While Ye Tian and Meng Qian were chatting at home about poetry and literature, Luoyang City was already in an uproar.
In the Imperial Academy, the Bright Moon Pavilion, and major taverns and pleasure quarters—everywhere scholars gathered, people were talking about what had happened at the Nanyuan Poetry Gathering.
Ye Tian had composed three poems destined to be handed down through the ages and presented them to Lou Lin, even dredging up past grievances to voice injustice for her. And his declaration that "I'd rather be a hundred-man commander than a mere scholar" had made the blood of countless scholars from humble backgrounds boil with fervor.
Chapter 84