First, a sincere apology to everyone. Due to considerations around promotion and merchandise, combined with feedback from many friends, I'm humbly asking that you stop voting for the Annual Work award and instead cast your Annual Character votes for our protagonist, Lucian Evans. I'm truly sorry for wasting everyone's hard-earned votes from the past several days — I have no way to repay you except by not taking a break during the New Year period, updating three chapters a day for seven days straight!
When I first started asking for annual votes, our main rival was the formidable Perfect World, and I approached it with a "compete if we can" attitude. But after that it became clear there was really no chance, so I shifted our goal to second place among new works. What changed over these past few days, I believe many of you already know. On its own, that wouldn't have been a big deal — we'd focus our efforts and catch up eventually, and I have faith in myself and in all of you. However, given promotion needs and certain merchandise considerations, the Annual Character award seems to be more important. After much deliberation, I'm making this heartfelt appeal: please cast your votes for our protagonist, little Lucian. Every day you subscribe and complete your daily activity tasks, you'll earn free tickets.
Finally, today's three chapters have been delivered. I'm asking for your monthly tickets for the last day of 2013 — if you don't use them, they expire, so don't let them go to waste. Throw them all my way~ Recommendation tickets too~