I regret to inform you that I will not meet the deadline to release Chapter 1 on time. I genuinely believed I could, but I got caught up in the editing process. At the last minute, I made some changes to enhance readability and improve the plot, which ended up taking about seven additional hours of writing. It did not help that I had to take extra hours at my part-time this week.

I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. I have reuploaded the file with additional scenes, including the beginning of Chapter 1, which now includes approximately 3,000 words out of an estimated 60,000 for the entire chapter.

The next upload is scheduled for October 17th at 10 PM EST. Thank you for your understanding!