Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

A letter to readers and a million-word summary

Although this title seems to mean that you are preparing to run away, please rest assured that our scam is still guaranteed, at least it will not be a eunuch.

This time I will summarize some of the issues in the book so far and give a unified response to readers’ opinions.

But before that, please allow me to make a statement in advance——

First.

I have no intention of offending any genuine readers. Even if you criticize me for criticizing the plot and characters, it is your right as a genuine reader.

Therefore, the content of this letter is not intended to be directed at readers, but is only intended as a self-summary and reflection.

second.

The recently deleted book reviews were all deleted by me and have nothing to do with the management of the operations team.

My management is only responsible for the review of all subscription groups and the management order within the group. The book club and this chapter said that I do not allow them to delete comments or ban people.

third.

I have been silent, not because of the so-called "chicken floating", "arrogant", "I don't treat readers as human beings" or "thinking that I am awesome".

It's just because there are too many people scolding me. Every day I open a comment in the background and scroll through dozens or hundreds of comments all scolding me. It affects my coding mentality. I can't stand it any longer, so I can only pretend to be dead to save my life.

I used to refute the content you criticized me for, but why didn’t I refute it later? Because I knew that the plot you criticized was indeed problematic in my writing, and I couldn’t refute it.

But when I can’t refute it, I see you guys trolling me every day, back and forth, and I can’t stand this mentality, so I can only delete the comments to find some peace and quiet.

As a result, because the comments were deleted but not banned, some readers became rebellious. The more you deleted the comments, the more I had to say... So during this period of time, I stopped reading this chapter and just mentioned it as a book friend.

I have deleted the negative reviews.

Let me clarify this.

I just don’t have a good mental receptive ability, so when faced with a large number of “correct and irrefutable” comments, I can only delete comments to protect myself, in order to maintain my motivation to write. Otherwise, I keep thinking about the negative comments in my mind. Basically

I can sit in front of the computer for hours and still not be able to type.

I'm a mean person, so I always want to click on the comments, but I know it's definitely going to be a bad review, but I just can't help it. It's better now that I can finally stop reading it.

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The above explains the recent negative reviews and recent deletion of reviews.

Next is the stage of sorting out plot issues and reasons, as well as the specific reasons why I don’t respond to negative reviews.

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1. The plot during the summer vacation in the book

This plot, from the beginning to the start of school report in Chapter 118, totals more than 400,000 words.

Simply speaking from the perspective of plot structure and content arrangement, this episode is the most satisfying episode for me.

But looking back now, the root of the problem actually appears here.

Because of the writing inertia of the female protagonists in the previous two dog food novels, I heated up the ambiguous stage between the male and female protagonists too quickly at the beginning of this book.

As a result, by the time the first game was completed, Yan Chijue's love for Xu Xing had almost reached a point where it would be difficult to end the relationship without falling in love immediately.

And here, a better way to deal with it would be to maintain the vigilant character of Yan Chijuan asking Yao Yuanyuan to call her every half an hour to confirm her safety when Yan Chijuan came to work as a model for the first time. The relationship should not heat up so quickly.

Even if Xu Xing was indeed very kind to her, based on her family experience, she should have stopped at most thanking her. A little affection was okay, but she shouldn't "soften" so quickly.

If the plot of the rising relationship were set in college, it would be more reasonable and more in line with the rhythm of this book.

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2. The plot from the beginning of university to the National Day in October

This plot, from Chapter 118 to Chapter 170, is about 250,000 words long.

From here on, there are actually a lot of problems.

The first is the introduction of new characters from the university brought about by changing the map, which itself requires foreshadowing and transition.

There are two ways I can deal with it.

First, in the plot during the summer vacation, three people, Yu Youjia, Xue Weiqiang and Wang Jiaxin, were laid out in advance as acquaintance anchors after entering college.

