Chapter 188 Epilogue
The Banyan Tree Spirit Youth really likes to take a passive stance, always believing that others beg or pressure him, that he is always innocent, always the victim, and always the weaker party.
Since that's the case, Yu Naixin will grant his request.
While he might not be as masochistic as the vampire duke in Neuschwanstein Castle, Yu Naixin could tell that the young banyan tree spirit genuinely enjoyed being forced into this situation.
The identity of the president of Jishi Medical University was particularly useful at this time, directly increasing his original strength to twelve points.
The banyan tree spirit youth's eyes flickered violently.
He remembered!
If a guest gives you 100% favorability, and your obsession is strong enough, you can use your own body and all your spiritual power as a price to become a special spiritual artifact and bind it to the corresponding guest!
In this way, not only can he finally escape from the "Jishi Medical University" program, but he also avoids being completely destroyed and returning to nothingness. He can also stay by Yu Naixin's side, which is simply the perfect ending!
Once the idea took hold, the young banyan tree spirit's mind was completely agitated, and desires began to grow uncontrollably.
Finally, he closed his eyes, his voice barely audible: "...Okay."
He is willing.
[Congratulations, female guest! The male guest "Banyan Tree Spirit Youth" has reached 100% favorability towards you!]
You will receive additional generous rewards during the settlement process after this program ends!
The system notification that the young banyan tree spirit had gained a lot of favor was like the first domino to fall, quickly triggering a chain reaction.
[Congratulations, female guest! The male guest in this episode, "The Stitched-Toothed Professor," has reached 100% affection for you!]
You will receive additional generous rewards during the settlement process after this program ends!
When a guest in a segment gets their favorability rating maxed out, everyone involved—whether they are a guest on the show, an audience member, or another guest—will receive a notification.
Professor Frankenstein's favorability had been steadily increasing due to Yu Naixin's growing strength and abilities. Now that he had confirmed that his long-time nemesis was willing to die for Yu Naixin, his admiration for her reached its peak.
It's just about giving Yu Naixin 100% of his affection, right? Even the banyan tree spirit youth can do that, so why can't he?!
[Congratulations, female guest! The male guest in this episode, "Drowning Ghost Student," has reached 100% affection for you!]
You will receive additional generous rewards during the settlement process after this program ends!
Yu Naixin's ability to win over both the banyan tree spirit youth and the Frankenstein professor to the maximum level of affection is the most powerful proof of the verbal promise she made to the drowned student.
The drowned ghost student, who had been secretly observing everything, was deeply moved.
Unlike the other two guest contestants, he was born from a segment of the show. In other words, without these two guest contestants, he would never have been trapped in the cage of "Heartbeat 1000%" from the moment he was born.
The Frankenstein professor and the banyan tree spirit youth are definitely enemies of the drowned student.
Now that his enemy is destined to die and his great revenge has been achieved, the drowned ghost student naturally feels a sense of satisfaction.
Besides, he also had his own calculations.
The guest characters born within the program's segments are born with the ability to know their own existence. In cases like his, where all the other guest characters are gone and he is the only new guest character left, "Jishi Medical University" will not directly transform from a mutation-generating segment into a mutation-reducing segment. There are no segments that can undergo a second mutation.
Therefore, he will most likely be assigned to another individual guest in the show to form a new episode, or he may disappear along with the destruction of "Jishi Medical University".
More than any of these, it would be best to become a special magical artifact in the hands of your favorite TV show guest.
【Wow!!! 100% Affection! 100% Affection for all the guests in the dungeons! The Little Witch did it! She's once again made the dungeon show a resounding success! Amazing!!!】
[Congratulations to the female guest on the show "Heartbeat 1000%"! You have received 55 Sweet Coins from a viewer with the ID "Completed Sprinkling Flowers"!]
[Holy crap?! It really was a complete cleansing?! I thought this kind of thing only existed in unreliable legends, but I actually got to see it live?!]
[Congratulations to the female guest on the show "Heartbeat 1000%"! You have received 39 Sweet Coins from a viewer with the ID "My Brain Cells Are Really Dead"!]
[See you in the next dungeon show, Great Demon King! Once the second live stream for the title area starts, you'll be eligible to be on the leaderboard. Great Demon King will definitely be on the list! I can't wait to see where he'll rank on the three lists!]
[Congratulations to the female guest on the show "Heartbeat 1000%"! You have received 39 Sweet Coins from a viewer with the ID "大魔王love"!]
