Liu Chang'an's Father and Mother

Liu Yuewang secretly sized up the young girl beside her and suddenly thought of a certain character: the Little Dragon Maiden.

Many television adaptations of The Return of the Condor Heroes were considered classics, and people often said that whoever played the Little Dragon Maiden best captured the character's temperament from the original novel.

Chen Baozi also suited the Little Dragon Maiden's temperament... So what exactly should the Little Dragon Maiden look like? That still depended on personal preference.

Yet Liu Yuewang felt that if the girl before her were cast as the Little Dragon Maiden, she would objectively fit the character's image and temperament, rather than merely appealing to different people's tastes.

A Little Dragon Maiden like this—perhaps even Yin Zhiping would not have had the heart to defile her... But thinking about it that way, she no longer seemed to fit the Little Dragon Maiden's character, since the Little Dragon Maiden had not been beautiful enough to make Yin Zhiping hesitate to defile her.

As a professor of literature, Liu Yuewang had always felt that the Little Dragon Maiden being defiled by Yin Zhiping was a flawed plot device forcibly used to advance the story, though she had never said so publicly.

However, Yang Guo's origins, his teacher-student romance, his conflicted feelings toward Guo Jing and Huang Rong, Huang Rong's lingering misgivings about Yang Guo, and so on gave the story something of a classical tragedy's flavor. It was far superior to the crude, deliberate trope of creating a character readers liked and then destroying her.

Many authors learned only how to destroy characters, without grasping the essence of it. This was something Liu Yuewang often discussed with her students during class.

As Liu Yuewang thought, she became a little distracted. She took a bite of radish, and