Could You Few People Please Stop Making a Fuss?

First, I admitted my mistake. My updates had been weak lately, but I was slowly working at it. It might take some time. I had no resentment whatsoever toward everyone's criticism. I admitted my fault.

What followed was mainly directed at a small number of people.

Earlier, I revised He Manzi. I had clearly changed it into an ancient-style poem, not a quatrain, yet someone insisted on using quatrain standards to reject it, saying this author did not understand tonal patterns, claiming that quatrains in a Confucian School world could not be written like this. They looked as if they had sworn to represent the moon and wipe me out. Could you please stop making a fuss?

Could we stop being half-full bottles sloshing around?

I revised Early Departure from Shang Mountain and explicitly stated that I had deliberately paid attention to tonal patterns and prosody, yet you did not say the revisions to the tonal patterns were correct.

I revised <Dawn Departure from Jingci Temple to See Lin Zifang Off>, yet you did not say the tonal patterns were right.

I revised Forgetting Jiangnan; there was a problem with its prosody, and you could not even see it!

So could we stop pretending to be masters of poetry and song, literary giants?

If you wanted to show off by pointing out an error in the Idle Dreams Far Away I revised, I would have absolutely nothing to say. But using He Manzi as an issue would only make people laugh at you, truly.

I genuinely did not understand those few people. I had explained many things throughout the novel—for instance, the matter of tonal patterns. I mentioned it in Chapter Twenty-Two. And this was not the Tang Dynasty, where quatrains and regulated verse were paramount; writing ancient-style poetry was