have you noticed the authors are disappearing? i found a lot of novels that stopped in december / january/ february.
A lot of things seem to disappear in China— billionaires, politicians, celebrities, doctors, lawyers, Uighurs, Covid, news, novels, IPOs, etc. And now, if the OP is to be believed, authors. Must be the transmigration fad.
It's been a while now but chinese authors are now heavily censored. contents that mention government, violence, and sexual has to be taken down. there were no forewarning and the law has not been elaborated. A lot of my favorite novels forcefully ended or simply stop updating cause of it.