In the end, I still feel that this title is the best fit for 2018.

Thanks to all the bookmakers who have gone crazy about this book over the past year, we won the monthly pass in May, breaking the all-time monthly pass record at the beginning, which may still stand. This is something I never thought I would get during the writing process of "Son-in-law".

I often go to see the status of this book through the background subscription, and so far the starting point of "Son-in-law" has been 98,000, with an average of 39,000, and 11,000 subscriptions in 24 hours. In other words, there are still 11,000 people waiting to see its update for the first time, seven years have been almost eight years, it was 8,000 when it was put on the shelves, and then it was 10,000, and now, it is more than 11,000 people.

The only regret is that I can't tell who is from this number.

I occasionally think of some of the friends I met when I first published on the Internet, some of the friends I had when I first used the pseudonym "Angry Banana", and I thought, how many of them are still here today? Where will we go with these 11,000 people today?

It's a funny fantasy, I've always told people that I'm a selfish person, I saw the "perfection" of literature since I was a teenager, and I never let go of it since, and I've written all my life to get to a certain point, to see it. Everyone may expect something like this, maybe it doesn't matter, I think it should be a minority who will go to the end together.

Imagine when I was 50 years old, when I was babbling about the process and insights along the way, what would the reader who had been watching or suddenly came back to take a look?

We are accustomed to recording a stage with the numbers of each year and each year, and in a recent interview, the reporter asked you what are the key words for 2018? I say it's Kavin, but it's actually 17 years too, and it's 16 years too...... There were many questions mentioned in that interview, and the reporter even asked if you would feel that your experience was a "legend" at your age and with this achievement. My face was red.

I'm a person who likes to write books, and I like it since the fourth grade of elementary school, and I write it in a sketchbook, and one day I suddenly have the Internet, and I post the things on the draft on the Internet, and one day suddenly there is a paid model, and someone is willing to spend money for what I write, so I support myself. But from the beginning to the end, the things about writing haven't changed for me since the fourth grade of primary school.

Of course, it's easier to get pleasure in the fourth grade, I'm just getting started, I have zero points in the skills, and I can improve by one point every time I try, but the more I improve, the more likely I am to regress, I may go the wrong way, and I may need to break through some difficulties and obstacles - because I have already broken through the easy ones. I often feel the joy of progress only once a month or a few months.

In real life, I occasionally get something, like being the first in a monthly pass, but it's an unexpected added value to writing a book. I sometimes think wishful thinking that if people pay me to keep me a book-only rice bucket, I have an obligation to take you to some rare place to see what the great thing that the craft can ultimately do is.

Sixteen years to go.

It's no surprise that 18 years are coming to an end, and there is nothing new in writing, but I've been adjusting my writing throughout the process, sometimes I succeed and sometimes I can't.

At the end of the year, a new approach was taken these days - and perhaps it was a long-term brewing point - and the results were not bad, so you have seen the updates of the past few days.

I hope to have a good start in 19 years, I hope to finish "Son-in-law" with all my might, I also have inspiration for the new book, there are many, many ideas, sometimes I write a little manuscript, sometimes I overturn it, so I stop, but writing is always fun.

Before the completion of "Son-in-law", there should be no more excitement such as monthly passes, of course, if I have time, I will also come out to talk to you, essays or something, because no matter what you write, writing is always fun.

Hope to see you on the first day of '19.

Hopefully by 2035 too.

(End of chapter)