The Great God Contract was officially signed. An obsession I'd held for years was finally fulfilled.
Don't you think I'm handsome? (Doge face)
Several years ago, people were already saying, "I thought Ji Cha was a Great God ages ago. So he wasn't..." Awkward. No, I really wasn't. I never was. I don't even know how I got so famous. I was just a writer with moderately above-average results, whose strength was being relatively consistent and making a decent showing with every book. Before this, I really hadn't met the requirements for a Great God Contract.
Honestly, I thought my style had practically no chance of producing a breakout hit. Maintaining consistent results would be enough.
As for things like "half-step Great God" and "strongest LV5," even I got goose bumps reading those. I really wasn't at that level. You could say my reputation far outstripped my actual results.
But it was true that I'd been fixated on the Great God Contract for several years.
That fixation probably started around the middle to later stages of writing Seeking the Dao. Before that, I'd never thought about it. If I had, I wouldn't have been stupid enough to publish Spring and Autumn somewhere else. I still regret that bitterly.
As you all know, when I was writing Seeking the Dao, I was reported every day, and every chapter was reviewed. If something really crossed the line and got blocked, fine. The problem was that excessively strict standards created far too many unnecessary headaches.
I wrote about Qin Yi eating lingzhi, and it was suspected of being sexual innuendo and cut. Apparently I couldn't use lingzhi for alchemy in my xianxia novel!
I wrote about Liusu complaining that Qin Yi's Storage Ring was like a public toilet anyone could enter. Suspected sexual