A New Year’s letter to book friends

Hello everyone, this is Mr. Cao Man! I have always wanted to write a review of Wanding after Wanding, and share with you my creative journey.

There happened to be an Easter Egg Chapter activity at the starting point, so I wrote along with this Easter Egg Chapter activity.

This is a long love letter.

2022 is a very special year for me. I have experienced a lot during this period. Especially before December arrives, I am going through an unprecedented low period.

I work for a game company. Although it is a small company with only a few dozen people, from the boss to the employees, they are all young people. The company atmosphere is very good, we often play games together, and there are also some good projects that are on the rise.

I have worked here since 2019, from an ordinary copywriter to a team leader. At most, I have managed four people. Although I am a small boss, I can barely be considered a middle-level person. I thought my career line would slowly expand like this, but in 2022

The cold wave in the game industry in 2018 also affected our company, with layoffs, salary reductions, suspended projects, and suspension of some benefits, not to mention operations.

Our company laid off almost half of the people at that time, and the remaining people, especially the copywriters, also left one after another. In the end, I was the only one left to maintain the project packaging work that had not been stopped, because I liked the work of our company very much.

Atmosphere, I usually organize various activities in the company, such as playing Three Kingdoms, Werewolf, weekend karaoke parties, etc. The feeling of people walking away from each other is very uncomfortable, and I couldn't find it at one time.

to continue moving forward.

So during the National Day, I decided to open a new book, and then I came up with this book "I Found out I Have a Green Plum After Rebirth".

As mentioned before, of course I am not a new author, but I am the trumpet account of the LV3 author [Watanabe Old Thief] who was not well-known at the starting point and had a lot of trouble.

But Mr. Watanabe is actually not my first author. I am actually an old author who started writing books in 2015 or 16, and I have been writing books for six or seven years now.

My earliest works were written under an author account called "Fuer Cao Man". Some of the works are no longer available. If you like to dig into other people's dark history, you can take a look.

I have loved writing since I was a child.

When I started in elementary school, my compositions were always evaluated by my teacher and read in class. My elementary school Chinese teacher always encouraged me to become a writer in the future.

Primary school Chinese requires writing a diary every day. In order to be lazy, I started to use novels as the content of the diary probably from the fourth grade. As for the beginning, I had a dream and dreamed that XXX started writing my ancient debut novel.

At that time, my friends were very fond of "Yu-Gi-Oh!". My childhood dream was to build a DM dueling school and develop dueling disks (actually I also made them by hand using cardboard). As for the content of the novels, they were all very shameful fan fiction.

The article secretly writes about good friends in the class (including the girl I have a crush on, the cute girl) as a team to go on adventures together.

This is 2005.

However, novels like this are very popular in the class. Everyone often takes my diary and passes it around. I feel very happy and have a sense of accomplishment.

As time went by, my favorite themes gradually shifted from Yu-Gi-Oh! to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". At that time, I was a little fan of the Three Kingdoms in my class. I liked to brag about playing all the Three Kingdoms games and Three Kingdoms themes (because I had three games at home).

Computer, so it is actually done).

Children at that age were somewhat rebellious, and I was a die-hard fan of "The Legend of Cao Cao" in "Three Kingdoms". Gradually, I began to claim that Cao Cao was my idol. This was the beginning of my love for Boss Cao. Since then, I have been online

All kinds of IDs will carry the name [Cao Man].

When I was in the sixth grade of elementary school, I didn’t want to be limited by the shackles of a diary, so I started to officially serialize novels in my class. I added the names of all the classmates in the class to the original world view, and then compiled a fanfic of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms "The Romance of the Four Kingdoms"

(However, in the end, it was constantly refined and remade, but it ended up being unfinished, and the longest it was serialized was about 90 chapters).

After this incident was discovered by my head teacher and Chinese teacher, she admired me very much. She even spent two classes reading my novel aloud to the class. After hearing that I had killed so and so classmates in the class, everyone was shocked.

Everyone would burst into laughter, but I didn't feel social at all, and even felt very proud.

Therefore, in the winter vacation of the sixth grade year, the winter vacation homework no longer required writing essays, but instead everyone wrote a novel.

I don’t know if my elementary school classmates hated me. At that time, I simply thought I was handsome.

In fact, I have always been very grateful to my Chinese teacher in elementary school. Without her encouragement, I would not be where I am now.

Many years later, I finally understood that it is a luxury to have a dream that I have loved since I was a child.

Many people don’t know what they want to do or what they like after graduation, including many of my gay friends.

I'm glad I still have it.

This is 2007.

After entering junior high school, because there was a computer at home, as I entered adolescence, I gradually began to explore unknown areas that I had not dared to explore before.

I became a nerd, staying at home every day watching anime and TV shows, and my favorite game was "The Familiar of Zero".

At that time, the Internet environment was still very open, and you could see a lot of meat-selling Crystal Palace TV series that you would never dare to imagine. However, I have also forgotten who my earliest childhood sweetheart was. I looked back at my shameful TV series.

For the record, the most likely one is the heroine of "Healthy Quan L Swimming Club" (Green Plum from the Sky), but it's too far away and my memory is blurry.

