Snape, the Sunshine of Hogwarts.

Chapter 83 Release Update Notice
It will be available at midnight tonight, with 8 chapters.

I'll release half of the four chapters at midnight, and the remaining half at 6 pm tomorrow.

After it's published, there will be a minimum of 3 to 5 chapters per day, but chapters may be combined (for example, two chapters of 2 words each will be combined into one chapter of 1 words). The specific update time will be adjusted, and I will notify you in the author's notes after all 8 chapters are published tomorrow.

As for extra chapters based on donations, we'll wait until we have donations like those from patrons.

Alright, now that we've covered the important stuff, what follows is just rambling. If you're not interested, you can skip it and wait for the midnight update.

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To be honest, I never imagined that my novel, "The Great Villain Who Saves the Suffering," would end in that way. Even the day before I was in the hospital preparing for surgery, I still asked my dad to bring the keyboard to the hospital so that I wouldn't have to stop updating it.

I really liked the concept of that book because after I finished writing "The Fourth Calamity, Yet They Call Me a Saint," I talked with the editor-in-chief, Captain Dragonfly, for a long time and sent him many manuscripts with different backgrounds, such as cyberpunk science fiction and cultivation novels.

He wasn't satisfied with any of that; he just asked me what I wanted to write.

From a commercial perspective, online writers generally choose suitable themes based on what kind of topics are popular in the market.

But when I saw this question, I was momentarily stunned.

Because the content of online novels basically depends entirely on what the protagonist wants to do.

Speaking for myself, when I write about the protagonist's biggest purpose or goal in a book, I always put myself in their shoes and think, "What would I do in this situation?"

It might sound a bit grandiose and unrealistic, but isn't the point of a novel to write about things that people want to do in real life but can't, right?

What are some things I dare to think about but not dare to do in reality?
I honestly told Captain Dragonfly, "I want to write something about anti-oppression, about revolution, and preferably something with a bit of 'red' in it."

This is practically a slippery slope that online novels should never touch.

But Captain Dragonfly is a good editor-in-chief, and he still gave me an idea—"an alternate history of the Republic of China".

There is no more dangerous background than this, but there is also no more suitable background!
I was so excited when I heard that I tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep. My mind was filled with countless thoughts, like waves crashing on the shore.

In less than a week, I wrote a draft that I felt was excellent and sent it to Captain Dragonfly. He gave me the highest praise I've ever received: "It's got the feel for it!"

So I published the book on February 5th as promised under my alternate account, 【船頭鸦】, but it was blocked by the review process as soon as I published the first chapter.

I revised it overnight, and with the help of my editor Jiang Cha, I finally managed to send the book out.

From beginning to end, I understood that writing that book well was not only a responsibility to myself and the readers, but also a way to live up to the expectations of the editors in Group 10.

Even though the book was almost completely banned later, I didn't get discouraged. I tried my best to revise all the potentially prohibited content without going against my original intention. I was practically begging the censors to let me do it.

Although the final subscription only reached 1,000, I am still optimistic.

Whether it's "Hogwarts Without a Savior" or the original book about the saint, my initial subscription numbers were only around a thousand, or even less than a thousand.

However, the savior got the 10,000-subscription badge a year after the series ended, while the saint started a new account and achieved a great product with more than 7,000 subscriptions without any traffic generation.

Therefore, I believe I can definitely write better and better, and present this story in the most perfect state.

The very next day after it went on sale, I was rushed to the hospital. I underwent three full days of examinations, and during those three days I was in so much pain that I only slept for four hours. The doctors, based almost entirely on their experience, had already diagnosed me with cholecystitis, but even a color Doppler ultrasound specifically targeting the gallbladder couldn't detect anything.

When my mother was crying and preparing to take me to Shanghai for a checkup, the last MRI finally revealed the problem: cholecystitis caused by gallstones blocking the bile duct.

Because it was delayed for too long, the situation has worsened. The gallbladder has become completely necrotic and suppurated, and the infection has spread to the liver and lungs, causing pneumonia and liver abnormalities.

That book I had high hopes for is completely impossible to write. If it's delayed any longer, I'll go into shock and be sent to the ICU.

We need to save our lives first before we think about anything else.

After the surgery, I spent ten days in the hospital recuperating, and I kept thinking about how to restart "The Great Villain Who Saves the Suffering".

But my mindset after escaping death was obviously a bit off. I was impatient, feeling sorry for both the readers and the editor, and I was eager to write a new book that could start like that one.

The final result was that it only got worse and worse, and even I couldn't stand it anymore, let alone the editor.

After clearing my mind for two or three days, I finally realized that what I need to do now is not to think about writing something more brilliant, but to calm down as soon as possible.

That's how the book "Hogwarts' Sunny Snape" came about.

Don't laugh, but I already wrote the beginning of this book a long time ago.

It was probably around July of 2024.

When I had written about saints on my alternate account to around 100,000 words, starting a new book on my new account put a lot of pressure on me. I was anxious every day looking at the meager numbers, and I kept thinking about whether I should just shamelessly go back to writing fanfiction.

Then, with the mindset of relaxing myself and writing for myself, I came up with this idea and wrote the beginning of the first three chapters. But after enjoying it for two days, I threw it into the draft library and ignored it. I also like the book about the sage more and more as I write it.

It wasn't until last month that I decided to change my mindset and sent the opening paragraph I wrote a year ago to my editor.

She thought the story was great, and I wrote it well too. I'm just worried that my mindset is different now than it was a year ago, and I might not be able to write it well later.

So I rewrote the first three chapters all the way up to the part where Harry was taken away, and sent it to her again. She confirmed it was okay, so I felt relieved and sent the book out.

I really love every story I write, truly, from the bottom of my heart.

The same goes for the cheerful and optimistic Snape. The book that made me known to more people was undoubtedly the one with a dark and oppressive atmosphere, "No Savior".

But actually, my first book, "Big Problems," and my second book, "Defense Professor," are both lighthearted and cheerful.

Now that I've accumulated so many books, I'm confident I can write this story well!

The first vampire story is proof of that; it was so complete and well-developed that it didn't leave any loose ends for the werewolf story that followed. As a result, many readers started to skip the rest of the book after finishing Blood Nyx, and my reading data dropped so much the other day that I was practically numb.

However, just like my previous books, I am confident that I will write better and better and will not let everyone down!

Don't worry, I will definitely try my best to update after it's published. I love reading, and I love writing even more.

I will continue to improve, and I'm sure I'll be able to write even better stories in the future!
———————— July 15, 2025. A large ship.

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