The end-let the flowers fly!!!
When I typed the words "The End," I sat stunned in front of my computer for a long time, feeling empty inside.
Before I knew it, I had spent an entire year writing this book.
When I truly reached the very last word, all I could think about was how hard it was to let go.
I believe every author probably feels this same tangle of emotions when saying goodbye to the characters they created.
This year really was pain and joy taking flight together, hurting and enjoying it all at once, haha.
The pain was genuinely painful. Writer's block really could make me tear my hair out. Sometimes I sat in front of my computer all night without managing to squeeze out so much as a fart, wanting nothing more than to eat my keyboard on the spot.
Reading reviews was even harder to endure. Bad reviews really upset me so much I couldn't even eat, to the point that, for a long time afterward, I was too chicken to open the comments section, afraid my Dao Heart would shatter on the spot.
But the happiness was genuinely happy, too.
My greatest stroke of luck was having a group of lovely reader friends stumble along with me all the way from the first chapter to this final one.
Without every casual tap of yours urging me to update, I probably would have deserted halfway through long ago.
It was precisely because of all the outrageous remarks and roasting you posted in the paragraph comments-and, of course, the legendary comments-that I gritted my teeth and wrote this long story all the way to the end.
On my own, I definitely couldn't have held out until today.
Writing is lonely, but because you were reading, this