First, let me report on the results. This book began with its first chapter last September and ended today, after eleven months and a total of 1.95 million Chinese characters. I was not especially diligent, but considering that I had a full-time job and writing was only a side gig, with only the occasional chance to sneak in a little writing during slow hours at work, while most of it was done after work and on weekends, producing this word count probably still put me among the more hardworking authors on Qidian.
To be honest, I never expected this book to make it this far. If you guys checked the milestones in this book's honors section, you would know that from its release in September until October 18, a full month and a half later, it had only accumulated 300 bookmarks. Then, before it officially went VIP on November 1, it only had 1,300 bookmarks. That was only because Editor Ruoye gave it a launch recommendation before it went premium, allowing it to gain that many bookmarks. With that number, I had originally expected only a few dozen average subscriptions and planned to finish the book in three months.
But unexpectedly, as soon as it went premium, it got over 200 first-day subscriptions, with a subscription-to-bookmark ratio as high as one in six. For a fanfiction novel, that was an absurdly exaggerated figure.
After that, the numbers kept soaring. In less than a month, they rose to over eight hundred, then broke one thousand, fifteen hundred, and continued all the way to today's completion.
The book's average subscriptions officially reached 2,237, while its peak subscriptions hit an even more outrageous 11,701. Generally speaking, peak subscriptions are only a little more than three times the average, so my peak figure really