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Meya's avatar

How can he not eat the enlo cake??!!

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Dale McGuire's avatar

Digging it! I really like the rejection of the Enlo cakes. To me, this feels like a sad trade. On one hand, So Ga is desperate to understand the redacted words because it's as close to his father as he can get, per royal decree of the princes isolationistic system. It seems to me that he's bound by an order turned tradition.

On the other, not eating the Enlo cake feels like an accidental rejection of different kind of tradition, a symbol of a guardian and the memory of his mother per the tale among the maid.

This is really interesting play of ideas. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but that's the track my brain is on at the moment!

Everyone needs a Hin Lan in their life.

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Jhaerlyn's avatar

lol - the mark of a good read: I got mad and actually chided the prince for not eating his meal.

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Leanne Shawler's avatar

May I make a suggestion? Next chapter links would be helpful in catching up.

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Hilary Layne's avatar

I wish there was a way to make it a little simpler, but there is something that accomplishes that. The "next" button at the bottom, just under the footnotes, takes you to the next chapter.

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Leanne Shawler's avatar

PS. I will go and find chapter 3 because I'm loving this so far.

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Hilary Layne's avatar

Thank you!

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Leanne Shawler's avatar

The "next" button that will take me to your next post which may or may not be the next chapter is only visible in the web browser view. They are not visible at all in the app, which is where I do my reading.

Here's how you can make it simpler for your readers. (And yes, I wish it wasn't this kludgy either.) You can either make a custom button or simply a link to the next chapter. For your already published chapters, this is easy to do by copying the relevant link.

Once you have the next chapter scheduled, go into edit the post, click on the grey "Settings" button, scroll down to the SEO section, click to open it, and then copy that link. Then you can go in to chapter before, add the link, and update it.

I have your table of contents saved, but I save a lot of posts (I'm trying to catch up on a few serials) so it got buried pretty quickly.

Hope that helps!

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Hilary Layne's avatar

Oh I didn't realize that was only on the browser! I'll see if I can get something set up this week. Thank you!

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Leanne Shawler's avatar

It’s tedious (ask me how I know), so I super appreciate it. And I’ll manage in the meantime!

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