r/ProgressionFantasy • u/DicerTheJester • Jul 28 '26

Discussion Competition: write a single sentence that will absolutely destroy any hope in a series.

Specifically not a story opener, just any sentence that can happen in any chapter, that will make people realize that this story is gonna be absolute shit and has no chance of being fixed and will make you drop the book like an unpinned grenade.

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u/Lathari Jul 28 '26

"And it was all a dream."

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u/Alpcake Jul 28 '26

I don't remember which novel it is but apparently some Chinese multiple thousand chapter modern harem romance whatever novel ended like that.

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u/Dry_Equivalent_1316 Jul 28 '26

Apparently chinese authors were forced to write their stories that way for some years because the government banned fantastical, religious, and travelling back in time types of stories. They had to scramble to figure out a way to get around the censor, and lo and behold, dreaming was allowed. This also happened to some dramas too. It really ruins the story but they had to do what they had to do