Tiger's old desktop computer had already been in service for twelve years. It had been a brand-name machine when he bought it, and it was fairly durable, which was why it had lasted twelve years. By now, he had grown attached to it.
The old seventeen-inch LCD monitor had died last year, but Tiger still couldn't bear to throw the machine away. He replaced it with a nineteen-inch LCD monitor and kept using it. He was so used to this computer that every other computer at home felt wrong to him—laptops always made the screen feel too small, uncomfortable to look at and inconvenient to type on, while all-in-ones made the screen feel too big, as if he were hugging a television while using it. His wife had mocked him for this countless times.
These past few days, the computer had been like an antique on the verge of entering the grave. Although Master Lu could still give it a score of over thirty thousand, starting it up had become increasingly difficult. Every time he turned it on, it was like making someone with asthma run ten thousand meters. After countless black screens, only under Tiger's tender, longing gaze would that familiar field of lavender finally appear on the desktop...
For this reason, Tiger's update speed had been affected to some extent over the past two days.
Tiger gritted his teeth. No feast lasts forever. Fine, it was time to cut it off...
The new desktop computer arrived today, but he had not switched over yet. Tiger had planned to update one chapter first, then replace it.
Then... just now... the new chapter had reached around 3,500 words and was about to end when, after the screen flickered a few times, the computer restarted itself... Even more tragically, after it