I am Really a Superstar 3

by Little Merger

Zhang Ye was originally a mundane college graduate with aspiring dreams to become a star, but unfortunately has below average looks and height. However one day, he woke up and suddenly found himself in a parallel world!It’s like the same world, but wait a minute…many brands, celebrities and even famous works from his world changed and are gone in this new world!

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Chapter 1171: International Buzz!

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In the studio.

The calls came one after another.

Everyone in the studio was busy handling the media reporters while Zhang Ye took calls from his family and friends. The affair had blown up and no one did not know about it!

Zhang Ye held his cell phone to his ear. "Mom."

His mother praised: "Son, that was a good beating you gave them!"

Zhang Ye smiled and said: "Not bad, right?"

"What's so good about that!" At the other end of the line, his father apparently snatched the phone for himself and said: "You are a member of the Party. How can you go around beating up people again? And they're even Olympic referees?"

Zhang Ye gave a hollow laugh and said: "But I didn't beat them up."

His mother snatched the phone back from his father and said: "Don't listen to your father's griping. When he heard that the referees were injured, he happily applauded it and cheered. He only got anxious after he saw that it was you in the surveillance video. Ignore him, you did a great job! We can't get pushed around by them like this!"

Zhang Ye replied: "Got it."

"Will you be fine?"

"What could possibly happen to me?"

"Alrighty then."

Then Ning Lan called.

Ning Lan asked: "Did you really manhandle them?"

Zhang Ye replied: "Let me make this clear: I did not use my hands on them."

"It's the same even if you used your legs!"

"Cough cough."

"You've gotten into big trouble this time."

"Ha, being unafraid of trouble is in my nature."

"I really have to give it to you!"

Another call came in, this time from the songstress, Grandma Zhang Xia.

Zhang Xia asked, "Don't you want to make it in the international scene?"

Zhang Ye said, "I want to."

"You want to? Then why are you still always getting into trouble?"

"Don't worry about me, I know what I'm doing."

"Oh, you! I don't even know what to say about you anymore."

Zhang Ye's friends called him out of concern as they were afraid he had gotten himself into deep trouble this time. But at the same time, they were really impressed by his courage to do something like this. If it were anyone else, they wouldn't have done something that would land themselves in this kind of trouble, more so for a person of Zhang Ye's stature. What mattered most to those in the entertainment industry was their own reputation, especially those who wanted to advance in the international scene. This incident would definitely stain his reputation for the rest of his life and would not be forgotten by anyone. It was already very difficult for Zhang Ye to advance to the top of the domestic entertainment industry with his qualities, so it would be even harder to get to the top of the Asian rankings and advance in the international stage. And yet, he still created this big of a mess? Wasn't he just making things difficult for himself? Wasn't this as good as putting obstacles on his future career path?

But how did Zhang Ye see it?

He didn't care at all. He just went ahead and did it!

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Just by that alone, they had no choice but take their hats off to him!

…

Before long, the findings of the police investigation were released!

Chaoyang District Police Station: "Through our investigation, the suspicious man who appeared in the surveillance footage taken at the Olympic venue was indeed Zhang Ye. The preliminary judgment of the police department is that Zhang Ye entered the Olympic venue to return the staff pass as he did not have the opportunity to do so after the opening ceremony ended the day before. In there, he got tripped by an unidentified object on the ground just as he was walking past the five foreign weightlifting referees. After comparison with the surveillance footage, Zhang Ye does appear to have lost his balance at that moment and kickstarted a domino effect where the five foreign referees fell to the ground after one of them was tripped by him.

And on and on it went.

The findings of the investigation went over 300 words!

But the conclusion was summarized in just a word: accident!

When the findings of the investigation were made public, many of the local citizens greatly praised it!

"Giving a Like for the Chaoyang Police!"

"Hahahaha! Well done!"

"The police are serving the people!"

"They know how to spot right from wrong!"

"That's right, it was just an accident!"

"This case was judged wonderfully!"

"That's right, that's right! It had nothing to do with Teacher Zhang!"

"They're exceedingly right! I know that with Teacher Zhang's character, he would definitely not injure the referees at the Olympics venue on purpose. Teacher Zhang would never do something like that!"

"Correct, he's a triple faculty professor of Peking University and Media College. He's an out-and-out intellectual."

"That's right, that's right. Teacher Zhang is a teacher of the people and a member of the Party. How could he possibly do such a thing? We can't malign a good person. The police have finally cleared Teacher Zhang's name."

"The injustice has been redressed!"

"A teacher of the people would not beat people up!"

"Hai, the truth finally comes out. Teacher Zhang was wronged!"

"My tears are overflowing! I'm so happy for Teacher Zhang!"

The people were talking about how righteous the outcome of the investigation was.

But in reality, all of them were laughing their asses off on the inside!

The injustice was redressed?

They were happy for him?

A teacher of the people would not beat people up?

Bull fucking shit!

Everyone knew in their heart of hearts that even an idiot could see that this was done by Zhang Ye on purpose. He wouldn't do something like that? If he wouldn't do something like that, then who would! This was exactly the kind of thing he loved doing! But nobody spoke what they thought. Instead, all of them were protesting this injustice against Zhang Ye, "feeling" deeply indignant about the misunderstanding that other people had of him!

Yao Jiancai's Weibo: "…"

Xiaodong's Weibo: "…"

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Huo Dongfang's Weibo: "a…"

When many of those in the entertainment industry saw this, they nearly fainted!

That's enough!

That's really enough!

Can you all not be so funny!

In all of China, who does not know what kind of person Zhang Ye is!

However, some foreign reporters actually got fooled by the findings of the Chaoyang District Police Station's investigation. Several foreign media outlets started reporting about this news.

The English media: "All a misunderstanding."

The Russian media: "The findings of the police investigation show that this is not a criminal case."

The Portuguese media: "Let's turn our focus back to the Olympic events."

But more of the foreign media did not believe it!

Especially the Australian and South Korean media. They reacted to this news in a frenzy. The American media, which naturally sided with their allies, also joined in the commotion and criticized the investigations angrily!

A misunderstanding?

An accident?

Who are you trying to bluff!

Only an idiot would believe that!

The referees who got beaten up were even angrier as they did not agree with the outcome of the investigation!

The Australian media: "Hand over the assailant! He must be severely punished for his actions!"

The American media: "The American delegation demands an explanation from the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games!"

The South Korean media: "The assault on the South Korean referee cannot just go unpunished. Requesting that the Interpol take over the investigation!"

When the Chinese netizens saw this, they rolled their eyes. What Interpol? Do you think this is a terrorist attack?! The American delegation even wants us to give an explanation? Do you treat yourselves as Interpol?

However, there were also some Chinese media outlets that joined in the fray.

A small tabloid: "The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games should give an explanation to the International Olympic Committee 1 !"

An online media outlet: "Zhang Ye has really gone too far! "

A Chinese expert: "Fighting violence with violence never works! It only serves to worsen the conflict!"

A scholar from the education field even resorted to scaremongering: "If the case of the injured international referees does not get handled properly, China will suffer a loss of respect in the international arena. The Beijing Olympics will become a laughing stock!"

A lot of people were supporting Zhang Ye!

A lot of people were also scolding him!

Each side had their views and reasoning!

On the first day of the Olympic Games, all of the domestic and foreign media outlets, along with the people, were in an uproar. All of this was because of Zhang Ye, because of what he had done!

It was an unprecedented occurrence!

Zhang Ye had successfully stolen the headlines from the Olympics!

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Chapter 1172: A shocking statement from the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

At night.

Public opinion was divided.

"What kind of experts do they think they are!"

"They're even criticizing Teacher Zhang?"

"When the gold medal was taken away from us due to that incorrect call, why didn't any of them step forward?"

"Yeah, all they know is how to talk crap!"

"But Zhang Ye still shouldn't have tripped those referees."

"Zhang Ye only knows how to bring down our country's image!"

"Get lost! Never mind that the foreigners are criticizing him, even our own countrymen are also scolding him now?"

A scolding battle began!

Countless people were engaged in a fiery war of words!

The lights in Zhang Ye's Studio were all on as everyone worked overtime to handle the emergency PR. There was someone using the studio's official Weibo account to make clarifications, while others contacted local PR agencies that they were familiar with in an attempt to divert the public's attention. They were hoping that it could limit the amount of negative press brought upon Zhang Ye by this incident.