The second is to arrange for the climax plot of Fruit Assassin to unfold here, allowing readers to accept the plot of the climax of the career line while being more likely to stay and accept the foreshadowing of the new characters in the university.

Up to this point, everything was actually fine. At most, I was still relatively immature when it came to handling the climactic plot of Fruit Assassin.

Apart from Li Zhibin, a good brother, and Xu Niannian, a sister who is still kept in the dark, the only actual people who can provide refreshments are two pineapple company auditors in America.

That said, I didn't provide a specific "villain."

I almost brushed aside the games that competed with Fruit Assassin at the same time, such as the planning of Sword of Exotics.

If it were a normal business article, this section is actually the content that should be capitalized and featured.

It’s just that creating villains has always been my weakness. I was negligent at the time, and coupled with the intensive updates, I got over it immediately.

After that, the studio expanded and recruited people. Xu Yi and Xu Niannian learned the truth. The domestic version of Fruit Assassin was released and was plagiarized by Tencent Studio.

The problem in this area is actually very obvious. Xu Yi and Xu Niannian should actually be separated due to the expansion of the studio, and there is no need for such delay.

In addition to the need to shock and show off, Xu Yi is also paving the way for the subsequent recruitment of high-end talents in Qunxing Company.

As for Xu Niannian, this is a climactic showdown plot that has been foreshadowed from the early stage.

If the two are overlapped together, the pace will seem sluggish when reading, and the reading will not be smooth enough.

If they are separated, both sides of the plot will actually have a better experience, and it will also bury the information gap that Xu Niannian and Xu Yi don't know each other about joining Xu Xing Company, and they can continue to use this to make fuss in the future.

Apart from this plot, the rest is the Tencent plagiarism incident, the production of the secret escape mobile game that paved the way for subsequent career lines, and the plot of Zhang Nong’s E-Me takeaway.

Among them, Tencent plagiarized this part, which is a simple pretentious and slap-in-the-face plot structure. It can be regarded as my attempt to slap the villain in the face, but the effect is actually average.

Looking back now, the plot about the confrontation between the two sides was still a little too plain. There were too few direct dialogues and exchanges between the two sides, and it failed to provide more direct emotional points. As a result, there seemed to be a layer of separation between the two sides when they were slapped in the face.

The capabilities in this area still need to be improved.

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3. Plot during National Day

Chapter 170 to Chapter 180, about 70,000 to 80,000 words.

This section is mentioned in isolation because of some problems that will arise in the subsequent plot, and the direct causes are basically here.

First of all, in terms of business lines, due to the large investment in Kyoto, the business map was suddenly too large. The exciting points in each field were spread out like this, which could easily lead to the reader's attention being distracted.

This is because this is my first serious business writing, so I can still accept such mistakes. After all, the route was planned before I started the book, so there is nothing to say.

But the emotional line is a bigger problem.

As mentioned above when talking about the first 400,000 words, that plot advanced the relationship between Yan Chiju and Xu Xing too quickly.

So during the climax and transition stage of the career of more than 200,000 words, I slowed down the progress between Yan Chiju and Xu Xing.

This led to readers' comments on the love line at that time, almost all pointing in the same direction, that is, "Yan Chi's jealousy has been so obvious, you still don't accept Xu Xing, if you had changed me, I would have gone to bed, why is it a eunuch protagonist again?"

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As I said before, I am indeed a person who is easily affected by readers' feedback, even if I have repeatedly emphasized that I must follow the outline and cannot change it casually.

But actually when it comes to the National Day plot... emmm... I have no details.

As for the emotional line, my outline has always been relatively simple and can be controlled at any time. A complete outline is basically tilted towards the career line.

After all, that's my weakness.

And after more than a month of daily updates, the previous detailed outline has been completely exhausted. In the critical period of the development of the National Day plot, which connects the past and the next, I am worried that readers will lose their patience because they have not started further, and there is an urgent need for a meaningful plot.

An explosive plot.

