Lord of the Starry Sky

If nothing unexpected happens, the book Lord of the Starry Sky will be on the shelves on August 1st.

Speaking of which, this is my third book to be put on the shelves.

It stands to reason that I should be used to it by now, but I still feel a little uneasy. It’s similar to when the first two books were about to hit the shelves, but it’s not the same.

Maybe it's because my mood when writing a book has changed.

My senior brother mentioned in his final remarks of the last book that this book wanted to write a relaxed and cheerful story with more sunshine and more positive energy.

In March of this year, when I was about to finish the book, something happened in real life, which made me feel depressed and full of negative energy. Until now, I still haven't completely calmed down.

A friend who I had known for seven or eight years passed away.

Birth, old age, illness and death are all human nature.

The dead are gone, but the living must continue to live. This is understandable.

I have also seen off elderly people at home one after another in the past.

But this year, I was particularly touched.

Because it was a peer who left.

The floodgates of memory seemed to open all of a sudden, and I couldn't stop them.

This is the second time I have faced farewell from my peers.

The first time was when I was in junior high school.

It's been fifteen or six years now.

One of my deskmates when I was in the third grade of junior high school, his name was Kang Kang. This is a taboo for the deceased, so his last name is hidden, so let’s call him Kang.

In fact, when I think back carefully, although I have been my classmate for a while, my understanding of him seems to be relatively limited. In the class at that time, I was not a close classmate with Kang.

Looking back now, I can only remember his appearance. I think his family came from Lingwu, Ningxia. He transferred to Yinchuan to go to school in the same year as me. I remember he was tall and thin.

Apart from his appearance, the thing that impressed me most about him was that he secretly read martial arts novels in class.

I have only seen the works of Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Liang Yusheng before.

Because of Moukang, I only knew about the existence of Huang Yi.

At that time, he was watching Xun Qin Ji.

I also borrowed it to read, and later, under his guidance, I looked for Master Huang’s other works to read.

That was my first exposure to concepts such as time travel, interstellar, and fantasy.

Apart from this common interest, Moukang and I didn't have much other communication. If we had waited until we graduated from junior high school and went to different high schools, we might have ended up going our separate ways.

But this is always just a stupid if.

One day, I remember it was the afternoon, and Kang didn't come to school.

Later, the head teacher told us that Kang was in a car accident and could not be rescued.

I don’t remember exactly how I felt.

Seeing the same desk next to me being empty, I felt more like shock and confusion.

That was the first time I faced the farewell of a peer.

It seems a bit exaggerated to say how sad I was at that time.

The mood should be very heavy, very regretful, very regretful.

As soon as the memory gate is opened, many things will flow up uncontrollably.

In fact, some people and things that I couldn't remember in the past few years suddenly became vivid and clear again.

Of course, I will never admit that I am getting old, so I start to like to think about those days.

When I think of Moukang, I think of another deskmate in junior high school at that time.

His name is Shen Jian.

He has thick eyebrows and big eyes, a little handsome, but with a bit of a ruffian spirit, and he often has a generous smile on his face. He is of medium height and has a thin build.

I was a transfer student, and I transferred to that middle school in the first semester of my second year of junior high school. Shen Jian was my first deskmate in the new school in the city of Yinchuan.

At that school, it was customary to put tablecloths on the desks.

On Shen Jian's tablecloth, there were a few lines of words written by him.

People are in the rivers and lakes, and the fierce dragon crosses the river, covering the sky with one hand, and is invincible. The dragon fights with the tiger, and the winner is the king.

Well, the titles of six Young and Dangerous movies.

Then, his pen calligraphy is beautiful.

Furthermore, when I first transferred to the class, he took good care of me.

It's just that in other respects, we didn't agree on each other and didn't have much in common. After we stopped being roommates, our relationship was just like a nodding acquaintance or a meet-and-greet level.

After graduating from junior high school, they really went their separate ways.

At that time, in 2003, it was an inland city in the northwest, and there were basically no other ways to contact classmates except their home landline phone numbers.

Therefore, I have no contact with Shen Jian since junior high school.

Now, I don’t know where he is or what he is doing.

I now have contact information for most of my close friends in junior high school, or know how to find them.

Most of the people with whom we had normal relationships gradually faded away as more than ten years passed.

It's just Shen Jian. This relationship can't be said to be good, but I have an impression of the classmate who helped me a lot after I transferred to another school, but I can't find him. I don't know how to find him.

After what happened in March this year, Shen Jian's impression became clearer when he thought of Moukang and his junior high school days.

After my brother finished the book, when he was imagining the starry sky, he suddenly had an impulse. Later, as you can see, I put the impulse into practice.

However, the character, background, family environment, and life experience of the protagonist Shen Jian in the book are completely different from the classmate Shen Jian in my memory.

The only things that matter are the name and the element of loyalty in the character.

The impulse was very strong at the time, but after writing for a while, I felt relieved.

Although I don’t know where he is now or whether he still remembers me, I can only wish him good health.

Speaking of which, Shen Jian's health and Mou Kang's health add up to exactly one health.

When I was in school, no one, not just me, seemed to think of this, maybe because the two of them were not people who often played in the same circle.

I only thought of this this year, and it feels like a coincidence.

Since March this year, I have once again strongly felt that people’s health is really important.

Here, I wish all readers and friends good health forever.

The more negative emotions I feel, the more I have to fight them instead of letting them go.

Therefore, this book strongly wants to write some cheerful and relaxing stories.

I want to write some daily happy stories between friends.

Most of the characters in the book are based on silhouettes of friends in my life or on the Internet.

For example, the couple whose birthday is 69th are two friends I know in life. They are indeed a couple born in the same year and the same month. One birthday is the 6th and the other is the 9th. The daughter-in-law is three days older than the husband.

It’s just that their birthdays are in January and the characters in the book are in May.

69, also stems from the husband’s own self-deprecation, which has become a joke among friends, which is very happy.

But the names of the male and female friends in the book were chosen by two book friends.

And so on and so forth.

I don’t mean to ask you to empathize with me, but I just hope that the new book can bring joy to everyone.

Unknowingly, I have talked a lot, so please forgive me if I find it annoying.

In short, I hope everyone can get relaxation and happiness from this book, and I hope I can write a book that everyone will like.

Maybe my abilities are lacking, but I will try my best.

Finally, on August 1st, the day it is released, I will work hard to update it.

thank you all!