"Your Highness, please wait. This poem also hides a mystery. I ask that you savor it carefully."
Xu Yi spoke in a clear voice.
As soon as he said this, the atmosphere in the hall surged once more.
Earlier, Wen Bin had discovered the marvel hidden in Long Jianji's poem. Now Love Seeker claimed that his own poem held a marvel too. One after another, they came forward—it was simply the most wonderful game.
In the blink of an eye, half a cup of tea passed, yet no one had discovered the secret.
Reading it forward or backward, reading the first characters of each line, or the last—none of it revealed the answer.
They truly had no idea what mystery could still be hidden in "Flowers dance, lush and fair; fragrant mist veils the pale moon. Rosy clouds fade, rain falls red and dark; trees bloom, snow flies down."
Just then, Xue Zihan spoke in a clear voice. "Everyone, take the second character of the whole poem and make it the beginning, then read it again."
"Dance, lush and fair, mist; fragrance veils the pale moon, rosy clouds; fading rain, red and dark, trees; blossoms fly, snow falls, flowers."
The crowd recited it in unison, and a chorus of shouts instantly erupted throughout the hall.
"Now read it backward!"
Someone else had uncovered its wonder.
The crowd read it aloud once more. "Flowers fall, snow flies, blossoms; trees, red, fading rain; rosy clouds, pale moon, veiled fragrance; mist, flowing wind, dancing beauty."
Boom!
Boom!
Everyone was intoxicated, nearly mad with the dizzying reversals.
Who could have known that words could hold such wonders?
"Heavens! Is he even human? Make the second character the beginning, and it still becomes a poem. And not only that—it can be reversed again, and become