Man, this series is actually bringing up a lot of meta crap for me rn. Like, what makes the ML any different from Luxia? He manipulates and kills fictional puppet people, but she does the same thing. Who cares about the cannon fodder as long as the Important People are helped/harmed as the system desires (kidding, kidding). But seriously, like, her question about whether or not he felt guilty seemed.........hypocritical. She's pitied some of the people in the "small worlds", and she's entered healthy relationships with the actor and the hunter-turned-vampire, but she doesn't seem to regard them as actual people. So why is it so different when the ML becomes aware and starts doing the same kind of thing? Should we consider the people in these novels like real life people? If so, why should Luxia get away with her casual disregard for others?
If this cultivator ML ends up being just a yandere or creepy stalker or whatever, then I'd rather he just go away, but I think he could be a good opportunity to delve a bit deeper into Luxia's comments last arc about how the true monsters are the authors writing these kinds of novels. OH MAN I HOPE HE AND LUXIA END UP TEAMING UP TO GO AFTER CRAPPY NOVEL WRITERS IRL. Not, uh, killing them ofc, but maybe some forced transmigration to let them see how it feels to be part of their shallow plots
But I guess I'm being hypocritical, since I started this series mainly just to see one-dimensional assholes get wrecked by an OP MC so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