At this moment, Zhang Ye received an important call from the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. It was also the first time a leader of the Organizing Committee was contacting Zhang Ye regarding this incident. The person on the other end of the line was the vice-president of the Organizing Committee, Qi Yihai. He sounded quite serious over the phone.

Qi Yihai said: "Professor Zhang."

Zhang Ye simply replied: "President Qi."

Qi Yihai said: "Do you know how big of a mess you've created?"

"I know," Zhang Ye said calmly.

Qi Yihai sighed and said: "The phone lines here at Organizing Committee are blowing up with complaints as well as inquiries from the foreign media. Even the International Olympic Committee is questioning us."

Zhang Ye said: "This is down to my personal conduct and has nothing to do with you all."

Qi Yihai said: "How can it not have anything to do with us? Did you really think that you were just an audience member? Did you think that you were just representing yourself? You were invited by us to be the Olympic opening ceremony's main lead and represent China by singing onstage. Every action of yours represents China and the Olympic image! But you were really great, huh? Did you think of the consequences before you did that? Look at the public's opinion right now. The foreign media is scolding you, while the local experts, academics, and commentators have also criticized you. Even if it's not for anything else, shouldn't you at least think about your own reputation? Attacking referees on the first day of the Olympics? I've really never heard of something like that happening before!"

Zhang Ye spoke in a casual tone: "Are you done talking?"

Qi Yihai said: "Yes, I'm done!"

"Then it's my turn to speak." Zhang Ye's voice turned cold. "You've never heard of referees getting attacked before? I've also never heard of such blatant and malicious decisions being made against the Chinese on the first day of the Olympics!"

Qi Yihai was stumped!

Zhang Ye said loudly: "The gold medal that was supposed to be ours was lost because of a malicious call by the referees, and we weren't even allowed to appeal or change their decision due to the regulations. So you all shouldn't be asking me whether I thought about the consequences! You all should be asking whether those referees thought about it!"

Zhang Ye's voice alarmed everyone in the studio.

Everyone looked over in shock as they listened to Zhang Ye talking to the official from the Organizing Committee.

Qi Yihai said: "We could've communicated and resolved this matter with the relevant associations. You can't just beat up people and try to be a hero!"

"I'm not trying to be a hero, nor am I a hero," Zhang Ye said in seriousness while holding his cell phone to his ear. "Look at the other Olympics and look at the Olympics that we're organizing. I don't know where the problem lies, and I don't know why our countrymen are so disliked by other countries, but how many 'mistaken calls' in the history of the Olympics were resolved? How many cases were given an explanation in the end? Negotiate? Protest? What's the use of that?! I can't control the things that happened in the past, but do you think I can just pretend not to see what happened in front of my eyes? I can't do that!"

Qi Yihai said in a low and serious voice: "Your leg has helped the common folk to vent their anger, but what about you? Look at how many people are criticizing you."

Ha Qiqi looked over.

Zhang Zuo and the others looked Zhang Ye in the eyes.

They heard Zhang Ye bluntly speak: "I'm fine with that. I've always believed that the people need an occasional hero and that someone would have to step forward when there's a need. I can be the hero they need when one else is willing to do so. Even if being that 'hero' does not make me look good or causes me to get criticized for a lifetime, I'm fine with that, I'll…just accept it!"

When he heard that, Qi Yihai suddenly went quiet. He suddenly realized that he could not retort to that and even felt quite impressed.

You'll just accept it?

He knew how much that sentence from Zhang Ye meant!

Qi Yihai realized that they had acted like a clown regarding this matter!

Consequences?

Effects?

Responsibility?

Pressure from the public's opinion?

They were being too overly cautious and had too many considerations. Faced with Zhang Ye's "I'll just accept it," Qi Yihai could not say another a word!

After hanging up, Qi Yihai suddenly smiled.

He wanted to assuage the anger of the people even if it meant that he would be criticized for a lifetime?

So this was Zhang Ye?

Seeing was truly believing!

…

The next day.

The second day of the Olympics.

Early in the morning, Zhang Ye was already awake. Or rather, he did not sleep much at all. He went out early to buy breakfast for those who were still working overtime in the office.

"Come, let's have breakfast."

"Thank you, Director Zhang."

"Good morning, Director Zhang."

"You guys go ahead and eat breakfast. I need to get something done!"

Everyone had traces of tiredness on their faces.

Zhang Ye was touched by the sight but also felt bad. Because of his stubbornness, he had brought trouble to the people around him many times. Sometimes, even though Zhang Ye felt that he had a clear conscience about the things he did, he would feel somewhat apologetic whenever he thought of his friends, relatives, and colleagues around him.

The netizens were still arguing online!

The foreign media was still denouncing Zhang Ye!

Doubting voices were everywhere as all accusations got directed at Zhang Ye!

But at this moment, something happened that the local media and people could not have imagined. A sudden announcement shocked the world!

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games issued a statement:

After a study of the regulations, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games has decided to unilaterally overturn the rule of having no appeal process in the weightlifting event (only applicable to the Beijing Olympics).

After the Organizing Committee and the relevant international referees' associations held an emergency meeting, we have decided the Australian referee, Cooper, will be banned for life while the South Korean referee, Man Gyu, along with four other weightlifting referees will be suspended for two (2) years as punishment.

Accepted the appeal by the Chinese delegation with regards to the Men's 62 kg weightlifting event. After thorough communication and discussion, Li Jiaxi will be awarded the gold medal, with the North Korean athlete's medal changed to silver.

The three rulings shocked the entire world!

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games had made its move. This action stunned countless people!

The netizens were all stunned!

"What?"

"Holy shit!"

"This is too assertive! This is too fucking assertive!"

"Oh my god! Is this…is this true?"

"When have we ever been so assertive!"

"They unilaterally changed the regulations?"

"Li Jiaxi has been awarded the gold medal after the appeal went through?"

"The gold medal has been returned to the rightful champion?"

"Ahhhhhh!"

"Is that for real?"

"Holy shit! Holy shit! The Beijing Organizing Committee has handled this beautifully!"

"What is happening here? How could our Organizing Committee have possibly done something like that? Can someone tell me this is really happening? Am I dreaming or what?"

"Damn, I'm crying!"

"Me too, why can't I stop crying?"

"Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, you are absolutely the best! You are so awesome!"

"Here's a Like for you from the people across the country! Well done!"

"I'm so excited that I don't know what to say!"

"Thank you! Thank you!"

"Thank you, Zhang Ye! Thank you, Beijing Organizing Committee!"

"You're all heroes! All of you!"

The Chinese weightlifting team was dumbfounded!

Li Jiaxi was crying tears of joy. He immediately posted on Weibo to thank his motherland!

Many of the Chinese athletes Liked the post!

Many of the coaches applauded and cheered!

Many of the citizens were simply in disbelief!

…

At Zhang Ye's Studio.

Ha Qiqi was stunned. "This…this!"

Zhang Zuo exclaimed, "What's going on?"

Zhang Ye was also stunned at what he was seeing. He did not expect this either.

A call came in. It was from Qi Yihai!

Zhang Ye hurriedly picked it up. "Hello, President Qi!"

Qi Yihai said smilingly: "Have you seen the statement?"

"Yes, holy shit! What are you all trying to do?" Zhang Ye asked dumbfoundedly.

Qi Yihai said: "What do you mean by what are we trying to do? You were the one who stirred this up first. After my call to you yesterday, I thought for a very long time. Then, I conveyed everything that you said to me word for word to the higher-ups in a meeting. You saying that 'even if you get criticized for a lifetime, you'd just accept it' was enough to leave us unable to criticize you any further. Professor Zhang, we can also do what you were willing to do. Since you weren't afraid of getting criticized, then our Organizing Committee will not be afraid of getting criticized either! We're the Organizing Committee for the Beijing Olympics, so how can we allow our athletes to get bullied in an Olympics held in our own backyard, in our own country? You're right. Isn't it just about getting criticized? Isn't it just about being doubted by the world media? We're not afraid of that either! We also accept it! When the people need us, we can be that 'hero' too!"

Zhang Ye chuckled. "Thank you."

Qi Yihai shook his head and said: "No, we should be the ones thanking you. Anyway, both you and our Organizing Committee will now have to bear the blame for the rest of our lives. When people speak of the Beijing Olympics in the future, there will definitely be countless foreign media outlets calling this the darkest Olympic Games ever. Beating up referees? Unilaterally changing the regulations? Switching the medal results? I think we will probably be remembered and criticized by a lot of people for the rest of our lives. You better be mentally prepared for it."

