Time passed so quickly. In the blink of an eye, 2023 was already over.
This year was truly an unforgettable one for me.
This was the year I finally finished North America, which had taken more than two years of sheer endurance to write.
I did my very best to make it as perfect as possible.
As for that, I already wrote it all in my ten-thousand-word end-of-volume summary, so I won't say more.
Other than that, there really wasn't much to summarize this year.
In the first half of the year, I finished that volume.
Then in the second half, I very slowly finished all the side stories.
I really have to apologize to everyone for that.
Even after finishing North America, my update speed in the second half of the year was still terribly bad.
But really, I'd been writing for too long and got a little tired. After enduring such a long ordeal, it had warped me.
Still, although my updates were terribly bad in the second half of the year—
The past six months in Xiamen were truly the most comfortable period I'd had in recent years.
I spent a little more money to rent a better place. There was a mall right outside the neighborhood, so I could go downstairs and wander around whenever I had nothing to do.
Sometimes I went out for a nice meal, went somewhere for fun, or played games together.
Sometimes I went downstairs to get some exercise, or sat by the water in the park.
As a result, my physical condition was much better than before. Before coming here, I spent over three thousand at the hospital on half a month of electroacupuncture treatments for frozen shoulder and my lower back.
Now I could even hang from rings with