Ding Xiao, 1976, a native of Cangshan, Fuzhou, graduated from China Vocational University (merged into Fujian Institute of Technology). After working in a futures company for three months, I found that I couldn't adapt to the environment, so I resigned and went home. Later, I found several jobs one after another, all of which ended in failure and finally embarked on the road of literary creation.

It has always been Ding Xiao's long-cherished wish to write a novel about Xian Xia based on China's classical charm and oriental culture. The idea originated when he watched the biography of the swordsman in Shushan when he was a child. At that time, the impression that "the characters were emotionally pale" remained in his mind.

When the trend of online literature just rose, basically the writers at that time were influenced by western culture, including some Japanese games and cartoons. Their works had a strong western flavor and were basically based on the magic of the Middle Ages in the West, and so was Ding Xiao's first work. But when he finished writing his first work, he suddenly had an idea. China's classical culture is so extensive and profound, why can't a real new work be born? Then he tried to combine China's classical culture with the emerging magic trend and wrote the online novel Zhu Xian.