Please support me, everyone. Thank you.
This makes me feel so motivated — today is the single day with the most flowers since Martial God Asura started serialization.
That's why, even though I had things to do during the day and was dead tired, I pushed myself at night to make up for updates, even staying up until dawn, and then went straight to work without any sleep.
Many readers have told me to rest and not push myself too hard. But I want to say, even though I'm exhausted, it's the good kind of exhaustion, because my readers are giving their all — and I can't slack off in return.
Honestly, my royalty pay is tied to the number of chapters I release. The more I update, the more I earn. But for me, money isn't the only thing that drives me to write. There's another part — it's the recognition and support from all of you.
And now I've realized just how important your recognition is to me. It truly gives me an inexhaustible source of motivation.
These past few days, I've been going all out because I'm genuinely full of drive. Thinking about how hard you're all supporting me, I can't find any reason to take it easy.
But last night, I suddenly hit a wall. I mean, I just suddenly felt completely drained — body and mind — and didn't want to stay up writing anymore. That's because I checked the backend stats, and I found out something.
Not counting today, here are the flower counts for this week:
Monday: 4,190. Tuesday: 3,272. Wednesday: 3,043. Thursday: 2,877. Friday: 2,754. Saturday: 2,750. Today is Sunday, and so far we're at 450 flowers.
The number of people voting has dropped from 524 on Monday all the way down to 353.
I'm not saying this to guilt-trip anyone — I just hope you won't find it too much of a bother to toss in a flower. Having a flower and not using it is such a waste, after all. Flowers are free, and it only takes a light tap.
Besides, I think that Martial God Asura's ranking on the flower chart isn't just my glory — it's the glory of every single reader.
So I hope everyone can keep showing up and backing me up with your actual actions, giving me the motivation to release three chapters every day.
Today, I'm going to push hard and release five chapters. Even though three days this week have already dipped below three thousand flowers, I'm still going to make sure the average this week is three chapters per day.
After all, my updates this week have been inconsistent, so consider it compensation for all of you. Honestly, I had originally planned to add bonus chapters as compensation, but seeing that flowers fell below three thousand for three straight days, I really felt like I was losing steam.
I'm not lying — my motivation comes from your support. When you guys show up, I'm absolutely on fire. But when you don't, I feel worn out.
So I hope every reader can give me a little support. There are roughly eighty thousand readers waiting for new chapters every day. I'm only asking for three thousand flowers — is that really so hard?
And it only takes 398 people to come over to 17k and toss in flowers, and we'll basically break three thousand. Because there are plenty of die-hard readers who vote every single day — each one contributing twenty flowers, or even more.
So let me ask you all — is my request really that difficult?
If it isn't, please support me. Please back me up with your actual actions. Thank you.
I'm heading off to write now.