thank you so much for the love, friend!! in the vein of love definitely started as a jokey story, but i think the characters have gone through a lot of growth and journeys to get at the lovely end~ so i'm so grateful you enjoyed reading!! ♡ with regards to a sequel, i personally tend to not really like writing them, since i do choose where i end my stories carefully--and i love leaving some space for the readers to fill in what happens afterwards by themselves. maybe i'll ever write a little drabble about the haobin wedding, but i think you already have some idea in your head of what it could look like or what you want it to look like, and that is already very valuable to me!! then we are creating something together ^^ so, the short answer is no, the long answer is 'it depends on how i feel in the future'. thank you sooo much for your lovely words tho, i treasure all of them!!

dumpling!!! i'm so happy you're back~ i knew that i had to give hao some time by himself, and figure himself out, you know it's never too late for that ^^ the world is pretty small, eh, and i firmly believe that hao and bin will always find their way back to each other!! actually, writing messy characters is kind of my favourite thing,, i love creating characters that do things wrong ehehe, since i try to explore what it means to be human through my works :D and thank you for enjoying my dynamics!! these are some of my favourite ones ive written, but i think its because im getting better at writing with every fic, maybe? i hope so at least!!! thank you so much for all of your lovely words, dumpling, i'll keep reading them over and over and smiling widely every time!! (ㅅ´ ˘ `)♡♡♡♡

hey friend, thank you for the question. ♡ first of all, i don’t personally really believe in ‘fluffing up’ chapters, because something finished is finished~ but if you want to make your scenes feel more alive, i have a few tips!!

1) have your characters interact with their surroundings. so, if two people are in a conversation, have them do something—interact with an object, fuss with their hands or hair, or move somewhere. this way, characters are still interacting and conveying the message you want, while the scene feels more expressive and breathes more life.

1.5) also, the above tip also may help you contextualise where you’re characters are. earlier in my writing journey, i often wanted to write conversations but i didn’t place them in a physical space. generally don’t start with first describing the rooms, but sprinkle it in between. your readers know that if you say someone is taking a drink out of the fridge in the middle of the conversation to avoid answering a question, they’re probably not in the bathroom.

2) describe sensory experiences. don’t do this too often, but you can say that a character who is sitting in a cafe maybe hears the music and the chatter around them, and they may smell the freshly baked waffles. or someone walking outside may be chilly, and think about taking their scarf out of storage, or they’re hot and thinking about having an iced drink later.

3) lore-sprinkling ! and i use lore in the most broadest sense here. for fics that i’ve beta’d, the best tip i can give you—if it’s mentioned, then you can elaborate. so if people are talking about their weekend, you can go in depth about an awkward moment the main character doesn’t want to talk about. or if someone is walking past a bookstore, they can have a flashback to the time they bumped into their crush there and made a fool of themselves. it gives the reader a bigger understanding about the characters, their personalities, and their backstories. and since you’re writing a romantasy, maybe your character sees a dragon zipping around with a little backpack, and they can think back to the time they dreamed about becoming a postal worker with the dragons to deliver mail, but they found out they’re allergic to dragon scales.

these are just some broad tips that don’t necessarily are about fluffing up a chapter, but breathing more life into it. again, if you’ve already done all of this, then 1800 words is really a fine chapter. when we’re reading a book, we’re not surprised by a chapter that’s only 3 or 4 pages, so why should a fic be different? i hope this could help you a little bit, and i’m excited to see what you put out ^^