He enjoyed great fame before his death, but he was trapped in a peach blossom robbery; When people and money are empty, the confidante also leaves him.

　　"Life is full of contradictions, and no one can change it." This is what the Li Xunhuan character in Gu Long's "The Sentimental Swordsman's Ruthless Sword" said. When Gu Long's ruthless sword was made into a TV series, it caused a sensation. Almost every family has to sit in front of the TV and wait for the TV play after dinner. Gu Long has been away from us for 34 years, but the characters in his classic works still live in people's hearts like him.

　　Gu Long's surname is not Gu. His original name is Xiong Yaohua, and Gu Long is his pen name. He was born in 1938. His ancestral home is Jiangxi, but he was born in Hong Kong. When Gu Long was very young, about ten years old, he moved to Taiwan Province with his parents, where he went to middle school and university.

　　Gu Long began to write a lot of poems in high school and contributed them to journals. At the age of 17, he published his first novel in a magazine.

　　Signed "Gu Long" and began his writing career. As for why his pen name is Gu Long?

　　According to Gu Long, it was because Gu Long had a girlfriend named Gu Feng that he was named Gu Long. If the girlfriend's name is Gu Feng, his name is Gu Long. This practice is the same as using couples' heads or couples' signatures and couples' nicknames to show love on WeChat. This way of expressing feelings is probably invented by Gu Long.

　　In 1958, Gu Long gave up his studies because of love and began to make money by writing articles. But at that time, Gu Long had not started writing martial arts novels. He is a typical literary youth. At that time, he often ate his last meal before eating, and had to go to the magazine to ask the magazine to pay the manuscript fee in advance to make a living.

　　Gu Long finally found that writing literary works had no future. At that time, martial arts novels were all the rage in Taiwan Province, and Gu Long began to try to write martial arts novels. Finally, in 1960, Gu Long published his first martial arts novel Excalibur in the Sky. After publication, readers responded well and sold well. The publishing house encouraged Gu Long to continue writing martial arts novels, and even generously paid in advance.

　　The martial arts novels written by Gu Long have their own routines. Martial arts novels written by others all involve real history and geography, but Gu Long never wrote real place names and didn't know when they happened. Such stories can exist anytime and anywhere. When Gu Long finished writing a novel and handed it to the publishing house, he often played hooligans.

　　After writing 100,000 words, he will sell them to the publishing house. His novels have a wonderful beginning, which always attracts the attention of publishers. Pay the manuscript fee in advance, and if he doesn't meet his requirements, he threatens to send the novel to another publishing house.

　　The publishing house was worried that these wonderful novels would fall into the hands of competitors, so it readily agreed to their demands. However, Gu Long, who received the manuscript fee, often missed the beginning, so that the publisher had nothing to print after printing two or three novels. After Gu Long spent all the manuscript fees, he wrote more than 100,000 words and bought them for another publishing house, demanding that the manuscript fees be paid in advance, thinking that he could do the same thing again.

　　In the end, all the publishers were deceived by Gu Long, but there was nothing they could do. After all, Gu Long is a genius who can make the publishing house make money, so Gu Long can only be cheated.

　　In 1960s, martial arts novels became popular in Taiwan Province, and martial arts literary circles stood side by side. However, Gu Long broke through the siege of many martial arts novel writers with his unique writing style, and was later praised as one of the four great masters of the new martial arts novel genre in China. After Gu Long became famous, his works were naturally very popular.

　　However, Gu Long often collected the manuscript fee and refused to hand it over to the publishing house, so the publishing house simply asked others to continue writing for him, even if it was a sequel. Some publishing houses are even more shameless. They translated the martial arts novels written by Hong Kong writers, changed the author's name to Gu Long, and then sold these novels to readers.

　　The circle of Taiwan Province Publishing House is very small. Of course, Gu Long will know about these things, and the reprinted publishing house will also give Gu Long some red envelopes. Gu Long will turn a blind eye to these behaviors.

　　After making money by writing martial arts novels, Gu Long lived in a magnificent mansion. He has a beautiful and gentle wife and a very lovely little daughter. Even clay figurines have sex. Finally, his wife Baozhu couldn't stand it and left him with her daughter.

　　Gu Long didn't cherish this marriage either, but felt that he had got rid of the bondage, which just allowed him to hold his arms around the banquet. He is a genius and a heartless man. In 1977, Shaw's Chu Liuxiang made a sensation in Taiwan Province. Another TV station in Taiwan Province was happy to spend a lot of money to buy another Chu Liuxiang story, The Legend of the New Moon, which was shot by Gu Long. In order to enhance its appeal, Gu Long was invited as a producer.

　　This is another peak of Gu Long's career, which can be continued from the cross-border TV series in the literary world. However, when Gu Long filmed The Legend of the New Moon, he had an affair with an actress because of his love of flirting. . Gu Long took a fancy to the actress and took her to a TV station for several nights.

　　The relationship between the actress and Gu Long may be voluntary, but the actress's mother is not easy to mess with. On the one hand, she wanted to call the police and accuse Gu Long of seducing underage girls (under 21 years old). On the other hand, she called reporters and claimed that her daughter was a virgin, and her daughter was also a virgin. The happiness of the future was thus ruined.

　　After the scandal, Gu Long paid huge compensation to the actress's mother to stop the hot mouth, but this scandal caused quite a storm in the city. After the filming of "The Legend of the New Moon", the TV station has never renewed its contract with Gu Long.

　　Gu Long's prime was originally a good opportunity to display his talents and start a business. It's a pity that the talents in this dance company are too sentimental. After the incident of "seducing" girls, Gu Long hooked up with Chia-Lin Sun, an unknown actress of Shaw Company in Hong Kong.

　　Sun Jialin is good at spending money and regards Gulong as a gold mine that can never be dug up. Rough. The origin of good dreams is the easiest to wake up. When Gu Long failed to enter the film industry, Sun Jialin, his confidante, also left him and ended up with nothing.

　　Gu Long is a good wine, and likes to drink with friends until he gets drunk. In the end, he fell ill because of drinking. He died in 1985 at the age of 48. After his death, his friend bought 48 bottles of Hennessy and put them in his coffin, so that Gu Long didn't have to worry about running out of wine when he was in the underworld. .

　　Gu Long enjoyed a high reputation before his death, but there are still legends about him after his death. Although his life is short, he is like a comet in the sky, emitting all the light in an instant.

　　Text/Liu Baixi