Borrowing other people's ideas to write his own novel was not technically plagiarism. Borrowing other people's ideas was only to transform other people's creativity or plot into his own language expression, not to directly copy other people's works. However, if one borrowed other people's ideas and completely copied other people's works or directly applied other people's works to their own works, it might be regarded as plagiarism. It was a common practice to borrow other people's ideas in the process of novel creation, but one had to be careful not to directly copy other people's works. Instead, one should transform it into one's own language and incorporate one's own thoughts and style into one's own works.