Among Mr. Gu Long's more than 70 works, the most famous may be the first to recommend "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", which is inseparable from the great success of its original adaptation of the TV series.

It is no exaggeration to say that Zheng Shaoqiu's version of Xiang Shuai has almost made this character a household name, and Cheng Dù, who is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, can almost be compared with Sun Wukong, White Lady, etc.

However, if you talk about the achievements of Gu's martial arts art, the first place must be this aggrieved, sad, and lingering "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword".

Critics unanimously agree that this novel has gone beyond the scope of martial arts novels and has become a cautionary masterpiece that explores the philosophy of life, and the protagonist of the book, Li Xunhuan, is also one of the few classic artistic images in martial arts novels that can be psychoanalyzed with psychological theories.

The novel's attempts and explorations in poetic language to write martial arts novels have also been learned and imitated by writers in other fields.

Therefore, the statement that "The Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword" represents Mr. Gu Long's pinnacle work and represents his highest achievement is valid and fair.

Li Xunhuan, as the spokesperson of Gu Long's middle age, clearly conveyed his insight into human nature and understanding of life to readers, from this aspect, it is not an exaggeration to say that Li Xunhuan is the incarnation of Gu Long, in the novel, Li Xunhuan's interpretation of loneliness, love for wine, and attitude towards feelings can see the shadow of the author himself.

Of course, from the perspective of the inheritance of works, the character of Li Xunhuan has a continuous relationship with Li Mubai in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", at least their emotional settings are very similar.

Li Mubai was unable to have a lover with Yu Xiulian because of his friend's morality, and finally became a family. Li Xunhuan also gave up his beloved Lin Shiyin to Long Xiaoyun because of his friend's morality, which also became the most heart-wrenching plot setting in this book.

But. The author finally matched the optimistic and beautiful Sun Xiaohong to Li Xunhuan, after all, Mr. Gu Long clearly expressed regret for the relationship between Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian.

Why should the tragedy be repeated?

However, this sentence was not so appropriate for Lin Tiange at this time, because the tragedy had just happened to him.

Every time, I thought that I was well prepared, at least I wouldn't lose so humiliatingly, but every time I was beaten so powerlessly.

After Lin Tiange left the summit site, he did not return to the hotel. Instead, he walked around the West Lake, gradually leaving behind the noise of the crowd, and the sense of oppression that Shicai felt from Liu Jingting was gone. My heart slowly relaxed.

Lin Tiange began to seriously think about the grievances between him and Liu Jingting, from the first time he contributed to "Craftsman's Record", he went through his own "Craftsman's Record" and joined the Yellow River Literature and Art. Then Gu Yongsheng brought "Shooting the Condor" to the world. Completely achieved hegemony, and then at the moment of suffocation just now, a fact is about to come out.

Gu Yongsheng's strength simply belongs to that invincible level.

Thinking of this, Lin Tiange smiled bitterly, and at the same time made up his mind that he would never do something like this in the future.

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It was past eleven o'clock at night when the summit ended, and the writers were on their way back to the hotel. Liu Jingting once again became the focus of attention, and traditional experts represented by Feng Changxing and Xu Yuanhuai wanted to talk to him about "Generation". They want to know whether Liu Jingting's poem is purely a work of tonight, or a cumulative work of reflection on history;

Yi Shui'an, Xu Qing and others want to know a little more about the content of "Xiao Li Flying Knife", although the novel only has one chapter, but with their level, they still see that the protagonist of this novel, Li Xunhuan, is different from the protagonist of all previous martial arts works, including his morbid (coughing) setting, including the woman he has been carving;

Other young writers wanted to ask Liu Jingting about his writing secrets and film and television adaptations, such as how his three years of traveling around the world played a role in his own creation, and how he should describe the cinematic sense of the picture in words.

Liu Jingting answered one by one, about the "cross-era meaning" and "the connotation of each taking what it needs" of the poem, about the new attempt of "Xiao Li Flying Knife", and about the film and television adaptation of "Story is king".

After returning to the hotel, Liu Jingting found that his lips were dry.

"Are you really going to call this novel 'Xiao Li Flying Knife'?"

After returning to the room, the others could no longer pester Liu Jingting, Xu Qing took the opportunity to ask.

After Liu Jingting took a big sip of water, he replied, "There is another name, the amorous swordsman ruthless sword. ”

Xu Qing, who was also about to drink water, suddenly stopped, looked at Liu Jingting incredulously, and asked, "Are you sure?"

"Don't you think it's subtle enough?"

Xu Qing took a sip of water, and then said, "What do you think?"

"The name of the novel, especially the name of the popular novel, does not need to be too obscure, is it not straightforward to shoot the legend of the Condor Heroes and the Condor Heroes?"

Xu Qing snorted and had no choice but to approve.

Regarding the title of this novel, there were several misunderstandings in the process of dissemination, and it was originally serialized into two parts, the first was "The Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword", and the sequel was "The Iron Brave Soul", which was later combined and published under the name of "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword", and after it was transmitted inland, it was mistakenly named "The First Knife of the Wind and Cloud".

The question then arises, the protagonist of this novel is obviously Li Xunhuan who uses a knife, why does the title of the book have nothing to do with knives at all, does it mean that Ah Fei is the real protagonist of this novel?

Sure enough, after thinking for a while, Xu Qing asked, "So, Ah Fei is the protagonist of this novel?"

Time and space shifted, and Liu Jingting faced this problem again.

Judging from the main line of the novel, Ah Fei does undertake the important task of pulling the story forward, especially when he falls into Lin Xian'er's beauty trap, a large part of the story is spread out around this point, especially the twenty-fifth chapter, which directly uses "the sword is ruthless but amorous" to describe Ah Fei's situation.

In this way, it seems that the protagonist of this novel is indeed Ah Fei, however, if you only understand it this way, it is obviously a bit narrow-minded, after all, Ah Fei is not the only one in this novel.

Jing Wuming uses a sword, and there is unspeakable affection;

Guo Songyang uses a sword, which is a true temperament that is not smiling;

Just like "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Condor Heroes" does not refer to Guo Jing alone, but is a generalized reference, but Guo Jing is the undisputed first protagonist.

"At least in my opinion, Li Xunhuan must be the first protagonist of this novel, the amorous swordsman in this must be understood in a broader sense, and you will know it after the content comes out. ”

Throughout the novel, whether it is the number of times the name "Li Xunhuan" appears, or the personality charm he shows, he is worthy of the title of the first protagonist.

When Yoo Kyung-jeong and others discussed this issue, there was a suggestion that "maybe he is a god above all the characters, an NPC who jumps out of the author's pen", and Yoo Kyung-jeong also expressed his support.

Isn't it the vitality of a novel that perpetuates these debates?

"When it was officially serialized, the title of the book 'Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword' was used. ”

Liu Jingting finally decided to restore the original appearance of "Xiao Li Flying Knife". (To be continued......)