Li Ye went to see Teacher Ke that very evening and learned that she had indeed asked the school for leave because she was going to the capital.
Teacher Ke also told Li Ye that she wanted to take away the completed portion of Deserter in the Flames of War.
Teacher Ke did not say exactly what she intended to do, but Li Ye could more or less guess. She planned to take the manuscript to the capital during the New Year holiday, make the rounds, and pull a few strings.
But Li Ye felt that the time was not right yet.
"Teacher Ke, I've only written less than four hundred thousand characters so far. Shi Cheng has only just appeared, and we're still far from the truly exciting parts."
Web novels were clearly much longer than traditional novels. For instance, The Legend of the Condor Heroes had 1.2 million characters, while even the longer The Deer and the Cauldron had only 1.5 million.
But Xiao Zhixianxian's Deserter in the Flames of War had over 1.9 million characters even though it had been abandoned. (Here, Old Feng saluted Xiao Zhixianxian, though he did not know whether the great man was well these days.)
Even after Li Ye cut out some of the filler, Xiao Zhixianxian's writing had been good to begin with. No matter how much he compressed it, it would not fall below 1.5 million characters. Four hundred thousand characters really were not much to look at.
Teacher Ke smiled helplessly. "I know it hasn't reached the exciting part yet either, but four hundred thousand characters of manuscript really isn't little. It should barely be enough to take out."
Li Ye glanced at Teacher Ke's eyes and saw her urgency and anxiety. He immediately understood that she truly could