In the blink of an eye, True Immortal had been online for a full year. So much had happened over that year. By the time I made up my mind to take the webnovel-writing path, True Immortal had already reached four million characters. A miracle! I could hardly believe I'd actually stuck with it.
But I wasn't the sort to abandon things halfway through. Although True Immortal's results had never been good, I really loved this story I'd been writing, True Immortal's Fate.
Yes!
It had plenty of problems, plenty of shortcomings. I knew that.
But it was precisely because I loved it that I could keep working hard at writing, without dwelling on the results or the income.
Of course, the love and support of readers who'd stayed with me all along-like Currently Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation, Old Zhou Old Zhou, and others-along with Small Bottle's enthusiastic help, also kept me going. (All right, I only remembered the readers who posted often. My memory wasn't great...) And of course, there were all those readers who quietly supported me through subscriptions, monthly votes, and favorites. I was truly grateful. Without you, at the very least, I couldn't have kept writing with that same passion. There was also the support of everyone reading on mobile, especially the help of the three moderators: Xiao Ya, Young Master, and Dragon's Grandson.
My luck really had been rotten these past few days. I'd kept up ten-thousand-character updates for thirty days, and I'd finished the writing, but the chapters hadn't been published successfully. That was mostly my own fault.
All right!
There went five hundred!
Things had come to this, and there was no saving it. Gone was gone! Even though I tried to console myself that way, it still hurt like cutting into my own