daughter.

I didn't tell her either, that time would solve everything.

Just tell her.

Those days spent together don't disappear just because one person leaves.

The "three of us" we once were will always be the "three of us".

Yu Wen did not say these words aloud.

Let the book tell its own story.