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The ongoing influence of the Journey to the West on Earth is partly due to the historical impacts passed down over hundreds of years, and partly because of countless interpretations by modern people, especially from a modern perspective.

Their fondness for Journey to the West can be largely attributed to various interpretations linked to it.

Without these layers of interpretation, Journey to the West probably wouldn’t have continued to hold a unique artistic status in people’s hearts into the 21st century.

Many are willing to believe that Journey to the West, as one of the four great classics of the Celestial Dynasty, is more than meets the eye.

When it comes to the most striking interpretation of Journey to the West, aside from Star Grandpa’s movie series, many people will mention this novel:

The Legend of Wukong by Jinhezai!

The book tells the story of the tragic hero, Sun Wukong, along with Tang Monk and others, in their struggle against destiny.

The author offers a fresh reinterpretation of some of the plot points in Journey to the West from a modern perspective, imbuing the whole book with thoughtfulness.

This book is extremely profound.

Strictly speaking, this novel is a fanfiction of Journey to the West.

The author added his own spin to the original work.

For instance, the original work barely touched on any romantic storylines, which are brought to life in The Legend of Wukong.

This is a strategy that was also applied in Star Grandpa’s A Chinese Odyssey series and even the demon-slaying sequences.

These interpretations all contributed to the popularity of Journey to the West.

Now, Lin Yuan wants to use the popularity of The Legend of Wukong’s reinterpretation to boost publicity for his TV drama.

However...

There is a delicate issue.

Even though The Legend of Wukong is a classic, it is, after all, fanfiction of Journey to the West.

If Lin Yuan were to write Journey to the West under the pseudonym of Chu Kuang, that would be tantamount to an official interpretation.

By doing so, he would instantly limit the work’s potential for derivative stories by 90%.

In the short term, this wouldn’t hurt, but thinking in the long-term, the downsides outweigh the upsides.

What about having Xian Yu write it?

That also seems inappropriate.

The relationship between Xian Yu and Chu Kuang is unique.

If Xian Yu writes The Legend of Wukong, outsiders may well suspect:

That Xian Yu’s interpretation is undertaken with Chu Kuang’s suggestion. @@novelbin@@

Which wouldn’t be much different from an official interpretation.

The same logic applies to Shadow.

Previously, Lin Yuan wrote a song called "Fairytale Town" under the pseudonym of Xian Yu, the lyrics of which touched upon the boundary of dark fairy tales.

As a result, some people began to suspect that Chu Kuang’s "Fairytale Town" story is fundamentally dark.

This wasn’t Lin Yuan’s intention.

So, Lin Yuan is now faced with a dilemma.

However, this is merely a minor trouble, a slight shift in thinking will reveal the solution—

Create another pseudonym!

Lin Yuan was originally planning to stick to three pseudonyms, but often plans can’t keep up with changes.

If he’s going to write The Legend of Wukong, he’ll need to create a new pseudonym.

That’s it!

Lin Yuan suddenly thought:

Not only can the new pseudonym be used to write The Legend of Wukong, but it could also be specifically used to provide interpretations of works by Xian Yu, Chu Kuang and even Shadow!

Every time Lin Yuan saw netizens interpreting his songs, novels, comics and the like, he felt an itch to join in.

Blue Star netizens have wild imaginations, always offering splendid interpretations of his work.

But Lin Yuan has seen many brilliant interpretations on Earth, some of which Blue Star netizens overlooked, yet due to his identity, he found it inappropriate to point them out directly—

Official interpretations could actually harm the long-term development of the work.

If he came up with another pseudonym, he wouldn’t need to worry about this.

The new pseudonym just needs to avoid associating with Xian Yu, Chu Kuang, and Shadow.

Focus only on interpretations!

No interactions!

On second thoughts, creating a new pseudonym seemed like a necessary matter?

This way, he could rightfully set the rhythm of his own works!

For instance, Lin Yuan could now write The Legend of Wukong.

In the future, he could also come up with fan-fiction like "Everlasting Regret" for his Yang Jian character—under this new pseudonym.

Right.

It’s the Yang Jian character from Journey to the West, not the one from The Investiture of the Gods.

...

Having established his line of thought, Lin Yuan directly got a new mobile number and registered another Tribe account.

Tribe is the best social network platform on Blue Star.

Although other services like blogging platforms are not bad, their influence and user base still fall short compared to Tribe.

Now, what should the new pseudonym be?

Lin Yuan pondered for a moment.

The name ’Chu Kuang’ was taken from the phrase "I am a madman of Chu, singing and laughing at Confucius."

