Chu Ge slowly finished filling in this stretch of the plot, sensing the changes in the strength of his connection to the world.
Put simply, the whole affair was easy to understand, with nothing convoluted about it-the lousy author had botched his story and lost control of the plot. This was actually a common occurrence in writing.
Of course, Chu Ge's situation wasn't entirely his own doing. At most, he had introduced a bug when he changed the male lead's path earlier, but that bug hadn't been enough to derail the story.
The main reason was that this was the manifestation of a real world, where all sorts of characters could awaken to a sense of self. Various outside forces and awakened characters had altered it until it no longer resembled his book. It was roughly comparable to a studio taking over and haphazardly writing a pile of new content. Naturally, the plot and characters were no longer under the original author's control.
That was the key.
As he revised the book and aligned its contents with the changes in the world, this problem of "a studio messing with his work" was slowly resolved.
The most serious loss of control was actually the Heavenly Realm's independence, but he hadn't written the Heavenly Realm yet, so in principle, he could indeed treat it as nonexistent for now. As long as he could fully align the Mortal Realm with the text, he could at least regain control of it first.
Both leads had been taken care of. The male lead's change in thinking had been made consistent, the female lead's reforms in her little kingdom existed as a side story, and the changes involving the Gu God in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains had been written in too. In theory, nothing in