Chapter 50: The Beauty of Defects
This night was later called the "darkest hour" before the dawn of martial arts novels by those who were examined by the literary circles.
Sometimes that's how it is......
The "no" hexagram in the Book of Changes is connected with the "Tai" hexagram, which means that the law of the development of many things in the world cannot escape the "no pole Tailai".
Ordinary people tend to indulge in the current dark moment, and the real trendsetters of the times belong only to those who can see the light in the darkness.
In an urban village on the outskirts of Beijing, in a rented farmer's house.
Zhu Yushan, a frustrated writer from Beipiao, also glared angrily, looking at the screen of the dilapidated desktop computer angrily.
I watched "The Condor Heroes" repeatedly for a day and a night, and finally saw the latest update, but it was such a result.
Zhu Yushan's mood was a hundred times worse than when he broke up with his family.
"Why do ......you write like this? Martial arts novels are obviously about to usher in the ultimate moment? He's going to be buried with his own hands again. ”
Lowering his head, Zhu Yushan took out his empty wallet again, and the whole person fell into an unprecedented gloom.
He has been a fan of martial arts since he was a child, and his biggest idol was Uncle Liang Qi, the leader of martial arts novels in the mainland.
During college, he actively wrote martial arts novels and was inspired to become a great martial arts novel writer.
After graduating from university, despite the bank job arranged by his family, he went to the capital to become a writer with a dream.
However, the years when he was most enthusiastic and hard-working, it was the lowest moment for martial arts novels.
Relying on short martial arts stories published in intermittent magazines, he can only barely make ends meet.
The long publication sent out, but it was rejected every time, and even several publishing houses specially replied to him that there were no martial arts novels anymore, suggesting that he transform into science fiction and urban ethics novels.
How can this be?
In particular, even the "Wulin Publishing Group", which started by publishing martial arts novels, said so, Zhu Yushan was completely confused, and the whole person lost the meaning of life and the focus of life.
He even considered......
Is it to find a deep mountain and old forest that no one knows him, like those frustrated martial arts masters, to be a woodcutter who retreats to the mountains and forests.
His martial arts dream was shattered so much that there was no sound at all.
However, when he was at the lowest point in his life and confused, through Uncle Liang Qi's Weibo, he learned about "The Condor Heroes", and he was shocked at a glance.
It turns out that martial arts novels can still be written like this!
In an instant, the author "I don't want to be on fire" became the new idol in his life.
Waiting for the update of "The Condor Heroes" has also become the hope that his life will continue to be supported.
However, he could never have imagined that hope would be shattered so quickly again.
Looking at the unanimous scolding of all readers in the book review area, as long as he thought that Xiaolongnu was defiled by Taoist priests, Zhu Yushan's heart was particularly panicked.
He couldn't believe that the author, whom he admired so much, would write such a plot that made all readers unhappy?
Lying flat on the ground, Zhu Yushan looked at an oil painting hanging on the wall.
It was given to him by a frustrated painter who lived next door, and he copied the sculpture "Venus with Broken Arm".
A very strange image is a woman with broken arms.
At first glance, it makes people feel a little scary.
However, the more you stare at it, especially at this moment in Zhuyu Mountain, the more there is an indescribable sense of beauty.
He couldn't help but wonder, what would happen if this woman's sculpture didn't have a broken arm?
Wouldn't it be more beautiful?
If this is a real woman, how did the cruel facts make her become like this?
If you cut off your arms, it must be painful!
Cruel!
Bloody again!
But it has created such a kind of incomplete beauty.
Wait a minute......
Thinking of this, Zhu Yushan's mind flashed, and he seemed to have figured out something.
"Yes! Yes...... It must be like this......"
Agitated!
Crazy!
Excited!
Zhu Yushan felt that he had been trapped in a foggy mountain for more than ten years of martial arts fiction creation.
Although they desperately want to dig up the treasure hidden in the deep mountains, they can often only pick up some worthless stones on the side of the road by chance.
But now, it was as if he had suddenly obtained the treasure map of the entire treasure mountain, and all the true meaning that he couldn't figure out and understood in the past and had been pursuing was all within reach.
The truth of everything!
It's all about "broken beauty".
Zhu Yushan frantically searched on the Internet for those masterpieces that can be popular since the rise of martial arts novels.
Swordsman!
Justice!
Punish the evil and promote the good!
Humble gentleman!
Decent and villainous!
Heroes save beauty!
Regardless of returns!
Heroes with beauties!
Lovers eventually become married!
Good is rewarded with good, evil is rewarded with evil!
......
All of this, all ...... It's too positive, it's too perfect.
If just one or two martial arts novels are this model, then there is no problem at all.
Such a simple and righteous protagonist and story are very much in line with the psychological expectations of readers and audiences.
However, now it is like a strict mathematical formula, and every martial arts novel is like a copy of a mold.
is such a perfect and righteous hero, and the heroine has been waiting for him like a jade.
Be!
This is indeed what readers want to see and expect......
However, when all this happens 100% in every martial arts novel every time, it becomes an instinctive impression that makes all readers disgusted with martial arts novels.
"The martial arts routines that are too rigid and perfect can't grasp the hearts of readers at all now, and they don't conform to the laws of the objective world at all......"
Zhu Yushan finally understood, "The reason why the world is real is precisely because of its imperfection. Most things are incomplete, and they cannot be 100% satisfied, and everyone's growth is in the process of constantly compromising and accepting shortcomings......
From the very beginning, Xiang Huo Da made Xiaolongnu so flawless, in order to create incompleteness here, with such a strong stimulation, with such a broken beauty, completely subvert the routine of all martial arts novels......"
Good intentions!
At this moment, Zhu Yushan's vision was completely blurred, and he woke up again that "The Condor Heroes" was deliberately written like this, which was a fierce bell for domestic martial arts novel authors and readers!
If anyone can really understand his intentions, then this bell is a wake-up call.
But if no one knows what it means, then this bell is a proper death knell.
Zhu Yushan's heart was pounding, and he cried out so happily for the first time in his life.
It turned out that he had always been so obsessed with martial arts, claiming that he wanted to spend his life's energy and hard work on creating martial arts novels, but he didn't even see the most fundamental crux.
Lucky!
What a blessing!
If you want to be angry, you are here to save the martial arts.
You used this way that was not understood by people to thoroughly show the biggest disease of martial arts and give the best solution.
Rest assured!
Explanation works!
Let me take care of it!
Those readers and writers who don't understand you, and even scold you, as long as they see your hard work, they will definitely be grateful for your great contribution to martial arts novels!
Wiping away his tears, Zhu Yushan felt that he had a long rainbow to confide in his chest, turned around and opened the computer file again, and knocked down all his feelings today......
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