My setting is above yours!

Chapter 32 Remarks on the launch
It will be available on July 30th.

By the way, I'd like to thank the author who gave me a thumbs-up:
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Next is a brief post-launch message; feel free to skip if you're not interested...

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To be honest, I didn't know what to say at that moment.

I've written a launch message many times before, and I've long lost that initial enthusiasm. I no longer toss and turn at night like I did five years ago because the day before the launch was going to be released.

But I was still deeply moved.

I think everyone can see that although I am a new Lv.1 account, I am not a novice author.

The book I wrote is next door, by Hakimi the thorny one. I won't say what it is, it just exists here as a backdrop.

Since my last book, which sold over 10,000 and reached a million subscribers in early 2024, has not produced any new content.

I've come up with about a dozen or twenty ideas, and I've probably written two or three hundred thousand words of introductions, but none of them have been published.

It's not that those ideas weren't fun; it's just that I felt my writing was inadequate, and I was stuck in a state of self-doubt, spending every day polishing a draft in an attempt to make it better.

However, after working on each idea for a month, my enthusiasm for it would inevitably wane, and I would eventually give up on it completely and seal it away in my writer's assistant.

...But people still have to live.

I'm a full-time writer, and being out of work for over a year is a terrible thing for me—in this day and age, suddenly having no income is like hell.

Because I can't even afford my mortgage! As time went by, I became increasingly anxious, feeling like I was about to rot away, when suddenly a realization dawned on me—

Since things are already like this... will your life get worse because of sending out a book?
So I forced myself to start a new round of creation.

After spending half a year polishing it up, writing tens of thousands of words of setting outline, and revising and scrapping 50,000 words of manuscript, I finally produced a 20,000-word opening and submitted it to the editor.

I would like to thank my editor, Mingyue, for waiting for me for so long.

A year and a half ago I told him I was going to come to Qidian, but it took me a year and a half to finally submit the manuscript to him. He's a top-notch procrastinator, which is quite remarkable.

Then, open the book.

Ignoring grades and everything else, focusing solely on the stories I wrote each day, I gradually regained my rusty writing skills and began producing content regularly.

Perhaps it's because the daily task of writing updates takes up too much of my time, I no longer have time for self-doubt...

This actually made me feel much better.

It's been over a year since I last had a break, but I've finally overcome my self-doubt and struggles and embarked on a new creative career.

Perhaps because I haven't produced anything substantial in over a year, my creative desire has increased dramatically compared to a year and a half ago, and my mind is now full of stories!

There's no need to say more now that things have come to this.

I just hope that the stories I write next will be something you can read during your leisure time, find interesting, and have a good laugh.

I really hope you all enjoy this story.

2025/7/30
After the rain in Dongshan
(End of this chapter)