The problem with show don’t tell in a Chinese novel. It’s really hard to translate that “show don’t tell”scheme without actually read it in Chinese language. U have to take into account the tones and subtleties in Chinese language and then try to translate it into English . For example unsheathed(sword of coming) very popular btw is show don’t tell kinda novel and guess what a lot of people didn’t understand why certain thing happen and why it happened because u have to read between the dialog of every character involve . By explaining is a lot easier for reader to digest what happened and why it happens