Hello,

I am putting this story on a hiatus.

It’s not my health or anything like that. The story has not been what I had envisioned. Lately, it’s been directionless and, regretfully, more of a chore to publish the next chapter out of obligation. It’s boring, drawn out, and purposeless. I feel I waste my reader’s time more with each new chapter. Over and over, I wonder if I should continue. And I no longer can. I will rewrite the story from scratch. It would be vastly different from the current one.

In my original plan, I had planned a very different route after chapter 25. But then my grandfather’s health issues started, and I had to take a break. And then, after returning, I decided to post every day. Then, he passed away, and I had to take a longer break. Since then, it has been spiraling out of my hands more and more with each new chapter. Ciru was supposed to happen in book two, around 700k words into the story. Not now. Each new chapter is a patch to the crumbling structure, and the more I try to fix it, hideous it looks in my eyes. A part of me had been afraid to write as I wanted to. I thought it was too dark, and too soon after the library incident. Perhaps, it is the real reason and only reason.

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I have decided to stop publishing new chapters and rewrite the story from scratch.

Thank you for supporting the story. I cannot express how happy I am with the response I got from this story.

PS: Ciru is where the current chapter is on Patreon.