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

This scene in the basement was not captured by the battle-damaged 2D camera.

But the camera captured with unparalleled clarity the sudden, violent trembling of those hands, and the drop of water that slammed onto the keyboard, creating a tiny splash.

In the live stream, the millions of eyes that had just been bombarded by online trolls and were staring intently at the screen instantly caught this detail.

After a brief silence, the tear that shattered on the keyboard was like a drop of cold water falling into boiling oil, instantly igniting panic and uproar across the internet.

The barrage of comments from one million online viewers was unprecedented.

The text filling the screen even became a blurry, colorful afterimage due to the rapid refresh rate and compression by the underlying algorithm.

[Logic Analyst]: "Holy crap! What's going on? Did I see that right? What was that that fell on the keyboard?! It wasn't sweat, was it? It was a tear?"

[Wasteland Scavenger]: "Those are tears! Those are tears! The keyboard is covered in water! The author cried?!"

【明明如月】: "The author cried?! What happened? Why did he make himself cry while writing this?!"

[Nightclub worker]: "Is he insane?! He's the living devil who wrote the deaths of Youqing, Fengxia, and Jiazhen all in one go last night! Isn't his heart made of iron? What kind of plot did he write that could break even the author himself?!"

[Male-oriented homeless man]: "Damn it! I'm getting goosebumps! Author, can't you write fewer deaths?! Spare them! Who died this time? Was it Erxi or Kugen who got into trouble?!"

[Rampaging Mechanical Arm]: "Damn you! Author, please stop crying! Your crying gives me the creeps! Please, delete the document and rewrite it! Leave Fugui a way out!"

[The Old Shennong Testing Poison]: "It's over, it's over, it's over... Judging by the extent of his hand trembling, something terrible has definitely happened! What kind of human suffering is this supposed to depict?!"

[Severe Dopamine Addiction]: "Holy crap, I can't watch anymore! I really can't watch anymore! Can the backend of Weiguang (微光) please unplug the internet cable? I need some nitroglycerin!"

[The Night Watchman of the Used Bookstore]: "Is this the sense of destiny of traditional literature... The creator and the characters he created go down into the abyss together. He is not writing a novel, he is erecting a monument to Fugui's life."

【Pure Love God of War】: "Give me my money back! I'm not reading anymore! I'm not waiting for updates! As long as I don't read, no one will leave! Waaaaah..."

The live chat exploded.

At that moment, more than a million people were driven almost mad by that single tear that fell onto the keyboard.

They screamed, begged, and even cursed at a pair of trembling hands through the screen, yet they were helpless.

That feeling of despair and fear of the unknown was amplified to its extreme by that single tear.

The frenzy of comments didn't stop; instead, it spread rapidly throughout the entire cyber network with a very short video clip.

Some quick-fingered viewers managed to capture those few seconds of footage from the live stream:

There was no sound or cool special effects on the screen.

Only a pair of pale hands, veins bulging and trembling slightly, hovered over the badly worn black mechanical keyboard.

Immediately afterwards, a warm tear fell straight down from off-screen, landing with a "plop" on the shiny space bar, splashing everywhere.

This short three-second GIF, paired with an extremely eye-catching tag:

#The finale of "Living": The author cried while writing it#

This term is like a sharp dagger, instantly piercing through the algorithm barriers of major social media platforms.

On the StarNet, the dissemination of information is never short of embellished and exaggerated celebrations.

Online rumors are like a snowball, getting more and more outrageous and exaggerated as they spread.

At first, everyone was just shocked by the single tear that landed on the keyboard.

But just three minutes later, amidst the frenzied reposting by countless marketing accounts and word-of-mouth among cyber netizens, the plot began to completely change.

"Have you heard? That amateur author on the Weiguang platform who wrote 'To Live' was so moved during his live stream that he couldn't stop crying!"

"What do you mean, 'bursting into tears'? My brother was just in the live stream, and he said the author cried so hard it was unbelievable, his tears even caused his keyboard to short-circuit!"

"Bullshit! Breaking news: that author got so into the role that he had a complete mental breakdown! He was wailing and smashing his keyboard, and even coughed up blood!"

"Really? I heard that the empathic prosthetic chip in his brain burned out, and I can't stop crying. The Micro-Light Platform has already sent a cyborg ambulance to try to save him?!"

In this era where big models dominate everything, and all novels are a combination of cold data and dopamine formulas:

"The author became so immersed in the role that he suffered a mental breakdown and cried bitterly in the live broadcast room."

This rumor, imbued with such intense human emotion and even madness, is as bizarre as discovering a living prehistoric behemoth in the cyber wasteland!

Within just ten minutes, this ever-changing and increasingly outrageous trending topic, with an extremely arrogant attitude, suddenly appeared at the top of the trending list of the largest StarNet community in the entire Federation!

And it completely exploded on the trending topics list on Douyin, followed by a dark red "Explosive" character!

The entire StarNet was in an uproar.

Countless native StarNet users who normally never read online novels or are only addicted to holographic games were drawn in by this incredible entry:

[Top comment on StarNet]: "Really? There are still real human authors? And they even write themselves to tears? Aren't novels supposed to be industrial waste generated in seconds by AI mainframes?"

[Second Hot Comment on StarNet]: "I just came out of the live stream... It's true. That hand was shaking like it had Parkinson's, and the keyboard was covered in sweat and tears. That sense of oppression, even if AI studied for ten thousand years, it couldn't imitate. Only carbon-based beings with souls can be consumed by the suffering they create."

[Third Hot Comment on StarNet]: "What on earth is this book about?! Even the author, the original author, couldn't stand it anymore? Can someone summarize it?"

[StarNet Hot Comment #4]: "Don't ask, the answer is hell on earth. This book is called 'To Live,' serialized on Weiguang Literature. I suggest you prepare oxygen tanks and a psychologist before reading it. This author is an emotionless scalpel machine, but today, the machine rusted."

The trending topic's spread had an extremely terrifying "snowball" effect.

Those passersby who were initially hesitant, those readers who had just been swayed by online trolls and left, and even those top authors from other platforms, were all stunned by this trending topic.

"Let's go! Let's go see that tough guy on Douyin who made himself cry while writing!"

"I'll see what kind of incredible plot twist could break the author's composure!"

The flow was like a flood that had been released from its dam.

In Yu Wen's Douyang live stream, the number of online viewers in the upper right corner once again began to skyrocket at a terrifying rate.

One million one hundred thousand!

One million three hundred thousand!

One million five hundred thousand!

On this weekend afternoon, more than 1.5 million people across the internet crowded into this 2D live stream room without even a filter.