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

Yu Wen turned his head from his wheelchair and looked at her.

"Why are you suddenly asking this?"

Yu Yin rubbed her hands together.

"That's what Teacher Chen asked."

Yu Wen was stunned for a moment.

"Teacher Chen?"

"Um!"

Yu Yin nodded.

"Teacher Chen brought us cookies again today."

"I didn't want it."

"I told Teacher Chen that my brother made money writing a book, and we're having a good meal today."

"Teacher Chen asked me, 'What book did your brother write? What's the title?'"

Yu Yin blushed again as she said this.

"I can't answer that."

"Brother, I haven't even asked what your book is called."

Yu Wen looked at his younger sister's face, which was filled with a sense of self-reproach.

He smiled.

The image of the stunningly beautiful female teacher standing at the basement entrance that day, dressed in a staff uniform, flashed through his mind.

Chen Jianjia.

Yu Wen came to his senses.

It's not surprising that Teacher Chen would ask this.

When she went into the basement that day, she could tell that his manner of speaking was quite different from the environment.

Later, Yu Yin also taught "The Little Prince" in class.

It's normal curiosity for her to want to know what her paralyzed brother is writing.

Yu Wen thought for a moment.

He had no reason to hide it.

The title of this book is the most important thing that people should know about it.

He said it seriously.

"To Live"

Yu Yin's small mouth opened slightly.

"...What?"

"To Live"

Yu Wen repeated it again.

"Two words. 'Live,' and 'be alive.'"

Yu Yin tilted her head and repeated those two words in her mouth.

"Living"

After she finished reading, her brows furrowed slightly.

"elder brother……"

"Um?"

"This name... why does it sound so strange?"

She asked somewhat cautiously.

"It doesn't sound like a book title."

Shawn Yue was amused.

This girl has good taste.

By the standards of online novels in this era, "To Live" certainly "doesn't sound like a book title."

Serious online novels should have titles like "I, the Cyber ​​God, start by tearing apart an interstellar conglomerate" or "SSS-level talent: My yandere girlfriend after mechanical ascension," which are just a dozen words long and include the entire book's synopsis.

The word "living" seems strangely absurd in the eyes of this era.

Yu Yin continued to ask.

"What does it mean?"

"Is it... a story about one person's life?"

She stared at her brother with wide eyes.

"Isn't living just about eating and sleeping?"

"What's so interesting about writing about this?"

Yu Wen was amused by her question.

"Silly girl."

He reached out and ruffled her hair.

"Living is more than just eating and sleeping."

"Then... what else?"

Yu Yin continued to press for answers.

Yu Wen opened his mouth.

He wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he decided to keep it simple.

"To live is simply to live."

"You'll understand many things when you grow up."

Yu Yin was not very satisfied with this answer.

She continued to ask.

"So, bro, what story is this book about?"

"Is it a story about how to survive?"

"Is it about how a person lives their life?"

"Or are you talking about how someone makes money?"

She asked three questions in a row.

Yu Wen paused for a moment.

He looked at his sister's face, which was full of curiosity and a little nervous.

She really wanted to know.

She wanted to know what those words her brother typed on the computer every day actually meant.

But Yu Wen didn't want to tell her.

He knew better than anyone what kind of book "To Live" was.

It's a book about an old man who buried all his relatives one by one until he was left with only himself and an old ox.

Yu Yin was only ten years old.

She has suffered in the lower city for ten years.

She doesn't need to read another book about suffering.

At least not now.

Yu Wen thought for a moment and said gently.

"Yinyin."

"Um?"

"This book..."

"Wait until my brother finishes writing."

"When you're a little older."

"How about I read it to you again, bro?"

Yu Yin was stunned for a moment.

"...Why?"

"Can't I watch it now?"

"It's not a good time right now."

Yu Wen smiled.

You may not recognize all the words in this book now.

"It tells a rather profound story."

"When you get a little older, you'll know more words and understand more things."

"I'll read it to you again, brother."

"You'll understand then."

Yu Yin tilted her head and thought for a moment.

She was indeed not very literate.

What schools teach is how to give instructions to AI and how to fill out work injury forms.

She really doesn't recognize many of the more complex characters.

She nodded, a little disappointed.

"Oh well."

But she immediately looked up, her eyes shining with a serious light.

"elder brother."

"Um?"

"Then I must study hard, I must learn more words, and I must grow up quickly."

"That way I'll be able to understand your book."

Yu Wen looked at her and remained silent for a moment.

He reached out and pulled her over, letting her lean against his wheelchair.

"Um."

"Then you must study hard from now on."

"Let's work together."

Yu Yin nodded vigorously.

"Um!"

Yu Wen patted her on the shoulder.

"Let's eat."

I bought meat patties today.

"Let's make another batch of egg white liquid, and we'll each have half."

"it is good!"

Yu Yin turned around and ran to the rusty induction cooker to get busy.

Soon, a smell of fat filled the basement.

That flavor was a rare luxury in a place like the downtown area.

The two siblings sat at the table, sharing the two meat patties.

Yu Yin ate very slowly, chewing each bite carefully, as if she wanted to savor the flavor down to her very bones.

She looked up halfway through and glanced at her brother.

"elder brother."

"Um?"

"You must write a good book."

"Brother's book... will definitely be very good."

Yu Wen picked up a piece of meat pie and put it into her bowl.

"Um."

……

After dinner.

Yu Yin washes the dishes.

Yu Wen turned his wheelchair back to the computer.

He opened the code he had finished writing during the day and did a final check.

This passage describes Fugui returning home alive from the battlefield.

He walked for several months, returning from the north to his hometown in the south.

When he left home, his elderly mother, Jia Zhen, Feng Xia, and his newborn son You Qing were still there.

He thought that if he went back, they would all be there.

He did go back.

But my mother is already dead.

He died not long after he was conscripted into the army.

Jiazhen and her two children survived for two years by digging for wild vegetables.

Fengxia had a high fever that year.

The family doesn't have the money to hire a doctor.

After the fever subsided, she became deaf and mute.

She could no longer hear or speak.

Yu Wen read this section from beginning to end.

He didn't utter a single word.

He copied exactly how Mr. Yu Hua originally wrote it.

He opened the update box of Weiguang Literature and copied and pasted this paragraph into it.

I pressed the publish button.

"Click."

Page refreshed.

[The novel "Living" has been updated. Current total word count: 42000 words. This update contains 6000 words.]

Yu Wen leaned back in his wheelchair and let out a long breath.

Then he closed the browser and glanced at the corner.

Yu Yin had finished washing the dishes and was lying on the tattered foam bed, flipping through an old literacy textbook that she had picked up from somewhere, with several pages missing.

She looked at it very carefully.

The dim light in the basement shone on her thin back.

Yu Wen looked at her for a while.

Then he turned around again and turned off the monitor.

That's all for today.

This frail body has reached its limit.

I'll continue writing tomorrow.

……