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Hello everyone, I am the author of this article, Hu Yan.

Thank you for reading this work. It's an honor to share my story with you through online serialization. I sincerely hope you enjoy the present and the story to come.

The fact that I'm willing to write a novel already shows that I have a strong desire to express myself. Facing my first ever online novel launch announcement, I actually wanted to cram in many thoughts, but after much consideration, I decided against it. Wouldn't it be better to use that time to write more of the main text?

The remaining content is my self-introduction, and a brief talk about my writing career—I don't really want to tarnish the word "writing"—in my early student days, I created some free anime fanfiction on Qidian under other pen names (fanfiction couldn't be published back then). Later, due to injuries and studies, I stopped writing and left the community. Only recently, unable to suppress my restless daydreams, have I picked up my love for online novel writing again.

Although I'm considered a veteran writer in terms of how long I've been in the industry, my past reliance on fan fiction didn't Control Stage my skills in plot structure and pacing. After years of not writing, my writing skills and deductive reasoning abilities have actually regressed, which I find quite shameful. So, I'll just shamelessly call myself a newbie writer.

This work, <After get off work, and Then Becoming a Magical Girl>, or as I originally intended to call it: <A[LI]CE>, is actually a challenge and an attempt for myself. I created a relatively complete outline and setting for it, and also left many foreshadowing elements in the early stages, hoping that it would support me in finishing this book.

So, if we consider signing a contract and getting it published as the old-fashioned print media (which might sound a bit like self-aggrandizement), then this book is actually my debut work.

Thank you all for supporting and subscribing to my debut work. Your continued subscriptions will become my first royalties.

If you've already endured the Japanese light novel translation style that I couldn't even control in the free chapters, the excessive use of meaningless modifiers, the bland plot, and the battle scenes that were actually painful to write but I stubbornly tried... then all I can say is, thank you for your hard work.

Although I promise to try to correct these issues for the better, these things will probably continue to permeate my writing for some time to come. I apologize to the readers who dislike these elements but still gave me the opportunity to read on, and I sincerely thank you for your tolerance and patience.

If you say you like these things, well then, perhaps we're already kindred spirits.

After all, although this book is full of flaws that I am aware of myself, it is truly the product of my painstaking and careful creation. If you like it, it means a lot to me.

Just before its release, and for the first time in my life, I'm feeling both nervous and excited. Regardless of the results, this feeling is invaluable.

That concludes my personal introduction. Now, let's briefly discuss the update issue.

Because I'm also a working professional, I mostly write as a side job after get off work, so inconsistent update times have always been a problem. During the worst period of my sleep schedule, I was sleep-deprived for several days in a row.

The universal requirement for online writing: updating 4,000 words a day is quite difficult for me. I write slowly and like to pay attention to small details and scrutinize words. I hope that the writing I present to readers is at least readable even to myself, even if it is not fancy.

I will try my best to adapt to this update schedule. However, compared to the mentality of chasing update volume to compete for recommendation spots during the new book period, I will prioritize quality after the book is published and be responsible for the money you readers have spent on subscriptions. So please forgive me if I sometimes fail to reach 4000 words.

As for tomorrow's update, I'll give it a small burst of updates: 6000 to 8000 words, to bring this part of the story to a close. Then, it should be a more interesting plot.

Finally, I would like to express my gratitude once again to all the readers who are willing to pay to subscribe to this book: your support will be my motivation to keep writing. I also apologize to those readers who are about to leave after reading this far: I regret that my work has not met your expectations for payment.

Let us witness the story unfold together, and then meet again in the epilogue at the end of Volume One.

Hu Yan, February 28, 2023