Yanqiu Tears -- A New School Wuxia Novel

Author: Fang Yijia
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book is a historical wuxia romance novel, narrating a poignant and moving love story between the author and three girls from different ethnic groups during the Kaixi period of the Southern Song Dynasty. Through a series of legendary descriptions, the novel praises the true beauty of human society, reveals the greatness of love when heroism intertwines with romance, and when national enmity clashes with human beauty. It affirms the timeless verse by Yuan Haowen: "What is love in this world? It makes people willing to give up life and death for it." The storyline is full of twists and turns, the writing is beautiful and moving, and it is highly appreciable. The book was serialized in full in the China Daily in Thailand in 2002, causing a great response, and is currently a rare masterpiece in the wuxia genre. This book is a new type of historical wuxia romance novel. During the Kaixi Northern Expedition of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Congmei, a disciple of Xin Qiji, was sent to Xiangyang to break the Jin Dynasty's spy network. He faced life-and-death challenges and met Mu Huaye, Bu Sa Shuzhen, and Xiao Pusadai, girls from Han, Jurchen, and Khitan ethnic groups, respectively, and performed a tragic and beautiful love story of "one phoenix and three phoenixes." The plot is full of twists and turns, and the writing is beautiful and moving.