But Zhang Ye belly laughed. "You all are the ones who should be mentally prepared. I've already been scolded by enough people to last three lifetimes for the things that I did in the past few years, so what am I afraid of?"

Qi Yihai was tickled. "That's true. A heavy debt would not burden you any further."

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Chapter 1173: The sports world's friendly attitude towards Zhang Ye!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games had made an earth-shattering move. A public statement issued by them pushed the entire Beijing Olympics into the public's consciousness. Going by the regulations of this world, the Olympic organizer had the authority to make certain changes to the rules or mete out punishments as they deemed fit. But no one could have expected that they would really enforce it. Even the Americans in their role as the world police had never changed the rules in any of their Olympic events like this. Moreover, this change was even made to the advantage of China itself. This was what made it even more shocking for everyone!

Zhang Yuanqi gave a Like!

Yao Jiancai gave a Like!

Zhang Xia gave a Like too!

There were only cheers throughout the country!

Everyone was overjoyed with this decision!

"This should have been how it was!"

"Yeah, it should have been this way at the beginning!"

"Well changed and well punished!"

"Hahaha, banned for life? Well done!"

"Let's see who still dares to deliberately target us during our Olympics!"

"This is such an important statement! I never expected that our country would do such a shocking thing! Even now, I can't believe this is happening!"

"It happened!"

"It really happened!"

Cheering?

Jumping in joy?

Just these words alone were unable to describe the current feelings of the Chinese people. After suppressing their pent-up anger for a day, they could finally vent it all. They were all flowing with happiness from head to toe! When they were faced with such incorrect calls and deliberate malicious decisions in the past, there was nothing they could do about it. Other than protesting, it was still only protesting. Then what? After that, everything would remain the same. The protests did not change anything. But this time, they were the organizers of the Olympics in Beijing. As the saying goes, every dog has its day. The wheel of fortune keeps on turning. Now that it was China's turn to hold the Olympics, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games used a world-shocking public statement to inform everyone: This is our take on things!

They could feel a sense of pride!

But at the same time, the foreign media started criticizing the actions!

The English media: "What? What is happening?"

The American media: "The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games has made a shocking and unacceptable decision!"

The South Korean media: "Strongly protesting the organizers for siding with their own people!"

The Japanese media: "Unbelievable! This is the darkest moment in the history of the Olympics!"

The Australian media: "Banned for life? Changing the medal results?"

People across the world also reacted fiercely!

Especially those in Australia, South Korea, and several other countries!

The Australians.

"Shit cunts!"

"The Chinese are too despicable!"

"How can they handle things this way!"

"Where's the sportsmanship? Where's the Olympic spirit?"

"Unilaterally changing the regulations, an action like this is just too despicable!"

The South Koreans.

"They skipped over the referees and changed the gold medal winner?"

"How could they suspend our weightlifting referee!"

"I'm so mad about this!"

"The Chinese decision has made us furious!"

"It's a conspiracy!"

The Canadians.

"They're abusing their authority to benefit themselves!"

"This decision has an even more negative impact than the referees getting beaten up!"

"What are the Olympics organizers doing!"

"I strongly object to this!"

"This decision is a joke!"

The foreign media and citizens were scolding as well! There was no longer much attention given to the referees being injured in the Olympic venue. The focus of the public's opinion had turned to the statement issued by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. Everyone was now discussing and questioning the action it took!

Many of the foreign Olympic delegations and athletes were having none of it as they protested to the International Olympic Committee. The athletes from the Australian delegation were the fiercest in leading the protest and even threatened to collectively withdraw from the Games. Perhaps due to pressure or some other motives, the International Olympic Committee also came forward to declare: "Regarding the organizer's unilateral decision, we hereby express our puzzledness and condemnation of their actions!

When many of the countries' delegations had this statement from the International Olympic Committee to back them up, their criticism became even louder!

However, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games ignored them and did not withdraw their statement. They even held the make up medal ceremony for the Men's 62 kg weightlifting event the next day before the Olympic events began. In the presence of the media reporters from every country, the Chinese athlete, Li Jiaxi, was awarded the gold medal. Faced with all kinds of pressure from the public's opinion, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games still went about doing things their way. The officials from the Organizing Committee also clearly indicated to the media present that their decision would remain unchanged!

Their decision was set in stone!

Everyone was left helpless by the Beijing Organizing Committee's forceful stance. As they were not the organizers, it did not matter how much they protested or cursed. The final decision on this issue was still up to the organizer at the end!

The Olympics would still continue!

The competition would still go on!

And the Australian delegation was definitely not going to back out from the Games either!

…

That afternoon.

Zhang Ye was humming the song "Beijing Welcomes You" as he walked into the Olympic venue. He was here to return the work pass that he was given previously and to settle the issue of the "accident" involving the referees.

The events held in the morning had already ended while the events scheduled for the afternoon had not begun yet.

Some of the foreign athletes were warming up and practicing. When they saw Zhang Ye, many of them could recognize him!

"Look!"

"It's him!"

"Goddammit!"

"I really want to teach him a lesson!"

A large, muscular Australian swimmer angrily at Zhang Ye. He looked like he wanted to charge at him but was stopped by his teammates!

A group of foreign referees were also glowering at Zhang Ye!

It looked like they were trying to put on a show of force against Zhang Ye?

Zhang Ye ignored them as he slowly walked over.

The Australian and South Korean swim referees continued to stare at him!

Zhang Ye glanced at them and was kind of irritated by their stares. When he walked past them, he suddenly stopped in his tracks and stretched out his leg!

The foreign referees were given a huge scare as they jumped away in fright as though they had gotten their tails stepped on. Everyone saw the video yesterday and had a deep impression of Zhang Ye's "Leg of God." When they saw him stretching out his leg again, they were just like birds getting startled by the mere twang of a bow 1 ! One of the Australian swim referees even tripped over his own feet and fell to the floor!

"What are you doing?"

The referees all looked infuriated!

However, Zhang Ye lowered his head and knelt down to adjust his shoelaces before getting up to walk away.

Tying his shoelaces?

The foreign referees nearly vomited blood. They knew that he did this on purpose and were furious. At the same time, they felt a little embarrassed. He was only tying his shoelaces and did not do anything to them, but they were so scared they nearly shat their pants, with one person even falling to the ground!

Fuck!

This person was too wicked!

Many athletes and referees looked at Zhang Ye and gnashed their teeth in hatred!

How could Lillian, the most beautiful woman in Britain, have performed on the same stage with such a hooligan!

Not far away off in front of him, many Chinese athletes and coaches came face to face with him. When they saw Zhang Ye, they were a little stunned!

Zhang Ye noticed them as well.

Some of them were from the swim team?

Some of them were from the diving team?

Zhang Ye did not say anything and just walked over. He had been locked in a fierce struggle with the sports world during the scolding battle back then. As so many of the athletes and coaches were scolded by him at that time, the relationship between the two sides has always been poor. When Zhang Ye was appointed to perform in the Olympics opening ceremony, many of those from the sports world had protested against it. That was why Zhang Ye did not plan on greeting them. He just pretended not see them as he walked past.

But even though he ignored them, they said something!

A female swimmer smiled as she waved to him. "Professor Zhang."

Zhang Ye was stunned and instinctively replied, "Hey."

Beside her, a diving coach warmly nodded his head at him. "Good afternoon, Teacher Zhang."

"Ah, good afternoon," Zhang Ye said dumbfounded.

"Where are you heading?"

"The police asked me to come and settle yesterday's matter."

"Will you be alright?"

"Hur hur, I'll be fine."

Along the way, as long as a Chinese athlete or coach encountered Zhang Ye, they would greet and acknowledge him. There were even some very enthusiastic athletes who came over to make small talk with him.

Zhang Ye was really unprepared for this.

It seemed like the domestic sports world had suddenly changed their attitude towards him overnight!

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Chapter 1174: Zhang Ye's Olympic commentary!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

On the fourth day of the Olympics.

After three days of scolding by all the different parties, the issue began to subside.

Zhang Ye, who was sleeping in late, finally woke up at 11 AM. After he got up, he went straight out to the living room and saw his parents watching the Olympics on TV.

"Dad, Mom, how many do we have?"

"We just got another one today."

"And in total?"

"Six gold medals."

"That's not much, is it?"

"Yeah, the performance this year is just average. We threw away our chances in several of the events."

