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The word count of the fifth volume is 717,854 words.

The number of words is about the same as the previous volumes, except for the fourth volume.

The fourth volume is due to the long time span and many events, so the number of words exploded.

The fifth volume is only one season, and what it says is also very simple:

Leeds City won the UEFA Europa League and achieved the achievement of the golden age. The relationship between Hu Lai and Li Qingqing is confirmed.

But despite the fact that there are not many things to explain, the fifth volume is indeed a link between the past and the future.

Because in this volume, the fate of the main characters will change.

In addition to Hu Lai and Li Qingqing, of course it is the process of Zhang Qinghuan, Wang Guangwei, Chen Xingyi and other international players gradually adapting to European football.

In fact, I really wanted to use a lot of pen and ink to write these processes in detail at the beginning, but later, considering that the rhythm was too procrastinated, I still discarded many things.

Instead, describe it when it is somewhat related to Hu Lai. And compress the long process into the time and space of a game.

I don't know if it's good or not, because some things still feel unwritten.

But the author's point of view and the reader's point of view are sometimes different.

In some places, the author feels that the writing is not thorough, but the readers feel that the author's repeated description of the same thing is too long-winded.

Sometimes the author feels that he has explained clearly, but the reader is at a loss...

For example, I never wrote about the use of Hu Lai after obtaining the [Marrow Cleansing Potion]. I thought everyone should have guessed it, and he must drink it directly when he gets the reward. It turns out that readers are very concerned about this matter, so I have to mention it later...

In addition to the personal fate of the players, the fate of Chinese football has also completed a link between the past and the future in the fifth volume.

In fact, I have considered for a long time about the handling of the change of the head coach of the Chinese team at the beginning.

Option A: Let Dillon succeed Shi Wuyin directly, and then skip the Asian Cup according to his request, let Zhou Zijing become the protagonist of the Asian Cup, and run the team. But I won't write about the process in detail.

Option B: Let Dong Jianhai take over the team, and then suffer a disastrous defeat in the Asian Cup, and then dismiss get out of class amidst the fans scolding, let the Football Association realize their previous mistakes, and then obediently invite Dillon.

If you choose A, you can avoid "abuse" and avoid "twists and turns", but I always feel that this cannot reflect growth-everything goes smoothly, everything is carried out according to the optimal route, it is very safe, but it is also boring.

If I choose B, it means that I have to spend pen and ink to write a failure, which is also a stimulus to the reader's nerves.

After much deliberation, I chose B, but I didn't write it completely according to the original plan B, and wrote it like this:

Dong Jianhai took over the national team and wanted to change, but he immediately gave up this idea after he failed, and then his performance in the Asian Cup was not satisfactory, so that everyone could see that he was going to get out of class.

But I didn't just continue to write about him failing all the way, and finally got kicked out.

Instead, he deliberately arranged the game against the Japanese team, and arranged that way of writing.

Let Dong Jianhai, a transitional character, have his own highlight performance.

Because I don't want to simply write Dong Jianhai as a "tool man", and his appearance is just to pave the way for Dillon to come on stage.

He is always a living person with his own thoughts and unwillingness. This struggle was reflected in the game against the Japanese team. The man who was ridiculed as a coward and a coward also had a crazy side at the end.

In the end, he chose to resign instead of being dismissed by the Football Association, which was also my arrangement for the above purposes.

At the same time, use this Asian Cup to reflect the growth and reflection I mentioned in the summary of the fourth volume.

Let the Chinese players gradually change and grow.

After all, if the players suddenly start to reflect when chatting normally, I always feel that it is too blunt and not deep enough.

It is more authentic and powerful to let them reflect after they have suffered a failure in the Asian Cup.

As long as the readers outside the book and the fans in the book feel that this Asian Cup has not failed in vain, it will be regarded as achieving the goal.

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Let's talk about the emotional scene between Hu Lai and Li Qingqing.

This paragraph also cost me a lot of hard work, which made the hair on the top of my head even worse...

As we all know, I am not good at writing emotional dramas.

Because in reality, I am a straight steel man, and my wife always complains that I don't understand romance at all.

