Does the title look a little familiar...? It had only been 50 days since the last completion remarks!
I said back then that there would be a proper set of remarks here, but looking back, that one was already quite formal. So I'll just casually share some thoughts here.
Long side stories had always been part of the plan. Since the protagonists were Xiao An and Xiao Ke's daughters, they weren't suitable for the main story. Besides, the overall tone was a rather relaxed pilgrimage, so perhaps it worked better as a side story.
Originally, I wanted to finish it all and release it at once, but if I had done that, I could only have ended the book early and posted it two or three months later. That would have meant losing some fan badges, so it could only be serialized afterward instead. As everyone saw, I took quite a few breaks along the way, and the writing overall was rather rushed. A lot of planned content couldn't be squeezed in, and the final result could only be called barely satisfactory...
But no matter what, this side story had come close to 200,000 words—far beyond its planned length—and was now complete. Things many readers hoped to see, such as the Curly-Haired Baboon Research Society, new transmigrators, and the lives of other old characters, simply couldn't be fit in. They could only be saved for later short side stories.
The plan was this: the main story of this book was considered complete here, and its status would be changed to completed. Then I would rest for around half a month before beginning work on short side stories. But they definitely wouldn't be released continuously like this one. I expected one every ten days or half a month, perhaps with even