"Hai."

"Do you want to eat something?"

"No, I'm going back to the studio to have a look."

"Oh yes, the swimming finals will be happening in a few days. Get us a few extra tickets."

"Uh, I'll try."

Noon.

At Zhang Ye's studio, everyone was busy working.

When Zhang Ye arrived, Zhang Zuo, smiling, came to him with several documents for him and discussed the work that had been done over the past few days. "Director Zhang, the issue of you tripping the referees has more or less been resolved. The police pretty much leaned toward our side and have already settled it for us. The suspended referees have also returned home and did not make any comments regarding the incident. We were lucky the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games issued that statement this time. That diverted away all of the heat on you and subsequently lightened the impact of the incident."

Zhang Ye browsed through the documents. "Good."

Zhang Zuo pointed at it and said, "This is your popularity score curve over the past few days. Your domestic popularity score has increased by quite a bit again. Although you're still in first place on the A-list rankings, your popularity score has been rising very quickly. This chart over here shows your Asian celebrity ranking, where you've also experienced an increase in your score. We've analyzed the main reason for this to be because of a large number of people around Asia who got to know about you through that incident. Regarding your international ranking, as they only publish data for celebrities who are at least an international C-lister, we can't find out more. But according to our analysis, it is definitely trending up as well. If your popularity in the country and Asia constantly keeps rising, there's no reason why there wouldn't be any changes in the international rankings. But for now, there's no indication of that. In summary, the situation for you now is pretty good overall. Not only did you not get burnt this time, you even increased your visibility on the international scene. I guess we can still consider that a blessing. The only issue is your reputation. I don't think we can really turn that around in the short term."

Zhang Ye laughed and said, "Alright, I got it."

Little Wang also came over. "Director Zhang, these are invitations to collaborate on projects that we've received in the past few days."

"OK, let me have a look at them." Zhang Ye went through them.

Having a team was really very efficient. There was always going to be someone around to help him deal with things like popularity analysis and project negotiations. This saved Zhang Ye a lot of worry and greatly improved his work productivity.

Ha Qiqi came down from upstairs. "What project would you like to take on next?"

"I haven't thought of it yet." Zhang Ye smiled and said, "What do you guys suggest?"

Ha Qiqi and Zhang Zuo gave each other a look.

Ha Qiqi said, "We had a discussion about this, actually. During these two weeks the Olympics are held, anything we try to do will probably end up being insignificant. Nothing can take attention away from the Olympics, after all."

Zhang Zuo said, "Why don't we accept some advertisement campaigns related to the Olympics then? We can earn some money from that and also rub off a little on the Olympics hype."

Zhang Ye threw his hands up and said, "Have you guys been watching any TV lately? The ad campaigns have all gone to the athletes. Their contracts were probably negotiated several months in advance, so do you think that there will be anything left for me? After all, I'm not an athlete, so I'm not really going to have a chance. We should think of something else."

Wu Yi said, "How about producing a new show? That's our rice bowl, after all."

Zhang Ye asked, "What offers do we have?"

Wu Yi said, "Only a few not so popular satellite channels approached us. But after we took a look at their proposals, we didn't find them to be too ideal."

Little Wang giggled and said, "Director Zhang, how about releasing a new song? We can shoot a music video to try for the charts and help increase your popularity. I really like your songs. They're all so good!"

Produce a show?

Shoot a music video?

Hold a concert?

Take on an acting project?

Do an advertisement campaign?

Everyone was throwing out all kinds of ideas onto the table.

But Zhang Ye still did not make a decision. He always had very high standards for the kind of work he would take, so there were more considerations he had to think about. An athlete had a limited sporting lifespan, and their peak when they were in their best physical and competitive state would only last a few years. This was the same for a celebrity too. He always believed that there was a time for everything. If he waited until he was older and missed the opportunity, he wouldn't be able to do those things again even if he wanted to. For example, when he did Ghost Blows Out the Light on radio in the past, the audience were all very receptive to it and all of them only had praise for the program. But if Zhang Ye spent another one or two months doing nothing but telling supernatural ghost stories on radio nowadays, that would obviously not work out and the audience would probably not look forward to it either—this was what it meant by "a time and place for everything." So he always considered every job offer that he received very carefully as he wanted to ensure that he would be able to provide as much variety to the audience as he could give.

So what could he do during this Olympic period?

Or should he wait until the Olympic Games were over to decide?

While he was thinking about it, the doorbell suddenly rang.

Little Wang went to answer the door. "Eh, Teacher Yu?"

The visitor was Zhang Ye's old classmate, and a current host at Central TV Sports Channel, Yu Yingyi.

"Hi." Yu Yingyi waved and smiled.

The studio staff were also very friendly toward her. All of them knew that she was Director Zhang's good friend and classmate from his university days, so they wouldn't treat her like they would treat a client.

Little Wang went to pour some tea for her.

Zhang Ye beckoned for her to take a seat. "What brings you here today?"

Yu Yingyi smiled and said, "I just came to visit my old classmate. Am I not welcome?"

"How could that be? Since I have nothing much to do anyway, why don't we chat over a drink? Beer or Chardonnay? Merlot or whiskey? I have everything here," Zhang Ye said joyfully.

Yu Yingyi rolled her eyes. "Who wants to day drink with you? I'm here for business. I still have commentary to do when I get back in the afternoon. It's the Olympics period. Do you really think that I'm that free?"

Zhang Ye knew that she'd come with an agenda. "Tell me about it then, I'm listening."

Little Wang brought the tea over.

Yu Yingyi was not bothered that the tea was still hot. She brought the teacup up to her mouth and blew at it before drinking. After she put the teacup down, she looked at Zhang Ye. "Didn't you say you have nothing much to do these days?"

Zhang Ye blinked. "Yeah, why?"

Yu Yingyi smiled. "I have an offer, do you want to accept it?"

Zhang Ye chuckled. "Tell me about it first and I'll consider it."

"Look at how careful you're being." Yu Yingyi giggled. "Would I try to harm you? It's definitely something good. Why don't you promise me first and I'll tell you more about it."

Zhang Ye curled his lips. "I can't do that."

Yu Yingyi grumbled, "If you don't promise me first, I won't tell you about it."

Zhang Ye gestured to the outside of the reception room. "Little Wang, please see our guest out."

Yu Yingyi got anxious. "Heh, are you really going to chase me out like this? Alright, alright, I'll tell you."

Zhang Ye smiled but did not say anything.

Yu Yingyi's next words stunned him!

Yu Yingyi looked at him, "Do you want to become an Olympic commentator?"

"Don't joke." Zhang Ye waved her off.

"What do you mean by joking?" Yu Yingyi said, "It's true. Central TV Sports Channel has suddenly decided to recruit an outside host and commentator. Do you want to take the role?"

Zhang Ye was startled. "Are you serious?"

"Why would I lie to you?" Yu Yingyi gave him a look.

Zhang Ye was quite happy. "This sounds like an interesting job, but why did you guys decide to approach me?"

Yu Yingyi said, "Because you're really popular at the moment."

Zhang Ye said, "But my relationship with Central TV is not good."

"I don't care about that. This time, it's Central TV Sports Channel that's inviting you to join us. Whatever fight and disagreements you have with Central TV Department 1 and the station heads have nothing to do with us, right? When you were battling against PeterGo, our department was giving you the most positive of coverage and promoting you throughout the entire event. We don't have any enmity with you and also did not take part in the scolding battle against you with Department 1, right?" Yu Yingyi said.

Zhang Ye shrugged. "I don't remember that."

Yu Yingyi didn't know how to respond.

Zhang Ye looked at her. "Are your guys' viewership ratings doing badly?"

Yu Yingyi became very embarrassed. "How did you know?"

"If the viewership rating goals had been met, how could the Sports Channel possibly risk inviting me to join as a host? You have to know, my reputation has never been good before, and it's even worse at Central TV." Zhang Ye understood the situation very clearly. "Was it due to the gold medal tally being too low in recent days that led to the viewership ratings dropping?"

Yu Yingyi gave a bitter laugh. "Dropping? The viewership rating for our live coverage on the first day was over 40% and even reached a high of 50%. Later on, after the fuss that you kicked up, and with the statement issued by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, a lot of the subsidiary news had stolen away the attention from our coverage. Coupled with the decreased amount of gold medals and Team China performing below average, the viewership ratings plummeted. Do you know what the internal estimates for today's ratings are? The off-peak viewership rating went as low as 25%! And the peak estimate was only 37%!"

