When I first came to Qidian, I didn’t know the heights of the world, so I thought wildly.
Someone asked me why I chose the starting point. I confidently said that since I decided to write online articles, why should I go to the most competitive place and take the hardest beating!
That's just a pretentious tone, do you understand? It's like Jiang Wang saying "maybe it can be done".
I didn't expect to be really beaten.
And he was beaten so hard.
After two years of writing, two million words, a score of 1,700, and an increasingly shriveled bank card... I erased this arrogant idea.
When I wrote about The Meeting of the Yellow River, I finally had more and more readers paying attention to it, so I had a vague thought about it.
One is that there are too many readers. I feel like there are so many readers here overnight. So many alliance leaders, so many silver alliances, and the growing number of subscriptions give me a lot of confidence.
Another thing is that I am very satisfied with the writing of "The Meeting of the Yellow River". The volume has more than a thousand chapters and I read it over and over again.
More than a thousand voices enthusiastically discussing the plot really excited me. I saw every active reader, invested in the plot. I saw the emotions of so many people, affected by the story, and these emotions responded to the comments on the river viewing platform.
The excitement seems to be the audience's reaction that I haven't described much in my article.
My feeling at that time was very strange - the inside and outside of the book came together, and the game seemed to come alive!
I wrote a poem during the period of suffering to clarify my ambition——
"Self Title"
There was a dragon's light between the bullfights, which once shone outside the boy's cold window.
After ten years of grinding a sword in a box, the world will know the beauty of frost!
Among them, for the sentence "Should the world know the beauty of frost", I gave it to Jiang Wang during the Meeting of the Yellow River and the Sauvignon Blanc in his hands.
Everyone can see how he struggled to get there and become the winner on the river viewing platform, becoming the brightest star among the bright stars.
He won the top spot, and "" became popular for the first time. It was May 2021, and that time it was eighth on the monthly vote list.
But three months ago, it had been serialized for two years and broke into the top 100 and top 10 of the monthly votes list for the first time.
At that time, I said in my closing remarks - "Maybe... we can also see the end of the sky?"
That's my vague hope.
Over the years, we have finished tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh, but we have never been first.
I've thought about it.
I think I will finish this story slowly and well, and give it the best ending I can. At that time, I will try my best to save the manuscript early and strive to be the first.
The proof that we have walked together echoes the end of this fairy world.
June began to wind up the tenth volume, and began to let Jiang Wang carry his sword and walk back to his hometown. He once left with difficulty, but now he will walk back happily.
The monthly ticket is ninth, the monthly ticket is seventh.
I felt the readers' expectations, and I myself was driven by that emotion. I started to write more and more bursts, and until July 3rd, I finally completed the volume. I used a climax of 80,000 words to describe the end of Fenglin's old dream.
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What readers gave me was a total of seventy-one alliance leaders, plus two silver alliances. It ranked second on the monthly ticket list and second on the best-selling list.
On the night when I finished the exam, I took a screenshot of the list and posted it on Moments, saying that I had tried my best.
What I'm thinking is that this is probably the limit.
Because I really can’t write more, and I can’t write better.
I think this best-selling second monthly ticket has no chance of continuing until the end of the month. It cannot be considered a final result. It is just a flash in the pan that the plot broke out here.
Then I...went on vacation.
I'm very tired. I'm no longer the 18-year-old me. I'm already 18 years and a few months old now. It takes me a long time to sluggish after taking one exam.
When I finish my five days off——
Damn it, why is it still second on the monthly list?
During these days when I was on vacation, there were still rewards from alliance leaders, and there were constant reverberations of the plot.
How carefully you describe the plot, readers will repay you with enthusiasm.
At this time, I still had no idea.
I was just embarrassed, so I decided to grit my teeth and write more this month to respond. I would write a 5,000-word chapter from time to time, and add at least a 4,000-word chapter every week... I thought I could just get through it.
People in the alliance group keep asking me: Don’t you want to be first?
I said forget it.
They just smiled and said that it was a pity that they had a chance.
But as time went by, and they were always ranked second on the monthly list, they started to get excited.
The alliance leaders sent me chicken soup in various ways in the group, and many readers said in this chapter, in the book review area, and even left messages on my Weibo to draw me crazy cakes.
