Finished!

If you haven't yet added the new book to your collection, you can return to the end of the last chapter where there's a portal to the new book in the author's note.

This is the first time I've finished a book of five million words, so I'm pretty happy.

Actually, because I was preparing the new book in advance, I finished this book a few days early, so the excitement I felt when I first finished writing has gradually subsided, and now I'm in a pretty calm state overall.

Of course, this book isn't perfect, but I'm pretty satisfied with it considering my level.

To sum it up briefly, I'm personally most satisfied with the beginning, the ending, and the "Struggle" section.

From the beginning to the "Turning Back is the Shore" section, the plot structure is very tight, the subversion of tropes are handled well, and there are quite a few variations, which I find quite interesting myself.

The ending mainly focuses on the content of the last cycle. Overall, it wraps up the story and adds a touch of emotion to the lighthearted atmosphere of the whole book, which elevates the story a bit, and barely manages to push the cool points up in an urban setting.

As for the "Struggle" section, I didn't think too much about it when I was writing it, but after I finished it, I thought the structure was well done, and it was a part where the entire anti-routine mode tended to mature.

In the middle stage, there was a noticeable decline due to some confusion in the plot, and the progress of the story was a bit stuck. However, after adjusting it later, it was supported again.

As for why there was a decline in the middle stage, on the one hand, my ideas at the time were not very clear, and my personal creative state happened to be in a low ebb, my inspiration was exhausted, and there were some mistakes in the plot planning. On the other hand, it was due to the nature of the subject matter itself, which naturally encountered a bottleneck in the development of the story.

Of course, these are the problems I will work hard to avoid in the future.

Let me briefly explain the ending.

There is no clear emotional through-line because I don't really like writing about that, and the structure of the whole book doesn't really support it.

The core of the anti-routine is to separate the protagonist's real image from the image seen by the outside world. The more separated and distant these two images are, the better the contrast effect.

It is precisely because the real Pei Qian has a huge contrast with President Pei in everyone's eyes that there are all kinds of interesting program effects.

So, when you look back at the whole book, "Pei Qian" and "President Pei" are actually two different concepts. One is the real Pei Qian, and the other is President Pei in everyone's eyes. In all the plots, these two words are strictly distinguished.

Pei Qian is President Pei, but he is not President Pei. Because the image in everyone's eyes is inconsistent with the real him, some plots cannot happen.

I really can't write about Pei Qian falling in love as President Pei. Besides, I don't like writing romance scenes anyway. I'm an emotionless person.

Of course, I also understand that many readers hope that President Pei will have a happy life. I think President Pei will definitely be happy. I'm not denying that.

On the contrary, I don't like tying Pei Qian to the company, to President Pei's identity, or to a specific person.

Throughout the four years of the story, Pei Qian was actually a tool person tied to the identity of President Pei. I hope that in the end he can gain freedom and do whatever he wants to do.

So, in the end, I wanted to leave an open ending. Although Pei Qian is the monitor of the entire company, his future can have countless possibilities.

Everyone can freely imagine what kind of person he will become, what he will do, or who he will be with. Here is a blank space for everyone to imagine.

I think such an ending is the most suitable for the story mode of this book. A very clear ending and a very certain fate are not good, so I wrote it this way.

As for the core of the story and everyone's feelings, overall, I think what I want to express is basically what you can feel, because my current writing style is relatively simple, and some content will be clearly expressed.

In fact, in the last part of this book, about a hundred chapters of content, I basically didn't look at the readers' feedback and completely followed my own ideas, writing wherever my thoughts led me.

The main reason is that after I decided to start writing the new book seamlessly, I had to prepare the new book while updating the last part of the content, and save the manuscripts to buy time for the new book. So basically, I had more or less a dozen chapters of manuscripts on hand, and I couldn't copy book reviews even if I wanted to.

Some content that looks similar to book reviews is simply arranged in advance, guessed, or simply written together.

Overall, I think the story has come to this point, and it's about enough.

There is no banquet in the world that doesn't end. Although a new story may not be liked, people always have to keep improving and changing. They can't always lie on the merits of the past. If I really write this book to one or two million words, I guess I'll be exhausted.

So, the past achievements are all in the past. Let's return to the posture of a challenger.

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Let's talk about the new book.

In fact, the general idea came about half a year ago. The original intention was to solve the ceiling problem that "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games" could not solve in the middle stage.

Urban themes bring cool points quickly in the early stage, but they also collapse quickly. It is impossible to have both the early and late stages.