Zhang Ye said, "That's not too bad then. A Bite of China and The Voice only managed how much in the nationwide viewership ratings? It's at most 10% of what you guys are getting!"

"But this is the Olympics." Yu Yingyi said angrily, "It's even the Beijing Olympics, so how can you compare it with those reality shows? It would definitely be much higher rated than your shows."

She then took out a contract.

Yu Yingyi pushed it to him. "Have a look at the contract that we prepared for you."

Zhang Ye said with a laugh, "I'm too lazy to flip through all that. Just tell me, what do you guys expect from me?"

Yu Yingyi said, "Nothing much. As long as you're willing to join us, everything can be discussed. What the station wants now is for our channel to increase the ratings. During the commentary, you can freely express yourself as you like as long as it's within certain limits, just don't go beyond the boundaries. We're just about ten days away from the closing ceremony. You'll be paired as my partner, and there might also be retired athletes or coaches joining us for the commentary segments. We'll be in charge of the show every day from 1 to 4 PM. All the other time slots will be handled by the other commentary teams. We won't have to worry about those, so the actual working time isn't really that much on average."

Zhang Ye asked, "Where will we be working from?"

Yu Yingyi said, "At the live coverage studio in the Olympic grounds."

Zhang Ye asked, "When do I start?"

Yu Yingyi said, "Tomorrow."

Zhang Ye nodded. Then he looked through the glass partition and clapped his hands.

Little Wang came into the room and said, "Director Zhang?"

"Get me a pen," Zhang Ye said.

"OK." Little Wang brought one over very quickly.

Zhang Ye lowered his head and signed the contract. Then he pushed it back to Yu Yingyi with a smile. "Is that all?"

Yu Yingyi took the contract. "Aren't you at least going to read it?"

Zhang Ye said, "I trust you well enough, don't I?"

"Alright, I get it. I better hurry back and let them know about this." Yu Yingyi smiled happily and said, "Come over early tomorrow. I'll familiarize you."

Zhang Ye said feeling amused, "Do I really need to be? When I started doing live broadcasts, you hadn't even joined Central TV."

"Whoa." Yu Yingyi quipped, "This young man talks really big. Let's see what you're capable of tomorrow then."

After she left, Zhang Ye also came out of the reception room.

Little Wang had obviously let everyone else know about the contract.

Ha Qiqi quickly asked, "Director Zhang, what's going on?"

"What is that contract about?" Zhang Zuo asked in a startled manner.

Everyone crowded around him.

Zhang Ye calmly explained, "Oh, Central TV Sports Channel has invited me to take part in their live coverage for the Olympics as a host and commentator. I'll be starting work tomorrow."

Everyone screamed excitedly!

Ha Qiqi said in surprise, "What?"

Zhang Zuo said, "Such a good deal exists?"

"This is great, this is great!" Little Wang said joyfully.

Zhang Ye also laughed. "Yeah, so how can I not take this job, right?"

Earlier, he was thinking about what he wanted to do next. But there was no need to think anymore. During the Olympics, nothing would garner more attention than the Olympics itself. The live coverage of the Olympics on Central TV Sports Channel was a show that had the craziest viewership ratings compared to any other show!

He had put in so much work for The Voice, and what was its nationwide viewership ratings? At most 2% or so! At most 2% or so!

He had given so much effort for A Bite of China, and what was its nationwide viewership ratings? At most 3% or so!

But for the live coverage of the Olympics?

The nationwide viewership ratings would easily start off with at least 30% as the base ratings and it could get even higher than that. This was not even comparable to what he had achieved so far, so he definitely had to take this job. Furthermore, he would treat it very seriously and put in the effort to make sure it worked. If he could do well here, it would probably help boost his domestic popularity rankings by a very great deal. Besides, as Zhang Ye had never done any sports commentary before, he really liked the idea of having a fresh challenge. Regarding this point, the citizens were also very receptive to it. It was as though everyone really enjoyed watching Zhang Ye cross over into all the various types of professions!

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Chapter 1175: Zhang Ye commentates the Olympics (Part 1 of 5)

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The next day.

It was the fifth day of the Olympics.

Zhang Ye practically pulled an all-nighter by himself in the studio to research his new role for today. He had listened to commentary for an event from the last Olympics while his desk was littered with all kinds of information, such as the detailed schedules and rules of each event, the referees' judging criteria, the world records for the events, the athletes' best results, the likelihood of someone winning a medal, etc. Zhang Ye had spent the entire night going through the thick stack of information prepared for him by his staff. If one wanted to go on a live broadcast to commentate the Olympics, it wouldn't be possible without a foundation. Zhang Ye knew that he had to at least do some basic research to be ready for it. Since he accepted the job, he wouldn't go into it without making preparations.

The phone rang.

It was his mother. "You didn't come home yesterday night?"

Zhang Ye said: "Ah, I was kept busy at the office."

His mother asked: "Why didn't you call then? Are you coming back later?"

"Probably at night. I have some work to handle during the day." Zhang Ye said with a laugh: "Oh, mom, remember to watch the Olympics live coverage this afternoon at 1. Let Dad know too."

His mother wondered: "What for?"

Zhang Ye said: "Haha, you'll know after watching."

In the morning, the official Weibo of Zhang Ye's Studio also posted an announcement.

@ZhangYeStudio: "Everyone, please remember to catch the live coverage of the Olympics this afternoon at 1 PM. There will be a surprise in store."

The netizens were also unsure of what this meant.

"The Olympics live coverage?"

"What surprise?"

"I don't understand. What do they mean?"

"Are they doing a promotion for the Olympics? I heard that Central TV Sports Channel's viewership ratings these days have dropped a lot. Several key people at Central TV are panicking, and the hosts are also reminding everyone to pay more attention to the developments of the Olympic Games. After all, this is the first time our country is hosting it. It wouldn't look nice if the ratings are too low."

"Ai, that's because our performance this year isn't that good."

"Yeah, I didn't really pay much attention to it."

"I'm still watching. No matter how badly they're performing, I'll support our athletes!"

"I wonder what Zhang Ye's Studio is hinting with that announcement?"

Everyone felt rather confused.

Just before noon.

In the Olympic grounds.

Zhang Ye arrived at Central TV's live coverage studio. The morning's events had ended and there was a short break at noon. The staff were all eating box lunches, with some of them eating and reading their transcripts simultaneously as they prepared for the afternoon's events.

"Yingyi," Zhang Ye greeted.

Yu Yingyi lightly pushed aside her box lunch and looked up. "You're here? Have you eaten?"

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "Not yet."

Yu Yingyi immediately called out, "Get Teacher Zhang some food too."

A staff member quickly brought over a box lunch for him.

"Thanks." Zhang Ye didn't say anything else and immediately pulled over a chair to sit down. Then he began eating with relish.

When a lot of the people in the studio saw Zhang Ye, they gave him several more looks as it was their first time meeting a legendary figure like him.

Yu Yingyi also gave him a look. "You're such a big shot. Why are you still eating box lunches like the rest of us?

Zhang Ye was amused and waved around the box in his hands. "Why can't I eat this? The food provided here is already quite good. Back when I was filming on location for A Bite of China, we didn't even get something like this. We were always freeloading off of the locals, and those millet pancakes were so hard to chew that we couldn't even get them down our throats with water, hur hur. If you think that this box lunch is bad, you guys would probably have starved to death if you went along with us for those shoots."

Yu Yingyi laughed. "I always thought that you led a pampered life."

"Oh, come on." Zhang Ye said with a laugh, "I've only been going through hardship all these years."

At this time, the executives of the Central TV Sports Channel arrived.

One of the executives said pleasantly and cheerfully, "Teacher Zhang, we're depending on you this time."

Zhang Ye held the box lunch in his left hand and extended his right to shake hands with the executive.

Then they had a simple exchange regarding the later work matters.

The executive asked, "Has Little Yu briefed you yet? Are you familiar with the requirements of your role?"

Zhang Ye replied, "More or less."

Another executive said nervously, "Don't take it so lightly, Teacher Zhang. We're depending on you to help increase the viewership ratings. You've never done any sports hosting before, so you'll be lacking much of the foundation." He quickly took out a large stack of documents. "This is an overview of the events taking place this afternoon and the related information. There's a list of who the previous gold medalists were and what the best records for each event are. It's all written in here. Please take a look so that you won't get it wrong later."

