63: The heat continues to ferment

Guo Hao studied diligently.

The online buzz was still brewing.

Gradually, many things were dug up.

Someone, somehow, dug up that the author of the composition was Guo Hao.

Then, there was Chief Editor Liu of the Changcheng Daily.

Some people even started digging into the argument between Cai Chenggong and Qian Cheng back then, and even the show of hands vote among the grading panel at the time.

More and more gossip.

These pieces of information reached their peak the next day.

Many people started discussing.

"Holy cow! Why does this gossip feel more and more explosive the deeper I dig???"

"Yeah, the grading panel voted by show of hands and unanimously decided to give a perfect score, so why did that Chief Editor Liu point the finger entirely at one person? Who did Teacher Qian offend?"

"Isn't it that Cai Chenggong? Didn't Teacher Qianhate him? It must be that he offended him like that!"

"But, how did Cai Chenggong, a mere Chinese teacher, convince a newspaper chief editor to write such an article for him? I always feel there's something fishy going on here!"

"Indeed! I feel something is not quite right!"

"Sigh! What's not right about this? I checked, that Cai Chenggong has an older sister named Cai Yu, who is the wife of a big shot in the Education Bureau.

It's not a simple matter for him to want a newspaper chief editor to write and publish an article, is it???"

"Holy cow! Awesome!"

"Holy cow, if this is true, then it's really interesting! Does it also involve official corruption and using public resources for private gain? Exciting!"

"Speaking of which, aren't you all paying attention to Guo Hao, the author of that composition?"

"He's just a high school student, what's there to pay attention to?"

"Exactly, I feel the most exciting person in this is Cai Chenggong. If it's really Cai Chenggong who asked Chief Editor Liu to write such a piece!

Then it's really interesting!"

.........

The internet was in an uproar.

The deeper they dug, the more interesting it became. This matter was still fermenting online, and more and more things and more and more people were being dug up.

These things made the netizens extremely excited.

They've dug up a big fish!

Many people had this thought in their minds.

But unlike the excitement of the netizens.

At this time, Chief Editor Liu was already overwhelmed.

He really didn't expect this matter to start fermenting online!

For them, this was a huge bad thing.

After a slight hesitation.

Chief Editor Liu edited a long post on his personal Weibo account.

He roughly explained the origin of the article in the Changcheng Daily and advised netizens not to spread rumors or misinformation.

Regarding Student Guo Hao's composition, Chief Editor Liu saw it on a website.

At that time, when he saw the composition, he had a deep impression of the Little Yueyue incident.

So he read it for a while, and because of that, he was inspired and wrote this editorial. This editorial had nothing to do with anyone.

He completely wrote this editorial because he wanted to.

Then, in this long post, he still focused on re-analyzing Guo Hao's composition, and some of the reasons why he felt this composition could not be given a perfect score.

This long post was written very thoroughly.

It was well-reasoned and well-supported, stating clearly that he was not targeting Student Guo Hao, but still made special explanations about Student Guo Hao's lack of understanding of these matters.

Chief Editor Liu's long post was published on the Weibo platform and quickly became associated with the hot topic.

The platform thoughtfully added a "Person Involved" tag to his article.

"Agree! They are still students, it's best not to expose them to the dark side of society."

"That's right, support Chief Editor Liu. Students are in school after all, and they have relatively limited understanding of things. Much of the information they know is incomplete. If they write negative news and still get high scores.

It will break the rules, and it's really not good for the students' own physical and mental health."

"Exactly, exactly!"

"Hehe, are the people downstairs somehow related to the interests? It's really funny how they deliberately ignore the truth. Is the key point of Student Guo Hao's composition that he is a high school student?

A bunch of wild dogs related to the interests, isn't the key point whether what Student Guo Hao wrote in the composition is true or not?"

"Exactly, exactly. From what I've seen, what Student Guo Hao wrote is even a bit conservative. That stuff isn't even considered exposing the dark side of society. I even think it's a beautification!"

"That's right! The media people who are full of lies and destroy everyone's sense of social responsibility have played an extremely crucial role in this. It's hilarious!"

"I strongly support it!"

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As Chief Editor Liu posted online to clarify, the online buzz did not subside. On the contrary, the buzz exploded.

The direction of online attention began to shift to the composition itself.

Some people felt, what insights can a high school student have?

The examples written in the composition were also heard from who knows where, and the relevant parties should indeed not encourage this kind of reporting of negative news.

But similarly, many people felt that regardless of anything else, that editor just wanted to muddy the waters. The content written in the composition was absolutely fine.

But that Chief Editor Liu, instead of discussing whether the content of the composition itself was true, wanted to suppress it based on identity, the composition, and even the high school student's values.

A difficult-to-describe "dad-like" tone was almost overflowing.

The internet was in an uproar.

This impact naturally spread within the Changcheng Daily.

Chief Editor Liu was also somewhat overwhelmed.

"Liu, what's going on?"

Director Wang of the newspaper frowned, looking at Chief Editor Liu beside him.

"Today, many old readers who subscribed to our newspaper called to ask if there was a problem with our newspaper, and why we were actually targeting a high school student's composition.

They asked if there was a problem with our newspaper's values, Liu! Tell me, what exactly is going on!?"

Hearing Director Wang's words, Chief Editor Liu hesitated slightly.

"Director, you can't blame me!"

Chief Editor Liu looked at Director Wang somewhat helplessly.

"This editorial was not what I wanted to write!"

"Then who was it?"

Director Wang frowned slightly, looking at Chief Editor Liu in front of him.

"Cai Chenggong!"

"Cai Chenggong?"

Director Wang was slightly stunned, but quickly reacted.

"It was him??"

Director Wang frowned tightly, and a look of dissatisfaction appeared in his eyes.

"He's just relying on his brother-in-law and acting like a tyrant. Now he's even targeting a high school student's composition?"

"Well, it's not exactly a high school student. Cai Chenggong wanted to deal with that teacher named Qian Cheng. I heard they had some conflict over this composition.

He originally came to me wanting to use public opinion to deal with that Qian Cheng, but I didn't expect it to develop like this..."

Chief Editor Liu's face was full of helplessness.

This kind of thing was originally a small matter, but the heat has developed to the point where it is no longer something that he, a mere newspaper chief editor, can control!