Collection Project: Readers Send Me into the Palace of Thoughts

When I submitted an article to "Harvest", the reply was "System email, please do not reply." I was looking for self-publishing, and the agent said, "Thirty-two thousand, and it can be divided into installments." I wrote a cool article until I vomited, and the editor said, "You may never make any money in this life." I thought this was a doomed one. Until a philosophy graduate student who was recovering from depression sent me a private message: "Teacher, I want to crowdfund and publish your book." Crowdfunding of 100,000 was completed within 48 hours. It's not about buying books, it's about "collecting ideas." It's not consumption, it's "cultural co-construction". Readers have built a temple for me. Then I discovered—— The journal's door remains closed. Self-publishing agents are still cutting leeks. The platform's traffic algorithm never shows mercy. Traditional literary circles say that "Internet writing is not worthy". Parents report "endangerment to youth". After collecting it, someone sold the copyright for 300,000 yuan to do animation outsourcing. Some people deleted their works and disappeared into the crowd. Someone was rejected three times for a Ph. D. And went to Sanben to teach college Chinese. Someone bought back 1,200 copies of new books and piled them up in the corner of the rental house. They gave me a palace. But everyone paid a price. This is not a comeback story. This is a story about "after all normal roads are blocked, the reader builds a temple for you - and then you find that there are sieges inside and outside the temple."