Before writing this book, I had just reread Zhu Xian. Of all the wuxia novels I've read, the only one I've come to love since the works of Jin and Gu is Zhu Xian.
After rereading it, I suddenly felt the urge to create a truly "good person" as a character!
In fact, wanting to write a "good person" is an idea I've had for many years. Looking back, I think it first came to me twenty years ago, after I first read The Legend of the Condor Heroes! To be honest, given my personal experience, even today it's hard for me to imagine that someone like Guo Jing could really exist in this world!
In any case, after rereading Zhu Xian today, I suddenly found myself hoping to write a truly "good person" without it turning into a preachy feel-good story!
For me, creating a character like that is extremely difficult, because deep down I don't believe for a moment that such a person exists! Besides, I'm not someone who likes to force myself. So we'll just have to take it one step at a time and see what this character eventually becomes...
