"Hard work pays off, but it has to be in the right place. Mere effort doesn't prove anything. Things like persisting in writing movie reviews or reading books into the wee hours, sleeping only a few hours each day, are things you should do to achieve a goal, not capital for self-pity to say 'I've worked so hard, why can't I beat others?' There's no shortage of diligent people in this world."
Xu Qing posted the movie review and didn't look at it again. Now the number of fans on his UP main account had more than doubled from before, and that movie review could be done just as a hobby without any expectations—even knowing there's no reward, he'd still do it when he was free.
