Happy New Year, everyone!

2020 was truly a rather strange and difficult year. I sincerely hope that 2021 will be a smooth and peaceful year. I also wish all readers a happy and smooth life in the future!

This month, I updated 220,000 words (including free extras), which is about average. I also made up for four updates, so that's not bad.

However, I still don't recommend that everyone keep urging me to update, because I think adding an update for every 10,000 words is already quite outrageous. Asking me to speed up updates in this situation obviously doesn't equate to ensuring quality.

If I wasn't really feeling unwell, why would I ask for leave?

The main purpose of the previous volume, "Twilight Murmurs," was to clearly write about the essence of Dusk, to clearly write about the entanglement between existence and nothingness, and the difference between "correctness" and "monsters," to point out the real main thread of this book (emerging after four million words), and to enter the real mid-to-late stage of this book.

Some of the scripts were written quite hastily, but there was no other way. After all, the Demonized, the nobles and the commoners, the emperor and other forces, the two major religions, the Far East families, the Northern tribes, and the Yanshuang Army, I really designed them as a book, and expanding them could be written very long.

If I could connect them all in hundreds of thousands of words, and write them smoothly and naturally, I'm afraid I would become a great god!

Original copies are like this, I am essentially writing fan fiction of my own book, planning an outline of a book myself, and then selecting insertion points from it to change the fate of this world.

Looking at it carefully, it's a bit of a thankless task, but writing it is surprisingly refreshing.

All in all, all the hardships are training for oneself. No matter what one gains from the effort, one will never suffer a loss.

As for the progress of the novel *Monsters Die When They Are Killed*, if there are no surprises, it can be completed around October this year, 2021, assuming, and I mean assuming, that the situation is normal.

This book, *Monsters Die When They Are Killed*, has really made me feel like I have benefited a lot. Although I did not complete the goal of ten thousand premium subscriptions this year, I am only 200 average subscriptions away. I hope to work hard next January to achieve ten thousand premium subscriptions, and live up to the support of readers and the hard work along the way!

Finally, please give me double monthly tickets!

I will definitely write better stories and characters, please believe in me who believes in myself!