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It was finished.
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It might have been a little rushed. Many foreshadowed threads and the ultimate fates of many supporting characters were never written out, but the main plot's pacing and storyline had truly reached this point. It would not have been right to keep inserting side plots, because the more I added, the messier it became. I was getting lost in it myself.
In truth, many people—many supporting characters—their stories had not ended yet. But our protagonist's story ended here.
The mental states and emotional journeys of many supporting characters were worth depicting in detail, but perhaps it really came down to length, so I put down my pen.
Wait, it seemed like I had forgotten something.
Oh, right.
I had finished the book.
Little Lantern—Ku Deng Ye Hua—hereby knelt in gratitude to every reader: everyone who made it this far, everyone who followed along, everyone who tipped or voted, everyone who read, everyone who bought my chapters. Thank you all so, so much for honoring me with your readership. I truly cannot thank you enough.
Well, my thoughts were actually a little scattered right now. I had some alcohol while writing these final thoughts, because it had truly been too painful, too stifling, too torturous. Tears fell as I wrote this, and I did not know what to say.
I remembered.
AAAAAAAH, I kneel again to apologize—
I knew that the plot declined in the latter half of this work. That was a problem caused by my own lack of ability. I tried very hard to keep writing, to salvage the story, but the more I wrote, the more painful and hopeless it became. This book was Little Lantern's first serious work. I had no prior experience, nor any experience serializing a long novel, which led