Xu Lin's novel was already quite popular.

Readers, just waking up in the morning, saw forty-six update notifications after activating the backend notifications.

Upon clicking, they discovered that Xu Lin's book was finished, and even the extras were released.

"What the hell? It's done?"

"So much to digest!"

"Let me see what's going on!"

People were shocked, quickly clicked on a chapter of the novel to start reading.

Over 200,000 words, fully concluded without any loose ends and explained many things.

In the end, it provided a perfect conclusion and more than a dozen well-packed extra chapters.

Original plan: Xu Lin aimed for seven to eight hundred thousand words, but the final word count perfectly hit a million.

These forty-plus chapters by Xu Lin were posted around seven in the morning, and by nine, it shot up to the top five of the Weibo trending topics, later reaching the number one spot.

The novel's popularity was immense; even a certain bodyguard could trend, let alone Xu Lin's book.

Over 200,000 words, and today is Saturday; many who didn't have to work finished it in a morning.

"Another phase of life has ended, though it's a happy ending, it leaves one feeling lost."

"I can't bear to part with it, and it's just ended like this."

"Yeah, it's too agonizing. I didn't expect just a million words; I thought it would be like other web novels and reach at least one or two million, if not three million words."

"But the story indeed came to a satisfying close, and the author did a great job. The main characters became parents, the kids went to elementary school, the younger ones to kindergarten. The kids grew up, the female protagonist entered middle age first, the male is approaching middle age. Thinking of myself as a middle-aged greasy man brings mixed emotions, life is just like this."

"Author, you're so cruel, making me emotional over the weekend. Cry.jpg"

In the novel's comment section and even the trending topic comments, people were having heated discussions, sharing their thoughts and feelings.

As for all this information, Xu Lin was oblivious.

He fell asleep around six in the morning and slept until noon.

Upon waking, Xu Lin saw notifications of the novel mission completion and rewards.

[Mission: The Commitment with Miss Maybach.]

[Reward: Fixed skill - Flourishing Brush, Random skill - Good Drawing.]

[Flourishing Brush: You will excel in calligraphy and possess extraordinary intuition in learning it.]

[Good Drawing: You will excel in painting and have exceptional intuition in any painting style from around the world.]

Xu Lin took a glance, understanding that one pertained to calligraphy, the other to painting.

However, there was a noteworthy fact: in learning both calligraphy and painting, he now possessed considerable intuition, essentially a super-learning ability.

With the mission completed, he gained two new skills the moment he opened his eyes, putting Xu Lin in a very good mood.

At this moment, he opened his phone and saw a message from Chi Linyue, asking why the novel ended so abruptly.

Xu Lin replied, "Isn't the story perfectly wrapped up? You even had twins and a pigeon pair."

"Bah! It's the novel's characters that had them, not me!"

"How about we have a pair ourselves in a few years?"

"Don't even think about it!"

Chi Linyue: "Knock your head!"

Xu Lin: "Hehe.jpg"

The two chatted for a while, Chi Linyue had pushed off work and was still in Qionghai looking after her niece. She sent a lot of kid pictures to Xu Lin, who found the kids cute and good-looking, not surprising given the good looks of their parents; even with regression to the mean, they wouldn't look bad.

Xu Lin had a simple lunch of instant noodles.

Rong Xiyi and Xia Xiyao had already gone out to play; they arranged to have dinner together in the evening.

The two girls wanted Xu Lin to join them in their outing, but he refused, as hanging out with girls could be quite boring; perhaps they could shop for two or three hours and still be eager, while a guy might feel tired after just half an hour or even ten minutes.

So, Xu Lin didn't want to go out.

After eating instant noodles, Xu Lin logged into QQ on his computer.

With the novel finished today, Ranzhi immediately sent a message.

Ranzhi: "Mr. Xu, I didn't expect the novel to end so quickly, my wife cried her eyes out."

Xu Lin: "Isn't it a perfect ending? Your wife actually cried?"

"She can't bear it, like witnessing a beautiful life ending."

"But it truly is perfect."

Xu Lin said, "It's a perfect ending, with a beginning and an end. Besides, all good things must come to an end."

Ranzhi: "True."

Ranzhi: "Isn't Mr. Xu going to post a completion statement?"

Ranzhi's reminder made Xu Lin realize he hadn't properly written a completion statement.

Other novel completions all have one.

So Xu Lin wrote one, though only a thousand words, just summarizing the book and thanking everyone for their support.

Having published the completion statement, Xu Lin felt somewhat melancholic.

The book was completely finished, marking a formal end to a chapter of life from his pen. Even though it was a novel he typed out word by word, Xu Lin was attached to it; the characters felt as if they were right before him.

"Damn it, it's finally done, no more writing from now on!"

Upon publishing his statement, many readers also shared their views in it.

Just with this one thousand plus word statement, the number of comments exceeded ten thousand in less than ten minutes. Other great authors don't have this level of following.

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