And that was the end of the "Jianghu News" section. Turning farther brought him to the serialized stories he had once been so obsessed with.
Pei Ye remembered that the last installment he had read was the twentieth chapter of July's "Broken Chivalrous Bones." It had seemed like an ending, yet not quite. Now he held September's Court Gazette, and wondered what new story it contained.
Yet when he turned the page, he was briefly taken aback again.
Instead of the familiar format, there were two columns, the first of which was actually a short letter of apology.
"To my readers, with shame,
I had intended to finish 'Broken Chivalrous Bones' in August, but an unforeseen development prevented me from updating the story as scheduled. My sincerest apologies. Now that September has arrived, the final chapter of 'Broken Chivalrous Bones' is no longer timely. I have decided to suspend it here for now, and begin a new story in October's National Gazette.
But this does not mean 'Broken Chivalrous Bones' has ended forever. Like all of you, I look forward to a day, some springs and autumns from now, when I can bring you its true final chapter.
I hope that, when the time comes, you will not yet have forgotten the name Xi Wuchou.
Azure Luan in the Mirror, August thirtieth, Divine Capital."
"..."
Pei Ye stared for a while, unable to understand what was going through the author's head. For a moment, he suspected that the matter of Elder Yue involved secrets, and that the Immortal Platform had intervened to stop the author writing.
In any case, that was that for this story. The second column farther down also struck him as quite novel.
[On Swordsmanship: Notes · Preface]
"Azure Luan said to me, 'Many beneath heaven watch