You can judge this for yourself: https://hamster428.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/plagiarism-allegations-against-tqgz/
Hamster was a translator for the novel version and decided to cease translating it due to the plagiarism allegations. They made comparisons between the two novels, taking note of the word choices in the original Chinese text. I have not read either novels, so I personally cannot judge. Nowadays, Chinese novels are really similar to each other. I have read roughly a hundred Chinese novels on and off, and they have really similar themes and settings. Transmigrating into a novel or to another world (what is known as isekai, in Japanese terms), rebirth, reincarnation. Buddhism, etc. Personally, the word choices, the names and sentence structures, are what convinces me that the author stole the work.
I have also read that the drama version used a soundtrack (some kind of Chinese opera I think) without permission and had pieces of famous Chinese ink paintings incorporated into their promotional art without crediting. They were paintings of mountains, and netizens made direct comparisons and they matched.
Yeah... so after learning that, I did not bother to waste time on watching the drama. The producers of the drama ONLY apologized once it was pointed out.
If you are curious what the original BL novel was, it is called "Peach Blossom Debt" ("Debt of Romance," in the blog post above).
Wow, thank you.
The author of "Ten Miles of Peach blossom" admited that she imitated the bl novel "Peach blossom debt" on Weibo.
The author of the bl novel published her novel on 2008.
One year later the author of Ten Miles of Peach blossom published her plagiarazed work.
Its so obvious she plagiarazed cause she didnt even tried to hide It!
Basically she shamelessly misled the bl novel author's fans into thinking her work was the author's New romance.
She also bullied the author she plagiarazed her work from and had the audacity to say It was the bl novel's author who copied from her!
The proof is there for anyone to see.
The most infuriating thing is that not only she is living off someone else's hard work for so many years the author of the bl novel can't sue her because in China bl isnt seen in a good light.
Well, that sucks. I hope she gets karma. Can't imagine the pain and anxiety the BL author went through.
!! This is really like a crazy novel right ?!
Is it true that this [including the live action drama] is actually based on a BL novel?