Last Day of the Monthly Ticket Bounty!

Look closely, this Xixi Dog has actually set up a bounty.

[October Illustration Bounty]: All monthly votes received from October 1st to October 31st will be converted into additional illustration funding from Xixi Dog's own pocket at a 1:1 ratio!

[For every 1000 monthly passes, Xixi Dog will spend an extra 1000 yuan, rounded up.]

For example, if I receive 10,001 monthly votes throughout October, I will spend 11,000 as the total budget to commission illustrations.

The only thing I can offer as a bounty right now is illustrations. I've already paid back/owed 64/132 chapters, and I'm certain I won't be able to pay them all off by the time the series ends. After it finishes, I'll have to write an entire free side story for volume eight to make up for it. I'm really scared of owing chapters. If I open another bounty for extra chapters... volume nine? I'm afraid they'll just create a second part...

So maybe the monthly ticket bounty for the illustration version isn't as exciting as the bonus chapter bounty (Xi Zhi is trembling with fear), but I only dare to open bounties on the premise that I can actually win them. I won't take a single monthly ticket from you for free, so please feel free to vote!

Finally, here's a mysterious picture (Teacher Cui's miracle).