Tell me I need to roll it up.
Say something like, "You have to consider whether this is your only chance in this life," or "The first one is right in front of you. You've been writing for four years, don't you want to get it once?"
I pretended not to see it.
In the leader group, Aite and I can tolerate it.
I don't dare to reply. I can't write, and I don't think it's possible.
Mr. Di, who is responsible for recording updated posts, harassed me like crazy in private chats, asking me to reenact the activity of exchanging monthly tickets with extra when I was young. He said that he didn’t need to add much, he just wanted you to show your attitude. Maybe it would never happen again in the future.
Opportunity!
I was very moved and then refused.
I used to save manuscripts a month in advance for activities! How could I possibly finish the manuscript at my writing speed?
But then everyone in the alliance group was saying, if you say anything, Ashin, we will definitely help you fight for the first place. Regardless of whether you can fight for it or not, if you don't fight for such a good opportunity, you will regret it for a long time.
I said I couldn't argue, but they said writing a few thousand more words would be the same as killing you!
I pretended to be dead and they talked among themselves.
This person said that he really wanted to fight, but he had never been so close to the first place. The other said that the author didn't take the lead, and the fight was nothing. The other said that there was nothing he could do if he couldn't write it...
In short, it is coercion and inducement, and soft and hard work.
Finally I relented and said, let me try it.
But I can't guarantee how much it will be updated. I can only say that I will try my best to write, and I will write as much as I can while ensuring the quality.
In the update on the 25th, I also said that I hope to keep the second place. This is my biggest hope.
I went back to edit the details of the chapter on the 25th on the night of the 27th, planning to play dead until the end.
At noon on the 28th, I finally gritted my teeth and said, let’s see if we can move forward.
Then we really...move forward!
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On October 8, 2019, I published the first chapter "His Amazing Perseverance Has No Audience" on Qidian, officially starting the serialization of "".
At first I thought the title was about Jiang Wang, but later I realized that it was actually about myself.
From 19 to 21, there were two years of obscurity, from sixty to seventeen hundred.
From February 21 to June 23, he was in the top 20 of the double charts for two years, and was in the top 10 several times, and he began to be known. There were 10,000 subscriptions, 20,000 subscriptions, and 30,000 subscriptions.
In July 2023, it achieved its best results in the four years of serialization, ranking first in the best-seller list, monthly ticket list, and reading list.
There are still 9,000 achievement points left to become the twelfth five-star masterpiece in the Hall of Masters, and the first five-star masterpiece in history by a fifth-level author.
In the words of readers, this is truly the number one imperial palace in Qing history!
When the tenth volume was finished on July 3, the total order of the book was thirty-two thousand six, and the additional order was forty-two thousand.
By July 31st, the average order was thirty-seven thousand, and the follow-up order was fifty-three thousand.
In twenty-eight days, the average number of orders increased by 5,001, and this is a novel with 6.7 million words!
The highest number of new subscriptions on a day was 830,000!
What is this concept?
Well, I don’t know very well. I don’t know many people in the circle, so I have always been immersed in writing. I don’t know what other people’s subscriptions are like.
I just compare myself with myself before, and I feel... very scary.
I still remember that when it first started to gain momentum, the Caotang Literature group also revived. After two years, their attack point changed from "bad grades prove that your books are bad" to "good grades don't prove that your books are good.
"You swiped it", forcing me to be a fan of caesarean section certificates, and telling me that I can only believe you if you show me a screenshot of your subscription.
So I posted a screenshot of 100,000 new subscriptions - of course, it didn't make those idiots apologize. They changed their words and said, I admit that your readers are awesome, but I don't admit that you are awesome.
OK, if you can have so many awesome readers, at least you must be awesome at heart!
It doesn't matter whether the love is awesome or not.
At that time, I was very confident. I had never seen the market, so I felt that 100,000 new additions were too much. Maybe it was the first few in the world! Just like Zhong Liyan, I also felt that I was on par with Dou Zhao, and with Jiang
Hope it's evenly divided.
After all, I started from hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and so on.
I never thought that there would be 830,000 new additions to this day.
This is so dreamy.
Throughout July, Chixin added 129 alliance leaders and five silver alliance leaders. Among them, "livy37" rewarded two silver alliance leaders.
