"The Ghost Devouring Boy" was written on July 2, 2014, and concluded yesterday, November 22, 2016. It took over two years and four months, totaling 5.5 million words across more than 1,700 chapters.
It had to be said that many things happened during the writing process, both within the novel and in real life. This book led A Fei to make choices at a Fork in the Road of life that differed somewhat from those of others.
Let me tell everyone a little about how it all began. The initial inspiration for this book actually came from a rather serious trauma in A Fei's life. At my undergraduate graduation party, A Fei drank too much. In fact, I had a girlfriend who had been with me throughout all four years of college. A Fei was going on to graduate school, while she was going to work. As a man, my girl was out earning a salary while I was still studying at school.
That pressure was truly immense, and during our final semester, our relationship was not doing very well either.
At the time, I had pulled an all-nighter the day before and had no idea how much I drank, so my head was quite dizzy. I foolishly knocked over my wineglass, and a shard of glass accidentally sliced deeply into my right palm. Several nerves were severed, along with several tendons and blood vessels. It was a fairly serious injury.
Unfortunately, A Fei had no blood energy and could only recover slowly.
After a prompt two-hour operation, A Fei lay in the hospital bed. Our class monitor even stayed up to watch over me all night. I was deeply grateful.
When the anesthetic wore off, the palm wrapped in bandages began to ache faintly. Lying in the hospital bed,