by FAMLEGMON
20-year-old Mateo Garcia is an office employee stuck in a dead-end job with a financial situation that only seems to get worse—not at all what he envisioned his life would be like right after high school, when he had the highest hopes imaginable. He gets the opportunity of a lifetime, however, after unknowingly applying for a new job that promises him a life better than the one he’s currently been dealt. Unfortunately, he’ll come to find that with such a different, seemingly better life, also comes a lot of weight and baggage, the likes of which he could have never imagined. Quick note: I do use AI to fix any grammar or misspelling errors and for occasional polishing of sentences. Otherwise, the characters, world, and story are all of my original creation. :)
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 9 Oct 2026, 21:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 9 Oct 2026, 21:08 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
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beats 18% of similar stories
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beats 19% of similar stories
Both levers trail the field
Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
