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2024.Happy New Year !

Dear book friends, hello!
The new year is here, and the fortunes are new in the Year of the Dragon!
With the joy of the New Year and full of longing for tomorrow, we bid farewell to the extraordinary 2023 and usher in the hopeful 2024. On this occasion of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, please allow the author to perform a set of unique martial arts that he has just learned. I wish you all:

Dragons and phoenixes flying and dancing, dragon and phoenix bringing good luck, dragon posture and phoenix appearance, dragon chicks and phoenix seeds, dragon and phoenix beak, dragon walking and tiger gait, dragon soaring and tiger leaping, dragon coiling and tiger crouching, dragon spirit and tiger ferocious, crouching tiger hidden dragon, dragon and horse spirits, dragon virtue in the field, catching the phoenix and catching the dragon, riding the dragon and matching with the phoenix, carved dragons and painted phoenixes, two dragons playing with a pearl, divine dragon shaking its tail, flying dragon in the sky!
Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, finishing the exercise
Book friends who can see this are all friends who support the author very much. No matter whether their past life was smooth sailing, successful, or encountered hardships and tests, they all wish the book friends good luck in life and rapid success in the new year.

The way of heaven is clear, and the way of earth is glorious!
Book friends!
When the heavens will entrust the people with great responsibilities, they must first suffer their minds and wills, labor their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skin, empty their bodies, and disturb their actions.

The past year has not been an easy year. No matter what situation you are in now, you have the opportunity to turn around and move towards glory. The more hardships you have experienced in the early stage, the more you will accumulate strength and prosper in the later stage, and you will soar to a bright future!

I hope that in the new year, all my book friends will have their dreams come true, everything will go smoothly, and they will live a happy life.

Finally, Shi Tou sincerely thanks all the book friends who have been following this book from the beginning until now. Shi Tou does not know your names, nor does he know you, but it is your unremitting support that has made this book come to this point, and allows later book friends to read the subsequent stories.

God knows how many times Shitou encountered difficulties and thought about giving up.

It is you who have encouraged this book to this day with your tickets and subscriptions. You are all our own people like Chang He, who have made outstanding contributions but are unknown to the public. Shi Tou would like to thank others first and put you last, but his gratitude to you comes from the heart.

The stone does not wish you to soar to the sky, to be on the ninth heaven, and to become extremely rich and powerful.

I only hope that you have clothes to wear when it’s cold, someone to warm your heart, a good person to accompany you throughout your life, and live healthy and free from illness until you are old.

He lived an ordinary and happy life like an ordinary person. On the day of his 100th birthday, with his children and grandchildren around him, he looked at the noisy children in the room, who climbed on him, stretched out their little hands, and pulled his snow-white beard and giggled, and sighed.

No regrets in this life! The author's state is sometimes good and sometimes bad, so sometimes it's okay to read, but sometimes it's a bit long-winded and sloppy. I also ask book friends to be more tolerant. If you really can't stand it, you can curse in the comment area to vent.

Shi Tou accepted it humbly. The foreshadowing by Yang Ji was thought of after the previous Infernal Affairs was unfinished, so it was relatively smooth.

As for the exciting plot in the later stage, after this period of transition, Shi Tou has been completely immersed in it. His mind has been immersed in the world of the play. He has also consulted a lot of information and has made an outline for the development and growth of the original play, which can be arranged one by one later.

I saw the stone paintings of the Yongzheng Dynasty very early, so I only looked at them a few times before I started writing.

Shitou watched the three dramas of Infernal Affairs more than ten times, and later he wrote while watching. It is no exaggeration to say that he has read them thirty to fifty times. At the beginning, he did not know the real situation in Hong Kong Island. Later, at the reminder of book friends, he watched less Hong Kong variety shows and gradually became addicted to them. Later, he expanded the series to 400 chapters.

As for the beginning of "The Long Ballad of Zhenguan", Shitou read it seven or eight times. You have to know that there are more than eighty episodes in "The Long Ballad of Zhenguan" and Shitou had to catch up with the progress. There was really no time to spare one or two months for Shitou to study it more than ten times a day like he did with "Infernal Affairs". He could only write the rest while reading.

I also consulted a lot of information, even read the New and Old Book of Tang, and learned more about the bureaucratic system and military and political fields of the Tang Dynasty. Generally, those who write about the Sui and Tang dynasties focus on the stories of the aristocratic families and famous officials and generals of that period, and how they assisted the lower-class protagonists in conquering the world.

I believe book lovers have seen a lot of that kind of story. This time, Shitou will make a unique choice to develop the story from another perspective. Of course, there are also aristocratic families and famous generals, but they are not important aspects. The important thing is to develop the story around the main line of the drama "The Long Song of Zhenguan", which is different from that large-scale reversal of the world.

After all, a story that starts from a corner, recruits famous generals to conquer territory, and finally unifies the world would take millions of words, which is too long. Therefore, Shi chose to take a lighter approach and unfold the story along the line of Li Chengqian, which he could do freely.

Please don’t go away, book lovers, and continue to enjoy it!
:)
(End of this chapter)