I was halfway through writing when group messages bombarded me. That was when I noticed even the website page had updated. I'd been completely immersed in self-satisfaction, bragging with people for half an hour. I'm truly ashamed.
How should I put this? I found myself caught in emotions unlike anything I'd ever felt before.
Back when I was still a struggling little author, whenever I ran out of books to read each year or didn't know what to write, I would browse through the Twelve Heavenly Kings list and look at the hottest genres of the time. Yet I never once imagined that one day, I too would be among them.
Of course, I knew very well that this Heavenly King title did not belong to me alone—it belonged even more to every one of you in front of the screen. Your votes, subscriptions, and comments lifted me onto this list. Without your companionship and tolerance all the way here, there would be no me today.
The tension in my heart suddenly melted away.
I'm rambling a little. Even I don't know how to explain it, but these are truly my feelings. It was like after accomplishing something huge, I suddenly became lazy, my spirit relaxed, and I didn't want to do anything. Even though I had actually known this news for a while, when I truly saw it, it still felt like a dream.
So I stopped writing the fourth chapter halfway through.
So let me be willful this once—there will only be three updates today. The missing fourth update will be posted tomorrow. I still have to rush out the door... Unbelievable. I really became a Heavenly King.