With the Golden Qilin Gathering outside the Imperial Capital coming to an end,
the entire literary world of Great Li experienced an "earthquake."
Its epicenter was none other than the Imperial Capital's notorious wastrel, the Third Young Master of the Gu Family.
This supposedly ignorant, incompetent young master,
had stirred up a storm in literary circles some days earlier with "Drunken West Chamber."
When they heard he would attend the Golden Kylin Gathering, many literary talents had sneered to themselves.
They thought this would be the perfect opportunity to expose Gu Chenfeng as a fraud.
Yet once the Golden Kylin Gathering ended,
the scholars and students who attended spread word of everything that had happened there.
Public opinion in the Imperial Capital exploded.
The headlines could roughly be summed up in three stories.
First: Gu Chenfeng debated the great scholar Zhong Yanqi, unleashed a barrage right in his face, and won.
The great Confucian scholar's heart stopped, but he regained consciousness after timely emergency treatment.
Second: Gu Chenfeng composed a poem on the spot mocking the Confucian literati, then brought forth his father Gu Lingxiao's old composition, "Man Jiang Hong."
The literary brilliance and soaring spirit of the verses spanned past and present, stunning everyone there.
Gu Chenfeng was indeed the original author of "Drunken West Chamber," and the empire's God of War, who had served his country with unwavering loyalty and borne humiliation under a heavy burden, was finally cleared of the injustice he had suffered for years.
Third: at the Golden Kylin Gathering, the imperial uncle drunkenly harassed Lady Su.
Gu Chenfeng drunkenly defended the beauty, slapped the reigning imperial uncle, and kicked the minister's son!
Any one of these three stories alone would have made front-page news.
Yet this time, all three had happened to the same