Good afternoon, my dear friends.
I'm sitting at my desk now, writing this summary leisurely, thinking about where to go to play later.
During this seven-million-word writing, I almost cut off social contact. The only social contact I had was with you, so I often spoke my mind in my speeches and chatted about casual things.
However, there are more and more readers, and Chixin has reached the top. Every word of the author is put under a microscope and observed individually. Gradually, speaking becomes a dangerous thing.
But I still want to talk to you about something.
What I faced was a specific person, but also a vague image - this person seemed to be always by my side. He usually didn't speak, but occasionally he would shout, "Hey! Keep moving forward!"
Give me support, give me company, and let me know that I am not alone in the long night.
Today I want to talk to you about the creation of the protagonist.
Haha, this seems to be a very dangerous topic.
Since the opening of the book, whether to be honest or not has been a long-lasting topic of "debate". Everyone has a high degree of enthusiasm for discussing the word "honest", which is reasonable, because after all, every volume has been written so far.
It doesn’t matter if there is no reason for the title of the book.
I have never talked about this matter publicly, because talking about it will inevitably involve spoilers, which will hurt the readers' reading experience. How I hope that every plot I weave will have the greatest echo in the readers' minds.
.I don’t allow spoilers to happen here.
Just like Jiang Wuqi's divine arrival in one step, Zhu Biqiong's return from the secret realm of Tianfu, the Mo family's capture of Huang Jinmo, and the defeat of Zhong Xuan Zun before the battle against Xia... In these very controversial plots, I never said what would happen next.
, just write the entire plot line silently, and then jump out to feel grievances - look, it's because you are impatient! I have plans!
But some can be written very quickly, such as the formation of autumn frost. Some take a long time, such as "The Battle of Wangzun" needs to be completed throughout the summer, the "Flower in the Mirror, Water and Moon" line spans several volumes, and the Mohist line has not yet been completed.
Chixin has the biggest controversy, and I also have the longest silence.
Now is the time, after the volume of Heavenly Bai Yujing.
The copyrights were sold very early, and the comics were sold especially early. Around 2021, the cartoonist became my friend.
He is a very attentive creator. He has communicated with me many times and has drawn a lot of character sketches. However, as you can see, the comics have not been released for a long time.
I said that I hope to wait until I finish the novel, or at least write it to a later stage, before I start doing these things. I am worried that I will end up straying from the topic.
As a novel author, you only have to be responsible for yourself. For comics and animation, you have to be responsible for the entire production team, and the pressure is different.
At that time, the cartoonist asked me - what is a pure heart? Can I have a sentence at the beginning of this book to explain the theme?
Just like "I want to be Hokage", "I want to be the man who becomes the Pirate King", these royal and passionate comics can become the symbol of this comic.
I was stunned.
Ah, that's not the case.
The protagonist is not born pointing to the sky and the earth, majestic and shouting "I want it!"
He only cried when he was born.
What I want to write about is not a person who is born with knowledge and greatness; what I want to write about is not a person whose mind remains unchanged from beginning to end; what I want to write about is not a person who is piled up with several labels.
I want to write about his growth, his experiences, and his vivid life.
Compared with other characters with different talents, Jiang Wang is relatively ordinary at the beginning, and his brilliance needs to be sharpened in the hard life.
Some people think Jiang Wang is not charming enough, and there is nothing wrong with that.
I have been writing since the first volume that he is not a perfect person, and he is not a person who shines brightly as soon as he appears.
He is not a character with a fixed mind from the beginning, nor is he a time-traveler with a mature mind and a fixed personality.
He is what Internet readers call an "indigenous". He is a person who grew up in that fairy world.
He left his hometown alone at the age of fourteen and sought enlightenment in Maplewood City.
His father died when he was a teenager.
Later, he had to take care of his sister and play the role of both brother and father. Many times it seemed that he had matured and could take charge of the storm on his own.
But he was only seventeen years old until Bai Fa left his hometown...
That kind of maturity is just a fragile shell, a necessity in life - he has to take care of his sister, although he is also a person who needs teaching and care.
He was a young man who came from a small town. His father was just an ordinary medicine merchant. His vision was only so high. The hardships he experienced were just the difficulties of studying.
So you can see that his original ideal collapsed easily. He was fooled around by Bai Lian, and his three views were not stable at all. Bai Lian told him that Yuheng Peak was the source of the suffering of the monks in Sanshan City, so he decided to overthrow it -
- He never thought about whether there was a deeper reason behind it. He couldn't think that deeply.
He was desperate because of the death of a little girl. At that time, he might have thought of his sister, or a simple sense of justice.
He would give Daoxun away because of the hardship faced by the monks in Sanshan City.
He will feel sorry for the little girl who survived among the ferocious beasts, and will fight for Bai Lian because she saved him.
When the Heart-Eater Demon Bear Wen targeted him, his only thought was how to save himself. He didn't think about harming anyone. He just thought that in the entire Maplewood City, Zhang, Fang, and Wang were the only three places that could help him contain him.
Rivals, and only the Fang family was familiar to him.
After killing the bear and asking.
Thinking of the elders of the Fang family who died in the war, he had to find excuses to comfort himself - I had no choice but to do it, and I had no choice.
This is where he is vulnerable. He is escaping.
You see, he's not perfect. He wasn't a perfect person to begin with.
Is there any way to make this plot non-controversial?
too easy.
Just sacrifice a little of the IQ of the supporting character and let Fang Zehou choose to persecute the protagonist. Let the clan elder also participate in the plan and express what he wants to do to An An.
Luring people and demons into the Fang family will greatly please people's hearts.
But a character's real choice can only be reflected when he is struggling.
His escape and vulnerability at that time are exactly what I want to describe.
Along the way, Jiang Wang has grown not only in his cultivation, but also in his cognition, his knowledge, his ability to deal with things, and his attitude towards the world... they are all constantly changing.
It's not necessarily a good change.
There are many people who had an important impact on his life.
It was Lu Shuanghe and Yi Shengfeng who told him that practicing means fighting.
It was Zuo Guanglie who told him what extraordinary courage, extraordinary compassion, and extraordinary commitment are.
It was Miaoyu who shattered his three views and made him re-recognize the world for the first time. It turns out that Yuheng Peak is like this, and it turns out that the eternal covenant between the human race and the water tribe is just a piece of paper.
It was Ye Qingyu who strengthened his background and told him - if he knew it was wrong, how could it be right?
It was Zhuang Chengqian who told him not to trust anyone easily. There are many people who deceive gods and ghosts.
It was Dong Ah who told him that everyone has a different path and makes their own choices.
It was Zheng Shangming who told him that it was the efforts of a mediocre person. Before that, what he was thinking was, how come you, Zheng Shangming, have changed? From a sincere young man, you have turned into an official who is bent on climbing up so quickly.
It was Fang Heling who let him know that not everyone is as talented as you and has as many choices as you.
It was Master Guanyan who told him - "To demand others by your standards is already demanding, and to demand the world by your standards, then if you are evil and don't know it, you are a demon among demons."
Too much too much……
He did not understand these principles from the beginning.
He had been confused, confused, entangled, and in pain.
He rolled around naked in the gravel of this world with a hot heart. Some places were scarred, some were still bleeding, some were still soft, and some were only pits that could never be filled.
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Readers often say that Jiang Wang is a very naughty person.
He is really naughty.
He had ideals, but his ideals were destroyed time and time again.
He has cognition, but his cognition is subverted time and time again.
When Zhu Biqiong was about to die, she said, "This world is different from what I thought."
To be continued...