Chapter 388

At the same time, Ye Xuan did not notice the heated discussion on the Internet.

He continued to live the life of writing manuscripts and updating every day.

Countless readers followed the latest updated content and felt their hearts rise and fall again.

Wei Xiaobao's relationship with the Heaven and Earth Society was eventually exposed in front of Kangxi.

Kangxi demanded that Wei Xiaobao atone for his crimes and personally capture the heroes of the Heaven and Earth Society.

Chen Jinnan also demanded that Wei Xiaobao assassinate Kangxi in order to complete the great cause of opposing the Qing and restoring the Ming.

Caught between the two, after Kangxi sent troops to surround the heroes of the Heaven and Earth Society, Wei Xiaobao could not bear to harm his master Chen Jinnan and the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society, so he rescued them all and fled to an island with his wives.

But unexpectedly, not long after, Wei Xiaobao saw his master, the Grand Helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society, Chen Jinnan, stabbed in the chest by Zheng Keshuang and die in front of him.

"Damn!"

"Damn!"

"How is that possible?!"

Seeing this scene, the crowd of readers simply couldn't believe their eyes.

This is Chen Jinnan, of whom it is said, "If you don't know Chen Jinnan in your life, it is in vain to call yourself a hero"!

In The Deer and the Cauldron, Ye Xuan used supreme brilliance to render the heroic spirit of the Grand Helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society.

Looking at the previous Trilogy of the Condor Heroes, who else could have such a resounding name?!

He had high martial arts, unwavering determination, courage to sacrifice, loyalty and responsibility, and struggled for the great cause of opposing the Qing and restoring the Ming all his life, yet he was pierced through the heart by Zheng Keshuang, a descendant who owed him a debt of gratitude, and died in front of Wei Xiaobao?!

Some readers cursed out loud on the spot.

"Damn?! How could Chen Jinnan die?!"

Other readers even stood up and slapped the table on the spot.

"Damn it! I am not reconciled!"

Just as countless people were immersed in the grief of Chen Jinnan's passing, Wei Xiaobao in the story faced the dilemma of loyalty and righteousness again.

On one hand, the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society demanded that he inherit Chen Jinnan's last wish and serve as the Grand Helmsman.

On the other hand, Kangxi also ordered Wei Xiaobao to exterminate the anti-Qing Heaven and Earth Society.

Under various difficult choices, Wei Xiaobao, under the guise of returning home, took his seven wives and went into hiding, disappearing like a stone into the sea, with no one knowing his whereabouts.

From then on, there was no such person as Wei Xiaobao in the world.

As the word "finished" appeared, countless readers did not recover from the story of The Deer and the Cauldron for a long time.

"It just ended like this?!"

"Wei Xiaobao finally retired to the mountains and forests with his seven wives?"

"Is this really a Wu Xia world?! Why does it feel different from the Trilogy of the Condor Heroes!"

……

A crowd of readers were still immersed in the aftertaste of The Deer and the Cauldron novel and unable to extricate themselves for a long time.

As time went on, more and more people on the whole network evaluated this novel.

Negative voices also appeared.

"The novel story is indeed very good, but the problem is that Wei Xiaobao married seven wives in total, this is too fake, right? Isn't this just a vulgar harem novel?"

"Hehe! Who can't dream while lying down?! This book is simply Ye Xuan's self-indulgence, writing out a beautiful dream, isn't that a bit insulting?"

"Don't you think the protagonist Wei Xiaobao kills people like flies? He killed Xiao Guizi, Oubai, and many others one after another, this value orientation definitely has a problem!"

"Even if polygamy was allowed in that era, in order to get these seven wives, Wei Xiaobao used despicable and shameless means to the extreme…"

"Yeah, could it be that Ye Xuan has run out of talent, so he specifically wrote a novel to cater to netizens?!"

Once the successive negative voices came out, it suddenly stirred up a thousand waves.

This immediately angered many of Ye Xuan's loyal readers.

They were still immersed in the brilliance of the novel a moment ago, but then they were belittled as worthless the next moment.

How could this be tolerated?!

Some readers immediately rolled up their sleeves and rushed up.

Soon, almost every intense war of words broke out in the entire Weibo square.

At the same time, the entry 【Ye Xuan has run out of talent】 was even argued onto the hot search.

At this time, all netizens looked at Ye Xuan, hoping that Ye Xuan could come forward and give everyone an explanation.

It's just that Ye Xuan didn't have the habit of opening Weibo often, and he didn't know at all about the dispute caused by netizens because of this The Deer and the Cauldron.

Just when countless netizens were arguing more and more fiercely, a professor and expert came out to speak.

"Forgive me for saying, Mr. Ye's The Deer and the Cauldron is a pinnacle work based on the previous Trilogy of the Condor Heroes!"

Once the message came out, it didn't splash much water at first.

But when netizens noticed that the Weibo ID was a professor at the Peking University School of Chinese Literature, many netizens suddenly asked curiously.

"Can you talk about it?! I've moved a small stool and am humbly asking for advice!"

"What does it mean?"

"Professor, can you explain it to us?!"

Seeming to have been privately messaged by countless netizens, or perhaps asked too much by netizens, this professor from the Peking University School of Chinese Literature subsequently posted a long article.

【Peking University School of Chinese Literature Professor Zhang: The reason why this The Deer and the Cauldron is called the pinnacle of Wu Xia is because the word "anti" is mentioned throughout the text.

First, anti-love.

The previous Trilogy of the Condor Heroes praised love, advocated being loyal to one person, or love at first sight.

But in The Deer and the Cauldron, the relationship between Wei Xiaobao and his seven wives is seven complex relationships.

With A'Ke, that is the desire for possession.

With Shuang'er, that is the desire for obedience.

With Su Quan, that is the mutual need of those who know the times are heroes.

These romantic relationships are full of deception, calculation, utilization, and framing.

Isn't this the most real world?!

Second, anti-Wu Xia.

In the previous Trilogy of the Condor Heroes, the protagonists were all peerless heroes and knights with martial arts and righteousness.

They were born with a mission, turning from nobodies into world-shaking heroes.

But when it comes to The Deer and the Cauldron, everything is just the opposite.

The protagonist of The Deer and the Cauldron, Wei Xiaobao, is just an illegitimate child in a brothel, afraid of death, greedy for money, and lustful.

But it is such a person born at the very bottom of society, he through the transformation of identity, from Xiao Guizi by the Emperor's side, to the court meritorious official Lord Wei, to the Shaolin Temple high monk, the Mystic Dragon Sect White Dragon Envoy, the Heaven and Earth Society Green Wood Hall incense master...

Being in the Wu Xia world but not knowing any martial arts at all, at the moment of life and death, he relies entirely on all kinds of slipperiness and calculation.