Feeling a Little Sad

I'd just gotten home, taken a shower, and lain down in bed. As usual, I refreshed Longkong's recommendation section, planning to dig up a few books to read.

Then I saw someone criticizing my book. They said it was awful, but at least people were discussing it, right? That made me happy. Complaints meant they were reading it seriously.

That OP pointed out a bug in my book: the protagonist was five feet tall at three years old. They said that was way too much of a deal-breaker.

Actually, a friend had mentioned this to me before, but I hadn't paid attention and hadn't changed it.

Why? Well, I'll get to that later.

First, let me explain why I wrote him as five feet tall at age three.

Because the protagonist was going out to gain experience at that time. A tiny three-year-old toddler going out on his own felt way too out of place, so I made him grow a little taller.

There were two ways to handle it.

The first was to establish that the protagonist was exceptionally gifted and had simply grown to five feet tall by age three.

That method worked too. After all, this was another world. You couldn't apply Earth's laws of physics to Battle Through the Heavens, could you? I could set things up however I wanted.

Some people might say, "Then find me a three-year-old who's five feet tall on Earth." See? Isn't that just being unreasonable? How was I supposed to find one? If I wrote a race of hundred-meter giants, would you also demand that I find a hundred-meter giant on Earth?

It was a fantasy story. Was it really so impossible for someone to be tall?

The second option was that Yao Lao was an Alchemy Grandmaster, right? He