In the blink of an eye, more than ten days had passed. Updates to the front end of the story would resume tomorrow. As for the revised beginning, it would be polished a little more, everyone's opinions would be gathered, and then it would all be released in one go. Speaking of this beginning, the Operations Officer had planned two bonus events. The first was Speak Your Mind: reply on the event page with your thoughts on the beginning to participate, and there were plenty of rewards. The second was a monthly votes event. Although this month's updates had been rather lackluster, and the planned 110,000 words were probably out of reach, there was no reason to let the operating funds go to waste, so these two events came about.
Oh, right, this was our first time running an event like this, so we did not really understand the event mechanics, judging criteria, how to distribute rewards, and so on. People had already begun participating in the idea-gathering event, but the backend still showed "0 participants," and we did not know why. In any case, we were certainly holding this event with the best intentions. Due to our lack of experience, there might be all sorts of issues, such as rewards failing to be sent out. We wanted to make this clear to everyone: we absolutely were not pulling strings behind the scenes. If anything did not go smoothly, we hoped everyone would be understanding.
Lastly: playing with my child more had truly been wonderful. It felt as though nothing else mattered.