Introduction

Thanks for reading my book. This novel was born from reading just way too many google translated chinese system novels. I don’t know chinese, I don’t speak chinese. The chinese that’s translated in this book is done poorly, often on purpose for comedic effect, and should not be used as a method of learning chinese.

The inspiraation for the skills used in this book come from research into chinese idioms that were recurring in various chinese novels. An idiom is a phrase that has a specific meaning, but isn’t necessarily clear from context, but understood from knowing the backstory. For example an english idiom: better one in the hand than two in the bush. Most of the chinese idioms used in the book are a specific kind, formed using just four characters. The story behind them, and the actual meaning can be pretty interesting. I liked using them in perverse ways, so if you like that sort of thing, feel free to look them up as you come across them.