Author's Note
From the start of this book to the completion of this first volume, Pang Hu had spent a full two months writing it.
And according to Pang Hu's original expectations, I had never thought this book would achieve its current results in just the first volume.
Because Pang Hu had originally thought that, with most of the first volume dedicated to laying out the worldbuilding and establishing each character's persona,
the early results might not be very good.
But what Pang Hu hadn't expected was that this book's first-volume results weren't merely good—they were so good that they exceeded my expectations.
But that also brought a measure of anxiety, because Pang Hu was afraid of ruining it with one careless step, so I truly felt as though I were treading on thin ice.
Fortunately, for now, everything remained within Pang Hu's control. That really counted as a kind of luck.
And regarding the final ending of this first volume, Pang Hu did indeed have an outline that could have made it more "knife-twisting."
For example, the part where the memories were temporarily sealed away, as well as part of Caroline's stubbornness in "breaking out of the script."
So according to Pang Hu's original outline, this section should have been portrayed in a relatively sadder way.
But after thinking it over, Pang Hu ultimately decided not to do that.
Because there had already been enough sadness before this.
If Pang Hu kept writing "sadness," everything would become a little too much.
Because in Pang Hu's view, so-called "strength" should not mean bringing tragedy time and time again.
It should mean turning every impossibility into possibility, turning one tragedy after another into fulfillment.
Because that meant he possessed the ability to break every rule, that he was an existence beyond