This book made it to the end thanks to everyone's support along the way!
The ending was actually written rather hastily. Many things I wanted to flesh out were never expanded upon, and many details were rushed past.
After all, this was the author's first time writing a story to completion. By the end, there was still a sense of daze and regret.
Hampered by a lack of experience, the writing couldn't hold up in the later stages. It felt harder and harder to write, and more and more long-winded.
Even knowing where the story needed to go, I simply couldn't find the strength to push forward, making it all feel rather awkward. The later parts were especially hard to describe. All I could do was try my best to wrap things up properly without twisting the knife.
The poor state in the later stages was also mainly due to health issues.
The author's health has never been particularly good—nothing major, but a constant stream of minor ailments.
And because writing was scheduled from evening until the early hours of the morning, it was manageable for a short while, but after more than half a year, my mental state visibly deteriorated.
Frequent insomnia also left my memory far worse than before.
There may be many unresolved threads. If you find any, please point them out, and the author will add supplementary entries to fill them in.
There was also the matter of mentality.
Because this book's results were actually fairly decent, it drew every kind of comment. There were also plenty of personal attacks taking advantage of the gender-bender marriage theme, and it was hard not to be affected.
The one that left the deepest impression came on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, when