I am a person who has a strong sense of ritual about the "ending" and will feel sad about it.

When an item dies, or when I graduate or leave my job, I feel like "a journey has ended, it's time to say goodbye."

But the fact is that life is made up of many such journeys, big and small, and I will face the same 'end' countless times.

Writing novels was actually a small dream I had in the past.

When I was in middle school, I wrote novels with crooked handwriting in a small notebook, which were full of flowery words and had a middle school feel.

I don’t know why it became popular and was passed around in the class.

At that time, I may have thought, "Will I really be able to write my own novel one day?"

But when I grew up, I never thought I would have the courage to pick it up again.

After all, compared to work, this thing doesn't make money.

Maybe you have seen those authors making a lot of money in the news and headlines, or you have seen small authors on short video platforms showing off their monthly income of over ten thousand yuan.

You may think: maybe it is really easy to make money by writing novels? In fact, people may just not see the silent majority. Most of the losers will not have the courage to show their works on the platform.

They started in silence, got lackluster data, had their self-confidence dampened, and then left in silence again.

It will not be seen by anyone and has become a small drop in the vast ocean of online literature, without causing a single ripple.

So I feel lucky that this is my first attempt and I have gained so many lovely readers.

I saw that the cumulative number of readers is 450,000, which is something I never dared to imagine.

So I'm very grateful to you for always being with me.

Some of you come here every day to show your love, some of you check in with me, some of you give me very expensive gifts, and some of you leave interesting comments to make this book more interesting.

In fact, I thought about giving up when the data dropped for the first time after reaching more than 100,000 words.

But luckily, I am a person who cares a lot about my reputation, and I cannot let my first serious novel go unfinished, and you guys are with me too.

I wanted to give up countless times, but finally I reached the end.

Thank you for being here.

【About online writing】

I also have some humble opinions I would like to share about the creation of online articles.

In fact, I have always been a person who does preparatory work before doing things, so I spent a lot of energy studying how to make novels attractive.

There are a lot of people sharing their experiences online, and I even paid to join a knowledge community to learn.

The knowledge in it is also very effective, and you can apply formulas when writing online articles.

For example, there must be conflict and contradiction at the beginning to reflect your golden finger and core selling point.

For example, there are some poisonous spots that you absolutely cannot touch.

For example, how should the density of exciting points be arranged, and how the classic three-act format can help you lay the foundation for the plot.

All the abstract concepts you have can be implemented in novels: the call to adventure, the mentor, the mentor's death, and so on.

Do you think I want to tell you that you can be successful in writing online articles by following the routine?

No, the truth is I'm only bogged down by one very simple thing: updating every day.

I feel like I really paid attention to these formulas and techniques in the beginning. Let me give you a few examples.

For example, those annoying stereotyped survivors before the first encounter with the glutton in the mall.

In fact, it follows a formula: create a disgusting guy and then let him die miserably.

People feel good from things like this. As for why, please study human nature slowly.

But soon, the daily updates completely dragged me down, and I no longer had the time to think about these techniques and formulas, which also reflected my novice side.

Because the big guys don’t even need such experience, they can write stories full of excitement when they pick up their pens.

As for me, it seems that I only need to update 4,000 words every day, but thinking about the plot often makes me scratch my head and give me a headache.

But you have to update online articles every day. If you stop updating for one day, even if you have taken a leave, your data will drop and you will be very sad.

In the world of online literature, interrupting updates/taking a break is not forgiven. Even if your readers forgive you, the data and algorithms will not forgive you.

They will teach you a lesson with the most realistic descending slope.

So in order to maintain the 4,000 words that seemed to only take an hour or two to write, the 14 chapters I had saved at the beginning were quickly used up.

When your stock of manuscripts is used up, every day of your life will become improvisation, which sounds very free, but in fact the quality of your novels will decline.

When you are worrying about these 4,000 words every day, just thinking about whether the plot is reasonable and does not conflict with the previous ones is enough to consume your brainpower.

Because of this incident, I was unable to apply the routines and formulas I had learned later on.

Routines and formulas are not derogatory terms, because in fact your writings, which look very cool, show the perfect use of routines and formulas.

On the contrary, online articles that do not use routines and formulas are not "exciting" enough, and will make your article seem to have no sense of anticipation and no desire to read on.

So I was full of doubts about myself: "I have written so much, will anyone really read it?"

Before I started writing this novel, I felt like I was a gourd of inspiration filled with creative desire.

Now this gourd of inspiration is empty. Everything has been poured out by me, and all the stories I wanted to tell have been written in by me.

This is also the reason why you say that I have a complex composition (hehe~).

Whenever someone successfully figures out a meme or the origin of a plot, I feel really happy because I’m not alone.

In this era, there are people who have watched the same works as me and had the same emotions.

I believe that we all must come from the same collective unconscious.

But when the gourd that represents my creative desire and emotion was empty, creation turned from a joy into pain.

When I say this, I particularly envy the Japanese light novels. They may only need to write tens of thousands of words a month, and they have ample space and time to design the plot and come up with clever ideas.

There is a concept abroad called "creator burnout".

I'm not very good at translation, but the description of language is pale. As I said in the novel, language is something that limits our human expression.

I've experienced this thing called burnout from beginning to end, and the word is so vivid.

It's like a flame that starts burning me every time I open my eyes until I finish updating for today and then tomorrow comes again.

