Aysel_Inara Editing is hard, perhaps it was the repost too soon. I'm just glad you didn't give up.
The first (few) drafts of anything is flawed, maybe even shitty. I know my own novels could use a drastic 5 rounds of editing on those first few chapters myself. It even makes me cringe to look at some of them.
But that's a good things bc iteams you have grown as a writer. That you have improved.
Sorry for the 8 months late review (lol but I guess that makes it for more stuff for me to review?).
More things I'd like to add on: Make it enjoyable. To yourself or the readers, make it something you feel you want to read. You can use intrigue, works building or the characters- whatever you like.
It may be getting to the "main couple" in the later parts of ch 60-70 but that can't hold it. Many times throughout this novel I was not excited or even interested in starting the next chapter. I saw another reader respond "cliff!" to a few of your chapter endings but that didn't feel like cliffs to me. Did not keep that intrigue.
Make me( any reader) feel something, make me want to be interested/invested.
Note two not included in review: There's repeated parts from one chapter to another. Maybe you did it on purpose to storytelling sake. But sometimes I feels like a daytime TV show recap
"Last time on ..." And you just repeat lines.