I have played and I see what you are trying to do, but I have a few comments.
First the options don't feel meaningful. Whether or not the different choices have different impacts is not shown at all. So it's basically just clicking a button to advance a year and that's the whole game. Just sometimes there's more than one button.
Second it is very repitive, which is somewhat understandable. But also in other cases it doesn't make sense. I was betrothed and accepted multiple times. What happened to the first partners? The same friend was revealed to be a spy multiple times. Yes, I am aware they are a spy. I ended up as the disciple for multiple eccentric elders.
Third, higher realms felt pointless. I still got the same events and the same choices. I was still treated as a mediocre talent even though I'm an immortal. There's never any indication that you are growing more powerful. In fact I'm pretty some of the later realm gave me less lifespan on breakthrough than the earlier ones. I mean I got a message saying in the golden age few people knew my name, and then a few years later I broke through to Immortal Emperor and now I'm one of the strongest in the land.
Also I chose the merchant exile background, and never got exiled. So that was odd.