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Chapter 1075: Chapter 973: Enemy of Millions of Students_2 Chapter 1075: Chapter 973: Enemy of Millions of Students_2 In fact,

The Literature and Art Association had just released the news, countless students from the Blue Star’s continents couldn’t help but feel a sense of dread!

It’s over!

They knew it was over!

Especially after they found out just how much content Xian Yu’s collection contained, their mentality utterly collapsed!

…

At a certain elementary school.

“How am I supposed to memorize this!”

“So many poems, so many lyrics, and even classical Chinese!”

“I’m still a child!”

“My mom said, memorize five poems a day, or I won’t be allowed to go out and play on weekends…”

“My dad said, memorize one and get a dollar for pocket money, but I still have no motivation, there’s just too much content!”

…

At a certain middle school.

“I’m going crazy!”

“How could Xian Yu do this to me!”

“And to think I really liked his music, now he’s forcing me to memorize poems and lyrics, and even test on them?”

“I’ve been memorizing all morning, my head’s spinning, all I can think of is ‘On the Teacher’.”

“It’s all Xian Yu’s fault!”

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At a certain high school.

“Oh my God!”

“This isn’t Xian Yu’s fault, it’s those literati’s fault, I watched the poetry contest live, if they hadn’t pressured him, how would Xian Yu have written so many works in one go!”

“Ahhh, I despise them!”

“Can I say Xian Yu and Chu Kuang truly deserve each other, back in elementary school we were forced to read ‘Fairytale Town’, finally no more fairytales in middle school, and then Xian Yu shows up!”

“Because of these poems, I don’t even have time to read Shadow’s comics anymore!”

Swish, swish, swish!

Throughout the internet!

Elementary, middle, and high school students were all wailing!

…

At this moment.

College students felt immense happiness!

Official documents had stated that Xian Yu’s poems and essays were targeted at elementary, middle, and high school students—college students were not included!

“Thank goodness I was born a few years earlier,”

“Just glad I finished my entrance exams, I feel for this year’s high school seniors.”

“We really caught a break!”

“Back when we were in high school, we had to memorize poems by Chu Kuang and Xian Yu too, but not nearly as many as today.”

“Wait, look at the group chat!”

A college student suddenly exclaimed, and then saw an assignment posted by the school: “Write an essay on your favorite piece from the ‘Xian Yu Collection’ including your own insights and reflections after reading. Although the Literature and Art Association doesn’t mandate colleges to study these works, if you don’t read them, you might end up with less poetic knowledge than a grade-schooler!”

College students: ???

Aren’t college students students too?

Is this the rhythm Xian Yu becomes the enemy of all students on Blue Star!?

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Meanwhile, in the Blue Star literary world.

Literati did not wail, but it was as good as wailing, countless were purple with envy!

Official promotion!

Xian Yu’s poems and lyrics had actually received official promotion, what this implied was crystal clear to any literati!

Never mind the students’ current chorus of complaints.

Who hadn’t been dominated by the works of great masters during their school days?

When they actually grew up, they would not complain, admiration for Xian Yu would be more genuine!

This was going to influence a generation!

Just as Chu Kuang’s ‘Fairytale Town’ had been officially promoted, the next generation was beginning to be influenced by Xian Yu and Chu Kuang!

“Xian Yu’s poetry is thoroughly enshrined now.”

“Not just extracurricular reading, some outstanding works from the ‘Xian Yu Collection’ will probably be included in Blue Star textbooks in the future.”

“But I must admit, these works are indeed good.”

“It’s embarrassing to say, but I am also insisting that my child studies the ‘Xian Yu Collection’ properly.”

“The next generation hates Xian Yu now, but they’ll worship him when they grow up, this influence will deepen over time.”

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Just like how we got headaches from seeing Lu Xun, Li Bai, Du Fu and the like when we were in school, but worship them as adults.

This is the influence of official promotion.

Hua Weiming and the literati’s collective difficulty with Xian Yu was to vie for these benefits, wasn’t it?

However, in the end, they pushed the situation to the complete opposite direction.

Xian Yu was stripped from the jury seat, but this ascended him to the divine altar of poetry and lyrics on Blue Star.

In contrast,

Hua Weiming and the others faced their reckoning.

It wasn’t that the official had punished them; the officials had no reason to.

This reckoning came from within the literary community.

Many participants of the poetry contest, like Hua Weiming, felt overtly ostracized after the event ended.

“Your bodies and names, both shall perish, and not wither the rivers and mountains through the ages.”

Xian Yu’s words had become prophetic.

Their reputations ruined.

And there were even literati who used Xian Yu’s poetry to mock their foolishness.

Even some past friends in the literary community avoided them like the plague, unwilling to associate, leaving only a few renowned poets who hadn’t joined the attack on Xian Yu unscathed.

Coincidentally:

The eventual winner of the poetry contest turned out to be a poet who had not participated in the attack.

Perhaps it wasn’t that their poetry was better.

It was purely that Hua Weiming withdrew, Shu Ziwen and the others were heartbroken, so off-balance mentally that they could no longer compose with tranquillity.

But this ultimate winner didn’t receive much fanfare.

Xian Yu’s brilliance too grand, overshadowing the poetry contest.

A fine poetry contest, in the end, devolved into a joke, akin to a children’s mud pie competition.

“The path of poetry in Zhao Continent is in for a decline.”

Some lamented that the domain the Zhao people were most proud of had been sullied by Xian Yu.