A great writer who had planted two jujube trees outside his old home once said: "Human joys and sorrows are not shared. I merely find them noisy."
While everyone in the Court held their breath, waiting to watch the contest between ruler and ministers in Jiangzhe, another affair had the vast martial world of the Divine Land in an uproar.
And as it happened, that affair also involved Yang Ge...
On the fifteenth day of the first month, Tower Beyond Towers released the latest Wulin Heroes Rankings.
Under the name "Manifest Sage Lord" Yang Erlang, Yang Ge entered the Heroes Ranking and firmly claimed the position of Saber Hero.
For every edition of the Wulin Heroes Rankings, Tower Beyond Towers offered commentary on the heroes, rising talents, beauties, and divine weapons listed, to convince the public of its judgments.
Yang Ge was no exception.
Tower Beyond Towers linked his two aliases, Yang Erlang and Zhang Mazi, and laid out a detailed chronology of his deeds and travels, beginning with the Three Great Grain Merchants hoarding grain and driving up prices, and ending with "Life-Reaping Yama" Duan Yu giving him the Cold Moon Saber before his defeat and death.
It also offered exhaustive, though speculative, accounts of why he had gone to Jiangzhe, how he had befriended Chain Wharf, and why he had traveled to Hangzhou to lend Chain Wharf a hand.
Its conjectures came close to the truth, and its perspective was reasonably neutral. It had not twisted the facts and smeared him simply because Yang Ge had slaughtered so many Tower Beyond Towers assassins in Yangzhou...
Of course, that might also have been because there were too many eyewitnesses, and both Yang Erlang and Zhang Mazi were so famous in the martial world that forcing a smear campaign would