Finished

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My first completed novel. I felt half excited, half disappointed.

I was a little reluctant to let it go, but also somewhat relieved. There was an emptiness in my heart.

First of all, I have to thank all the honored readers who kept supporting me. Your support was what allowed me to write over two million words.

I also thank you for reading all the way to the end. After all, this book had quite a few plot holes and an absurd number of typos.

Originally, I had planned for the protagonist to cultivate immortality and use all kinds of Daoist techniques to fight Honkai.

After all, it was a fanfiction novel. I could have used Fu Hua's template, added Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu's settings, and made it Shenzhou-style resistance against Honkai! Letting my imagination run wild!

But at the beginning, many people felt it didn't fit the game or something. Back then, I listened to whatever readers said, so I changed a lot of things, and it ended up feeling rather neither here nor there.

Now I can say it: fanfiction is transformative work, a secondary creation. Consider this my final bit of stubbornness.

Actually, my original plan was to end this book at eight hundred thousand words. Later, for various reasons, I just kept writing and writing. Then I planned to finish it at the beginning of this year, but somehow I ended up writing until now.

Five Years of Collapse, Three Years of Simulation did poorly. You could say it did terribly.

It was put behind a paywall with only eight hundred bookmarks, and its first paid chapter had fewer than eighty subscriptions.

If this book had been in someone else's hands, it might have been dropped in the second month.

Even now, fewer than