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* [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]: A main source of angst for Di Yun in ''A Deadly Secret''. His student sister married the guy who caused him to be imprisoned and tortured all those years.
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: To the point where certain blades can cut pieces of hair falling on them. Prominent examples are the Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Sabre {{spoiler|which break upon clashing into each other}}.
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: Some adaptations of his series can be ''very'' guilty of this. A rather pronounced example can be found in the recent 2008 version of ''Legend of the Condor Heroes''. Despite Guo Jing normally being described as stout and muscular, and ''certainly'' not well known for being incredibly handsome or refined, he ends up being played by teen heart throb Hu Ge. And Hu Ge is pretty much the equivalent of a [[Real Life]] [[Bishonen]]. It can be rather wince-worthy when characters mention how "manly" and "plain" Guo Jing is (including several instances where people compare his relationship with Huang Rong as being [[Ugly Guy Hot Wife|"A beautiful flower planted in cow dung"]] - yes, he was even being likened to ''cow dung''), when Guo Jing
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Xiao Feng's dad. Look, admit it - he sucked. {{spoiler|Although he didn't really abuse his son in any way and what trouble he caused for Xiao Feng was not collateral damage to his true purpose.}}
** Also, Shi Potian's mother, who literally called him "son of a bitch." {{spoiler|she wasn't his biological mother, she whicked him away from his parents when his was a baby because she was driven mad by jealousy, a Miss Haversham-sort.}}
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