After thinking about it, there is only one way, which is to change the theme. In urban themes, I have never seen one that doesn't hit the ceiling. Generally, it shows fatigue after a million words, and barely supports two million words. It is rare to write three million or five million words.

(I am referring to serious urban themes such as the entertainment industry, not the spiritual recovery type.)

It is actually very difficult for "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games" to write this number of words, but I still only partially solved this problem, and did not fundamentally break through the limitations of the theme.

So, in order to break through this ceiling, I have to make some risky attempts.

The beginning of the new book was not very smooth. I wrote about 80,000 to 90,000 words of waste drafts.

Although the content was determined, a lot of design was done on the worldview for some of the content in the middle and late stages, which made the whole world a bit too complicated. It is difficult to find the best entry point at the beginning. Every time I write a beginning, I find that there are many concepts that need to be explained, which is not friendly to new readers, and then I overturn it and rewrite it.

I have overturned and rewritten it at least six or seven times before finally finding a beginning that I am relatively satisfied with.

Even some real big guys and predecessors may overturn when starting a new book. Of course, I don't have this absolute confidence. In theory, I should prepare for a few more months.

However, there is no such thing as foolproof in this kind of thing. It doesn't mean that you will definitely succeed if you prepare for a long time.

Articles are made by heaven, and wonderful hands get them occasionally. In fact, I only prepared for a few days for "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games," and changed four or five beginnings. I was still traveling outside during the new book period, and I only wrote three to five thousand words a day in the hotel. As a result, it inexplicably rose up. On the contrary, many of the books I prepared for a long time were a complete failure.

So, although the repeated revisions of the new book made me a little uneasy, I thought it was meaningless to drag it on, so I might as well start it quickly.

Within my capabilities, I will try my best to do it, and that's it.

I think as long as I support the two points of anti-routine and game production, it won't be too bad.

The content of the new book "Virtual End" can be understood as an enhanced version of "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games": One is that the level of technology is raised, and games and movies have become lucid dreams connected by consciousness; the other is a fictional other world where big chaebols rule the world, and corporate wars and the deterioration of the external environment make the whole world precarious.

Some people say that it is a bit unreasonable that no one assassinated President Pei after he did so many things. How should I put it? The background of "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games" is a society ruled by law. It would be too strange to have assassins. Leaving aside whether it is reasonable, the style is not right.

However, this does reflect a very serious problem with urban themes: the cool points come quickly and the rhythm is fast in the early stage, but in the middle stage, when enough money is made and the goal is quickly achieved, the author doesn't know what else to write. A little bit out of the ordinary will be very wrong, and readers will not find it interesting.

The plot in the middle stage of "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games" was not held up, mainly because of the theme. When I wrote this, I happened to be confused. When I conceived the plot, I found that it was all about the company's affairs, at most fighting business wars and public opinion wars. The cool points could not be raised. It was said that I wanted to change the world, but I would be restricted by the entire worldview anyway.

It is difficult to push the conventional content up again.

Including why I didn't continue to write "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games" in the follow-up, not writing about making cars, rockets, chips, houses, etc.

On the one hand, I don't really understand these contents. I can't find it even if I search online. On the other hand, it is really difficult to write in this background. The urban background is only suitable for writing content closely related to daily life. Once it is pulled too high, the plot will definitely collapse, because it is not down-to-earth, and it is easy to touch the line.

So I packed all these contents and took them to the fictional world of the next book, changed a set of backgrounds, and wrote them in a more skillful way.

The new book is to solve the problem that "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games" is a bit weak in the middle stage and the cool points can't be pushed up in the later stage. In order to solve these problems, a lot of changes have been made to the background, which may sacrifice a little in the early stage, but I think these are some necessary attempts.

If I write another book with an urban background, it is impossible to jump out of the framework of "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games," and it will only get worse and worse.

Maybe in two years, I will have some new understanding and feelings about the conventional urban themes, and I will write again, but it is unlikely in the short term.

The new book will write about future games, high-tech research and development, corporate wars, etc. The protagonist will really change the world from various levels.

In the field of games, I will try to imagine what the future games will look like, what kind of design rules they will have, and the business wars will be more intense and unscrupulous. At that time, it will no longer be a fake business war of arguing online, but a real business war that will start a fire if you don't agree with each other.

The overall story framework may have some similarities with "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games." It is still a relaxed and humorous anti-routine story, with a similar ideological core, but the content inside is completely changed, the character settings, plot, etc. are all changed, including the motivation for the anti-routine is also completely changed.

