I originally had no face to post this standalone chapter, because I said before that even if I started a new book, I would not use this pen name anymore.
But when I started this new book, my plan to use an alt account was rejected by my editor.
"No need!"
Those were my editor's exact words.
He was right. Since I had decided that my new book would still be a Mortal Cultivation Genre Family Cultivation story, with my writing style, once it got recommendations later on and the word count rose, old readers would definitely recognize it. It would truly be like stealing a bell while covering my ears!
Since I felt guilty and did not dare face my old readers, I needed to think of how to make it up to them.
And the best way for an author to repay readers was to write a good book, and finish a book!
If I truly wanted to gather popularity again and rebuild my reputation, then I needed to write another completed long-form masterpiece like Desert!
So starting this new book was truly like smashing the cauldrons and sinking the boats. No matter what happened, I could no longer waver in my resolve to finish it!
Actually, I had originally wanted to save this standalone chapter until the new book went premium!
But now that quite a few readers had seen that I started a new book, I felt that posting it early or late seemed to make no difference.
First, I want to apologize again to the readers who followed Qingyun and Abandoned Cultivator before. Both books disappointed you, and neither made it to the end like Desert did.
As I said before, there were many reasons, but the biggest reason was still myself.
At the time,