Whether Lu Yuanming had broken the fourth wall or not, he didn't know, but it was evident that this was vastly different from narrative control.
The narrative level and the observer level are different.
Lu Yuanming had a long discussion with Tang Zhe'an about this a long time ago when he had just led human civilization out of the Solar System and arrived at this parallel world, a place of unknown space and time; it was when he felt the most tense and sensitive.
Although Tang Zhe'an had tried to persuade him during his moments of extreme tension, not to overwork all of humanity, he had also discussed with Lu Yuanming the power and limits of narrative control, and listed several forces that might be able to contend with it.
