Chu Kuang released a short story
After receiving this push, many fans' first reaction was—
Did Chu Kuang post the extra story of "Prince of Tennis" on the tribe
It's normal to have such thoughts.
Some writers like to use blogs to publish free extras that they don’t intend to publish and interact with readers.
However, Chu Kuang is obviously not someone who likes to interact with fans.
When everyone clicked in following the tribal push, they found out that this was not a special story at all, but simply a short story written by Chu Kuang.
"It would be nice if it was a sequel to Prince of Tennis."
At this time, "The Prince of Tennis" has already released its second volume, and the fan base is still quite large. Many people were disappointed when they found out that it was not a spin-off.
For example, Zhu Ming, a high school student in the mountain city of Qinzhou, is a die-hard fan of the novel "Prince of Tennis".
"You should read more nutritious books."
Zhu Ming's sister is Zhu Hui. She has always been against her brother reading youth fantasy novels and would scold Zhu Ming whenever she got the chance.
Zhu Hui is prejudiced against youth fantasy novels.
Because she had read books of this type before, where the protagonist traveled to another world and was surrounded by a group of beautiful girls every day. In the end, all the girls became the protagonist's wife, and the text descriptions occasionally contained some adult content...
"I told you everything."
The younger brother refuted Zhu Hui: "The Prince of Tennis is different from those novels. This novel is about tennis. Professional players say it is well written. Many girls also like this novel."
"Yeah?"
Zhu Hui was skeptical.
She simply sat in front of the computer, where she was logging into her brother's blog account: "Didn't you just say that Chu Kuang had just published a short story? This is a writer you like, right? I want to see what he wrote."
"A short story isn't a youth fantasy novel."
“As long as it’s written by the same person.”
"Then you can read Prince of Tennis. I have the physical copy."
"Don't go to all that trouble. Sometimes you can understand a person through words." Zhu Hui said this and casually clicked on the short story titled "Artificial Beauty" and started reading.
The content is indeed short.
The story begins with a bar owner who sees his bar going bankrupt, so he makes a desperate move and creates a beautiful robot that can drink with his guests. Since this robot girl determines the fate of the bar, the owner took great pains to make her very beautiful.
Her skin, as white as jade, is in no way inferior to that of any other young girl and can be completely mistaken for the real thing.
If someone who doesn’t know the inside story sees this, they will definitely think that this is the woman with the most delicate skin they have ever seen!
When the customers saw a new young and beautiful girl sitting at the bar counter, they all rushed to greet her and talk to her.
When the other party asked her name and age, she could still answer calmly with a smile, but if she asked further questions, she could not answer -
Despite this, no one realized that she was a robot.
So the bar became popular.
More and more people came to the bar and invited this beauty to have a drink.
The boss stood behind the counter, squatting down from time to time to collect the wine from the plastic tube under the feet of the beautiful robot, and then sold it to the customers at a fair and reasonable price.
The customers didn't discover the secret.
This girl is so young, but she can drink a lot. It can be imagined that she must be in very good health. She will not flirt with the guests and keep pestering them. When the guests invite her to drink, she always drinks it all in one gulp, but she is not drunk at all.
The customers thought.
Zhu Hui in front of the computer felt a little surprised.
This Chu Kuang’s imagination is quite interesting.
There seems to be a hint of irony in the text, because people only pay attention to the appearance and don't care about the connotation at all, so everyone will fall in love with a beautiful robot without their own judgment.
But how does the story continue
As soon as this thought came to her mind, Zhu Hui saw the following text:
Among these customers there is a young man who falls in love with the beautiful robot lady at first sight. He goes to the bar every day to invite the robot lady to drink. Of course, no matter how he tries to please Miss Booker with a smile, it is all in vain. But he does not give up. Instead, he pursues Miss Booker more vigorously, only orders the most expensive wine in the bar, and even spends all his savings.
This paragraph is also a bit ironic.
It even has some inexplicable practical significance.
The young man who fell in love with Miss Robot at first sight is really like some poor fellows who would rather eat instant noodles than give tips to the anchors.
But the direction of the story is hard to predict.
Could it be that the robot finally developed human emotions
If that were the case, Zhu Hui would be greatly disappointed.
Because it's too vulgar.
She continued to watch with anticipation: In the end, because he couldn't pay for the wine, the young man had to bite the bullet and take out the money from home. His father was very annoyed and angrily scolded him: Don't go to that damn place again! Here, take this money and pay it. Remember, this is the last time!
The last time.
The young man took the money to the bar. To say goodbye, he raised his glass repeatedly and asked Miss Robot to drink a lot of wine.
He confessed again.
But the robot's brain is empty, like an empty can, and the beautiful woman with only good looks can only answer according to the established language program.
The young man did not get the answer he wanted.
He quietly took out a terrible poison from his pocket, sprinkled it into the wine glass, then filled the glass with wine and handed it to Miss Robot. He watched Miss Robot raise her head and drink the poisoned wine in one gulp.
“Isn’t that too cruel?”
Zhu Hui, who was sitting in front of the computer, suddenly felt a palpitation in her heart. An extreme drunkard would kill someone if he couldn't get the love he wanted. Fortunately, the robot lady was not human, otherwise she would have been poisoned to death by the young man.
She thought so.
But the next paragraph suddenly made Zhu Hui feel cold:
After the young man left, the boss called out loudly to the remaining customers: From now on, I will treat everyone to drinks, so just drink to your heart's content!
Although it was a treat, the boss would not suffer any loss, because in the dead of night, there would be no customers anymore; besides, the wine the boss gave everyone was just recycled from the plastic tube under Miss Booker's feet, so it didn't cost anything.
ah!
Almost forgot!
The wine that Miss Robot drinks will eventually be recycled by the boss and sold to other customers. In other words, everyone in the bar drank the terrible poisoned wine today!
Zhu Hui was instantly moved.
The short novel has come to an end. The last paragraph of the story reads as follows:
The customers and the waiters in the store were all making loud and excited noises. Everyone was toasting each other and drinking heartily. Even the boss was infected by the atmosphere. He slowly raised his glass at the counter and drank slowly.
All descriptions stop here.
But there is no need to imagine what happened next. This is the blank space left by the author, which makes it more impactful!
"All dead."
This ending was completely beyond Zhu Hui's expectations, so much so that she exclaimed: "They're all dead!"
"What?"
The younger brother next to him asked curiously.
Zhu Hui did not answer. She first logged into her blog and followed Chu Kuang, then said:
"Chu Kuang is a very talented author. His novels... should be worth reading."