The book was about to go premium, and I wasn't sure what to say. I felt rather emotional all of a sudden. So much had happened in these two months of writing. Writing books and reading them really, truly were two different worlds. Let me take things one at a time.
1. Why go premium now?
Qidian's rules required books to go premium at 300,000 Chinese characters, and this one had already passed 250,000. I chose October 1 because starting on the first meant having a full month, which came with certain benefits. The book would definitely pass 300,000 characters by mid-October, so the recommendation was to go premium on the first. I uploaded this book on August 1, and it would go premium on October 1. The dates looked nice and tidy, too, haha.
2. Why didn't I use the golden three chapters?
As someone who had read on Qidian for twenty years-I registered on June 9, 2003-I certainly knew about the so-called golden three chapters. Everyone had seen their advantages.
But what about their disadvantages? In my view: first, the formulas for the golden three chapters got old very easily. Forgive my dull brain, but I couldn't think of one. Second, you could polish those three chapters, but if the transition afterward was poor and the quality of the following chapters dropped too sharply, everything would collapse, seriously affecting the book's performance. Third, as far as I knew, some readers didn't care for the golden three chapters, so they might actually have the opposite effect. Fourth, the golden three chapters were a model for showing off and face-slapping, speeding up the pacing. Personally, I preferred leaving trails like snakes slipping through grass and faint lines in ash, with hidden threads stretching a thousand miles. This book was planned