Volu 1, Epilogue: Afterword
Translator: Elkin (proofread by Arcedemius; C/E edited by Doza & lucathia)
The appearance of Dominion’s End was as shocking as the end of the world for . When I first got struck by inspiration, I imdiately started tapping away (sound of typing) and wrote feverishly every day until ungodly hours like I was nuts. But I had almost finished writing 70–80% of an entire book after a week, so it was no different from being crazy.
Even the various nas ca up smoothly. In the past, I’ve had to open up a Chinese na generator and spend half the day just choosing surnas and given nas, but I hardly had to use it this ti. Even the title just popped into my mind.
Dominion’s End [Zhong Jiang, 終疆]: “zhong/終” ans “end,” while “jiang/疆” ans “territory.” In this context, I used it to an the world, so “Dominion’s End” actually just ans “The End of the World.” Using simplistic titles like “I Am a Knight” would cause the author to be ridiculed for being uneducated, so I end up having to twist the titles around to pretend like I’ve got so semblance of sophistication.
When I ca up with the title, I took the opportunity to look up the aning of “jiang” and discovered it could be used as a surna. So that’s the story behind the surna of the three Jiang siblings. Co to think of it, the na of the male protagonist—er, sort-of-male protagonist—Jiang Shuyu (疆書宇), sprung to mind just as quickly.
With “Shuyu” as a base, the big brother’s and little sister’s nas were easy as well. The big brother is the family’s pillar of strength holding up the sky, so naturally he beca “Shutian” [書天, with “tian” aning sky]. For the younger sister, I used “jun/君” from “Guan Weijun” [關薇君] to make Jiang Shuyu reminisce about the past. That is how the Jiang siblings were nad.
It didn’t stop there, either. I had accumulated bits and pieces of plot, to the point where I had almost finished planning out the entire series, and it was just waiting to be written.
This all went so smoothly I was really kind of freaked out, but I had the feeling that I definitely had to write this book, Dominion’s End, and the Jiang siblings were going to be born no matter what.
Rain will fall when the heavens dictate, and your mother will marry when she wants to; so things are just ant to be. There was no helping it, so I let them be born. That was how this baby of mine, Dominion’s End, appeared. Fortunately, it was a very easy delivery for the author. It had its entire life planned out ahead of it from the mont it was born, so all that was left was for the parents to foot the bill for school fees.
My only worry was that there were rather a lot of combat scenes. Because I write out fights by first thinking out the movents in my head, then describing them, writing those scenes was like having a battle fought out in my brain. This really gave headaches to no end.
But when I was posting the story online, the readers really enjoyed the fight scenes, which was totally unexpected for . I even got comnts like “Jiang Shuyu is the coolest protagonist,” so I could only keep fighting on.
Because this series is in first person, to allow everyone to see the stories of characters besides Shuyu, each volu will have side stories. This volu’s side story, “The Journey Ho,” is about Dàgē.
The side stories’ length or number of parts is all up in the air, and it’s possible that one volu will have quite a few side stories. Everything will depend on when and where different characters clamor for an appearance. Alternatively, if you have a character you’re fond of, feel free to leave a comnt on my website as inspiration for the side stories.
Originally, I wanted to have the entire “The Journey Ho” in the first volu, but I realized I couldn’t stop writing. So I ended up splitting it into halves. Fingers crossed that there won’t be a third part, because while Dàgē is plenty cool, other characters want their turn in the spotlight too.
“One Day in the Apocalypse” was a bolt out of the blue, but you can more or less guess where the story is going from it (actually, not at all) and the true nature of various characters (this one’s more believable). But because this was a spontaneous idea, how many parts there’ll be or whether there’ll even be a second part are all unknown.
Aside from that, this is a serial story, which ans none of the volus will have its own ending other than the final one. And the overall series will be quite long, at least seven or eight volus.
Sigh, I don’t know if I’ve missed anything. But if you have any questions, please feel free to ask on my website.
Hope everyone enjoys Dominion’s End!
By Yu Wo
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Are [Character Introductions] like these really okay?
Jiang Shuyu
18 years old. A beautiful young man. The middle child of the three siblings. Because he was hit on the head by a falling tile, his inside was switched to a female soul. His body is a sis-con, while his soul is a bro-con. He likes both won with hot figures and handso, muscular n. He is frequently troubled by his own queer tastes and lack of sha.
Jiang Shujun
15 years old. A pretty girl. The youngest of the three siblings. She is gentle, cute, wise, forgiving, lively, and adorable (to Shuyu). She loves èrgē the most. She looks gentle and frail on the outside, but she dares to challenge Dàgē and fights to protect her èrgē, to prevent him from being teased to tears by Dàgē.
Jiang Shutian
27 years old. The mighty Dàgē. The eldest of the three siblings. There’s no need to describe all the many ways he is aweso and mighty. There’s no need to describe the various ways he could take over the world. He’s a complete boss-level character. He is extrely biased toward his own people and extrely rciless toward outsiders. His dìdi and mèii are his heaven and earth respectively. Not soone you want to ss with.
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