Well, this one was written as a VIP chapter because only readers who would spend money on this chapter would take what I wanted to say seriously. (This chapter has nothing to do with the plot, it is recommended to use the bonus subscription)

If it were to be published in the public section, 100 percent of the people mentioned in the article would jump to their feet in anger and insult me.

Then the following is the text:It has nothing to do with the plot.,It's mainly related to the current state of the book and some updates.,Those who aren't interested in these can see it here.,You don't need to subscribe.。

Of course, if you want this book to be written, I still want you to read it.

That way, at least when I give up, you'll understand why.

The event, called the Stellar Hour, which started from June 17th to September 10th, has never ended, and has caused great damage to the rights and interests of the authors, including me.

Strictly speaking, this is a breach of contract in disguise.

But there's nothing I and most other authors can do about it.

Because without me and without you, there are still countless new people who want to become a family one after another.

There has never been a shortage of talented people in China, but it is a pity that serious writing can be popular, and it was completely outdated ten years ago.

The current major online articles are all commercialized. Assembly line production, assembly line screening, an editor takes care of hundreds of authors, and there is no guidance and communication about writing at all, which is very different from the scene where the editor and the author work together to manage a book and the editor excavates a certain book.

The home is free-range, self-reliant, and then if there is a certain popularity, the starting point is the icing on the cake.

The relationship was weak at the beginning, but the conditions for signing the contract were not.

Signing up with the starting point basically means you're tied up here, and you can't rewrite the book anywhere else, whether you have a future or not.

If you leave and go to another platform, then you are better off staying in obscurity, because once you become famous, the starting point will be a lawsuit asking you to pay a lot of liquidated damages.

So I've always thought that this site should be preceded by the word "strangle".

In all fairness, I can understand the purpose of the starting point. I have also been involved in some business operations, so I understand the option of a business website to recover the maximum benefit with the minimum operating cost.

But as China's largest online platform, it should take on more and social responsibilities, leaving something more meaningful in addition to what is produced on a commercial assembly line.

For people who want to write books seriously, a living space.

There are starting points in the past, and that's why I'm still here for so many hits.

Then it was bought by Tencent's China Literature.

And what has to be mentioned here is the cancer in the hard-hit area that has always existed in online articles.

Piracy issues.

Naturally, China Literature had no intention of letting them go.

But if you go outside, you must first settle inside.

After drastic changes, changes in editorial transfer standards, and many things were corrected, both good and bad, China Literature started to do it.

The previous starting point has also been done many times, but all of them have failed.

You must have heard the story of Dayu's water control, and the example of his father's failure in front of him was the behavior done at the beginning of the past - blindly only knowing how to block, using all kinds of anti-theft measures to prevent piracy.

But for me, and for us writers, it may not be considered a real "failure".

In any case, this behavior is doomed to failure.

Because as long as there is an audience, as long as one day, there are still a large number of people who take it for granted that reading books without spending money, piracy, there will always be a market.

No matter how hard they try to prevent theft, they will still find a way to find a leak to get into. So no matter how you try to block it, it will still fail in the end.

Until Tencent took over.

Most of the people who read this chapter will have played Tencent's games.

For example, the CF of the Great Fire Special Fire.

Personally, I still remember the Internet cafes full of scenes of elementary and junior high school students who swindled money from their parents and bought 30 yuan a month membership just to kick people and the privilege of being famous.

Tencent always knows what its users want.

And pirated users, no matter how many words they say such as "the starting point of the reading experience is very poor" and "the server is always a big aunt", in the final analysis, there is only one eternal reason for choosing piracy.

"It's free. ”

Therefore, Tencent chose to abandon the pawn to protect the car.

We, the authors, are outcasts.

The Hour of the Stars event, which has been running for three months now, now looks more like a test of the waters than a one-off reward.

The starting point uses the official free chapters to attract readers who watch pirated copies, and the subscribes of these free coins don't get a penny.

- "Wait," you might say, "But isn't that a loss from the starting point?"

No, it's not like that, dear.

Have you ever thought that rampant pirated websites have to spend money to steal genuine books and then give them free reading, the cost of operating the website and the subscription funds, have they been paying out of their own pockets to give to everyone?

-- The source of income is the flow of people.

After the traffic that clicks into the website is high to a certain extent, placing an ad can easily reach millions or even tens of millions of income.

I'm sure you've noticed the ads everywhere on various pirated download sites and reading sites.

That's what they make a lot of money from.

And the traffic of these users is exactly what the starting point looks at, and they are not willing to give these to pirated websites, compared to the part of the money from genuine subscriptions and rewards, it is a small head, and it can be given away at will.

In the war of starting points and piracy, we were sent to the front as unwilling and unwitting cannon fodder.

And what makes me feel like I'm speechless when I think about it.

If they can taste the sweetness of this thing, then.

Why not keep doing it?

