A Chapter Beyond the Chapter

Yesterday, this book gained its second alliance leader—EPICAC.

Thank you for the reward, thank you for your favor, thank you for your trust. At the same time, I also want to thank every one of you who has given rewards. No matter how much or how little, you have all spent extra money to support this book.

I have always felt that paying for subscriptions to read books is only right, while rewards are something extra. So I ask for votes and subscriptions, but I almost never ask for rewards—I simply cannot bring myself to say it. And I often thank those of you who subscribe, because the domestic paid-reading environment is not very good. There is an enormous gap between the number of subscribers and the number of people actually reading this book.

All those who read pirated copies or free versions, remember this: the reason you can read this book, the reason you can read any good book at all, is because these "fools" who pay to subscribe, give rewards, and cast votes are supporting them.

Without them, there would be no such book, nor would there be today's flourishing, hundred-flowers-blooming world of web novels.

So it is not just me who should thank them—you should thank them too. Especially a certain small group of people: do not keep sneering and mocking them.

Actually, after writing novels for so many years, old readers know that I rarely say much about free readers. Everyone has different financial circumstances and different spending power. I used to look down on paid novels too. Later, after I started earning a salary and had the means, I turned over a new leaf and made up for my tickets.

So even when my family worried over piracy, I would often just smile, offer a