The Shepherds Are Dense – Chapter 343

Thank you, Mr. Warm Sun, for the Hundred Alliances and Silver offerings!
I woke up to the shocking news of a Hundred Alliance, and my private messages have exploded!
First, I must quickly thank the great patron for their offerings.
I’ve long heard that wild Hundred Alliances or Golds would suddenly descend, and now it’s finally my turn! I’m so moved!
I also want to thank Mr. Warm Sun for the twelve boxes of MX mooncakes, the first-release Huawei Mate 60 Pro in Ya Chuan Qing, and the iPhone 15 Pro Max 1T version, and other gifts he sent during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The cat let out a boastful meow.
Being taken care of feels so good, ah, it’s truly so good.
Why am I not a beautiful girl, unable to try and repay him with myself (heartbroken).
By the way, let me report my achievements. Currently, A Mu has been on the shelves for over four months with 1.12 million words, adding sixty thousand new words, an average subscription of 21,000, and over nine thousand follow-up reads. I am very satisfied with these statistics; it is the best achievement in my tens of millions of words written so far. Thank you for everyone’s support!
It is truly moving. Back then, Mercury Blood’s first subscription was only three hundred, and it never even reached a thousand subscriptions by the end. Now, I have mastered the techniques to consistently achieve ten thousand subscriptions. My experimental Tower of Ruin also received two nominations for the Chinese Science Fiction Galaxy Award. This book has maintained a stable monthly ticket ranking within the top fifty for three months. It feels like Dog Head’s Q-skill, which he’s been stacking for eight hundred years, has finally been unleashed, sob sob sob.
From this perspective, the cat’s life is a life of being supported by a patron (sighs).
When I was first writing Mercury Blood, there was an early patron who, because the manuscript fee was too low, paid me 500 yuan every month via Alipay for me to buy food. To prevent me from starving.
Later, there was Ze Ze. Ever since I went to write Eulogy next door, he consistently transferred 1,000 yuan to me every month. When I returned to Qidian, it was changed to 3,000 yuan per month, with additional Silver Alliances on holidays, and one Silver Alliance is worth ten thousand.
Although I don’t know the market price for this kind of industry, intuitively, I feel like the price of being taken care of, and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it being taken care of. Thank you very much, and I bow to all readers.
When I returned to Qidian to write Player is Super Righteous back then, my father had just passed away from squamous cell carcinoma. I also had 30,000 yuan in debt for the cemetery, and only a few hundred yuan for food on me. At that time, I had no savings and no drafts. I jumped back to the platform, and I don’t know where I got the confidence and courage from. Thinking about it now makes me feel scared.
During the new book period, I had no income and survived solely on Ze Ze’s rewards.
Not long ago, Ze Ze also gave Cat Cat a Gold Alliance. Although Ze’s cumulative rewards across three books have exceeded 500,000, without any warning, he gave A Mu a full Gold Alliance!
Damn, my reaction at the time was “holy s*it.”
Then, during this Double Eleven, Mr. Warm Sun also gave me a Hundred Alliance. Although I didn’t count carefully, I think it’s a Hundred Alliance, which is equivalent to a Gold Alliance!
Thank you so much, I’m bowing my head, bang bang bang.
This book also had over twenty Alliance Leaders before, and there was a wild Silver Alliance. A reader gave a Silver Alliance because they wanted a minor role, and this minor role basically had no demands. It was practically charity. Thank you very much.
Without the support of readers, the cat might have had to turn to life long ago due to not being able to earn money. It is precisely because of readers’ support that I can still survive and persist in this cruel industry and eventually develop.
Logically speaking, receiving a Gold Alliance should at least warrant an extra update. But my body can’t take it anymore. I’ll add one more update today!
I also have a recommendation the day after tomorrow, so I’ll have to add an update. I really can’t take it anymore, I’m sorry, editor!
Let me also report on my physical condition during the extra updates. After recovering from my cold on the third, I started increasing my update volume. This month, I have updated ten days so far and have released 76,000 words!
Back when Cat Cat was on the platform next door, I couldn’t write this much in a month.
At that time, I had just graduated and had no survival pressure. I updated a chapter every three days, and life was very leisurely. After a fixed two hours of study every day, I could still play games for six hours. Holy s*it, that was awesome.
