Other people also shared his thoughts.
For example, Big Thunder and Little Red Mushroom had the same thoughts. Although they knew that Zhang Ye’s melody poem was well-written, it had no chance of becoming the champion. It was also quite impossible for him to enter the top three. How many votes could one garner in 20+ minutes? The other people already had more than ten thousand votes. It was already not bad if Zhang Ye could get into the top ten! When the results were out, people would not care about the procedure or that there wasn’t enough voting time. They only looked at the final outcome. When the top three was dominated by people from the Writers’ Association and Zhang Ye was ranked beyond third place, then it was a way for the Writers’ Association team that Meng Dongguo led to save their face!
Ah, alright!
Your melody poem this time had a lot of literary value to it!
We acknowledge that your melody poem was indeed very good!
But so what? Aren’t you still ranked behind us? In the end, everyone will still see that you are inferior to us professional Teachers from a professional body like the Writers’ Association!
Scholars tended to be more stubborn. There may have been some small conflicts at the beginning, but as the situation worsened, neither side would agree to back down. Anyway, they were going to go forceful on Zhang Ye! This was probably the clash between their orthodox background as Teachers of the Writers’ Association and Zhang Ye, a half-past-six unorthodox “amateur” that wrote supernatural stories, fairy tales and poems! They would not give up until they beat the other party into submission!