First, I'd like to thank both new and old readers for your support. Since I'd only just arrived at Qidian, I wasn't really sure whether this book's performance was good or bad, but I personally felt it was pretty decent. Truly, thank you all for your support.
It went premium with 28,000 bookmarks. Not reaching 30,000 still felt like a bit of a shame.
A lot of new readers have been asking about my previous books, so let me introduce myself first.
The author's first book, "Sword in Naruto," was completed at 2 million words and 720 chapters.
My first book was purely a work of passion in its early days. If I went back and read it now, I'd only find it unbearably pretentious and artsy. Back then, what dark, grim stuff was there? I liked every character in Naruto. The only person I hated was that old bastard Danzo. All I wanted throughout the book was to write bonds and friendship properly, yet readers ended up calling it "Gay in Naruto," and I got criticized for that for quite a long time.
But there were still people in the reader group who said they really loved my Sword in Naruto, which made me very happy, because I liked it myself too. I can't write that kind of prose filled with love for Naruto anymore now. (Laughs.)
I was still in high school when I wrote my first book. Every day, I secretly typed beneath my desk on my phone during class. My deskmate asked what I was always fiddling with my phone for, whether I was writing a novel or something. I was too embarrassed to admit it back then. Everyone else was busy studying, while I alone was doing something so unproductive, so I told her I