Back then, he got along well with several people at the grassroots level, who would occasionally team up with him for tasks and privately tip him off, claiming that Lao Zhiming criticized him for being irritable and unfit for serious tasks. He heard about it but didn't take it to heart. His disposition wasn't irritable; perhaps his outward cheerfulness seemed like irritability, but it really wasn't. He figured Lao Zhiming just didn't understand him to say such a thing, and with time, this misunderstanding would surely be resolved. If it were only about him, he could let it slide, but later, during an internal grassroots meeting, someone suddenly stood up halfway through and accused Lao Zhiming of having problematic thoughts and work style, of loving to snitch behind people's backs, and not being open and honest, eventually dragging him into the dispute as well. The situation was, simply put, chaotic.