Let me summarize the past year of 2023.

One word: exhausting!

Perhaps it's my age. After all, I'm thirty now, and years of staying up late have finally taken their toll. Coupled with high-intensity mental labor, my body and mind both suffered in the second half of the year.

I personally think the physical problems came first, and then the mental ones followed, since the body and mind are one.

What kind of problems? As I mentioned before, sleep apnea syndrome.

My airway would become blocked at night, causing oxygen deprivation in the brain, waking me up gasping for air, and then I'd feel groggy and have a headache the next day.

In this state, I still had to write eight thousand words a day and constantly come up with plot ideas. I persevered for half a year, but the more I wrote, the more depressed I became, and the more uncomfortable I felt.

During that time, I also experienced headaches and eye pain caused by cervical spondylosis. In short, a whole bunch of problems.

Suddenly, one day, I had the thought that life was meaningless, which scared me.

I thought to myself, I can't keep going like this, or I'll collapse.

So I started updating only once a day. Although it disappointed the readers, it was precisely those six months of single updates that saved my life.

Here, I want to thank Cai Zong, not for his donations, but for taking me out to play and relieving my mental anxiety, chatting and playing games with me every day.

I'm very grateful to him!

I also want to thank my loyal reader daddies. Even with single updates for half a year, my sales still consistently ranked in the top three, sometimes even the top five. My follow-up subscriptions and average subscriptions remained at their highest. I can only say that Little Fatty doesn't deserve it (crying)!

Lingjing Xingzhe should be completed before the Spring Festival.

I've been waiting for this day for a long time. After it's finished, I'll focus on treating my body and recovering my condition. In recent years, I feel like my health has been gradually slipping away.

2023 is over. Second place on the annual chart, I'm very pleased.

Speaking of the annual chart, let me mention Cai Zong again. A few days ago, Cai Zong asked me, "Little Fatty, when will you finish the book?"

I said, "Before the Spring Festival."

Cai Zong said, "Okay, it's the end of the year. I'll give you monthly tickets in December to stabilize your position on the annual chart."

I said, "Thank you, Boss. You're awesome!"

Cai Zong said, "Are you going to compete for first place on the annual chart?"

I said, "No."

Cai Zong said, "Are you going to compete for first place on the monthly chart?"

I said, "Whatever happens, happens."

Cai Zong: "Useless!"

I let Cai Zong down. Otherwise, with his personality, there would definitely have been a bloodbath at the end of December.

On the one hand, Lingjing Xingzhe has already taken the top spot so many times that one more month at number one wouldn't mean much. With my current physical condition, I just need to finish the book well. On the other hand, I don't want to waste my brother's money.

I've always been an easygoing person, unless someone provokes me first.

After Cai Zong cast his tickets, I asked for votes at the end of the chapter. There were a lot of scattered votes, which shows that there are still readers who support me, and I'm very touched.

At the end of the month, many readers were indignant and wanted to compete, but I disappointed you.

I really don't have the ambition for it. Lingjing Xingzhe doesn't need to be number one on the monthly chart. It's not a big deal to get it too many times. Besides, it's already the peak of starting point subscriptions, even though I've been slacking off for half a year.

When I've recovered my health, let's fight again in the next book, if you daddies still support me.

I will try my best to write a good ending for Lingjing Xingzhe.

I apologize to those readers who have dropped out. I'm not young anymore, although I'm eighteen every year... Goodbye, Jianghu, or maybe not. But I hope that when you think of me, you'll have less animosity.

After all, Lingjing Xingzhe and Da Feng, should have brought you happiness.

Summary complete!