End-of-Volume Summary and Two-Day Hiatus

Volume Four, "Knight," was probably the longest-running volume of this book so far—exactly three months.

But the actual word count updated was only a little over 400,000.

An average of 4,000 words per day.

Gah! What an utter disgrace to the webnovel world!

All Carrot Ball could say was sorry. It was entirely due to my own issues—no excuses, I was a complete war criminal.

Fortunately, my health and condition have improved a little lately, and I can finally return to two updates a day!

Although the results have been steadily declining, even crashing hard, thankfully there's still a group of readers who enjoy this niche story and quietly keep following the updates.

Carrot Ball is truly grateful for your support!

It's also thanks to this small number of you that this book can still bring Carrot Ball some income. Even if it isn't much, it can barely cover loan repayments and living expenses.

Over these past three months, Carrot Ball's mindset and mental state have changed a great deal.

But no matter how things changed, I ultimately still didn't want to give up.

This story deserves a satisfying ending. The characters I've written deserve closure. The readers and I deserve an answer.

More importantly—

I don't want to carry the bad reputation of abandoning a story halfway through.

I hope that years from now, when people mention the author "Carrot Ball," they'll at least say that although the books weren't much, he was still responsible and saw things through from beginning to end.

I'll do my best to achieve that.

My best.

"Before beginning a new story, one should settle the old one—whether it's a romance or a novel."

—Carrot Ball, a nobody on Qidian.

Now that the off-topic chatter is over, let's talk about the story