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So... I got a barrage of comments in a Peerless Cucumber style (that's how they put it and I agree in the sense that it was a hate rant but also not because they were genuinely upset by what I'd done but not at me as an author, you get me?) that pointed out that I have Shang QingHua in the summary, making him out to be a main character and now have relegated him to something less than a main character. I think I got so focused on the LiuShen aspect of this fic and writing about Yin QingXian to explain why an OC got to be with a canon character, that I forgot about how important Shang QingHua is.
The thing is, they're absolutely right and I do want to put more Shang QingHua in this fic. I'm not used to writing characters with the kinds of personalities the Shen brothers and Shang QingHua have, so this fic was a challenge to myself but... I've shyed away from writing Shang QingHua. I didn't realise that until the comments came in that I've been so afraid of writing him that I've basically written him out of the story at this point.
What I don't want to do is abandon/delete-then-repost this story, or be deleteing and rearranging chapters and losing comments that I cherish. I'm an author and all your comments help me keep writing this fic, I don't want to lose anything while reorganising this fic into what it should've been in the first place.
So for now, the fic is going to go under revisions. Shang QingHua is going to appear more in this fic and I may even put in a chapter dedicated solely to him. He deserves that after what I did to him.
That means it's going to be even longer in between chapters and I'm not sure how many people are willing to go back and read chapters just for a couple of revised paragraphs. But I believe this needs to be done to give Shang QingHua the limelight that was stolen from him (he's in my goddamnned summary and I've straight up just not written about him).
If you have any suggestions on how I should go about these revisions or if there's things you want to see from Shang QingHua's POV, feel free to leave a comment.
I'm sorry this wasn't a chapter and was more of a rant.
Otherwise, have a good day.