Juedai Shuangjiao
| Author | Gu Long |
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| Original title | 絕代雙驕 |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Language | Chinese |
| Genre | Wuxia, romance, adventure |
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Publication date
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1966 |
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| Juedai Shuangjiao | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 絕代雙驕 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 绝代双骄 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Peerless Duo with Spirited Horses | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Juédaì Shuāngjiāo |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Zyut3-doi6 Soeng1-giu1 |
Juedai Shuangjiao, rarely translated in English titles, like Two Peerless Heroes, is a wuxia novel by Gu Long. The novel spans a total of 126 chapters and was written between 1966 and February 1969. The story is about a pair of twin brothers who were separated from each other at birth and raised under different circumstances. The twins first see each other as enemies but gradually become friends and eventually acknowledge each other as brothers.
Jiang Feng, a handsome young man with weak fighting skills, is injured during a misadventure and saved by sisters Yaoyue and Lianxing of Yihua Palace. The sisters, considered the most powerful female martial artists alive, both fall in love with Jiang Feng, but he spurns them because of their arrogance. He instead falls in love with their servant girl, Hua Yuenu.
The couple are forced to flee Yihua Palace when Yuenu becomes pregnant with Feng's child, but are betrayed by Feng's servant Jiang Biehe and attacked by bandits. Hua Yuenu gives birth to a pair of twin boys and dies together with Jiang Feng during the assault. Yaoyue and Lianxing soon catch up, but Yaoyue refuses to forgive the late Jiang Feng for spurning her. She instead plans to avenge her rejection by forcing the twins to kill one another, adopting one twin as her own child and leaving the other. The second twin is saved by Yan Nantian, Jiang Feng's sworn brother and a mighty warrior hailed as the "Strongest Man under Heaven". Unaware of the first twin's fate, Yan Nantian pursues Jiang Biehe into the Villains' Valley, a town populated entirely by criminals. There, he encounters 5 members of the notorious Ten Great Villains, a group of criminals famed for their evil and fighting skill. Yan Nantian defeats them easily, but is eventually lured into a trap and captured. The villains torture him into a coma, but do not harm the child and instead decide to raise him as their apprentice, planning to groom him to become the greatest villain in history.
More than a decade later, the twins have grown up and are now a pair of handsome youths. Yaoyue names her twin Hua Wuque, and teaches him the martial art of Yihua Palace. The other child, Xiaoyu'er, is trained by the Ten Great Villains in different martial arts and a wide range of "villainous" skills such as theft, the use of poison, and the art of disguise. Xiaoyu'er ventures into the jianghu (martial artists' community) alone and encounters young maidens such as Tie Xinlan, Su Ying and Zhang Jing. He starts complex romantic relationships with most of them. At the same time, Hua Wuque is sent to kill him, having been told that Xiaoyu'er is a dangerous criminal but not about their true relationship. The twins fight on several occasions, but though Hua Wuque's fighting skills are far superior, the latter always manages to survive by relying on his wits.
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