Since Chapter 1, "The Dying Man," was released on April 25, 2021, and Chapter 3241 on March 17, 2025, nearly four years had passed, and Murmuring Chapters had officially reached ten million words. Four years ago, Xianyu came to Qidian from another website with an uneasy heart, carrying the expectations of old readers and the curiosity of new ones, and began a brand-new writing journey.
Murmuring Chapters performed poorly in its early days. It did not make it onto San Jiang, and the editor directly asked for it to go premium. I still remembered that it had 1,423 first subscriptions when it went premium. Although the results were poor, they were five hundred first subscriptions better than Lord of the Mysterious Realm, so I promised everyone that I would keep writing until it was finished—and here we are now.
Along the way, thank you all for your support. Today, four years later, this book's average subscriptions had reached 11,850. That number represented the affection of every reader.
Some readers probably knew that I was still studying. During the serialization of Order's Edge and Lord of the Mysterious Realm, I went from undergraduate studies to a master's degree; during the serialization of Murmuring Chapters, I went from a master's degree to a doctorate. Part of why I began writing was my love for web fiction, and part was because I did not know what the future held and wanted to find myself a source of income. If Murmuring Chapters had not continued to grow during my master's program, I might not have been so determined to pursue a doctorate. This book and all of you changed part of my life's trajectory, and I was proud to have written it.
Now, my doctorate was about to conclude—assuming nothing went wrong with my