A Not-So-Prudent Decision About the New Book

Hello, everyone, I'm Gui!

A belated New Year's greeting to all you esteemed readers!

My back injury healed up last month! I took some concentrated time off, and now I've started keeping my sitting posture properly upright and working hard to protect my writing schedule!

Here's to writing for another thirty years!

I didn't idle away my time while bedridden either. The worldbuilding framework for my next long xianxia novel has already been set up.

The new long xianxia novel is a variation on urban cultivation, with a humorous light-comedy style. But it still hasn't been fully settled. I've already scrapped over a hundred thousand words through revisions and thrown away more than a dozen opening concepts. I'll keep cutting and revising until I'm satisfied before releasing it!

After thinking it over again and again, I made a decision that went against my wallet—before releasing the long xianxia novel, I decided to put out this short sci-fi story first.

Short, I say, but it's actually still over two hundred thousand words long.

Let me say something from the heart.

The novel "Afterglow" is quite important to me.

I wanted to explore where the boundaries of Webnovel's inclusiveness lay.

I wanted to see whether a novel like this—polished over and over, only a little over two hundred thousand words long, yet absolutely complete in its characterizations and plot—could survive in the Webnovel environment.

But making a decision like this inevitably meant taking on enormous risk.

When "Afterglow" reached one hundred thousand words, meaning halfway through, it would be put up for paid subscription. If the subscription numbers were too dismal, my subsequent long xianxia novel might not get much in the way of recommendation resources.

That was pressure I had no way of avoiding. Dian Niang's recommendation system now relied on