It's finished, dear readers of Salted Fish.
This time, it really and truly is finished, and this series can finally come to a satisfying close.
Nearly six million Chinese characters, a marathon lasting more than three years, finally came to an end at this moment. And if we included Loli Mage God, that made it a sprawling epic of over seven million characters.
Honestly, how should I put it? When I typed the words "the end," what I felt most was relief.
At the very beginning.
Salted Fish only wanted to write a Western fantasy love story: a similar flower, a thousand-year wait, two people who endured all kinds of hardships before finally coming together and living happily ever after.
That was the original plan.
But as ideals and fate came one after another, by the latter part of the previous book, Salted Fish could barely control where each character was heading anymore. That was, in itself, a sign of immature writing, but you could also say that deep down, Salted Fish resisted that kind of perfect ending. Because sometimes, a life of hardship and wandering didn't lead to happiness, but only to more suffering.
So the previous book could only end in that hopeless deadlock.
Longtime readers of Salted Fish's books probably knew that the previous book went on a long hiatus right before its ending. That was because Salted Fish kept agonizing over how to bring the story to a close.
So Salted Fish started Otherworld.
From the very beginning, this book was only intended to give the previous book a true ending, witnessing everything that followed from another perspective.
But unexpectedly, this book actually took off after it went premium, which really caught Salted Fish by surprise.
Of course, it's not popular anymore now, hahaha.
But honestly,