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Insignificant Trivia

1. The majority of the setting of the world was created with pre-made assets bought by A-Gua. This includes geographical names, political systems, the plot of annual events, etc.
2. A-Gua spent 75 years in the creation process, most of which were spent in struggling to decide which pre-made assets to choose, the remaining last year was spent putting them all together randomly.
3. Ye Tan’s face was personally molded by A-Gua.
4. Because A-Gua was so pleased with Ye Tan’s face mold, he couldn’t help but assign it to many characters, so that it became the system’s default basic model.
5. Aside from Ye Tan, there are 22,059 people with the same model in the world.
6. Jun Wuwang shut off his sparkling special effect, which is why he doesn’t have the blingbling. This is because he felt the special effect was too childish.
7. Ye Fenjun used the sparkling special effect one time. Later, he was beaten up by Jun Wuwang.
8. Jun Wuwang: “Because I’m a mature adult.”
9. Jun Xuanheng’s birthday is on February 31st.
10. Jun Xuanheng didn’t know that February does not have a 31st day, so when he was setting up the data for things like height and appearance, he just casually put in Feb 31st. The created world’s calendar was also a proper pre-made asset. Therefore, after waiting a few years and not being able to have a birthday, he wondered why that was.
11. Ye Tan asked about his Master’s birthday, but thought he was deliberately hiding it, so he didn’t dare ask again.
12. After Jun Xuanheng found out about all this, he shamelessly freeloaded on Jun Wuwang’s birthday to celebrate together on April 4th.
13. Ye Jun’s ability to determine a person’s mood from their sound is the result of a system bug.
14. If Ye Jun is not low-key enough and this superpower is detected by the system, he’ll be censored sooner or later.
15. In a certain reincarnation, Ye Jun was able to come into frequent contact with Jun Wuwang and deduced the truth about the sub-worlds and the main world through tiny hints, thereby becoming the first person to be deleted by the system.

Author's Afterword

The last time I wrote an afterword was at the end of 2008.

It was my second year of high school at the time, and my biggest wish was to publish a book, and write on the title page: This book is sincerely dedicated to my true love XX. The content of the book didn’t matter at all, but that must have been written on the title page. Then I would invite my beloved girl to do the preface for me, and I would confess to her in the afterword.

That was my first full-length story, it was extremely poorly written and i wanted to give up several times, it was hellish misery. If it weren’t for the fact that the contract had been signed, it would not have been completed.

When I handed over the manuscript, I was completely heartbroken and just wanted to bawl.

Because it was really too poorly written.

That didn’t matter, the problem was that I still really fucking liked a few of the characters in it, I was totally devoted to them, my feelings were real, but my writing was so bad I couldn’t make people fall in love with them. The drawings were also unbearable to look at, it was basically slander. I felt especially sorry for them.

I have been trying hard to write “good stories” since then.

But “good” is a very vague concept, at that time I believed that good meant excellent, mature, meaningful, something that would make people ponder, that would be worth thinking about over and over.

Since then, my bookshelves were always filled with profound, ancient books that were difficult to understand, from “Extensive Records of the Taiping Era” to “Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang”, documentaries explaining antiques and ancient history followed, desperately trying to cover up my own superficiality, decorating until the works became beautiful.

There was some success, and there was some sense of success also. But the creation itself was no fun at all.

So, for the past several years, aside from business manuscripts, I’ve hardly done any writing. For me, writing stories was a very serious and hard thing, and I needed to invest a huge amount of effort to receive approval. To the point that, before that, I only ever felt happiness when writing those unbearable childish stories during middle school and early high school.

I almost put down my pen, but I did give a few acquaintances the impression that my “writing was pretty good”. But every time others praised me, I would always lack confidence and sincerely refute their words.

In fact, this really wasn’t to let others praise me, but rather because I was really afraid other people would say “that Shi Zi Qing’s writing is too bad”.

At the end of 2016, I was alone in Minhang, Shanghai, at a temporary residence without a desktop computer, so I couldn’t play PC games, and I was feeling stir-crazy. At that time, I was addicted to master-servant loyal dogs, but unfortunately I was out of practice from writing, so even beset by hunger and cold, I paid someone to write. After bitterly waiting and urging her for several months, the writer ran off with my deposit. What a disaster.

I was fainting from hunger, to the point of hallucinating, and every day I would fantasize about having my very own loyal dog shadow guard who could do this and that for me. So one day after waking up, I took the daydreams I had every day before going to sleep and knocked out a few pages.

Since what was written was written, I looked for a place to put it. I was scared and with low expectations, so I put on a cute new sockpuppet account and sneakily sent it out.

When someone actually saw it, I was very surprised.

The story is reasonable, the development goes along with the current, and writing it made me happy. The happier I was, the faster I wrote, and I was harvesting more and more every day hahahaha.

One day I suddenly realised.

It turns out I don’t need to force myself to create depth, being able to write an interesting, complete story is the minimum basic skill, even if others read it and immediately forget about it, that’s not a bad thing either.

Nowadays, I can often see people commenting that my writing as sloppy, but I can face it calmly. I’m just a giggling, simple minded commoner, which at this stage is the only thing I can do, and I do it well.

I suddenly straighten my back. You say my writing is good, I don’t deserve your praise. But you say the text is really cute, and then I can really accept it. (Proudly)

This was a really unintentional work.

At first, I only drew for myself and finished writing the main plot, but suddenly someone was willing to sign a contract with me; in the meantime, I took advantage of the chaos to take it easy and make some character design drawings, and before I knew it I’d drawn the entire set; an artist I liked saw the novel and went down the hole, and by chance became the main artist in the manhua creation team.

At that time, no matter if it was in writing or drawing, I crossed some major bottlenecks that led me to improve. “Gua bi” was very important to me, and I wanted to assemble it into a book no matter what, so that is why I have the aspiration for this book.

TN: “Gua bi” are words from the cn title, just how the MC is sometimes called A-Gua.

“Gua” had no outline at all, it ran freely from beginning to end, and I often stuck in extras on impulse, so it was hard to avoid the chaos. Some roasted my by saying “you actually wrote extras for all the characters”, and looking back, it seems like I really did. I’m sorry, it’s because I really think they’re all so adorable!!! (Yelling)

I had unconsciously already portrayed so many cute characters, and made a group of friends who also liked them so much, every day would produce crops to feed my salted fish author self, I was probably the world’s luckiest salted fish! Groundhog scream

((TN: Brief paragraph about the people author has to thank, including proofreaders, guests, readers, White Bear (the platform the novel was originally published on), and Changpan (manhua creator) sorry I got lazy))

……

Suddenly I want to insert a picture of “one’s descendants will be endless” OTL.

Forget it, forget it, I’m tankful to everyone in the world, if you get this book, take your ticket and find your seat.

It has been a full 9 years since my last novel.

Everything I regretted back then, I have been able to accomplish today.

Today I have been fortunate to meet you.

Heaven’s grace (emm) favours me, and I am indebted to you.

-Shi Zi Qing, 2017





See more art of the cast by the author here and here.