So in the end, I chose the plot of Yan Chi Jiu and Xu Xing’s confession.

All of a sudden, the delicate balance of the emotional line was broken.

My approach at that time was to actively keep the love relationship hidden from Yan Chi’s perspective, in order to maintain the balance between the two heroines.

But looking back at the subsequent plot, we know that if this is the case alone, the balance cannot be maintained.

So starting from this stage, the plot started to have big problems.

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4. Stars expand to WeChat 2.0 press conference

From Chapter 180 to Chapter 224, there are about 180,000 words.

From here on, because there is no detailed outline, the career line is too big, and the balance of the emotional line is problematic, as a result, I have never found a good way and angle to improve my outline and detailed outline.

To put it simply, from here on, my daily coding will basically have no details.

In the past, I was able to maintain a daily number of 10,000 just because the detailed outline was very complete, and even the key content included daily chapter outlines.

When you sit on the chair and take a look at the details, your mind will suddenly become clear, and you will feel more at ease after buying insurance.

But when there is no detailed outline and you are completely unable to write a satisfactory detailed outline, the urgency and panic, as well as the sense of powerlessness in controlling the subsequent plot, will always haunt you.

Coupled with the dissatisfaction with the plot and the update at the same time, when these comments come flooding in, people can easily become anxious.

Especially when you know that these problems are real, but the previously written plot is already there and cannot be changed, and you can only bite the bullet and think of ways to round out the plot and find angles to make up for it, it is really a frustrating thing.

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During this period, the most common comments about the relationship line were - "Xu Xingdu and Yan Chiju are together, what will Xu Niannian do? When will it be Xu Niannian's turn to take over? The two have agreed

Mistress, hurry up."

Well, this is the most difficult point for me.

A confession has been arranged before, even if the relationship is concealed, it means that the secret balance has been broken.

If you want to bring the balance back, you can only find various ways to find a solution.

At the beginning, my attempts were relatively conservative, and the most interaction was between siblings. However, I found that this was not enough. A lot of people labeled Xu Niannian a "lost dog", and various negative comments came one after another.

This is also the reason why Xu Niannian gave Xu Xing xx in Xu Niannian’s birthday plot.

What’s funny is that in order to save the balance between the two heroines, I forgot the scarf that Xu Xing had made and refused to give out the birthday gift I made myself...

But after what happened on the night of his birthday, it seemed that the balance had been restored a little, and Xu Niannian regained some control over the situation.

But at this time, Xu Xing's character behavior started to look a little strange.

Although in terms of character setting and logic, Yan Chijuan is his girlfriend in this life, and Xu Niannian was the woman who was particularly good to him in the previous life. It is reasonable for Xu Xing to waver and hesitate when making a decision.

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But this is obviously not the plot and characters that readers like.

But since they are two female protagonists in the city, it is basically an objective fact that the male protagonist is a scumbag. At most, Xu Xing is only a scumbag to the two of them...but if he is a scumbag, he is a scumbag.

The best way to deal with it, of course, is to set Xu Xing as a scumbag at the beginning of the book.

But as everyone knows in the past two years, the urban harem stories on the website basically start with a scumbag man setting up a rampage, and directly omit the process of the male protagonist transforming from a normal man into a scumbag.

This kind of operation can make readers more accepting.

But having said that, as I said before, the plot written previously cannot be changed, and I don’t have the background to do “full text revision”.

All you can do is remember the lesson, keep up the good work in the next book, and try to avoid making the same mistakes.

And this book was destined to be that I had to write about Xu Xing's transformation from a normal man to a scumbag.

The reason is simple.

That is to say, Xu Xing was not a scumbag originally, but this book has two heroines, and anyone with two wives is a scumbag, so Xu Xing had to become a scumbag.

That's probably the logic, right?

The problems mentioned above are all facts that cannot be avoided in the plot.

It doesn’t mean that if readers find out and criticize me and leave negative reviews, I can correct it.

