Cite Publishing released the novel in book format in September of that same year, and began distributing it in mainland China in 1999. So far the book has sold 240,000 copies in Taiwan. In the PRC it has sold 360,000 hard copies, and another 50,000 have been distributed via various book clubs.
城邦出版集團在該年九月出書，隔年於大陸發行，截至目前為止，台灣已銷售二十四萬多本，大陸則賣出三十六萬本平裝書及俱樂部版五萬本。