Five years ago, Butterfly Blue completed The King’s Avatar.
Four years ago, The King’s Avatar began being translated.
This year, coincidentally on Su Muqiu’s birthday, the novel finished being translated.
In these past few years, The King’s Avatar was adapted into a stage play, a manhua, a donghua, a live action, and a movie.
As Butterfly Blue mentioned in his Weibo post, “Their future is in your hands alone,” and their future has been continuously adapted and recreated long after their main story finished.
Beyond the pages, the story and characters continue to live on through the fans.
Whether you were there since the beginning, whether you joined at some point along the journey, whether you discovered The King’s Avatar through the novel, the manhua, the donghua, the live action, the movie, or the stage play…
Their story is still our story.
However, this story would not have existed if it wasn’t for Butterfly Blue, who portrayed Ye Xiu and everyone as such beloved, incredible characters that they became unforgettable existences, who designed a world so immersive that Glory became a part of our irreplaceable reality.
This story wouldn’t have been widely accessible if it wasn’t for the translators, who preserved the heart of the original content, who conveyed the subtleties, nuances, and colloquialisms of the Chinese language as they translated the novel into the English language.
Thank you to Butterfly Blue. Thank you to the translators.
The translations may have ended, but The King’s Avatar is still here.
Instead of a bittersweet goodbye, I’d like to think of this as a happy hello because new fans are always being welcomed, because old fans can always return to The King’s Avatar, and announce, “I’m back!”
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