I loved reading when I was a child.Of course, what I read are extracurricular books like fairy tales. In the second grade of elementary school, I held a set of "Water Margin" with "It's good to surrender" printed on the title page and read it with great enjoyment.It's just that my mother hated my hobby and told me to get rid of "the bad habit of reading extracurricular books".However, this vice still seems to be the most important one among my vices.It was so difficult to find a book at that time, and the bookstores would never buy it for me, and I didn’t know what to do with the library card. Occasionally, I found a good book and hid it aside, like a glutton. If you can’t find it, you can only look at the cover in the bookstore and imagine the content of the story inside, so one of the ideals at that time was to be a bookstore employee.

This is of course an unfulfilled ideal.Many years ago, I read an article by Taiwanese writer Zhang Xiguo in the predecessor of "Science Fiction World", which was also called "Science and Literature" at that time. I liked the pure words and fantastic imagination very much.At that time, I thought, if one day, I will also write a story, a story about an isolated city besieged by snake people.Of course, this is just nonsense. At that time, I thought that most of the ridiculous ambitions in my childhood would come to naught. However, many years later, it miraculously became a reality, and it was published in the sub-issue of "Science Fiction World". There really seems to be a wonderful fate in the dark.

The first draft was written in the early 1990s. At that time, there was no computer, so I wrote word by word in a notebook, and changed one after another.However, when I wrote the third book, I suddenly found that the second book could no longer be found. I was disappointed and lost the courage to continue.It was not until I bought a computer five years ago and started surfing the Internet that I remembered to continue this story.Just typing according to this book is not as easy as starting a new stove, so I use this background to start again.After writing more than 10,000 words in the first chapter, I felt that it was boring, and I wanted to end it and make it a short story.This release was released for several years. Later, when the Internet became popular, I spent my spare time lying in front of the computer and chatting with netizens from all over the world. I thought it might be possible to expand this story into a long story and use it as a typing practice.When I was about to finish the first part, I occasionally chatted with a Taiwanese netizen foxflame about Zhang Xiguo. I said that I had seen a triptych version of "Five Jade Discs", which was probably Mr. Zhang's new work, but The price is too expensive, did not buy.He told me that this is Mr. Zhang's "City", which is divided into three parts: "Five Jade Dishes", "Dragon City Flying General", and "A Feather", which is based on the earlier one and another "Bronze Statue City". written. "Very good-looking", this is his evaluation of the trilogy.

The regret at that time was beyond words.But regret this thing will be forgotten after a while, because I know that I will see it sooner or later. This wish from a long time ago came to my mind again, almost like arguing. I made up my mind to write this story down and write it into a fantasy history. . Maybe it's because I'm a little older, I no longer have the impulsiveness of my youth, but I also have more resilience, so this determination is close to being realized.Up to now, more than one million words of this story have been written, and it is planned to reach more than one and a half million words.Such a quantity is a bit overwhelming for an amateur writer like me.When I started to write the first word of this series, I never thought that there would be a day of misfortune.Here I would like to express my respect to Mr. Zhang Xiguo again. Although I have not yet read the "City" trilogy, after all, this ugly thing can still be said to follow in the footsteps of Mr. Zhang Xiguo. Footsteps stepped on.

Such a story is naturally not literature.I think of another writer I like very much, Zhang Henshui, who wrote in his preface: "My work is also, I first thought about it, thinking that I am writing a novel, how can I make people want to read my book? Then I think about it further, how can I make it It is beneficial for people to read my novels? I have thought about it so far, so why bother? Readers, after finishing their work, after tea and wine, or feel bored, or come to it by chance, read it briefly, and kill a moment of their time .And what my book says may not make the readers unrighteous, it is enough."