Thoughts on the First Place in the Three Lists

We...are the champions!

No. You are the champions.

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I never thought about getting first place.

Not to say I never thought about it.

When I first came to Qidian, I was still ignorant of the world, and I thought about it.

Someone asked me why I chose Qidian. I confidently said that since I decided to write online articles, why would I come to the most competitive place and get the hardest hit!

That was just a pretentious tone, do you understand? Just like Jiang Wang said "maybe it's worth it".

I didn't expect to get beaten.

And I got beaten so hard.

After two years of writing, two million words, 1,700 subscriptions, and an increasingly shriveled bank card... I wiped out this arrogant idea.

When I wrote about the meeting of the Yellow River, I was finally paying attention to by more and more readers, and I thought about it vaguely.

One is that there are too many readers. I feel that so many readers came overnight. So many alliance leaders, so many silver alliances, and growing subscriptions gave me great confidence.

Another reason is that I am very satisfied with the writing of The Meeting of the Yellow River. The final volume has more than a thousand chapters, and I read it repeatedly.

More than a thousand enthusiastic voices discussing the plot really excited me. I saw active readers, who were devoted to the plot. I saw so many people's emotions, who were moved by the story, and these emotions responded to the excitement on the Guanhe Terrace, as if they were the audience reactions that I did not describe too much in my article.

At that time, my feelings were very novel - the book and the outside of the book converged together, and the game seemed to come alive!

I wrote a poem during the torment period to express my ambition -

"Self-title"

There is a dragon light between the bull and the fight, which once shone outside the cold window of the young man.

Ten years of sharpening a sword in the box, it should let the world know the frost!

Among them, the sentence "It should let the world know the frost" was given to Jiang Wang during the meeting of the Yellow River, and the long Xiangsi in his hand.

Everyone can see how he came here with difficulty and became the winner of the Guanhe Terrace, and became the brightest one among the bright stars.

He won the championship, and "Red Heart Sky Tour" became popular for the first time. That was May 2021, and that time it was ranked eighth on the monthly ticket list.

And three months ago, Chixin Tianxun, which had been serialized for two years, broke into the top 100 and top 10 of the monthly ticket list for the first time.

At that time, I said in the closing remarks-"Maybe... can I also see the end of the sky?"

That was my vague hope.

Over the years, we have won the tenth, the ninth, the eighth, and the seventh, but never the first.

I thought about it.

I think I will finish this story slowly and well, and give it the best ending I can do. At that time, I will definitely try my best, start saving manuscripts early, and fight for the first place once, as a proof of our journey together over the years, to echo the end of this fairy world.

In June, the tenth volume began to be wound up, and Jiang Wang began to carry his sword and walk back to his hometown. How difficult it was for him to leave, and how he would walk back in a hearty way later.

The monthly ticket is ninth, and the monthly ticket is seventh.

I felt the readers' expectations, and I was driven by that emotion. I started to write more chapters, and finally finished the final volume on July 3. I used 80,000 words to describe the ending of Fenglin Jiumeng.

And what readers gave me was a full 71 alliance leaders, plus two silver alliances. It was the second on the monthly ticket list and the second on the best-selling list.

On the night of the final volume, I took a screenshot of the list and posted a circle of friends, saying that I had done my best.

What I thought in my heart was that this was probably the limit.

Because I really couldn't write more, and I couldn't write better.

I think this second best-selling and second monthly ticket will never last until the end of the month. It can't be considered the final result. It's just that the plot broke out here and it was short-lived.

Then I... went on vacation.

I was very tired. I am no longer the 18-year-old me. I am now 18 years old and a few months old. It takes a long time to be depressed after each roll.

After my five-day vacation-

Damn, how come I am still second on the monthly list?

During the days I was on vacation, there were still constant rewards from alliance leaders and the aftermath of the plot.

How carefully you describe the plot, the readers will respond with the same enthusiasm.

At this time, I still didn't have any ideas.

I was just embarrassed, so I decided to grit my teeth and write a little more this month to respond, write 5,000 words from time to time, and add at least one 4,000-word chapter every week... I thought I could just get through it.

Someone in the alliance group kept asking me: Don't you want to compete for the first place?

I said forget it.

They just smiled and said at most that it seemed like there was a chance, which was a bit of a pity.

But as time went by, Chixin Xuntian was always second on the monthly list, and they began to get excited.