Zhang Ye took the documents from him and flipped through them. Then he returned them to him and said, "There's no need for these. I've already memorized all of the information and statistics related to the Olympics."

Yu Yingyi was taken aback. "How did you memorize it?"

"I just did." Zhang Ye said, "In all the time that I've done hosting, I've never needed a script."

The people around also looked at Zhang Ye in disbelief. Everyone in Central TV knew that Zhang Ye had never depended on using scripts before, but this was not exactly like the shows he'd done in the past. This was live coverage for the Olympics, and it involved a great amount of statistics that were just too detailed to be memorized. And then, there were a whole lot of foreign names involved, so who could possibly remember all of that information? Not even a professional sports commentator like Yu Yingyi could do it!

Yu Yingyi asked in distrust, "Who is the world record holder for the Women's Hammer Throw?"

"Irina."

"And the distance?"

"81.05 meters."

"Who had the best result in the Men's Pole Vault this year?"

"Robert, with a height of 6.1 meters."

"In the Women's Balance Beam, who is ranked eleventh in the world?"

"Japanese athlete Toyama Yoko."

Someone quickly went to check in disbelief!

"Eleventh?"

"Who is it?"

"Holy shit!"

"It's really Toyama Yoko!"

Only silence could be heard.

Then, Yu Yingyi cried out, "You've really memorized everything?"

Everyone looked at Zhang Ye like they had seen a ghost. Him memorizing the world record holders or the best results of the year was acceptable. That was because those disciplines were some of the most popular and anticipated events. But how the fuck did he remember so clearly who the world number eleven was in the balance beam? How could this memory of yours be so good!

Zhang Ye simply shrugged and finished up the last bit of his lunch. "What did you think I was doing spending the entire night awake? I am a professional host, so don't doubt the foundations of my professionalism."

Yu Yingyi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "But aren't you being way too professional like this! Does that mean that I'm just an amateur?"

Everyone here was utterly convinced!

The executive gave him a thumbs up. "Professor Zhang is indeed worthy of his reputation. He is indeed the smartest person to come along in a century. I've truly broadened my horizons today. We were still worried that you would be unfamiliar with doing live coverage for sports, but it seems like we were worried for nothing. You're truly such a great professional! Amazing!"

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "Don't say that. I'm just performing my duty so that I can get paid. Since I've already accepted the role, I'll definitely want to do it well. Don't worry about it. If you guys have any suggestions, you can mention them to me as well."

The executive nodded and said, "We might have been covering the Olympics too traditionally, too old-fashioned, too outdated. The expectations of the audience these days are getting higher and higher, so the things they like are different from the past. We've analyzed that other than our country's delegation not performing to their potential, those factors are also part of the reason why the viewership ratings kept dropping. We've invited you this time as we also wish to make some changes and implement some new ideas to the commentary."

Zhang Ye nodded in acknowledgment. "I understand."

By appointing Zhang Ye as an Olympic commentator, the Central TV Sports Channel was taking an enormous risk. They had discussed it for an entire day during their meeting before finally making this decision! This was a very bold attempt, but what would it lead to? Nobody knew!

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Chapter 1176: Zhang Ye commentates the Olympics (Part 2 of 5)

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At noon.

Everything was set up and ready in the live coverage studio.

The professional athlete invited by the Central TV Sports Channel had arrived. It was the former table tennis Grand Slam winner 1 —Bao Han. She had been retired for many years.

"Sister Bao." Yu Yingyi nodded at her.

Bao Han smiled and said, "Teacher Yu."

The two of them had commentated together many times and were very familiar with each other.

But when Bao Han saw that there was another person sitting in the live coverage studio, she was taken aback for a moment. She clearly knew who he was because it was just impossible not to know him. In all of China, who did not know the famous Zhang Ye? But it was obvious that Bao Han had not expected Zhang Ye to be here today. The retired athletes who appeared on the show to provide commentary were usually only participating as guests. Sometimes, it would be her, sometimes it would be other people, and there was also a chance that they would make a last-minute switch. This lineup was often not fixed, so she didn't know about the changes to the internal arrangements of Central TV Sports Channel's commentators and other affairs. It was also likely that Central TV Sports Channel had not informed her beforehand due to the awkwardness surrounding the situation. After all, the table tennis team was the cause of the battle between Zhang Ye and the sports world that had shocked the nation.

Zhang Ye nodded at her.

Yu Yingyi quickly said, "The three of us will be teaming up for today's show."

Bao Han acknowledged her and looked at Zhang Ye.

Zhang Ye looked back at her.

Bao Han smiled and went forward with hand reached out. "Hello, Professor Zhang."

"Hello." Zhang Ye stood up to shake her hand. "There's still about half an hour before we go live. Shall we get to know each other a little first? That will help us work better later."

Bao Han said, "I already know you pretty well."

Zhang Ye was surprised. "Oh, are you?"

"Yes, we have argued on Weibo before," Bao Han said with a smile.

Zhang Ye said, "Ah? Did we?"

Yu Yingyi was taking a sip of water and nearly choked. "Cough, cough!"

Bao Han said helplessly, "Yes, we did. When you declared war on the sports world during the new year, a few hundred of us responded and scolded you back. But as it was, none of us could outscold you at all. That's why I said it's not our first time interacting. You don't even know how aggravated we were over that matter at the time. But we shouldn't bring that up again and just let bygones be bygones. Just for that 'Leg of God' that you 'played' on the first day of the Olympics, we'll write off all the unpleasantness from before. That trip of the referee was such a release! You've scolded us once, but also taken the blame for us once, so that makes us even." Only now that she realized they were in the studio, so she asked, "Ah, the cameras are not recording this, are they?"

The camera operator laughed and said, "No."

Bao Han wasn't good-looking, but her temperament was rather interesting.

Yu Yingyi was really afraid that the two would come to blows, but it looked like she had been worried for nothing.

"Then shall we go through the script together?"

"OK."

The two women exchanged whispers with each other.

Zhang Ye did not take part in the exchange since he did not have any lines.

…

It was almost time.

Zhang Ye's mother turned on the television. "It's starting."

His father said, "What did our son mean by that?"

"Who knows? He only said to watch the Olympic live coverage in the afternoon, that's all," his mother said.

His father nodded. "Then let's just watch it."

…

At Old Yao's house.

Yao Mi shouted, "It's starting, it's starting!"

Yao Jiancai asked, "What's on in the afternoon?"

"Ping pong. It's the women's quarterfinals match," Yao Mi said.

Old Yao's wife said, "Oh, that's not interesting. It's a guaranteed win."

"But we still have to watch it." Yao Mi said, "That's the result everyone is expecting as well. But if no one watches it, then how bad would the viewership ratings for the Beijing Olympics be?"

Yao Jiancai said in amusement, "Alright, let's watch!"

…

Zhang Ye's first uncle's house.

The fall semester hadn't started yet, so the three sisters had gathered here.

"Wow, it's starting."

"Time to watch the Olympics!"

"It's the table tennis event today."

…

Meanwhile.

A lot of others had also turned on their televisions.

Some people were watching the live coverage on their cell phones in the subway.

Some people had secretly launched their web browsers to watch the Olympics at work.

But of course, there were also many others who did not really pay attention to today's events. They did not think that would be any surprises, and since it wasn't the finals yet, there was less attention given to it.

The live coverage began!

After the introductory music played, the cameras cut to the live coverage studio.

Yu Yingyi appeared on screen. "Welcome, everyone, to the Olympics live coverage studio. I am Yu Yingyi, and the women's table tennis quarterfinals match will be starting in five minutes. The match will be between the current world number two, China's Sun Linlin, and the current world number thirteen, Japan's Kaki Aoi."

The opening commentary did not seem any different than before.

But with the following introduction, all of the viewers watching TV burst into an uproar!

Yu Yingyi smiled and said, "First, let us introduce today's guest that everyone should know, Bao Han."

The camera cut to her.

Bao Han waved. "Hello, everyone."

Then Yu Yingyi said, "Next up, we have a new guest commentator who will be joining me to cover the Olympics live from today onwards, the famous host—Zhang Ye."

The camera cut to him.

Zhang Ye's smiling face appeared. "Hello to our viewers and friends."

His mother pointed at the television dumbfounded. "Little Ye!"

His father was stunned. "It's Little Ye!"

His eldest younger sister exclaimed, "Ah!"

His third sister shouted, "It's Brother! Brother's on TV!"

Yao Jiancai said, "What?"

