Volume One Summary

To be completely honest, I used to read books by top-tier authors all the time. Before writing this one, I always thought that chapter-arc summaries were just a lazy excuse to beg for votes and served no real purpose. It was only when I started writing this book and genuinely tried to learn how to write them that I realized they actually do have meaning. Of course, at least for me, this meaning is no greater than the first two purposes.

I don't know how to write outlines. As a result, my previous books only had a rough thread that served as my outline. Some had quite a bit of research material and world-building notes; some had a relatively detailed plotline for a certain section, say thirty or forty thousand words, but the overall picture for the entire book remained extremely vague. This book is no different—it belongs to the extremely crude category. As for those other authors who plan out their plots tens of thousands of words in advance or even have detailed outlines, I still can't comprehend it to this day. It's just too high-end.

The collapse of my previous books was directly related to this flaw.

With this book, I began to truly study seriously. There are actually many writing guides and secret techniques floating around in online groups, as well as some people who can't make money writing books and instead make a living by teaching others how to write... I've been following *My Father-in-law is a Lu Bu* (My Son-in-law is Mighty) all along, so in the end, I adopted Banana's method of emotional propulsion—though of course, this is my own interpretation of it—and started pushing the content forward from one plot node to the next.

The first volume was an experiment in this approach. I even deliberately imitated the opening style of *My Son-in-law is Mighty* at the very beginning, making it as detailed as possible. Naturally, due to my personal limitations, issues like excessive triviality and a slow pace emerged, which also led to the dismal performance when this book was officially launched.

Fortunately, overall, there are still a few highlights that I personally quite like. For instance, Fang Chang'an's line, "Make them apologize to you," and the impromptu line, "They converge together, forming the shape of a soaring dragon"—both are things I am very fond of... though judging by the comments, it seems nobody else felt much about them.

In addition, there is the parting scene with Shen Mo, which I would give a solid seven out of ten. It's well above my passing mark.

The major regret is that when wrapping up the volume, not a single major emotional climax was written well, especially the hand-holding scene; the emotions from all sides simply didn't hit the mark. The reasons for this are twofold: on the one hand, I suddenly fell ill; on the other hand, the lack of a detailed outline meant that whenever something happened, I couldn't maintain my state of mind, and things immediately descended into chaos.

Finally, let me briefly talk about the update schedule and the book's performance.

It was officially launched on the 1st of last month, with a total of 257,000 words updated. It rivals the output of when my very first book, *Star Summoner*, was launched, and I'm still quite proud of this speed, tsk tsk. At launch, the follower count was two thousand, and the initial subscriptions were one hundred and eighty. Now, the followers have grown to three,600, the peak subscriptions have risen to four hundred, the average subscriptions have crossed two hundred and ten, and the twenty-four-hour reading retention has climbed from around one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty now.

Right now, I am walking on thin ice, just hoping these numbers won't drop. However, since my health hasn't fully recovered, the outline has had to be drastically pruned on short notice, and I have to travel back home the day after tomorrow, which will definitely affect the upcoming updates. I sincerely hope everyone can be a bit more patient and give me some time. As soon as my health recovers, I will definitely resume my original update schedule as early as possible and quickly make up for the chapters I owe.

That is all.

The high school arc begins tomorrow.