Tomorrow, March 1st, I'll be on the Featured Recommendation list. Thinking about it, I'm filled with emotion.

March marks my thirteenth year of writing books online. Unknowingly, I've persisted in this line of work for over a decade. I think before this, probably only school could have made me persevere for so long.

I'm very grateful for everyone's support, which has allowed me to walk this path for thirteen years, and it looks like I'll continue to walk it.

When will I reach the end?

I don't know. I hope I never reach the end, unless I die. But that's unlikely, haha!

I've set a goal for myself to write for another seventeen years.

Why seventeen years?

Because that plus the previous thirteen years makes a nice round number – thirty years, you know.

Writing continuously online for thirty years, just thinking about it feels very cool!

When I write my thirtieth anniversary reflection at that time, I wonder what the situation will be like?

If a soccer player's career can reach thirty years, it's also a very remarkable evergreen tree. Roma's Prince Totti's current professional career is only twenty-four years, still six years short, but he has already persisted for a very long time.

Looking at it now, probably only the Japanese player Kazuyoshi Miura has a professional career lasting thirty years. Starting from signing his first professional contract in 1986, to now in 2016, a full thirty years, he is still running on the soccer field and can still score goals.

At the age of forty-eight, he is still enjoying soccer.

Seventeen years from now, I will also be fifty years old. I hope that at fifty years old, I still have something in my brain, and I can still enjoy the fun that writing brings me.

I hope that's the case, and I will work hard towards that direction.

Of course, in addition to having something in my brain, good health is also very important.

In fact, since the age of thirty, I have gradually felt my physical strength declining.

In the past, I could sit in front of the computer for more than ten hours, writing continuously, and I could write a maximum of 25,000 to 26,000 words a day. And I could persist for ten consecutive days.

But now, after only writing in front of the computer for half an hour, it is very difficult for me to continue to concentrate in front of the computer.

If I sit in front of the computer all day coding words, I will feel pain in my neck, shoulders, and elbows in the evening. This is a situation that never happened before.

In addition, if I get less sleep now, I will feel a throbbing headache in the afternoon, like I have a fever. I feel better after a nap.

I think these are all signals that my body is reminding me of, just like the fault light on a car. When the fault light comes on, I have to take the car to the 4S shop for inspection and maintenance.

The body is the same. I know many author friends, most of whom are getting old, and they are now also paying great attention to maintaining their health.

We can't work as hard as we did when we were young. If we squeeze our bodies dry in five years and then end up with a bunch of diseases and quit this line of work... I won't do that kind of thing.

In fact, in my thirteen years of experience in the industry, I have also seen some authors who were forced to leave this line of work because of their health. Some of them were very talented, but in the end, they had to choose to give up, which is really regrettable.

Let me give you an example that impressed me deeply. Back then, on Qidian, there was a book I loved to read called *Material is King*. The author was "Frozen Man." I was fascinated by it back then. As a result, one day I saw the author say that he had an eye disease and it was getting more and more serious, and I had a bad feeling in my heart. Sure enough, not long after, that book was left unfinished and never revived.

It was a regret that made me beat my chest and stomp my feet!

I don't want to become the next author who is forced to leave the keyboard due to health reasons, so I have slowed down the pace since this book. On the one hand, I don't want to be too tired, and on the other hand, it is because my body really can't support me to break out like crazy as I did with *Winner is King*. It is already a miracle if I can write 12,000 words a day now. I have to grit my teeth and be in good condition to write three chapters of 9,000 words a day. It is not as easy as before to do two chapters a day. If I write one chapter a day and I am not in good condition, it will take ten hours.

I think this is the change that time has brought me.

Just like I always write about heroes in their twilight years in my books, I think one day, the stories I write will happen to me.

Because I am not a robot whose body is made of metal and chips, as long as I am a human being, I cannot change the laws of nature.

As professional soccer players get older, their muscle strength decreases, their cardiorespiratory capacity decreases, their bone density also decreases, they become more prone to fatigue and injury, and frequent injuries also make them lose the fun of continuing to play.

Although authors do not have to go through heavy physical labor, they also need to constantly consume brain power. After getting older, they can no longer concentrate for a long time, their energy is no longer abundant, they are prone to headaches, and their lumbar spine and cervical spine cannot maintain a single posture for a long time... These are all problems that I must face.

I sprained my wrist playing soccer last December, and I still can't fully exert my strength in my wrist, which has already sounded an alarm for me.

I'm saying so much, actually, just to show you my real situation, the current situation of a person who is almost thirty-four years old.

I'm not complaining. I will continue to write. As long as the conditions allow and I'm in good shape, I will try to write more, so that I have more manuscripts and can restore the state of updating two chapters a day as soon as possible. It would be even better if I could occasionally have a three-chapter burst.

I just hope everyone can understand my current forced one-chapter-a-day update.

If I could write quickly and with good quality, if I had a lot of manuscripts, why wouldn't I break out? Of course I want to too. Bursting out can also grab monthly tickets, rush to the top ten to show my face, and also boost subscription results, so that this book can reach a high subscription of over 10,000 as soon as possible, with both income and popularity, you enjoy reading it, and I enjoy counting the money. What's not to like?

It's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't do it.

This is the law of nature. If your body tells you that you can't do it, then you can't do it. If you force it to run, maybe in a few years everyone will see the news that I was forced to quit. In the worst case, maybe they will see a report in the newspaper saying, "A Chengdu online author died suddenly in front of the computer, the document is still open."

This is not alarmist. If you don't take care of your body, no matter what profession you are in, you won't have a good ending.

Moreover, as people move into middle age, there are elderly parents above, young children below, and a wife, things will become more numerous, and the responsibilities that need to be shouldered will also be greater. Life is no longer a matter of one person. Parents are gradually getting old and their health is not as good as before, so sons need to take care of them. Children are still young, and both their physical development and educational issues need to be worried about. The wife is the person who accompanies me the closest, and I need to take care of her carefully. After the Spring Festival this year, I went out to play for ten days, actually because my wife kept saying that she wanted to bask in the sun, so I drove her and the children and parents to Xichang and Lugu Lake for ten days, which led to my coding efficiency becoming lower.

But I can't say to my wife, "I have to code words, so many readers are waiting for me to update, I won't go with you, you go yourself!"

Everyone is human, what do you think you would think if you heard these words?

In fact, on New Year's Day this year, I ditched my wife and let her take the children and parents out to play for a few days, while I stayed at home coding words, in order to save manuscripts for the following annual meeting, otherwise, the annual meeting may directly break the update...

So I hope everyone can understand the difficulty of a post-80s only child as a sandwich biscuit with elderly parents above and young children below.

After all, I still have to strive to write for another seventeen years and write for everyone until I am fifty years old!

Finally, to be able to persist in writing online for thirteen years, I must also thank Qidian Chinese Website, thank the leaders of Yuewen Group, thank Bao Jianfeng Bao Ye, thank Yi Zhe Yi Ge. Bao Ye put in a lot of effort for this book. Without him, there might not be this book.

I am very grateful for the cooperation with the leaders over the years, and also grateful for the leaders' support for me and for the niche subject of sports competition over the years. Without their support, I might have changed careers long ago and stopped writing online novels or soccer novels.

After all, to be able to persist for so many years, it is impossible to rely only on feelings and hobbies. There must also be real money support.

In this regard, the support given by the leaders is very much in place.

I would also like to thank my former editor Jing Ji, squad leader Xiao Fen, An Yi, and my current editor Chang Tian. Thank you to all the editors who have helped and supported me.

It is your silent dedication that allows me to code words with peace of mind and dedicate stories to readers wholeheartedly.

Thank you everyone!