Foxo – Author Serialization Note

Author Serialization Note 🙂

First of all, thank you, everyone. Thank you for reading my book, and thank you for supporting the stories I write.

To be honest, I once thought this book wouldn’t make it to serialization.

As a TS novel, its initial performance was subpar. Compared to my contemporaries, male protagonist novels could easily rack up two to three thousand bookmarks within fifty thousand words, while my TS novel barely scraped past a thousand bookmarks at the same word count.

Why did I initially write this book?

Readers familiar with my older works know that, aside from my first book when I joined SFACG, all my other novels are what people call 小白文—simple and naive male protagonist stories.

This has always been a regret of mine.

As a yuri enthusiast, I’ve long dreamed of writing a successful yuri novel.

But every time I tried, a voice in my head held me back. It said, “Yuri novels may attract traffic, but the competition is fierce. You can’t even excel at writing male protagonist novels, and you want to compete with the gods in the yuri section? Stick to male protagonist stories—they might struggle in the beginning, but they’re easier to get recommendations for, easier to serialize, and more stable in subscriptions.”

And so, I kept shelving my yuri ambitions, writing male protagonist novels out of a sense of practicality.

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This state of mind persisted for a long time.

Until, one day, while discussing a new project with my editor, we both agreed on writing a male protagonist novel.

Even when I first conceived this book, it was a male protagonist story about a destined great villain.

But when I officially started writing, I realized:

This was not the story I wanted to tell.

I haven’t read male protagonist harem novels in years. At some point, I discovered I was “sick” of them—I don’t enjoy stories about male protagonists with harems anymore, whether in novels or anime. These days, I gravitate toward non-romance stories or pure love stories.

And here I was, trying to write a male protagonist harem novel?

I wrote five hundred words and immediately abandoned it.

For a month, maybe two, I procrastinated, stuck and directionless.

Then, one day, I opened SFACG after half a year and noticed a book on the homepage: Transmigrating into a Yuri World and Having a Harem.

And that’s when inspiration struck.

If male protagonist novels can feature a protagonist transmigrating into a yuri world and building a harem, why couldn’t I reverse it? (Actually, this trope isn’t that uncommon.)

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Thus, this book was born.

As someone “terminally ill” with disdain for male protagonist harems, I started this book fueled by malice toward that genre. Those who read the original draft might remember how shocking the opening was—it even got flagged for review once, prompting me to rewrite it.

Still, with forty thousand words and only a few hundred bookmarks, I thought, I’m such a failure.

The overwhelming frustration almost made me abandon the project entirely.

Fortunately, a friend of mine who writes yuri novels encouraged me to keep going. Without their support, this book might never have continued.

Things began to change around chapters twenty-four and twenty-five.

From chapter twenty to thirty-six, the book’s performance improved significantly.

That period was the most enjoyable for me as a writer—it reignited my motivation to continue this story.

Regarding whether the protagonist is top or bottom:

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In yuri novels, the protagonist is usually bottom.

I enjoy bottom-centric stories as well.

However, this protagonist is a trashy fox—a villainess, after all. How could she be a proper villainess without a touch of arrogance and disdain?

That said, she’s still the protagonist, and I didn’t want to make her a purely evil villain.

Plus, after encountering so many weak, bottom-type protagonists, I wanted to write someone more assertive.

So, should I make her a top?

But a top protagonist in a yuri novel… isn’t that just a male protagonist novel in disguise? (Outrageous Statement)

Besides, I’m not particularly interested in top-centric stories.

So, in the end, I decided to make her a bottom.

Thus, the tone of this book was established:

MC is bottom. One bottom, multiple tops.

On the surface, she’s confident and strong-willed, but in bed, she’s just a pillow princess.

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Regarding how many heroines there will be in the future:

I’m not sure. It’s hard to say. The outline is always subject to change, and I can add characters as needed.

For now, there are four planned heroines. (The red and white foxes are freebies—they don’t count.)

Finally, I wish everyone good health, and may all the books you read have happy endings.

See you tonight at midnight, my dear readers.