It was May 26, 2025, 5:30 in the morning, just before the sun rose.
When my fingertips lightly tapped out the words "The End," what surged through my heart wasn't the excitement I had expected, but a lingering melancholy.
In terms of results, this book's performance plunged almost straight off a cliff after the midpoint.
Especially toward the end, only three hundred readers were still following each update on this site.
For a long time, the author friends around me kept advising me that "short-term pain is better than long-term pain," urging me to end this book and start a new one as soon as possible.
But every time I opened the backend and saw that several thousand readers were still following the book through other channels, Jin Jin Jin would grit his teeth and keep his head down, working away.
Before I knew it, this book had reached 6.57 million words.
Although its results weren't outstanding, that word count was still a "rare species" on Starting Point.
(In a sense, I guess that puts us among the top ranks too, haha!)
This is my first time writing an epilogue, so I'll start by evaluating myself.
A mess.
Actually, before writing this book, Jin Jin Jin had only written two others.
The first was an imitation of Ming Jian's "Urban Simulation Life." I tried to ride the wave of the then-popular Instance Dungeon Genre, but everyone can probably guess the result. How could a newcomer have the ability to handle such a complex structure?
Here, I have to thank Editor Lu Ming, who fished me out of the vast sea of people and set me on the path of becoming an author.
I hurriedly wrote sixty thousand words of that book before it collapsed halfway through once I had gained