’Xian Yu’ came from that saying "Appease and take a step back rather than hankering after one’s ambition."

His new pseudonym would be ’Yi An’ then!

In Tao Yuanming’s poem, ’The Return’, this particular line is written,

"Examine the comfort of one’s life."

Even in a simple dwelling, one can enjoy a life of wine-drinking merriment and arrogant self-satisfaction.

Simple.

Happiness.

’Yi An’ and Li Qingzhao coincide any way.

Song Dynasty poet Li Qingzhao is exactly known as the alternate name ’ Yi An’.

However, Blue Star has no Li Qingzhao, and certainly not the alias Yi An.

After registering a new account, Lin Yuan searched for some related information from fanatics on the Internet.

Blue Star also has fanfic, there are also specialized fanfiction websites, and there are also many derivative fanfictions of classic works in many forums.

For example, Chu Kuang’s early work ’King of the Net’, several authors have written fanfics about it, mainly leaning towards BL.

Cough.

Even authors have written fanfics about characters like Holmes and Watson, Poirot and Hastings, and even stories connecting Holmes to Poirot.

The most outrageous is:

There’s even a fanfic about Xian Yu, Chu Kuang, and Shadow on this website. Lin Yuan didn’t dare to look at the details though, he just found the title rather peculiar:

Three companions?

Some people might wonder, with Blue Star’s copyright protection so strict, how can fanfic have the room to grow?

The reason is simple.

Because the authors approved.

These fanfics are not used for commercial purposes. Many fanfic authors are completely driven by their love for their work.

They did not make money out of fanfiction. Explore more adventures at NovelBin.Côm

So how could the authors seek to hold them accountable?

The authors might even hope for more fanfics to appear, to make the original works more popular.

As long as the fanfic authors do not defame the original work.

Sometimes.

The original author even allows fanfiction authors to publish and make money, occasionally granting rights.

As long as it does not impact the fundamental interests of the original work, the original authors are quite lenient.

After all, the ones writing fanfics are all fans.

Moreover, most of the time, fanfic tends to add more depth to the original work.

For instance, some people developed an interest in the anime and even bought the original work to read after reading the Boys Love fanfic of ’King of the Net’.

Lin Yuan understood this well.

After all, he himself has become the protagonist of a fanfic.

Now, Lin Yuan was mainly searching for fanfic of ’Journey to the West’.

After searching around, there are actually quite a few interesting fanfics.

For example, there’s a fanfic where the main character is Tang Monk. In this fanfic, Tang Monk is granted an amazing cheat which he uses while bringing Wukong and the others to the West, wreaking havoc in the Western Paradise...

One look and you know the author is not satisfied with the Buddha’s suppression of Wukong.

So in this fanfic, Tang Monk uses his cheat to block the celestial clues, then scolds the Buddha for his dishonesty at every turn, encouraging Wukong to continue fighting back, never surrender, and when he gets the scriptures in the West, to smack them into the Buddha’s face and get revenge for Wukong’s five hundred years under the Five Finger Mountain!

This is the most popular ’Journey to the West’ fanfic currently.

The author did not rely on selling the novel to make money, rather the author himself became famous.

He opened an account in the tribe and became a fanfic author, making money by taking a bit of advertising and such.

However, this novel has a strong online literature flavor, the plot can’t stand scrutiny, it’s completely aimed at satisfying the reader’s appetite for excitement and doesn’t place importance on logic and profound meaning. It is a good fanfic but it’s not a classic one.

Meanwhile, Lin Yuan noticed:

In the same fanfic website, the number of fanfics about ’The Primordial Chaos’ can completely crush ’Journey to the West’!

Can’t be helped.

’The Primordial Chaos’ has been around for hundreds of years and has a profound background.

Since the early development of the internet, people have been writing fanfic of ’The Primordial Chaos’, among which there are many masterpieces.

In comparison, ’Journey to the West’ was only released for so long, yet it already has this much popularity in fanfiction, which is quite astonishing.

Looking at the fanfictions, ’The Primordial Chaos’ has a terrifying suppression over ’Journey to the West’.

Perhaps this is also one of the reasons why fans of ’The Primordial Chaos’ feel that the TV adaptation of ’The Primordial Chaos’ will definitely explode.

It appears that he must immediately come up with his own leading work in this ’Journey to the West’ fanfic.

Lin Yuan’s eyes moved, and he directly registered as an author on this fanfic website, which is said to be the largest in the country, and wrote down the title of the book, ’The Legend of Wukong’—

’Yi An’ made his debut, and ’The Legend of Wukong’ was born!

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