Some of you in the group might already know why, but I'll say it again.
I believe quite a few veteran readers on Qidian know what the third of every month means to Qidian authors.
The third was basically payday. Of course, it was when the previous month's pre-tax royalties were calculated for you to look over first, then deposited into your bank account after taxes were deducted on the twelfth.
After slacking off for many days and updating diligently for a month, Li You, like many newcomers, had been looking forward to last month's royalties.
For certain reasons, I naturally wasn't expecting any so-called half-year bonus. Updating four thousand words diligently every day was solely for that 600-yuan attendance bonus.
To that end, I'd even spent 11,000 points to exchange for three leave passes.
When the royalties came out, I was honestly a little dumbfounded. Why wasn't there a 600-yuan attendance bonus? Could I have messed up an update on some day? Impossible. I added dozens or even over a hundred extra words to every chapter. Even if sensitive words had been deducted, it couldn't possibly have been that much.
I opened the records and checked the word counts bit by bit. They were right. The three leave passes were there too. So where had my 600-yuan attendance bonus gone?
I asked my editor.
The result...
I'd basically screwed myself over. My updates for two consecutive months had totaled less than sixty thousand words, so this book no longer had any benefits or guarantees.
I still held onto a sliver of hope and asked my editor whether there would be one this year.
"There won't be."
...That was about it.
Because this book's performance had dropped badly, my editor also advised me to finish it, to preserve as many