I started this book at the end of March last year, and while I'd written plenty of retrospectives, it seemed I'd never actually reported on its performance.
I saw quite a few fellow writers bring this up, so I thought I'd talk with everyone about it too.
The book began at the end of March last year and went premium at the end of April. Its follow-up readership was too poor, so it didn't make it onto Sanjiang. It only completed four rounds of recommendations, though I remember its bookmarks were decent at the time—just over ten thousand before it went premium.
As for the first-day subscriptions—I still remembered them with absolute clarity.
With just over ten thousand bookmarks, it only had 358 first-day subscriptions, a brutally bleak bookmark-to-subscription ratio of over thirty to one.
For an experienced author who had previously written both major premium hits and premium hits, seeing those first-day subscription numbers would, in all likelihood, mean choosing to drop the book.
There was no other reason for it. The numbers were too awful, and one's Dao heart would crumble.
But I chose another path.
Because I believed that what I wanted to write was an exceptionally wonderful story!
Just like my next book, I had already decided what it would be about, and it would still be an exceptionally wonderful story.
The facts proved that my judgment had been right.
From more than 300 first-day subscriptions, it had now reached 8,000+ average subscriptions—a twenty-threefold increase in performance.
Many book-analysis creators on video sites even treated this book of mine as a template for the mortal-cultivation genre, breaking it down for teaching purposes—which truly wasn't something I had expected.
Of course, this book's current success was entirely thanks to the support of all you fellow Daoists. If