I apologize, I would like to take back what I said about my doubts towards Zhang Ye's actions. This person, Zhang Ye, might do things that are maddening at times. He has a bad temper and doesn't have regard for consequences, but yet he is someone who is difficult to hate. He's a jerk, but somehow is a jerk that makes people respect him. A person who can still think for others on a day like the first day of the new year, who'd rather stay a few more days in incarceration than implicating others. Who could hate him? Who could resist supporting him? Who is qualified to doubt him?"
"How can we let Teacher Zhang take all the responsibility!"
"What the heck is Zhang Ye trying to do!"
"If you take all the responsibility, what would happen to you?"
"Teacher Zhang, why are you being like this! Are you mad!"
"F**k! Teacher Zhang, you're looking down on us! We took part in the beating too! I will take responsibility for my own actions! It's just a matter of being detained! You didn't even bat an eyelid to that, so why would I! It's no big deal! I will go and turn myself in tomorrow! At most, I'd spend my new year in detainment!"
"We cannot allow Teacher Zhang to bear this alone! There were more than 20 people at that time, so who else hit Lee Anson? I am one, so let's come forward!"
"Yes, we aren't afraid of the consequences!"
"In the past, Teacher Zhang became bankrupt and even borrowed money from others to allow his fan to be treated. Now, he's trying to take all the blame for so many people who are unrelated to him. I don't know how you all feel about this, but I feel bad. Surrender? Count me in!"
"Me too!"
"F**k! I'm going as well!"
"Who's afraid of who!"
"That's right! We can't let anyone look down on us!"
"Now that something has happened, no one wants to come forward to accept their responsibility? They even let Teacher Zhang Ye take the blame for everyone else? Isn't that so shameful!? We mustn't let foreigners think that we are like this and allow them to look down on us! If you did it, then you better step up to admit it! Help Teacher Zhang!"
"Count me in!"
"Don't let Teacher Zhang face this alone!"
"Well said! Let Zhang Ye know that we are still here!"
"Let everyone know that! Know that our country consists of more than just one person like Zhang Ye! There's still us!"
When this news was revealed, a lot of people's passionate blood boiled! if this was any other time, they would not have such courage, but as Zhang Ye's series of actions today were so infectious, his stopping of Lee Anson from leaving, his "I love this land" poem, to his refusal to rat out the others who had been involved, but instead took all responsibility for the incident. All of these had stirred the masses fighting spirit, which could no longer be held down!
"If I were a bird."
"I should sing with my hoarse voice."
"Of this land buffeted by storms."
"Of this river turbulent with our grief."
"Of these angry winds ceaselessly blowing."
"And of the dawn, infinitely gentle over the woods."
"—Then I died!"
"And even my feathers would rot in the soil."
"Why are my eyes always brimming with tears?"
"Because I love this land so deeply!