Mm, This Book had grown much longer by now—over a thousand chapters before I even realized it. As for its results, its first-subscription performance on QQ Reading was fairly decent.
At the beginning, updates for This Book had been very fast. Now, though, it had settled into three chapters a day, and I basically didn't take days off.
But This Book was in a somewhat awkward position now: the further I wrote, the harder it became to write. Even I felt that some parts had become pretty padded.
I roughly summed it up, and the key reason was probably that the power scaling had started to collapse. Although I'd been holding back the Protagonist's realm, for various reasons, he could accomplish a lot of awesome things despite not being at a high realm. There were even many Ancient God King Realm experts appearing directly. Normally speaking, Ancient God Kings should have been very rare.
But there was No Way around it—it was a power fantasy. I'd gotten too carried away in the early parts.
And at the root of it all, once the system had been activated, it became too overpowered, and the Protagonist became too absurdly strong. So later on, I deliberately avoided activating the system. You should all be able to tell—I was intentionally holding the system back from activating. It wasn't that I had no ideas for New System options; it was just that, honestly, more New System ideas tended toward Daily Life. But if I wrote too much Daily Life now, it would look pretty padded too.
Back to the most important point: what I'm struggling with right now.
It was the issue of New System.
A lot of readers said, "The Protagonist is so weak. He relies on the system for everything. Can't you let