Magic Sword, Sentimental FlowerTable of Contents
幻劍情花
by Yun Zhongyue
雲中岳
translated by JohnD
Book One: Magic Sword, Sentimental Flower
Chapter 1: Zhurong's Meeting | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Chapter 2: The Little Tyrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Chapter 3: Internal Strife | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Chapter 4: Threats and Bribes | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Chapter 5: Love at First Sight | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Chapter 6: Please Sir, Get in the Pot |
Book Two: Love Locks Witch Mountain
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Magic Sword, Sentimental Flower is a novel by Yun Zhongyue. The novel was originally published as two books: "Magic Sword, Sentimental Flower" and the continuation novel "Love Locks Witch Mountain (情鎖巫山). "Love Locks" is not a sequel, it is merely the continuation of the novel. For some reason wuxia novels in Taiwan were often broken up into two books, or one book and a "continuation" book. That is, if you only read "Magic Sword", you would not get the full story as it ends in the middle of it. The end of volume three of "Magic Sword" asks the reader to continue with "Love Locks Witch Mountain". So in my table of contents above I have separated the novel into two "books" (each book is actually three volumes, so six volumes total), though it is all really one novel: Magic Sword, Sentimental Flower.
The copy I have also includes illustrations, so I will upload those as we come to them. The picture above is the frontispiece of volume one, which depicts the very first scene of the novel.
I aim to update every week with as much as I have translated to that point. Hopefully I can get a chapter a week, but we'll see. This is a side project for me: my main project right now is working on a wuxia magazine I plan to launch next year.
Song of the Exile, which I had started to translate, will be put on hold for a while. "Magic Sword" starts out a bit quicker and has a lot more dialogue, which makes translation faster, so that's why I went with this novel. Is it a good novel? I don't know. Yun Zhongyue fans on the internet say his work is all pretty consistent in quality, the consensus being that if you like his style, you'll like just about all of his novels.
All comments are welcome, and thanks for reading!