When I wrote the three words "the end" for the whole book, the feeling was strange. There was no reluctance to part with it; instead, there was a sense of release and relief. It was completely different from when my first book, Great Overlord System, ended.
There were many reasons for that. The main one was probably that my first book had only average results, yet it contained so much emotion—and first times always carried something special.
Didn't this book have its own first times? It had plenty.
For example, my first Sanjiang Recommendation, my first Homepage Strong Recommendation, my first Grand Seal Recommendation, my first premium work, my first time exceeding ten thousand high subscriptions, my first Monthly Ticket Bonus...
So many firsts proved one thing: its results were genuinely good.
Strictly speaking, Supreme Constable was far inferior to those hugely popular breakout novels. On its best day, subscriptions probably only exceeded thirty thousand and fell short of forty thousand. Yet for this author—this Layman—it was more than enough to leave me completely satisfied.
In my view, in terms of commercial achievement alone, this book far surpassed my first one. That was progress, and progress made me happy.
But there were regrets as well. The pacing in the middle was poorly handled. I pursued update volume too much and started letting myself run wild. It became hard to return to the state I had at the beginning, and the more I wrote, the farther I drifted. The later stages completely lost the feeling of the early stages. That was my first regret.
My second regret was that updates in the middle and later stages became truly weak. By now, I had probably accumulated too many owed chapters to count. I was buried under debt.
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