Update for Phoenix Readers:
Hi guys! Guess what? For the first time in probably a year (or more) I really enjoyed writing today! It has been a long time since I sat down in one sitting and wrote for such a long time. Since my last message on the most recent chapter, I have reflected on the book and realized... I don’t really like it.
It is completely my fault so genuinely, feel free to be angry with me. Since it's been so long since I started the book, I absolutely cringe when reading my writing. I also do not like how the sequence of events were set up… leading me to eventually lose a direction for the plot and have a year-long writers block .
I have thus decided to rewrite it. I rewrote the first chapter today, and I like it a lot better. If you do not decide to stick along, I 100% understand. Although I try to be as understanding as I can, even I get annoyed when authors go MIA and leave me hanging. Hypocritical huh? However, I now understand better why writers don’t publish their work on the first draft like we wattpad authors do. Writing is a process!
A few things before I end this note:
-My rewritten version will have the same plot (aka you can expect everything in the synopsis (aka why you picked up this book) to be the same)
-I hope to breathe more character into Xiulan and the Emperor. A lot of what they do in the book just didn’t aline with what I had in mind for them and they were pretty two dimensional ngl. And I will introduce the Emperor much earlier, I promise, as, I know if I was reading my book, I would be so FRUSTRATED that the romance plot is so slow.
-Xiulan will not not be able to recognize the emperor by his eyes. Well… depending if I will keep the red eyes characteristic .
-You may not see some characters in this updated version :)
-Note that I am still growing as an author so by no means will the next draft be perfect