At that moment, silence reigned inside the Clear Pavilion.
Many of the students stared fixedly at the two opening lines of the couplets.
Some knitted their brows; others moved their lips soundlessly.
Some even had fine beads of cold sweat forming on their foreheads.
They had never heard of couplets like these!
For the first time, they realized... you could play with couplets like this?
Some of the more anxious students had even begun scratching their heads and tugging at their ears.
But no matter how hard they thought, their answers always fell just a little short.
Either the characters were wrong, or the meaning failed to match.
Or they forced something together, only for it to look more absurd the longer they studied it.
Li Zhixing stood to one side, his gaze also resting on the two opening lines.
At first, Li Zhixing refused to admit defeat.
But after thinking for a while, his brows drew tighter and tighter.
Finally, Li Zhixing gave a bitter smile and abandoned the effort altogether.
Yes, these two couplets were far too difficult!
How on earth had Jiang Xiaobai dreamed them up?
Could an ignorant wastrel who had bought his way into the title of Top Graduate casually write couplets like these?
Did that make any sense?
Jiang Xiaobai stood in the center of the hall, calmly surveying the silent students.
"What? Have you all gone mute already?"
"Where did all that righteous fury go?"
"That's... it?"
At those words, many students flushed red.
Yet they had no way to argue back.
After all, Jiang Xiaobai had already laid down his challenge.
As long as they could complete these two couplets, Jiang Xiaobai would personally ask His Majesty to strip him of his title of Top Graduate.
But now... they couldn't do it!