Final Thoughts

It was finished. I'd written it for nearly two years, and it was finally complete.

For a moment, I was filled with a jumble of emotions and didn't know what to say.

First, let me report the results. This book came to nearly 2.7 million Chinese characters, making it my second-longest work, surpassed only by Hero System, which I wrote when I had just arrived at Qidian.

As for its performance, there was no need to say much. At 2.7 million characters, it surpassed one hundred thousand peak subscriptions. Even by the time it ended, the average subscriptions had not fallen by much, remaining at around fifteen thousand. It was my best-performing work.

To be honest, with results like these, I didn't want to finish it. As long as it remained unfinished, it could keep receiving recommendations, and every month I could earn a manuscript fee that was extremely substantial to me. If I could, I truly would have wanted to keep writing forever.

But there was no way around it. Writing novels required passion, and I was someone who could not adapt to work that repeated itself endlessly. The same plotlines, the same formulas—writing them too many times made me sick of them, even nauseated, and instinctively resistant.

That was also the main reason I got stuck. I didn't want to write the formula of leveling up to beat crayfish, then leveling up again to beat more crayfish. It wasn't just a hurdle you readers couldn't get past—I couldn't get past it myself either.

But then again, innovation was never so easy to create. It wasn't just that I couldn't think of anything; with me getting stuck every day, you probably weren't satisfied with certain instances and plotlines either.

In the end, it was painful. If I forced myself