Among Jin Yong's many martial arts works, "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" is not the most well-known one.
However, in this **, there are many female characters with different personalities that leave a deep impression on readers. Some of them are gentle and virtuous, some are fierce and spicy, and some have complex personalities, which makes it difficult for readers to choose. People like Cheng Lingsu who value love and righteousness, people like Miao Ruolan who are gentle as water, people like Ma Chunhua who are unladylike and so on.
Among all of them, the most regrettable is undoubtedly Miao Renfeng's ex-wife - Nanlan.
She was originally a young lady from an official family, but unfortunately, her father was killed in an accident. After that, she married Miao Renfeng, who heroically saved beauty, but unfortunately, her ordinary life was shattered, and her own happiness was shattered.
Gratitude is not the same as true love.
Nanlan has a stunning beauty, and even after the age of thirty, she is in no way inferior to standing on the same side as many young women.
Despite her outstanding looks, it did not bring her much joy, but from a different perspective, it became a source of tragedy in her life.
Nanlan was originally a young lady from an official family, and after following her father into Beijing, she originally thought that this would make her soar, but she didn't expect that her father's too high-profile display of the treasure knife eventually led to her misfortune.
If it weren't for the Miao Renfeng, the charming Nanlan might not be able to escape his poisonous hands.
However, Miao Renfeng is a man with a great reputation, and whenever he sees injustice, he will not hesitate to help and quickly rescue Nanlan.
In order to rescue Nanlan, Miao Renfeng's leg was poisoned, and Nanlan quickly sucked out the poisonous blood in order to save him.
In the context of the era that emphasized that "men and women do not kiss", Nanlan clearly expressed her determination to Miao Renfeng: In this life, only you can marry her.
If this story ends here, it can likewise be seen as a beautiful love story.
However, in the subsequent plot development, Nanlan realized that there was no common topic between her and Miao Renfeng, and her previous concept of "not marrying if you are not a gentleman" was actually just a mistake of treating gratitude as true love.
A false beginning, which eventually leads to a sad ending.
The values do not match, and fate is destined to fail to reach the end.
Nanlan is dedicated to reading and literacy, and she is wholeheartedly in pursuit of a romantic life and is not keen on fighting and killing in the martial arts world.
Despite this, Miao Renfeng has a strong interest in martial arts, and in order to practice martial arts, he even ignores his newly married wife.
In the depths of Nanlan's heart, her dream husband should be someone who is both attentive and romantic, good at saying sweet words, and occasionally singing poetry with her.
However, in the depths of Miao Renfeng's heart, the woman she admires the most is undoubtedly Hu Yidao's wife, the extraordinary woman who ended her life without hesitation after her husband's death.
These two people, one pursues a life before the flower and the moon, while the other longs to be accompanied by life and death, they are completely opposite in their concept of marriage, and they are completely two extremes.
Despite the many arguments between the couple, this did not solve the problems between them and made their relationship more estranged.
Moreover, Miao Renfeng is not a person who pays attention to details. When he took Nanlan to the grave of Hu Yidao and his wife to worship, he inadvertently said something like "A woman like Mrs. Hu, her husband is in the water, she is also in the water, her husband is in the fire, and she is also in the fire."
The speaker doesn't have an intention, but the listener does.
Nanlan couldn't help but recall the fire incident that occurred in Shangbao in the past, when she left Miao Renfeng to escape alone in extreme panic.
Although Miao Renfeng did not reproach Nanlan, Nanlan firmly believed that Miao Renfeng would not forgive her for her past timidity and cringe.
A crack appeared in the couple's relationship, which was difficult to repair again.
That man's mouth is really a liar.
Soon after Nanlan got married, she brought a daughter named Miao Ruolan to the family.
If it weren't for Tian Guinong's ruthless pursuit, Nanlan and Miao Renfeng, a family of three, would have been able to live that kind of peaceful life.
Unfortunately, Miao Renfeng set a trap for the ill-intentioned Tian Guinong to teach his wife martial arts at home, which eventually led to the death of his wife.
Although Tian Guinong's ancestors and Miao Renfeng's ancestors had a deep friendship of life and death, Tian Guinong did not inherit the chivalrous spirit of the family.
In contrast, despite his martial arts, his mind is quite agile.
He realized that Miao Renfeng had a treasure map hidden in his hand, so he continued to approach Miao Renfeng in an attempt to keep the treasure map for himself.
When he was in Miao Renfeng's house, Nanlan's beauty once again attracted his attention.
Miao Renfeng's woodenness is in stark contrast to the gentleness, careful care and sweet words she deliberately shows.
Nanlan finally failed to resist **, took a step, and regretted it for the rest of her life.
On a downpouring night, Nanlan did not hesitate to abandon her daughter Wada and chose to return to the farmland and elope.
After Miao Renfeng found out that his wife Hetian eloped with Guinong, he hugged his little daughter tightly and followed closely all the way, and finally chased him to Shangbao.
He thought deeply that as long as his wife was willing to turn back, as long as she was willing to give up the farmland and go home on her own, he would think that this had never happened, that there would be no fault for the past, and that he would treat his wife more kindly.
However, for a woman who is long away from home, how can she easily choose to turn back?
Miao Renfeng heard her daughter shouting "Hug Lanlan, hug Lanlan", but her wife was always reluctant to turn back, which made Miao Renfeng completely give up hope.
He hugged his daughter tightly and left resolutely, and from then on, he never showed a trace of pleading with Nanlan.
Only the prosaic is real.
Years later, Nanlan realized that Tian Guinong's sweet words to her back then were partly because of her beauty, and even more because she went to Wang Baobao.
She finally fully realized that her mistakes had been outrageous over the years.
She abandoned her daughter, cut off relations with her husband, and chose to follow without hesitation, and surprisingly, she turned out to be a villain with a smile on her face but a murderous intention?
On the other hand, what about the phoenix of the Miao people?
In order to pursue a happy personal life, he was willing to do whatever it takes, even giving up the farmland many times and choosing to return to the farmland.
Which one is a real man who can hold his head high? A person with a keen sense of observation can quickly identify it.
Unfortunately, it wasn't until the last moment of her life that Nanlan truly realized the truth that "marriage is not just romantic, only the prosaic is real".
Once the sea is difficult to water, except for Wushan is not a cloud", those mistakes made when they were young will eventually need to be repaid with their own lives.