I started writing this book last September, and now it had been eleven months;
I started writing this book last September, and now it had been eleven months;
At 1.8 million characters, it had set another personal record for me as an author.
Actually, I could have written it longer and made the characters more fleshed out...
But as I always say, a small-time nobody like me doesn't deserve buildup, and the numbers won't laugh and joke along with you... Whenever the perspective wasn't on Chu Yuan, the numbers dropped fast.
I knew everyone came here for the thrills, to watch Chu Yuan show off;
But if the supporting cast wasn't outstanding enough, there was no way to make Chu Yuan's strength stand out more vividly.
Looking back, there weren't many supporting characters in the book who had left a deep impression, and not many moments truly worth being moved by;
If I tried to be more literary, I couldn't stand it myself—and AI was far more literary than I was;
If I tried to make it more hot-blooded, without enough buildup, it would seem too embarrassingly edgy.
And I didn't like killing off characters, which made the plot's tension feel less full.
Actually, killing off a few characters at the right time—like the City Lord...—would not only bait a huge pile of comments, but also make it easier to push the plot forward;
But... I just couldn't bear to do it...
By now, perhaps everyone could feel it too: in this book, all the factions and most of the characters were linked together by "interests" and "checks and balances."
Chu Yuan didn't seem to have especially deep feelings or bonds with the humans of the Great Universe, or the humans of Great Qin.
Everything he did was only because