I still remember that the most alliance members in the past were the scrolls of the God's Arrival. After writing the Battle of Faxia, there were more than sixty alliance leaders, and this time it doubled.
The moment he became number one on the monthly rankings, the alliance was in a state of excitement!
They swiped the screen like crazy and liked me like crazy.
They said it was even more satisfying than the most enjoyable novels. Seeing the novel they had been chasing for several years go from being subscribed in the 60s to number one on the monthly list, from being unknown to being known all over the world, this feeling was so satisfying that they couldn't help themselves.
In the past few days, they have not thought about food and drink, nor have they wanted to play games. They stare at the ranking list all the time, constantly refreshing the list, counting to see how far they are, and cheering every time they make progress.
Now I want to ask everyone, the readers who have been following this novel——
Is it cool?!!
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I want to thank all readers.
I want to thank Eternal Silence for launching the general offensive, thank Empire | Qin Shang, thank YangerSun, thank Xiaofeng Hanyue, thank lialon, thank the five monthly ticket holders. Thank you to all the readers who voted for Chixin. In order to vote for Chixin, many people made extra contributions
I have ordered a lot of books, and I may not finish them all in months or years.
I want to thank No. 1 Boring, thank livy37, thank Yan Lingfeng, thank impulsive consumption is the devil, thank Xiaofeng Hanyue again, thank all the fans who are on the monthly fan list in July, and the leaders who cannot be included in the monthly list!
I would like to thank everyone in the alliance group who encouraged me hard, drew the cake for me and helped me realize it. Thank you Mr. Xiang, thank Qian Menhua, thank Eternal Silence, thank Twilight Tianqing, thank Ah Gan, thank Hou Ran
, Thank you dear friend, thank you for the dumplings, thank you Mr. Di, thank you Gong Bai, thank you footless bird, thank you Mr. You, thank you Manxi, thank you for glutinous rice balls, thank you Yunduan, thank you A Ming, thank you for braised eggs, thank you Xiao Ba, thank you Hua Shuang Yun
, Academician Wei, Ham, Que Lao, Director Shuang, Yiying Fengyun, Jian Xue, thank you haha, our Ren Xiaoyao, Dachu Zuo Guanglie, Ersan, thank A Zhan, Tongfeng, fencing, the trap of consumerism,
Qiupei, Shengming Shengming, tq, the Taoist bird travels thousands of miles, purple night, virtual glory, the beauty is soaring into the sky, fish, Mo Lao, the unity of knowledge and action, attracting wealth, Zhang Linchuan, the power of replicating the body, Meng Jieming'er...
There are too many people and I can’t stand them anymore. Let’s go back and drink Wahaha together!
My readers are so worried. They are really the only readers in the world.
Other readers only need to support the work.
In addition to supporting the work, my readers also need to encourage the author, incite the author, and give the author credit.
I was a salty fish, but they forcibly turned me over and made me jump up to participate in the swimming competition.
And we actually became champions.
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Of course, I am very sober. This time I am number one on the monthly list. It is really the right time, place and people. It does not mean that I really have the ability to win the number one now. Everyone knows why I can write so many words in a day.
As luck would have it, I just finished writing the final volume on July 3rd. The climax of the book was 80,000 words, and Chixin ranked second on both lists at the beginning of the month.
The geographical advantage lies in the fact that the best-selling store of Chixin was flashing back and forth between the first and second stores. Qidian’s annual half-price all-booking event happened to be launched, allowing Chixin to stabilize the number one best-seller, and it has continued to do so to this day.
There are several books on the Renheyu list that have the strength to dominate the list, but they have not made much effort to compete for the list this month.
What's more important about human harmony is that... all readers are working hard for this and striving towards the same goal. Everyone has been chasing this novel for several years, and they all want to win the first place. Everyone is fighting for it. The author has said these few
I write from morning to night every day, just to increase the amount of updates while ensuring quality.
This is a result that we had not thought about at the beginning of the month, and it is inevitable that sometimes we feel that heaven and earth are working together.
But I also have to understand that there is still a long way to go.
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Then what do I want to say?
Yes, you guessed it right——
[I sincerely recommend everyone to keep books.]
Only thin water can flow for a long time, chicken blood cannot last long.
