"Me? Uh, uh..." Xiaofan wiped his nose with his finger and looked at Chen Mengying beside him.

Only to see Chen Mengying slightly frowning, also at a loss for the moment.

"Ah..."

While Chen Mengying had no clue, Li Kuo suddenly let out a strange cry.

"Wow, what's your deal? Screaming like a ghost. Scared me." Xiaofan quickly diverted the topic, trying to dodge the challenge from others.

"I've heard this couplet before, that's why it sounds so familiar. Listen up, the second line: 'Smoke locks the pond willows.'

"Yeah, impressive, it has all the elements and radicals of jin, mu, shui, huo, tu." Xiaofan couldn't help but give a thumbs-up.

"Hey, it's not like I came up with this couplet. This one's from the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong posed it to Ji Xiaolan. Just happened to have seen it before."

"Huh? So that's it, huh? Hey, hey, your couplet isn't all that, you know."

"Tsk, weren't you the one who couldn't match it?" Li Zihao hadn't expected anyone to know this was Qianlong and Ji Xiaolan's couplet, but he needed to continue bantering with Xiaofan to save some face.

Girls leaning towards the arts and boys towards sciences is not something surprising. So, the earlier couplets being matched by Liu Siyan and Chen Mengying wasn't strange, nor was it odd that the other boys couldn't match them.

But Li Zihao said that apart from the two women, no one else in the club could match, which was a bit embarrassing. And Li Kuo happened to hit the mark and even mentioned the origin of the couplet, which was quite a face-slapping moment.

"A couplet from the Qing Dynasty? I wonder where the earlier ones came from." Over here, Zhang Yuxuan immediately chimed in sarcastically.

"Just testing everyone's reach in literature, that's all." Li Zihao quickly justified.

The couplet exchange was nearing its end, but what's coming next might be even more challenging.

"Oh my, I suddenly thought of a second line that might match the earlier couplet, what was the first line again?" Xiaofan really hadn't been idle, constantly racking his brain on matching the couplet. But even if his mind was agile, it was hard to match the extraordinary literary talent of Liu Siyan and the others.

But at this moment, if Xiaofan didn't do something, he might really get kicked out of the club after this.

"Cannon guards Haicheng tower..." Li Kuo reminded from the side.

"Hmm, my matching second line is: Shenzhen teppanyaki..."

Shenzhen? Teppanyaki? What the heck? That's not a proper second line, is it? But thinking about it, it does have all the elements of jin, mu, shui, huo, tu.

"How about that, hahaha, amazing, right?"

"Hehehe..."

Xiaofan's second line made the girls present cover their mouths and giggle, even the female members on the opposing side couldn't help but chuckle.

Who would've thought that in such a crowd of elegant people, there'd be such a comic relief around.

In this tense atmosphere, a bit of humor made everyone slowly relax.

And Li Zihao then hinted at the time for another member to give the first line.

"My first line is: Dogs bark in the deep alley. It hints at the chaotic times of ancient wars, where residents were on edge, and the barking of dogs portrayed the act of thieves sneaking into people's homes at night."

Damn it, these guys are really stretching it, huh? A dog's bark could be linked to ancient war turmoil, and what's with the thief? Xiaofan remembered the big yellow dog in front of the convenience store back home; no matter who walked past it, it would get up and bark a few times. Have these guys been city dwellers for so long that they've never heard a dog's bark?

Thoughts aside, couplet matching had to continue. However, with such a subtle hint from the opponent, who could quickly come up with a stupendous second line?

Unexpectedly, this short five-word phrase made Liu Siyan and Chen Mengying, the two talented girls, frown at the same time, and even the club president Zhang Yuxuan was anxious, while others solely pinned their hopes on someone else.

"Twenty seconds left, come on, how could you guys not match something so simple?" Li Zihao checked the time, his face filled with the joy of impending victory.

"Rooster crows in the bedding."

Here it came, that dashing voice came again from the back.

"Hey, what the heck is that? What's your name again?" Li Zihao frowned, looking at the guy who stood up from behind.

"Ye Xiaofan."

"How could a rooster be in the bedding? Ridiculous."

"Who says a rooster can't be in the bedding?"

"Then tell me, which rooster can be in the bedding?"

"Lady, of course."

"Lady?"

"Pfft, Xiaofan, you rascal..." While everyone was puzzled, Chen Mengying seemed to realize something, suddenly bursting into laughter.

"Rogue." Liu Siyan also belatedly realized, blushing and refusing to look at him.

"You're, completely unruly." The boy who gave the first line seemed very unhappy with Xiaofan's second line and immediately shouted.

"With just a dog's bark, you hinted at ancient war turmoil. With a rooster's crow, I interpreted a peaceful life. Right? If you want someone to call for a chicken, you need money, don't you? If you have money, then you're living a comfortable life, right? There's nothing wrong with that."

Hey, Xiaofan's explanation did seem to make some sense.

"You, you're disgracing the literary arts."

"Disgracing the arts? Tang Bohu could down three vats of wine and sketch the Ten Beauties in front of many women, why wasn't he disgracing the arts then?"

"Ridiculous, that's because Tang Bohu was gallant."

"Oh, so he's gallant, but when it comes to me, it's disgracing the arts, huh?" Xiaofan countered. "Is all reasoning according to your family's rules?"

"You..." The opponent was furious but couldn't refute Xiaofan's words. Honestly, upon closer inspection, Xiaofan's couplet and explanation were impeccable: "Great He, give a couplet, shut him down."

"Alright, I'm on it."

"Whoa, I'm really going all out today. Gentlemen, none of you match it, let me do it." Xiaofan immediately stepped forward with an air of bravado.

This sentence had a hidden meaning—he wanted to show off, but if he couldn't match it, Liu Siyan and Chen Mengying would have to come to his rescue.

Of course, Xiaofan wasn't worried that Liu Siyan would let him fall flat, considering she cared a lot about the club.

"Listen up, first line: Under the moon, a flower-hearted willow, knowing without saying. Brother Ye, please..."

"Piece of cake, listen, second line is: Sun rises ******, the true intention of a gentleman."

"Pfft."

"Hahahaha,"

"Hahahahahaha..."

Laughter, unending laughter. The scene was just filled with joy, and this literature club wasn't just full of scholars; some might be rascals. It's amazing this guy could come up with such an odd second line.

The cheerful girls laughed along, while girls like Liu Siyan and Chen Mengying blushed, wanting to laugh but too shy to.

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