(Part 1) Everything that needs to be said about the content of Volume 2 itself has been said.

The (Part 2) article mainly explains our current situation, and also notifies the next update schedule.

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I got into reading online books during the summer vacation of my first year of junior high school. The first three books I read were "Douluo Dalu", "Fights Break the Sphere", and "Coiling Dragon".

Before this, I hated reading extracurricular books and barely remembered reading "Childhood" and "How Steel Was Tempered", but now I can completely remember what was written in them.

Apart from that, I probably only like those poems and the occasional science fiction stories I see in magazines.

Until I read the online article, the thought in my mind was, "Can novels be written like this?"

If I had no feeling for literature before, then after encountering online literature, I discovered that there are such surprises in the shadow corners of traditional literature.

After that it got out of hand.

Starting from the summer vacation of my first year in junior high school and continuing to this day, online writing has been my main form of entertainment. When I get tired from playing games, I will feel sleepy, but reading online writing can keep me refreshed all night long.

But after I got to high school, I fell behind a lot in my studies because I stayed up late for a long time reading online articles, and the college entrance examination was looming behind me.

At the beginning, whether it was parents or teachers, the thoughts instilled in us were: "If you pass the college entrance examination and get into a good university, it will be easy once you get to university. No one will care about you. You can have fun if you want."

If you go to university, it will be difficult for you in your life."

It sounds very reasonable.

I once regarded it as a guideline, and even regarded it as the only motivation for learning.

But there are still deep questions lingering in my mind.

"After you go to college, you still have to work after graduation, right?"

"If college is easy, can I find a good job?"

“What constitutes a good job?”

“Will I be able to make money to support myself in the future?”

“What can I rely on to make money?”

I have no idea.

Apart from online writing, I don't have much interest in anything else.

I looked up what majors the university offered. After reading it, I looked confused and thought, what does this have to do with the knowledge I learned in high school?

I still had connections, which was equivalent to laying a foundation. But after that, I had to choose my major. There were so many majors, and I didn’t have a clear direction of interest. I finally chose accounting.

There is no other reason, because both my grandfather and my father are accountants.

That's all.

I was very confused when I was in high school, and I could only relieve my confusion by reading novels. But the worse my grades got, the more confused I became, and the more I wanted to immerse myself in the world of novels.

It became an endless cycle.

Later I took the college entrance examination.

I have a good foundation. I took an undergraduate degree and went to Zhejiang Finance University to study accounting.

But I don’t have much interest in this major, and I spend most of my time playing with my mobile phone in class.

The guilt in my heart collided with the voice of "It will be easier after you go to college. You can have fun if you want and no one will care about you." It seems that this can alleviate it a little.

But the initial confusion is still there.

And when I went to college, this feeling of confusion became even more intense.

Because the outstanding classmates around you are either taking exams in their spare time or preparing for the postgraduate entrance exams. Even if they just do their homework seriously, they are better than you.

So it's an endless cycle again, and I can only comfort myself by reading novels.

At that time, I was thinking, what can I do to support myself after graduation?

Be an accountant?

When I think about having to sit in an office all day and check the books, I feel that the future is full of boredom.

What's the point of living like that?

This self-thinking went on for a long, long time.

It was almost like this throughout my freshman and sophomore years.

In the past two years, I have failed many subjects, including calculus, probability theory, English, foundation, Chinese finance, advanced finance, financial management... no less than a dozen courses.

Starting from the second semester, there is an academic warning every semester.

But I just can’t muster the energy and feel that life has no meaning.

Apart from living a few more years and reading more novels, it doesn't seem to be much fun.

It wasn’t until the summer vacation of my sophomore year, I think it was 2019, when there was a book shortage, so I accidentally opened a book here and was lucky enough to sign a contract.

I still remember the feeling at that time, that feeling of suddenly coming back to life.

I have secretly written novels before, but they always ended after just a few thousand or tens of thousands of words. I didn’t have the perseverance.

But this time I signed a contract and joined the official KouKou group, I suddenly touched the world of the author, and a new door opened to me.

That's when I suddenly realized that I might have found what I was looking for.

I imagined in my heart that if I could support myself by writing books, I would be able to live happily even if I just sit in front of the computer and type words every day in the future.

Although like accounting, I just work at a desk all day long, the feeling is completely different.

If it is to write a novel, I would like it.

So after a series of struggles, at the beginning of my junior year, I found a counselor and proposed the idea of ​​taking a year off.

The counselor asked me to talk to my parents first.

I am very introverted at home and rarely communicate with my parents.

Finally, I wrote a letter in Word and told my parents what I thought.

This is probably the first time in my life that I have chosen a direction and made a decision for my life.

What is even more fortunate is probably the open-mindedness of my parents.

My dad may be a little more stubborn, but only compared to my mom.

In fact, any parent would not be in a good mood if they suddenly heard that their son wanted to drop out of school, and they were the same.

It's just that they rarely showed it in front of me at that time, and they just kept communicating and persuading me.

I can even imagine them quarreling in private.

But my attitude was very firm, and in my long-term confusion, I suddenly grasped a life-saving straw.

I know that the decision to take a break from school is not rational, but I still have to persist.

Otherwise, even if you continue to stay, it will only be one more semester of academic warning...

Finally my parents agreed.

So starting from September 2019, I moved to my grandma’s house and started living as a full-time author for one year.

I have kept these things secret for a long time, even my friends in the author group don’t know about them, and I have been holding them back in my heart.

In fact, if I had not taken a year off from school, it would have been time to graduate this year.

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This is a decision that is incomprehensible to outsiders.

But for me, it felt like liberation at that time.

I promised my parents that it would take me a year to prove whether I was capable of eating this bowl of rice.

No matter what the final result is, one year later, I will go back to school to graduate seriously, and at least get a diploma.

What happened after that was actually mentioned earlier in the million-word testimonial.

The first three books hit the streets in succession, and it was actually January 20.

I took a leave of absence from school and worked full time. From September to January of next year, I only earned 600 yuan with full attendance. You can imagine the pressure.

It's just that there is no one to complain to, so I just swallow it in my stomach.

The turning point comes in book four.

"Starting a Plant Revolution in Another World"

This is a new book published in February 2020.

The process can be described as bumpy.

It took 180,000 words to sign the contract, 300,000 words to barely get a small recommendation on the PC, and 320,000 words to hit the shelves naked.

After that, it was a month of days and nights, and I was fully invested in it. Relying on the APP category recommendations and limited exemptions given by the editor, the score increased from 160 for the first subscription to over 900.

Back and forth, until it was finished at the end of July, this book earned me about 10,000 yuan.
To be continued...