Final Thoughts

I originally wanted to reach 300 chapters so that I could finish this book and start a new one on the 30th, but I've already finished writing the last part. I thought I'd just release it all at once to avoid keeping you in suspense.

The new book will be released this afternoon. It's an urban slice-of-life story with elements of making money. If you're interested, feel free to add it to your favorites and give it a recommendation. I'll release a separate chapter after it's approved.

If you find it too long, you can skip the rest; it's a summary and reflections on the completion of the work.

It's finished. To be honest, I feel a little lost and frustrated because, just like the creator "White Shadow" in the book said, every character in the book is my hard work. If it weren't for external factors, I would have hoped that this world could continue forever.

But reality doesn't allow it; to put it bluntly, the subscription rate has dropped too drastically.

For the first two months after a new book is released, there's intelligent promotion, so there are many new readers every day during those two months. But after two months, the intelligent promotion stops, and we can only rely on existing readers. Without new readers, existing readers have to support the book, so it's inevitable that subscriptions will decrease. In addition, the app recently changed its design, removing some perks... and the subscription drop has been devastating.

The app's auto-subscription feature doesn't automatically subscribe to every chapter the author writes. It just doesn't prompt you to subscribe, but the author's subscription count only increases when you actually read the chapter. That's why you might wonder, "Why did my favorite book die even though I enabled auto-subscription?"

Only the automatic subscription on the web version allows you to subscribe to a new chapter as it's updated. For authors, nurturing a book and abandoning it are the same thing.

I know that many people are actively subscribing to the book. In the last chapter of the previous storyline, the one where Adam is defeated, there were still 600 people following the subscription. This result is actually acceptable, since my average subscription is only around 700. However, in the next chapter, the number of people following the subscription suddenly dropped by nearly 200.

I roughly know this is because a major plot point has been completed, and the author needs to gradually build up the story, so readers want to wait a while before writing more. However, the number of subscriptions for the latest chapter has already dropped below 100.

Working 4-6 hours a day for 30 days straight, the monthly royalties are less than 2000 yuan. That's less than what you'd earn delivering food.

The current effort and reward are no longer proportional, so I've decided to start a new book.

Finally, let's reflect on the book's performance.

I'm quite satisfied with the results of this book; it's much better than the 200 average subscriptions of my previous book.

The subjective reason for the failure was that the genre was somewhat mismatched, somewhere between an invincible protagonist story and a slice-of-life story. It couldn't cater to both types of readers, so one had to be abandoned. So why did they switch to the invincible protagonist style later on? Because they had more subscribers.

Every time I start writing slice-of-life content, my subscriptions drop significantly, and I lose dozens of followers. Sometimes I even skip chapters, so I've simply reduced the amount of slice-of-life content. People who read slice-of-life stories like to "grow" a book before it dies, which is why there are fewer and fewer people writing slice-of-life stories (and I'm stupid enough to start a slice-of-life story in my new book).

This is also something I feel guilty about regarding "Ye Wanqing." To increase subscriptions, I sacrificed a lot of her daily interactions with the main character, resulting in significantly less screen time for her later on. But there's nothing I can do; it's beyond my control. I'll add some more screen time for her in the new book as a cameo appearance to make up for it.

The objective reason, which is also something I regret, is that I didn't implement anti-piracy measures earlier.

Actually, even after the intelligent push was removed, there were still new readers; the number of new readers was still slowly increasing. However, they were either pure pirate readers or they would give a first subscription and then log in to another platform. Therefore, the number of favorites and first subscriptions continued to rise slowly, while the average number of subscriptions was slowly falling.

My initial subscription count is currently 2722, but 500 readers subsequently went to another site. Isn't that outrageous? Of course, the most outrageous thing is that with over 31,000 favorites, more than 90% of people are reading pirated versions.

This environment is truly indescribable.

I hope that those who run pirated websites and watch pirated content will one day remember that when the fruits of their labor are taken for free, they can tell themselves that this is what they deserve.

I hope that one day there will be no more piracy in the world; the only hope for that is for the government to take action.

So normally I should have finished writing it in February, but considering various factors, I decided to push the main storyline forward and finish it earlier. I cut a lot of side stories, such as the exploration on Mars, the third daughter of the rich list with ALS, and some side stories designed to flesh out the supporting characters.

However, every plot hole I dug has been filled, and the main storyline has been written very well according to the outline. I believe readers who have read it know this, and I have a clear conscience about it.

When I was writing towards the end, a reader said I was padding the content. I told him that it was all foreshadowing and the main plot, with no unnecessary content, but he didn't believe me and kept saying I was padding. Now, if you've read to the end, you should understand that every character, plot point, and even Superpower has a reason, right?

I have no water!

These summaries are mainly for my own reference, to facilitate gradual improvement in the next book.

Finally, thank you to all the readers who have consistently supported and followed the official version. In today's online literature world, where piracy is rampant, competition is fierce, and results are judged solely on readership and subscription, every reader who follows the official version is a treasure.

Under the current system, all future books will be written for your group of readers.

See you in the next book; I'll try my best to write something that better suits everyone's tastes.

Thank you again for your support.