Everything must still be based on the quality of the novel.
So far, I have written almost 7 million words. If it cannot have a satisfactory ending, all the difficulties along the way will be meaningless and will become a regret for me in this life.
I will definitely fulfill my duty as an author, dig holes and fill them, and I will try my best to fill every hole and write every plot well.
You can summarize what holes are left unfilled, fill them in and cross them out. Look at it again at the finale to see if I really did it.
Jiang Qingyang does what he says.
I also learn from him.
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I don't really dare to speak now, and my lovely allies have repeatedly advised me to be careful in my words and actions.
Maybe because of the redness (crossed out), now whatever I say is being carried around and misinterpreted in various ways.
For example, in June, I decided to ask for a monthly ticket on the spur of the moment, so I casually wrote a single chapter with a few crosses.
I said [I just found out that the monthly ticket rankings are already ninth in the total list. From January to May this year, our monthly ticket rankings were 11, 12, 11, 13, and 12. It’s really difficult to get into the top ten without swiping. You guys are amazing.]
Have you noticed? I am very close to the top ten every month. There is even a month where the difference is only a few hundred votes. As long as I swipe a little bit in any month, I can definitely enter the top ten.
but I do not have.
Is it because I have no money?
Based on the results at that time, if you could get into the top ten without brushing, wouldn't it mean that you have a group of amazing readers?
But in some idiots' retellings, they cross out the first part, cross out the last part, and then swear that the top ten on the monthly list are all fake.
Can you use your poor brain to think about it, even if I really want to shoot, should I pick myself out? I was in the ninth place! I didn’t shoot myself with a machine gun, right?
It’s up to you to judge whether these people are stupid because they don’t have the ability to read, or whether they are deliberately misinterpreting things.
For another example, I have always loved interacting with readers, and I have been actively replying to readers’ messages since I made dozens or hundreds of orders.
When the book "The Society of the Yellow River" was just starting to gain some momentum, someone came to the book review section and posted a post, saying, "Why do everyone say this book is very good, but I can't read it? Is it my problem?"
I wrote a message to reply to him. I said, it's not your problem. Everyone has different tastes in reading. It's not my problem either, because I write so carefully. It's just that we are simply not suitable. Excellent
There are many works, you can check out other books on the list. Best wishes.
I responded like this when I booked a few thousand, and I responded like this when I booked tens of thousands. It has never changed.
But when I placed a few thousand orders and I said good luck, they just left silently.
When I made tens of thousands of orders and I said good luck, they said I was eccentric and that I was driving away readers.
Later, I rarely appeared in the book review section.
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Finally, I remembered that in 2019, when Chixin had just serialized five chapters, someone asked with ill intentions - [How to evaluate the long fairy tale novel "" serialized on Qidian by Zhihu Users? Has it become a hit?
possible?】
Perhaps in the history of online literature, there has never been a new author with a new book that has received so much criticism just five chapters in.
From this point of view, we were first in the book very early. We were scolded as soon as we opened the book... maybe this is a good start!
I wrote this in my answer at the time -
[Internet writing is a huge market and a boundless wilderness.
In this new field, I started from scratch again. I trekked forward in an almost lonely state.
Countless authors are moving forward, and I see that many authors and works are making progress, which is the kind of leap-forward progress.
This is a process of washing away the sand with great waves. I just hope that I am not the quicksand that is eliminated.
Finally, I hope "" can become a good novel.
I will work hard, and I hope so.】
At that time they said - you are the quicksand that will be eliminated.
At that time, it was my first time to come into contact with online writers. They were professional online writers.
To this day, I still don’t know what books they wrote.
But I think they will never forget "".
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Thanks to everyone who left their names in "".
Thank you to everyone who voted monthly, thanked everyone who subscribed, thanked everyone who cheered for it, thanked everyone who contributed to this fairy world, and thanked all fan creators.
If you read this book on a certain day, at a certain moment, and say it's not bad. Even if you just say it to yourself, I would like to thank you.
——Why is love so extreme, on August 1, 2023
Haha, I went to bed too late last night and woke up too early in the morning. I was so dizzy that I almost ended up paying for it. Fortunately, I got excited!
Everyone asked me to write my remarks first, so I'm sorry, today's update will be later, moved to 8pm.
