Chapter 000 Ending Remarks

This book is the most successful one I have written in more than a year. It is not perfect, but it is the best I can create at the moment.

The starting point of this book was that on the eve of my 24th birthday, when I was at my lowest point, I thought of the sentence, "I save myself."

I want to use my own way of thinking to interpret a self-rescue disguised as traveling through a book and using fantasy as a cover.

Hence the name Lindu came into being, which means to save others and oneself.

I created her life experience. She had a difficult life and was a helpless duckweed who struggled to survive in a world that favored boys over girls. She was once influenced by secular concepts and tried to seek love to fill the void in her growth process. But she finally came to her senses when she felt it was meaningless and tried to save others in order to redeem her former self. That is, she became an emotional blogger and saved her love brain. Thus, the hybrid was born.

But as I began to shape the story, the world of this story unfolded as a vast, real, living wonder that allowed me to create a lot of plot and reveal a lot of things.

There are actually many things I want to explain. I read many Taoist books and some simple Buddhist scriptures repeatedly, collected information, and perfected my own story. Thus, this Dongming Realm, this Wushang Sect, and many people were born.

I wanted to create a righteous path, where there might be conflicts of interest, or individual schemes, but when faced with a powerful enemy, every cultivator and every person in the righteous path would instinctively choose not to be self-sufficient, but to stick together. I wanted to create a villain with his own system and inner pain, a tragedy that is not entirely personal, but a tragedy of the times and the world.

Lin Du had nothing when she came here, but through the way of helping others, she gradually gained the role of "mother" and the role of "father", many elders who guided her, loved her unconditionally, protected her, and taught her, as well as the younger generations whom she worried about and wanted to guide, many friends whom she could trust, a confidant who was on the same journey with her, and a completely healthy relationship without burden. Thus, a big family of cultivation was born.

Lin Du has gained healthy, stable and satisfying relationships along the way through growth and a grand conspiracy. She has also changed from being wary and afraid of intimacy and reunion, preferring to make a deal and owe nothing to each other, to being able to accept help and gifts from relatives, friends and teachers with ease, because she knows that she can accept such kindness without having to think about the cause and effect and human feelings behind it.

She needs to learn to be calm, find her original intention, establish a heart for Taoism, complete the Four Sentences of Hengqu, take the ideas she has learned in modern times, integrate the Taoism she has learned, and learn to accept separation, regret, imperfection, death, and sacrifice.

She will transform herself from imperfection to perfection, from career to character and how she deals with the world. This is, in my opinion, the growth story of a heroine, and I think I have probably achieved this.

The thing an author writes about the most is inevitably influenced by her current worldview. At first, I thought Lin Du lived alone, so I had to force myself to be the best, excellent, better than boys, and live alone, so her image tends to be independent, neutral, and inviolable. After doing a lot of research on the image of the cultivation world, I chose the simplest image of a modern Taoist priest. Simple, in line with her modern concepts.

In fact, I subconsciously projected my self-protection concept at that time onto her. Now my way of self-protection is to learn Muay Thai, rather than dressing relatively neutrally and changing my image to strengthen my strength. This is the awakening I realized after being knocked on the door and stalked several times in my single apartment. I want to become strong and have the ability to protect myself with my fists, rather than being feminine and preparing for those electric saws that may not be raised in time. People cannot stand at the height of today to criticize themselves at that time.

I love people with a youthful vibe, but it wasn’t until this book debuted and was unexpectedly read by many people, who pointed out the controversy surrounding the word “youth,” that I realized it was a controversial point.

In my personal experience and the language I am used to, the word "youth" includes both boys and girls, just like "son" includes both boys and girls.

But everyone's experience and the conceptual system they form are different.

I opened this book to practice writing about a group portrait, so in the beginning, I wasn't fully invested in each character, and my focus was different when I was writing.

I want to describe different women, so I describe them in a different way and use different pronouns. Although I try not to let Lin Du use dad-related vocabulary, my unconscious misogyny that has been ingrained in the secular world will be exposed when I describe them. I want my heroine to be unique and have a stronger youthfulness. She is my most beloved and precious product. It is undeniable that my writing style does have shortcomings, and I will unconsciously compromise with the secular world to gain readability. I am also constantly reflecting on and accepting corrections.

But I still think that "boy" is a word that can be used by women, and I don't just think that Lin Du is the only boy in the text. Boyhood is one of her characteristics, but her greater characteristic is her gentleness and generosity under her coldness and loneliness, and her empathy and sensitivity as a woman. So I don't think she is gender-ambiguous, and the Virgin Mary is not a derogatory word. Saving the world and saving people is the culture and cohesion of our nation.

The world of cultivation itself is a world where power levels are constructed based on strength, so there is no essential difference between genders. You can find many wise, powerful, and diverse women in the book who walk their own paths. This is what I tend to express. The image of women is diverse, not limited, each has her own world, is an evergreen tree, is at the top of the mountain, and has infinite possibilities.

My ideas are always advancing in learning. Maybe I will find more flaws in my past self in the future, but I still love what I create.

Another controversial point is the CP issue. I have always believed that Du Wei and Du Wei are spiritually resonant and fellow travelers in an absolute sense. I wanted to try to create a normal emotional relationship that is restrained but spiritually compatible. The core of the article is not about emotions, so I didn't write much, all of it was to serve the plot.

My only talent as an author is that I love the characters and the world I created. The plot and expression methods may have flaws, but I love them truly and wholeheartedly, and I believe that they were born in my spiritual world and have independently become a parallel universe loved by many people.

Eight months is not a long time, but it allowed me to grow slowly. As the plot progressed, I began to invest more love and effort in the supporting characters in this group portrait practice. My attention shifted from thinking only about the plots related to the protagonists in the gaps between eating, sleeping, walking and laughing to thinking more about the plots of the supporting characters, so they became fuller.

I am very grateful. I am grateful that I insisted on my own ideas and did not change any of the established outlines and plots, but I am even more grateful to the readers along the way. Without your support, I would not have such a firm will to persist in creating my story.

This is indeed an ordinary online article, a snack, but I have also tried to at least turn it into a snack with some nutritional value. I hope you enjoy it, and if it suits your taste, I will be very satisfied.

I will not stop writing and creating. I hope that next time we meet again, I will be a better me.

Finally, I wish you all good luck and a beautiful journey.