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The postscript of the book "The Secret" is as follows-

In order to prevent the plot of some novels from leaking out, I abridged some parts of the postscript, and only the postscript in the genuine book is complete. Please forgive me.

postscript

process

When I finished typing the last word, The Secret, a novel with more than 800,000 words in four seasons, finally came to a successful conclusion.

At the end of 2005, on a cold night, a special idea crossed my mind: what would happen if we entered a city without people, which is no different from the world we live in, with streets, shops, houses, furniture and electrical appliances all available, but no one was there?

This initial idea made my heart tremble: as if there was a huge stage in front of me. When the mysterious curtain slowly opened, all the lifelike characters BLACKPINK appeared, and countless suspense remained to be filled by the author. Two words come to mind first-

God's design

Soon I watched the American TV series Lost, and there were some similarities with my ideas-more differences, of course. Lost happened in a barren natural environment, with no ending in sight for several years, and the plot dragged on endlessly, as if the screenwriter himself didn't know how to end it.

This is completely different from my creative habit. Every novel I write will be conceived in advance, and I won't enter formal writing until I have made an extremely detailed outline. At the beginning of 2006, I gradually perfected the concept of "The Secret", answered many questions I raised, and wrote a resume and a sketch of each character.

In this long process, I also created the Butterfly Cemetery, which was published in June 5438 +2007 10.

On September 19, 2006, the news of the coup in Thailand came, and former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra stepped down, prompting me to determine the time coordinate of the secret story: September 24, 2006.

It was not until June 5438+ 10 in 2007 that I began to write the text of Sleeping City, the first season of Mystery, which was completed in April 2007. Then I started to write the second season "The Country of Luo Cha" non-stop, which was completed in September 2007. June 5438+October 2008 10, I finished the third season of Night in an Empty City, and only recently did I finish the finale-the fourth season of Doomsday.

If you count the moment when it was first conceived, the creation of Secret lasted two years and four months. Even from the actual creation time, it is more than one year and four months. There is no doubt that this is my longest and most energetic work so far. After the publication of The Secret in four seasons, the total typesetting words exceeded 800,000 words, which is an unprecedented record in mystery novels by China.

figure

Of all the characters in The Secret, Xiao Ye is undoubtedly the most important. At the finale of the fourth season, I arranged a special fate for him. Maybe many people will feel sorry, but I believe this fate is almost the best for him.

As for other important figures: Xiaozhi, Tong Jianguo, Li Xiaojun, Ma Ganlong ... I have made a lot of comments on them in the text of the fourth season, borrowing the words of the novel characters and the author himself, so I don't need to repeat them here.

I once said that all my novels can also be regarded as love novels.

The Secret Seasons is very special, first of all, it is a mystery novel, as well as social novels, fable novels, prophecy novels and love novels. ...

(The following text is confidential)

Because of natural loneliness, we long for warm and blooming red roses, and because we are afraid of loneliness, we expect gentle and lovely white roses.

Every man has a white rose and a red rose in his heart. But I will be afraid of the indifference of white roses and the enthusiasm of red roses. Many times I wish the white rose and the red rose were the same person. The twigs in The Secret are not only white roses, but also red roses, which are irresistible wild roses.

However, what Xiao Ye needs is not roses.

history

Human beings, from the moment of birth, follow the laws of humanity, nature and society.

We evolved from primitive people who ate and drank blood like animals to ancient civilizations in China and the ancient Mediterranean, to feudal medieval Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire, and the different cycles of the rise and fall of the huge Eastern Empire. We have stepped into the great power of modern civilization, experienced two tragic human massacres in the 20th century, and become a modern post-industrial civilized society where we are now, which is increasingly globalized and manipulated by the mass media.

I said "The Secret" is also an allegorical novel, which is not only an allegory of our present society, but also an allegory of our past thousands of years of history. Compared with the other three seasons, the second season of "The Country of Luo Cha" is more special and relatively independent, because the story of this season enters another ancient site outside Nanming City-the country of Luo Cha, and answers how this splendid city was destroyed 800 years ago. I used a lot of pen and ink to trace the demise of Luo Cha. (The following text is confidential)

In the process of writing the fourth season of The Secret, I finished the five-volume Memoirs of World War I written by Churchill, which is a thick book about the first massacre in human history, accompanied by my short reading time before going to bed every night. The author's poetic description of the war he personally experienced and his profound criticism of himself and others made me think for a long time several times.

Santayana said, "forgetting the past means repeating the same mistakes."

Why do disasters hundreds of years ago reappear in a special way? Why do we forget the lessons of history again and again? Why should the tragedy of 2 1 century BC be repeated in 2 1 century after AD?

Today is the accumulation of the past. All modern history is a natural extension of ancient history. The next minute, this minute will be history.

Standing at the beginning of the third millennium after A.D., mankind needs profound reflection and introspection.

metaphor

The Secret can be regarded as both a popular novel and a symbolic work full of metaphors.

First: (Confidentiality)

Second: (Confidentiality)

Third: (Confidentiality)

Fourth: (Confidentiality)

There are other metaphors, so I won't say much.

