SENTIMENTAL SWORDSMAN, RUTHLESS SWORD is known primarily as the story of Lee Chum Foon, but do you think that perhaps Gu Long originally intended it to be the story of Ah Fei (but got sidetracked because Lee Chum Foon was such a compelling character)? Lee Chum Foon was sentimental, but he was not particularly known as a swordsman. His claim to fame was his flying dagger, not his swordsmanship, which was good, but likely inferior to that of Ah Fei, Ging Mo Meng, and Gwok Sung Yeung. Ah Fei, too, was sentimental (particularly after meeting Lam Sin Yee), and of course, he was a swordsman extraordinaire (moreso than Lee Chum Foon ever was). Ah Fei shared roughly the same "face time" in the story as Lee Chum Foon did, and he fit the young wuxia hero mold more than Lee Chum Foon (who was much older) did.
So was SENTIMENTAL SWORDSMAN, RUTHLESS SWORD actually supposed to feature Ah Fei as the main character?