It's almost Chinese New Year, and I wanted to chat with you all, take a break from the busy schedule, and relax a bit.

Others write their year-end summaries on New Year's Day, but I'm doing it before the Spring Festival.

It's probably because I don't really feel much about New Year's Day... Before and after New Year's Day, I code every day as usual, and there's not much change in my life.

But when more and more shops on the street close, there are more and more programs about the New Year on TV, and the people around me start to take holidays. The sausages and bacon hanging on the balcony are put into the refrigerator, and the New Year market is crowded with people... When these scenes appear one by one, there is a different feeling.

The New Year is really coming, and the year is coming to an end.

This is a particularly good time to make a summary.

The past year was the eighth year that I started writing online, from 2003 to 2012.

Kaka, who was a young boy back then, has now become a "veteran" dragging his disabled body and injured legs... How long has it been, everyone says?

I have been writing about football for eight years. Should I be happy or helpless about this?

*Forbidden Zone's Hero* is my sixth work, and it is also an attempt and exploration for me. From the very beginning of uploading, I have been supported and loved by everyone. Here, of course, I want to thank all the friends who have been supporting me.

The past year has been especially important to me.

In this year, I had many firsts.

I got my driver's license for the first time in my life.

I got married for the first time in my life.

I held a wedding for the first time in my life.

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Just as this year was coming to an end, I ushered in another first in my life.

I have written a lot about emotions in my books, but it is the first time that I have used father-son relationships as the starting point for a novel.

Perhaps it is a coincidence, or perhaps it is destiny?

In short, after I wrote about a father who did not hesitate to borrow money to take his son to Europe for his son's dream, I am also about to become a father.

This feeling is really wonderful.

I also said to my wife, if it is a son, I will give him beef and milk every day, and then send him to play football. If he has no talent, at least let him like football. Then I can brag to him, your dad also wrote a lot of football novels, and many people like them! If he doesn't like football, wouldn't my glorious past be nowhere to brag?

If he has talent... then I will play a real-life version of "star cultivation"?

So I very much hope that grassroots football and school football in China can be truly promoted. Then every weekend I can go to the sidelines to cheer for my children, even if they are only playing amateur football games, it must be a very interesting thing, right?

At the beginning of 2011, I got married and said goodbye to being single.

At the end of 2011, my wife had a child.

Next year I will be thirty, oh... wrong, this year I am about to be thirty.

I'm about to turn thirty.

Suddenly I realized that I am already so old...

Eight years ago, when I was writing about a group of youthful teenagers, I had just graduated from university. Sometimes I would think how great it would be if I could go back to the past.

But that is always a fantasy and unrealistic. The past cannot be returned to, so we can only strive to create a better future.

Now I really have old people above me and young people below me. In order to make this family live a happy, carefree life, in the new year and in the future, I will work harder to write those stories and those people.

I used to write about many people's lives, but I never thought about what my life should be like. I wrote wherever my thoughts went.

Now, the outline of my life story has been written neatly.

I will write it down very seriously, without adding filler, without discontinuing updates, and without writing a bad ending. Of course, the most important thing is never to be a eunuch!

The above is my year that is about to pass, which is my year-end summary.

I wish you all a happy Spring Festival!

May everyone be able to write their own life stories.

Lin Hai Ting Tao

Written on the twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year in Chengdu

ps,

In order to celebrate the Spring Festival, there will be three updates tomorrow, the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, and three updates the day after tomorrow, the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Whether there will be more updates at other times depends on my saved manuscripts.

Thank you everyone!