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The reason why he was seen as a brilliant and unforgettable character was because of the design of his character. In the book, Bai Xiaosheng set the assassin Wuming's mother to be the number one beauty in jianghu. Because of being defiled, she gave birth to Wuming. When Wuming was born, he was abandoned in the wild, and when he was attacked by wild animals, his cries alerted a green python that had lost its young. The green python rescued Wuming and raised him from then on. When Wuming was seven years old, he was discovered by an assassination organization and taken back to their headquarters, where after training, he became their ace killer.
The reason why he was a minor character was because he did not appear too many times in the book, only three times in total. The first time he was ordered to assassinate King Xian, he was disrupted by the male protagonist, and the operation failed. Then the male protagonist chased Wuming, and what came after was an action scene that amazed and delighted book fans. This part of the plot was mainly for establishing the hero's high martial arts, romantic and suave appearance, and cynical and unyielding character. Of course, as a foil for the hero, the character of Wuming couldn't really be an unimpressive person. So Bai Xiaosheng unintentionally caused many book fans, especially female book fans, to immediately become obsessed with Wuming, who only had a few lines when he appeared but whose handsomeness and martial arts could match that of the male protagonist.
The second appearance of Wuming was when the male protagonist, with his lady friend and fellow brothers, were trapped within a demonic cult. Wuming was ordered to assassinate the leader of the demonic cult. He was discovered by the male protagonist halfway and was convinced by the male protagonist to inexplicably help him attack the demonic sect leader and save the trapped people. Meanwhile, Wuming, being loyal to his professional ethics, did not forget to personally kill the demonic leader himself.
The demonic leader recognized the other half of Wuming's face that was not disfigured before he died. In order to take revenge on Wuming, he revealed to Wuming his birth secret before dying—his biological father just so happened to be the leader of this demonic cult, and his mother was the number one beauty in jianghu.
After the demonic sect leader died, news of Wuming assassinating his biological father was also spread by the demonic cult. The entire Central Plains martial arts circle was shocked. At that time, the number one beauty in jianghu, who was now the wife of the martial arts leader, could not bear the rumors and gossip and committed suicide. The martial arts leader lost his beloved wife and turned his anger onto Wuming and issued a kill order on him.
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