I know that the original 20 licenses Wuxiaworld obtained from Qidian back in the day (2016) was $20,000 a piece, each for ten years. (Source: RWX...
One little quibble: 水字旁 is not the character for water but the radical (部首) for water.
The Emei School was popularized in wuxia in Huanzhu Louzhu's 1932 novel Sword Xia of the Shu Mountains and it was a Daoist sect. Though it...
I'm guessing y'all aren't native English speakers because "dog-eat-dog" is a very common English expression already. It's a one-to-one...
The phrase, the first part, comes from Zuozhuan : 人各有耦，齊大非吾耦也. Seven is agreeing with the friends who say they are incompatible. Seven is saying,...
[IMG] Profound is not the right word for 玄. Profound is more about depth, as in deep understanding of something. 玄 is about mystery, about...
Welcome back Daman, good to see another post from you. I was Ren's assistant on WW back then. We all thought something bad might have happened to...
At nineteen he placed tenth in the 3rd Rank of the 5th Year Presented Scholar exam. 进士 is Presented Scholar, the highest rank on the metropolitan...
Yes, "keep" is the way it's worded in English. A mistress is a "kept woman". So you can say "Keeping her has really become..." or "Keeping her as...
One can't help but be skeptical when someone posts a recruitment ad and doesn't even mention the name of their company. Of course there's no...
No, he's not being welcomed (where do you even get "warmly" from?). The umbrella is just in his hand, it doesn't say anything about him supporting...
No, 拥护 means he is accompanied by a retinue of guards. As in bodyguards. Or like a big shot and his goons.
Well, there's the horror wuxia novel Blood Parrot by Gu Long/Huang Ying (Gu Long wrote to ch.5 iirc and then turned it over to Huang Ying, who...
The first issue I think is because of "自己", which takes some getting used to. 自己 refers to the POV character unless it specifies otherwise, such...
It means "stuck-up/snobbish bastard". 看人下菜碟 means to select dishes [to serve guests] based on who they are (such as status, attitude, relation to...
It's not just one room. A 進 is the row of rooms separated by a courtyard, so basically you can count them by how many courtyards there are. See...
I'm interpreting this a bit differently. I checked the raws to see the context before your excerpt, and Helian Minmin (赫連 is a two-character...
Nah, fan translations existed before Wuxiaworld and they will continue long after Wuxiaworld ceases to exist. Most of WW's translators would never...
I have mixed feelings about this. But I was Ren's assistant once, from 2017-2018, the high point of Wuxiaworld I would say. Also in some ways the...
Link: https://www.wuxiaworld.com/news/rwx-farewell-letter RWX Farewell Letter - Feb 28, 2023 Greetings, friends and fellow Daoists! Ren here....
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