
The Swordsman
刀客
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 576k Words
- Genre
- Danmei (BL)
- Era
- Modern Era
- Updated
- 4y ago
- Source
- JJWXC
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Not all of these are free, but they're all good. Some are really obscure, and even the weirdest niches have hidden gems!!
Sports Other Than Esports
All kinds of sports, mostly BL
Original Figure-Skating Stories: BL / No Romance
This list is an inclusive overview, but my reviews are subjective. If anything catches your eye, check out the book description!
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Sports and competition novels I enjoy! All orientations welcome.
Basketball, Tennis, and Other Sports
Sports and competition
To-Read Pile
For personal use
Great Sports Anime Reads
Tennis / volleyball / baseball / basketball / figure skating / sprinting / short-track speed skating / table tennis / swimming /
Hidden Gem Authors
A distinctive writing style
Original BL
Original BL, free reads or fully purchased novels.
Original BL
Original BL, free reads or fully purchased novels.
Original BL
Original BL, free reads or fully purchased novels.
Original BL
Original BL, free reads or fully purchased novels.
Favorites, Something Special
No-CP, pure love, and romance
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Some novels I think are pretty good. Most are danmei or have no romance. I generally avoid angsty stories, so give these a try if you like sweet romances or power fantasies.
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Sports and Competition
Mostly figure skating, skiing, and swimming
Underrated Hidden Gems
Any pairing is fine. Ongoing or complete, masterpieces or niche favorites, I love them all. When there aren't many good reads or similar stories to tide me over, I just reread this series (four stars max because JJ won't let me give five, sob).
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"Then Bob turned around and saw a flat, smooth ice surface in front of him." Bob turned around and left. His future was bright and flat, and the future would be written by himself. This is the ending that DaDa leaves for the swordsman. I think it is also the ending that DaDa originally envisioned for Bob's story. The trilogy was a later plan. Injuries, internal struggles, and even the Olympics are all very far away. This book should stop when the protagonist wins the WCG and has a bright future. The subsequent development depends entirely on Bob himself. But the reason why I am watching the Milan women's singles now, ten years after I fell into figure skating and read this article, and wrote this long review very melancholy late at night, is that the career of the prototype classmate is obviously not satisfactory, and secondly, I feel that I will not be able to figure skating. We can see the ending of DaDa in style. After all, it has been 24 years since the last update, and it is obvious to the naked eye that DaDa wants to wrap up all the stories, so much that it involves too many past events of the previous generation. It has been 15 years since the writing of the trilogy, and the rules of figure skating have changed several times, not to mention DaDa's concept. Let's start with the prototype classmate (laughs). I love the prototype classmate mainly because he is very charming on the ice, smooth skating, good-looking, and high-flying 3A... I fell in love with Naqu Luozhu at first sight in 4cc in 2016, and I have been tortured by him for 6 years... But I can honestly say in the comment section of this Swordsman that part of my love for him is Bob's filter. The Swordsman was a text I read when I was ignorant about figure skating and had no clear understanding of figure skating. Bai Yueguang's charm is so great that Lawrence can almost be ranked first among the songs I want to skate with my prototype classmate. The prototype classmate did not have WCG or OGS. His title that is most often mentioned is WJC champion. He said that he squandered his talent when he was young. He also had many problems. His mental quality and ability to withstand stress were too poor. His upper limbs did not improve until he retired. But I always think that without the mess of the Flower Association, he would not have such a tragic ending, would not be unable to go to Beijing, and would not have a few extra sets left to enjoy the show. So I see figure skating In the plot currently updated by style, it's hilarious that Bob wants to switch to ice dancing. Although I don't know what the follow-up arrangements will be, I think Bob will definitely not be able to switch to ice dancing. First, ice dancing is not that easy, and it's hard to find a female partner. Second, wcg &ogs would have been considered crazy and would have been stopped when he was playing sports in his prime. Bob wanted to change but couldn't. It is a perfect irony that he and his prototype classmate did not want to change but were forced to change. He left the sentence "I would rather be broken than ruined" and then announced his retirement. I am ashamed to say that I only read figure skating style completely in 2016. In the past ten years, I still have not understood Ice Dance, so I have no motivation to read it again. I just click in when there are update prompts and read new chapters based on my vague memory. I finished reading The Swordsman and couldn't wait to read the figure skating style after the competition, and I was very looking forward to the ending. At that time, I thought it was almost over, and I howled "it's almost over" many times in the past ten years. I always said that I would read the figure skating style in the future. I read through the trilogy on the day Style finished writing, but in the end I may have no choice but to accept that the story stops here, "It's a pity that we will never meet again, but we will meet each other in the drifting wind." This is not the year 2011 when Swordsman was created, it is not the year 2012 when Swordsman was published, it is not the year 2014 when Figure Skating Style started serializing, it is now 2026 when Tongmei Congge has achieved a Grand Slam and was dragged out to complete the last dance. When I started my career, I must have had high expectations for WoChao figure skating. Every word can reveal the results and expectations for the future. In reality, the weakest ice dance can also create LS, JS and a bunch of baby cabbage. Although it is an artistic novel creation, pouring a lot of blood and horse-grabbing, the overall situation is still prosperous. Everyone is doing their best for the four words "Chinese figure skating", whether they are players, coaches, or officials. Even the first Winter Olympics given to Bob was a slightly lacking silver medal... This ranking should be partly because the prototype of Takahide's classmate won the OGG, and on the other hand, he believed that Bob was still young and would have it in the future. This kind of story could not have been created in 26 years. The tone and background of the story are already from the previous era. Now when I see Bob taking OGS and connecting various things in reality, I can only think that four years is a long time and everything is unknown (laughing) Although the story still has no ending, fortunately there is not much space left. I can add it myself, or even make up a completely impossible HAPPY ENDING in the virtual world because "everyone has realized their dreams and grown up to be reliable adults and live happily together forever" because it hasn't been written yet. Figure skating, or competitive sports, is ultimately such a beautiful and cruel thing. Although I don't have much expectations anymore, I still want to see a more complete figure skating style appear in 2026... It's the GL masterpiece that was promised back then! How come the whole book is devoted to ice dancing! Where is my CP! ! !
I have watched "The Swordsman" many, many times. I just have some free time today so I will write a long review! "Then Bob turned around, and in front of him was a flat and smooth ice surface." This is the last sentence of the whole article, which reminds me of some insights I don't know where I came from (it seems to be the comment section of Yuna Kim's retired performance skating submission at Station B). The circle marks left by the skates across the ice, and the pit marks left by the jump that prompted the ice to fall will eventually be swept away and filled up by the ice smoothing machine after the end of the event. I remember the interpretation from elsewhere is that after the figure skaters perform, the ice surface returns to its original smoothness, just like the glitz will eventually fade away, no one can dance brightly on the ice forever, and the brilliant figure skaters will eventually retire and leave. But when I put it here, I naturally understood other similar meanings. The love and hatred of Bobo in his previous life as Chi Tianyi were released, and the ice surface became smooth and flat (I thought of it again as I typed this, in Chapter 183 of Bobo's World Championships free skate in the article, 'The faces of the past life and this life, the ones I loved and hated... The faces flashed in his eyes, and then disappeared suddenly'). What is not mentioned at the end of the article is that it may be the ice marks left by Bob sliding on the smooth ice surface. From then on, the marks left entirely for Bob. This may be the birth of a new swordsman, and the previous generation of swordsmen has finally passed away. Ah! I also thought of a certain paragraph in the article, where Meng Fei was angered by Bob's hollowness and lack of progress and questioned Bob about his ideals. Bob was angry, contradictory and confused and ran to the rooftop to lie down on his back, as pale as a numb corpse in the scorching sun... It was so well written! The various complex changes in Bobo's conflicting emotions are gradual and causal. "The Swordsman" is definitely a masterpiece depicting rebirth. Okay, now that I've finished writing the serious analysis, I'll talk about my own super subjective sauce! "The Swordsman" was written in 2012. If you think about it carefully, doesn't it mean that there is no 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics at this time? ! The prototype of Saionji Takahide's child Yuzuru Hanyu has not yet become an Olympic champion, and Bob's prototype Yan Han is not injured and is even the World Youth Championship champion (rewatched n times, I don't know if it is my imagination, the shadow of the prototype is really heavy in the character). Recently, I accidentally watched Yan Han's short program "A Thousand Years", which was the first show of the China Cup comeback in 2019? I went to a 3A, as always high and far away, very beautiful and touching. Then I replayed Yan Han's other programs. Ah, double 4T and double 3A should be his best configuration. Now that 74 sets of men's singles have been released, the programs of Yan Han and many famous players in the Sochi cycle have stayed in that era and are not what they used to be. Yan Han and Yuzuru Hanyu had many intersections in their early days, and many photos can be found together. After Blood Charm, their development trajectories became more and more different, and their intersections were almost non-existent... When this article was written, who could have imagined the current situation? It's very emotional, but this feeling is not unfamiliar. In 2012, I saw the different, supposed or unexpected development and destiny of the ancient figure skating gods. Is it the same as me now, that is, in 2025, watching the life development of the active figure skaters around 2012? The same joy, or the same regret? "The past looks at the present just as the present looks at the past." Alas, we all know that regrets are inevitable, but who would have thought this way earlier. Okay, end of mourning. When I first read this book, I was scratching my head at the ending. Why not write about what happens next? Will Baozi be able to stand on the Olympic podium when he grows up? Who will Bob be with? ... But after Wenshu settled down many times, I felt that it had been discontinued here for more than ten years, so let it stay here forever! If the Olympics were written, Bobo would be the protagonist of the rebirth and the world championship champion. There is a high probability that he would be the Olympic champion, right? This is what everyone expected. But if it ends again, wouldn't it give "The Swordsman" a bit of a cliché meaning? The story ends successfully. The distance between us in the third dimension and them in the first dimension will only become deeper and deeper, more and more abrupt, completely deviating from the realistic impression I had when I first read this book. If the story is too complete and completed, it will lose the space for readers more than ten years later to think. I won't leave a long review here, right? (Times are different now. Goe has entered +5-5. It just doesn't taste right to look at the scoring standards from more than ten years ago.) Okay, now let's discuss the characters in the book. I have always felt that Meng Fei was so lucky. Chi Tian loved him so much before his death that he was determined to die. After Tian Yi left, the reborn Bobo came as his apprentice. There was a passage in the World Championships: "Meng Fei... There seemed to be a voice in the dark telling him that he was about to lose something important, but he didn't know what it was." Tian Yi finally left Meng Fei! But Bobo's wings have become fuller, and Meng Fei's most favored apprentice, who has high hopes and is regarded by everyone as his successor, wins the World Championship. Meng Fei is really lucky. I don't want to think that he will be with Bob. The age difference and master-disciple status are also impossible. It seems too science fiction in this article. And, Saionji Takahide, does he really have this in his head? ! I deeply doubt that it was just Bob who unilaterally regarded Longxiu as the object of enlightenment. Longxiu was completely a respectable enemy and good friend to Bobo. Yi Mingjing, hey, he may be a girl (although I am very fond of it), but there is no way he can be with Bob. Absolutely not. I won't harm you, straight guy. The other people in the book are even less likely. My outrageous brain circuit is here again! Qingjing Xiaoyan writes "The Swordsman" without cp but it is positioned as pure love? This is not only due to Chi Tianyi and Meng Fei's sadomasochism in his previous life. Maybe it's a hint to us: Well, well, Bob has no cp in the 570,000-word text that ends abruptly, because his real cp appears after the text. In short, he wants to be Nantong: D). Now that I've finished talking about it, let's sum it up: "The Swordsman" is so well written!
After watching the women's singles, I remembered Baozi's Olympic Games (although it was a little different... There were some mixed feelings in it. It's been a day and I'm still heartbroken. Can Baozi win another Olympic gold medal!
I read this article several years ago, probably not long after I entered Danmei. I read everything but paid no attention to any of it. I have been reading "Swordsman" off and on over the past few years, and finally decided to write a long review. Based on my perhaps shallow reading experience, "The Swordsman" is the best figure skating novel I have ever read. Over the years, the subject of figure skating has moved a little further from the Arctic Pole (although it has still not left the Arctic Circle), and several figure skating articles can be seen one after another. These few figure skating articles also include fan fiction inspired by "Yuri on Ice". But every time I look forward to it, I feel deeply disappointed. I thought for a long time, maybe it's not that they are bad, it's just that they are not good enough. I saw the peak of this genre prematurely. Maybe I am exaggerating too much, or I have too little experience, but my only feeling from reading other figure skating articles that I have read so far is this sentence: Once upon a time, it was difficult to change the water. The article "The Swordsman" naturally has many flaws. Personally, I don't like too much procrastination about the past life, and I also feel anxious about Bob's immaturity. However, these things that I don't like may be what really sets this article apart from other cool articles. "The Swordsman" is more in line with reality. Even if the element of rebirth itself is unrealistic, the psychology of the imperfect Bob who is reborn is indeed a more realistic reflection. Not because of a rebirth, people will easily let go of past love and hate, and suddenly become particularly calm and mature. The characters such as Meng Fei, Yin Zhen, and Yi Mingjing are also flesh and blood and lively, not a stereotyped two-dimensional character. Meng Fei is indecisive, but he is also gentle and responsible, and is willing to practice left-handed jumping for a left-handed player; Yin Zhen is dark and sharp, but he will also actively seek competition opportunities for players and mediate various disputes; Yi Mingjing is reckless and does not know the importance, but he is also simple, loyal and insists on himself. Everyone is complex. And I think this is also one of the reasons why the author was able to write the trilogy from this background. Because of the hazy emotional line of this article, what makes "Swordsman" even more outstanding is its wonderful description of figure skating techniques and program performance. Although I still can't remember what those 3A, 4T and so on should be translated into Chinese and what the specific movements are like, but this does not prevent me from feeling the beauty and difficulty of those programs, and prevents me from knowing that every 0.1 Point earned by a figure skater is hard-earned. I think the letting go and growth of the protagonist Bob, as well as the technology and beauty of figure skating are the soul of the article "Swordsman". Of course, although the emotional line is hazy, as a member of the "rotten eyes", I still want to analyze the emotional scenes that may not exist. Let me first state that the main CP I insist on is Longxiu. I still remember when I first read about it, if the author hadn't repeatedly emphasized it, I almost thought I would renew my relationship with the coach, but luckily I didn't. Yin Zhen had a secret crush on Tianyi, which was revealed in the Bingwu novel. In my opinion, Yi Mingjing has always been just a simple child. Maybe because Bob used him to cover up, there are some sprouts, but it is very likely that it will not bloom. This is due to both his stupidity and the environment within the Chinese team. Before I mentioned Bell in the comment area, I had never put him in the harem selection [embarrassing]. I can't explain the reason, maybe it's just that in my opinion, he has no CP. . . As for Takashi, I don't think I need to say anything more. They share a lot of secrets, and they "love and kill each other." I think their question and answer about "flowers" may be a metaphor. Anyway, I have some sweets here. It is said that there is CP in the ice dance novel? I was chasing after him (to put it bluntly, chasing bob), but I didn't seem to see it yet, so I don't know if I missed it. I hope Bob will achieve good results in the Winter Olympics and have a good CP. Maybe I will see a lot of figure skating articles in the future, maybe they are bad, maybe they are better. But I think I will never forget "The Swordsman". It's the only vast ocean I've ever had. The above represents only my personal views.
