It was 2023.
Time really flew. Before I knew it, I was eighteen. I also wished all my readers could stay eighteen forever.
Growing up was actually a painful thing. Over the past year, I experienced the passing of elders, the toll on my health, and friends getting married.
Once men got married, they could no longer play games with you, go out and have fun, climb trees to raid bird nests, or wade into streams to catch crabs, because a barrier called "women" now stood between you.
Gradually, there were fewer and fewer friends around to have fun with.
I imagine it was the same for everyone. If so, let's be melancholy together for a moment.
Looking back on last year, it was still very fulfilling. Every day, readers imprisoned me in front of my computer with their demands for updates, bringing back the pain of getting stuck while writing Great Feng, as well as the shame of not daring to open the chapter comments because my updates were so pathetic.
After slowly climbing over the past year, Great Feng finally reached 200,000.
Its listens on Ximalaya reached a terrifying 4.2 billion—4.2 billion in just over a year. I asked some audiobook streamers about it, and they said it was supposedly the highest figure in Ximalaya's audiobook novel history, just like Great Feng's average subscriptions on the main site.
Those who did not follow it might not realize just how terrifying Great Feng's reach beyond its usual circle was.
Next, all that remained was to look forward to the animation and live-action adaptation.
Over the past year, Spirit Realm began serialization and had reached 189,000 average subscriptions so far. It should reach 200,000 while still ongoing.
When I wrote this book, I was actually somewhat unsure of myself, because