When my editor told me I would be getting a major featured promotion on Qidian, I found it a little hard to believe, because I had already had one last year, and this would be my second.
An even bigger surprise followed right on its heels. When my editor also told me I would be getting an all-channel promotion on December 2, I was stunned. Likewise, I had already had an all-channel promotion last August, so this would also be my second.
I had been given two opportunities each for the biggest promotions on Qidian and QQ Reading. I didn't know what to say.
For wuxia fiction, an unpopular category of novels, this was simply rather hard to imagine.
Especially since, when Free and Easy Sect first became available for paid reading, its performance was very poor, with only a few dozen subscriptions.
It had been a little over two and a half years since I started posting the book in late March 2014. At the beginning, because the novel had so few subscriptions, I could only earn the full-attendance bonus, so I had thought about giving up many times.
But everything that had happened now made me glad I had persevered back then.
Over those two and a half years, the site's editors were divided into teams, giving greater support to the unpopular wuxia category. The most obvious change was the increase in all kinds of promotional slots. Promotions that wuxia novels had never had a turn at before were now available, and this also gave my book's performance a considerable boost.
Even now, I still found it a little hard to calm down. All of this felt like a dream.
Perseverance matters. Persevering does not guarantee success, but without perseverance, success is impossible.
I counted myself among the