Uh, I checked my royalties today and suddenly realized I was missing a thousand yuan in full-attendance bonuses. Then I asked my editor and abruptly discovered that the vast sea had turned into mulberry fields—Qidian had changed its rules.
The main thing was that I'd been writing this book for several years, and it had a huge word count. Though it was flooded enough to drown Jinshan Temple and dragged like a mule, there was plenty of it to fill you up. With group channels and free-content revenue, it brought in several thousand yuan at its best; even at its worst, it added up to over a thousand yuan. Together with subscriptions on this site and the full-attendance bonus, it was still all right.
Laziness got the better of me, and I'd gotten used to lying flat, so I muddled through for years without paying much attention to anything else. I'd also been writing like a single-player game, practically cut off from the outside world—including my editor.
I looked through the records, and my most recent conversation with my editor was in 2023. Damn, I panicked so badly.
Over the past two months, I switched to a new map, and the channels and free-content revenue had been getting worse and worse. Subscriptions weren't doing well either. This book had truly entered its final days.
Then the new system took away that thousand-yuan full-attendance bonus—a straight-up fatal blow. This book will be finished, and it probably won't be dragged out for too long.
Because I need to prepare a new book.
Actually, when I recently started the new map, I wanted to find my footing again. Unfortunately, I didn't find it very well.
As for the new book, I spent all day today working on the outline. It'll still be wuxia.