Later, I felt I couldn’t waste my youth like this anymore. I decided to go all out and return to Qidian to work harder. And this effort resulted in three books. Now, A Mu has been serialized for less than six months and has already over 1.1 million words.
I can only say that A Mu’s performance is too good. Every day I take off, I feel like my heart is bleeding.
The money is flying away.
Given Cat Cat’s physical condition, I probably won’t be able to write novels for much longer. To write novels seriously is inevitably a process of burning energy and life force.
I am 27 years old this year. My creative state might only last until around 35, probably less than ten years. Each year I write is a year less. When my body can’t keep up, I’ll have to retire and live a healthy life. Fortunately, I’m not married yet, so if I don’t have to support children, the amount of savings needed might be less.
The current situation is not bad, but it’s not impossible that in a few years, my family might suddenly arrange a blind date for me with a R-flash team attack. After all, relatives have been asking for years.
Even so, retirement still requires money!
Although this book’s performance is good, every day I take off causes my follow-up reads to drop. Although the editor told me that 9,000 follow-up reads is very high for a book with this performance, it takes about a week of continuous updates to make up for the loss of follow-up reads from one day off.
So, unless my body can’t take it anymore, I don’t dare to take time off.
The reason I was afraid of getting a physical check-up before is the same. If something is found to be wrong, I wouldn’t dare to treat it. Once I stop updating, my creative state will inevitably be affected. To maintain quality, I can only get a check-up and rest after this book is finished.
Alas, but looking at the outline progress, I feel like this book will take until the year after next.
This month, starting from the 4th, I’ve been updating three chapters daily until the 6th and 7th, and my condition was good.
Starting from the 8th, hypoglycemia started acting up. Although I haven’t been wearing a real-time 24-hour monitor recently, I can feel from my trembling fingers that my blood sugar is likely starting to drop to dangerous levels.
From then on, I could clearly feel my condition declining. While eating, I started thinking, but the time spent thinking increased significantly to maintain quality. It took an extra hour and a half to finish three chapters compared to the 7th. And the 9th took longer than the 8th, and the 10th took longer than the 9th. I felt like I couldn’t hold on any longer.
In other words, the safe period for me to continuously update explosively is about three days. Beyond three days, I start burning through my health bar.
Today is the last day of three updates. I will return to two updates tomorrow! However, the update time tomorrow will definitely not be back to normal. Let me sleep soundly tomorrow to recover, then get up and update! The day after tomorrow, I will adjust back to the previous update schedule.
The Double Eleven extra update event concludes satisfactorily.
Also, the three updates today will probably be released in the evening. I’ll release the first chapter first to satisfy your cravings, and the remaining two chapters will be released together.
—Okay, that’s exactly two thousand characters here! Word count marked!
This update note is written as I think of it, the writing is casual, and there are likely many typos. It’s not like the shelf announcement, which is meticulously crafted. If I have said anything incorrectly, please, my cat owners, forgive me.
Let me also share my recent reading list.
I’m currently reading “Roland Barthes on Theatre,” “Sacrifice and Divinity – Order in Early Societies,” “Record of the Red Army’s Long March,” and “Logical Thinking and Sophistry.” I bought them from JD.com during the Mid-Autumn Festival. I also bought two books by Tomoyuki Kono, but they are on the bookshelf and I haven’t taken them out to read them yet. I don’t quite remember the titles. During Double Eleven, I bought “Norse Mythology,” “The Android’s Game,” and “Confessions.”
Recently, I’ve been catching up on Chef Shi’s gourmet videos. I can’t stop watching them; they’re incredibly good. This is the main reason I’ve been staying up late recently. Besides that, I’m also catching up on “The Rules of the Game,” which is also a pretty good variety show.
As for games, I’m a bit “cyber celibate.” I haven’t played games much in the past two months.
It’s possible that GBF and Uma Musume have already exhausted my gaming time.
I’m completely awake now, but don’t worry, this note doesn’t count as a chapter update. I’m just letting you know that I’ve just woken up, and the first chapter will take a few more hours to be ready.
It seems that when I don’t need to think about the plot and just type, Cat Claws can type quite fast!
—Time to get up!
Then shower, eat, and write!
But it’s so cold outside, I don’t want to come out (shivers).
Lastly, thank you again, Mr. Warm Sun. Also, a weak question: in this situation where the Alliance Leader event and this are happening together, how many Alliance Leader gift boxes should be sent?