Rebirth 2004: A lone figure in the literary world

Chapter 96 No matter how good his poetry is, can it be better than Haizi’s?

After the lecture, Zhang Chaoren was still confused - "the most unfaithful man in Yanda", where did this come from?

At noon, while eating in the cafeteria, a junior boy he knew smiled and told him, "You're still pretending to be so good. You've only been in school for a few days, and you've already dumped two beauties."

Zhang Chao: "Hmm? Two?"

"Yeah. One was the one who came to see you after class that day. He was tall and looked like a movie star. I don't know what you were dissatisfied with, but you yelled at him in the garden, and then you left by yourself, leaving him there. It was said that he almost cried!"

"What about another one?"

"Didn't you take a girl around school one weekend last month? Oh, that girl was so beautiful, like a porcelain doll, I saw it all. I don't know what you said to others, but when the girl left, her eyes were said to be red. I felt so sorry for her!"

"...I said that the two of them are just friends. Do you believe me?"

"I believe it, why not?"

Zhang Chao breathed a sigh of relief. Then the student continued, "But if you have such friends in the future, and you can't digest them, introduce them to me. From now on, I can call you brother. You said that you writers are really great. Friends, aren't friends the lightest love... Brother, in this regard, you are this!"

As he spoke, he gave Zhang Chao a thumbs up!

Zhang Chao: "..."

Within two days, Zhang Chao’s speech was compiled and posted on the “Weiming Lakeside” forum of Yanda University. The title of the post was:

[Zhang Chao, the most unfaithful man in Yanda University: Love does not require responsibility, nor sacrifice, and cannot be restricted by law]

This immediately sparked a heated discussion. Of course, most people criticized his "light love theory" and found a lot of hard evidence in his novels.

Cheng Nian and Xiao Bei in "Better Days" are obviously a pair of lovers who can trust each other with life and death, but the novel has an open ending.

In "Young Babylon", Lu Xiaolu and Bai Lan had obviously had sex, but Bai Lan was still arranged to leave casually and disappear mysteriously.

Long and Xi in "Your Name" already know each other and love each other, but they are both written to have amnesia, and everything has to start all over again.

All these things show that Zhang Chao is a scumbag who doesn't want to take responsibility in love!

Now Zhang Chao is having a headache. He can't hold a press conference and issue a press release saying that he is not a scumbag, right?
But the strange thing is that since this post was pushed to the front page of the Weiming Lakeside BBS in the past two days, he has been getting more and more affectionate looks from girls on campus, and even started receiving love letters. Regardless of the length of the letter, the translation is nothing more than:

I just want to have it once, not forever...

I don't want you to be responsible, I don't want you to pay, and I don't want the law to restrict you...

Zhang Chao had to sigh at the power of the Internet. His simple speech, after being quoted out of context, had such an effect. This was also because he had been a student for too long and lacked the awareness that he was already a "celebrity".

But soon, a user with the ID "Midnight Tide" posted a poem on the BBS, which quickly overshadowed this post.

I want to spend time with her
I want to spend time with her, like looking down at the fish

For example, leave the tea cup on the table and leave
Waste their nice shadows

I also want to waste the sunset, like taking a walk
Spend time until the sky is full of stars
I still want to waste the time when the wind blows

Sitting in the corridor in a daze, until her eyes were filled with dark clouds
All blown out the window

I've wasted the world, it passed me

Tired and like I've never been loved

But I will still do this tomorrow, wasting my time
There are flowers and plants everywhere, life should be as beautiful as them

As meaningless as a wasted movie
Those desperate loves and deaths

Give us a brief moment of silence
I want to waste time with her
The short silence we spend together is meaningless.

Spend time together in the delicate and old universe
Like leaning on the railing, looking down at the mirror of the water until all the wasted things

Behind us, thin wings grow
[What is 'Midnight Tide'? Isn't it just 'midnight tide'? My English is not very good, but I still like to use English to name my ID. 】

Is this poem his self-defense?

【Is this what he calls 'light love'? 】

[This is so beautifully written. Isn't it the feeling of loving someone that even if time is wasted and life is meaningless, you will still have no regrets? ]

[What Zhang Chao said about "doing nothing" and "not caring about anything" actually means "no need to do anything" and "no need to care about anything". Love should be as natural as air, without us having to worry about it. 】

【Was it a misunderstanding before? 】

[Of course it's a misunderstanding. Zhang Chao said that love cannot be defined by "responsibility", "sacrifice" or "law", not that there is no need to be responsible or sacrifice.]

[Isn't he a novelist? How come he can write modern poetry so well? ]

[He can write poetry. This is the one he won an award for and published before——]

[This poem seems to continue his usual poetic style, which is based on tiny images around him, and the structure and language are very delicate.]

[Does the May Fourth Literary Society have the strength to fight against this poem? ]

【You underestimate the poetry tradition of our Yanda University.】

[Tsk, no matter how good his poems are, can they be better than Haizi's? "Sister, tonight I don't care about human beings, I only think of you" is the best love poem of our Yanda students, right! ]

Zhang Chaofan couldn't help laughing when he saw this - "The poem is not as good as Haizi's" - this comment is not a criticism, but a high praise.

"Sister, tonight I don't care about human beings, I only think of you" is from Haizi's poem "Diary", which is his most widely circulated poem besides "Facing the Sea, Spring Flowers Blooming".

The poem he posted on the forum was originally titled "I Want to Waste Time with You" published by Chongqing poet Li Yuansheng in 2013, except that he changed the "you" in the poem to "she".

Because "you" has a very strong literal meaning, it is easy to cause misunderstanding. "She" can refer to someone literal or imaginary. Of course, such a modification weakens the power of the poem to a certain extent.

The discussion about whether Zhang Chao was "Yenchi University's most unfaithful man" finally came to an end. The real estate agent also brought good news: they found a house for him.

Zhang Chao went to look at the house that night. The house was located in Chaoyang, near the famous Panjiayuan and Longtan Park. Looking at the map, it was on a diagonal line with Yanda where he lived, but it was quite close to the office of Yanjing Cartoon.

The house was built in a new residential area around 2000, and the decoration is relatively new. It has two bedrooms and one living room, about 70 square meters, and the layout is square and the lighting is good. The landlord has made a fortune in business recently, and moved to a bigger house, so he wants to rent out this small house.

Zhang Chao looked inside and out and except for the landlord having too many miscellaneous things, everything else was pretty good. He would just rent the place and ask him to clear out the stuff.

The agent said, "This house was easy for me to find. Let me tell you, in the entire Third Ring Road, at this price, you won't find a more decent two-bedroom apartment than this one."

Zhang Chao nodded and said, "Yes, it's good. How much is it?"

The agent said, "The landlord said that he doesn't need this little money. The main thing is that the house needs someone to live in it. It will easily deteriorate if no one lives in it. 1950 yuan, no bargaining. I tell you, at this price and in this location, you can't buy it anywhere else..."

Seeing that Zhang Chao didn't say anything, he said cautiously: "Otherwise, I'll talk to the landlord again."

Zhang Chao said: "No, what I'm asking is, how much does this house cost?"

The agent said: "I told you, it's 1 yuan a month, including property management but not water and electricity."

Zhang Chao said: "I'm asking how much it would cost to buy it."

intermediary:"……"

(End of this chapter)