[It feels like I've witnessed the rise of a rising star... I don't even know when was the last time I felt so moved watching a live stream. Will an even more disruptive storm emerge in the future?]
The three announcements came almost simultaneously, and the three guest stars quickly transformed into three streaks of light, vying to fly into Yu Naixin's arms.
The banyan tree spirit youth occupied the most advantageous geographical position. As soon as the bluish-gray light appeared, it was right next to Yu Naixin's hand, circling around her wrist like some kind of affectionate little animal trying to please its master.
However, Yu Naixin did not intend to accept it.
The reason is the same as the four in "Neuschwanstein Castle": she thought it was dirty.
Having hunted countless TV guests, covered in blood and grime, she has no right to follow her in achieving any kind of "rebirth".
During the "Swan Castle" period, Yu Naixin's spiritual power coefficient was too low, and she needed to rely on the golden key given by Luna to refuse the advances of the four dungeon guests.
However, the spiritual power coefficients of the banyan tree spirit youth and the Frankenstein professor are not significantly different from those of the four guest characters. Yu Naixin's spiritual power coefficient, on the other hand, has increased by almost tenfold. In addition, her use of spiritual power has become more and more skillful. Even without other special means, she can use spiritual power to attach to her body surface as a defensive layer to prevent the bluish-gray light from merging into her body.
The black and red light that followed, belonging to the Frankenstein professor, was also rejected by Yu Naixin in the same way.
Anyway, the Jishi Medical University is about to collapse and close down, and she's about to leave, so what does it matter what happens to these two?
However, the drowned ghost student's dark gray light, because this newly created guest hadn't had time to do anything, was able to successfully transform into a stack of neatly folded fabric, which Yu Naixin took in her hand.
[(Cloak of Concealment): A special magical artifact, already bound to guest "Yu Naixin" as its sole user.]
Looking at the information displayed on the system screen, Yu Naixin frowned.
At this point, why haven't I sent her the message "You have successfully completed this program instance"? There's also no follow-up settlement information.
It can't be because she didn't formally submit the truth behind those three terrifying rumors, right? But she's already successfully completed this episode, so this formality is completely irrelevant.
During the first simulation, when the deadline was approaching, the system sent her a questionnaire with only three questions, which she could answer using her thoughts. This time, the system didn't send a questionnaire.
That leaves only two possibilities.
The surrounding environment had begun to crumble and collapse, and the bullet screen that Yu Naixin saw on the light screen had just closed and stopped refreshing.
The first possibility is that she encountered the bug in "Heartbeat 1000%" again.
The second possibility is—
The entire instance space shattered completely, and familiar gray mist enveloped Yu Naixin from all directions. The strange scene composed of countless chaotic timelines, which was not unfamiliar, was also unveiled.
The blurry, adult human male figure she had once seen in the crack of "Xiawei Temple" appeared before Yu Naixin once again.
Yu Naixin: "..."
Okay, we can confirm that it's the second possibility.
"That person" has made a move.
Yu Naixin immediately tried to contact the priest's folding fan and the paper dog with her consciousness, only to find that both of these special magical artifacts were "disconnected" from her and had disappeared.
"That sir" is planning to have a one-on-one time with her this time.
The two streaks of light, one bluish-gray and the other blackish-red, were still relentlessly circling around Yu Naixin, trying to find an opportunity. The last remaining remnant of "Jishi Medical University" disappeared completely. The two streaks of light only had time to let out a muffled cry of pain before they were buried along with the program's episode.
Yu Naixin felt a warmth in her palm, a sensation similar to the warm, gentle touch of a flame that doesn't burn when you finish a game like "Swan Castle," which flashed by in an instant.
Yu Naixin was also familiar with this; it was the purest spiritual power, stripped of the souls of all the guests in the dungeon.
[Congratulations, female guest! You have received spiritual energy from the male guest "Banyan Tree Spirit Youth," increasing your spiritual energy coefficient by 10.]
[Congratulations, female guest! You have received spiritual power from the male guest "The Stitched-Toothed Professor" in the alternate episode. Your spiritual power coefficient has increased by 10.]
The two announcements startled Yu Naixin.
The spiritual power added to her by the guests in the "Swan Castle" instance was always "please refer to the final settlement list for specific conversion data", but this time it was settled directly on the spot.
