Hey guys, it's me.
Sorry, this is not an update. I won't be able to for a while. Being in college is just too hectic to manage. Especially when you have to study an entire semester that was supposed to span for almost 5 months in just 3
Let's forget about that. Right now, I wanna give my personal thoughts on soul land 3. This thought came to me coz how uninformed I am. I to recently found out Tang Jia San Shou's , aka the author of soul land, wife passed. Maybe some of you guys know, but I didn't. I recently (today) finished DD4. That's when I read in the post script. It was too much of a shock for me. I cursed my lack of general knowledge😑
She was suffering for breast cancer around the time when DD3 was being published. So the authors feeling were obviously depressed. It reflects on his book too.
I can say without a doubt 'Soul Land 3: Legend Of The Dragon King' is my favorite novel ever. The amount of effort the author puts in bringing out the emotional tension is amazing.
The emotion rollercoaster we had throughout the book keeps us hook. I couldn't stop reading at all. All thoae tension and feeling being written so well. That was peak writing for me. Each chapter left me with the Hunger for more.
Tang Wulin is my favorite MC through all the books I have read, followed by MO fan from versatile mage.
His struggle throughout his life is just too much. Some times I felt depressed for him. This dude couldn't get a break.
1. Getting left behind by his parents
2. Trash martial soul
3. Adopted sister gone
4. Adoptive parents gone.
5. Tension with lover.
6. Lover gone.
7. sister gone again.
8. Shrek and tang sect gone.
9. Teachers gone.
10. adopted parents gone again
11. Second adopted mother gone.
12. Responsibilty of tang sect, Shrek, being a peacemaker, being a leader of humanity
13. Killing his lover with his own hand and commiting suicide
Next in dd4
14. Losing memory and not knowing about his son
15. Almost losing his wife again
16. Bitch slap by wife
17. Finally, father and mother gone just after reunion
He has my sympathy. His power level difference with gu yuena is also understand. Yuena was embracing her power of sdk while wulin was trying to limit his gdk asuch as possible. One had full experience of her power, while the other was walking in the dark.
But the author very well brought out his character and quirks. His proposal to GuYue and all his emotional tensions were beautifully written.
The ending of soul land gave me mind depression. I couldn't quite process everything that was happening around me for a day. It was a feeling of emptiness, as if my inside was hollow. I am being totally honest. This kind of feeling while read was only felt once before after reading the novel Half-girlfriend (end of act2). But this feeling was just too strong for me.
Like I said before, it felt like peak of writing for me. A peak to high to mimic. I know there may be many books out there with better writing but since I haven't read them, it can't change my perspective.
Now that I know the news of the author's wife, I could understand a bit why it was so well made. He put all his heart into this book when expressing the relationship tension and romance. The pain wulin and yuena felt was like a representation of his own pain of losing his wife.
After reading the postscrpt of dd4, I searched for the postscript of dd3 and it took me a while to find it. I read it, I can't explain what I'm feeling right now as my writing this.
The postscript made me realise how much Zhang Wei, aka tjss suffered. Each line as I read, I felt as if a void was being made in my heart. I know this might sound corny, but it is the truth. Even as I type this review, I am feeling the strange sense of emptiness. You can't blame me for it!
The author himself admitted how he cried while writing the ending of the book, and that makes the ending more depressing. It gives a feeling that there is an actual Gu Yue and Tang Wulin who's love story met a tragic end.
The ending of the series was what made me wanna read dd4. I personally don't like dd4 and I would rate as the lowest of the 4 books. Maybe it's coz I'm more biased towards wulin but xuanyu had everything set up for him in silver plate. His hella overpowered martial soul, his overpowered parents at his aide whenever he needed. Special treatment from Shrek. Every way, he had it all.
But it's understandable. The author probably wanted to show a childhood the other soul land MCs would have if not for those tragedies. A genuine childhood. I personally enjoyed xuanyu's childhood as it was refreshing. But over all story, I could find dd4 interesting.
For me, it was wulin and Gu Yuena that that made dd4 worth while. There relationship from beginning to end was drawn out extremely well.
Soul land 3 sea God date proposal was the most beautiful moment know the entire series for me.
And their wedding neat end of dd4 was the best part of soul land 4. The author tactfully recreated the scene of marriage proposal from soul land 3 perfectly till the point when it all went downhill in dd3. And how he changed it in so well in soul land 4 was too beautiful. Think back, now I think the author was trying to convey his own feeling of how he wished to rewrite history own ending with his wife 😢
And later in the postscript of dd4, the author admits that tang san's wish to reunite sigh his dead wife is same as his own wish to be with his wife. Their relationship started when they were at the age of 16 and 18. Now they have two children. I don't know whether the idea of true love is real or if it's bullshit since I never had such experience or feelings so far. But if it is real, I would say, what they had was true love. His writing is the proof of it. I wanted to say these words in his personal page or something, but I couldn't find any
So now, I am having an urge to read soul land 5, praying that if there really is something as rebirth they may Zhang Wei and Li Mo reunite again like tang San and xiao wu and may have a happier life than they had now.
RIP Li Mo. Thank you for supporting such an amazing author.