Seeking Monthly Tickets, and... a Few Words from the Heart

I'm asking for monthly votes, and also... I want to say something from my heart.

We've fallen out of the top ten! So sad!

But... the loss was a bit unfair.

Why?

Huan Yan is focused on staying in the top ten, as this is an unprecedented honor. So she's been posting non-stop every day, begging for monthly votes... I bet you guys are tired of seeing her asking for votes, right? Haha, definitely.

But there's nothing I can do; Huan Yan really wants to be in the top ten.

Therefore, the update speed is also very impressive. Looking at Starting Point, apart from that 'freak' Lao Ying, this book has surpassed all other authors in terms of updates in the months since it was released!

When it was released in July, it had 200,000 words; now it has over 1.6 million words, less than three months later, it has reached over 1.4 million words...

In terms of updates, we are truly "below one book and above ten thousand books".

Our sales are also doing well. Since the latter half of last month, we've been consistently in the top ten of the sales charts, and at that time, our word count was the lowest among the top ten, just over a million.

So at the beginning of the month, some Starting Point users didn't even glance at the book's content before starting to curse, accusing me of vote rigging. I was furious.

Why should I?

We update daily and ask for votes, and our sales ranking is always in the top ten, but our monthly votes can't be in the top ten?

What's the logic behind this?

Isn't a monthly pass only obtainable through spending? If we've spent enough, shouldn't we get a pass? That doesn't make sense!

So Huan Yan was holding her breath and dared not let up!

I went to the hospital for a colonoscopy and gastroscopy. I didn't eat for two days, and I felt nauseous after the procedure. I didn't take any time off work. The most I ever updated was 9,000 words that day. Yes, 'only' 9,000 words.

Until two days ago, our monthly ticket ranking was still in the top five, and Huan Yan was happily thinking that this wave was in the bag, with tenth place being seven or eight thousand votes behind us.

When I got off work tonight, I checked... wow, it's already the 11th?

Upon closer inspection...

Oh, so it's double monthly tickets (suddenly realized)!

That's where the problem lies.

Huan Yan updates every day and asks for votes every day. She has said "even just one vote" many times. Brothers and sisters have already voted for us!

Where can I get tickets at the end of this month?

One of their cards is equivalent to two of ours. If we don't go down, who will?

Actually, we should have held back and used up all our energy during these last three days of double monthly passes, but we've already used it all up...

The saying "One effort, then a decline, then exhaustion" roughly means this, but we should also add "Tian Ji's horse racing strategy."

People who didn't put in any effort before are now putting in the effort.

It's not that my brothers and sisters weren't supportive, but rather that Huan Yan was too naive and foolish; it's my fault.

The previous book was released last December, and this book was released this July. So far... I haven't experienced October 1st on Starting Point, and I didn't even know there was such a thing as double monthly tickets.

So it really is Huan Yan's fault. If only I had known... Unfortunately, I didn't know that sooner.

This time, it seems unlikely that we'll be able to break into the top ten.

However, we still need to ask for a few monthly votes. It's too much of a loss to exchange large sums of money for votes, so please don't do that. If we have extra votes, we'll cast them; if not, then forget it.

As for the final result, whatever position we get, that's fine.

There will be plenty of updates as well.

Even if we don't make it into the top ten, we won't give up. We'll do what we're supposed to do. We promised a minimum of 15,000 words this month, and that's the minimum...

I've been a bit nagging and complaining.

Haha, Huan Yan was just too unfamiliar with the rules. If there's a next time...

We certainly won't make that kind of common-sense mistake again.

Too inexperienced, too newbie.

But then again, isn't he just a newbie? He's written over four million words on Starting Point (some chapters have been banned), and it's been less than a year.

Okay, enough chit-chat.

Sorry for taking up everyone's time, that's all for now.

Finally, thank you to everyone who voted for Huan Yan, tipped her, commented on her posts, or subscribed to her account. It is your support that has brought Huan Yan to where she is today.

Also, thank you to the Operations Officer - Under the Eaves, for their dedication, and thank you to the voice acting masters, such as ' Half Cultivation ' and ' Yu Ling Ling Ling ', for providing the voice for our Zixiao...

Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Yours sincerely.

September 28, 2020, 20:25:46 Holmium

Huan Yan