General preface
Since its serialization on the campus website in 2002, the series has gone through a long process from journal serialization to single-line publication. Once upon a time, I said that the purpose of creating the Huayin series was to build a crystal palace, so that those who loved her could freely wander in it, sing and cry in it, and pursue their dreams.
Now, six years have passed since the dream, six volumes of the book have been completed, and nearly 1.2 million words have been completed...... This palace, which embodies all my youthful dreams, is gradually taking shape and moving towards a freeze-frame. Many years later, I stood at the end of my youth, looking back at the ignorance and youthfulness of those years, and my heart was filled with endless emotion.
In fact, everyone will have the dream of youth. a dream of fluttering white, fighting horses and swords; A place where the smoke and rain are rafting and the pavilions are singing. It's just that most of the time, the dream is fleeting, never to be chased after the midnight wind, and I wrote her down on paper.
Maybe in another six years, in another sixteen years...... At that time, I didn't know where I was, and when I looked back at the words I had written in the golden years, I would be as happy and proud as I am today.
once explained the meaning of the words "Huayin Liushao", that is, the years lost in the beautiful movement. Now that I think about it, I was a teenager at the beginning, and when this story came to an end, my best years were gone.
Fortunately, it also left behind the legend of a million words, the expectation of this decade.
finally lived up to her, lived up to my youth, and lived up to my promise to everyone.
This series was my original dream, but for various reasons, it was not published in the normal order. First, because the creation was still immature at that time, he picked out his favorite plot from time to time to give priority to completion; It is also due to the imperfection of the publishing market in the past few years and the pressure of book publishers. Thus, the second volume of the Huayin series, which preceded the first volume, was published.
Fortunately, each volume and volume of the Huayin series retains relative independence, as if the different doors of this magnificent palace can enter this world and see the beautiful scenery in it, no matter which one is opened.
However, it is necessary to talk about the original connection and order of these "gates".
Huayin series headings:
Volume 1: "Zi Zhao Tianyin", "Wind and Moon Liancheng" (formerly known as "Plugging the Shocking Deer") and "Tiandu on the Other Side" (formerly known as "Holding Ding Pingnan")
Volume 2: "The Demon of the Sea", "Mandala", "Heavenly Sword Lun"
Volume 3: "Snow Wedding Dress" and "Fanhua Pendant"
The first works published in the Huayin series were three volumes of the second volume: "The Demon of the Sea", "Mandala", and "Heavenly Jianlun". At the time, I was just starting out in the publishing market. Like all newcomers, it was a great joy to be able to turn their words into books, and there was no time to ask for other details.
Therefore, these three books have left a lot of regrets in terms of binding, production, and promotion of the books. Now that I think about it, I feel a lot of emotion, at that time, I was like a mother from a poor family, and I had to let my beautiful daughter walk into the auditorium in a shabby wedding dress, which was unbearable and helpless. However, it is these children who have bloomed in the cloth and hairpin, and they have given me prestige, the recognition of my readers, and the love of all of us. So, by the time the second volume of the Huayin series came out, I was already a full-fledged author who could write full-time. All thanks to the children who left home in the first place.
It can be said that the Huayin series has given me too much, so I have become a step non-smoke. But they are still wearing ragged clothes and standing under everyone's gaze. It made me feel guilty – I was sorry for them.
Over the past few years, my original publisher has also approached me several times about reprinting, but I have rejected them all. I'd rather watch these three imperfect books gradually go out of print on the market, and watch readers complain that they can't buy them, rather than compromise. Instead of giving up on them, I waited patiently for an opportunity to really make up for them.
I owe them so much that I have already done it once, and I must not be hasty a second time.
It just so happened that when the last volume of the first volume, "The Other Side", was completed, I found a trusted publishing partner for her, and then revised the text of the first two volumes one by one and published them together.
May my most beloved children walk on the stage in a perfect posture, which is the most important reason for the republication of the Huayin series.
In addition to the unification of the cover and layout, there were also many revisions to the text during the reprint.
The Huayin series is a million-word novel, expected to have three volumes and eight volumes (not including the biography), and it has been six years since it was published, and it has been conceived and created for more than ten years. When I was sorting through the reprint, I found the last few lines of the preface to the first edition of "The Demon of the Sea": the first draft in August 1999. Second draft, July 2002. Third draft, May 2004. These are only the time when the draft is completed, and counting the creation and conception, it is far more than ten years.
In this long creative process, there must have been some loopholes and contradictions left in the text. For example, in "Mandala", Ji Yunsheng's mistaken memory of the time when he left Huayin Pavilion, in "Tian Jian Lun", Riyao and Acacia should know each other, and other conflicts in time and space will be uniformly revised in the reprint. I have to thank the readers who have identified these loopholes for me over the years, and thank you for your care and rigour.
Secondly, considering the continuity of the first and second volumes, the years that Yang Yizhi and Acacia experienced together and were forgotten in the second volume are also more reflected in the second volume. These fleeting memories will add a touch of melancholy to this magnificent movement.
Finally, in terms of text, it also makes up for many immature places in the past, making the whole chapter more mellow and flowing; Some appendices about the setting of the Huayin series have also been added, completely sorting out the background of the whole story, so that everyone can grasp this grand world faster.
The revision process took several months, was long and complicated, and I would like to thank my editor-in-charge, Haiping mm, for revising the manuscript that had already been proofread again and again when I revised it again and again. Every time, I thought it was the last revision, but when I looked at it again, I often couldn't help but do it. Even so, I didn't dare to relax at all, repeatedly referring to the chronology and setting, and sorting out every detail of this huge story.
I don't know if I can make this story perfect this time, but it's the best I can do so far.
Finally, I must thank all the readers.
Since the publication of Huayin, thousands of readers have written this legend with me. They compiled a chronology for the series, producing an e-magazine, a radio drama, illustrated and a four-panel comic. As for book reviews and fanfiction, there are countless of them, and some fanfiction is more than 100,000 words, which is close to the length of a book......
A lot of the time, I'm in a trance myself. Because the world that I built with one hand, the characters I created with one hand seem to be out of my control, and they are running in the middle of nowhere, real and free. In the dark, there is something that supports her, and she has continued to grow for six years.
I know that that power does not come from me, but from you, your love.
Especially in the nearly one-and-a-half-year interval between the publication of "Wind and Moon" and "The Other Shore", it is your discussions, fandoms, and electronic magazines that keep the world running. It was you who sustained me in the most difficult days and did not give up, and it was you who worked with me to perfect this crystal palace.
This world will be written forever with your love.
Thank you.
We've been in love for six years.
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