From 2003 to 2018, this is the tenth book I have written.

Fifteen years, ten books, 30 million words.

In this line, it is not written much, and it is not too fast.

But I've been writing all the time.

When I first put the stories of Zhang Jun, Yang Pan and Sophie on the Internet, I didn't expect that I would last so long.

In addition to the love of writing and football, the economy is naturally an important factor.

So the book is on the shelves again as usual, and the eighth is on sale.

As a matter of convention, it is natural to write a testimonial for listing.

Thinking about the winner in 2013, when the winner was put on the shelves, I looked back on some of the key points of my writing decade, and sighed about the fate of people, not only self-effort, but also in line with the trend of the times - without the rise of the Internet, writing football is really a hobby for me, and I don't know if I can maintain it under the increasingly heavy pressure of life......

When I talk to a few other author friends, I occasionally talk about where we would be today and what we would be doing if we didn't write.

The answers are varied.

But I don't have any good dreams of my life. If it weren't for writing, I'm afraid I would just be an ordinary citizen, running around every day to support myself, not to mention my wife, children and parents.

I don't think I'm the kind of person who can mix well in the workplace culture and society, and my personality is not likable.

At the beginning, my mother criticized me for being too stubborn, rigid, and unlikable. My relatives also asserted that it would be difficult for me to get ahead after working like this, and called for learning from my cousin. I was stalking my neck and saying, "People are different from people, it is impossible for me to be like her, it is impossible in this life!" ”

At that time, I had just joined a small advertising agency, because I could write and draw - long-time readers may know that "Do You Care When I Play Football" started out as a comic book that I drew in a sketchbook, and then because it was too slow to draw, it was written and put on the Internet - I wore many hats in the advertising agency: copywriter, storyboarder.

It is not a very large and formal company, the boss is a photographer of Eying Studio, who used his connections and resources to go out to the sea and open a film and television advertising company. Except for me and his son, and the driver, the company was all women. often takes the nude body photos he took at the beginning to show us how pioneering he was back then.

But the temper is not very good, and he often scolds people for no reason, so the work is very stressful.

The work is not interesting, because although it is a copywriting creativity, many advertisements do not need me to be creative at all, and only need to copy the successful foreign advertisements - not only the company requires this, but some advertisers often ask us to copy excellent foreign advertisements.

At that time, writing Zhang Jun's story was my only pastime after boring work, and the only thing that gave me a sense of accomplishment.

Usually I am a small copywriter for fresh graduates who are scolded by the boss in a small advertising company, but when I return to the rental house in the evening, after I post it on the Internet, looking at those enthusiastic comments, I am the "big" in the mouth of countless readers who have never met.

It's a wonderful feeling of this kind of separation.

This life did not last long, the work was boring, there was no hope, and it was difficult to increase the income. In addition, "We Are the Champions" got the manuscript fee for the first time, which was twice my salary. So I quit on the grounds that I had to stay up late to watch the European Cup and couldn't guarantee work, and the boss didn't make any reservations for me, and I guess he and I looked at each other unpleasantly for a long time......

So I quit my job and became a full-time web writer. At that time, I didn't have a very clear plan for my future life, and I can't even remember whether there was a plan now. Anyway, "We Are the Champions" was written very slowly at that time, and it took three years to write a book.

At the time, I didn't think I would be able to make writing my life's work.

This mentality still exists when I wrote "The Godfather of Champions", to put it bluntly, I don't have that much confidence in myself, I haven't been a very confident and secure person since I was a child, maybe it has something to do with my family environment and life experience.

So even in the listing testimonial of "The Winner is King", when I talked about writing a similar summary when I was in the industry for 20 years, my tone was not very sure.

So I was surprised to think about it for fifteen years and only write about football—I didn't expect that there was one thing I could do for so long.

In the past fifteen years, I have been at a loss for the future, I have completely denied myself, I have been extremely pessimistic and feel that I am not suitable for a job, but I have also had a lot of joyful and happy memories: the first time I was called "big" by readers, the first time I had my own reader QQ group, I had an online community forum with my own theme, I saw that my works and characters had influenced readers in reality, and I still remember the sense of accomplishment when I became a comic......

If there is one thing that is absolutely not wrong, it must be in March 2003, when it was decided to put "Do You Care When I Play Football" on the Internet.

My roommate across from me at the time was working on a personal homepage and dreamed of becoming a great website creator in the future.

I was typing the stories I had written in my notebook word by word on my computer, and I would never have imagined that I would be doing it again for the next fifteen years.

To paraphrase a popular sentence on the Internet at that time: XX did not know that from that moment on, the wheel of history began to turn......

If I hadn't chosen to write about the Internet, where would I be now, what would I be doing, and what kind of life would I have?

Maybe it will be like this, maybe it will be like that.

But thankfully, thankfully, I decided to put the story I wrote in my notebook on the Internet.

Fortunately, I met the enthusiastic people who put my story online for the first time, and it has supported me to write for fifteen years.

There are many possibilities in life, and I have met the best one.

That's great.

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In the past, I always had to say a few big words, shout a few slogans, and set a few goals, such as fighting for a monthly pass.

But since the beginning of "Heart of a Champion", I have found that my writing speed is not as fast as before, whether it is my physical fitness is declining, or whether it is more and more things in my life that need to be distracted by myself.

Anyway, it's a helpless fact that the update has slowed down, and I've tried to see if I can get back to the speed I had when Winner Takes All, but I found it unlikely. Now I can't even concentrate on writing in front of my computer for an hour.

After my birthday in October this year, I will be thirty-six years old, and I will officially run for four.

Maybe people have to serve old age.

Being able to guarantee two shifts a day is not an easy thing for me now.

So this book doesn't fight for a monthly pass, and there is no face to fight.

Subscription is the biggest support for me, and the monthly pass is as it is.

Of course, I know that competing for monthly passes has a positive effect on subscription performance, but I really have the intention to kill thieves and can't go back.

In a few days, I will go back to my hometown to celebrate my mother's 60th birthday, and I will have to delay it for four or five days.

The child is on summer vacation, and his mother asks him to learn to skate, swim, and soccer...... I don't have a few days a week to eat at home.

Today, on the first day of the shelves, she went out with the child, and I stayed at home alone, and the lunch was called for takeaway Golden Arches. The reason why I didn't go out with me was because the house had made an appointment with the cleaner to do the cleaning, and someone had to be left to watch the house.

In fact, I haven't fought for a monthly ticket when I was in "Heart of a Champion", it's really not a good update, I can't come up with the means to fight, I can't howl twice, I don't give any benefits, just expect everyone to vote for me enthusiastically, right? I don't think I have that much charisma.

So it's still the same sentence, like my book, genuine subscription is the greatest support for me, and it is also my duty.

Others are not extravagant.

Thank you for reading my book.

After all, it's been fifteen years, I'm still writing, and I'm already happy if someone reads it.

I wish you all a happy reading, good health, and a happy family.

Thank you.