Year-End Summary + Leave Request

It's New Year's Eve today, and I wanted to chat with everyone. Updates should resume on the 2nd. I've been very busy these past couple of days, so sorry, everyone!

Before I knew it, I'd been writing this book for nearly a year. It started in 2021 and has now reached the end of 2022. Today is the final day of 2022!

This book was originally supposed to end in late October, but I never expected it to be delayed again and again until December.

I'm extremely grateful to the readers who have followed this book over the past year or so. It was your clicks and readership that allowed this book to make it through the recommendation process.

From the start of this new book to its current nearly two million words, I've gained a great deal. It's no exaggeration to say that this book is my first real book.

I truly began writing in August 2021, when I started an alternate-history novel on another small site. It ended hastily and poorly after three hundred thousand words.

Still, that book was the stepping stone to my writing career, and it was also my first book. But this one is my true first book in every meaningful sense!

I started writing this fanfiction on Kunlun at the end of September last year, after a sudden flash of inspiration, thinking that I'd sign a contract if I could.

With that mindset, I published it on September 29, 2021, which happened to coincide with the seven-day National Day holiday, when the editors weren't working.

That was why this book couldn't be submitted for a contract until the 8th, the contract process wasn't completed until the 15th, and I only truly saw this book earn money on the 17th.

After that, I kept