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.