Afterwords
Hello everyone, I am Yi Weixie.
As you can all see, the second part of Restricted Fantasy Invasion has co to a close with the intimate relationship established between Yan Huan and An Le.
Here, rather than discussing the contents of this volu, I actually want to talk more about the creative process.
There are mainly two aspects: the first is regarding the screen ti and character developnt of the main leads, and the second is about the side stories.
To , there has always been a core contradiction in stories with multiple female leads:
The contradiction between the massive amount of plot and length required to flesh out a vivid character, and the hard limit on how much information a specific segnt of the story can actually hold.
Therefore, authors (including myself in my previous book) often adopt a very clever, or rather, opportunistic thod to avoid this contradiction.
That is: focusing on developing only one female lead for a certain period of ti.
anwhile, the other female leads are kept offstage, temporarily taken out of the story, or only making occasional appearances.
This naturally has its disadvantages, which I have ntioned before and will not elaborate on here.
Just as I said in my premium release thoughts, I adopted an alternative approach where everyone is on stage at the sa ti, ensuring no character is left behind.
The advantage of this thod is exactly that it avoids the drawbacks of the previous one, but the disadvantages, or rather, the difficulties it creates, are equally beyond imagination.
When trying any new tool or thod, no matter how fully prepared you are beforehand, countless disasters will still inevitably occur in practice.
First, the biggest issue is: when using this thod, there are simply too many female leads.
In the prologue and the first volu, I created a total of six female leads, each with vastly different personalities and unique dilemmas, which ant that when they shared the stage, they squeezed each other out of the spotlight.
On one hand, the female lead who should have been standing in the center of the stage at that mont was pushed aside by the others, making her character developnt feel disjointed.
On the other hand, the female leads who were slightly more marginalized at that mont beca stereotyped and reduced to re labels.
It was a catch-22 situation.
So readers might be confused and question this difficulty:
"How could they possibly squeeze each other out of the spotlight?"
This question is actually not hard to answer.
You might have heard the saying that when writing a novel, the characters will eventually co alive on their own.
Those who are not creators themselves might not feel this deeply, but I must emphasize that it is completely true.
As the story progressed, these six female leads truly seed to co alive.
The storylines generated to develop one character inevitably and fiercely clashed with the personalities, positions, Modifiers, and other factors of the other characters.
Therefore, the imagery of a stage is actually inaccurate; it is more like a massive water tank.
Inside the tank is clear water, and the six female leads are variously colored pignts dropped into it.
Once dropped in, whenever you want one color to drift to the center of the water, one or more other pignts will swirl together with the current.
Ultimately, so pignts mix with the primary pignt, causing them to lose their original vibrancy and beco washed out.
anwhile, the color that was supposed to take up the most space in the middle becos less bright and eye-catching because it has been tainted by the other colors.
Of course, so readers will ask again,
"Bullshit! Didn't you use this exact thod in the first volu? Everything was fine then, so why is it like this now?"
The issue is that during the prologue and the first volu, rather than developing the characters, it was more about introducing them and getting closer to them.
At that ti, the amount of information and screen ti required for each character was minimal, making it akin to the shallow end of the pool.
It was like just dropping the pignts into the tank; they had not yet begun to diffuse over ti and simply stayed quietly in their respective corners, so naturally, these conflicts did not arise. But as the plot deepened and entered the deep end, their desires and dilemmas were increasingly exposed, making this problem undeniably obvious.
Alright, that covers the issues regarding the main characters.
Second, I actually want to talk about so side stories.
Naly, the content and foreshadowing regarding so supporting characters.
In my view, describing certain supporting characters is necessary, though there are often loud requests to reduce their presence when they are featured.
I can completely understand the readers who voice this, and I never bla those who offer suggestions and comnts based on their rational feelings.
After all, exactly as I described in the previous point:
The main leads are already fighting each other over their share of the stage, and you still want to stuff supporting characters in there? Do you think they have too much screen ti as it is?
I understand, so when I see readers' feedback, I inevitably beco overly cautious.
For example, in the last volu, I deleted a massive amount of scenes involving the Student Council mbers, including all the scenes with Lin Wanwan, the teacher.
But by doing so, a piece of the last volu's content went missing, rendering it incomplete.
I do not know if everyone rembers, but in the final scene of the last volu when Yan Huan declared himself the Student Council President, there were flashbacks of various Student Council mbers.
If you just think about it, you will realize that they were all once victims of bullying, marginalized figures in the school who only stepped out of the shadows and joined the Student Council because of Yan Huan's help.
At the ti, only their pasts were written, but their reactions to bullying, their actions, and their new lives at school after being helped should also have been written.
Only in this way would the Student Council's handling of bullying cases feel more logically sound, and it would keep the school from seeming like it is overrun with bizarre eccentrics right now.
Furthermore, in the final scene, it would have enriched the protagonist's image, making the romantic relationship between Yan Huan and Sakuramiya Hitomi far more vivid.
Do not forget, it was precisely Yan Huan's help toward these colleagues that ultimately caused her to secretly give him her heart.
Yan Huan's storyline is already packed to the brim with Modifiers and other issues, so these tangential details are best portrayed through the supporting characters.
Therefore, in the long run, these side storylines are actually all ant to flesh out the main characters, rather than being completely useless.
As for the rest, Luciana, the Student Council President of Shuurei Academy who grew up alongside Sakuramiya Hitomi, will contribute to building Sakuramiya Hitomi's character and dilemmas in the next volu.
Sakura Jing will be crucial in helping to flesh out Ye Shiyu's character during Ye Shiyu's volu, which is when Yan Huan goes to the Jinshi Group for his internship.
But if you ask
if side storylines are truly necessary?
Not necessarily.
The story can still function without them, and it will not affect the main plot.
It is just that in the end, it might lack a bit of flavor.
Of course, I am not listing the current dilemmas and difficulties of the story to complain to the readers or to say, "Ah, I am struggling and working so hard, why won't you show
so understanding?"
I just think that laying out existing problems and facing them head-on is often better for boosting confidence than hiding them away.
Ever since I started writing my first book while I was still immature, I realized that writing is a beautiful puzzle. Besides writing more, one must also summarize, test, and make mistakes to beco better.
Aside from that, it is naturally because all of you are paying readers. Explaining my situation to you is a way of taking responsibility, and it is also my hope that you can have a clearer understanding of the story and content you are purchasing.
So, based on the two problems above, I have actually considered more ways to improve.
In the next volu, the style will lean more toward daily life and humor, though naturally, there will also be so minor thriller elents.
After all, the next female lead to be highlighted is not soone who enjoys fighting and killing.
The screen ti for the Student Council will increase, but they will not necessarily appear on their own; instead, they will be integrated into the scenes with the main cast.
I will increase the screen ti for so of the female leads, specifically calling out Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi, allowing them to break free from stereotypes and labels as much as possible, making them cuter and more likable.
Determined to walk the path of "I want them all," Yan Huan will take over the direction of the story, teaming up with An Le, Tong Yingying, and Spencer to face the challenges presented by the Modifiers.
Alright, that is everything I wanted to tell you all at the end of this volu.
I will take a day off today to organize the outline for the next volu. Tonight, I will hold a vote in the group for the March extra story, which I will quickly finish writing and upload.
Tomorrow, we will enter the next volu, which will be the story regarding Sakuramiya Hitomi.
[Spring Sester: Chapter of Perfection]
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