Chapter 621: A Single Chapter to Ask for Official Subscriptions

A single chapter to ask for official subscriptions.

I am asking for support through official subscriptions in this single chapter; the 24-hour total subscription count has dropped to four or five hundred again, and as a veteran author, I know exactly what these numbers mean.

To be honest, with these current numbers, my monthly royalties plus the perfect attendance bonus barely reach a thousand yuan, which, for a professional writer, means there is fundamentally no need to keep writing.

Several veteran authors I have known for years in the group chat have all advised me to start a new book directly, or to continue double-updating like before, updating two books at the same time.

I do not have that intention for the time being, because I want to finish this book for myself and for my father.

The idea for this book popped up accidentally when I was chatting with my cousin before the 2017 Spring Festival, and then I threw myself into creating it.

Later, because the book's performance was not very good, with the 24-hour total subscription hovering between seven hundred and one thousand, although it was my first time writing pseudo-sci-fi, I knew that this kind of performance was clearly a flop.

Coupled with an invitation from an old editor friend at the time, I simply went to an outside site to double-update and mainly wrote a buyout book there.

At the end of April this year, my new book's performance on the outside site was poor, and I cut it after 160,000 words.

At that time, I actually hadn't thought about finishing this book seriously and was preparing another new book.

Because piracy here on Qidian is too severe, for a writer like me who relies purely on subscriptions and has no other channel income, the income and effort are simply not proportional.

So, the updates at that time were basically one chapter every few days; I never asked for subscriptions or tips, and it didn't matter if readers read pirated versions, I just treated it as entertaining myself.

On May 13th of this year, my father passed away from a heart attack.

While organizing his belongings afterward, I unexpectedly discovered that my father's phone had the Qidian Reading app downloaded on it.

I knew he never read novels, so when I curiously clicked on it, I discovered that the only book saved in his app was my "Transformers: Starting from the Beginning".

There were still over four thousand Qidian coins in the account, and seeing that many of the subscribed chapters hadn't even been downloaded, he must have topped up one hundred yuan and just left it on automatic subscription.

It was precisely this unexpected discovery that made me pick this book back up.

I want to finish it properly, to make up for my past abandonment, and also for the support of my father and more official subscription readers.

I never ask for tips; not giving them is a duty, and giving them is a kindness.

But an author also needs to eat, and there have been many things going on at home recently, with money needed everywhere.

With my update volume this month, everyone can finish reading it by topping up ten yuan, and there should still be about three hundred Qidian coins left; please smoke one less pack of cigarettes and support the official subscription.

Dingdian