Bai Xianyong's Dream in the Garden was a modern martial arts novel about a young man, Zhang Wuji, who was searching for the truth and solving the mystery in Beijing at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The novel's plot was compact and full of suspense. It was praised as one of the representative works of modern Chinese martial arts novels. In the novel, Zhang Wuji was involved in a mysterious conspiracy. He had to find the truth and defeat the evil forces. The novel vividly depicted the social unrest and people's living conditions at the end of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, the characters in the novel were full of different personalities, which made the readers deeply feel the complexity and variety of human nature. In addition, the structure and language of the novel were also excellent. The novel showed the relationships and conflicts between different characters through the switching of scenes and the turning of the plot. At the same time, the dialogue and description in the novel are very vivid, so that the readers can clearly feel the emotions and thoughts of the characters. Dream in the Garden is a modern wuxia novel full of imagination, compact plot and beautiful writing style. It has high artistic value and reading value.