Moreover, last time each of the dungeon guests provided her with 10% of their spiritual power coefficient, but this time the two dungeon guests provided a uniform 10 points of spiritual power, which is much lower.
Yu Naixin looked at the blurry figure.
It seems that the methods of this mastermind are quite limited.
Yu Naixin gave a barely perceptible "hehe" sound.
It perfectly matched the information she had previously obtained; the creator of "Heartbeat 1000%" was not the type to manage and control every little detail.
He is more like a programmer who wrote the code that makes up all the parts of "Heartbeat 1000%", let it run naturally, and then checked, eliminated and fixed bugs, as well as upgraded the program regularly or irregularly.
Actually, Yu Naixin had planned to meet Him after this episode.
The end of "Xiawei Temple" was the first time Yu Naixin truly "saw" Him. The biggest difference between the end of "Cocoon Village" and "Swan Castle" was that she had one more chance to use the simulator back then.
Therefore, for this "Jishi Medical University" competition, Yu Naixin only conducted two simulations, specifically reserving one opportunity.
Of course, this particular episode was also not difficult for her. Yu Naixin quit halfway through both of her second simulations, and actually only simulated it once and a half.
Unexpectedly, He beat me to it and came over first.
From the moment Yu Naixin saw him until now, only a few seconds have passed, and the man's figure has become visibly increasingly blurry.
Time and space of different dimensions became disordered, giving Yu Naixin a harsh experience of being thrown into a washing machine and spun around in the dark, suffering from severe myopia, astigmatism, night blindness, and floaters.
It's like a weaker version of sanity dropping drastically.
Yu Naixin closed her eyes immediately, and the discomfort lessened considerably.
Even when facing this guy who was in charge of the entire "Heartbeat 1000%" show and could practically control her own life and death, Yu Naixin showed no fear and directly asked, "Your condition is in such a bad state?"
She thought this guy was at his last gasp, at least still had some strength left, but it turned out he was already on the verge of exhaustion.
Yu Naixin's sensitivity to spiritual power was so strong that even the priest folding fan was amazed. She could sense that the spiritual pressure emanating from this mastermind had weakened by at least 70% to 80% compared to their last "meeting".
She was just participating in a side program.
"Oh, right," Yu Naixin said, realizing she still didn't know this guy's name, "What's your name?"
Neither of Yu Naixin's two sentences could be considered polite, but the other party was not annoyed, only letting out a very soft bitter laugh: "...I'm sorry to have made you laugh, Miss Yu."
The voice of a young man, in a surround sound style, resonated from every direction in the space. The timbre was very captivating, possessing an extremely textured and magnetic quality, reminiscent of the strings of a guqin plucked by a master.
The male guests on "Heartbeat 1000%" were all good-looking, and Yu Naixin had heard many pleasant male voices before, but she still couldn't help but be stunned when she heard the other person's voice.
This guy has a really nice voice.
Especially after losing their sight, their hearing becomes exceptionally sensitive.
The man's pronunciation was slow and deliberate, somewhat scholarly; just listening to his voice conjured up an image of a refined young scholar in a blue robe.
This perfectly matches Yu Naixin's previous speculation that He might be an ancient relic from over a thousand years ago.
He gave a very soft, bitter laugh: "...I'm sorry to have made Miss Yu laugh."
He didn't linger too long on Yu Naixin's first question, and turned to answer her second: "My surname is Ying, the Ying in 'Ying Lü Xi He Jie'. Miss Yu might remember that."
Yu Naixin did indeed recall: "That icon in the title bar?"
It is the character “应” in bronze inscriptions.
She said the title bar used this word, which sounded strange, and then she realized that's how it was.
"As for the name..." His voice deepened, carrying a sense of vicissitude from a long history, "I have already forgotten it."
At this point, He smiled and said, "I really like the seven-character quatrain that Miss Yu wrote."
“Especially the couplet in the middle, ‘You are granted a hundred years of sorrow for going west, and I will receive a thousand miles of spring for coming east,’ the meaning is very good, and I also hope that it can be like that.”
“If Miss Yu doesn’t mind, you may call me Ying Qianli.”
Yu Naixin: "?!"
This guy named himself after the poem she wrote?!
Yu Naixin was shocked: "...You want to recognize me as your mother?!"
Feeling that the word "Mom" might be a bit inappropriate to use when talking to someone so old-fashioned, Yu Naixin quickly added: "You're recognizing me as your godmother?!"
