South Vietnam, Qingxun Mountain.
The Mother Tree appears and bestows blessings and admonitions.
Nineteen said to the tree mother that she wanted to be a thief.
The tree mother gave her a face that could never be remembered.
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When I was nineteen, I went down the mountain for the first time and went to a farmhouse in the mountains at night. I heard a knock on the door:
"My name is Nineteen. I have neither father nor mother, and I was born with a long life. I am a traveler at night, a daughter without an appearance, a lady from the Liang Dynasty, with magical skills and clever hands, and the best thief in the world."
The farmer's voice came from inside the door:
"We can't accommodate that many people here!"
[↑The official copy will not be so sloppy, at least it will not be a Soviet joke OTZ]
It probably tells a story like this:
The heroine Nineteenth grew up in the wild Qingxun Mountain in South Vietnam. There are dozens of girls on the mountain who have no father or mother and whose origins are unknown, just like Nineteenth, and they are named according to their age.
Every time a girl reaches the age of seven, she can make a wish to the mountain spirit tree mother and tell the mountain spirit who she wants to be, and the mountain spirit will grant her a special power. Nineteen wanted to be a thief, so the mountain spirit gave her a face that could never be remembered.
After Nineteen came down from the mountain, she robbed the rich and gave to the poor, coming and going without a trace. People had seen her face but could not form a memory, so they called her the "Female without Appearance".
I haven't decided on the setting of the male protagonist yet. Maybe he will be the powerful minister of Dali Temple at the beginning, or he may be a young man with a hatred for evil.
I'm better at writing the latter, a little boy who thinks he has a strong heart but actually blushes when the heroine teases him, and thinks he has principles but actually makes endless concessions in front of the heroine, but want to challenge the former?
But in any case, at the beginning of the story, in terms of personality, he is a Confucian at heart and a legalist at the outside. He believes in law, order and the authority of the monarch and his master, so he is naturally at odds with the heroine who is more anarchist. He recognizes the goodness in the heroine's behavior, but he believes that only if good is in order, will it not turn into the opposite of good. As a policeman, his ideal is to bring the heroine to justice. ←Obviously impossible…
The main story is that Nineteen and two sisters go out to find the sisters who disappeared after leaving the mountain. At the same time, the male protagonist is also pursuing these cases involving missing women. It is a unit of detective text, with elements of suspense and reasoning (I hope).
The two sisters are important supporting roles, which is why there is a "group portrait" in the tag of this article. One is the Eighteen Thousand Machines, the role of the strategist in the team, whose superpowers are kept secret; the second is the Twenty Blood Slaughter, the role of the nanny in the team, whose superpowers are kept secret.
This was my imagination when I was sixteen. I have always wanted to write, but in the six months since I signed a contract with Jinjiang, I have gradually become aware of the ecology of online writing and the hot and cold themes. This story, even if I was fully prepared to write it now, would probably be hundreds of thousands of words long in a single script. It's physically and emotionally draining. I joked with my friends that instead of calling this article "Wuxian", it would be better to call it "Pushing". I plan to wait until I have a certain reader base, readers are willing to trust whatever I write, and I have enough confidence in my creative ability before I start writing. This is a more responsible choice for myself and this story.
Philosophy: An old enemy cannot become his wife