The dove usurps the magpie's nest, an old man who refuses to die! Xu Qingxiao's forceful response!

Great Wei's Capital.

Mao Hour.

Dawn had only just broken, but the entire Capital of Great Wei was already bustling.

Long queues had formed outside the various academies.

Most were scholars, though there were plenty of ordinary citizens as well.

The arrival of the Great Wei Gazette had broken the unchanging routine of life in Great Wei's Capital.

Everyone was eagerly awaiting the second issue of the Great Wei Gazette.

Yet they would have to wait another day for the second issue of the Great Wei Gazette.

The Great Wei Literary Sage News, however, had piqued the curiosity of citizens throughout the Capital.

With the Great Wei Gazette paving the way, everyone naturally looked forward to another issue.

Something of the same kind would not, in itself, arouse the people's disgust.

Only after someone explained the circumstances behind the Great Wei Literary Sage News did the people begin cursing outright.

Everyone in the Capital knew that Xu Qingxiao had single-handedly founded the Great Wei Gazette. Who would have imagined that, in the Great Wei Literary Palace's telling, Xu Qingxiao had somehow stolen their idea?

Even that might have been tolerable. What truly sickened the people was that the Grand Confucians of the Literary Palace demanded Xu Qingxiao return the Great Wei Gazette to them.

It was enough to make one's hair stand on end.

They had seen shameless people before, but never anyone this shameless.

For a time, the citizens cursed incessantly. Yet when the Literary Palace's scholars began promoting the Great Wei Literary Sage News, things changed.

Many scholars hurried about spreading the word, telling everyone that, unlike the Great Wei Gazette, the Great Wei Literary Sage News would feature not only affairs of the nation and the world, but, more importantly, the personal insights of the Great Wei