In a paper "The Publishing History of Jin Yung's Novels," Lin Pao-hun notes that after Jin Yung published his 15 novels (totaling nearly 30 million Chinese characters), he began making revisions, which ran the gamut from tiny details and minor stylistic changes to major changes involving plot and characters.
林保淳研究「金庸版本學」指出，金庸十五部小說，將近三千萬字，封筆後他潛心案首修改，修改幅度小到文字修辭，大到情節、人物，到了鉅細靡遺的地步。