No Pollution, No Public Harm

❤️ Main Relationship

Yu Lanchuan (喻兰川) × Gan Qing (甘卿) Fandom ship name: Unknown

✨ Introduction

无污染、无公害 is a modern wuxia romance by priest, serialized on Jinjiang Literature City (晋江文学城) and completed at 487,291 characters (serialization around 2018). Important note for cataloging: this title is officially classified on Jinjiang as 言情 — a male-female romance — not danmei; it is priest's rare het novel, often mistakenly shelved with her BL works. Official tags: fantasy space (幻想空间), urban (都市), jianghu (江湖), all walks of life (三教九流), lighthearted (轻松). One-line pitch: "I resolved to be a person harmless to society." Completion rating on Jinjiang: 9.7.

The premise is the wuxia world gone modern and shabby. The Martial Arts Alliance leader, run ragged by overtime and liver damage, is sulking and refusing to organize this year's Martial Arts Assembly. The heir of the last Beggars' Sect chief is a shopaholic. The legendary "Swallow Before the Hall," once untraceable as snowfall, has produced a severely socially anxious shut-in. Only the Demon Cult keeps its original spirit — its members still chant slogans daily and diligently peddle black-workshop health supplements to disturb social order.

Into this declining jianghu step two people who do not match their reputations: Yu Lanchuan, a broke handsome young man who is, technically, the Martial Arts Alliance leader; and Gan Qing, a girl of humble origins who can nonetheless make the entire jianghu jump at shadows. Their love, in the author's telling, runs on mutual teasing — a My Sassy Girl rhythm of bickering affection — while an old historical mystery involving the previous generation (among them Yang Ping, Wei Xiao, and the unforgettable old Mr. Yang and Zhang Meizhen) unlocks itself chapter by chapter: sweet and unrepentant love, a wuxia world out of step with its era, and lives both unlucky and lucky. Grand happy ending, confirmed by the extras.

🔖 Description

“When I was young, whenever I wrote essays, my last line was frequently ‘I am determined to become someone useful to society.’ On average, I made this resolve twenty to thirty times per school term. I was very thoughtless.”

“Only when I grew up did I realise that to become someone who brought no harm to society was already the biggest accomplishment I would have in my life.”

Due to working through the night and putting in overtime until his liver was going bust, the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance was in a bad mood. He refused to organise the yearly Martial Arts General Assembly.

The descendant of the previous Sect Leader of the Beggars’ Sect was someone addicted to swiping the phone and online shopping; Tang Qian Yan who left no marks when stepping on snow produced a wretched shut-in with severe social anxiety disorder…

Like the water in the rivers flowing away, the state of the world became worse day by day. Only the followers of the demonic cults preserved their original aspirations. As ever, they shouted their slogans every day and worked hard to sell health supplements made by black market suppliers, carefully and seriously disturbing the public peace.

And, among the jianghu people mentioned above, whether they belonged to the righteous or the evil, not a single one of them could fight.

Kindness repaid with kindness, evil repaid with evil? White Horse Neighs in the Western Wind? Such things did not exist. Everyone still had to pay their credit card bills and house loans.

There were four ways to write “anise” in “anise beans,” and five levels of “grief.”

🌏 Background

A contemporary Chinese city (Yanning, 燕宁) with a ghost of the old jianghu still living in it — sects reduced to neighborhood squabbles, legends reduced to office workers, and one historical cold case that still casts a shadow over the present.

🎭 Themes & Tone

"Being harmless to society is my life's greatest achievement" — small people, quiet dignity
The jianghu out of time: chivalry surviving as odd jobs and neighborhood meddling
Reputation versus the real person underneath
Inferiority complex meeting unconditional acceptance
Old-generation regrets unlocking a new generation's happiness Tone: breezy, talky, comedy-first urban wuxia with priest's trademark banter; warm and satisfying; HE.

👥 Main Characters

Yu Lanchuan (喻兰川) — the broke, overworked Martial Arts Alliance leader; handsome, principled, endlessly tolerant of one particular menace.
Gan Qing (甘卿) — the humble-born "Miss Rascal" whose name once made the jianghu nervous; sharp-tongued, self-deprecating, braver than she believes.
Supporting cast — Han Dongsheng (韩东升), Yan Hao (闫皓), Yang Yifan (杨逸凡) and Yu Yan (于严); and the old-timers whose unfinished stories drive the mystery.

✨ Iconic Quote

Narration: "As a kid I always ended my school essays with 'I resolve to be a person useful to society' — twenty or thirty resolutions a semester, none of them sincere. Growing up, I discovered that being a person harmless to society is already my life's greatest achievement."
Gan Qing: "I found this person and brought her back — how many people can I trade her for?"
Yang Yifan: "I am that coward. I'm sorry — I deceived you all."
Narration: "Since ancient times, which act of chivalry was ever more than 'a small favor, easily done'?"

🎬 Adaptations

Audio Drama: Unknown
Manhua: Unknown
Live-action: Unknown

🔥 Why It’s Popular

A rare chance to see priest write straight romance with the same machinery as her BL classics — and it holds a 9.7 completion score on Jinjiang.
The shabby-modern-jianghu concept is one of the funniest settings in web fiction: sect chiefs with delivery jobs, a Demon Cult selling supplements.
The old-generation mystery gives the comedy real emotional weight; the extras' epilogue is a fan-beloved warm landing.
Audience fit: readers who like bantering couples, urban wuxia, and ensemble comedies with a sentimental core.

📚 Reader Notes

Beginner-friendly: ★★★★☆ Angst level: ★★☆☆☆ Plot complexity: Medium Romance visibility: Medium Mystery focus: Medium Recommended for readers who enjoy witty urban-wuxia comedies and slow-unfolding historical mysteries. (Note: het romance, not BL.)

✍️ Author

priest Jinjiang Literature City's "supreme-tier" grandmaster, best known for danmei landmarks like 镇魂 (Guardian), 默读 (Silent Reading) and 杀破狼 (Sha Po Lang); this is her uncommon foray into het romance, written with undiminished wit.

🔗 Useful Links (Official)

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