Let me re-explain.
You watch anime.
You/We/Everyone like heroine, and also other girls if they cute/cool/etc right ?
Its a question of preference right ?
But what if, among them, you underestimate the appeal or ignore one of them ? (kinda the trope of the megane-girl is a georgeous beauty)
sidecharacterS
(multiples)
Heck, its like the current anime : Too many losing heroines
but even then, like konosuba, people will enjoy it, but underestimate the profoundness in it, just like people rarely know, how much philosophy is behind Konosuba and the fact there is so much salvation the...
I have falcon eyes. For details. A precise insight on stuff.
But sometimes i'm not sure which of the 2 is the most crazy.
Me that found out.
Or the author that made the side-character being one the most ingenious idea ever, but bc its not the heroine, they are totally not given due popularity...
I mean.
(totally rando example, that i will invent NOW)
1) Hero, beginning, hm gambler (normal)
2) Mid part, uh.... save the heroine kidnapped
3) Beat dragon with the heroine, which dad sacrificed himself to save both of them in midpart.
Then fill it the blank, from 1->2->3
That simply means you arent this type of writers.
But at same time, there is a certain question : did you do it correctly ? (how to plan it)
I mean, did you plan, detail by detail like a manual writing. (extreme plan)
Or did you "create the frame > fill it" which is basically, half plan, and...
Too complex.
Too detailed.
Not asking to do zoomer style / fast food, but your novel is like a LoTR detailed-lvl writing. Or a poet writing a story in the past-dynasty, with a brush.
oh......................
you said "first time cultivation" yeah that makes sense.
To be honest its too much...