Role in the novel
Zhao Min is the daughter of Chaghan Temür, the Prince of Ruyang of the Yuan dynasty. Her elder brother is Köke Temür. As a child, Zhao Min was ambitious and full of vigour, eager to take on duties that are traditionally done by men in the male dominant society of her time.[original research?] Her father, a general, is appointed by the emperor to eradicate the rebel organisation Ming Cult and bring order to the wulin (martial artists' community). Zhao Min helps her father with her wit and intelligence.
Description
- Host : Zhao Min
- Chinese name : 趙敏
- Alias(es) : Minmin Temür
- Gender : Female
- Family : Chaghan Temür (father), Köke Temür (brother)
- Spouse(s) : Zhang Wuji
- Armed combat skills : Wudang Sect skills, Shaolin Sect skills, Emei Sect skills, Kunlun Sect skills, Kongtong Sect skills, Mount Hua Sect skills
- Weapons : Heaven Reliant Sword
- Created by : Jin Yong
- Appearances(s) : The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber
- Potrayer : Gigi Lai
Zhao Min also improves her martial arts prowess by tricking the captured martial artists into displaying their skills, lying that she will set them free if they can defeat her men, while secretly noting down their movements and learning them. Despite standing on opposing grounds with Zhang Wuji, she gradually falls in love with her rival and asks him to let her to follow him on his adventures, as part of her three conditions in freeing the captured martial artists.
On Divine Serpent Island, Zhao Min is wrongly accused by Zhang of murdering Yin Li, and robbing him of the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. Actually, the one responsible is Zhou Zhiruo, who has stolen the secret from the weapons and framed Zhao Min for it. When Zhang encounters Zhao Min later, he wants to kill her but refrains from doing so, because he has fallen in love with her.
As the story progresses, the romantic relationship between Zhang Wuji and Zhao Min deepens, even though they are entangled in a love triangle with Zhou Zhiruo. When Zhang decides to marry Zhou, Zhao Min appears and disrupts the wedding, stating that her second condition (when she agreed to free the captured martial artists) is that Zhang cannot marry Zhou. Zhang rejects the request initially, but accepts later when Zhao Min tells him that she knows the whereabouts of his godfather Xie Xun. Zhou Zhiruo hates Zhao Min and she attacks Zhao with the 'Nine Yin White Bone Claw' but Zhang saves Zhao.
By the end of the novel, Zhang Wuji finally realises that Zhao Min is his true love and he tells Zhou Zhiruo. The couple decides to retire from the jianghu for a reclusive life after Zhang mistakenly believes that his subordinates are planning to kill him to seize power. In the last chapter, Zhao Min tells Zhang that her third condition is for him to help her paint her eyebrows.
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