In May 2022, someone in my residential complex tested positive, and I was "rewarded" with fourteen days of home quarantine. I was the only one home at the time, and life without work was great. I spent every day playing games and reading novels, having the time of my life.
Those first few days were nice, but by day six or seven, it was starting to feel a little dull.
I also ran out of things to read around then. I couldn't find a novel I could really get into, and with many of them, I lost interest after just a few chapters. That was when I started thinking about writing one myself.
On May 7, I started writing, and that was how Poison Venerable was born.
At first, I only wanted to pass the time. I never imagined this book would one day do so well.
I was playing on a private Legend of Mir server at the time, so much of Poison Venerable's initial game framework was modeled on Legend of Mir.
But reading and writing really were two different things. As someone who had been a bookworm for over a decade, I had all kinds of ideas in my head, but when I tried to put them into words, I didn't know how to express them.
Fortunately, time was the one thing I had plenty of back then. I figured I probably wouldn't touch the book again once I got through those few days and went back to work.
Then, on the fifth day, I suddenly noticed in the stats that someone was reading my book-and they had even left a comment. I still remember that comment to this day...
"This is really good. Keep it up!"
That single comment instantly gave me endless motivation, and I