A Thankful Letter:

Hi all, this is the author here. It's been a very long time since I last touched this story, and there are so many reasons why.

To start off with, I was having a very hard time when I wrote this story. I was struggling badly with social anxiety, which had affected my studies, relationships and work then. Likes and reviews were, to me, much-needed validation, and I ended up chasing them. This was not good for my writing, and it definitely didn't do justice to the characters we all love. The plot was too rough, the characters weren't developed enough, and the writing was very messy.

I care a lot about my work, and I always like to give the best of it to the people who receive it. But when I tried to rewrite this story, I just couldn't muster the strength to, or rather, couldn't find it at all. In the pursuit of perfection and validation, I'd lost my love for writing. Writing was a coping mechanism that turned into a self-destructive weapon.

Some of my friends who had read the story told me to give it rest, to accept it as it is and to move on to create new ones. Although I find it hard to do so, I eventually did. In time, bit by bit, I mustered back the strength to continue writing, and now I am happy to say that I am writing regularly because I love every bit of it.

I understand if you are disappointed, and I am truly sorry for not delivering on my promise to rewrite the story. But I believe it still stands as testament to the possibilities writing has opened for me, and that it remains a reminder of how important it is to write out of love, not out of desire to impress. Therefore, I will not rewrite it and leave it as it is.

Thank you very much, and please stay safe.

yeoweij