Willing To Accompany By The Gentleman's Side

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First of all, thank you for reading this. We had not put this up in NU as both Nigaria and I were still unsure what tags to put with this novel. Well.. that and the lack of synopsis ^^! But we found that someone had already posted this novel on NU and we thank you very much for that!!!

Sadly though, up to date we found 4 1-star rating for this novel. This novel is not along the fluffy plot line of WMMM. It may not be the cup of tea for everyone but if it got a 1-star due to the genre, that is quite sad. As a reader and translator, I just want to expose many different types of writing in Chinese novel ( that, and also the fact that it only has 9 chapters XD ). Of course, if you think it has a weak plot and writing and wanted to express yourself through the rating, please do. However, we would appreciate it very much if the ratings ( may it be 1 or 5 ) be followed with a comment. This way it would not deter any future readers. Hey, who knows, they may like this genre ^^.

Thank you very much for your support!

  Here?

　　Yi Xun"s sight went down until it finally reached the closing signature and was startled. The hand holding the paper shook slightly, an unbelievable light flashing through his eyes.

　　Ling!

　　The letter was unexpectedly signed by Ling!

　　But, Ling.

　　He pa.s.sed away ten years ago ah!

　　"Ah Xun, tomorrow I will wait for you here, you must not arrive late."

　　"Don"t worry la, absolutely won"t. I promise."

　　From Yi Xun"s mind suddenly emerged this conversation.

　Along with this bit of conversation, a piece of memory that was lying down in the dust slowly floated out in Yi Xun"s mind. 

　　He remembered.

　　That day was the last time that Ling and him had met with each other.

　　At the same time, it was also their last promise.

　　However, where was actually ‘here"?

　　Why?

　　Why couldn"t he remember at all?!

　　Yi Xun solemnly folded the letter and put it back in the envelope, then placed it on the upper layer of his drawer"s contents. Afterwards, he slowly moved to the side of the window.

　　Cool wind blew in. His original dizzy head became slightly clearer.

　　The elderly in the small town once said, they had resided here for many generations. Together with all the living creatures in the mountain, they received the care of the mountain G.o.d. 

　　Yet, if someone had offended the mountain G.o.d"s prestige, that person would become the offering to appease the mountain G.o.d"s anger.

　　Therefore, according to the townspeople"s belief, Ling"s death was the result of him offending the mountain G.o.d. Only then did he die.

　　But how was that possible?

　　Yi Xun could not recall much. Despite that, with the few memories he could recall, Ling absolutely was not that kind of person.

　　Yi Xun looked at the wall where a picture was hung. It showed a young boy wearing summer clothing looking at the camera with a happy face. The young boy"s hands were in a position of holding someone in a hug, however, there was no one there.

　　In their small town, it was rare for people to die alone. Yet the strange thing was, the day after Ling"s death, there was no discussion of this person at all. Towards the name of "Ling", it seemed unfamiliar. Everything concerning Ling faded away as if this person had never existed.

   　Except for him.

　　"Ling, is it really you?" Yi Xun asked, in a low voice.

　　Was it you who wrote a letter for me?

　　But, this translation belongs to BloomingTranslations, please read it there

　　If you had really written it, 

　　Then why didn"t you show up?

　　Why didn"t you come and look for me?

　　Could it be…

　　This is just someone"s prank?

　　After coming up with that conclusion, Yi Xun felt a little breathless.

　　While distracted, he suddenly recalled what was written in the letter: Ling was waiting for him.

　　Regardless of the mail being real or fake, there was no harm in going and taking a look.

　　The most important thing was, first, to understand where exactly was "here".

       "It looks like I have to find out clearly what exactly happened back then."

I must confess I find this village a tad creepy… with the blood ritual in last chapter and now this ‘ it was rare for people to die alone‘… shiver  And lol what are the odds, they also have a mountain G.o.d, but definitely not as cute and adorable as Yun Rong!

And back to what Lime was commenting, as translators/editors we are very encouraged by positive comments ratings and reviews, but also discouraged by the negative ones. Of course you are free to comment and rate as you see, each opinion is a valuable one. But as always, I"d like to ask readers to give the novel (not just this one, any novel you read) an opportunity and not rate it negatively from the very beginning.

Personally, I go a bit mad when I see people rating a novel (be it positive or negative rating) in the early chapters (say chap 1, 2, 10…) in novels (sometimes as long as +1k!). Of course a first impression is very important, but you never know how it will go on, it might keep with awesome quality or soon go downhill, or maybe looking unpromising but then flup show it"s true face as sth awesome, one never knows…(well I guess its necessary to have a bit of opinions in the beginning but still) I don"t think it"s possible to grasp the essence of a whole novel, let"s say of 1500 chaps, in the first 20 ones. At the same time, in a short novel such as this one, where the first chapter doesn"t give you much info, I also think it"s premature to rate it so early on, and honestly it"s not that difficult to wait a bit for the novel to develop a bit…

Of course I have no oppinion if those who rated have read the whole novel, tho maybe a review of why they disliked it so much would be appreciated. I mean, to me, a 1-star review is stating sth is utter trash (well maybe that"s a bit too extreme?). I"ve only read the first 3 chapters and yeah it"s not a thrilling rush of adrenaline, it has its good and bad points, but to call it ‘trash", I don"t think it deserves it.

All in all, I"m not asking you to madly go rate 5 in NU, at all, just asking you to give an opportunity to novels even if they aren"t exactly your cup of tea in the beginning, ask yourselves whether you could wait a bit more before issuing an early rating (such as in this case), and be considerate with novels and authors (do they really deserve that 1 star? Are they really that bad?)… so yeah ofc you can just ignore me xD

and lol in the end our rambling was longer than the chapter >.< but="" well="" it"s="" our="" rambling="" s.p.a.ce="">

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