Finished-cue the confetti~
Following Qidian tradition, a finished novel needs some closing remarks.
Thank you all so much for being with me along the way. The original Battle Through the Heavens began publication in 2009, and fourteen years have passed since then.
The original ran to 5.31 million Chinese characters. You could say Battle Through the Heavens was the youth of many readers, and mine too, accompanying us through middle school and high school.
Nalan Ye, meanwhile, began with a chance encounter on Zhihu in 2019. I love reading novels, and that hobby was also the reason I wrote this book.
The original accompanied me through my youth, while Nalan Ye accompanied me down an even longer road.
When I first started writing, I was still at university. After graduating, I joined the military, and now I have left the service, returned to civilian life, and started working.
Of course, I also have to mention that Nalan Ye weathered the entire pandemic era. When I started the book, the pandemic had not begun; by the time I finished it, the pandemic was over.
Thank you all again for staying with me, especially when I joined the military and stopped updating for two years. Just after leaving the service, I wondered whether to keep writing or simply abandon the book...
But at the time, I saw messages from so many readers, some in the reader group and some on Zhihu. After learning that I had joined the military, one reader even scheduled an email to reach me two years later, hoping I would come back and continue Little Yezi's story.
So I kept writing.
My writing was awful, and after coming back, I had forgotten much of the plot too, so I wrote poorly, rushing the plot one moment and padding