March had thirty-one days.
I updated 390,000 characters.
The update volume was fairly decent. Of course, everyone also gave me a generous return.
Without any double-vote event, I received over thirty thousand votes—six thousand more than last month. That proved I was stronger than my last-month self. It was quite satisfying.
Thank you all for your support.
As for April, there were indeed two matters to deal with, so it was certain that April's updates would fall short of March's—by quite a lot, I expected.
More than ten days ago, my wife said she had dreamed about our son. She began missing him, then started making all sorts of fuss, insisting on dragging me along to visit him.
I thought, Why not go, then? I hadn't gone out to have fun in several years. It was just right for a road trip along the way.
So I agreed.
From that point on, I hadn't dared ask for monthly votes. I hadn't even dared open a single chapter asking for votes during an outburst, afraid that I would rack up too many debts and, if I couldn't repay them, inevitably earn my brothers' resentment.
The monthly-vote ranking was certainly important. But the fairness everyone wanted was even more important to me. That was only natural.
Then, after this happened several times, people in the group asked me, "Why haven't you opened a single chapter asking for votes during the outburst? Aren't you playing the game?" So I told them the truth.
I also casually mentioned at the end of a chapter that they could vote for other books instead.
But the moment I said that... you all suddenly got fired up.
And so...
I gained several more alliance leaders. What nearly killed me—though I was secretly delighted—was that I even gained