"Hey, great poet Qinglian Jushi, could you post a selfie for everyone to see? If you're not handsome, I'm not following you anymore!"
"That's right, let's see what a real-life great poet is like. I really love those two poems of yours."
"This picture should be the original manuscript of two poems. The calligraphy of Qinglian Jushi is also very elegant."
By the way, is this manuscript for sale? If you're willing to resell it, I'll offer 20,000 for it…
"Wow! Bro, do you have too much money? You're willing to spend this much money to buy just a handwritten manuscript?"
"What do you know? This Qinglian Hermit will definitely become famous in the future, and the manuscript is still very meaningful."
...
"Qinglian Jushi, do you have any other poems? Please share them with us."
"Actually, I'm curious now whether this Qinglian Hermit is a man or a woman..."
"The greatest distance in the world is that I know the Hermit of Qinglian is here, but I don't know what he looks like."
"Hahaha, the guy upstairs is so talented, you managed to pull it off, awesome."
...
In a short period of time, the new account gained several thousand followers.
Xu Lu nodded, thinking to himself:
"The effect of trending topics in attracting traffic is quite powerful; it brought me several thousand followers in just a short time."
But I have to do something to retain this incoming traffic; I can't let it go to waste!
Thinking of this, Xu Lu quickly posted another update:
Welcome everyone to my Weibo! I've noticed some of you are curious about my gender. You can try guessing...
This post has recently sparked even more discussion among netizens:
"So the blogger was lurking just now, and we've brought him out of hiding, hahaha."
"Let us guess? I'll guess you're a man."
Because I believe only a man could write such beautiful verses as 'birds and fish.'
"I think the blogger is a woman. She even wrote 'To the Oak Tree,' which is described from a female perspective throughout."
"It's too hard to guess. Based on just those two poems, it's very difficult to guess the gender of this Qinglian Hermit."
...
"Master Qinglian, please give us some hints, such as your name, your height and weight, etc."
"Haha, this guy is quite something. He knows the name, so he can probably guess it."
"Exactly, once height and weight are known, their gender can be determined to a large extent."
"In that case, why don't you just post a picture and let us guess based on it?"
...
"The guys upstairs are talking nonsense. The blogger definitely won't post this crucial information."
"Yes, I told you to guess, so you're obviously guessing based on the information you have..."
"I think we should ask Qinglian Jushi to write another poem, and then we can guess the meaning based on its content."
“I agree with this method. Only two poems were difficult to guess before, but if there are more, it will be easier.”
...
Xu Lu had seen the comments from these netizens, and he smiled, showing no intention of refusing.
In fact, the purpose of creating the pseudonym "Qinglian Jushi" was precisely to facilitate the reposting of poems.
After a moment's thought, Xu Lu posted another update.
This time, however, the content of the post was a new poem requested by netizens.
Um, there's only one sentence:
'I am... the Madman of Chu... the Phoenix Song... laughing at Confucius...'
But this one sentence sparked a lot of interest among netizens, who immediately offered their own guesses:
"Hahaha, he's been exposed after all. With such a domineering poem, Qinglian Jushi must be a man, no doubt about it."
"Yeah, I'm a madman, my god, this is way too crazy, but I like it!"
"When I first saw those two poems, I knew that this Qinglian Hermit was talented, but I didn't expect him to be this talented."
"I also guessed that the Hermit of Qinglian was a man..."
However, other netizens quickly began to refute this, saying:
"I don't think we should guess like that. What if the blogger deliberately wrote this line of poetry to mislead you?"
"Yes, maybe Qinglian Jushi was a woman, and she deliberately wrote a poem in a masculine style to mislead us."
"Wow, this is ridiculous!"
Then I said he was a man, just to mislead us into believing he was misleading us!
"Hahaha, you guys should start fighting! I really can't understand this tongue twister..."
...
As netizens split into two camps, arguing about which level Qinglian Jushi was on.
Meanwhile, our CEO Xu received a very interesting private message.
In fact, he received more than one or two private messages at that moment, but Xu Lu was usually too lazy to check them one by one.
However, after using the AI assistant to filter the information, he discovered something worth checking out:
"Hello, Qinglian Jushi, I am Zhou Wenhao, the president of the Modern Poetry Association. Congratulations on your excellent results in this competition..."
With Xu Lu's photographic memory, he certainly remembered who Zhou Wenhao was.
If he were acting as Xu Lu, he would definitely ignore the other party's private message.
But now that he's using the pseudonym 'Qinglian Jushi,' he's curious to see what this Zhou fellow's purpose is.
Without hesitation, Xu Lu immediately replied with a message.
...
On the other side, President Zhou, who had just sent the message, waited anxiously.
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