Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 116



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EP 5 – Love Story

My book was at the top of the bookstore shelf.

To be exact, it is the first position in column 1.

Its location is similar to human height.

The books are displayed at a slightly higher position than eye level so that anyone who enters the bookstore can find them right away, but so that people unconsciously look up to the books.

Because that is a position suitable for number one.

However, the books displayed at a height where most adults would slightly look up seemed much higher from my perspective.

I gently stretch out my hand, but I can’t reach it. ‘Love Story’ has already taken flight out of my hands.

I smiled quietly and lowered my hand. And then I saw the books spread out in front of me.

First of all, there are 16 books in front of you alone. Because we have collected the bestsellers from 1st to 16th place.

And right now, there are non-fiction bestseller sections on the shelves on both sides. There are 16 volumes there, totaling 48 volumes.

These 48 books may look like books to some people, but to me, they looked like people.

It was as if I could hear the groans of people writing down each word, painfully squeezing out a part of their lives.

Books containing the lives and sufferings of 48 people were spread out before my eyes, and my book was placed on the throne where the most loved book was located.

Eventually, when I look back,

Tens of thousands of books fill the bookstore,

No, I see hundreds of thousands of books.

How much life is contained there?

If you add up the time it took to write those books, it would easily exceed a person’s lifespan. Even if you devote your whole life to reading books, it would be impossible to read them all.

In this way, the time given to one human being is so short and shallow.

Our ancestors also knew this, so they started scribbling on the cave walls.

That’s how it started.

Things that started like that have piled up until now. Just a small portion of those records are hundreds of thousands of books before my eyes.

So how can one not be in awe of books?

Therefore, when you look at the globe, in this country smaller than the fingernail of your little finger,

Although it is only a short period of time compared to ‘recorded history’,

The fact that my book was read by the most people…

It was truly an indescribable feeling.

Of course, even now I doubt my talent. I can’t feel comfortable receiving praise pouring in on me. Because I was living in a strange world where I was loved just because I was young.

But for today, I decided to look with warm eyes at my book displayed at a slightly higher height than the average height of an adult.

Because that was a position that a young man who wrote alone in a cold room could not obtain until his death.