The Hour of the Stars is a summer event that doesn't end until the end of September, but then October is the National Day Golden Week.

After that, the days that could be carried out were one after the other.

I hope that I am thinking too much, and I strongly hope that this thing is only temporary, and that it will not be restarted later.

But let's be honest.

You guys.

Do you believe Tencent?

Many authors at the same time as me, faced with this matter, chose to resist the number of words and stop the change.

And China Literature's response was to ban it directly with a wave of its hand.

I'm sure you've noticed that a lot of books have gone missing for some reason.

It is said that it is a clean network, but the more radical description of the book that is quite popular is intact, and in the final analysis, only the book that is not harmful to cut down by low popularity will be "collateral damage".

When I came back to my senses, I said a lot.

Miserable as those of us are, there are never many choices in front of us at the end.

If you are squeezed out of value by the platform, you will also be blamed by readers.

Recently, I have another reader in my book group.

When I joined the group, I said that I had just watched the beginning.

My book group is set up with Q&A, and the questions are linked to the latest plot, because I hope that the people who come to join the group are people who have read books well.

And he's not, he skipped the plot and clicked directly on the latest chapter, just to find the answer to join the group.

It is impossible for such an impatient to take my book seriously, and naturally it is impossible to take my situation seriously.

Sure enough, when he mentioned the issue with the update, I said that an announcement had been made to explain it, and he said, "I didn't read it." ”

The tone is quite aggrieved.

But I wrote it there, you don't read it, and then you came to ask me.

......

This is also the reason why I will post VIP in this appendix, because only the reader grandfather who will spend money to subscribe will take what I want to say seriously.

After my reader explained that the current situation led to a lack of desire for an update, he said something that any creator would hate so much.

"See if you have a dream. ”

Dream.

Dream.

When it comes out of your own mouth, it may be some kind of emotional and uncontrollable, noble word.

And when it comes out of someone else's mouth, it often means that you want to give hard without any conditions and without asking for anything in return.

I have personally seen two examples of a "big fan" who begged the artist for a painting, and after receiving a reply from the artist who clearly marked the price, angrily cursed his painting as "a dream that cannot be seen from above, and it is all copper-smelling garbage."

And another big fan of the cartoonist, after his comics became VIP works and were put on the shelves for a fee, threatened to kill him, and said that those who agreed with him would go up.

And I think the coldest thing about this cartoonist is probably that.

This comment was topped to the top of the list.

Do you have a dream, if you have a dream, you should go hungry and work hard.

I don't have to give you any support, and I don't even spend money to read your books, but you have to work hard all the time, because if you don't do that, you're a person without dreams.

Well, I call this dream kidnapping.

And it stands to reason that people who keep talking about their dreams often never really work hard for the meaning of the word.

I'm tired.

Since the campaign started on June 17th, my subscription has been declining every month.

Last month, I managed to organize my thoughts and convince myself, save up the manuscript, and insist on stable updates.

And the income has slipped to less than a third of what it was before.

That's why I hardly want to renew this month, but I changed it anyway, and then I watched as the subscription continued to slide and couldn't do anything.

Some readers accused me that it was because I wasn't enough, and when I got enough, my subscriptions wouldn't go down.

Oh, yes.

So what kind of standard is a lot?

I changed it to a daily update, and he said that I had too few words and too few chapters every day.

So when I achieved 10,000 more words a day, which most people can finally agree to be "more", everything is still declining?

Who will pay for my efforts?

Surely it's not him.

All he had to do was open his mouth and accuse me of not doing enough, and I had to work hard day and night to meet that standard.

As for the returns, no one will give you any guarantees.

He just draws a big pie and says you're not trying hard enough.

After all, blaming things until you didn't work hard enough will always be great.

I'm tired.

Over the past two weeks, the average daily sleep time has been 3 hours.

It took me 5 hours today to finish an 8,000-word chapter, and if you've noticed, it's all late.

It takes a very, very lot of energy to deal with this episode, and coincidentally, I don't see any signs that can be called heartwarming.

I don't have a lot of things to do, I don't have the time or energy to do anything other than write a good book.

I don't want to write a story that I'm not happy with and send out to fool people, because the money you subscribe to doesn't come from the sky, so I've always wanted to make sure that you feel like you're worth the money.

But it could be.

That's wrong.

......

......

If you can, I hope that there are friends who have seen this chapter and are still using the bonus subscription text, and change it to a real currency subscription.

Even if 1 coin is used in a chapter, the subscription will not count.

I can only ask that I cannot change your will, and that those who take it for granted that they are free and do not spend money will always find a reason to be at ease.

I'm still going to keep writing because that's the only thing I can do now.

No matter what the situation is, no matter what the road ahead, I have only one choice.

So, if this book means something to you.

Just take action.

Hope for the best， prepare for the orst， and take hatever comes.