About nine years ago, in 2010, I started to get into online novels, and I am a long-time book friend.

Although I haven't read a lot of online novels in general, I have added up over the years, and it is actually not a few. I have had moments when I was very confused, and I have even had moments when I was obsessed and even paranoid. Of course, none of this matters, the important thing is that I think I am much more mature and stable now.

I think all of this is due to the courage I had when I started writing in the first place. Without a beginning, there is no passage, and without a passage there is no result. It's an indispensable relationship.

I went from being ignorant and imaginative, to slowly learning to control purposefully and plannedly, from freewheeling character descriptions to prominent and selective character portrayals, from dry scene narration to knowing some tricks, and so on.

These are all things that I have learned in the past year or so.

This book is not so much a novel as a personal history of my upbringing. What you can see from this, I don't know. What I got for myself, I am clear.

At the beginning of writing, in order to be able to write a good career, or write a position correctly, I bought a lot of books and came back to look up. In order to make this story interesting and lively, I read a lot of books. Often glared until dawn because of dissatisfaction with the plot. I am often dissatisfied with the updates that I have worked so hard to write, so I directly delete and rewrite thousands of words. Even, after writing for a while, I deleted all the previous updates because I was not satisfied. Generally speaking, if I want to update a chapter with 3,000 words, then I have to write at least 7,000 or 8,000 words for deletion. This process is both painful and joyful!

Of course, these are indeed nothing now, but the pressure and sense of loss that brought me at the time was unprecedented. This also made me understand a truth, any difficulties and dangers, as long as you can get through, is nothing.

With so much nagging, let's talk about this novel.

Perhaps readers and friends have already understood, I have given this novel an open-ended ending. The reason for this is not complicated, and that's why I'm writing this postscript.

I wrote about five or six for the end of the novel, and in the end I chose this one. This may not be the end you are happy with, but it is the one I personally think is the most appropriate one at the moment. I also don't rule out that I will continue to write in the future, that is, to write the second part of "Dzi".

Speaking of which, I would like to say some heartfelt words to my readers and friends who have supported me all the way, and it can be regarded as a simple explanation to you.

Regardless of my ability, I must have seen that I am actually a person who is very demanding of myself, and I often change it for a long time because of the repetition of a word in a paragraph, or the wording of a sentence is not good enough.

So, by the third time the novel was written, I was very dissatisfied. But I made a promise that I would not be a eunuch, and I would not be ruined. Therefore, I still insist on telling the story completely. At the same time, I think it's a shame that there is such an unsatisfactory third of the beginning, and that the contents of the following volumes are a bit of a pity. So, I did a big thing - I took out two volumes of the outline. After a slight change in the outline, I went straight to the last volume, which is also something that many readers will find inexplicable. And the purpose of my selection of those two volumes is also to prepare for the next book. Yes, you read that right, in a few days, I plan to continue writing another book.

I have buried countless pits, filled countless pits, and there are still many more. Of course, I can fill it out, but I don't think it's necessary. And I believe that with the previous experience of filling the pit, excellent readers and friends will fill it better.

The story was a bit messy at the beginning, but I know that. There are two reasons for this, one is that the framework of my story is too large, and I have to explain one after another, and the other is that I am not capable enough to control such a big story.

What makes me most helpless is that when I wrote hundreds of thousands of words, I realized that I had only written the tip of the iceberg after writing for so long. That moment scared the hell out of me, and according to my previous story structure, I had to write at least five million words.

It's also ridiculous to say that I scrapped a lot more manuscripts than I updated. It's really speechless.

Finally, thank you to my editors, to my friends, and to every reader!

Thank you for your support and companionship all the way!

May you all be safe, happy, and worry-free!

See you in the next book!

On the evening of October 16, 2019