The Embroidered Guard's Proud Journey

Martial arts fiction is a fairy tale for adults. The author brings the lofty heroes of fairy tales back to the mundane world, and combines them with religions and gangs from ancient times to depict the ugly faces of people who are both infuriating and laughable.

If you're looking for martial arts novels, you can move on. But if you prefer imaginative stories or a bit of history, you might want to stay and check it out. Otherwise, you might end up cursing and complaining in public, losing your composure if it doesn't suit your taste.

If you call it an alternate history, it's also a Jin Yong fanfiction, with heroes leaping and bounding about. If you call it a wuxia novel, the heroes are helpless against the government; their leaps and bounds are nothing more than desperate fugitives, making it a joke. The novel's angle is good; it tries to combine wuxia with something deeper, but the story is too scattered and can't hold together. Ultimately, it's a bland, uninspired account that's neither historical nor wuxia.

Wow, after reading a third of it, I realized it's Ning Zhongze as the female lead. The way the protagonist steals Yue Fei's girlfriend is so well written! The cause and effect, the changes in the characters' emotions, are all explained. Several major storylines are strung together.

The book was released too early; it would be very popular now.

I couldn't continue reading after more than 100 chapters. Ning Zhongze has always been portrayed as a middle-aged woman in TV dramas. So what if you set the character to be in their 30s? The readers have already formed a preconceived notion and don't accept it. The fact that so much space was devoted to poaching Yue Zhangmen's men is very uncomfortable to read.

So much farting, and so much fussing.

Well, it might be popular now.

It's been modified so drastically; the basic character designs and personalities of the characters have all been changed.

Is this an argumentative essay or a novel? What rubbish!