But in short, at that time, there were many pseudo-harem scenes where the sky was killing people and Ome was defeated. At that time, Aome was not as arrogant as many Eiriri. In fact, she was more like Yamato Nadeshiko, who was gentle and virtuous but lacked courage and was easily shy.

I feel like that, compared to the noisy and trouble-making heroines who descended from the sky, I prefer this kind of heart-wrenching characters. I really want to reach out and grab them, and I just want to break the dull male protagonists who were very popular at that time.

Dog head.

All in all, in the past few years of watching the show in junior high school, the concept of "young taming" has become deeply rooted in people's hearts.

This is from 2008 to 2010.

During the three years of junior high school and the first two years of high school, I had no new creations. I only occasionally wrote some emotional prose, short stories, etc. This was my way to vent my stress.

Most of them are reading novels, reading various fantasy online articles, and reading youth pain literature and so on...

When I was in high school, I met a relationship that I couldn't ask for. I thought we were in a natural relationship, but I didn't expect that in the end, I was acting on my own.

In order to prove it to others like showing off, I have always created my own exclusive persona. Even if she has a partner, I have been waiting silently. In addition, my grades have also declined greatly at that time. At the most depressing time, I could not work for a month.

Talk to no one, just eat, sleep and study.

The only thing that accompanied me at that time was my mood notebook.

I record my feelings in a notebook.

What I want to say to her, essays, and mood essays.

And any dreams I had about her.

As a result, as I finished writing, I actually started writing novels again.

The opportunity came from watching "The Sky Route" that year, which was a special drama created with Cao Cao as the protagonist.

Then I thought that, like him, I would create an original novel about the life trajectory of Boss Cao, which would be a very enjoyable novel.

I was very desperate when I was in my senior year of high school, and I was still serializing it even a month before my senior year of high school.

Although it sounds crazy, it really helped me.

Helped me get through my most painful and hypocritical years.

In the end, my performance was pretty good, and I entered a 211 University in Wuhan without any extraordinary performance or crotch-stretching performance.

This is why I love writing novels.

Because in an era when we had no childhood sweethearts and no one to talk to, my gay friend did almost nothing but play games when they were young, and I was the most pretentious, astringent, mature, sensitive, and vulnerable among them.

For me, novels are my childhood sweetheart and my only loyal tame.

This is from 2011 to 2013.

After I went to college, I actually didn't forget her. I didn't even realize that I was a bitch and did a lot of humble things that weren't just a one-off job.

However, as time went by, I gradually felt relieved. I gradually began to serialize some short stories in QQ space, sometimes stories that were biased towards youth literature, and sometimes long-form serials on the theme of the Three Kingdoms.

After writing and writing, I was not satisfied with sharing my story with my friends at first. I wanted more people to see my works. After going through a series of preparations, it was probably around 15 or 16 years.

I started writing online articles at Qidian. At that time, there wasn’t even a light novel section, only a fan section.

When I transferred what I wrote on the space to the starting point, I was already waiting for the editor to sign on and fantasized about becoming the next platinum master.

Of course, the results are realistic and tragic.

When my first work "The Elegy of the Bronze Bird" reached 200,000 words, the starting point collection was only 20, there were almost no book reviews, and the contracted website was non-existent.

I believe it’s the editor’s poor vision rather than my work that’s bad. I’ve revised and revised my work, revised and revised it again and again. I’ve submitted articles to websites such as Jinjiang and 17K, but I haven’t received a single contracted website.

This was my first low period. I was scrolling through my backend collection and reading book reviews every day, and I began to wonder if the "writing talent" I displayed as a child was not worth mentioning at all.

But I didn’t give up completely at that time. If I couldn’t pass a subject, I would just open up a new one.

Later, as the Qidian light novel section replaced the fandom section, two-dimensional light novels and national light novels became the hottest topics nowadays. Everyone is looking forward to becoming a domestic light novel master.

I also tried to submit an article. The theme was an urban war of supernatural heroes similar to FGO, a great battle between emperors and emperors in Chinese history, and it was a bit similar to Zhenhun Street, which became popular later.

I finally received a website message. I still remember that it was probably when I was in class in my junior year. I was so happy. I read the website message word by word, added editing friends, filled in and asked various contents, etc.

I'm even more happy now that I got the Wanding badge.

Of course, the ending is also realistic and tragic. The data of the works I signed are not much better than before, and the updates were discontinued before they were put on the shelves.

At that time, when I was young, I only thought that if I signed a contract, I would be able to get recommendations and skyrocket. How could I imagine that signing a contract was just the first step in the long march of writing online articles?

This is from 2013 to 2016.

During this low-level social life, I also met many authors who had the same dreams as me. I also made many author friends at that time, but basically none of those netizens are still updating, or they may have changed their vests.

I don’t recognize him anymore haha.

The path of writing is always lonely.

"Reiner and His Legion of Warriors" is my first work with Chapter V on the shelves. The theme is inspired by a well-known RM game "Abandoned City Story". A remake will be released soon. The first chapter of this work is

The order seemed to be in the single digits, and I didn’t pay much attention to it. I was already a senior in college at that time, and I was busy looking for a job while writing and updating novels.
To be continued...