From Prisoner to Si Chen

After a year, "Prisoners" was completed.

Maruzi wrote the book with great passion in the early stages, but gradually became powerless as the book went on, mainly because he fell into a dilemma of not knowing how to continue or how to end it.

Overall, this story is extremely unsatisfactory.

This is true in every aspect.

I don’t know how to describe my condition. Perhaps, in the final analysis, it’s just that my level is not good enough.

I’m very sorry and ashamed.

I feel really guilty towards the few readers who have been following the series. My updates were slow in the later stages and I even took a long vacation, but I still haven't been able to give everyone a satisfactory ending.

In this regard, Maru sincerely apologizes to everyone.

I'm so, so sorry.

In the closing remarks of the previous book, I promised to bring you an interesting story, but I failed to fulfill my promise.

sorry.

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As usual, I would like to report the results to you.

The average subscription of Prisoners is 4,800, which is lower than the peak of 5,000 six months ago. This is expected, after all, the quality has declined visibly.

Compared to "Villains", "Prisoners" is far inferior.

In fact, the preliminary preparations for this book far exceeded those for "The Villain", but the results were not satisfactory. There are too many factors, so I will not elaborate on them.

If you make a mistake you must admit it, and if you are beaten you must stand at attention.

Please feel free to scold me, Maruzi will accept it humbly.

Here, Maruzi sincerely tells every reader that he is very sorry for bringing you a bad reading experience!!!

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After the main text of the story is written, there should be a free extra chapter like "Villain", but the update time is not yet determined, so we can only say that it will be released as soon as possible.

I believe that old readers who have read "Villains" should know that Jack once met another Outer God at the end of the universe, and his golden finger also came from the other party.

That Outer God is Gillan, the protagonist of “The Prisoner.”

Maruzi does not want to write so-called sequels or prequels. Each story should be independent so as not to bring reading barriers to readers... These are purely a kind of easter egg-like linkage.

So if nothing unexpected happens, the subsequent extra chapter should be the meeting between Jack and Gillan.

In addition, Maruzi plans to organize the settings of the two books "Villain" and "Prisoner" and release them together with the extra chapters for interested readers to see.

It can also be used as a reference for some friends who want to write novels (after all, when Maruzi first started writing novels, he had no reference, so he also wanted to provide some small help to these friends).

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Finally, I would like to thank the editor Bacon.

Thank you to China Literature Group and Qidian platform.

I am grateful for every reader’s support, criticism and companionship.

Maruzi plans to take a good rest for a while, make good preparations, and set off again to write a new story.

Regarding the new book, Maru decided to return to his comfort zone and write light-hearted and humorous stories. Of course, it will be in Maru's unique style.

Maruzi never wants to go with the flow and always wants to try new things, so in his next book, he will try to give readers a refreshing feeling.

Let everyone feel something like "Wow, I haven't seen this before, this is so interesting" when reading.

Radish Pill February 7, 2025