First, I apologize to everyone for the lack of updates over the past ten days. Scold me if you must—it was my fault, and I absolutely cannot shirk responsibility.
Now, onto the important matters:
1. This week was our collective annual leave. Dangdang took his wife on a trip around Qinghai. In the six years since graduating and coming to Jinan, I had never had the chance to travel. This fulfilled a small dream of mine. Reading ten thousand books is still not as good as traveling ten thousand miles. The impact and broadening of one's horizons and thoughts cannot be matched by books alone. I just returned home to Jinan today.
2. Old Dang will officially return from the Municipal Discipline Inspection Commission to his original work unit next Monday. The days of endless overtime will finally be completely over, and updates will officially resume next week.
3. Old Dang is also someone who strives to improve. An opportunity to train on a higher level and a larger platform is greatly beneficial to my career development, so even if it delayed my writing, I still had to do my best. To be honest, the sense of accomplishment I get from being promoted at work is far greater than earning one hundred thousand yuan a month. Maybe that is just the pretentiousness of a writer.
4. This book will be completed within two months. Updates will speed up soon, and the plot will move forward faster as well. It cannot end badly, nor will it be abandoned.
5. The new book had been in preparation since last year; readers in the group all knew that. After Ji Po is completed, I will save up another forty days' worth of drafts before releasing it.
While walking through the Qilian Mountains, gazing