There must be many symbols I don't know, which will be discovered by readers.

I am looking forward to it.

visual angle

People see the world by themselves.

God sees himself in the world.

This is the difference between the two, or the difference between two different perspectives.

Secret is a world where two different viewpoints coexist.

Just like different colors and styles of candy paper, the sugar wrapped is the same.

Everyone's heart is the same in different bodies and life courses.

The heart is wrapped in the body of the self, and we can only see the world from the perspective of the self-the world exists when the self exists, and the world does not exist when the self does not exist. Everyone will have self-awareness from the age of four or five, which is the only way to evolve from animals to people. Self-awareness has created our civilization and human beings themselves. No matter what kind of society people create, what kind of laws and morals they create to bind individuals, they can't change everyone's self-awareness and the way people see the world from themselves. The spirit of China people is mostly from the inside out. Confucius said "put yourself in others' shoes", from yourself to your family to your country and then to the world.

The original life trajectories of the protagonists in The Secret are all looking at the world from their own perspectives. However, when they enter the secret world and the almost empty city, they have surpassed their self-awareness, looked at the world from a bystander's perspective and looked at themselves in a special state.

The secret story is the process of discovering the world and ourselves at the same time.

If our hearts can jump out of the body, rise to the height of the sky and even the universe, and look down on ourselves and the people around us. From thinking from the inside out to thinking from the outside in, maybe you can find your true self?

How can I change my instinctive thinking perspective? Whether there is a pious belief rooted in the brain that can overcome and surpass the initial self-consciousness and change our lifestyle and living conditions when we grow up needs to be answered in the future.

evangelize

There is one thing that may arouse everyone's doubts. Why do you want to express your personal views through the mouths of the characters in the novel?

Because I just want to preach.

This "Tao" is not a specific theory, nor a mysterious macro theory, but just some of my own ideas.

It is true that an excellent novel will make the author hide behind the work.

1932, Hemingway put forward the "iceberg principle" in Death in the Afternoon, arguing that the author should only describe the part of the iceberg exposed to the sea, and seven-eighths of the iceberg was hidden under the sea.

But this does not mean that the author's point of view cannot appear in the work. In some paragraphs of The Secret, I consciously expressed some opinions.

One of the most obvious and longest is the dialogue about Nanquan killing cats in the third season. Here are some excerpts-

(The following text is confidential)

In fact, it only points out a very small part of the work. I hid more thoughts in the article. If you read and think carefully, you will have your own ideas.

future

(Some words are confidential)

The future is suspense.

The world is infinite and we can never fully understand it. There are always unknown areas, even around us. In order to explore the unknown, human beings can make continuous progress. The infinite world and poor life are the cages from which we can never escape.

Suspense-is the fate that each of us can't escape.

Confucius said "stay away from ghosts and gods", but Confucius admitted that fate: "Confucius said Sichuan, the deceased is like a husband", fate is endless, and fate is also our suspense. Suspense in novels is the same as suspense in life.

Suspense is the accidental explosion of a tiny substance hundreds of millions of years ago.

The suspense is the night when Eve jumped off the tree more than 100,000 years ago.

The suspense is the deep ditch 18 15 in front of Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Square in Waterloo.

Suspense, it is 19 14, the bullet fired at Archduke Ferdinand on the streets of Sarajevo.

Suspense is a tear in the middle of the night in Shanghai in 2007.

As ordinary individuals, we can't change the destiny of the world, but we can control our own destiny.

As thousands of Qian Qian people, when we share the same fate, the world can also be changed by us.

On March 29th, 2008, at the signing ceremony of Shanghai Book City, a male reader specially asked me to write a sentence "After despair, there is still hope" for him.

More important than life is dignity.

More important than dignity is hope.

Although, I see many people's despair and many people's pessimism. But despair is more illusory than hope, in front of human hope.

We can destroy or create the future ourselves.

Everyone dreams of happiness.

Then please create happiness.

Just in the future.

Fanwai

(This paragraph is confidential)

individual

Before I wrote The Secret, I had published twelve novels and two collections of short stories.

Some elements of my previous novels appeared in The Secret. Although I always try to avoid repeating myself, I do it on purpose in secret. This is a phased summary of my mystery novel creation so far. I hope to see how many beautiful shadows are skillfully connected in the story and eventually become a brilliant world.

Because I always say that the greatest pleasure of novelists is to create a world.

In the process of writing The Secret for more than a year, many changes have taken place in my literary career and personal life. This year is not only a test for me, but also an exercise. I have had joys and pains, and even shed tears quietly. I feel that I have matured a lot and experienced a turning point in my personal destiny, such as feelings. No matter how I write in my novels, my own view of love is traditional. I believe that love is beautiful, even the only beauty in life! Because when I love, I can forget everything. When I love, I can put my feelings into it. There is a chemical reaction between my mind and my body, and my life has been completely changed.

Life is long, so is love.

I hope love can protect everyone, as long as there is no separation, even death, there is no regret.

To the person I love.

suggestion

Please keep all the answers to the "secret" story confidential.

Don't tell anyone who hasn't read this book!

Cai Jun

Shanghai, April 6, 2008