I failed the third round of recommendation rankings. There were too many big-name authors ahead of me, so I never got a recommendation slot. I can only put the book up for sale now.
Honestly, reaching this point has left me feeling incredibly conflicted.
By collection count, this book ranks second from the bottom among the six books I've put up for sale.
The one at the very bottom was my first contracted book, which I put up for sale seven or eight years ago. It was a Naruto fanfic that's been blocked now.
That was my novice effort when I first started out. It got single-digit paid subscribers for its first chapter, and it ran for 700,000 words, with an average of just over a hundred paid subscribers per chapter.
My second, third, fourth, and even fifth books all had their ups and downs, but before they went on sale, they'd all had at least 13,000 or 14,000 collections. The best-performing one, Cultivation Starting Three Years After Transmigration, had 60,000 or 70,000 collections when it went on sale.
It wasn't until this sixth book, right before it went on sale, that I'd barely passed 5,000 collections.
The gap was just too big.
Honestly, I'd been writing this book with quite a lot of passion.
I planned out the plot in advance every day, and put almost all my energy and enthusiasm into writing. I revised the chapters over and over, and the discarded drafts had added up to more than 20,000 words.
But there was nothing I could do. The numbers just wouldn't improve.
It made me start doubting the story I was writing.
Was Shen Changchuan's story any good? Could I even keep writing it?
Sometimes, I wanted to give up.
But could I really say there was