The alliance leaders sent me all kinds of chicken soup in the group, and many readers said in this chapter, in the book review area, and even left messages on my Weibo, painting pie for me crazily.

Tell me I have to roll.

Say things like "You must consider whether this is your only chance in this life", "The first place is right in front of you, you have been writing for four years, don't you want to take it once?"

I pretended not to see it.

I couldn't bear it when the alliance leaders mentioned me in the group.

I didn't dare to reply. I couldn't write, and I didn't think it was possible.

Mr. Di, who was in charge of recording the update posts, harassed me crazily in private chat, asking me to repeat the activity when I was young to exchange monthly tickets for extra money. He said that I didn’t need to add much, but just wanted you to show your attitude. Maybe there will be no such opportunity in the future!

I was very moved, and then refused.

In the past, when I held activities, I saved my drafts a month in advance! How could I possibly be able to scroll at my writing speed?

But then everyone in the alliance group was saying, if you say anything, Ashi, we will definitely help you fight for the first place. Regardless of whether you can fight for it or not, if you don't fight for such a good opportunity, you will regret it for a long time.

I said I couldn't argue, but they said writing a few thousand more words would be the same as killing you!

I pretended to be dead and they talked among themselves.

I really want to fight for this, but I have never been so close to first place. That said, if the author doesn't take the lead, there will be nothing to argue about. Another person said that even if he couldn’t write, there was nothing he could do...

In short, it is coercion and inducement, and soft and hard work.

Finally I relented and said, let me try it.

But I can't guarantee how much it will be updated. I can only say that I will try my best to write, and I will write as much as I can while ensuring the quality.

In the update on the 25th, I also said that I hope to keep the second place. This is my biggest hope.

I went back to edit the details of the chapter on the 25th on the night of the 27th, planning to play dead until the end.

At noon on the 28th, I finally gritted my teeth and said, let’s see if we can move forward.

Then we really...move forward!

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On October 8, 2019, I published the first chapter "His Amazing Perseverance Has No Audience" on Qidian, officially starting the serialization of "Heart Patrol".

At first I thought the title was about Jiang Wang, but later I discovered that it was actually about myself.

From 19 to 21, there were two years of obscurity, from sixty to seventeen hundred.

From February 21 to June 23, he was in the top 20 of the double charts for two years, and was in the top 10 several times, and he began to be known. Ten thousand orders, twenty thousand orders, thirty thousand orders.

In July 2023, it achieved its best results in the four years of serialization, ranking first in the best-seller list, monthly ticket list, and reading list.

There are still 9,000 achievement points left to become the twelfth five-star masterpiece in the Hall of Masters, and the first five-star masterpiece in history by a fifth-level author.

In the words of readers, this is truly the number one inner palace in Qing history!

When the tenth volume was completed on July 3, the total order of the book was thirty-two thousand six, and the additional order was forty-two thousand.

By July 31, the average order was thirty-seven thousand, and the follow-up order was fifty-three thousand.

In twenty-eight days, the average number of orders increased by 5,001, and this is a novel with 6.7 million words!

The highest number of new subscriptions on a day was 830,000!

What is this concept?

Well, I don’t really know. I don’t know many people in the circle, so I have always been immersed in writing by myself. I don’t know what other people’s subscriptions look like.

I just compared myself with myself before, and it felt... scary.

I still remember that when it first started to gain momentum, the Caotang Literature group also revived. After two years, their attack point changed from "bad grades prove that your books are bad" to "good grades don't prove that your books are good. "You swiped it", forcing me to be a fan of caesarean section, and telling me that I can only believe you if you show me a screenshot of your subscription.

So I posted a screenshot of the 100,000 new subscriptions - and of course I didn't make those idiots apologize. They changed their words and said, I admit that your readers are awesome, but I don’t admit that you are awesome.

OK, if there are so many awesome readers, at least you must be awesome at heart!

It doesn't matter whether the love is awesome or not.

I was very confident at that time, and since I had never seen the market, I felt that 100,000 new additions were too much. Maybe it was a few years ago in this world! Just like Zhong Liyan, he also felt that he was on par with Dou Zhao and equally matched with Jiang Wang.

After all, I started from hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and so on.

I never thought that there would be 830,000 new additions to this day.

This is so dreamy.

Throughout July, there were 129 new alliance leaders in Chixin and five silver alliance leaders. Among them, "livy37" rewarded two silver coins.

