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

[ID Prosthetics Factory Quality Inspector]: I retract my earlier statement about one million.

[ID Synthesized Steak with Black Pepper]: I was guessing 300,000, but I overestimated it too.

【ID started cultivating immortality after losing his job】: Hahahaha, I knew it! Why do you guys have such illusions about Yu Huashi's word count?

[ID Third Residential Area Mortgage Slave]: Three mortgages totaling 73,000, averaging over 24,000 per mortgage?

【ID: Starting today, I'm quitting online novels】: Aren't you guys used to it yet? Other people write books by the tens of thousands of chapters, but this person writes by the tens of thousands of words.

【ID Mech loan still has 30 years left】: No, I can't accept that! I just finished praising three big productions!

Immediately, the comments section was filled with complaints about those three "departments".

Even if it only has 73,000 words, by the simplest average calculation, a book would still have at least 20,000 words.

Although it is still very short, it still has Yu Huashi's personal characteristics, and at least it can be barely explained.

Until the first batch of readers who had already clicked on the main text suddenly realized that things were not as simple as they seemed.

The reading interface of "We Three" is not divided into chapters of several thousand words, which is common in online novels today.

After opening the table of contents, the top line is a rather formal-looking title.

[Part 1: We're Both Old]

Some people clicked on it with the mindset of "wanting to see what Yu Huashi wrote in his first book".

He had originally planned to divide the 73,000 words into three parts, and even if the lengths weren't exactly the same, the first part would still have at least 10,000 or 20,000 words.

As I watched, I realized...

The page has reached the bottom.

The next page has now become:

[Part Two: We Three Are Separated]

"?"

The reader paused for a moment.

He thought he had accidentally skipped the later content, so he flipped back to the beginning again.

Part One.

Further on.

Part Two.

I didn't jump.

The first part is really over.

He paused for a moment, then pulled up the text statistics.

More than 500 words.

"..."

[ID Assembly Line Slacking Champion]: Brothers, don't even calculate the average of over 20,000 words yet, the first part is only 500 words.

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

【ID Third Residential Area Mortgage Slaves】: How much?

[ID Assembly Line Slacking Champion]: Over 500...

[ID Holographic Deliveryman]: ...

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

[ID Synthetic Steak with Black Pepper]: Holy crap, I just checked, it's really over! I thought that "part two" was a GG pop-up from the platform!

【ID Mech Loan with 30 Years Left】: No way! Yu Huashi, explain yourself! You call 500+ words a "book"?!

This sentence was immediately pushed to the top.

Many readers who had just clicked in couldn't help but check the table of contents first after seeing this.

Then everyone burst into laughter.

What does 500+ words mean?

On today's online literature platforms, some authors can write more than 500 words for a single scene.

The protagonist runs into the villain, they exchange a few harsh words, and then there's a scene of onlookers' shock. In five hundred words, the fight might not even have officially started yet.

In those long novels that often have millions of words, this amount of content might not even qualify as a separate chapter.

But when it came to Yu Huashi, two words were prominently displayed.

Part One.

[ID Cyber ​​Illiterate]: This is the first time I've realized that the unit of measurement "department" can be so small.

[ID Industrial Starch Connoisseur]: Ancient Chinese Character Knowledge: 部 (bù), left-right structure, ten strokes, a measure word, generally used in books and film works, in the context of Yu Hua Shi (余化十), it is approximately equal to five hundred characters.

【ID Starts Quitting Online Novels Today】: Your explanation is not accurate. To be precise, the "first part" is about 500 words, and the latter two parts are significantly longer.

[ID Industrial Starch Connoisseur]: Thank you, teacher. The entry has been corrected.

[ID Prosthetics Factory Quality Inspector]: I suggest that we standardize the unit of measurement in the future, since one unit of measurement equals more than 500 characters.

【ID Third Residential Area Mortgage Slave】: Wouldn't that be more than a hundred cars for 73,000?

[ID Prosthetics Factory Quality Inspector]: ...

【ID Friday Holiday】: Great, a new unit of measurement for literature has been born.

[ID still online at 4 AM]: LOL, I was actually a little moved when I saw the table of contents. I thought that after writing for so long, Teacher Yu was finally willing to give us a substantial and satisfying book. But when I looked down, I saw that the total number of words was 73,000. Then I clicked on the first part, which had more than 500 words. It was the familiar Yu Huashi, the familiar amount of content.

Playing with memes is one thing.

However, more and more people are actually clicking into the main text.

After all, the "first part" of just over 500 words was ridiculously short. Many people originally just wanted to check why such a small amount of content was classified as a separate part, but after clicking in, they casually scrolled through it.

Moreover, the entire book "We Three" is only a little over 70,000 words long.

For readers who are already accustomed to massive amounts of AI-generated text, this length is hardly a reading burden.

Some people are still in the comments section discussing how many characters "一余部" should actually equal.

Many more people's pages have already gone beyond the table of contents and truly entered "We Three".

Within just over ten minutes, the number of readers on the new book's page began to rise rapidly.

And just as more and more people were opening this book, which has only a little over 70,000 words but is solemnly divided into three parts...

Xiacheng District.

In an unassuming room, a cheap holographic screen is lit up.

The woman sat beside him, with several newly purchased daily necessities on the table.

She kept her head down, carefully separating and putting the items away one by one, her movements slow and deliberate.

There was little sound in the room except for the occasional hum of machinery coming from outside.

Halfway through tidying up, the holographic screen suddenly flickered.

The woman hadn't initially looked up.

Until that special attention notification automatically popped up in the center of the screen.

[The author you are following, "Yu Huashi," has released a new work.]

【We Three】

She stopped what she was doing.

After a few seconds, the woman looked up.

The old electronic prosthetic eye readjusted its focus, its gray-white pupil contracted slightly, and finally stopped on the three characters "Yu Huashi".

She stared at it for a long time.

Then he reached out his hand.

The mechanical finger missed its target on the first try, touching the edge of the notification.

The woman paused for a moment, then ordered again.

The artwork page opens.

"We Three".

Author: Yu Huashi.

The woman sat there, not immediately flipping down.

She only touched the screen gently when the brightness started to automatically decrease due to prolonged inactivity.

The page lights up again.

She opened the main text.

The table of contents then unfolds.

Part One.

We're getting old.