Chapter 152: Record the contract application status and subsequent arrangements

Record the contract application status and subsequent arrangements.

After reaching 700,000 characters, I applied for a contract and, as expected, was rejected. This was perfectly natural, with no surprise and no extra thoughts.

Considering that this book is basically unlikely to be signed (a contract wouldn't even buy a pair of socks), and that all my writing motivation comes from interest (self‑indulgence) and the recommendations and follow‑reading of good friends, I feel it necessary to write in my own way, to continue the self‑indulgent and faithful‑to‑the‑original fan‑writing approach, so as not to hinder these original intentions; I think some adjustments are needed.

Specifically, the following changes will be made going forward.

One, give up daily updates, no longer assigning myself daily tasks; my ideal state is weekly updates.

Two, restore the length of the book's earlier chapters, aiming for one chapter per character perspective, with each chapter containing a clear story, clues, and plot‑advancing content.

Three, strengthen the POV writing style, strengthen the content I am interested in, namely strengthen the self‑indulgent quality, so I can write happily.

Four, a change that isn't really a change: I retract the promise I made earlier using the Qidian server as proof; the server is just a dead object, I will use my own ideals as proof.

Max Weber mentioned a concept in his book *Leisure: The Basis of Culture* that I strongly agree with; it says that people do not live merely to work, but they must live for their own work.

This book is my own work.

Unfortunately, over the past period I felt I hadn't done this work well, writing much that I myself was not very satisfied with; I think this is completely treating my work as if it were work for Qidian, taking daily updates as a compulsory task, while I lacked the ability to unify the two.

Thus, this situation has caused at least two problems: first, my rest time has decreased, affecting physical health; at the same time, the work is unpleasant, affecting mood, and sometimes also affecting confidence and the determination to persevere; second, the quality of the work's output has declined, not only dissatisfying the original readers but also myself, which is most unacceptable.

Having explained the problem, I think these adjustments are very reasonable, right?

Thank you to friends for their continued support. That's all.