It can't be modified...

The previous ones are all definite plots that have been written out and set, and you have already seen them.

Unless I can directly tamper with historical memory, the plot and logic of the previous article are already there. These problems cannot be corrected. I can only think about subsequent remedies on these basis.

Obviously, this is a very difficult thing.

Because fiction is not reality.

Internet articles must maintain a certain logic while taking into account the watchability of the plot.

Otherwise, for operations like "If I were Xu Xing, I would have shown off my cards long ago", to be honest, I can do it.

After all, you are the owner of a company with a valuation of tens of billions, right? Your life has reached a peak that ordinary people can never see in their lifetime. Isn't it possible to do what you want?

But this is not reality after all. When both viewability and logic need to be taken into consideration, I can only make corresponding choices in the advancement of each plot.

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5. WeChat 2.0 press conference to date

There is actually nothing much to say in this paragraph. The problem is in the same vein as the above.

The career line is too big, the fun points are scattered, the wealth increases too quickly, the villains are not created enough, and the fun points are dragged out.

The balance between the two heroines in the emotional line is broken, and there are problems with the advancement of both sides. Every step is like walking on a shaky single-plank bridge.

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I am writing this summary today. The first is to clarify the attitude——

It’s not that I’m confused or simply messed up. It’s just that when the problem is established, I won’t make major revisions to the previous article. I can only write like this in the future.

As for the issue of updating and working full-time, in fact, I studied accounting in college before, and the coursework itself was not too much. In addition, I basically had a bad attitude in my schoolwork... so in fact, there is not much difference between free time and full-time.

Whether I can achieve 10,000 points just depends on whether I have a complete enough outline... Other authors can achieve 10,000 points because they are great. It's like going to school, there will always be someone who studies better than you.

Every time your parents point at you when you are playing with your mobile phone, they say, "My classmates are studying and studying at this time, but you are not studying. Look, so-and-so got a high score in this exam, why can't you?"

Readers are also my food and clothing parents, right?

The logic should be the same, I hope you understand.

The second is to clarify the behavior of deleting comments——

Some readers were very dissatisfied with the deletion of comments, which even affected the management.

One of the managers was busy with school and recently came back for a visit. So he didn't know the specific situation, so he directly spoke to me in the book circle. As a result, this manager was attacked and ridiculed by readers whose comments were deleted.

But in fact, the deletion of comments is all done by me and has nothing to do with management. If it affects other people, then I really need to explain it.

The third is that this book has reached one million words, so it should be a summary review.

This is my writing philosophy. Every book must have shortcomings. The characteristics of online writing determine that it is difficult to make up for problems after they arise. All I can do is sum up experience and lessons, improve my own theoretical framework, and strive for the next

One is better.

So far this book has definitely gone downhill as it goes on.

The current average booking data is 12,500, which basically remains unchanged without recommendations.

However, the first two books are actually similar. After the male and female protagonists confirm their relationship, the price will not increase even if they are both subscribed. In the later period, it will basically go downhill. I am used to it.

So don’t worry about this book, it will definitely end normally.

I also made my words very clear and analyzed the problem in place.

If you think that the plot has developed to this point and the characters and plot are no longer satisfactory to you, then just get together and part ways. I am also very grateful to you for your support in the past.

If you think you can barely watch it, then I am here to thank you for your support and encouragement, and I will try my best to give you a complete plot experience.

As for deleting comments.

I won’t delete it in the future, but in order to ensure my personal coding status and mentality, I probably won’t read this chapter and discuss it with book friends.

If you have any questions, I suggest you just ask my QQ private message in the group.

Hmm... I may not necessarily reply, forgive my social phobia, but I will definitely read the message.

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Finally, I sincerely apologize to the readers who have deleted their comments before.

Although it is a helpless move to protect my personal mentality, it is indeed not fair to the genuine readers.

sorry.

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above.

Thank you Honey Ji Ji.

(End of chapter)