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

An hour later.

The contracted author groups on major platforms have fallen into a deathly silence.

Faced with such a work that is so devastatingly superior, the evaluations from peers are clearly more professional and somber.

[Platinum Master - Night Rain]: "As a fellow writer, I'm impressed. These 120,000 words have no rhetorical devices or fancy techniques, yet the textual tension is off the charts. Now, when I look at my own millions of words of outlines generated using AI models, I feel like I'm just creating cyber garbage. I'm going to take a break from updating for a few days. This isn't online fiction; this is real literature."

[AI Reviewer 007]: "I review millions of words of AI manuscripts every day, and I'm immune to text by now. But today, seeing an old man leading a cow along the ridge of a field, I couldn't hold back my tears. This kind of pure pain and vitality is something that the Pangu Engine could never simulate, even if it iterated a hundred times."

Amidst the numerous shocks and discussions, some readers turned their attention back to the author who hadn't shown his face in the live stream.

[Cyber ​​Old Chinese Medicine Doctor]: "@Weiguang Literature Official, could you please open a physical donation channel? The author's hands look severely malnourished. I can't save Fugui in the book, but I want to buy this guy two pounds of real meat."

[Graceful and Unyielding]: "I need an extra chapter! Please write an extra chapter about Fugui's dream! He dreams that Jia Zhen isn't sick, Youqing has grown up, and Kugen has an endless supply of beans... You can even use AI to write a short one to fool me! I'll send you a mothership!"

[Cyber ​​Psychosis Confirmed Patient] replied to [Soft Rice Hard Eater]: "Wake up, given this living devil's nature, writing a side story would be like the old ox dying of illness, with Fugui burying the ox all by himself."

[Kidding] replied to [Cyber ​​Mental Illness Patient]: "...Shut up and burst into tears."

At this moment, the various forums on Xingwang, the interactive area of ​​Weiguang, and the trending topics list on Douyang platform were completely ignited by these 120,000 words.

Millions of users have built a monument on the virtual network with their words.

The tearful pleas, the absurd self-consolation, the shock of pure suffering, and the focus on the author's own real living conditions transformed into wave after wave of data torrents that swept across the entire cyber wasteland night.

This night is destined to be sleepless.

These people are not only witnesses to this historical moment, but also participants and creators.

……

Central District, Weiguang Literature Headquarters Building.

Top-level data monitoring center.

Just as the alarm for 1.6 million concurrent data requests was deactivated, the holographic data leaderboard above the control panel suddenly underwent a dramatic change.

To Live

Number one on the new book list.

Number one on the bestseller list.

It ranked first on the popularity chart.

The data bar for "To Live" was like a sharp sword, piercing through the screen and dominating the top spot on all the charts on the Weiguang platform with an extremely domineering attitude.

The operators in the server room stared at the author's backend information that popped up at the edge of the leaderboard, their fingers hovering over the keyboard, their breaths catching in their throats for a moment.

Several lines of text were displayed on the holographic projection that were extremely eye-catching:

Author ID: Yu Huashi.

Author level: Lv.1 (lowest privileges, Iron account).

Registration duration: six days.

A low-level account, registered less than a week ago and lacking even basic holographic layout permissions, managed to trample all the platinum-level experts who had been working on the site for many years underfoot overnight.

The record for the most collected items has been broken.

The record for the fastest completed novel to be subscribed has been broken.

The record for the highest single-day donation revenue has been broken.

All historical records since the establishment of the Weiguang platform were completely shattered in that one second by these 120,000 words.

This is the most bizarre and unparalleled spectacle since the founding of Weiguang Literature.

In the spacious computer room, more than seventy data maintenance workers, auditors, and even data supervisor Lao Zhang, all stopped what they were doing.

Their gazes, without exception, were fixed on the holographic split screens in front of them.

The screen displays the last two chapters of "To Live".

Chang Liren stood behind the main control panel.

