Ah.
After finishing, I lay on the sofa for quite a while before I recovered. I hadn't written much today, so I wasn't tired exactly—I just felt somewhat empty and lost.
From starting this book in mid-April last year to now, it had been a year and a half.
Another year and a half of my life had passed. Some of you may have accompanied this book for that whole year and a half; some for a year, half a year... or perhaps only a few days.
And perhaps many readers didn't make it to the end, giving up on this book somewhere along the way for one reason or another.
But as long as you spent some time on this book, or spent even a single cent on it, you supported me. Here, I sincerely want to say thank you. Truly, thank you.
Thank you, my patrons who put food on my table.
Without everyone's support, I definitely couldn't have achieved what I have now. I will always be grateful.
Thank you, everyone.
You've truly been very tolerant of me. I know my daily updates were very sparse, and I was genuinely moved that so many friends still kept following despite that.
As of today, this book's average subscriptions had settled at 64,679—let's call it 65,000. At its peak, new-chapter subscriptions reached 18,000. Even after my updates became completely half-hearted, there were still around 10,000.
Among my books, this was the best-performing one.
Though there were only two.
When I started this book, I honestly didn't dare hope for so much. I just thought it would be enough if it did a little better than my previous one. Back then, my goal for it was to maintain twenty or thirty thousand average subscriptions and get a top-author contract. That