A Note After Finishing the Book

I've finished another book.

Now for my mea culpa:

I wrapped this book up a little hastily, but honestly, I didn't have much left to write.

If I'd carried on, the story would have started to resemble Master Huo's, and I ran into some problems with the plot.

To be honest, this book had a disastrous start.

When I started writing it, Tomato was running an event to support Western fantasy, so I came running over in my excitement.

Only after I started did I realize the reason they were offering support: Tomato's Western fantasy stories weren't getting any traffic.

Master Huo's story had also been Western fantasy, but it wore the trappings of a modern urban high-martial-arts setting, so it got more traffic.

That's why Charles had a difficult birth from the very beginning. The book got no traffic, and I could only rely on the support of my longtime readers.

The first time it was recommended, it only brought in a little over two thousand new readers, and then the traffic kept dwindling.

Some people advised me to drop it outright, but I thought I'd keep going. I wrote until it reached five hundred thousand words, then got a second recommendation.

This time it got a little more traffic, and that was what let me keep going.

But in truth, compared with other books, the traffic was still negligible.

I ran into quite a few problems while writing, too. Neither of the two arcs I started got a good response.

Maybe it was because the book wasn't making money, but I didn't have much inspiration.

So in the end, I started the Abyss journey. More people followed along after that, which showed that you still liked reading about this sort of thing.

However, it was easy for it