With You All the Way

I have always wanted to save time and write more chapters to make it up to everyone, but real-life trivialities have kept delaying me.

Whether at work or in daily life, I face all kinds of pressures—sometimes to the point where I feel my spirit is on the verge of collapse. There are days when I rush home past eleven at night, and as you know, the update is settled according to each day’s midnight. This means that if I continue writing, I’ll break the streak, so I can only take a leave of absence to maintain the continuous update status.

I know that this forced, barely-sustained update schedule is a negative and unhealthy approach, but sometimes I simply can’t accept breaking the streak. I have put in the effort, stayed up late to write, and yet, because of life, I can’t do what I truly want.

When I can’t update and lower my head to request leave, I even feel as though I have no credibility, that I’m shameless… It takes me about two to three hours to plan and write a chapter, so if I can’t start writing by nine in the evening, there’s a chance I won’t make the deadline.

This is, in fact, the work I have poured the most heart into so far. Whether it’s popular or not, whatever anyone says, I truly don’t want to write carelessly just to get by. I feel that if I did, I might as well not write at all—it would be unfair to both the readers and myself.

I want to achieve three or more updates a day to make it up to everyone, but after numerous attempts, I’ve found that, except on rest days, if I start writing as soon as I finish work, I can manage at most two chapters.

Yet even getting two chapters out is rare—there are always people I must meet or frustrating matters that arise, leaving me feeling pained and weary.

Eventually, my word count failed to make up for everyone, and I couldn’t even maintain daily updates. Now that I finally have a chance, I want to write some extra free chapters for you all as a gift to those steadfast readers who never gave up on me.

Because once the main story is put on the shelves, it’s not allowed to remove paid chapters intermittently, so I can only use the extras to tell stories not mentioned in the main plot.

Sometimes I truly feel lost, unsure whether what I’m doing is right or wrong. Many times, I don’t even dare to look at the comments below.

Perhaps it’s a guilty conscience… I hope this work gets better and better. Maybe this is as far as it will ever go, but I will still finish it with care, updating whenever I have any free time.

Thank you all, truly, for your enduring support and for holding back your anger without scolding me. Thank you for your forgiveness.

In the end, thank you for being here with me all the way, every step of this journey.