Chapter 694

On New Year’s Eve, fireworks were going off outside, and today I pulled off a self-destruct fireworks stunt.

Looking back, it’s no one’s fault but mine—purely due to staying up all night yesterday and waking up with a brain fart, compounded by my own past self-sabotage.

Trigger: I noticed a rhythm.

Under normal circumstances, a normal human author would ignore it, but I somehow, stealthily, came up with a brilliant idea:

“Hey! Someone said I didn’t consider other readers’ thoughts—why not respond and do a survey?”

So I released the first version of the opinion poll, intended purely as a reference. (This volume of Fantasy Land needed to clarify and resolve the ambiguity with Kaguya; if more readers favored multiple heroines, I would abandon the one-size-fits-all approach and handle the issue more carefully in this volume.)

Many readers like multiple heroines.

Then, the rhythm of single-h heroine readers abandoning the novel began.

At this point, a member of the subscription group reminded me: maybe more people enjoy watching the harem drama—just clarify it, that’s all.

I thought that made sense, so I deleted and reposted the second version, adding the hidden option [Lu and Ke].

I originally didn’t plan to touch this version again; though scattered misunderstandings existed, I could clearly see which options most readers favored.

Honestly, at first everyone choosing option 4 or 5 was having fun—I even thought I’d pulled off a stunt.

Then the arguing started, escalated into insults—was it reasonable to wish death upon others on New Year’s Eve?

Over nine hundred comments in two hours; I clicked in and saw fans of option 2 insulting in option 3, while fans of option 3 insulted those who chose option 2. Since I’d started this, the pressure was unbearable—I deleted it outright.

Okay, by now my anti-human self-destruct truck was complete.

Now it’s devolved into “can’t take it, delete the chapter”—the multiple-h heroine readers are all exploded, and I’m about to crack too.

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Let’s talk about “why tease if you won’t marry?”—the most common thing even a total newbie wouldn’t do in web novels, and I committed it: S-class war criminal.

There are indeed many ambiguous scenes, especially with Kaguya, dating back to the Type-Moon arc.

A one-size-fits-all resolution is absolutely impossible; but if Su Lin and Kaguya end up together, Irene’s established character and prior dialogue would collapse, and Su Lin’s pure-love warrior persona would collapse as well.

Honestly, writing multiple heroines is far easier than writing a single one—you could easily churn out two chapters a day. If it were simple to undo everything before without breaking plot or character, and so many people wanted it, why not write it? I even told Operations Director Laoda this during a chat two weeks ago: the proportion of readers who prefer multiple heroines is very high.

But the problem remains: the risk of collapse was my biggest concern, and it’s become irreversible due to my own mismanagement.

So I’ve always planned to resolve this in the Fantasy Land volume, with a clear structure—readers with concerns can wait until this volume ends, then decide; it should be a better direction.

Today I became a rhythm master—and the rhythm is completely shattered.

That’s the general situation; as for no heroine… there’s basically no such thing.

Either single (Irene).

Or multiple (Irene, Kaguya, Star Bao )—I never considered any other female characters.

I read novels every day, so I know the feeling of following this book, but please understand the chapter deletion—this argument was too intense, I simply couldn’t hold up.

The only unexpected thing was how many readers love Kaguya—it far exceeded my expectations.

Finally… whatever, let the rhythm be the rhythm; I’ll delete any posts with mutual insults myself.

The plot direction remains the same as previous versions—primarily focused on the stories and fun of the group members...