(PS: This is a new type of chapter Xiao Cao has set up. It's somewhat like the end-of-volume notes other authors write. The purpose is to briefly explain some of Xiao Cao's writing ideas and periodically respond to readers' opinions and suggestions.
However, due to this book's subject matter and structure, it's difficult to divide it into volumes. If each rule were a volume, wouldn't that make forty-nine volumes... So Xiao Cao decided to use "character symposiums" in place of end-of-volume notes. Xiao Cao hopes the readers will understand.)
(PS to the PS: Symposium chapters are free chapters and do not contain spoilers for future developments. They will only mention plots mainly related to the rules covered so far. Readers who don't want to read them can skip them without affecting their reading of the main story!)
Xiao Cao: "All right, the fourteenth symposium officially begins. Please speak freely."
Guan Tong: "I lost my memory? We're already on the fourteenth one? Where are the previous thirteen?"
Xiao Cao: "Ahem! I only came up with this idea recently, so I'll slowly find time to write the previous thirteen symposiums and add them to the author's notes in the chapter before each new rule is released."
Guan Tong: "That sounds like a huge undertaking."
Xiao Cao: "That's why I said 'slowly find time'..."
Yelena: "Good luck."
Xiao Cao: "Long live understanding!"
Shi Jingyi: "Next, I have a sharp question."
Xiao Cao (with a bad feeling): "Please, go ahead!"
Shi Jingyi: "This rule took a full fifty-two chapters, far beyond the previous average of twenty to thirty chapters per rule. Were you padding the word count?"
Chen Na: "As expected, Jingyi's question is really sharp!"
Silver Fox: "Straight to the point. As expected of a lecturer. If you understand, applaud."
Guan Tong: