Blood drips from the blade’s tip, like the most beautiful flower. The world of martial arts is close at hand, yet as distant as the ends of the earth. When can I go home? All I ask in this life is to drink myself into a stupor and wipe away the tears in my heart. However much sorrow, bitterness, hatred, and grief I bear, I won’t utter a sound of pain. Alone at the summit, I admire the cold moonlight; behind every ultimate move lies solitude. Who knows that all I want is a simple life, to let my heart enjoy quiet contentment? I long to live without regrets, to be free and unconstrained. Watching the world’s grudges and feuds rise and fall, how can a single blade put an end to them all?, Written for Chu Xidao
(My pen name, “Chu Xidao,” comes from this story. I co-wrote this old work with someone ten years ago. I’m revising it as I post it here, so please point out anything that needs improvement.)
A tale of martial conflicts among humans, ghosts, and immortals.
Compared with the gorgeous and complicated "Charming Life" which is a bit unrealistic, I personally like this one better. Maybe it's because I am more inclined to traditional martial arts~ Regarding Xiao Yingxue and Yan Wanyou, I just read a long comment below. I think Yan undoubtedly likes Xiao. As for Xiao, there is a sentence in the article that sums it up very well: you can go to the ghost world to save her and die for her, you can marry her, but it is a pity that it is not because of feelings. When Yan was taken away and Xiao's whole body and soul was still on Chu Xidao, and he didn't even take the initiative to save Yan, I thought, this girl is a loser. If she really loved her, she wouldn't be so "calm". It can even be predicted that Yan was moved after saving Yan, and Yan's sadness when she keenly realized that Xiao's feelings for her were not as good as hers for him... I think if Yan asked Xiao, Xiao is a person who would tell the truth and hurt people~ haha. . . Of course, the article is not over yet, and everything is uncertain. Relationships can develop slowly~ The more I read about it, the more I like Yan Wanyou. I like her strength, wit, and responsibility. However, when she first appeared, I really couldn't stand this cold beauty who obeyed orders and had no experience in the world~~ Regarding Chu Xidao, let me tell you a strange thing. Before Chu Xidao's life experience was unknown, when I saw his smile and his gentleness, I always felt a little... Uncomfortable. But after learning about his life experience, I felt much better, as if my name had been rectified. Later, I thought carefully about whether this gentle transformation was a bit... Sudden for a person who had experienced hardship since childhood, was used to being a killer and was taciturn. Especially in the part where he and Xiao spent the night together, Chu's active and unpretentious kindness was, of course, perhaps the author's setting of the character. If this place is acceptable, then when I meet Xue Wuxia and fall in love at first sight, I personally don't agree with it very much. According to my opinion, the door of a person with this kind of personality should be relatively tight. The article mentioned that he was even murderous at first, and he had just experienced the betrayal of his eldest sister who had raised him best since he was a child (after seeing the formation, Zai Chu thought that the eldest sister was deliberately trying to kill him). In fact, it is difficult to open his heart to accept a woman he has never met, let alone fall in love at first sight. Moreover, Chu Xidao has experienced the world and knows everything about warmth and coldness. He is no longer in his prime. This kind of heart actually needs to be softened little by little with tenderness. Some people may ask, what about Chu Xidao and Xiao Yingxue? The difference between the brotherly love between men and the love between men and women is subtle but huge, and there is a transition between Chu and Xiao. The acquaintance between the two is omitted, and the gradual development of several meetings, as well as the loneliness of being a top master, the desire for opponents, and respect. Moreover, the two are biological brothers connected by blood. However, when Chu Xidao and Xue Wuxia met, the plot was too ups and downs, and it was really difficult to make a choice... In fact, with Chu Xidao's wisdom, it was actually easy to see through the eldest sister's bad intentions. I am afraid that firstly, he did not want to believe that the eldest sister would plot against him, and secondly, he did not want to think about the conspiracy, and just simply wanted to save Xue Wuxia. Also, during the duel between Chu and Xiao, Zhong Zhi admitted that he did not reveal the fact that the two were brothers. In other words, when he saw brothers fighting to the death, was it because he was ready to save him at any time, or because he believed that the two would not be separated from each other? The duel here feels more imperative, because the plot requires it, and because the readers expect it... If Yan hadn't revealed it in time, I'm afraid Chu Xiao would have been exhausted, and Xue would have succeeded in his treacherous plot and caught everyone in one fell swoop. Although, in that situation, Zhong felt that it was really hard to talk about it and he didn't know where to start. However, the transition here is still worthy of consideration. It would be better if it could be handled more smoothly. Let's get back to the topic, all the above can be regarded as someone's nonsense, the real topic is, sir~~~~ Please update the article soon><~~~~Wow~~~~~The setting for this article has been laid~~Just follow the situation according to the situation~There is really no reason to give up~><~~~I am looking forward to Kidou's performance~~Ximen, Shun, Huanhuan... I like them all~
It's a masterpiece. It's really better to fill in the holes quickly. I love such skillful words and stories. It's great.
Falling into your gentle gaze is a beautiful cliché ——A brief discussion on the love between Yan Wanyou and Xiao Yingxue in Chu Xidao's "Hand in Hand" and the foreshadowing in the novel □//www. Jjwxc. Net/onebook. Php? Novelid=24219&chapterid=12 As a famous female author who writes about martial arts, Chu Xidao's writing is both refreshing and tender. She also put a lot of thought into writing about the love between men and women. In the first and second parts of "Hand in Hand", the main emotions involved are the relationship between Yan Wanyou and Xiao Yingxue, the relationship between Xue Wuxia and Chu Xidao, and the relationship between Zhong Liye and Xue Qingrong, Ye Siran, and Xue Qingyun. Although romance is not the main content, it is quite interesting to read together with the plot. The positioning of this novel by Chu Xidao (the author), according to the keywords she gave herself, is "romantic martial arts". I think this novel is naturally a "romance and martial arts" novel, but compared to some other "similar" works, the ratio of "romance" and "martial arts" in this article is more balanced. Martial arts has not become a foil for Xiaoyan, and romance is not separated or distinct from martial arts. Friendship and love are intertwined and jointly advance the plot. Let's talk about Yan Wanyou and Xiao Yingxue first. The emotional history of Yan Wanyou and Xiao Yingxue is very cliché. From the first meeting to falling in love, from inexplicable hatred to inexplicable sinking, this kind of plot has been used countless times. Speaking of clichés, the relationship between Xiao Yingxue and Yan Wanyou is a cliché. However, there are so many similar things in the world. The same plot has a different appeal because of different people, and it has a unique appeal because of the author's wonderful writing. In "Hand in Hand", these two people are one and the same. Yan Wanyou is cold, arrogant and charming, and refuses to let others go thousands of miles away, while Xiao Yingxue is kind-hearted and treats others like gentle breeze and gentle rain. But from the bottom of their hearts, these two people are both ruthless people, but they are also passionate lovers. When it comes to being ruthless, Yan Wanyou uses arrogance to cover up her childishness, and Xiao Yingxue uses gentleness to disguise alienation; when it comes to being affectionate, the two of them look the same. When they fall in love, they will always live in their hearts, slowly fainting, spreading to the corners of their eyes and eyebrows. The love between Yan Wanyou and Xiao Yingxue originated from their fall after being attracted to each other. From the time when Yan Wanyou and Xiao Yingxue were forced to fight against each other to when Yan Wanyou was attracted by Xiao Yingxue's magnanimity, they couldn't help but have feelings of admiration: helping hands, giving medicine, and even more to prevent the brothers from killing each other and entering the forbidden land of ghosts alone. Although Yan Wanyou looks cold and indifferent on the surface, what she does for Xiao Yingxue is all unreasonable things, which shows her deep love for Xiao Yingxue. The author's excellence in this part mainly lies in her description. Sometimes, we find it strange - why in some articles, the female protagonist is suddenly attracted to the male protagonist as if she is blind and lost. Although some authors have repeatedly emphasized that the male protagonist is "fengshen handsome" and "dragon and phoenix beautiful", we still find it too incredible, because just using such words to express the charm of the male protagonist is still too thin. However, this problem does not appear in "Hand in Hand". The key is that the author has created the character of Xiao Yingxue sufficiently, and has made enough preparations for Yan Wanyou's fall. At the same time, he has also made enough explanations for readers to accept the plot of Yan Wanyou's defection. So, how did the author describe Xiao Yingxue before Yan Wanyou gave her love? At the beginning, using Duanmu's mouth to tell the story of martial arts, the five characters "Jiangnan Xiao Yingxue" were accurately imprinted in the readers' minds. At that time, Xiao Yingxue had not yet appeared. ——This has captured the essence of "hearing the person before you see them". The readers also vaguely sketched the outline of a character in their minds: he must be an extraordinary man who rises and falls high. This was my initial impression of Xiao Yingxue. Afterwards, Xiao Yingxue appeared, only twenty years old. This is the age when Mo Shang is a young man in green clothes, but Keren is calm and gentle beyond his years. It might have needed a special explanation, but because the reputation of "Jiangnan Xiao Yingxue" has already taken over, the author does not need to elaborate too much. At least I think Xiao Yingxue should be like this. If not, how could he deserve the title of "Jiangnan Xiao Yingxue" who turned violence into peace in the past when talking and laughing. At this point, the author has set the tone of Xiao Yingxue's character. After that, no matter what the author wrote, at least I was convinced that Xiao Yingxue had the kind of charm that could make women forget themselves. They met at a martial arts conference. In novels, martial arts conferences are often the source of disputes and the whirlpool of grudges. Being in the same martial arts world, if there is a grievance, you can hide away on weekdays, but in a martial arts competition, enemies meet each other, and they are extremely jealous. Moreover, there are "well-intentioned people" who deliberately arranged for the discordant factions to sit at the same table next to each other. Yan Wanyou appeared on the field, but she was very arrogant and just looked up at the sky. Chu Xidao didn't write much about her, but he kept mentioning her. Although there are not many before and after, these few sentences make her seem to stay in the readers' hearts. Throughout the martial arts conference, she seemed to be sitting indifferently on the spectator's seat, not even raising her eyes to the competition in the field, and dismissing the fighting of others. She seemed to be waiting for something, because if someone like her had no purpose, she would never show up at an occasion like a martial arts competition. She seemed to be just waiting there, her appearance seemed to be just because of her loneliness. Before Xiao Yingxue appeared in the martial arts competition, readers had already had an initial impression of Yan Wanyou, a woman like her. She must be arrogant and cold, because she doesn't even take those unscrupulous fights seriously. She is also unworldly, and her reactions to things are completely unpretentious. What will happen to such a person in the future? Because she is arrogant, when she is impressed by someone, she must be sincerely impressed; because she is cold, she must not be good at expressing her feelings; because she is inexperienced, her response will be simple and direct. If Chu Xidao's description of Yan Wanyou is limited to the above content, it will not be able to express her full picture. In addition to having the above qualities, she is also a human being, a living person. So she has feelings, she has judgments. She can be loyal and she can betray. Chu Xidao expressed this characteristic in a small plot. When Lu Cenkang wanted to ask Yan Wanyou to take action, she glanced sideways and said coldly: "It has nothing to do with me. Get out!" Just the word "get out" gave off an evil spirit. This energy made her image suddenly come alive. She was waiting, a little nervous, a little anxious, a little eager to try. This word broke her surface calmness and reflected the turbulence of her inner emotions. After I read it, I was really shocked. After that, Xiao Yingxue hurried to the conference site. For a while, there were constant whispers in the venue: "Jiangnan Xiao Yingxue! Jiangnan Xiao Yingxue!" As if with a magic spell, everyone in the room became excited, and even Yan Wanyou couldn't calm down. When Xiao Yingxue exposed Fu De's conspiracy, she was about to leave but was stopped by Yan Wanyou. She said slowly: "I will kill you to avenge the hatred in my master's heart." She was no longer silent just because Xiao Yingxue was the person her master wanted to kill. Such a beautiful and arrogant woman purely and resolutely only pursues Master's wishes. She is unconventional simply because she does not know how to interact with groups other than those she is familiar with. At this point, Chu Xidao pushed her description of Yan Wanyou to the first climax: her indifference was not because of pride, but just because of clumsiness and emptiness. She used death as a bet to compete with Xiao Yingxue, which was both ruthless and world-weary. There is a myth in every martial arts story. It is a myth set up by the author after understanding the reader's beautiful fantasy. Xiao Yingxue is this myth, so even Yan Wanyou cannot kill him. The subsequent development is like the heroes and heroines who have similar experiences in thousands of novels. The indifferent person cares silently for the person he is attracted to, and then finds that he cannot live without the other person, so he resists and betrays the god in his heart; while the person who is attracted to the person is gentle on the surface, but the pain in his heart is no less than that of the indifferent person. He desires and escapes at the same time, so the road of love stumbles forward in a circuitous way. And in the end, there will be a happy ending. Regardless of whether the plot setting is cliche or not, the emotional development between the two people is integrated with the whole story, and the plot is round and full, which is really rare in online works. I think that reaching this level is due to Chu Xidao's foreshadowing. In a story, the amount of foreshadowing is also very particular. Foreshadowing should not be too narrow-minded, limiting it to a specific character and thus ignoring other characters and the logic of the story. A good foreshadowing should still pay great attention to the story. It is not foreshadowing for the sake of foreshadowing, but should have an overall view. The deliberate foreshadowing is unavoidable and far-fetched. Some authors, when writing novels, only have two or three characters and a long series of foreshadowings. No matter how good the writing is, what's the use? Chu Xidao's foreshadowing can be said to be very grand. With her rich plot, she not only promotes the development of the entire story, but also makes the relationship between male and female characters come naturally. She works both ways and takes care of both. However, it must be said that this kind of emotional routine is vulgar. However, the vulgar ones are beautiful. The novel is not just about beautiful pictures. We all know that many scenes are ridiculous, but we just can't help but watch these ridiculous scenes. Why? Because although it is vulgar and bloody, it is touching enough. Here, you need to understand a few things first: The article "Joining Hands in the Jianghu" was written by Chu Xidao more than ten years ago; In "Hand in Hand", Chu Xidao himself said that there were still heavy traces of imitation. I am not harsh on imitation, because this novel was written by Chu Xidao more than ten years ago. For a person who has just started to write martial arts novels, it is understandable to apply plots from the works of his favorite martial arts novelists intentionally or unintentionally. Moreover, in "Hand in Hand", this plot is not blunt at all. Moreover, how many writers don't start with imitation? Personal style is not something you can just pat on the head, it is something you develop through long-term training and thinking. Chu Xidao has been writing non-stop for nearly ten years, and her grandeur and macro-control abilities are truly the best among female martial arts authors. The growth and change of her personal style have also been gradually formed through so many years of accumulation. If you can write good novels, you are successful. Here are my thoughts.
I keep forgetting to rate. . . Because I read it in one go. It is really hard to imagine that this is a story written by Xi Dao more than ten years ago. His writing style has become so mature, and most importantly, he has such a deep understanding of human nature. Although, the explanation of Xue Qingrong's feelings is still a little unclear. For example, what are the identities of the man and woman that Xue Qingyun used to deceive Chu Xidao? Moreover, the story between Chu and Xiao is a bit like a pair of peerless prides. But none of this is a problem! Xi Dao, this novel you wrote is really great! I'll take a closer look...
Sigh, sigh~~ Daodao, I have turned over your charm countless times. What does it mean to be hungry and thirsty? TVT!! Besides Mei Sheng and the future Yi Tian, what I love most is joining hands with Jianghu T T!!! I've waited countless times and you haven't updated yet... How can I be so embarrassed (crying with blood and tears...) So, please get the manuscript as soon as possible and update this article... Tears PS, I wish both Xiao Mike and Daodao good health =3
I like your articles very much, and it seems that I will stay in these pits for a long time. . .
Because of this book, I dug out all your books and read them. Now I really can't bear it anymore. I have read your novels, short stories, and even the love letters you wrote to him and you haven't updated them yet. All I can say is: publish a book. . . . . . . . . . . .
This speed!!!!! Scary. . . . You publish a book. . . . . . .
Finally updated the article... What a miracle... I am speechless...
You won't wait ten years like the Saint Seiyas, right?