The Portrait Artist: I Draw with My Life, Make the Whole Internet Weep, and Beg Me to Stop!

It's well-written, but I really can't understand the various outrageous ideas from netizens.

I read about 80 chapters before I couldn't continue. The protagonist's country, or rather, planet, faces powerful hackers as its adversaries, and the protagonist's country can only be suppressed and cannot fight back. The protagonist's system—what should it be called? A life-saving system. The protagonist gains a certain amount of lifespan by drawing a portrait of a high-profile murderer (meaning someone involved in a major crime). This lifespan gradually increases until the protagonist can live like a normal person. The story begins with the protagonist being diagnosed with late-stage stomach cancer. He then draws portraits of the murderers in high-profile cases; the greater the influence, the more lifespan he gains. After reading about 80 portraits, I skipped to the last chapter. I felt the middle part wasn't very interesting. |•-•)و✧

To be honest, it wasn't very good. The main character always said the same thing when faced with advice, and the plot was quite boring. Maybe I just haven't seen the exciting parts yet.

The subject matter is good, but it's too broad. A portrait artist doesn't really have that much influence. And then there's the constant praise and criticism. I've seen a lot of people criticizing the author. Let's give some background information, even though it's poorly written.

It was really interesting; to be honest, I didn't even guess many of the cases. Highly recommended!

Simply put, aside from the subject matter, there are no highlights. More detail or a more detailed depiction of the case would have been fine, but most of it just involves watching "netizens" act foolishly, or a few people claiming to be from the national police department or some high-ranking official, frantically trying to solve the problem, relying solely on a terminally ill patient who can't even get out of bed. It's hard to reconcile this with the current state of China. The loss of national treasures is also overly deliberate and somewhat idiotic. Stolen, hacked, videos deleted, and the flow of information controlled domestically—it's unbelievable.

Is this the only book? Are there any other books written about?

Basically, it's repeating the same old formula: being slandered, then facing widespread online backlash, and then being proven wrong.

Ugh! When I got to chapter 154, I felt the author was being too presumptuous. How could someone from a company possibly supervise the National Security Bureau's investigation?

I read a book about stomach cancer, also about someone nearing death, but that one was about songwriting, and this one is about portraiture. It feels similar...