2025 was about to pass in the blink of an eye, and we were about to welcome 2026.
Looking back and counting carefully, from July 23, when the book went premium, to today, it had been 162 days.
During that time, Tiger had updated a total of 1.815 million Chinese characters, averaging more than ten thousand characters a day.
I had only taken three days off in total; on two of those occasions, I still updated six thousand characters, and there was only one day with no update at all.
Honestly, when I looked back at that output myself, I felt I had really gone all out.
Writing ten thousand characters a day was not difficult. The difficult part was writing ten thousand every single day and keeping it up.
This book's results had been fairly good as well. Average subscriptions had reached thirty thousand, daily sales had basically stayed within the site's top twenty, and last month, it had often squeezed into the top ten.
The one slight regret was that the monthly ticket ranking had never climbed very high. The highest it ever reached was around thirteenth or fourteenth place.
I had never made the top ten. Tiger did not hope to stay in the top ten all month, but I did want to see the view from there. So, for the first month of next year, I'm asking for monthly tickets at the beginning of the month! I hope to make the top ten at least once!
With so much updated every day, oversights and little problems were inevitable. I was truly especially grateful to every reader who pointed out mistakes. You were an important pillar supporting me so I could keep writing.
I remembered one time when an operations manager asked me, "You update so much—why