Big! Featured! Promotion!

Yesterday, I got in touch with a friend I hadn't chatted with in a long time. (Actually, I was his fan.) We had a pleasant bit of mutual promotion.

He was one of the authors who first introduced me to web novels.

Although I'd started reading all kinds of long, shoddily printed web novels back in middle school, I didn't truly encounter a living, breathing author until I met this friend.

Back then, because I loved his novels, I was so excited that I went to an internet café and stayed up all night writing fanfiction for his novel in the Book Review Section. It was fewer than two thousand words, but it got featured! I clearly remembered how excited I was—my scalp went numb, and my hands were shaking.

It was the feeling of being recognized.

Now,

"My Best Friend Transmigrated" had received a major featured promotion.

He said, "Anyway, getting a major featured promotion is something worth celebrating. It proves that the site has commercially acknowledged you through your writing. Keep working hard from now on! Yeah! Keep it up!"

But what made me even happier was receiving recognition from an author I liked once again.

And,

This time, I received that recognition from an author I liked as an author myself!

That made me really happy! Then, during our mutual promotion, he sent me a screenshot: "I recommend an old friend's novel called..."

No!

Wait a second! Old friend??? Bro!

When I became your fan, I was only in my second year of high school, while you were almost done with college! I was still a young guy in my twenties now, okay? I was very young! He said, "Then should I recommend a kid's novel instead? Wouldn't that be even worse?"

What was wrong with being