Yao Mi got extremely excited. "Teacher Zhang has become an Olympic commentator?"

Old Yao's wife sat down. "This will be interesting! I'll watch as well!"

Everyone on the Internet went crazy as well!

"How could this be?"

"Damn, did I see that wrong?"

"How did Zhang Ye go and become a commentator?"

"Well, he's already a host to begin with!"

"But this is sports commentary we're talking about. He has no experience in this!"

"Isn't he on very bad terms with the sports world? Why did they invite him onto the show? And he's even going to commentate on table tennis?"

"This looks like it's going to be really interesting!"

"Everyone, quickly come and watch. Zhang Ye is going to commentate for the Olympics, my God!"

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah! It's true! The live coverage is happening right now!"

"No wonder Zhang Ye's Studio sent out a Weibo post like that!"

"Teacher Zhang has a new job!"

"This is a huge job! How surprising!"

"Damn, quickly go and watch!"

"It's starting, it's starting!"

"We must watch it just because Zhang Ye's on it!"

The news spread from there like wildfire.

The media was surprised!

The netizens were surprised!

Everyone was astonished, bewildered, confounded by Zhang Ye's appearance!

A lot of people who weren't intending to watch the afternoon match were now turning on their televisions at the same time. This was the appeal that an A-list celebrity had. Without needing to say anything, just by showing themselves or having their names mentioned, it would be able to attract countless sets of eyeballs. This was one of the reasons why Central TV Sports Channel had taken the risk to invite Zhang Ye to commentate for them. An A-list celebrity like this always meant a high viewership rating! But of course, whether they could hold the viewers' interest and retain them by keeping them watching would have to depend on the ability of the commentator.

The attention that the live coverage was getting soared!

Everyone wanted to see how Zhang Ye's commentary would be different from others'!

In fact, even the staff of the Central TV Sports Channel wanted to know. The few executives and most of the staff along with the camera operators were all eagerly paying attention to the live coverage studio.

The cameras cut to the competition venue.

Yu Yingyi said, "Alright, the match has started."

Bao Han said, "Seems like Sun Linlin's form today will be pretty good."

"Is that so?" Zhang Ye asked.

Bao Han said, "Yes, she looks very excited for today's game, and her body is quite relaxed as well."

Zhang Ye said, "Then let's wait and see."

1-0.

5-0.

7-1.

11-2.

Sun Linlin used just four minutes to take the first game!

It was too fast!

It was too easy!

Yu Yingyi said, "Great showing!"

Bao Han smiled and said, "Sun Linlin's form is in great shape."

Zhang Ye said helplessly, "This is my first time commentating and I was prepared to do this for at least an hour. But why does it look like the match will be decided in 20 minutes?"

Yu Yingyi smiled. "There are practically no opponents who are a match for the Chinese table tennis team nowadays."

But Zhang Ye said, "They definitely still have opponents."

"Eh?" Yu Yingyi was startled. "There are still opponents?"

Japan?

South Korea?

Bao Han also gave Zhang Ye a look as she wondered what he was going to say.

Zhang Ye looked at them curiously and said, "Isn't it quite obvious? The Chinese table tennis team only has one opponent, the ITTF 2 . From the minimum height of the ball toss, to the red and black sides of a racket, then changing the size of the ball, and the change from the 21-point to 11-point scoring system, all of those were introduced to make it more difficult for the Chinese team to win. But it doesn't seem like any of those changes were effective. I wonder what the ITTF will try to pull off next."

Bao Han laughed. "Pfft!"

Yu Yingyi was tickled pink as well.

The home viewers.

"Hahaha!"

"The only opponent they have is the ITTF?"

"I'm cramping up from laughing!"

"As a comedian, this guy is too professional!"

The second game began.

Yu Yingyi said, "Sun Linlin will be serving."

"It's no good, she faulted." Bao Han said, "The quality of this service was not good."

Kaki Aoi scored a point with the return serve.

However, Zhang Ye loudly applauded. "Beautiful!"

Bao Han was floored. "Ah?"

Yu Yingyi asked in surprise, "Teacher Zhang, whose side are you on?"

Zhang Ye said, "Of course I'm with Team China."

"Then why are you applauding and calling it beautiful when the other team scored a point?" Yu Yingyi said in a speechless manner.

Zhang Ye's reply left everyone speechless. "It's exactly because of that that I'm hoping for our Chinese team to drop a few more points. That would give the other countries' athletes the illusion that they have a chance of winning against us. Otherwise, if we keep playing like this, I'll be afraid that table tennis might get removed from future Olympics!"

The camera operator cramped up in laughter!

Bao Han laughed out loud on camera!

The viewers were also roaring with laughter!

"Hahaha!"

"I've got to give it to this fella!"

"What a joker!"

"Is it alright to commentate this way?"

Before long, the match was brought to an end.

Sun Linlin was victorious and raised her racket in celebration!

Bao Han said, "Linlin looks very happy with her performance."

Zhang Ye added, "Yes, but she's actually not feeling happy about it. She's just acting like she is. Otherwise, that would make her opponent look really bad. Sun Linlin is an excellent athlete and knows how to be considerate to her opponent. I guess that's what you'd call Olympic spirit and good sportsmanship. Today, everyone should know of this athlete named Sun Linlin. This act of celebration with her racket in the air is really too touching!"

Bao Han: "…"

Yu Yingyi: "…"

She was truly happy about her performance, alright?

When did she ever mean it the way you described!

Touching? Your sister!

Where the heck are you getting that idea from!

1. A Grand Slam is earned by a player who wins singles crowns at the Olympic Games, World Championships, and World Cup.

2. International Table Tennis Federation

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Chapter 1177: Zhang Ye commentates the Olympics (Part 3 of 5)

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Later that afternoon.

In the table tennis stadium.

Sun Linlin was wiping off her sweat when her teammates and coaches surrounded her.

A teammate said, "Good showing!"

Sun Linlin said confidently, "I just played like I normally would."

The women's team head coach laughed and said, "Linlin, you're going viral!"

Sun Linlin said in a stunned manner, "Huh? How can that be?"

"You're really going viral!" Her teammates also laughed loudly.

"Hah? But it's just the quarterfinals, not the finals!" Sun Linlin was very confused. What did they mean by she was going viral? I've won the championship many times, but I've never gone viral all those times. Table tennis had always been a strong event for China, so winning first place was always expected. The people were so used to it that they didn't really care anymore.

"Check it out online!"

"Go and watch the replay of your match!"

In the players' lounge, Sun Linlin nearly fainted after watching her own match on her teammate's cell phone!

Her teammate said in amusement, "How was it? The viewers were totally tickled by it!"

Sun Linlin said with a wry smile, "Who could have expected that Zhang Ye would go to the live coverage studio and poke fun at me."

Her teammate burst into laughter. "Zhang Ye's commentary was so cool. He stung the ITTF with his sarcastic remarks and praised us so much. About that 'Playing it Up' skit he performed, I've decided that I'll forgive him!" She snatched her cell phone from Sun Linlin. "Haha, I'm going to watch this again. It's so funny!"

…

Several matches featuring the Chinese team's players ended. Although China did not really do well at the World Team Table Tennis Championships, especially the men's team, their dominance in the Men's and Women's Singles was still quite obvious. They hardly needed any effort to win a match.

In the live coverage studio.

Yu Yingyi smiled and said, "Well, we've come to the end of our commentary for today."

Bao Han said, "Here's to next time, viewers and friends."

Zhang Ye said calmly, "Goodbye."

After they were done, other events scheduled for later would be handled by the other commentators.

When the cameras stopped rolling, Yu Yingyi splayed her upper body out on the table, laughing with her head buried in her hands.

When Bao Han saw her laughing, she couldn't hold it in either and started laughing loudly as well. "Professor Zhang, your commentary was too far from routine. You made both me and Teacher Yu laugh on the broadcast!"

Yu Yingyi raised her head. "I did not laugh during the broadcast, alright? I held it in until the end before laughing. Aiyo, I really have to take my hat off to you. I've never heard anyone commentate a sports event like that!"

At this moment, several of the Central TV Sports Channel's executives came over.

"Professor Zhang!"

"Hey, Chief Wang."

"Well done!"

"So I may continue speaking like this in the future?"

"Yes, just do it this way! Although there were some parts that might be a little controversial, the audience responded very well to it!"

"Is that so?"

"Yes, you'll know when you check online!