Ying Qianli: "..."
Ying Qianli: "?"
The space fell into complete silence.
Ying Qianli sensed the petite, sweet-faced girl who seemed not yet an adult, and a rare feeling of being both amused and exasperated arose within him.
Miss Yu's thought process is really... uniquely adorable.
His silence relieved Yu Naixin: "Oh, that's good."
Having already said enough about the digression, Yu Naixin's expression immediately returned to normal, and she began to get down to business: "Your memory loss is directly related to your current state, isn't it?"
"Using your own body as a vessel, you connect all the different time-space segments of the 'Heartbeat 1000%' program, as well as the dressing rooms of the program guests, the storage place for the remnants of the audience's souls, and the passages to the outside world, all of which are like a net. Whether it is the supply of spiritual energy that supports everything, the daily operation of rules, or the transmission of every change in spiritual energy, it will wear down your body to varying degrees. As time has passed and the world has changed, this wear and tear has had an indelible impact on your soul and consciousness."
The doubts and speculations that had accumulated before now had a chance to be verified, so Yu Naixin simply brought them all up at once: "The scale of 'Heartbeat 1000%' is too big. There are at least tens of thousands of program segments that are still running, and I don't know the exact number if you include the historical records. You have maintained its operation for so many years, and it has only started to show obvious loopholes in recent years. The amount of energy required must be an extremely terrifying number."
"No matter how incredibly powerful your physical body is, it's almost impossible for you to accomplish this on your own. The production team must have one or more stable energy sources."
"The spiritual power within the guest in the dungeon is the easiest thing to think of. Every dungeon show encourages and helps the show's guests to win over the other guests. The guests who are won over will lose corresponding spiritual power based on different data. This spiritual power is not directly fed back to the show's guests, nor does it have any direct impact on the audience, so the show's production team has to collect it."
"Thinking from this perspective, after each guest is hunted down, the spiritual energy contained in their flesh and blood may not only be absorbed by the other guests, but may also give the production team a 'cut'."
"After all, in essence, the reason why the guests on the show can generate spiritual power is basically because of the 'Spirit Awakening Pills' provided by the system shop. These pills, which can ignore almost any prerequisites and allow all the guests to acquire spiritual power out of thin air, are definitely not cheap to produce. The price of 1,500 Sweet Coins is really not high. It's almost like you're giving them away to the guests as charity. It's understandable that the production team would recoup part of the production cost after the guests die in the end."
"And isn't the essence of Sweet Coins simply an external carrier of this energy?"
"Sweet Coins allow show guests to pay their daily survival fee for each episode, purchase trial qualifications and various services in the lounge, and buy almost any kind of item in the two system shops. They are an indispensable survival resource for show guests. There are basically two ways to obtain Sweet Coins: one is to receive tips from the audience during the live broadcast, and the other is to complete the tasks of each episode according to the requirements."
"The latter, like the Spirit Awakening Pill, was funded by the production team. I originally thought the former followed the same logic: the show's guests would complete tasks to earn Sweet Coins, and the audience would have a different system with the same format but a different name to complete tasks and accumulate Sweet Coins."
"However, after I gained a deeper understanding of 'Heartbeat 1000%', I made a new discovery."
Yu Naixin crossed her arms: "The way viewers earn Sweet Coins is more about 'self-production and self-consumption,' right?"
"Just as the necessary prerequisite for them to tip program guests is that their emotions reach a certain threshold, viewers accumulate Sweet Coins on a daily basis by relying on the activity of their own thoughts and emotions. Actively participating in discussions and analyses during the live broadcast, as well as being moved by the content of the live broadcast, are all sources for viewers to obtain Sweet Coins."
This time, it was Ying Qianli's turn to be stunned.
He knew Yu Naixin was intelligent not for the first time, but He did not expect her to be this intelligent.
It's amazing that they were able to deduce the truth behind "Heartbeat 1000%" so meticulously and accurately.
“…Yes.” Ying Qianli responded, “What Miss Yu said is absolutely true.”
Yu Naixin nodded: "No wonder."
Now everything makes sense.
“I knew it was so strange,” Yu Naixin said calmly. “Why would an arena that is essentially meant to help humans fight against demons be packaged with a ‘romance drama’ theme, making it all look so incongruous?”
The original meaning of the program guest "Di Dang" is to "resist" the guest from the other episodes.
