[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-watching-the-immortals-fall":3,"chapter-watching-the-immortals-fall-watching-the-immortals-fall-chapter-44":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Watching the Immortals Fall",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2259917,4410,"Chapter 44: A Summary for Yan Zu and Yi Fei and Others","watching-the-immortals-fall-chapter-44",44,"\u003Cp>When the fifth month ended, I kept thinking about what I should write next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many friends told me that continuing with urban fiction was certainly the safest choice, since I still had some popularity in that category.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in truth, that was the option I resisted the most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve written urban fiction for many years, and now I’ve hit my personal ceiling—I don’t believe continuing would bring any further progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I poured all my passion into Jiang Qin and Feng Nanshu, and exhausted every ounce of effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Writing another would just be reheating cold rice, continuing to exploit them, and consuming the people and things readers love.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in my heart, those stories belong solely to Jiang Qin and Feng Nanshu; I don’t want to misattribute them to other characters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Feng Nanshu had too great an impact on me—even after finishing the book, I never stopped thinking of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I know that if I wrote a similar story in a similar world, her shadow would still linger in my mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don’t want to repeat a similar story, or stay in my comfort zone until I grow outdated and slowly be forgotten.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I chose another category: xianxia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, my decision to write xianxia wasn’t driven by copyright concerns or greater profits, as many assumed—it was ultimately about seeking breakthrough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to experiment with multiple perspectives, no longer limiting the story solely to the protagonist, but adding another thread that exists outside the main viewpoint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Put simply, when I wrote my previous book, I always felt that the world only moved when Jiang Qin moved; when he stood still, everything else froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wondered: could I write a story where the world moves even when the protagonist doesn’t?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some events may not occur because of the protagonist, yet all things are still turning, eventually converging into a vast network pointing toward a final goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason I developed this idea was because I discovered my own weakness in my previous book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m not good at handling multiple perspectives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, in that book, Cao Young Master and Ding Xue’s story was actually quite sweet, but because I kept writing strictly from the protagonist’s viewpoint, their plot couldn’t be smoothly integrated into the main storyline and ended up relegated to an epilogue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Zhuang Chen—I always wanted to give him a proper mainline ending, but I never managed to include it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plot about Zhang Guangfa’s fruit going unsold was brushed over in a single line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I realized I seemed to know only how to write the protagonist’s story, and that terrified me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I knew I was still green, still unskilled, and needed to keep cultivating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I decided to return to how I was right after graduation: forcing myself each week to do something I originally found uninteresting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I chose xianxia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Writing this book was extremely difficult; I was deeply dissatisfied with myself, to the point where I rewrote a single chapter three times—my draft folder already holds tens of thousands of discarded words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, when writing the Kuangcheng High School segment, readers asked how results could appear overnight—it was because I deleted three chapters about the protagonist working away but forgot to adjust the timeline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, Old Qiu originally had a solo scene where he knelt and begged for mercy, meant to highlight the contrast between life and death, but I ultimately cut it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, until just yesterday, I was still continuously revising the earlier chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before I started this book, I never imagined what kind of success it might achieve, nor did I expect it to be loved by readers as my previous book was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it matters deeply to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because I’m torturing myself, searching for a different path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I once said in an interview that I’m not a gifted person—I’ve written for ten years, six of which were spent failing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So all I can do is be the slow bird that flies first: write what I’m bad at, let those weaknesses expose my flaws, then correct them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Writing is my sole profession; I have no other job, no other identity—I have no fallback.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I cherish every book I write, every opportunity I’m given.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don’t want the new era’s ship to leave me behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So no matter the results, I will keep writing well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because I know that what doesn’t kill me will only make me stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is my response to readers’ confusion over my genre switch, a brief summary of the current plot, and also an expression of gratitude for your unwavering support.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, as always, I beg for monthly votes and continued reads—for an old hand like me in this new book’s early stage, these metrics still matter… or2\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",796,"2026-06-19T15:28:39.995Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","48fb3e4a786eec2ccc9b8959b26933f86d4fece11981d4fa680654c552ac7dba","watching-the-immortals-fall-chapter-45","watching-the-immortals-fall-chapter-43",430,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwatching-the-immortals-fall-cover.jpg"]