Before I knew it, this book had reached 2.28 million words since I started publishing it around June or July last year.
Excluding leave days and side stories, the main story was at Chapter 1,007. Allow me to make up for it today with a thousand-chapter reflection.
To be honest, when I started this book, I never expected I could keep writing for this long.
Some readers thought this wasn't my first time writing a book. It really wasn't—I had written before, but I always stopped after twenty or thirty chapters. I only ever had enthusiasm for three minutes, because I didn't like those genres.
But I still had an addiction to writing and a desire to create. One day, by some strange twist of fate, I started this book, and my writing addiction collided with a genre I loved. Like fuel for a writing machine, it drove me to keep writing until now.
Just as indispensable was the support of the people who read my book. Whether it was recommendation votes, monthly votes, comments, or messages left in the chapters, all of it helped me get through the early days of this book.
Whenever I saw you making memes and discussing the plot, I got really excited.
When I first started writing this book, I was quite lost. In the past, I would either lose motivation after writing a short bit and simply stop, and I also didn't know whether anyone would read this genre. It was everyone's support that helped me through that stage.
I felt like a mountaineer who began climbing a mountain solely out of interest in it. I didn't know whether I could reach the summit, nor was I even completely certain that reaching the summit was my goal. But everyone's support helped me climb