"In the beginning, 'Heartbeat 1000%' should have been a simple cage and battlefield. You specially created an independent space, arrested evil demons, and then selected people who met certain conditions to step onto the arena you built, so that the two sides could have a life-or-death duel."
"The show's bias towards the guest stars permeated every detail, while restricting the guest stars in every way. Even the guest stars who unfortunately died were preserved in spirit, and a system of audience donations was set up to encourage them to help the guest stars who were still fighting."
"However, since the main way for viewers to obtain Sweet Coins is directly related to their own thoughts and feelings, over the years of development of this program, the program with the basic operating rules written by you has gradually evolved into the current 'Heartbeat 1000%' based on actual sample data."
"—Because shipping couples is the lowest-cost, lowest-barrier thing that can stimulate strong emotional fluctuations and the desire to think and experience in the shortest amount of time."
"Actually, the stimulation from pornography, violence, and gore might be more direct, but firstly, these things don't last very long. If you do them too often, it's easy to raise your threshold and become numb, and the subsequent effect will be greatly reduced. It's not as lasting and long-lasting as shipping couples. Secondly, these things obviously don't align with your principles and beliefs."
"So you will black out the screen when there is privacy involved, and you will also limit the bloody and violent parts to the ordinary area. The audience in the title area will basically not see the guests who just want to see the guests being tortured to death by the dungeon guests. Most of them will seriously discuss the content of the live broadcast."
"After all, the ordinary section consists of newcomers or relatively weaker program guests, so bloodshed is unavoidable. It's better to leave an outlet for those viewers to vent their anger, so as to prevent them from acting recklessly and to maintain the overall balance and stability of 'Heartbeat 1000%'."
"Moreover, the 'dating reality show' format can logically prevent the guest contestants from targeting the main guests right from the start. The power imbalance between the two sides is too great, and it is almost impossible for the main guests to retaliate against the guest contestants. Even if you give the main guests so many preferential treatments and impose so many restrictions on the guest contestants, you cannot stop their hunting instincts."
"But if we add the rule that the more favor the guest gains from the main guests, the more spiritual power they can obtain when they devour the main guests, then we can easily and effectively make the guest obediently comply."
"Most of the program's segments are paired with two guest performers, and these two guest performers are not significantly different in terms of ability. This is a check and balance rule that you deliberately set up to make the guest performers wary of each other and restrain each other, thereby creating a relatively safe environment for the program's guests."
As Yu Naixin methodically explained her reasoning, Ying Qianli's initial surprise gradually turned into admiration, and... guilt.
This outstanding girl, who overturned His preconceived notions about "program guests," almost fell silently at the very beginning of her journey due to His own negligence.
“…I’m sorry.” Ying Qianli’s voice was low and full of sincerity and apology. “If it weren’t for my oversight, you shouldn’t have accidentally entered ‘Cocoon Village’ and had to face a dungeon program containing a domain lord without any system prompts.”
The start is incredibly difficult, even with the simulator provided by Him, it's still fraught with danger.
Yu Naixin was quite surprised to hear Ying Qianli's apology.
From various clues, Yu Naixin had long known that the person behind "Heartbeat 1000%" was not a tyrant, but rather, quite the opposite, a saint who stood on the side of humanity and risked everything for them.
After all, whether it's the spiritual power expended by the guest characters in the instance being conquered, or the energy generated by the audience to form Sweet Coins, both need to pass through Ying Qianli's body, this giant machine, before they can enter the circulation process.
Constructing program instances, ensuring that the instance guests do not escape their cages, programming NPC data, maintaining the system's operation, providing various resources to the system's shop stably, especially resources containing spiritual power, and preserving the remaining souls and spiritual power of the program guests to become viewers—all these tasks require a large investment of spiritual power to accomplish.
During this period, it would be an exaggeration to say that Ying Qianli pushed himself to the limit.
But Yu Naixin really didn't expect to hear this person, who is actually a "deity," so earnestly say "I'm sorry" to her and address her as "you" (a respectful term).
But she's quite susceptible to this.
Yu Naixin has always preferred gentle and good-tempered types. The only person in "Cocoon Village" who made her blush for a moment was the White Bone Scholar. In the "Xiawei Temple" segment, she also chose the Butter Flower Monk without hesitation when choosing her favorite male guest.