I still remember the time when I signed the most alliances in the past, which was when the Divine Presence Scroll was concluded. After writing the Battle of Conquest of Xia, there were more than sixty alliance leaders, and this time it doubled.

The moment he became number one on the monthly list, the alliance was in a state of excitement!

They swiped the screen like crazy and liked me like crazy.

They said it was even more satisfying than the most enjoyable novels. Watching a novel they had been chasing for several years go from sixty to number one on the monthly list, from obscurity to being well-known all over the world. This feeling was so satisfying that they couldn't help themselves.

In the past few days, they have not thought about food and drink, nor have they wanted to play games. They stare at the ranking list all the time, constantly refreshing the list, counting to see how far they are, and cheering every time they make progress.

Now I want to ask everyone, the readers who have been following this novel——

Is it cool? ! !

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I want to thank all my readers.

I would like to thank Eternal Silence for launching the general offensive, thank Empire | Qin Shang, thank YangerSun, thank Xiaofeng Hanyue, thank lialon, and thank the five monthly ticket holders. Thank you to all readers who voted for Heartfelt. In order to vote for True Heart, many people ordered a lot of extra books and may not finish them for months or years.

I would like to thank No. 1 Boring, thank livy37, thank Yan Lingfeng, thank impulsive consumption is the devil, thank Xiaofeng Hanyue again, thank all those who are on the monthly fan list in July, and all the leaders who cannot be included in the monthly list!

I would like to thank everyone in the alliance group who encouraged me hard, helped me draw the cake, and helped me realize it. Thank you Mr. Xiang, thank Qian Menhua, thank Eternal Silence, thank Twilight Tianqing, thank Ah Gan, thank Hou Ran , Thank you to my beloved, thank you for the dumplings, thank you to Mr. Di, thank you to Gong Bai, thank you to footless bird, thank you to Mr. You, thank you to Manxi, thank you to glutinous rice balls, thank you to Yunduan, thank you to A Ming, thank you to braised eggs, thank you to Xiaoba, thank you to Hua Shuangyun , Academician Wei, Ham, Que Lao, Director Shuang, Yiying Fengyun, Jian Xue, thank you Haha, our Ren Xiaoyao, Dachu Zuo Guanglie, Ersan, thank A Zhan, Tongfeng, fencing, the trap of consumerism, Qiupei, Shengming Shengming, tq, Taoque travels thousands of miles, Ziye, Xuhua, Qingmiao Shangyunxiao, Yu, Mo Lao, Unity of knowledge and action, Wealth and treasure, Zhang Linchuan, Copying power, Meng Jieming'er... There are too many people and I can’t stand them anymore. Let’s go back and drink Wahaha together!

My readers are so worried. They are really the only readers in the world.

Other readers just need to support the work.

In addition to supporting the work, my readers also need to encourage the author, incite the author, and give the author pie.

I was a salty fish, but they forcibly turned me over and made me jump up to participate in the swimming competition.

And we actually became champions.

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Of course, I was sober. This time at the top of the monthly rankings, it is really the right time, place and people. It does not mean that Chixin Xuntian really has the ability to secure the first place now. Everyone knows how deep love can be and how many words can be written in a day.

As luck would have it, I just finished writing the final volume on July 3rd. The climax of the book was 80,000 words, and Chixin ranked second on both charts at the beginning of the month.

The advantage lies in the fact that when Chixin's best-selling store was going back and forth between the first and second stores, Qidian's annual half-price all-booking event happened to be launched, allowing Chixin to stabilize its number one bestseller, and it has continued to do so to this day.

There are several books on the Ren He Yu list that have the strength to dominate the list, but they have not made much effort to compete for the list this month.

Human harmony lies more in... All readers of Chixinxantian are working hard for this and striving towards the same goal. Everyone has been chasing this novel for several years, and everyone wants to win the first place. Everyone is fighting for it. The author has been writing from morning to night these days, just to increase the amount of updates while ensuring quality.

This is a result that we never thought about at the beginning of the month, and it is inevitable that sometimes we feel that heaven and earth are working together.

But I must also understand that there is still a long way to go in surveying the sky with a sincere heart.

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Then what do I want to say?

Yes, you guessed it right——

[I sincerely recommend that everyone keep books. 】

Only thin water can flow for a long time, chicken blood cannot last long.

Everything must still be based on the quality of the novel.