N brush, I like this article very much, Bob's growth history, all the characters are flesh and blood
After reading this article, I was really overwhelmed. When I first read this article, the introduction was very discouraging. When sports writing is associated with revenge, there is always an impure feeling. Bob's indifferent attitude and unreasonable hatred in the first half of the article are also baffling, but as the author's description unfolds, the protagonist's past life and rebirth gradually emerge. The protagonist of The Swordsman, Bobo, is not a perfect person. Even after his rebirth, he is still a middle-aged boy. He is poisonous, arrogant, paranoid, and loves to get into trouble. It is undeniable that he is so childish and it makes me feel bad. Different from other competitive articles, the author is not stingy in describing the supporting characters. Whether it is Meng Fei, Yin Zhen, Wan Lu, Wei Fangping, Chi Zhenzhong who were entangled in the previous life, or Huang Zixi, Yi Mingjing, Bell, Xiyuanji Takahide, friends and opponents in this life, they are all flesh and blood characters. The second half of The Swordsman is definitely more exciting than the beginning. Through serious illness, competitions, and the love of his teammates, friends, and coaches, Bob gradually regained his love for figure skating in his previous life. He also let go of his hatred for the betrayal of his lover in his previous life and his resentment towards his parents who forced him. As an article written ten years ago, the difficulty of men's figure skating and the total score of short program free skating in Swordsman are somewhat out of touch with the present, but it does not prevent us from recognizing the beautiful and cruel sport of figure skating. Until the end, Bobo only had a World Championship gold medal and a pile of silver and bronze. In the extra chapter of the author's new work "FigureSkatingStyle", Bobo scored six weeks in the most important Winter Olympics, but lost to his opponent Takashi due to a fall. I was really disappointed to see such a result. Such a talented and spiritual genius still lost to someone else. Maybe Bob can come back four years later, but two lifetimes of hard work failed in the place closest to the Winter Olympics championship. Why not be another kind of cruelty? The swordsman is so real, as if there is such an athlete who has found himself amidst the entanglements and resentments and fought hard on the field. He has so many flaws and such a personality, he is a bun I will never forget. He's not a legend, he's Bob.
Four brushes. Although Meng Fei once let down Chi Tianyi, I still miss his tenderness. From the very beginning of their reunion, Baozi felt both hatred and nostalgia for Meng Fei. He said he wanted revenge, but he still relied on him no less. It is absolutely impossible for these two people to be together, but Meng Fei's love for Chi Tianyi is not over yet. He is really a scumbag and also really good. Everything Tianyi once fell in love with him has not disappeared now. Because of this, I really hoped that Baozi would never have cp, but it turned out that real cp was coming in Ice Dance. Like the previous sisters, I am more optimistic about Long Xiu. But I also felt that Longxiu had no chance. Only Hua understands Hua's feelings. Longxiu actually doesn't understand Baozi very well, at least he doesn't understand the part about Bell. And from my personal feeling, Baozi is a very proactive person, falling in love with a flower, rather than falling in love with something and then accepting it.
After reading it, I was a little bit unsatisfied, so I went to watch Ice Dance.
Tie! It's really well written, but it's too eye-catching and makes me cry.
I read it every time during the Winter Olympics, maybe three times. It's so well written. I didn't read the comments before, but this time I had more free time so I slowly read them. I quite like everyone in it, and I also hope that Baozi can find true happiness.