So much happened this year, and I went through so many twists and turns. There were bumps along the way, and several rises and falls, but Octopus made it through all the same. Looking back, even the biggest troubles were no trouble at all, because you were always there by my side. It was precisely the support of enthusiastic readers like you that allowed Octopus to keep going down the path of web fiction.
Octopus had not touched historical fiction for years. Returning to it after so long, I was inevitably a little rusty, having grown used to telling stories set in the modern world. After these past few months of settling in, I finally recaptured some of the old feeling. In fact, Medical Dominion was a story I had thought up long ago. The original story was very complete, but once I put pen to paper, I discovered that it had veered far from its original course. Octopus's outlines have never exceeded three hundred characters, and they have never been anything more than window dressing. Still, the one thing Octopus can guarantee is that the story as it stands will be much more exciting than what I originally planned.
This book made its exclusive online debut here.
I have forgotten how many of my books have received a front-page recommendation, but this certainly will not be the last. When Three Palaces, Six Courts, and Seventy-Two Consorts, which I wrote nine years ago, ended, its average subscriptions per chapter had already exceeded ten thousand. Had it not been censored, that number would probably be even higher today. On the occasion of this front-page recommendation, I want to make a wish: may Medical Dominion's average subscriptions per chapter soon exceed ten thousand. Judging by its current performance, that should not be