Ch. 1101A new world: after ten years as a flop, I transmigrated into my own novel!
Ling Yi looked back on his decade as an unsuccessful webnovel author, from his early failures to the guidance that helped him earn a living writing. After Dolphin's restrictions and Taozi's departure ended his last published novel, Ling Yi kept writing privately while building a business.
- Ling Yi recalled discovering webnovels through pirated books and flopping with three million-character novels because he favored traditional prose over storytelling.
- After losing his job in 2011, Ling Yi decided to write full-time, and Dolphin editor Taozi taught him how to outline and engage webnovel readers.
- Ling Yi published Player Hunter, his first novel to earn money, then wrote five more novels at Dolphin and gradually made a modest living.
- Dolphin forced Taozi out and imposed tighter restrictions and reviews, so Ling Yi abandoned his final novel after about two hundred chapters.
- Ling Yi partnered with others to run a company but continued writing in the evenings, producing five or six unpublished novels over the next seven or eight years.