Some Things

The novel he had decided to create was a mixture of Coiling Dragon and Douluo Dalu. It was one of the few novels he had always love to read again and again. The protagonist was named Linley Seng, in honor of the two protagonists of the book.

The power system will also be mixed with some of his ideas added into it, although it was not really creating something new since he had just combined the two and wrote some. If he was not in so much of a hurry to earn money, maybe he would have taken his time to create an original of his own. Still, he will surely make a novel or two someday. And when that time comes, he will pour his everything into it and try to see how he compares to the top writers in the world.

Not to mention that these two novels have over 500 chapters each, so the reason why he only wants to write one hundred chapters is that this will be series and he will be writing the first volume.

The chapter will have about 20,000 words in them. In a chapter with that many words, people would surely get bored easily. Not to mention the fact that it will be very hard to maintain that number of words as one progresses in writing.

But Chris is confident that these 20,000 words will be not enough if ever someone reads his novel. This is not because he is bragging, just stating facts. With a writing skill at the peak of normal people, he may not be able to compete with those monstrous geniuses he has heard. But he is confident that his writing skills are just slightly inferior to them.

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When he had come downstairs, his mother was already there waiting for him.

"Buy these things on the list. You're father's coming home early." She said as she went back to the kitchen. She seems really happy about something as she was humming a song as she walks.

Seeing his mother happy, Chris was also happy. What he dearly miss in his previous life was his mother's smile. Now that he can see it every day, he will always cherish them, along with his father. He will do everything he can to protect this family.

Speaking of family, in his previous life, he has two siblings. It seems like in this life, he is the only child of his parents. After realizing this, Chris felt like his chest was in pain. Tears were knowingly flowing out his eyes as he grips his chest.

'Cristina, Chase'

His two siblings from his previous world, although they might fight from time to time. It was actually the only way how they bond since they are bad at expressing their true feelings. Despite the fact that they are always seen fighting, they were actually inseparable during their childhood.

Even when they had grown, they were still inseparable. The first and longest time separation they had was when Chris had to study at Minana. His little sister Cristina also had to study Kempou while only Chase remained at Bagiatnan since he was still too young at that time.

As the oldest, Chris was always the one to get scolded whenever one of his siblings did something wrong. He would just also them equally like how his parents scold him, though he would always give them something. He had slightly spoiled them.

But knowing that he might not see them again. He felt it, the pain that was directly in his heart. Not the physical one but the one that is connected to his very soul.

Not knowing how long he had been mindlessly walking, his feet have dragged him in front of a store. There were no more tears flowing out of his eyes and he was lucky enough that he was wearing his hoodie, so no one saw him crying.

He looked at the grocery list his mother had given him, he then calmed down his emotions and regained his bearing. Even if they don't exist in this world, they will not be forgotten. He will always remember his bossy yet kind little sister and his mischievous but timid little brother.

He then took a step into the store.

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When Chris went back home, his father was already home. He was heading towards the living room but he came from the kitchen. He was also smiling widely, giving Chris a weird feeling. Since he had never seen his father smile like that.

"Oh, you're back. Your mom's been waiting for you, she needs those." His father saw him as he regains his somewhat normal expression. But his eyes were still shining and smiling brightly.

Chris nodded towards his dad as he went to the kitchen. His mother saw him as she scolded him, "Where were you? What took you so long?"

Chris scratched his head awkwardly, with no idea how to explain the little accident that happens back at the store. So, he could only bow his head and listen to her nag him before she let him go.

As he was just about to go back to his room, he heard the news.

[A video uploaded this morning in Youbetu has gone viral all over the country. The video was taken in a school with a student singing what appears to be a new song. The video looks normal at the start but as soon as the student started singing. Things got a bit fun. Let's all watch the video.]

When he heard it, Chris hurried to the living room where his father was laying on the couch lazily. Seeing Chris, he just nodded at him which nodded back. It was his father's way of saying 'Sup' in a somewhat formal way??

Chris then heard his familiar voice coming from the TV and unsurprisingly, it was really him singing. Eva and Roda were also in the video and even though the quality was bad, their beauty can still be seen a bit unclearly.

[Only know you love her when you let her go]

He listened to the whole song, the sound quality was actually much better than the video quality which was weird. But he was thankful since it would block his face more, though it would be a different story if people he knew told others.

He had already prepared a contingency plan for this and was planning to use his breakup as a story to how he was able to write such a song. Though it would look like he was taking advantage of his breakup, Chris had never meant to expose his real identity again.

The next time he sings will be anonymous. He has seen far too many movies and read too many novels to know that fame equates to trouble.

He may have acted rashly at school when he sang this song outside, it would've been already if he were inside their room. There were too many people outside that he never expected them to listen to when they have other things to do.

He pondered over hacking Youbetu and deleting this video and any other sites and devices in this video. But then he decided not to since that action would have also attracted unwanted attention.

"Chris." His father's voice brought him out of his daze as he turns his head to look. His was father was now sitting properly as he stares at him.

"Yes?" He was unsure why he called him.

His father pointed at the video of him singing, "That's you right?" his voice contained a bit happy.

Chris could have lied and told him that's not him. But the hoodie he had worn was made by his mother so there's no way there will be something like that in the world, though that is not entirely impossible. The point is that he's exposed.

"Yes…" Chris sighed. Instantly getting good at almost everything is really a pain. You want to show off but can't since it would attract too much trouble.

His father did not ask anything after that, all he did was stare at him. His black eyes were staring at him like he was trying to pierce him with his gaze.

The only saving grace Chris had was when his mother called them for dinner.

'Father's still scary as ever'