[Holy crap, is this all this guy surnamed Zhuang talks about? He's raving about his own novel like a self-promoting vendor, isn't that just like Wang Po hawking her melons? He really has the nerve!]
It was quite boring. I thought I would be able to understand at least some of the humanities-related lectures today.
However, what Master Zhuang was saying was so cryptic that it required referring to his novels to understand.
[To be honest, this guy is probably just using this opportunity to sell his books. It's like people who don't read his 'Life's Journey' are considered much lower class.]
[I knew this guy was no good when he mocked Director Xu before, and now it seems I was right!]
...
[What the heck? The organizers must be dumbfounded. If they had known this was what Mr. Zhuang's speech was about, they probably would have just had him skipped it.]
[Yeah, they even went out of their way to arrange an extra live stream for him, only to have him do this kind of boring content.]
[Damn, this is really putting me to sleep. What on earth is this guy babbling about? It's all a jumble of nonsense...]
[Forget it, let's wait until Director Xu goes up there to watch it. Watching this Master Zhuang's speech is a complete waste of time.]
...
Xu Lu's fans in the live stream room had already started cursing.
People already disliked the guy who mocked Xu Lu.
But if the other party is truly skilled, then so be it.
However, judging from the content of this Mr. Zhuang's speech, it's hard to tell whether he has any merit or not, but his intention to sell books is obvious.
The entire speech consisted of praising his own book, "A Life of Hardship."
One has to admire the audacity of these intellectuals; they dared to do such a thing with so many people watching.
So Xu Lu's fans started cursing in his live stream.
You have to understand that in this day and age, people don't care about literary masters or anything like that. If they don't like you, even literary masters will criticize you, and they'll criticize you even more harshly.
After all, the reputations of 'experts' and 'masters' are already tarnished.
Just as the fans said, the organizers were also filled with regret.
If it's a science and engineering lecture, people without a certain level of expertise can't tell whether it's good or bad.
But literature is a very interesting thing.
The public has some ability to distinguish between good and bad content. Now that Master Zhuang is doing this kind of thing, do you think the organizers can't tell?
Is this guy mistaking this lecture at Beijing University for his own book launch?
Even those who had previously felt a sense of satisfaction at seeing Master Zhuang mock Xu Lu were now speechless.
For example, Cao Lang from Feilongxian Special Effects Studio.
After seeing that Master Zhuang wasn't going to continue his mockery, and that the other party had started doing reading comprehension exercises about "life's arduous journey," he simply ended the live stream.
"You idiot, you should have just kept cursing at that Xu guy, now you're giving me this dog-like nonsense, get lost!"
When Zhou Wenhao, the president of the Modern Poetry Society, heard his "friend" Master Zhuang start "bragging" about his new work "Life's Bitter Journey", his face twitched uncontrollably.
In fact, writers have a much higher status than these modern poets.
But Zhou Wenhao privately dismissed this.
Although he was grateful to Master Zhuang for standing up for him this time, it did not mean that Zhou Wenhao thought Master Zhuang's works were good.
"Forget it, I'm not watching anymore. I guess Lao Zhuang isn't in the mood to make things difficult for that kid surnamed Xu right now."
But to be honest, his 'journey of life' is just so-so; it's too pretentious."
Zhou Wenhao sighed and quickly ended the live stream...
These 'stakeholders' lost patience and could no longer watch, making the rest of the audience even more tormented.
For example, Dilraba, who was also watching the live broadcast, looked quite frustrated at this moment.
To be honest, she was already feeling a bit itchy to bite.
She already didn't have a good impression of Master Zhuang, who was mocking Xu Lu, and now that she heard his speech was full of such confusing stuff, Dilraba became even more annoyed.
If she hadn't wanted to wait and see Xu Lu's speech, she would have already turned off the live stream.
"Is this what a literary master is like? Is he afraid of getting beaten up because he didn't come to the event?!"
Dilraba muttered to herself, feeling that her guess was quite well-founded.
Because she felt that if this literary master named Zhuang Qiu dared to give a speech on the spot, there was a chance that some hot-tempered people would throw eggs at him.
...
Fortunately, although the organizers were reluctant to cut off Master Zhuang's signal, they still had to keep track of the time.
So when Master Zhuang's speech was about to end, he took the initiative to give the other party a hint.
In fact, Zhuang Qiu did not intend to pay attention to this suggestion, because he still had a lot to say.
Moreover, even if he wasted time, it was Xu Lu's time that was delayed, which Zhuang Qiu was more than happy about.
His decision not to come to the event was partly due to this consideration.
Unfortunately, the organizers had a countermeasure: they displayed a three-minute countdown directly on the other party's live stream.
Furthermore, Zhuang Qiu was informed by staff that the live stream would switch to a one-way signal in three minutes.
In other words, Master Zhuang can see this side, but he cannot continue his speech.
With things having come to this point, Zhuang Qiu had no choice but to wrap up his speech.
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