This month coincides with the Chinese New Year and the epidemic. Both my work status and mental state are a bit unstable. Thank you all for giving me time to rest. I will resume the double update on February 3rd.

As for the summary of the content, I plan to put the detailed part at the end of this part, because it is almost the last big chapter, so I will just briefly talk about it here:

I have said that, for the book Weird, I will learn from the lessons of I and Arcane and will not let many characters created in the early stage be abandoned by the plot, gradually become weak and lose their color. In many cases, there is actually no way around it, because if the supporting characters are treated like the protagonists, everyone will feel that it is unfair, that the golden fingers are too big or that the space given is too long, cumbersome, heavy, dragging and bloated. But if not, it will be difficult for the supporting characters to keep up with the pace of the protagonists and they will inevitably lose their sense of existence.

Before writing The Secret, in order to solve this and other creative problems, I came up with the upgrade system of potions, sequences, and role-playing. On the one hand, it ensures that there are enough changes and new things with each level up, and on the other hand, it can also reasonably make supporting characters progress faster. Haha, in fact, the inspiration for many of my settings comes from solving problems.

Similarly, the setting of the Tarot Club is actually to control the supporting characters well, and to show different cross-sections through them, which become the arms and roots of Xiao Ke.

Therefore, when writing the mystery to the later stage, I kept reminding myself to stay patient and expand the side stories of the supporting characters. Of course, it is really difficult to write in this way, because the more you write in the later stage, the more supporting characters there are, and the interweaving lines are really huge and difficult to control, and it will obviously slow down the rhythm and reduce the appeal of the plot.

In addition, the shaping of different roles in different sequences must not be the same. If everyone has ups and downs, twists and turns, and great terrors between life and death, it would be boring and lose its uniqueness. Some roles need inner precipitation again and again, accumulation of small forces again and again, and then burst out.

Well, thank you all for your support in January, and thank you to all the friends who subscribed and voted. The average subscription has just exceeded 97,000. I will continue to ask for your support through monthly votes in February!

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