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

Yu Wen opened the author backend of Weiguang Literature.

Compared to when "To Live" was first released, the account "Yu Huashi" now has much higher privileges. New works no longer need to go through AI review or manual confirmation by editors. As long as they pass the basic review, they can be directly entered into the works library.

He uploaded the document for "We Three".

The review ended a few seconds later.

[The submission has been approved.]

Next, we'll discuss the publishing settings.

The platform has enabled paid works, reader gifts, and ranking statistics by default.

Change the three options in the remaining text one by one.

[Reading Mode: Free]

[Reader donations: Closed]

[Rankings: Not Participating]

Just after completing the settings, a new notification popped up in the center of the page.

[The author is currently following a large number of people.]

Disabling commercial features is expected to result in significant revenue loss.

[Confirm?]

Yu Wen glanced at it.

【confirm. 】

The notification box disappeared.

The page returned to the publishing interface.

It's been quite a while since I decided to write "We Three".

Too many things happened in between.

Even Yu Wen himself didn't expect that a book he originally planned to write quietly would be delayed until "Running for Governor" had already caused such a big stir on the West Coast before it was finally completed.

Yu Wen clicked to publish.

[The release of "We Three" has been successful.]

He glanced at the artwork page, then closed the app.

I've been writing all night, and now I'm finally feeling incredibly sleepy.

As for how many people will read the book after its release, and what kind of discussion it will cause on StarNet, that's none of his concern for the time being.

Yu Wen pushed the wheelchair out of the study.

……

On the StarNet.

Some people had just finished their night shift, some hadn't gone to sleep yet, and some simply had set Yu Huashi to the highest level of special attention on their devices. As soon as the notification appeared, the reading interface on their retina automatically popped up.

Within minutes, the number of visitors to the new book's page began to increase rapidly.

At first, no one was too surprised.

I knew a long time ago that "We Three" was going to be released.

Free access, disabling tipping, and not participating in rankings were all things that were publicly stated during that live stream.

What truly stunned many readers was the table of contents they saw after clicking on the work's details.

[Part 1: We're Both Old]

[Part Two: We Three Are Separated]

Part Three: I'm the One Who Misses the Three of Us

"The first one?"

Many people who saw this subconsciously sat up straighter.

Holy crap.

Has that old scoundrel Yu finally shown some promise?

Whether it was "To Live," "The Old Man and the Sea," or his later short stories, Yu Huashi always emphasized that he would rather keep it short than long.

In an era where even a casually popular novel can easily start at a million words, and a large model can be expanded to hundreds of thousands of words in one night, the length of his works has always seemed particularly meager.

But this time is different.

Part One.

Part Two.

Part Three.

Three parts in total!

Just by looking at this catalog, a long-lost sense of "big production" is already overwhelming.

Comments quickly appeared in the comments section.

[ID will definitely go to bed early tonight]: ? ? ? Three parts?

[ID Synthetic Steak with Black Pepper]: Did I read that right? Teacher Yu actually wrote three books in one go this time?

【ID started cultivating immortality after losing his job】: Damn, I was stunned when I saw "Part 1". This old thief finally knows what long-form writing is?

【ID Mech Loan Still Has 30 Years Left】: This is a trilogy! The wait was worth it, Yu Huashi really went all out this time!

Soon someone corrected him:

【ID Friday Holiday】: What trilogy? This is one book divided into three parts. A trilogy is three books.

【ID Mech Loan has 30 years left】: Almost! Anyway, it's three "parts"! I'm just asking you, which of Yu Laozei's previous books ever had "parts"?

[ID: Friday the 8th is a holiday]: ...

In today's online literature, the word "部" (bù) is not just randomly added to the table of contents.

A novel that often has millions of words will usually only begin to be written by the author after a complete major phase has ended.

The first part focuses on development on the home planet, the second part takes place in interstellar space, and the third part involves invading the central star system.

Or, the first part is Awakening, the second part is Academy, and the third part is War.

Each book has at least several hundred thousand words, and if it's written in a more casual style, it's not uncommon to find books with over a million words.

So when the words "three parts" appeared under Yu Huashi's works, some people's first reaction was not even what the book was about, but whether this guy was finally preparing to challenge a truly super long novel.

[ID Prosthetics Factory Quality Inspector]: I don't ask for much. If the three parts add up to a million words, I will announce on the spot that Teacher Yu has reformed.

[ID Synthetic Steak with Black Pepper]: Is one million too much to ask? Based on Yu Huashi's previous length, I'd guess three hundred thousand.

[ID Third Residential Area Mortgage Slave]: 300,000 is fine too! At least it'll be enough to last for a while.

【ID started cultivating immortality after losing his job】: Don't jinx it yet, I have a feeling you're about to be proven wrong.

Some people didn't even care about the word count; instead, they focused on the names of the three departments.

【ID was still online at 4 AM】: Wait, have you guys noticed that these three titles are a bit off?

【ID will definitely go to bed early tonight】: What's wrong?

[ID still online at 4 AM]: The first book was called "We Two Are Old", the second book became "The Three of Us Are Separated", and how did the third book become "I Miss the Three of Us Alone"?

The moment this sentence was uttered, the comments section, which had just been debating whether Yu Huashi could actually produce a million words, paused for a moment.

indeed.

The first one is still "The Two of Us".

The second part became "The Three of Us".

In the end, only "I was left alone".

【ID Synthetic Steak with Black Pepper】: ...Now that you mention it, I suddenly feel that this catalog doesn't seem as festive as it used to be.

[ID Friday Holiday]: There were two people in the first part, three people in the second part, so shouldn't there be four people in the third part according to the normal pattern?

[ID will definitely go to bed early tonight]: Are you doing sequence problems here?

【ID Mech Loan has 30 years left】: Stop researching, all I want to know now is how much that old scoundrel Yu actually wrote this time.

Finally, someone shifted their gaze from the catalog to the number in the upper right corner of the work's page that had been previously ignored.

[Work Status: Completed]

Total word count: 73699

The comment section was quiet for a few seconds.

[ID Mech loan has 30 years remaining]: ?

[ID will definitely go to bed early tonight]: ? ? ?

【ID Synthesized Steak with Black Pepper】：? ? ? ? ? ?

[ID Third Residential Area Mortgage Slave]: 73,000? Your three mortgages combined cost 73,000?!

Readers who were just immersed in the "three big productions" were instantly brought back to reality by this number.

More than 70,000 words.

For Yu Huashi, it cannot be said to be particularly short.

But the problem is...

You wrote "Part One", "Part Two", and "Part Three" in the beginning!