“Isn’t ‘Cocoon Village’ itself a flawed product?” Yu Naixin asked. “There is clearly one guest character who is already a domain lord, but the other two guest characters don’t even have a spiritual power coefficient of over 100, and one of them only has a spiritual power coefficient of 14.”
Although the Paper Doll Boy and the White Bone Scholar are not ordinary dungeon guests with double-digit spiritual power, otherwise they would not have such powerful functions after being transformed into special spiritual artifacts, but compared with the Fox Demon Priest, they still reveal a clear imbalance.
"Yes," Ying Qianli replied affirmatively, appearing quite good-natured.
Yu Naixin simply threw out all her questions: "What's the deal with that picture frame you made at the end of 'Swan Castle'?"
This thing is still in her system inventory. It appeared out of nowhere, and she's not sure what it's for.
Surely it's not that Ying Qianli insists on taking the groom's place at her fake wedding, is it?
Ying Qianli: "..."
With a soft cough, Ying Qianli answered the question that Yu Naixin would be concerned about: "This thing... possesses conceptual-level sturdiness."
Yu Naixin understood.
A brick that can smash anything, yet it won't break no matter how much you hit it.
It's perfectly fine to use it as a weapon later.
A strange, irregular electric current-like trace suddenly flashed in her vision. Yu Naixin tilted her head and asked, "You don't have much time to see me this time?"
The fact that she could still "see" such a clear image even with her eyes closed can only mean that Ying Qianli's condition has undergone a very serious change. Considering the current situation, it means that He can no longer sustain this space where only the two of them exist for much longer.
“…That’s how it is.” Ying Qianli’s voice also became a little muffled. “The main purpose of my visit is to ask Miss Yu whether you intend to leave ‘Heartbeat 1000%’?”
"You have suffered unnecessary hardships because of my problem. To express my apology, you can choose to leave the dating show completely here and return to your real world."
"Regarding your memories of the romance show, you can choose to keep or erase them. If you only want to erase a part of them, you can choose either option."
"In addition, I will prepare a clean and legal compensation for you, amounting to approximately 90 million, which you can access at any time after returning to the real world."
Yu Naixin: "...?!"
Yu Naixin was even more shocked than when she heard that Ying Qianli wanted to recognize her as his godmother.
She can now achieve something that even the most legendary guests on the show couldn't: leave "Heartbeat 1000%" and go back to her original show?!
Moreover, Ying Qianli gave her the option to erase some memories she didn't want to have, and the compensation of nearly 100 million yuan was so generous that she could just lie down and live out the rest of her life.
Yu Naixin comes from an ordinary middle-class family, so it would be a lie to say she wasn't tempted.
This was the first time she had ever felt so moved since she joined "Heartbeat 1000%".
But in the end, Yu Naixin declined, saying, "No need."
Even though her sanity was constantly dropping, Yu Naixin still opened her eyes and physically "looked" at Ying Qianli: "You're already in this half-dead state. It won't be long before you completely collapse. When the demons and monsters locked in the program's instance break out of their cages, you won't escape the calamity in the real world either."
“I know you must have a backup plan to deal with this situation, but no matter how good the backup plan is, it’s not as good as letting me lend you a hand while you are still able to support the whole ‘Heartbeat 1000%’ and handle these guest appearances as well as possible.”
Yu Naixin curled her lips into a smile, confident and carefree: "Many viewers call me 'Ziwei Star,' but you gave me the title 'Yaoling.'"
"I have the qualifications and ability to rewrite this world."
For the sake of the countless souls of the show's guests who perished, for the audience who suffered cruel hunts but still cheered on their juniors, and for the NPCs who function with the spiritual energy contributed by the show's guests, she will continue on her journey.
Let her see how this world looks under the sun's rays.
"What you couldn't do, I will do."
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Author's Note: This concludes the first part!
I'm so sorry for the hiatus in updates due to health and other reasons. At the worst point, I was even updating monthly... I'm so grateful to all the darlings who have been with me along the way and those who are still with me now. I love you all! [crying][crying][crying]
I'm not very good at writing long novels. This is the longest I've ever written in all my years of writing. After careful consideration, I'll end it here for now, and then it will be a new chapter!
Pre-orders for the next installment are now open! Looking forward to continuing this new journey with you all! [starry-eyed emoji]
The male lead will have a much stronger presence in the next installment, and some foreshadowing elements hidden in the background will be revealed. I'll write enough drafts before officially starting the story, striving to provide you all with a better reading experience [please!].
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