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I just finished updating Riwanjia and am going to take a shower and catch up on my sleep.

Halfway through rubbing it, I suddenly remembered that today is Children’s Day!

June 1st.

Four years ago today, June 1, 2020,

Xiaorong uploaded the first chapter of "I Have a Sword Fairy Wife" on Qidian.com because of his hobbies. "This person is like a rainbow".

At that time, I never imagined that four years later, on June 1st, I would be sitting in front of the computer and writing this single chapter.

It's like a lifetime ago.

From sophomore year to now 18,

For four years, a book of Sword Lady and a book of Gentleman, totaling 4.7 million words, was typed out word by word.

I dare say that maybe I wrote it with a lot of curses, but every word was the best I could achieve at the moment I typed it.

Many brothers say that I like water and like to write details. This is because I feel like I have an obsessive-compulsive disorder that every word in the book must meet my personal standards of satisfaction. Therefore, when written, it is naturally very "heavy", sloppy, and even

I will also go back and make corrections like obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Often when I take a shower, I will suddenly rush out of the bathroom, pick up my phone, open the backend, and modify a single word that I just thought didn't make sense when I reviewed it in my mind.

Saying this is not self-praise, but helplessness.

So Xiaorong is actually a very internally disturbed person.

This was mentioned in the final chapter of Sword Girl.

A work will always be affected by the personality of the creator.

This is especially obvious in Jian Niang. This is also the work that Xiaorong feels most guilty about. I was the one who caused it. In my heart, it is definitely the best in the world. Although many people scold it, it is what Xiaorong loves.

The best. (Writing this, my eyes are a little sore)

Come back.

A gentleman is slightly better and is less influenced by the creator.

Xiaorong summarized and summarized all the painful problems he encountered with Jianniang and tried his best to reflect on them before he started writing, so it was called practice writing.

So compared to a story like Sword Girl, for which I had never thought about the ending, Xiaorong had already conceived the finale of The Gentleman when he opened the book.

We also chose the theme of temples that are based on Wu and Zhou of the Tang Dynasty, a "small but beautiful" world view.

Anyone who has seen Sword Girl knows that a small world of low martial arts like a gentleman, placed in Xianxia Xiang's Sword Girl, is a secular dynasty in a certain continent, or a cave heaven blessed by the treasures of a sect on a certain mountain.

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The protagonist of Junzi is also the least like Xiaorong compared to the protagonist of Sword Girl.

Except for xp, I tried my best to avoid the influence of personal style on him,

Unless the plot is too narrow due to Xiaorong's personal experience, which limits the plot development of the protagonist who should be more exciting and in line with the development of the character, this is a force majeure.

He has his own character!

Regarding the character of the protagonist, there is one thing that Xiaorong seems to have never mentioned in the book.

The prototype of the gentleman protagonist is Zhang Mazi and Faust, a combination of the two.

Therefore, his temperament is both rational and romantic, both pessimistic and optimistic, both painful and determined.

Zhang Mazi is very similar to Faust.

They all embrace personal dreams and selfish desires with collective interests and careers.

Therefore, in the process of completing their careers, they are not abandoning their selfish desires, but actively embracing them while earning wages for the livelihood of the people.

This is the realization of a common value.

Therefore, in some plots, Xiaorong subconsciously and tirelessly verbose:

Is the heart of one person the heart of thousands of people, or is the heart of thousands of people the heart of one person?

Xiaorong really didn't want to mention such a grand and boring proposition in a novel where everyone was having fun.

What values ​​are taught in private life,

But occasionally I still can’t help but be verbose due to my desire to express myself. I hope everyone can forgive me and just treat it as something I can’t help but do.

I really like a word mentioned in a message from a gentleman reader.

Humanistic care.

The protagonist has humanistic care!

Weak and strong, He will definitely support the weak!

Where there are many people and where there are few people, he will always stand for the one with more people!

Isn't this what Zhang Mazi and Faust were doing in the history of mankind?

This can make some readers feel this slightly when they turn off the screen and pause after getting tired of watching it.

As an author, I am very satisfied.

In fact, compared to Zhang Mazi, a gentleman protagonist who is serious about big things but not serious about small things, he is more Faustian.

Zhang Mazi is too "high". If he were to be relied upon entirely, a gentleman would not be able to write. The simplest question before him is the love between children, and these would not be possible to develop.

So use "Faust" to reconcile.

Faust was originally an old bachelor who was full of economics. He studied all his life and was eager to enjoy the wonderful life outside.

He made a deal with the devil with his soul and got a young body, as if he had lived another life to embrace life.

Faust does not seek an afterlife, but only cares about this world.

After loving, missing, and being betrayed in this world, he chose to tie his personal desires to the collective cause and work hard to do things that benefit the people.

However, with the "help" of the devil, Faust failed and even unjustly killed a peasant family. He was blinded by guilt.

Finally, he grew old and was buried in a hole dug by the devil.

The sound of shovels colliding with stones made him, who was blind and in a daze in the grave, mistakenly think that it was the sound of free people working diligently on the earth to build shelters for living and working in peace and contentment.

So Faustus said something like "This life is enough" with a satisfied look on his face, which inspired the original contract and lost his soul to the devil.

But when the devil was excited and about to take away his soul, an angel came, saved his soul, and took him to heaven.

This is a very interesting story.

Xiaorong actually quoted it. In the first volume, the protagonist told people that what he liked most was the sound of everyone working together to control floods at the Zheyi Canal construction site during the day.

The most annoying and painful thing is the sound of others calling him master.

It is also a subconscious tribute to Faust.

In addition to the protagonist’s character,

In fact, there are main lines, perspectives, rhythms, techniques, etc.

Compared with Jian Niang, Junzi has made great improvements in his writing methodology.

However, there are also some unsatisfactory aspects, and many readers have pointed them out.

Take the latest climax as an example,

The section where the Xingzifang Buddha collapsed and Lin Cheng and others bowed their heads.

Many people think that Lin Cheng, Wei Shaoqi, Wang Lengran and others died too easily, too quickly and not satisfying enough.

Afterwards, it can be concluded that this is the expectation deviation caused by the author's vision and the reader's vision.

Xiaorong's author's vision is that within one chapter, a few lines of text can resolve all the conflicts and smooth out all the information gaps, which will give a quick and intense feeling of satisfaction.

But I have overlooked one thing. From the reader's perspective, not all the emotions in this paragraph are in place, or in other words, not all are released.

There are two reasons.

First, Lin Cheng, Wang Lengran, and Wei Shaoqi died too quickly. They guessed it but were not sure that it was the protagonist who did it.

Just imagine, if the protagonist makes his debut in this chapter, and the readers follow his first-person perspective, take it in, and solve the enemies who are regretful and fearful under his powerful power one by one, wouldn’t it be more comfortable?

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Because there is the first-person perspective of the protagonist, readers will subconsciously take in the story, make up their minds and mobilize their emotions.

It's not that the protagonist is not present, and the enemy has already stopped before he can mobilize his emotions.

Secondly, the protagonist’s actions are hidden from the readers from beginning to end.

Including the first scene when the protagonist looks up at the old stone bricks of the bridge when returning to the city from the front line, then repairs the west city gate later, and then gets the [Tripod Sword] hidden in the giant Buddha.

All of this was done secretly, with only foreshadowing and no thorough explanation.

In the words of a friend after listening to it, Xiaorong also deceived the readers. He not only deceived the villain, but also deceived the readers' perspective. The information was not in place.
To be continued...