403: Netizen: Is this Qinglian Hermit male or female? Zhou Wenhao: Tolerance, I treat scholars with respect.

"Hey, Green Lotus Layman, great poet, can you post a selfie for everyone to see? If you're not handsome, I won't follow you!"

"Exactly! Let us see what the great poet looks like in real life. I love those two poems of yours so much."

"The image should be the original manuscript of the two poems, right? Green Lotus Layman's handwriting is also very elegant.

By the way, are you selling this manuscript? If you're willing to part with it, I'll offer twenty thousand to buy it..."

"Holy cow! Brother, do you have too much money? You're willing to spend that much just for a handwritten manuscript?"

"What do you know? This Green Lotus Layman's fame is sure to soar in the future; the manuscript will be highly commemorative."

..."Green Lotus Layman, do you have any other poems? Post them so we can all take a look."

"Actually, I'm just curious now whether this Green Lotus Layman is male or female..."

"The furthest distance in the world is knowing Green Lotus Layman is here, but not knowing what they look like."

"Hahahaha, the brother upstairs is too talented. You managed to slip that in. Awesome."

...Watching the number of followers on the new account increase by thousands in a short time.

Xu Lu nodded, thinking to himself:

"The effect of hot search traffic is quite powerful. It brought me thousands of fans in such a short time.

But I need to do something to keep this incoming traffic; I can't waste it!"

Thinking of this, Xu Lu quickly typed and posted another update:

'Welcome everyone to this layperson's Social Media Platform. I see you're all curious about my gender. You can try guessing first...'

As soon as this update was posted, the recent netizens became even more excited:

"So the blogger was lurking just now! We successfully flushed them out, hahahaha."

"Let us guess? Then I guess you're a man.

Because I think only a man could write such beautiful verses as 'flying bird and fish'."

"I, on the other hand, think the blogger is a woman. They also wrote 'ode to the oak tree,' which is described entirely from a female perspective."

"It's too hard to guess! Based only on those two poems, it's difficult to figure out Green Lotus Layman's gender."

..."Green Lotus Layman, give us some hints! Like, what's your name? Your height and weight, and so on."

"Hahaha, this person is also a talent. If we know the name, we can probably guess it nine times out of ten."

"Exactly, exactly. Once the height and weight are revealed, we can largely lock down the gender."

"Since that's the case, why doesn't the blogger just post a photo? How about we guess based on the picture?"

..."What those guys upstairs are saying is nonsense. The blogger definitely won't post such key information."

"Yeah, they told you to guess, so you must guess based on the existing information..."

"I think, how about we ask Green Lotus Layman to write another poem, and we guess based on the content."

"I agree with this method. It was hard to guess with just two poems before, but if there are a few more, it will be easier."

...Xu Lu naturally saw the netizens' discussions. He smiled and had no intention of refusing.

In fact, wasn't creating the Green Lotus Layman alias precisely for the convenience of posting poems?

After a brief thought, Xu Lu posted another update.

Only this time, the content of the update was the new poem requested by the netizens.

Uh, it was only one line:

'I am inherently... a Madman of Chu... singing the Phoenix Song... laughing at Confucius...'

But just this one line made many netizens' eyes light up, and they immediately gave their guesses:

"Hahahaha, they gave themselves away! With such a domineering poem, Green Lotus Layman must be a man, no doubt about it."

"Exactly, 'I am inherently a madman.' My god, that's too arrogant, but I love it!"

"I already knew Green Lotus Layman was talented after reading the first two poems, but I didn't expect them to be this talented."

"I also guess Green Lotus Layman is male..."

But soon, other netizens began to refute, saying:

"I don't think we can guess like that. What if the blogger deliberately wrote this line of poetry to mislead you?"

"That's right, maybe Green Lotus Layman is a woman, and she deliberately wrote a male-style poem to mislead us."

"Damn, don't go nesting like that.

Then I'll say he's a man who's trying to mislead us into believing he's misleading us!"

"Hahahaha, you guys fight it out. I really can't follow this tongue twister anymore..."

...Watching the netizens split into two factions, debating which layer Green Lotus Layman was operating on.

Our CEO Xu, on the other hand, received a very interesting private message.

In fact, there was more than one or two people messaging him privately at that moment, and Xu Lu was usually too lazy to check them one by one.

But when he used the Artificial Intelligence butler to filter them slightly, he found a message worth reading:

"Green Lotus Layman, hello. I am Zhou Wenhao, the President of the Modern Poetry Association. Congratulations on achieving excellent results in this competition..."

With Xu Lu's current Photographic Memory, he naturally remembered who this Zhou Wenhao was.

If he were acting as Xu Lu, he would definitely ignore the private message.

But since he was using the 'Green Lotus Layman' alias, he wanted to see what purpose this person named Zhou had in contacting him.

Without hesitation, Xu Lu immediately sent a reply... On the other side, Chairman Zhou, who had just sent the message, was waiting anxiously.

Soon, ten minutes passed, but the person called Green Lotus Layman still hadn't replied.

In fact, Xu Lu was busy playing the 'guess the gender' game with netizens at this time.

But Zhou Wenhao paid no attention to this; he gradually grew impatient.

He was the President of the Modern Poetry Association! If the other party wanted to make a name for themselves in the Modern Poetry Circle, how dare they neglect him like this.

Especially since this Green Lotus Layman had snatched away 300,000 yuan in prize money from him.

Considering all these factors, Zhou Wenhao was already starting to curse under his breath.

If he wasn't planning on recruiting this 'Green Lotus Layman' to strike at his 'Lifelong Enemy,' he definitely wouldn't be so 'Treat the worthy with respect' right now.

After waiting a while longer, finally, Zhou Wenhao saw a small red dot pop up next to the private message notification.

He eagerly clicked it open and saw Green Lotus Layman's reply:

"Hello!"

Hello?

Your damn reply is only two words?

I already said I'm the President of the Modern Poetry Association. Did this Green Lotus Layman not see clearly?

Zhou Wenhao felt extremely stifled at this moment.

Seriously, in the entire Modern Poetry Circle, who doesn't show him respect first?

Even those famous poets have to give him some face after meeting him.

Yet now, a newly emerging newcomer is acting so indifferent when faced with his proactive goodwill.

The disparity made Chairman Zhou truly difficult to accept.

"If this person wasn't still useful to me, I... Forget it, I'll endure a little longer!"

Zhou Wenhao forcefully suppressed his anger and sent another private message.