It was finally finished. I'd like to thank everyone for your support all this time, especially friends like "ShiroZwei," who stayed with this book until the very end.
The original plan had been to write over a million words, but once the main plot began, I realized that most readers did not like the content I had intended to give such heavy focus to. After the main story started, the 24-hour follow-up subscriptions plummeted from three or four hundred to forty or fifty, TOT. I no longer had the heart to slowly flesh it out.
And this book's failure marked the complete failure of my five-year attempt to explore all kinds of genres. After this, the only path left was to go back and continue writing the modern and contemporary red military history stories I was good at. Although there was a risk of never finishing, the results were several times better, and that was still preferable to working for a year without even earning enough for meals.
Besides, that really was the kind of subject matter I liked writing most. Even without making money, I could maintain my creative passion for it. No other genre could compare.
But everyone knows the rules here, so changing platforms was definitely unavoidable. I still haven't decided where to post it, because this time I planned to stockpile more chapters and release it next year. Smaller sites were unstable, as was the outside environment, and who knew what things would be like next year? So there was no way to decide in advance.
The subject matter had already been decided: traveling through time to the Red Army Northward Anti-Japanese Vanguard Detachment and changing its tragic fate. I doubt anyone else would be writing something like that for the time being, so if you