Finished the third update for the night. After a few days of rest and celebrating Christmas, Xiao Yu noticed he’d become a bit sluggish, and his motivation for writing wasn't as sharp as it used to be.

What the ancients said is certainly true: it’s easy to slip from diligence to laziness, but incredibly hard to pull yourself back from idleness. He can’t afford to stay lazy any longer; Xiao Yu needs an explosion of energy, and he’s asking his friends for help, for the support that will fuel this burst of activity.

Right now, Qidian is holding its annual Author and Work selection. This is an honor—an honor Xiao Yu has never experienced before.

Without his realizing it, Xiao Yu’s votes for Annual Author have already surpassed one hundred and fifty! He begs his friends to keep supporting him, to cast just a few more votes to help him break into the top ten authors.

Every VIP user automatically gets two free votes for the Annual Author selection. With an average subscription count around six thousand, and over three thousand friends who follow the daily updates within twenty-four hours, even if not everyone casts two votes, surely every single person casting one vote will be enough to get him on the list.

If he reaches five hundred votes, there will be three updates tomorrow; if it hits one thousand votes, there will be four updates tomorrow. If he manages to secure a spot directly in the top ten, Xiao Yu promises a five-chapter burst tomorrow, and if he makes it into the top nine, that means six chapters.

One final reminder to everyone: you only need to vote for either the Annual Work or the Annual Author. Let’s focus all our efforts on the Annual Author category.

That vote is located in the column on the right side of the book page, the one with the highest overall data count. One last plea for a few Monthly Tickets in these final moments of the month, so that Xiao Yu can keep up this intense pace of updates.

I’m counting on all of you.