The book is finished-scatter the flowers~
Scatter the flowers~
Flowers~
After sleeping for a whole day and night, I finally felt human again.
First, let me report the results to you, my dear readers. This book started with around 2,600 first-chapter subscriptions when it went premium and finished at 16,000... for me, that was soaring into the sky in a single leap, a wish fulfilled!
After twelve years of winding my way through web fiction, I, Xiaolou, finally earned the first ten-thousand-subscription badge of my writing career. The joy and emotion behind that are truly hard to put into words.
Thank you all so very much for supporting me along the way.
(Those of you who have been here since "From Big Shot to Martial Arts Alliance Leader," check in here to mark the occasion!)
(Those of you who have been here since "The Human Way Endures," check in here to mark the occasion!)
(Those of you who first hopped aboard with "Peach and Plum Blossoms in the Spring Breeze, a Cup of Wine," check in here to mark the occasion!)
I am also deeply grateful to every editor who has guided and looked after me.
And finally, I thank myself for sticking with it...
Now, back to this book.
First, I admit that the final word count was indeed a little low. I apologize to you all.
According to the outline I had when I started, this book should have run to around two to three million Chinese characters.
But as I wrote, I often received messages and comments from longtime readers saying that the later parts of my previous two books were a little too oppressive, and that neither protagonist seemed to get a very good ending.
At first, I disagreed. Personally, I felt that Zhang Chu and