On June 30th, a day most alike to other days. Except for the simple fact that it was the ending to the newly made Wuxia Cover Contest. A contest aimed to promote the small Wuxia genre and to expose more readers to Chinese novels.
This contest held the surprised of actual prizes, reward money, and the featuring of the book that won.
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The contest was quite small, to say the least, I wasn't even one of the contestants. But I was happy that a community I love is being noticed when otherwise it would have just stayed niche.
I was appreciative of Wattpad, going out of its way to help our small community. And I am sure that they have only started this contest with the brightest of intentions.
But it's not the intention, motive or how it's started that dragged the Wuxia contest down. Though undoubtedly at the start of this contest the Wattpad ambassadors should have open themselves to more knowledge on the genre they were judging. It was the ending itself that lit the start to a forest fire.
The winner of the Wuxia Cover Contest was none other than an already beloved author, @EneresPage, with her well-made cover for the book The Last Empress.
Surely this is good, a Chinese novel author, winning a competition that promoted Chinese novels. It was a match made it heaven, or was it?
There was just one simple problem with that notion, The Last Empress was not a Wuxia book. Or is it?
But one may ask, what exactly is Wuxia. And the definition provided by Wattpad was none other than.
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Though expectedly there were readers that saw this definition and did not agree with the fact that The Last Empress was a Wuxia novel. As stated by an anonymous user, AverageReader...
