Rebirth 08: A Happy Life Begins in Elementary School

Chapter 154 Sorry, this book has to be cut (I accidentally posted it as a VIP book, so please don't subscribe and I can't correct it).

From the very beginning, the purpose of creating this book was very simple: after writing a romantic suspense novel and being misled by online popularity, I wanted to make money.

So I came back to my comfort zone where I had already achieved good results.

The first draft was approved almost immediately, and the subsequent brainstorming went relatively smoothly, so I was quite relaxed in my writing mindset.

It's like returning to the mindset of "being satisfied with earning three or four thousand a month just by having perfect attendance," which is a relatively healthy creative mindset.

Before I started writing this book, I knew that the traffic on Qidian was not what it used to be, and the number of days for new books to be added to the database had been reduced. During this month-long new book season, it would be difficult for books that didn't have a title or subject matter that already attracted attention.

I am very clear about this expectation.

In addition, the subject matter I was writing about didn't attract a lot of readers, so I was prepared for poor performance during the initial launch period and that I would have to slowly improve my writing after the book was published.

Many readers may not be familiar with Qidian's mechanism. Generally speaking, if it's not pushed by the platform, you won't be able to see this book. There are two types of pushes: one is a fixed column display, and the other is a big data push. The fixed column is for reading follow-up chapters, while the big data push is still unclear about what it is based on.

During the initial release period, the book can be categorized into four rounds. If it performs even better, it can be strongly recommended and published on Sanjiang. When I first started this book, I never even thought it could go through four rounds.

The above all refer to fixed recommendations—the content is displayed in a fixed location for a fixed time, and the amount of traffic depends on the individual's ability.

Then there's the intelligent push, which pushes content to everyone in places like daily reading guides and "people who read this book also read this," and this traffic is controlled by the platform.

Just get a general idea. In short, this book did better than I expected during its initial release period, going through four rounds of sales, but it still only garnered less than 5,000 views. This is partly due to the book's lack of appeal and its ranking in the lower-middle range of recommended books most of the time, but this data can be seen as a reflection of the current reader churn on Qidian.

This book was released during the fourth round of subscriptions. After its release, it received over 100 to 200 subscriptions a day. Within a week, the initial subscriptions grew from just over 200 to nearly 400, which made me quite happy. The number of follow-up subscriptions didn't drop much, and the new readers brought in 20 to 30 new subscriptions every day.

If it continues at this pace, this book has a good chance of becoming a bestseller or even a masterpiece.

Of course, I wasn't that naive. After four rounds of recommendations, only smart recommendations remained, and the volume of smart recommendations certainly couldn't compare to that of the four rounds of recommendations.

However, there have been times when a new book didn't make it to the second round of sales and had to rely solely on AI promotion. The sales were as low as 30-something and as high as 60-70. Even if we maintain this number, with a certain amount of new readers every day, the average subscriptions can be written up.

I also have enough motivation.

结果呢？8月9日下推荐，收藏跌到57，尚且在我的预期之内，8月10日就剩下15了。

I thought the 15-point drop might be due to the smart recommendation system needing to restart after being recommended, but after two days of over 40 points, it plummeted to single digits, to 8 points.

I've never heard of that. I've finished more than that number of old books.

After that, it almost never broke 30. One day it would come in about 20, another day it would come in single digits, and there were even times when it came in only 2.

The average daily subscriptions are like they're being locked up by a giant hand, always ending up at around 400, or even starting to drop.

Coincidentally, a lot happened at work in August, key personnel left, and I stepped in to fill the gaps. My workload increased significantly, and the pressure on me also increased considerably.

I was just doing writing part-time. Every day after get off work, I was so tired that I had to sleep for half an hour before I could have any energy. Then I would sit in front of the computer and force myself to write 6,000 words.

The next day, I found that the results had not improved at all, because the number of favorites was only in the single digits (it is impossible to get started without new readers), and I found it hard to persevere.

This book was originally written to make money, and it's not really about self-expression. I occasionally wanted to write about happiness to see if it could touch the readers, but the data keeps telling me that nobody cares.

Writing makes money, writing to show off gets you more readers, writing about happiness causes your popularity to plummet.

A web novel, its self-expression denied, its data usage restricted—it's really meaningless.

If I were a full-time writer, I might try to write more to achieve the perfect attendance bonus, but now that I'm so exhausted from writing, my health has been off for the past two weeks, so there's really no point in pushing myself any further.

So my writing has been pretty sloppy these past few days. I've already told everyone I don't need any more monthly votes. I even applied for a leave of absence; I don't want to write even one more day.

To say I'm not a good reader, my subscriptions haven't dropped much in the week or so since the recommendation was given: If this is just the trend of intelligent recommendations, then this is the data I get when I only relied on intelligent recommendations during the initial release period; and if I'm talking about slow updates, at least I wrote 6,000 words a day before, which wasn't great but definitely not bad either.

Forget it, analysis is pointless.

Maybe I did something wrong.

To put it bluntly, I wanted to make money, but I still wrote a web novel that didn't attract many readers and wasn't really a web novel—that's my problem.

Writing a book requires patience, but combined with my exhausted and idiotic mindset this month, I couldn't hold on any longer after more than half a month of patience.

Thankfully, this book didn't receive many large donations. I'd like to thank all the readers who supported me and voted for me with monthly tickets. I sincerely apologize to everyone.

This was originally a reincarnation novel with a predictable plot, featuring a single female lead, so there was no need to even discuss the ending.

That's it. Online novels should still look like online novels.

I'll update two more chapters tomorrow. I've used a leave slip for the rest, so I won't be writing the full attendance bonus this month. Whether you read it or not is up to you.

As for the starting point, I wish you the right decision and continued success.

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