Middle-Aged and Still at Sea, I Was Forced to Become a Web Novel Superstar

Name: Middle-Aged and Still at Sea, I Was Forced to Become a Web Novel Superstar
Author: The Snail Doesn't Climb Mountains

中年不惑，我被迫成为网文大神

by The Snail Doesn't Climb Mountains (蜗牛不爬山)

Status: Completed
Length: 166k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban High-Concept
Updated: 4mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

Real Life + Urban Fantasy

Chen Wang was turning forty this year. Today was his birthday, and as it happened, he had also been laid off.

Back home, he threw himself onto the sofa and pulled out his phone.

He opened a novel-reading app.

It had been his habit for over ten years. He read everything: wuxia, fantasy, urban fiction, historical novels.

When the workshop got too noisy, he'd spend his lunch break crouched outside reading. When he couldn't sleep at night, he'd turn off the sound and read in secret.

He opened a new urban novel.

The protagonist was also a middle-aged man who'd been laid off.

After reading three chapters, Chen Wang couldn't quite make sense of how he felt.

It was so real.

Painfully real.

He posted a comment: “Brother, I just got laid off today. We're in the same boat.”

After posting, he went to the kitchen and made himself a bowl of instant noodles.

When he came back after eating and picked up his phone...

His comment had been bumped to the top.

Likes: 217.

More than a dozen replies followed:

“Hang in there, man. I've been laid off for three months too.”

“What industry are you in, brother? Things are so tough right now.”

“Sending you a hug, man.”

Chen Wang sat there stunned for a long while.

He'd only posted a comment on a whim.

He hadn't expected so many people to respond.

Suddenly, his phone screen lit up.

An unfamiliar icon appeared.

A pure black background with just two characters: “Resonance”

Chen Wang frowned. He didn't remember downloading this app.

He tapped it.

Nothing happened.

He long-pressed it to delete it, but “Uninstall” wasn't among the options that appeared.

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