#lantur

good luck! i inhaled it in about three days lmao

also she wrote a series of companion pieces that you can read after you finish, or alongside if you can't stand the slowburn haha

they are:

li jiě which is less a companion and more like an alternate concept for events in chapter six

illicit affairs which goes with chapter nine

i want you on my team (so does everybody else) which goes with chapter eleven

our days and nights are perfumed with obsession which doesn't go with any chapter but rather just gets in Roy's head during the early years of working with Riza. it's in the delicate univserse but the plot doesn't overlap much

I’ve been struggling with my mental health for, well, I mean, ever, but for those who don’t know, my husband is a military man and has been at training the entire pandemic elsewhere. I have no friends or family irl where we live, and I can’t drive for various reasons. I have quite literally been a shut in this whole time. We were also supposed to be moving to a new country in November, but it’s very likely that he will be off for more training, so we’ve decided I’ll be moving back to the place my family lives for my own mental health. It’s disappointing. It sucks. I miss my husband. I miss my LIFE.

But reading her posts about her life, her struggles, and the genuine and earnest optimism in her posts helped make me feel less alone in all this. It inspired me to seek out help and take care and stuff. It’s been… really kinda great, actually.