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Chapter 82: Thoughts on Going Premium

It’s finally time to go premium!

This book was first published on March 7th, and tomorrow, April 16th, it will go premium.

The new book period wasn’t short—40 days.

Although I said I was a newbie with only one book under my belt, everyone already saw through me thanks to my Lv. 5 author status, hahaha.

Alright, I admit it, I’m not a newbie. I’ll stop pretending. I’m laying all my cards on the table.

I’ve written a book before—my first one in the industry. It was nearly 4 million characters long and did pretty well.

For certain unspeakable reasons, it got axed.

After that, I spent a few years writing on other platforms, and my results there were also decent.

But after drifting around for so long, I started to feel homesick and wanted to return to where it all began.

Qidian felt like the one that got away.

Coincidentally, my Gold-tier Editor, Fuchen Ju, had also sent me many WeChat messages asking me to come back to Qidian and start a new book. We hit it off immediately.

I’ve actually known Fuchen Ju for several years now. We had dinner together in Shanghai back in ’19. He’s a great guy, very patient.

He would reply instantly to any questions I had, big or small, and he helped me a lot during the new book period.

He told me, "You haven’t written on Qidian for a few years. Even though you’re a veteran author, you don’t have a reader base here, so you’re essentially starting over as a complete newcomer."

That’s also why I called myself a newbie, hahaha.

But Fuchen Ju was right. Without a reader base, this book’s initial performance was actually just average.

Fortunately, with the strong support and companionship of all you bros later on, the book’s performance started to pick up.

It made it through every round of PK, all the way to the end, and even got a Sanjiang recommendation.

We were even just over 100 concurrent readers away from getting the "Little Loudspeaker" recommendation.

It reached as high as #12 on the overall new book rankings and #4 in the Urban category.

And today, the number of ’collections’ just hit 20,000.

I’m already very satisfied with these results, especially for a ’total newbie’ like me, hahaha.

However, this is all data from the free-to-read period. Starting tomorrow when it goes premium, this will all be in the past.

After it goes premium, what really matters are the actual, tangible subscriptions.

As for the idea for this book, it actually came to me randomly one night when I was suffering from insomnia.

It’s very abstract, very zany, and the premise is pretty out there.

Although it’s fun, it’s actually quite difficult to write.

Because I have to come up with all sorts of plot twists, and they have to be interesting and fresh.

Thinking up twists every day is seriously making my hair fall out.

So, if you bros have any good suggestions, feel free to post them in the comment section or join the fan group to discuss.

The group ID is in the novel’s synopsis. You can join with a Fan Value of >1, which you can get by subscribing to just one Chapter or giving one monthly pass.

Besides the plot twists, daily life and the female companions are also indispensable parts of the story.

The contrasting Xia Shiqing, Pan Kejia who wants to beat Xia Shiqing at everything, the overly eager-to-improve Feng Yu...

...and the female characters who have yet to appear, and so on.

I will do my best to write each character with their own distinct traits, so they don’t feel like one-dimensional stereotypes at first glance.

I’ve said a lot, and there’s still much more I want to say, but I’ll keep it brief due to space constraints.

Anyway, it goes premium tomorrow at midnight. The night owls among you will probably be able to read the new Chapters before heading to bed, haha.

As for the release, there will be a guaranteed burst of 6 Chapters (4,000 characters each), which is equivalent to 12 Chapters of 2,000 characters.

After that, I’ll be updating with 3 Chapters daily, around 10,000-12,000 characters. It’ll definitely be a large volume to keep you satisfied and give you a great reading experience.

Finally, I won’t say much more. Just two words.

Please subscribe!!!

To all the bros who subscribe, I wish you the same fate as Chen Mo: to have bad luck every day!

When bad luck strikes, you’ll hear a ’DING!’

And when you hear a ’DING!’, your fortune will turn around!

For any bros who are planning to leave, considering this book has been with you for 40 days, I hope you can at least give a ’first Chapter subscription’ to show some support.

After all, this humble author has lost a fair bit of hair over it, hahaha.

A thousand words can be summarized in a few sentences.

Thank you, bros, for all your support and companionship along the way. I hope we can continue this journey together.

Let’s witness together what other abstract and unfortunate events Chen Mo will encounter.

Let’s walk alongside Chen Mo together.

I hope everyone subscribes!!!

And if you have monthly passes, please don’t hesitate to smash them my way!

My deepest thanks!!!

P.S. Lastly, I want to thank my Gold-tier Editor, Fuchen Ju. He has been a huge help in getting this book to where it is today, and I am very grateful.

I also want to thank the authors who gave this book a Chapter recommendation during its new book period.

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