This kind of burnout makes me think once or twice every day, 'Why not just stop updating and run away?'

But thanks to you, I didn’t give up.

The above are my most sincere thoughts xD.

【About the Nature of Online Literature】

In fact, after learning about the creation methods of online articles, I deeply understand one thing: online articles are a kind of "spiritual drug".

I put quotation marks here because I don’t want it to be a derogatory term, because reading online articles is a joy, and this joy is real.

But I also hope to uncover its essence so that everyone can understand what they are looking at.

The joy of selling online articles is a kind of "satisfaction of desire".

Your desire to conquer, your desire to show off in front of others, your lust, your desire for money and power.

When you put yourself into the role of the protagonist, you will feel satisfied, thereby secreting dopamine and gaining happiness.

Online articles are created by online writers, and a considerable number of them are in it for the money, including myself, whose motives are not pure.

In order to create works that have more readers, a higher completion rate, and are more attractive, we must use the routines and formulas I just mentioned.

There is a common saying here that 'the plot serves the purpose of excitement'.

So you can see that we create one 'cool spot' after another, and they are distributed just right, making you unable to stop watching and satisfying your various desires.

It is carefully designed.

We are the manufacturers of "drugs", the platform is the dealer of "drugs", and you are the audience.

Why is this so? Well, this is probably because real life is too hard. After all, everyone's Earth Online is in hard mode.

We have this spiritual need naturally.

I can’t go into detail here, you can just experience it for yourself.

I am talking about this matter so seriously just because I hope everyone will not get too involved in it and just treat online writing as a means of entertainment.

Never bring the core idea of ​​online articles: 'getting something for nothing', into real life, as this may make your life more difficult.

Also, don't bring the sexual fantasies in online articles into real life, otherwise you may accidentally be scolded by others as "Pusin men are really mean."

Besides that, reading online novels is still very enjoyable! And now looking back, when I fall into burnout and don’t use formulas, is it a more pure creation? Because what I imagine in my mind is the story of Xiaoyu and Yueyue, the plot of the two of them, without any excitement mixed in.

I don’t know the answer to this question either, but I would like to believe that they really existed and I hope they are happy.

That’s why I always say that I don’t give out knives. Look, Ning Xuan didn’t give out a knife either.

Normally speaking, the role of the younger sister can only be most impressive and unforgettable if it is done with a knife.

For example, Eri from the Dragon Clan.

By using this technique, I might be able to make people remember Ning Xuan forever, but instead of this, I still hope they are happy.

I can't bear to kill them, probably because they have lived in my heart and are not tools for you to remember them.

If you forget about them someday, then forget about them! If I write a novel again someday, I'm afraid I won't write it this way again. This will be the only one.

What you will see then is, 'no emotion, only skill', hahahahahahahahaha.

【About Malice】

The rating of this book is really high. It started out at 9.5, then dropped to 8.x after the rating system was changed, and then rose back to the current 9.4.

Thank you all for being so willing to give me 5 stars all at once instead of in installments.

I’ve done similar stuff before, so I know what happens when your highly subjective content is exposed to traffic.

That is the malice from strangers.

This problem is very common for online writers, B station up masters and other professions.

I'm lucky that I haven't received too many bad reviews because of the high ratings, but there are still some bad reviews.

I have reported all the really malicious ones.

Hundreds of thousands of people come to see my stuff and leave comments, which helps me to have the courage to be hated.

I'm not saying this to tell you how hateful the 'little black guy' in this book is.

Instead, I want to share the "courage to be hated" with you who are willing to read my book to this point.

Because I like you guys.

I want to tell you that there will always be someone in this world who doesn’t like you.

Even if you are an extremely good person and are particularly kind, there will always be people who dislike you, speak ill of you, or even make malicious assumptions about you.

He extracts his imagination from your one-sided actions, and then judges you with words and the facts with logic.

This is absurd, but also real.

I want to tell you that if one day, or at this moment, you are very unfortunate enough to encounter such malice.

I want you to remember: You don't have to respond to their expectations.

You don't have to be liked by everyone.

I can tell you that those people who hate you are completely unimportant to you. They are not even as important as the shit you took this morning.

At least that shit was once food that provided you with energy.

You always, always, always need only respond to the expectations of those who love you.

Save your patience, kindness and enthusiasm for those who love you, and give all your energy to them and respond to them.

Accept the fact that not everyone likes me, and then love those who love you.

This is what I want to share with you, 'the courage to be hated'.

I am very grateful for this creative experience, which has helped me to further confirm my ideas and filled me with more energy and motivation.

【goodbye】

Many people asked me whether I would write another book. I think it is highly unlikely that I would, as the input-output ratio of writing online articles is still too low.

I am just one of the nameless drops in the vast ocean, and now I have to leave in silence (shocking sound).

Online writing consumes me much more mentally than physically, so I will most likely take a break.

Before I leave, I'd like to share my favorite sentence with you. Thank you for reading this and for always being with me: [No matter what you are studying or thinking about, just ask yourself what the facts are and what the truth is that these facts prove. Never let yourself be influenced by what you prefer to believe or what you think will be more beneficial to society if people believe it. Just simply examine what the facts are. ]

【Love is wise, hate is foolish. 】

These are the two sentences that philosopher Bertrand Russell most wanted to leave for future generations during an interview with the BBC in 1959.

My feelings are very profound, and now I hope to pass them on to you.