I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
I'd never quite settled on how to write this ending. In the end, I decided to return to my original idea and tell a story about "for your own good."
If there are any characters you'd still like to see, leave a comment here. If you feel it's already complete, then don't leave one, because the final stretch was all devoted to the Chaoge arc, and there was no way to depict every supporting character who had appeared before.
It would have been better if the story of Three Ji and Di Xin could have been arranged before the two-million-character mark, but I made some mistakes in my planning back then. I wanted to save that part for the end and focus first on Li Ping'an's Heavenly Emperor storyline.
My Immortal Dad was a new attempt at "story structure" for me.
Overall, its results and achievements were quite good. While serializing My Immortal Dad, my monthly writer index ranking even returned to the top ten, so I'd exceeded my expectations.
My Immortal Dad had been accompanied by controversy from the moment it was released, but most readers had only a vague idea of where the disputed points came from.
This was actually an exercise in reverse pressure.
Because longtime readers all knew that I'd made my name by establishing characters. I even turned "steadiness" into an annual webnovel buzzword for twenty years and popularized that entire style.
But the core point of resonance in My Immortal Dad was no longer simply its characters. It was...
The father-son relationship.
There were many kinds of Chinese father-son relationships. Trying to find resonance with readers through a harmonious father-son relationship was, in itself, an extremely risky move.
But wasn't it interesting?
I'd known from the start