we are the champion!
No. You are the champions.
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I never thought I could get first place.
Not that I've never thought about it.
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.
To be continued...