So everyone can still understand it as an urban theme, but it is just an urban theme with relatively developed technology and relatively chaotic social order. This time, I want to write a more complex and novel virtual world.

If I have to say what kind of background this is, maybe it is cyberpunk, but it is actually just a bit like it. It only uses a small amount of settings, and it is actually writing my own things.

I think that on the basis of "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games," some skills and content can be polished more perfectly. Whether it is game design or anti-routine, I have not written to the top, and there is still a lot of room for improvement, so I want to use this method to rush again.

The initial goal is still to make everyone happy and smile knowingly; in the middle and late stages, I hope to make steady progress and be able to steadily hold the cool points, and write the content that I can't do in "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games" due to the limitations of the theme.

Everyone can seamlessly connect to the new book. One thing to mention in particular: I will write the new book very quickly, so following the reading is very important. Don't raise it, just keep following the reading.

The new book period is only 20 days. It will be put on the shelves on the 1st of next month. I will directly update 30,000 words today. During the new book period, I will basically maintain 10,000 words per day. After it is put on the shelves, I will increase it depending on the situation. Maybe after it is put on the shelves, it will be maintained at 12,000 to 15,000 words per day, which is about 400,000 words per month.

So the update speed during the new book period is actually faster than some books after they are put on the shelves. There is no such thing as slow updates to accumulate popularity like before. Everyone can follow the reading normally.

Don't raise it!

As for why I chose the model of seamless opening + explosive updates.

In fact, I have been struggling between the two paths of "large quantity and sufficient food" and "careful carving" since I started writing books.

Some authors just can't write fast. They only write four or five thousand words a day. If there are too many, the plot will collapse, so they can only be slow; while some authors write very fast. Even if they slow down, the plot will not improve significantly, but will break their own ideas.

I am more entangled. It seems that I can try both paths, but I have not found which path is more suitable.

Moreover, sometimes I write a piece of content carefully, but the response is mediocre, and many people say it is watery. Sometimes I completely let myself go and write 12,000 or 13,000 words a day. I also feel that the plot is average, but the response is very good, and there is a lot of praise.

So I am sometimes very confused. Looking back, I find that the "Struggle" plot and the last plot that I am most satisfied with were actually written by reckless writing. Sometimes I don't think so much, just pile up the quantity. On the contrary, the plot written is not bad, and even the effect is better than the plot that has been carefully carved, which is very difficult to top.

In short, it makes me feel that the more carefully I carve it, the worse it becomes.

Although I rack my brains every day to think about what readers love to read, it is impossible to find an absolutely correct answer.

After thinking about it, whether the plot is good or not is actually a very subjective standard. Only how many words are updated every day and how much plot is pushed every day is a very objective standard. Writing more is writing more.

In addition, "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games" has greatly improved my ability in plot architecture. The outline can be done very detailed and accurate to the content of each chapter. Explosive updates basically don't worry about the plot collapsing.

So I decided to take this book on the path of large quantity and sufficient food, and I will not consider anything else for the time being. I will first increase the amount of updates.

Of course, the quality will not be significantly reduced if the amount of updates is increased. The amount of information in each chapter will definitely remain the same as it is now, and there will be no watery content. I will try to finish the plot of the original two days in one day now.

It's just that some of the wording may not be so exquisite, and there may be some minor errors such as typos or grammatical errors.

As a reader, I also think that two chapters of 6,000 words a day is not enough to read. Only about 10,000 words of updates can be followed smoothly. However, as an author, many times it is not that I don't want to write more, but I am really limited in energy and can't write it.

So this time, I will try to update more and push the plot quickly, and also squeeze my creative state to the limit in this process, hoping to bring you a different feeling.

Many friends have rewarded this book. I really don't have the energy to thank them one by one. In fact, I have added a lot of updates later, but I am too lazy to add "added update for xxx book friend" to each chapter. I apologize to all the bosses who have rewarded me here.

So let's try to increase the amount of updates. Updating more is the best thanks to all the readers. If I can maintain 12,000 words a day for a few months, these will all be small things, right?

I just want to write more and better content steadily and step by step. As long as I do this, I will have everything.

I emphasize again that I hope everyone will not raise the book and seamlessly connect with me.

Old friends, not one can be missing until the new book is put on the shelves.

The new book, although I can't say it will be more exciting than "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games," after all, some of the beauty of the first meeting is hard to replace, but I will definitely try my best to write different content.

If I can write out everything I want, then the middle and late stages of the new book will definitely surpass "Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games."

Everyone, see you in the new book!