The book goes premium tonight at midnight (the start of the 1st). Activation on the backend might be delayed by a few minutes.
For the release, I'll post two chapters straight away at midnight, then one each at the usual times of noon and 6 p.m., for a total of four chapters and ten thousand Chinese characters that day.
For the next few days, I'll try to keep up three chapters a day... let's see how many days I can manage. Scratches head.
Sure enough, Chu Ge's explosive output was just a lovely fantasy for an old, flagging man.
I've called this my first single-heroine novel, but that isn't quite true. My debut, many, many years ago, had a single heroine, too. But by today's standards, that book was full of deal-breakers. Dead female supporting characters and every other sore spot-you name it. It's unreadable now.
So this really does count as my first attempt at a single-heroine story, and I'm very nervous.
A lot of people thought the opening read like an autobiography, but it really wasn't.
That's because the opening, all the way through the part where Zhang Qiren was reported and went home, was written at the end of 2017, four years ago now.
At the time, another website commissioned a "realist short story." Yes, this opening was originally written as the beginning of a short story, and a realist one at that, using material gathered from people and things around me. But the website later changed its mind, and the opening was shelved.
Two months ago, I was looking through my old drafts and suddenly thought, this opening is pretty good. Instead of realism, reworking it into a full-length webnovel seemed like it could be quite interesting.
Since the protagonist was a writer, a sudden flash