Come to think of it, I've noticed something: every time I post ten updates, someone says those ten updates are really padded.
But in my view, readers who say that have gotten the Karma backwards:
It wasn't that my ten updates were padded. It was that, for the sake of you esteemed readers' reading experience, I used those ten updates to skip over some necessary setup and wrote the setup together with the climax.
Why aren't you thanking Heshou Yuemanchi already?
Ahem. Enough fooling around—onto business.
To be fair, I'm extremely satisfied with the plot of these twenty updates. It felt like I'd somewhat recaptured the passion from back when I did fifteen updates for Golden Seeking. But on the other hand, there turned out to be even more content to write than I'd anticipated beforehand. As a result, after twenty updates, this lifetime still hadn't ended.
I'd originally wanted to say that I'd do another ten updates on the third.
But! But!
I can't hold on anymore. Two consecutive days of ten updates have left me somewhat drained in body and spirit. I really can't write through a third day. Besides, with the story at this point, the emotional buildup has already reached its peak. What follows will instead dip a little, and it doesn't feel like something that can be finished in ten updates anyway. So after thinking it over and over, I figured I'd better let it go. Honestly, stopping here feels pretty good.
Of course, the author won't be resting during this National Day holiday. There will still be the usual four updates tomorrow, and I'll finish this lifetime during the holiday.
Lastly, something rather important.
That is, nobody liked or shared Ting You in yesterday's end-of-chapter bonus, so today I switched to a beautiful female