This was newbie author Shuang Rufeng's first novel and first time going premium.
The first chapter was uploaded on April 12. It was now May 30, and in over forty days, there had never been a missed update. The story had reached 200,000 words and would go premium on June 1.
Rufeng had set out to pursue writing as a career from the very beginning. There had been moments of doubt along the way. His family actually supported him, but they were indeed struggling financially.
Back when he graduated from college, found a job, and received his first paycheck, he had felt that he could support himself without burdening his parents. From then on, he could live freely, without worries.
But his parents had grown old without him noticing. The pressure they could bear was already nearly too much, so they began hoping that he could help share some of their burden.
Rufeng had once heard a saying: "Your parents are already old. If you don't work desperately to make money, are you going to make your parents work desperately instead?"
Rufeng thought it made perfect sense. If you did not work desperately, were you supposed to make your frail parents do so instead?
Of course, this was not fishing for sympathy. Rufeng had always believed that a novel was just a novel. You only needed to pay for what you liked; nothing else was necessary.
So tomorrow at eight in the evening, there would still be two free public chapters, followed by ten premium chapters released at once after midnight. Then on the evening of the 1st, there would still be two updates as usual. That added up to at least fourteen saved chapters, so he still needed to write a little more tomorrow.
Recently, Rufeng had read many