First of all, I want to thank all the readers for your support. Without the support of so many readers, I wouldn't have been able to finish this book.
After all, I'm just an ordinary person—so ordinary that I don't even meet the threshold of what most people consider ordinary. It would be impossible for me to write novels purely out of passion.
The book's performance was the fundamental reason I was able to keep writing until the end.
Although the royalties fluctuated, on average, they were still a little better than the monthly wages of most workers in the small town where I live.
So once again, I offer my deepest thanks to all the readers for your support!
Next, regarding the writing of this book.
This book ran for over 1.8 million characters and took more than a year to complete. I definitely can't be called especially diligent, so I'd like to apologize here to all the readers who urged me to update more.
This book was first published on QQ Reading. After the site redesign, there was one particularly absurd aspect: it began prioritizing the latest follow-up reads, causing the benefits of mass updates to plummet.
For books first published on Qidian, the more chapters you release at once, the greater the earnings. But for this book of mine, the more I mass-updated, the more my earnings decreased.
Because the more I mass-updated, the harder it became for more readers to catch up to the latest chapters, and the revenue declined as a result.
Some readers may have noticed that most books on QQ Reading update two chapters a day, around four thousand characters. That has something to do with the site.
Beyond updates, there were naturally all kinds of other issues.
Plot design, character development, level