As the title says:
The first volume was finally finished. From its overly literary beginnings to now, it had reached 900,000 Chinese characters.
Those early, overly literary sections took up far too much of that.
If I followed the outline I had now, the first volume would actually be only about 300,000 characters.
Looking back, Little Rui made plenty of mistakes in the first volume. Even so, some readers kept quietly following the story and supporting Little Rui. I'm truly grateful to you all!!!
Take Wu Ming, for example. I was trying too hard to be literary back then. Looking at it now, I shouldn't have written that part the way I did. Xiao Ling should have crushed him to death on the spot!
There were plenty of other places where Little Rui got too literary, including that long stretch of everyday life after Jia Nan Academy's recruitment... Looking back, the first volume was a pretty rough, inexperienced story.
It had a lot of shortcomings!
Little Rui also knew that some readers stopped reading there.
But Little Rui couldn't blame them, because the writing really wasn't good enough!
Little Rui could admit when his work fell short. Nobody was perfect, after all. All Little Rui could do was improve as he went.
But those of you who kept reading could probably see that Little Rui improved quite a bit toward the end of the first volume, right?
Of course, it did get a little simplistic. I'll admit that—but I was writing an easy-to-read webnovel from the start.
There are five more volumes to come, totaling roughly 700,000 characters. Little Rui will do everything he can to tell one exciting story after another.
I hope you'll give Little Rui another chance. This time, Little Rui will do his best not to