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Chapter 1454: Author's Afterword

It’s finished!

According to the conventions of novel writing, an author needs to pen a concluding afterword; otherwise, readers might not even realize the book has ended.

So, I suppose I have no choice but to write one.

Typically, an author’s concluding remarks flow from the heart, brimming with personal emotions, like a reluctance to bid farewell to their creation.

However, I’ve been writing for over a decade, completing dozens of novels.

Finishing a novel has become as commonplace as eating and sleeping for me, so there’s truly no special sentiment to express.

Ah, it seems I’m quite the unemotional person, after all.

Let me just summarize this book’s performance, then.

The book’s performance has been quite good overall. Upon release, it garnered 13,000 initial subscriptions, and within a few days, its average subscriptions surpassed 20,000. However, its growth didn’t continue to soar thereafter.

As many of you, my dear readers, have likely noticed, the premise of this book had an inherent weakness: namely, the protagonist’s low involvement. This is because the protagonist existed outside the diorama box, while the stories of the people within it unfolded.

Because...

As for what I'll write next, I'm still contemplating...

While the subject matter isn't set yet, the style has already been finalized, and it's the same quirky, humorous approach you've come to expect.

Oh dear, I'm not sure if this even qualifies as a proper concluding afterword. In any case, this novel ends here. I'll be taking a break for three to five days before launching into a new book.

This is what I mean by "Discarding the Old and Bringing Forth the New." This type of narrative, perhaps, would have worked beautifully as a short story of tens of thousands of words, but stretching it into a million-word epic would inevitably lead to monotonous repetition.

Everyone, check back in three to seven days. By then, my new book will be launched, oh, it'll just *whoosh* right out!

I just wanted to write a story like that.

Most of the plot had to be driven by the people within the diorama; it couldn't be propelled solely by a giant, fifty-meter hand.

Therefore, with the protagonist's low involvement, readers who preferred to follow a central character throughout the story easily dropped the book. That's also why this book's performance couldn't achieve a further breakthrough.

Such a story, if handled improperly, would not be engaging.

Yet, I still insisted on writing it that way.

If the protagonist were to intervene too frequently, there would only be one outcome: a giant, fifty-meter hand swatting down anyone it saw, and enemies simply terrified into submission upon sight.