Surprise! The typing master is actually an alien tentacle monster!

[The physical book goes on sale nationwide on January 23, 2024. Published under the title Little Planet, it includes two new bonus stories, one of which reveals his secret identity!]

Chu Shou is an alien tentacle monster. While piloting his spaceship, he got so engrossed in reading Jinjiang novels that he crashed headfirst into Blue Star. To repair his ship, he bonded with the “Powering Up for Love” System and began a diligent life of posting 100,000 words a day on Jinjiang.

The principle of Powering Up for Love is simple: the less he earns, the more power he generates, and the sooner he can start his spaceship and return to his home planet.

However...

When he writes an obscure competitive genre, readers say: “Aaaah, the author’s research is so thorough! Posting 100,000 words every day, we love you!”

When he writes brainless, fluffy fiction, readers say: “Waaaah, a sweet bedtime fairy tale! It’s so sweet it’ll give me cavities, I can’t take it!”

Chu Shou: “...People still read my stuff when I write like this? Are you all living saints?”

After much soul-searching, he carefully studied the market and realized readers were always complaining that every book on the rankings was in a popular genre. A flash of inspiration struck. He swept his tentacles across the keyboard and wrote a popular-genre mash-up with a title so long he couldn’t even remember it himself.

Reborn in the Apocalypse: Quick Transmigration, the Beautiful, Strong, Tragic White Moonlight Villain, a Ridiculous Mermaid Who Face-Slaps Everyone in an Infinite Horror Game.

There, surely you won’t click on this one!

Chu Shou rubbed his chin with one of his soft, pink tentacles.

But a few days later, a licensing company came knocking. Their opening offer was 100,000 yuan.

Chu Shou: “...”

You’re not buying the rights, you’re stealing the electricity from my house!

Chu Shou, his heart completely broken: “Fifty thousand! Just fifty thousand, not a penny more!”

Licensing company: “You can do that?”

They had never expected anyone to bargain the price down.

During his time making a living on Blue Star, Chu Shou also met many lovely people.

His roommate, a food-section creator with a million followers, always thought he was a down-and-out young heir who couldn’t afford meals, and cooked him all kinds of delicious food every day.

A domineering CEO could always pick his novels out of a sea of books and be utterly captivated at first glance. No matter how many secret identities Chu Shou used, the CEO held on to the top spot on his personal rankings.

After a hugely popular actor starred in the danmei adaptation of his novel, he cornered Chu Shou against a wall, eyes red, and said, “Write another million words of bonus chapters, and my life is yours.”

[The CP is with the roommate. The pure-hearted, warm-hearted top is the GOAT, so don’t ship the wrong pairing!]

A little promo for my upcoming novel:

I Don’t Understand What You’re Saying

An accident and an energy surge caused the spaceship xxx was aboard to make an abnormal jump, bringing it to a mysterious, unknown planet.

Preliminary results indicated that the natural evolution of this planet was still in its prehistoric stages.

xxx: Great! A prehistoric civilization for me to build!

Foraging by the sea, mining, taming prehistoric megafauna, influencing the evolution of species... I’ll create the future of my people! Humanity, rise to the top of the food chain once more!

However, brimming with confidence and armed with a farming-and-leveling guide, xxx stepped out of the habitat module and looked up. He soon discovered two problems:

1. The sea before him wasn’t actually a sea! In the murky “primordial soup,” there weren’t even any large organic molecules!

2. The only cheat he could count on was the system AI built into the habitat module. But the AI, which claimed to be artificial intelligence, said one thing to him more than anything else:

“Sorry, I don’t understand what you’re saying.”

In the primordial soup 4.5 billion years ago, a dazzling bolt of lightning split the eternal night and sparked the first organic molecule in an inorganic ocean.

During the Cambrian Period, 500 million years ago, trilobites opened their eyes after the great explosion of life. Their calcite-crystal lenses reflected the blue waves of shallow waters for the first time.

Human history spans a mere two million years, a fleeting moment in the evolution of life.

Awakening and sleeping, over and over. Witnessing and creating, time and time again.

For the countless-thousandth time, xxx stepped out of the habitat module. In the glow of the rising sun, he drove away the beasts lurking outside the cave, then smiled at the ancient apes trembling in its depths and whispered,

“Hello, Lucy.”

“It’s been a long time, humanity.”

#When the mountains are in the right place,

the terrifying upright ape will awaken and rule the world.#

A little skit:

When xxx first arrived on the prehistoric planet, his first thought was: Why not just give up?

The spaceship could produce nutrient solution, after all. He could live off that and sleep in the hibernation pod until five hundred million years later.

Then he discovered:

The nutrient solution was just too, too, too disgusting!

After drinking it for days, xxx’s mouth was so bland he could practically taste the archaeopteryx. He went outside in misery and scooped up a handful: would you look at that, seafood everywhere!

Eyes shining, xxx was about to cook it when he cracked one open...

Damn it! The seafood was way too primitive! It had a shell, but no meat! How was he supposed to eat this?

With tears in his eyes, xxx went to sleep for tens of millions of years, hoping to let evolution run its course a little longer.

When he stepped out again, well, the seafood had indeed grown.

It had grown larger than his spaceship.

#The seafood is so huge, you can’t fit it all in one pot!#

#Thank you, Mother Nature, but please, while you’re making the seafood bigger and tastier, could you stop turning it all into ferocious deep-sea predators?#

#A humble upright ape can’t fight them! I really am the vulnerable one here! (Paleozoic edition.)#

A lighthearted, no-CP story about a ridiculous (?), male protagonist who farms (probably) and levels up (thanks entirely to Mother Nature’s gifts).

Theme: Every effort made in pursuit of a dream deserves to be praised.