According to Qidian, Ruan's nickname is "live", Ruan is a character in the novel "Water Margin", and Ruan's nickname is live because he is ugly and very similar.
Outlaws of the Marsh is a vernacular novel in the history of China, which is listed as one of the four classical literary masterpieces in China by later generations. It tells the story that the outlaw hero headed by Song Jiang was forced to become an outlaw in Liangshan Park, Shandong Province in the Northern Song Dynasty, and developed until he was embraced.
Shi Naian, a writer in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, was born in Xinghua, Jiangsu Province. He is knowledgeable, talented and proficient in various technologies, such as philosopher, poetry, astronomy, geography, medical divination, astrology and so on. At the age of 35, he was a scholar, and then he abandoned his official position and returned to Li. He worked behind closed doors with disciple Luo Guanzhong to study the creation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Three Magical Biographies of Suiping, collected and sorted out the stories of heroes such as Liang Shanbo and Song Jiang, and finally wrote Water Margin, one of the "Four Great Classical Novels".