I Wish to Raft the Milky Way—World-Honored One Volume Summary and Reflections
This novel was about to end.
World-Honored One was a tremendously important volume. In the history of this book, the Middle Antiquity Era was an age that linked what came before to what came after. And the World-Honored One was an inescapable legend of the Middle Antiquity Era.
In terms of the structure of the entire novel, World-Honored One also served as the key to drawing in all the branches that came before and carrying the conclusion onward. Like the neck of an hourglass.
On further thought, a more fitting metaphor would be "tomb-raiding," because it was not in the middle stretch, but the final stretch.
I had always suffered from a "fear of insufficient firepower." When it came to gathering threads and filling in holes before bringing things to a satisfying close, I always felt I had not prepared enough. Were there not enough foreshadowing? Not enough emotion? Not enough preparation? Was even my own condition not enough...?
I always felt that I needed to lay a little more groundwork, that I needed to "wait a little longer."
This "wait a little longer"—this "how long do we wait?"—was often the source of readers' impatience.
I had also always consoled myself like this—I had to do it. For the sake of the story as a whole, I ought to wait until the most perfect moment. During the process of laying groundwork and burying threads, the occasionally unavoidable less-than-exciting reading experience was a sacrifice that had to be made for the ending. (Perhaps I still thought this way now.)
But when it took first place on all three rankings last year, I found myself thinking—
This was already the top-ranked work on the lists.
If I held it to