The title implies the theme of this story is about a
female's revenge. An infamous contract-killer, Ho Boling, retires after he marries a
tender and beautiful girl, Gu Hansiang. He takes her advice and decides to become a good
man.
When he is informed that the outlaw circle of gangs, lyulin, are going to elect a new
chairperson to lead them against the well-established Schools of the martial arts circle,
he makes up his mind to stop them. Unpredictably he is elected to become the gang's new
leader, so he sets up rules to forbid and prevent his followers from committing crimes.
Surely the senior gang members will challenge his policies, and the Schools also want to
execute him. He dismissed a scheme to assassinate members of the Schools managed by the
seniors. Nevertheless he was killed in an accident by disciples of the Wudang School, and
his properties were soon taken by the senior gang members.
The story line now turns to Hu Boling's beautiful widow Gu Hansiang; she vows to avenge
her husband. Her task is difficult because her enemies are both the gangs and the Schools'
circles. She changes her name to Honghua Gongjhu and remarries to a single-eyed freak in
order to learn more powerful wugong. She soon murders her new husband after he is used up.
Then she plots to regain the position as the chairperson of the gangs, which Hu Boling had
before he died. She successfully won over the gangs by using her physical power and
wugong, she also applied drugs to control her followers.
Her next plan is to learn more precious wugong to defeat the well-established Schools. So
she left for the aged hermit Sanmiao Shusheng. She survived an ambush by senior gang
leaders and eventually learned undefeatable wugong from the one hundred and sixty-year-old
Sanmiao Shusheng to whom she promised that she would not kill more than four people from
then on.
When she returned home, a violent battle between the gangs and the Schools' circles
started. In order to obey her commitment she motivated both sides to massacre each other.
She herself slays the two seniors of the Wudang School who killed her husband, and by
mistake she seriously injures a respectable master whom she called "Sir", and
then he died. When the battle came to an end she committed suicide.
This story was written by Wolong Sheng and Yi Rong. It develops smoothly and clearly. When
the main character changes from Hu Boling to his widow Gu Hansiang and started a new
episode, readers surprisingly find that it is a different story because females are
usually less important than males in the other wusia novels. Nevertheless, this book is
excellent not only because of the dramatic changes of personality of the female
protagonist, but also because it is suspenseful.
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