For a period of time after finishing *Zaohuazhimen*, I felt quite empty. I felt like I was missing something every day. Sometimes I would go to the book review section, but after the book was finished, the book review section became much quieter. Each time I went there, I felt even more empty.

I was thinking, maybe I should start a new book early.

After half a month of this, I finally couldn't help but start writing *Immortal Mortal*. But even this couldn't ignite my passion; I still felt like something was missing.

I mentioned last year that the apartment I lived in in Shanghai was very small. This May, I finally moved to Suzhou, to a place that was much larger.

We live on the twenty-seventh floor because opening the window gives you a feeling of overlooking everything. I really like this feeling. Sometimes I even think I should write poetry instead of continuing to write novels.

Until one time, I was waiting for the elevator with my sixteen-month-old son. The little guy is chubby, and I love to hold him, but he prefers to run around on his own. Although he can't talk, he runs very fast.

That time, I answered a phone call, and when I turned around, I saw the little guy had entered the elevator alone. I was so scared that I almost dropped my phone. By the time I went to grab him, the elevator doors had closed and it was starting to go down.

At that moment, my mind was a blank. Without thinking, I rushed down the stairs.

On the way, I could hear his heart-wrenching cries. I only felt my legs weakening, and I sped up even more. I didn't even think about the possibility of missing a step and falling down. I kept thinking, what if he doesn't know how to get out and gets caught in the elevator door?

I practically arrived on the first floor shortly after the elevator did. Honestly, even to this day, I don't know why I was so fast.

Because the little guy could only press the button for the basement floor, I found him in the underground parking garage. He had already gotten out of the elevator and was standing in the empty space, crying.

When I held the little guy, my legs were shaking badly. I only had one thought in my head: don't let him out of my sight again.

That night, I started writing, and I suddenly understood what I was missing. I had originally decided to start the book in early July, but I moved the time forward to mid-June.

Don't let the most important people in your life leave your sight. My family is important to me, and my readers are important to me too. Since they are important, then don't let them leave your sight.

Starting to update every day made me feel much more fulfilled. The book review section also gradually became active, and my fighting spirit slowly rose.

But the book not being released only gave me this fighting spirit. It lacked a kind of passionate battle. Because once the book is released, it will face all kinds of battles. I will be like someone who has been injected with chicken blood, a little crazy every day.

I can feel it, and I know why, but I don't know how to adjust. Today, *Immortal Mortal* has finally been released, and with the release of the book, I have also obtained this passion.

I believe everyone will see that the first chapter after the release is different from before.

Some passion needs to be spurred on.

The first spur is monthly tickets. The release of a new book is the beginning of the monthly ticket battle, the starting point for burning passion.

Monthly tickets can give me a complete sense of fighting fulfillment and prevent me from becoming bland.

Here, I would like to sincerely ask all the friends of *Immortal Mortal* to cast a monthly ticket for *Immortal Mortal* so that a mortal can truly embark on the path of immortality.

I also said on WeChat that the new book should have an update bonus. To be honest, I have been writing books for many years, and I have never asked for subscriptions through updates in a single chapter. This is the first time, and I want to try it.

The baseline for breaking the bonus is subscriptions. The new book will update based on the number of subscriptions in twenty-four hours, using 1,000 subscriptions as a baseline. If the twenty-four-hour subscriptions reach 5,000, there will be five updates; if they reach 10,000, there will be ten updates.

Speaking of which, I suddenly thought that *Immortal Mortal* has 90,000 favorites. What if there are 90,000 subscriptions? Could it be that I have to do ninety updates? You must know that Old Five is a Goose. has never gone back on his word since he started writing books.

"Slap!"

Okay, I'm thinking too much.

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