A Note on Going Premium

It didn't seem very common to write one of these here, but who cares? I wanted to write one.

I was full of trepidation and overwhelmed by the honor.

That was how I felt right now.

I never thought I'd actually write a book that made it to premium. Thank you, everyone. Without your support and readership, I'd probably have dropped it again.

Sigh, I've dropped a lot of books, but I don't take everyone's money and leave them hanging. If I'm going to drop a book, I do it before it goes premium. Now that this one has, I'll definitely finish it.

So please rest assured.

Last night, I dreamed everyone was saying things like "What a slog," "Everyone's OOC," and "This is awful," and "It's all over the place" in the review section. Then Die replied to the comments with little pearls of tears falling, cut out all the side plots, and finished the book as soon as the main plot was done.

Phew. Looking back on it now, I still felt a bit of pressure. After all, my writing is a complete mess, and I'm still figuring out how to structure the plot.

But in any case, I hope to write a novel everyone enjoys reading.

Back to the point. This book really did start as an attempt to follow a trend. At the time, I thought, Since we're already here, why not get a group together for a trip and bring in some interesting, epoch-making combinations?

So, after several revisions, we ended up with what you see now.

It's boomerangs all the way through. I even made myself laugh while writing the outline.

As for the pacing of the recent story, I'm thinking of adjusting it. I've written nearly sixty thousand Chinese characters, and only one day has passed. Things have been moving a little slowly, so I've been staying up late revising the manuscript these past few days.

But things will return to normal later.

Now, I'll answer a few questions that come up often in the comments but are rather hard to answer.

First, are there any female leads?

Yes, multiple, from all three eras. No yuri, and I won't hand any women over to someone else. I've settled on a few so far; for the others, I'm still thinking about how to work in their romance arcs.

(P.S. Here's a scrap from an early draft: originally, the protagonist and Ya Li were friends with benefits.)

Second, the question of the protagonist's abilities:

There'll be a partial explanation at the end of the Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi section. Time abilities are prone to bugs, so all I can promise is that there won't be any common space-time paradoxes.

Third, updates:

It's four thousand Chinese characters a day here, updated in the early hours. I'll do my best to post extra chapters.

I'll also start a suggestion thread in the review section to see what combinations everyone wants to read about. I'll do my best to turn them into side plots.

All right, lastly, thank you all for reading and supporting the book. And thank you to the readers who left comments. You helped me sort out a lot of details from the original work, and I'm very grateful.

Thank you to the readers who gave me tips, recommendation votes, and monthly votes.

Thank you very much. May this book live up to both your expectations and mine.