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It had been almost four months since May 3.

Time flew by in a flash while I was writing. It went by so fast!

I often looked back on it and felt deeply moved.

Although I'd once said goodbye to web novels, and hadn't even opened Qidian for a long time, just when I thought I'd spend the rest of my life working a regular job and never have anything to do with web novels again, fate brought me back to writing through a twist of chance.

It might sound simple, but the experiences I'd had in the real world over the years, and the changes in my mindset, still left me feeling all kinds of things.

Getting into the specifics would take a long time, and it's kind of embarrassing, so I won't go into too much detail about myself. (I actually wrote a very detailed version, but, well, I don't want to post it, hahaha.)

Basically, it went like this: [I thought I had some talent for writing web novels] → [I gradually came to terms with reality] → [I had no idea how to write web novels] → [I was afraid to open Qidian] → [I started working and got a harsh dose of reality] → [I changed jobs] → [Like someone drowning, I desperately sought advice and help from everyone around me, completely lost] → [I grew increasingly numb, rejected all social interaction, and struggled to make ends meet].

At the worst of it, I didn't even have enough money in my pocket to pay my dorm rent. My company was months behind on wages; I was paying off a home elsewhere; and a former coworker still hadn't paid back the money I'd lent them a year earlier.

I'm pretty shy about asking for things (which