Why this title? Because there's another wedding to take care of. Wait, why did I say "another"? As I mentioned before, my wife and I live in different provinces—she's from Sichuan, and I'm from Zhejiang. We held the first wedding at her family's home, and now it's our family's turn. We can't exactly charter a plane and fly over a hundred people from each side back and forth. I'm no tycoon—though, of course, I dream of becoming one.
Since this wedding is being held at our place, I'll have a lot of things to take care of and a lot of friends to host. I can already imagine how exhausting it'll be. If this were the first six months of a book, I could stockpile enough chapters without updating extra. But everyone can see how much I've been struggling to write lately. It's not that I don't want to; I just can't manage it. Anyway, back to the point: I hope you'll understand. Starting tomorrow, I'll post one chapter a day from the 15th to the 19th. I'll take the 20th and 21st off, post one chapter on the 22nd, and return to the regular schedule on the 23rd.
The reason for the break is that I have to go to the hospital on the 15th. Over the past few months, writer's block, procrastination, and feeling dissatisfied with my writing have left me anxious, irritable, and showing signs of depression. Those feelings, in turn, have made the writer's block, procrastination, and dissatisfaction worse—a vicious cycle. Since last Tuesday, I've been taking traditional Chinese medicine to help regulate things. I've felt much better over the past week: less anxiety, a calmer mood, and I've been satisfied with what I've written. So tomorrow I need to go back for a follow-up and