At 1.2 million words, and a gold giveaway for monthly votes!
This book would probably reach its conclusion in June.
Taking this opportunity, I wanted to give everyone an update.
First, let me introduce Love Letter Teacher's proudest achievement.
As of March 31, Love Letter Teacher had successfully completed the great challenge of charging only eleven times in March. The sheer difficulty and hardship involved surely made Love Letter Teacher's iron-like self-discipline plain for all to see.
I won't elaborate on that point. All I can say is, those who know, know.
Next, regarding the novel:
So far, this book had reached 1.2 million words, with 7,500 average subscriptions and 21,000 peak subscriptions. Last month, it even climbed as high as second place on the light novel bestseller rankings.
How should I put it? It wasn't up, but it wasn't down either.
Everyone knew how difficult it was to write a single-female-lead story, and how hard it was to make one long. In pursuit of "pure love to the very end," Love Letter Teacher had not added a single ambiguous romantic interest for the male lead. There wasn't even a true "second female lead."
Other romance novels either added a childhood-friend losing heroine as the second female lead, or expanded the plot through romantic arcs for other supporting characters.
But our book had none of that!
Pure love to the very end, in the truest sense.
Even Xu Yong and Su Ran's romantic arc, which quite a few readers had expressed interest in, wasn't explored in depth. Plotlines that could easily have padded out another hundred thousand words were only touched upon in passing, with the focus kept entirely on the male and female leads.
For me, telling the story of those two well was enough.
But the cost of