His novels were probably the most popular wuxia stories ever written and influenced everything from movies, tv series, comics and even chinese culture. Even Deng Xiaoping was a fan of him. His stories is popular because it merges fantasy with real history and historical figures. However, some criticism of his novels is sometimes the love plotlines are way too extreme until there are so many mad woman who failed in love. A lot of his heroes were too good until some of them were unrealistic.