This book has temporarily come to an end. This was a decision Mofang agonized over for a long time before finally gritting his teeth and making.
This book had the framework and worldbuilding Mofang was most satisfied with, but despite that satisfying framework, he failed to bring the Grandpa Viewers a satisfying story. That was Mofang's fault.
He spent a great deal of time reflecting and even discussed it with several editor and author friends. There were many reasons for Mofang's failure. First, his writing ability was insufficient, and he couldn't handle a story with such a large framework. Second, he wasn't prepared enough. Due to many reasons, he had actually started writing this book rather hastily. He had even decided to use an ensemble cast after reading Dungeon Player and having a sudden inspiration. But after discussing it several times with an author friend later on, they concluded that this book's framework shouldn't have been written as an ensemble cast. Instead, it should have followed a single protagonist, with branches for supporting characters such as Gou Dan and Baicai. That way, they could have had distinctive personalities without stealing too much of the spotlight, and the story wouldn't have ended up with unclear priorities—or even an unclear main plot.
The wrong choice, combined with the hurried drafting, ultimately led to a framework that I thought was excellent being completely wasted. I remember several old viewers who left saying, "Mofang, if the level of this book's first fifty thousand words had continued, its results would have been far better than they are now."
During that period, Mofang reflected every night: Why is it getting worse the farther I write? The Grandpa Viewers who followed it all the way knew that, by the later chapters, the book had almost nothing to