12: Chapter 12 is now available, and we're releasing 100 chapters in a row!

Over the next two days of the holiday, Chen Fan managed to squeeze in a few hours to go to town each day. Because time was short, he only updated 30,000 words per day.

The two-day holiday passed quickly, and Monday arrived.

Since the monthly exam had just taken place last week, the results were announced during the first class on Monday.

The first class was Chinese.

Before the class bell even rang, the Chinese teacher walked in carrying a stack of exam papers.

After all this time, Chen Fan already knew that this teacher's surname was Sun.

Teacher Sun swept his gaze across the classroom, paused for a moment, and then slowly began, "The results for this monthly exam in our class are very poor."

"Our average score is eighth in the grade," Teacher Sun continued. "We've dropped three places since last time."

Hearing this, Chen Fan couldn't help but chuckle inwardly. There were ten classes in total in the third year of high school, and they were eighth. They had always hovered in the middle, but this time they had actually dropped to the bottom.

Teacher Sun began reading out the scores. "Li Xinxin, 118."

A girl in the front row, who was less than 1.6 meters tall, stood up to collect her paper. She was the class representative for Chinese, so it was normal for her to take first place.

However, their class was just an ordinary class, and the top score was only 118, which was far behind those in the experimental classes.

"Zhang Kang: 113."

A boy sitting in the front row stood up. With an irrepressible smile on his face, he walked briskly to the podium.

"Zhao Tingting, 109."

After reading a few more names, Teacher Sun paused and said, "Chen Fan: 93 points."

Hearing his name, Chen Fan walked forward with a calm expression. Just as he was about to take the paper, Teacher Sun added, "You've made great progress this time. Keep it up."

"Okay," Chen Fan replied casually, then turned and walked back to his seat.

Back at his seat, Jiang Chen couldn't help but lightly punch Chen Fan, "Not bad, you scored over 90 points this time."

"Just lucky," Chen Fan replied offhandedly.

He picked up his paper and took a look. Sure enough, his essay score was quite high: 49 points.

Chen Fan wasn't surprised by this score. After all, with over a decade of experience from his future life, plus the millions of words he had written in his previous life, writing an essay was quite easy.

Following the Chinese results, the scores for the remaining subjects were released over the next two days.

Chen Fan's overall results for this monthly exam were as follows: Chinese: 93, English: 67, Mathematics: 45, Comprehensive Science: 108. Total score: 313.

What surprised Chen Fan was English; he managed to score nearly 70 points even though he had just guessed the answers randomly. It seemed his luck was good this time.

To be honest, Chen Fan was quite satisfied with these results; they hadn't dropped too much.

As long as his grades didn't drop too much, that was fine. If his total score across all six subjects was only a little over 100, even if he were considered a lost cause, the teachers would probably still call his parents.

After the monthly exam results were announced, the date arrived at Tuesday, November 10th, and Chen Fan's novel reached around 300,000 words.

With 300,000 free words and sufficient popularity before publication, Chen Fan was ready to officially publish his novel.

Previously, his editor, Xinghe, had suggested publishing at 250,000 words, but Chen Fan insisted on waiting until 300,000 words.

He had set the publication date for tomorrow, but before that, Chen Fan had to consider whether or not to write a "post-publication announcement."

In his past life, he had seen at least eighty or a hundred such announcements. He knew the tropes well—first, play the victim and cry about how hard it was; then, express gratitude to the editor and readers; and finally, make promises: if there are so many first-time subscriptions, he'd add more chapters; if there are so many monthly tickets, he'd add more chapters; if there are so many tips, he'd add more chapters.

But after thinking about it, Chen Fan realized he didn't have anything to play the victim about.

His results? 33,000 favorites, 75,000 recommendations. He had been number one on the newcomer list for several days and only dropped off after reaching over 200,000 words.

Drafts? 530,000 words, enough to explode with updates for a month without repeating.

What was there to be miserable about?

He opened his writing software, let his fingers rest on the keyboard, thought for three seconds, and typed directly: [Publication Announcement] [Publishing tomorrow, releasing 100 chapters.]

After posting it, Chen Fan closed the page and went back to writing.

He had no idea what a stir those six words would cause in the web novel community.

Longkong Forum [Beimingyoulv: Just saw this, the author "Pen name" of the new Qidian book "High Martial Era" said he will release 100 chapters upon publication.] [Screenshot.jpg]

[Old Bookworm Afei: 100 chapters? If we count 3,000 words per chapter, that's 300,000 words. Updating 300,000 words in one day? Is he bragging?]

[Everything in Dreams: I bet fifty cents, it's definitely clickbait. He'll probably just release ten chapters and call it an "explosive release."]

[Night Wuxie: What's impossible about it? Maybe he has a lot of drafts.]

"High Martial Era" Review Section. [Fallory: Releasing 100 chapters upon publication? If this is true, I'll eat my keyboard.]

[Slacking Off Today: Screenshot taken, waiting for you to eat the keyboard.]

[Pulling You Into My Embrace: Screenshot +1, waiting for you to eat the keyboard.]

[Yue Gucheng: If he really releases 100 chapters, I'll directly tip 10 Alliance Leader rewards. I mean what I say.]

[Old Bookworm Afei: 10 Alliance Leaders? That's... ten thousand yuan?!]

[Keyboard in Hand, The World is Mine: Holy crap, rich person, please keep me.]

Meanwhile, various author groups were also discussing Chen Fan's announcement about releasing 100 chapters, but Chen Fan was too lazy to join the groups, so he didn't care.

Anyway, once he actually released the 100 chapters, everything would be settled.

The next day, using his lunch break, Chen Fan went to the Hongshulin Internet Cafe.

As soon as he logged into QQ, a message from his editor, Xinghe, popped up. [Xinghe: That publication announcement of yours... 100 chapters? Are you serious?] [Chen Fan: Yes.]

[Xinghe: Just how many drafts do you have on hand?] [Chen Fan: Enough for 100 chapters, at least.] [Xinghe: ...] [Xinghe: That's good.]

Closing the chat box, Chen Fan opened the Qidian author backend, took a deep breath, and began uploading the VIP chapters one by one. Soon, one hundred chapters and 300,000 words were uploaded.

Chen Fan flexed his sore fingers, leaned back in his chair, and stared at the upload record on the screen for a few seconds.

Five minutes later, the review section completely exploded.

[Onlooker Wang: Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!!!!!!!]

[Old Bookworm Afei: He actually updated 100 chapters??? Let me count... It really is 100 chapters!]

[Pulling You Into My Embrace: @Fallory, time to eat your keyboard.] [Wind Blowing on My Butt: @Fallory, time to eat your keyboard.]

[Drinking Alone Under the Moon: Didn't a big shot say they were going to tip 10 Alliance Leaders?]

Just then, a system notification popped up on the Qidian page.

[User "Yue Gucheng" tipped "High Martial Era" 100,000 Qidian coins] ... [User "Little Fairy" tipped "High Martial Era" 100,000 Qidian coins]