not a bad npc novel. the balance between reality and game are interesting, but i feel like it is setting up for something much bigger. hopefully it pays off

Falls off during the spirit revitalization arc(chapter 500 ish). The plot becomes very generic and moves away from the fun garden troupe.

It has a good grasp of the story in the first 200 chapters, but the characters seem inconsistent in intelligence and somewhat boring. Like, you'd expect more political drama, more scheming, more brilliant comebacks, but no. Most of the story is problem. Mc solves problem using tech/advanced knowledge. Everyone cheers and goes wow. Face flap his enemy. Rinse and repeat. It gets tiring after a while and there is little character growth.