A note: another extra has gone up. It may seem a little frequent, but this is to advertise for two new authors and help them climb the rankings... New chapters were posted yesterday in both the public and VIP editions. This piece is a review by "Bookmark," a member of the Dust Along the Immortal Road forum, giving his impressions of, and wishes for, several of the principal female characters in Immortal Road.
I was very glad to come across Dust Along the Immortal Road. Otherwise, I would truly have doubted whether today's web fiction could still be counted as literature... In an age when literature was drifting ever farther away, having an author like this, and a book like Immortal Road, to show everyone the beauty of our Chinese written language was a blessing indeed.
The prose was elegant and graceful, the poetry splendid and rich in lasting resonance. All of this stirred feelings I had all but forgotten.
Though the dust had yet to settle, I could no longer wait to set down my guesses about how the relationships in the book would develop.
Let me discuss the leading ladies.
Qiong Rong needed no lengthy introduction: everyone's favorite little sister, sweet and endearing. Perhaps everyone wished they had a little sister like her. In idle hours, one might take her out to enjoy the spring greenery, tease her into saying silly things to pass the time, or sit opposite her by the window and teach her to read and write. But marrying her to Xing Yan was something I could not imagine under any circumstances. Besides, judging from the book, Xing Yan felt only an elder brother's tenderness toward a little sister, never any improper desire. Nor did the author's prose stray into anything untoward. From the