Thank You, Fellow Readers, for Your Companionship-One-Year Anniversary of My Webnovel Writing!

Today marked one full year since Dangdang first put pen to paper on this book, and one full year since becoming an online writer. Thank you for your constant companionship, which helped me find work I truly loved and was willing to devote myself to.

On March 30, 2016, I typed the four words "Mecha Breaking the Star River," then waited anxiously for it to pass review.

Back then, after writing for two and a half months, I had only a little over three thousand bookmarks. I faced the bleak prospect of being put on paid release as a consolation prize, with no one reading it. But it was everyone's support that carried me this far. Now, between Qidian and Q, the book was nearing one hundred thousand bookmarks. (I wonder whether the readers who supported Old Dang from the very beginning were still around. Whether they were or not, Old Dang sincerely thanked them. You gave me confidence!)

Until... today.

Today marked exactly one full year.

So much had happened over the past year.

Even I had never imagined that, one year later, I would have written nearly two million words, or that this book would achieve such success. It had already reached the top in Starting Point's Interstellar Civilization category under science fiction.

At the same time, it was currently the only ongoing premium mecha novel on Starting Point.

You witnessed my transformation from a rookie webnovel newbie into an old hand. Readers who had followed the story all along could also see the improvement in Old Dang's writing.

(Of course, I accepted it when people said I padded things out... Sigh, sometimes when I got stuck, all I could do was accept it. Laughing through tears~)

Now that more and more readers were appearing, Old Dang could