Today is Lao Niu’s thirty-seventh birthday.

I don’t have the habit of posting single chapters on birthdays. As a middle-aged man, I feel it’s quite embarrassing to celebrate birthdays.

However, considering that it has been seventeen years since I started writing online articles at the age of twenty, it is not a bad idea to sum up.

I think back to Lao Niu seventeen years ago. He was young and strong. No, when he was young and vigorous, he was dissatisfied and angry. He always felt that he was talented and was born out of the blue, and was about to lead the trend of a generation of online literature.

After suffering all kinds of beatings, I slowly accepted the reality that I had no talent at all and was not suitable for writing online articles.

Only then did I realize that my initial pen name contained the word "cow", which sounded a bit like a prophecy.

Compared to those "rare beings" who are really talented and talented, I seem to be like an old scalper, walking slowly on the ground, crawling slowly, or even rolling slowly.

I was also very angry and resentful, often feeling that I had more than enough ambition but not enough power, thinking that I was useless and could not 100% present the splendid and fantastic world in my mind to readers.

But gradually I learned to reconcile with myself. I am not able to express myself 100% because of my lack of ability and enthusiasm. It is good to be able to describe 30% or even 10%.

Both big dogs and small dogs can bark. Even if I don’t have talent, it doesn’t stop me from sitting in front of the keyboard and typing day after day, year after year. It’s not easy for a person to find something that he truly loves in his life. I can

You are very lucky to have found a "career" that you are willing to work for your whole life at the age of twenty, isn't it?

Just like this, after seventeen years of being confused and stumbling, I gradually constructed some worlds that although childish, are absolutely sincere. I also met many friends who like these worlds and are equally sincere. Lao Niu once again felt that he was extremely

Fortunately, fortunately, I didn't give up when I should have given up. I was still like a blindfolded old cow, lowering my head and rushing forward desperately.

Up to now, I still have no talent, and my old problems have not changed at all. I am still neither good nor bad. Even when I reach middle age, I can clearly feel the changes in my body. When I wrote "Cultivation 4", I updated it four or five times a day, and it cost 15,000 yuan.

Words were written, bang bang bang, no matter what. The most I wrote in one day was eight chapters, twenty-five thousand words, and the next day I was still full of energy, and my fingers were as nimble as that person.

Now I type three chapters and 10,000 words every day, and my knuckles feel like rusty gears, and they make all kinds of strange noises, including cervical and lumbar spine, occupational diseases, and there is not much to say.

But, so what, look at your heart, your love for Internet articles has not diminished at all. The fire is still burning, and more and more friends are gathering together to create a world that belongs to us. This is enough.

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As long as this fire is still burning, as long as there are book friends who are willing to pay attention to Lao Niu and continuously add fuel to this fire, let alone thirty-seven, even if it is seventy-three, I will continue to write!

Therefore, I am posting a single chapter today just to make a wish - I hope that Lao Niu and all my book friends will be in good health, and that the general environment will become better and better. I can write until I am seventy-three years old, and so will everyone.

Being able to see that at the age of seventy-three, we can still maintain the curiosity and passion of youth about this world and the world above it even in our seventies.

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Another note: There is a joint event at the top of our book club circle. It was originally called [Down with the Broken Dog], but due to some reasons it was not approved and was renamed [My World with Claws]. It is quite interesting. Everyone is welcome to interact, including creating extras.

——I also wrote an extra chapter myself in it, about the Night Witch Bai Jiancao. After the event is over, if everyone has good extra chapters, I will collect them and display them.

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Chapter completed!