First, reporting that I'm safe. There's no power, but everyone's fine. Updates will resume tomorrow.
After a brief period of chaos, we got settled again yesterday.
A lot of absurdly funny things happened in between, but I can't talk about them. If I did, this chapter might be gone.
I could have updated yesterday, but writing in the same room as my wife and child made it impossible to calm down, so I took another day off.
Let me talk about this book's progress.
When I looked back over the previous chapters last night, I realized that after deciding some time ago to wrap it up, the plot had suddenly sped up.
"Reborn to Ride the Tides of a Great Era"
So I wanted to slow down again and write the ending properly.
This book's ongoing subscriptions were actually absurdly high—105,000 within twenty-four hours. King Spare My Life had 38,000, and The First Sequence had 21,000. Some people suggested I should pad it out to ten million words and make a good profit, but I still thought the integrity of the plot mattered more. Starting some cosmic conquest arc would be pretty ridiculous too.
So, it would definitely end this year, though I wasn't sure exactly when.
Then let me address an issue that's recently been raised collectively in "other places."
Some people said The Talking Elbow's content had become incoherent, with the beginning and end of sentences not matching up. Let me explain once and for all: this was Qidian's anti-piracy measure.
When pirated sites scraped the content, they would scrape antonyms instead. For example, "Qing Chen liked Yang Yang" would automatically become "Qing Chen hated Yang Yang."
So please try to read the official version. The original release platform is the Qidian app. Of course, I won't force