Therefore, in order to write Hu Lai and Li Qingqing's development from a relationship of "not full of lovers but above friendship" to lovers, I racked my brains and was cautious, and I discussed it with my wife several times.

I know many readers, when I wrote the scene where Li Qingqing went to Leeds to see Hu Lai, expected them to have a relationship that night.

When I was writing the part where Hu Lai sent Li Qingqing to the hotel and let Li Qingqing take the initiative to return to Hu Lai’s house, I was very nervous, wondering if readers would accept this arrangement.

Because I actually aroused the thoughts of the readers, but when I turned to the next chapter, I found that nothing happened to the two of them overnight.

Will it make readers feel a great disappointment and resentment of "I've taken off my pants, so you just show me this?"

But I still insisted on not writing them together at that time.

Because I don't want to destroy the youthful and beautiful feeling between the two, I think there should always be a reasonable transition.

Using this night to evoke a different kind of affection in the hearts of two people is like planting a seed and waiting for the right time to germinate.

If you let them just hug each other and have sex, I always feel that it doesn't match the style of the two in this book.

With Liz's one-night foreshadowing, it will be more logical to arrange for Hu Lai to discover his true feelings for Li Qingqing later.

But how to confess?

I thought for a long time, how to confess, how to confess...

I used to think that it would be fine if Li Qingqing confessed to Hu Lai, but no matter how I thought about it, I felt something was wrong: Why? Why should Hu Lai get a beauty without paying anything?

Since you like it, of course you have to say it, but isn't it respect for girls if boys say it first?

So I arranged a dialogue between Hu Lai and Song Jiajia, so that Hu Lai could review his feelings for Li Qingqing and discover his true self.

Through this dialogue, the relationship problem was directly placed in front of him, making it inevitable for him to avoid it.

When it comes to the confession chapter, I wrote it after listening to Karen Mok's "So Many People in This World" repeatedly for a day. So much so that my wife complained: It's so poisonous, I hum this song when I open my mouth now!

If you are an attentive reader, you will definitely be able to find clues to this song from Hu Lai's confession.

When I wrote it, I was very satisfied, and I couldn't wait to update it for everyone to see...

Instead of simply saying "I love you" to complete the confession, it combines Hu Lai's personality to show a boy who once had low self-esteem but is not emotionally confident now. The reaction of the goddess.

So I used the title of the song "This Is the Bravest Moment of My Life" by Prism for that chapter.

For Hu Lai, who was looked down upon and unpopular since he was a child, and had to rely on lying and bragging to maintain his poor self-esteem, bravely pursuing the goddess was indeed the "bravest moment".

In short, I am not good at emotional drama, but the emotional drama between Hu Lai and Li Qingqing is my favorite part in the fifth volume.

Seeing everyone's feedback after the update was released at that time also made me feel very relieved-all the hair I paid for was not wrongly paid after all.

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As for Leeds City winning the Europa League, there is actually nothing to say-it is a matter of course, everyone knows that they will win the championship.

After all, if you spend hundreds of thousands of words to write a season and end up with nothing, then that is the real water...

It's just that the fifth volume I originally thought didn't end here, there will be more later.

But I feel that continuing to write is nothing but cyclical repetition.

Wide to, but not necessary.

So I decided to end the fifth volume here and start a new volume.

As for what the sixth volume is about, I won't spoil it. In short, the problem mentioned by some readers that Hu Lai has not grown up will be solved in the sixth volume, and he has not yet been fully finalized.

In addition, I made a rough estimate—if there is no change in the outline later, there are about three volumes left in this book.

The number of words in each volume should only be more than 700,000 words, and it is unlikely to be less than this.

So there are about two million words left in this book, and it will be finished in another year.

I am looking forward to the day when I finish this book, I will review the story of Hu Lai and his partners with you again, and I will make a summary with you again, but that is not the summary at the end of the volume, but the summary at the end of the book.

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Another: According to my statistics, by the end of the 2026-2027 season, Hu Lai's total career goals have reached 241. Hole Forest also has 24,100 trees.

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