Well, I haven't been asking for monthly tickets much these past few days because I don't have many chapters saved up. I've been desperately trying to stockpile them. Also, I basically can't write anything today, tomorrow, and the day after because I'll be running around outside. Because I was worried about running out of saved chapters and having to leave a blank space, I haven't really been asking for monthly tickets, just asking for recommendation tickets…

But seeing the third-place spot rising so quickly… I can't just sit here and do nothing, right?

So, starting from 2000 monthly tickets, I’ll add an extra chapter for every fifty monthly tickets. The usual two chapters a day will remain the same!

The subscription numbers for this book are much better than for "Legend," so thank you all for your support. Subscriptions are the foundation, like a country's league. Monthly tickets are the national team.

Our league is on the right track, so we should give everyone some expectations for the national team, right?

So!

Begging! For! Monthly! Tickets!!!

It's double monthly ticket time right now, so fifty monthly tickets are equal to twenty-five monthly tickets.

I think I'm being generous enough, right?

Out of the top fifty on the Qidian monthly ticket chart, how many people update as much as I do? So don't say I update slowly or that I'm not being fair. I've been averaging 20,000 words of updates a day these past few days. Is that slow?

Having saved chapters is just in case something happens, because it's impossible to sit in front of the computer and crank out five or six chapters every day. What if my condition isn't good? What if I have to go out?

I'm the kind of person who needs to have saved chapters to be in the right state of mind, because maybe while I'm writing, I'll realize that I didn't write a certain part of the plot well, and I'll have to go back and revise it. If I write and post immediately… I guarantee you that what you see will be a disaster.

Also, let me talk to you about the issue of "padding." Some readers have said it in the book review section.

Actually, I don't think so. Right now, there are at least three thousand words per chapter. Three thousand words is enough to tell the story in a chapter. If I were writing five thousand words per chapter like I used to, I would basically have to think about how to make it up to five thousand words after writing about three thousand.

Now I don't have to do that. Each chapter is more concise, and the plot is tighter—the off-field stories aren't padding, but one of the essential parts of this book. No player just plays soccer and doesn't live their life, so no soccer novel that only writes about the games and never writes about the off-field parts can be good or attractive.

Writing a novel is actually about shaping characters, shaping characters through countless stories. How can you shape characters just through games? It can't be done, so you have to shape them through off-field stories. That way, everyone can see a vivid Chen Hero, as well as his equally vivid teammates.

Let me explain to you, the balance of relaxation and tension is not padding, and the players' colorful lives are not padding. Some friends say, "You can say everything in this chapter in one or two sentences, but you write thousands of words." You're right, those one or two sentences are the "central idea" and the "core theme," but if novels only rely on the core theme to tell stories, they'll be dry and tasteless. Is that still a novel? I write "Chen Hero scored twice in the game, and the team won," and I write every game like that in one or two sentences. Would everyone like to read it? Definitely not.

So the same goes for off the field: "Chen Hero picked up a girl, and they went to bed," "Chen Hero picked up another girl, and they fought three hundred rounds all night"... Would everyone like to read that? I think they definitely wouldn't like to read it either.

So rich details are the key to the success or failure of a book.

Of course, I will pay attention to this rhythm and not let there be too many off-field scenes, which will affect the main theme of the competition, but I will not let there be too much competition either, and write endlessly about one game after another for millions of words.

I think that I, who have written novels for eight years and more than 20 million words, can still do this, right?

Taking advantage of the opportunity to ask for monthly tickets in a single chapter, I'll chat with you about this and that. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to read my complaints.