He braced his hands on the cold metal tabletop, leaning slightly forward.

His gaze swept past the record-breaking, skyrocketing data and landed on the ending of the quote on the screen: "Young people wander, middle-aged people seek treasures, and old people become monks."

The only noise in the server room was the low noise of the server arrays running.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes.

Chang Liren's hands, which were supporting him on the table, slowly tightened.

Then, he straightened up and exhaled a long breath of stale air that had been trapped in his chest.

The moment he exhaled that stale breath, he straightened up.

"Remove all other books from the site's recommendation list."

Chang Liren turned his head, his voice ringing out in the quiet computer room, speaking very quickly:

"Immediately place 'To Live' at the very top and most prominent position on the Weiguang platform. Promote it across the entire site. Replace all links to this book with links to the book in the splash screen, pop-ups, banners, and footer."

Old Zhang suddenly came to his senses and turned to rush towards the holographic keyboard.

Dozens of operators were awakened at the same time, and a series of rapid knocking sounds filled the server room.

"Mr. Chang, what about the top authors in other category rankings...?"

The data manager confirmed the information while typing on the keyboard.

"Withdraw everything."

Chang Liren interrupted him: "The current 'To Live' doesn't need Wei Guang to give it a 'GG' (a Chinese internet slang term for a failed attempt); it's Wei Guang that needs 'To Live' to be the best 'GG'!"

Chang Liren looked at the top-ranking data indicators on the big screen, his gaze lingering on the book title.

People in the old days always said that a good article is worth a thousand pieces of gold.

Chang Liren stared at the two black square characters on the screen, his voice echoing in the hall:

"I think the two words 'To Live' are worth more than gold, no, they are priceless. History will remember this day because of the perfect ending of this work tonight."

The instruction has been issued.

The UI of Weiguang Literature has undergone a complete transformation.

Whether it's a new user who has just opened the app or an existing user who is browsing other pages, everyone's screen goes black for one second at the same time.

Immediately following, a black-and-white poster with no fancy special effects, featuring only yellow earth, an old ox, and an old man in coarse cloth, took center stage.

There were no slogans, only the two words in the center of the poster: "Living".

Almost at the same time that the site-wide promotion took effect.

"Drip—drip—drip—"

In the business department located on the twelfth floor of the building, dozens of holographic private line communication devices simultaneously lit up with red lights, indicating the highest priority.

The business director's communication interface was instantly flooded with hundreds of urgent emails and video call requests.

Besides those three giants, countless brands with keen senses on CyberStar.com, like sharks smelling blood, frantically pounced on Weiguang Literature's overseas markets.

Get ready to strike while the iron is hot and capitalize on this unprecedented wave of traffic dividends.

[A synthetic fiber clothing brand in Zhongcheng District, known as "Steel Sewing Machine," requests authorization to design the same coarse cloth shirt worn in the TV series "To Live."]

[The manufacturer of "Longevity Brand" nutritional liquid in Xiacheng District has requested a joint launch of "Fugui Brand" extra-concentrated bean-flavored nutritional liquid, and the deposit has already been transferred to Weiguang's public account.]

[Shangcheng District "New Skin" Prosthetic Body Painting Center: Requests to purchase exclusive metal spray painting rights for the "Living" ox totem.]

[Federal Vintage Jewelry Chain Store: Requests development of miniature "Mechanical Old Cow" pendants and derivative products based on "Jiazhen's Silver Hairpin".]

The letter of intent for cooperation on the holographic projection kept scrolling down.

Clothing, accessories, physical merchandise blueprints... all sorts of derivative development requests are almost clogging up the receiving channels of Weiguang's business department.

……

After issuing the "site-wide promotion" order, Chang Liren stayed alone in the president's office.

He looked at the black-and-white pages of "To Live" on the holographic screen, picked up the personal communicator on the table, and dialed the contact number left by the author of "To Live"...