"Fate Changing Book" was finally about to say goodbye to everyone.
When I typed the words "The end," I stared at the screen for a long time.
When I started this book, I always thought it would be a very long journey. Once I actually reached the finish line and looked back, it had gone by so quickly.
More than three years had passed since I finished my first novel, "Rebirth: The Intersecting Parallel Lines." When that book ended, only seven people had followed it all the way through.
Seven people.
I always remembered that number.
That was why I had a particular fixation on the number seven.
Seven meant change.
Looking back at "Fate Changing Book" now, I felt happiness, but also a wistfulness I could not put into words. At least this time, so many people had stayed with me to the end. Thank you, every single one of you.
Some readers did not quite understand the final chapters, and there was plenty of speculation in the comments. Let me clear things up here.
First, after Wu Ming died, he transmigrated into Hu Yang, retaining his memories.
Wu Ming was Hu Yang, and Hu Yang was Wu Ming.
After arriving in Hu Yang's world, he never encountered anyone he had known in Wu Ming's world until he ran into Wang Xiaoliang at the supermarket.
Wang Xiaoliang had been Wu Ming's employee.
Wu Ming had owed him, and had always admired his character. That was precisely why Hu Yang helped Wang Xiaoliang time and again. It was not a passing impulse, much less kindness without a reason, but the settling of a debt long overdue.
"I couldn't give you a hand before. This time, I'll make up for it."
Wu Ming never said those words aloud, but that was