Novel & Cerita Booktok Made Me Do It: The Evolution Of Reading

So creative, no? Reward the book if you liked the chapter.

"Yes. The book mentioned the Great Rift. And how it has affected the four kingdoms. It's a children's tale, but since you are similarly grounded to a child's limited knowledge, this is a good starting place," I clasped the book in hand. This is what I meant when I say I can't return empty-handed. "Seems like we're done for the day," I said. With a nod as his reply, I finally stood from my seat, clutching the book in my hand. And as soon as I stood, I finally felt the back pains and the tremors running down my limbs. I can feel my mind pulsing, probably an after-effect of the process of mind-reading. Instead of making a complete exit, I shortly paused.

"I don't know how to even fucking read.” I bit down in my lip, my mind running with words I could give that'd convince him. "Well, it's not really just a book,” I said, lifting the book back up. "This is a magic spell book that grants all your fucking wishes. You don't even have to read from it. Just open and say whatever the fuck it is that you want, and it magically gives that to you.” Stan arched a brow. "And why haven't you used it to get you some food?”

"Can we read one now?" "Sure, buddy." I sat in the chair on his other side, opening the first book. But my attention kept drifting to Evangeline, to the way she naturally anticipated Theo's needs, the way she'd built this whole life without me. After finishing two books, Theo yawned. "Someone's tired," Evangeline said gently. "How about a nap?" "Not tired," Theo protested, even as his eyes drooped. "Just rest your eyes for a bit. We'll be here when you wake up."

Took a moment. "The original proposal was about books," she said. "About reading as a mechanism for processing grief. That was true but it was incomplete." She paused. "What ten years taught me was that the books were never the point. The books were the door. What children needed wasn't a reading program. It was permission to feel what they felt in the presence of someone who didn't need them to feel it differently." She paused. "The reading program creates the conditions for that permission. That's what changed. I understood what I was actually building." The room was quiet.

A book was different. A book was permanent in a way that speeches were not. A book existed in the world independently of whether I was in a good place when it was read, independently of the specific room and the specific audience and the specific night. A book could be read by my children when they were old enough to read it. A book could be read by people who hated me, people who had opinions about what I should have done differently, people who had never experienced anything adjacent to what I was describing and would bring that absence to the reading. A book required a different kind of exposure than standing at a podium.

And once you reach for it, you will identified as one of their leader. Every born child of Alpha's will have their own book. And this book will lead them to a quest. A quest will help them to level up. These Alpha's were created by Mother Tree, she was the most powerful of the underworlds. She can give more life to every creature in their land. But creating the Alpha's would be her greatest mistake because instead of protecting their land they were the one destroying it by killing each other just to be a leader. The four Alpha's can be recognized which group of clan they're belong by the color of their eyes.

I was speechless. 'Ah, I forgot about that.' The book I was reading was called 《The Male Lead's Lover》. It was a story filled with crappy cliché, and I also don’t know what I ate to read that kind of book. Maybe I was momentarily out of my mind and bought that book in the bookstore, or maybe I was asleep as I picked that book on the shelf.