FVN Chapter 7: LIE120
Chapter 7: LIE120
Chapter 7 - LIE120
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December 30th, 2009.
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Gregor's Apartment, Downtown.
The 2000s had arrived with an avalanche of new technology, reshaping how people consumed entertainment.
With every new app and gadget, the traditional hobbies struggle to keep up.
Light novels, and books once the main source of entertainment, slowly began to take a back seat.
But then came web novels - a new breed of storytelling.
Unlike the polished and heavily curated light novels, web novels were raw and immediate.
There was no waiting for approval or months of meticulous editing, Chapters were uploaded as they were written.
Most of them were messy. Often amateurish. But to the readers who had embraced this new format, that was the very charm of it.
And despite the quality ranging from laughably awful to surprisingly brilliant, the sheer variety of genres makes up for it and keeps pulling more people in.
Web novels fit perfectly into the cracks of busy lives.
You could scroll through a Chapter during a coffee break or devour an entire series in bed at your fingertips.
And they couldn't get enough.
Gregor was one of those readers.
At 35, his online name - MochiSnatcher84 - was a well-known name in online forums for his surprising behind-the-scenes details and encyclopedic knowledge.
Since the boom of WebNovels, Gregor has gone from casual reader to full-blown addict.
No, scratch that - he was consumed.
He had read everything, every trope, every cliché, and he had an eye for what worked and what didn't.
He had read it all - power fantasies, epics, even the odd guilty pleasure.
Nothing was off-limits.
But lately? Everything felt stale.
Gregor slouched in a creaky, mismatched chair, balanced a half-full coffee mug precariously on the edge of his cluttered desk.
His eyes were glued to the laptop's screen and glowed in the dim room as he scrolled through updates of his favorite stories.
In Gregor's humble opinion, he had developed a discerning eye for WebNovels - the good, the bad, and the downright forgettable.
But lately, nothing seemed to stick.
The stories all blurred together, weighed down by overused tropes and lazy writing.
That was, until two novels recently appeared on his radar: