"You... you... you..."
Fang Tong gaped, pointing at Jiang Xiaobai, his face flushed crimson.
He stammered, unable to get a single sentence out.
The young man and woman behind Fang Tong also froze in place, their gazes just as full of shock as they looked at Jiang Xiaobai.
Indeed, they had both privately pondered the opening line Fang Tong had just offered, but no matter how they racked their brains, they could not match it.
Either the character count was wrong, or the meaning was wrong.
When they finally managed to cobble a line together, it lacked the flavor of a proper couplet.
Yet Jiang Xiaobai had barely even thought about it before rattling off three matching lines.
Wasn't this... a little too outrageous?!
Fang Tong stared fixedly at Jiang Xiaobai, his chest heaving and his face growing redder and redder.
For Jiang Xiaobai to match his line so quickly was undoubtedly a slap in his face.
And three slaps in a row, at that!!
"Wow!"
At that moment, Xiao Zijing could not help exclaiming, her eyes shining as she looked at Jiang Xiaobai. "Just what I'd expect from the man I set my sights on. You're amazing!"
Although she knew nothing about couplets, Fang Tong and his companions' reactions told her just how capable Jiang Xiaobai was.
Hearing Xiao Zijing's words, Fang Tong flushed even redder and kept taking deep breaths.
But however hard he tried to suppress it, he could barely contain the frustration in his heart.
Yes, he had painstakingly devised that opening line.
He had been beside himself with excitement at the time.
He had asked the learned people around him, and none could match it.
He had asked his friends, and none of them could match it either.
Precisely because of that, he had been