Yesterday, the author wasn't in the best state and may not have explained some things clearly, which led to a few misunderstandings. Let me go over it in detail here.
First, the ten updates at the beginning of next month are fixed, and it's more or less an established convention, so I didn't mention it yesterday.
In other words, according to the author's plan, there would first be ten updates on September 1st, followed by a fully subscribed bonus chapter roughly equivalent to five updates. This was a benefit from Qidian's Light of the Great God event for all fully subscribed readers. As long as you had fully subscribed, you could read it without paying anything extra. It's just that I kept putting off writing it, so I figured that no matter what, I had to get it written by the 1st.
Second, with the ten updates expected on the 1st and the fully subscribed bonus chapter still to write, I definitely wouldn't have the energy to make up any more updates. So I thought I'd count the four updates I owed as being made up on the 1st. In short, of the ten updates on the 1st, four would be make-up updates, four would be regular updates, and two would count as extra updates.
Of course, I could say that what I owed wouldn't be counted among the ten updates on the 1st, but unfortunately, after looking at the current situation, I felt that if I did that, I definitely wouldn't be able to pay it all back. If I couldn't repay it, then puffing myself up to look bigger than I was and claiming I could would feel pretty bad too—not to mention that I'd definitely end up owing more in September.
So after thinking it over again