The book "Red Heart Surveying the Sky" has almost seven million words so far. If it cannot have a satisfactory ending, all the hardships along the way will be meaningless and will become a regret for me in this life.

I will definitely fulfill my duty as an author, dig holes and fill them in. I will try my best to fill every hole and write every plot well.

You can summarize what holes are left unfilled, fill them in and cross them out. Let’s take a look at the finale to see if I really did it.

Jiang Qingyang does what he says.

I also learn from him.

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I don't really dare to speak now, and my lovely allies have repeatedly advised me to be careful in my words and actions.

Maybe because of the redness (crossed out), whatever I say now has to be carried everywhere and misinterpreted in various ways.

For example, in June, I decided to ask for monthly tickets on the spur of the moment, and casually wrote a single chapter with a few words.

I said [I just found out that the monthly ticket rankings are already ninth on the list. From January to May this year, our monthly ticket rankings were 11, 12, 11, 13, and 12 respectively. It’s really hard to get in if you don’t rank in the top ten. You guys are amazing. 】

Found it? I am very close to the top ten every month, and there is even a month where the difference is only a few hundred votes. As long as I swipe a little bit in any month, I can definitely enter the top ten.

but I do not have.

Is it because I have no money?

Based on the results achieved at that time, I was able to reach the top ten without brushing up. Isn’t there a group of amazing readers?

But in some idiots' retellings, they cross out the first words, cross out the last words, and then swear that the top ten on the monthly list are all fake.

Can you use your poor brain to think about it, even if I really want to shoot, should I take it out? I was in ninth place! You didn't shoot him with a machine gun, right?

It’s up to you to judge whether these people are stupid because they don’t have the ability to read, or whether they are deliberately misinterpreting things.

For another example, I have always liked interacting with readers. I have been actively replying to readers’ messages since I made dozens or hundreds of orders.

When the book "The Society of the Yellow River" was just starting to gain some momentum, someone came to the book review section and posted a post, saying, "Why do everyone say this book is very good, but I can't read it? Is it my problem?"

I wrote a message to reply to him, and I said, it's not your problem. Everyone has different tastes in reading this matter. It’s not my problem, because I write so carefully. It's just that we are simply not suitable. There are many excellent works, you can check out other books on the list. good luck.

This is how I respond when I order for a few thousand, and I also respond like this when I order for tens of thousands. It hasn't changed.

But when I placed a few thousand orders and I said good luck, they just left silently.

When I made tens of thousands of orders and I said good luck, they said I was eccentric and that I was driving away readers.

Later, I rarely appeared in the book review section.

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Finally, I remembered that in 2019, when Chi Xin had just serialized five chapters, someone asked maliciously - [How to evaluate the long fairy tale novel "Chi Xin Patrolling the Sky" serialized on Qidian.com? Is it possible to become a hit? 】

Perhaps in the history of online literature, there has never been a new author with a new book that has received so much criticism just five chapters in.

From this perspective, we were number one very early. I was scolded as soon as I opened the book... maybe this is a good start!

I wrote this in my answer at the time -

[Internet writing is a huge market and a boundless wilderness.

I'm starting from scratch again in this new field. Walking forward in an almost lonely state.

Countless authors are moving forward, and I see that many authors and works are making progress, which is the kind of leap-forward progress.

This is a process of washing away the sand with great waves. I just hope that I am not the quicksand that is eliminated.

Finally, I hope "Red Heart Patrol" can become a good novel.

I will work hard and hope so. 】

At that time they said - you are the quicksand that will be eliminated.

At that time, it was my first time to come into contact with online writers. They were professional online writers.

To this day, I still don’t know what books they wrote.

But I think they will never forget "Surveying the Sky with a Red Heart".

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Thank you to everyone who left their name on "Red Heart Patrol".

Thank you to everyone who voted monthly, thanked everyone who subscribed, thanked everyone who cheered for it, thanked everyone who contributed to this fairy world, and thanked all fan creators.

If you read this book on a certain day and at a certain time, you will say that it is not bad. Even if I am just talking to myself, I thank you.

——Why is love so extreme, on August 1, 2023

Haha, I went to bed too late last night and woke up too early in the morning. I was so dizzy that I almost ended up paying for it. Fortunately, I got excited!

Everyone asked me to write my remarks first, so I'm sorry, today's update will be later, moved to 8pm.

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