They had been in the studio all this while and did not even go to the bathroom, so of course they wouldn't have checked out the online reviews.

It wasn't even a matter of the audience responding well anymore!

Other than a minority of the people calling it controversial, the entire country was praising it to the heavens!

The netizens were all Liking it!

"That was so fun to watch!"

"The match was whatever, but the commentary was wonderful!"

"Hahaha, I kept laughing as I watched!"

"Zhang Ye is hilarious!"

"I've never heard anyone commentate like that!"

"Yeah, it really caught my attention!"

"It was clearly going to be a predictable and boring match, but the coverage made it otherwise with Zhang Ye's commentary! That was amazing!"

"I've got to give a Like for this commentary!"

"Having gotten used to those traditional commentaries, this one is a breath of fresh air!"

"Zhang Ye is indeed Zhang Ye. Boring sports commentary can even be entertaining with him around!"

"Central TV Sports Channel has really gotten the right person to do it!"

"I was wondering what the point of getting Zhang Ye to commentate for the Olympics was at first. I always thought that there were only those few ways of presenting such events. But after I watched his commentary, I've realized that I was wrong. Among all the sports hosts and commentators in the country, Zhang Ye's commentary unique to him."

"Will Zhang Ye be a permanent guest commentator for the Olympics?"

"Damn, I must definitely watch it every day then!"

"Yeah, it'll be much more interesting with him commentating!"

"Pfft, the sarcasm about the ITTF was totally on point!"

Ning Lan's Weibo: "Hahahaha, this is the first time I've laughed through an entire table tennis match!"

Xiaodong: "In genuflection of Teacher Zhang!"

Li Xiaoxian: "Teacher Zhang's commentary was really awesome!"

The table tennis national player, Sun Linlin, also posted on Weibo. "@ZhangYe Professor Zhang, I…my celebrations after winning the match were a genuine reflection of my mood. It wasn't an act."

The netizens were all laughing.

"Hahaha!"

"Sun Linlin is almost in tears!"

"Don't explain anymore."

"Linlin, just ignore that fellow. He was doing it on purpose!"

Of course, there were also some voices that disagreed. However, most of those were flooded over by the people!

"It's not good at all!"

"What would the foreigners think if they saw? They'd be scolding us again!"

"Previous poster, you're an idiot!"

"Who cares what the foreigners say!"

"Yeah, this is our domestic live coverage commentary, so of course their opinions would lean towards to the local audience! They definitely would have to side with our people and team. What do you think the other foreign countries are saying in their commentaries? An Australian friend of mine told me that their Australian commentators were all making sarcastic remarks about the Chinese team. Zhang Ye was already pretty mild about it. Did he said anything that crossed the line?"

"I agree! There was literally no fault with Zhang Ye's commentary today!"

The Chinese media also joined in the fun.

"New Commentator for Olympics!"

"Zhang Ye's debut in sports commentary!"

"A fresh style of hosting that leaves all citizens wanting for more!"

"Following The Olympics: A different kind of commentator!"

"Zhang Ye uses practical actions again to prove that he is the most irreplaceable host in the country!"

"Stringing witty lines together, Zhang Ye transforms into a comedian!"

A lot of people were laughing at the headlines.

They even described him as having transformed into a comedian?

This fellow was already a comedian to begin with!

All in all, Zhang Ye's debut commentary for the Olympics received praise from everywhere. Even Yu Yingyi and Sun Linlin managed to rub off his fame a little and increased their popularity score and fame by quite a bit.

In this world, the sports commentary scene had been stuck in the past for too long. It had always lacked the excitement and emotional ups and downs, preferring to stick to the same tried and tested methods of presentation. Whenever the audience caught game coverage, they were only interested in watching the match itself. It didn't matter who the commentator was, so that had already lost its meaning. But this time, Central TV Sports Channel made a bold attempt to change that and it had really caught the eyes of everyone. As everyone watched the match, they could also thoroughly enjoy the wit and humor of the commentator. This clearly increased the watchability the match!

On the same day.

The viewership ratings came out!

When they received the viewership ratings table, wave after wave of cheers and screams rang out from Central TV Sports Channel's office area. It really felt like they were celebrating the Chinese New Year!

The viewership ratings had blown up!

Especially for the afternoon session of the Olympic live coverage, which had received the highest viewership rating!

The data showed that the viewership rating for that time slot had reached an astonishing 44.3%. Remember, the previous day's viewership rating for the Olympics had already dropped to around 30% or so! With just one day's worth of commentary by Zhang Ye, it had pulled many viewers back in front of their televisions. This result and statistic was something that not even the Central TV Sports Channel's executives had expected. This was a result that had practically dumbfounded everyone!

And this was only the beginning!

Could it get any higher?

Could they break another record again?

They were looking forward to it, and the audience was looking forward to hearing Zhang Ye's commentary again the next day!

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Chapter 1178: Zhang Ye commentates the Olympics (Part 4 of 5)

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The next day.

Noon.

The Chinese delegation had won 13 gold medals so far. In the finals of the various events held yesterday night and this morning, the Chinese athletes had performed astonishingly well. Several of the gold medals were expected while a few had come as surprises. The dominance of the Olympic host was finally starting to show. The good results that suddenly started coming over the past two days also stirred up the excitement of the people around the country. Their passion and interest in following the Olympics were now becoming stronger and stronger.

At Zhang Ye's maternal grandma's house.

His grandmother said loudly, "Hurry up and switch on the television."

His grandfather said in annoyance, "It hasn't even started yet."

"It will soon, so just switch it on first. We don't want to miss anything," his grandmother said anxiously.

His mother laughed as she went over to turn the television on and switch it to the Central TV Sports Channel.

His three sisters also gathered around.

"Mengmeng, don't squeeze in here!"

"I wanna sit in front!"

"Aiya, you little rascal."

"It's time for Brother's commentary! I've been waiting a whole day for this!"

"Where are the melon seeds? I want to much on them as I watch."

It was the weekend today and a rare get-together for the family, but everyone was only interested in watching the Olympics.

At Old Yao's house.

Yao Mi got a bunch of her schoolmates from Peking University's Chinese Department to gather at her place.

"It's about to begin."

"Mimi, where's your dad? I want to get his autograph."

"He went out for a commercial appearance. Why would you want his autograph? Let's watch Teacher Zhang's commentary. Did you guys watch his commentary yesterday? Hahahaha, it was really funny!"

"I did, I did!"

"How could we have not watched it? Heehee!"

"Teacher Zhang is really awesome!"

"True, he's our teacher after all!"

"I wonder how Teacher Zhang will commentate today."

All over the country, similar scenes were playing out.

Countless Chinese citizens were waiting in full anticipation for today's events. First, because the events held were the more popular ones, and second, because of Zhang Ye's interesting commentary!

…

The live broadcast began!

The Olympic live coverage started!

It was the finals of the Men's 10m Platform Diving!

Yu Yingyi smiled and said, "Hello, everyone. The competition will be starting soon. Let us first introduce today's guest commentator, my old classmate, Zhang Ye. We also have with us former world champion, Li Yang, who was on the Chinese diving team."

Zhang Ye said, "Hello, everyone."

Li Yang spoke with some stiffness in his voice, "Hello, viewers and friends."

Yu Yingyi said, "In today's competition, a highlight we'll be looking forward to seeing is whether Chen Xing can defend his title. If Chen Xing can win the gold medal, he would achieve the triple crown in this event at the Olympics."

Zhang Ye said rationally, "Actually, everyone has always been too focused on the gold medals. Back when the interest in the Olympics fell, it was due to a lack of gold medal performances by our athletes. However, I feel that it shouldn't be that way. Every one of the athletes present has put in a lot of sweat, blood, and tears to get here. Every medal, every result, every wonderful moment should deserve our applause as well. This is what makes sports so beautiful in the first place."

Li Yang immediately followed with, "That's right. I feel that Professor Zhang's words were well said."

The event began.

The athletes from the various countries gradually arrived to compete for the gold medal in this event!

The Australian athlete committed a huge mistake the moment he came up. After the run-up, he didn't manage to push off the platform properly, which led to him not having enough time to execute his movements. It ended up with him belly flopping!

Sploosh!

The sound of a loud splash!

The water sprayed upwards!

Yu Yingyi said, "Oh, the Australian athlete has made a mistake!"

Li Yang frowned and said, "That shouldn't have happened. It's very rare to make such a rookie mistake in the finals of an event. The Australian athlete does not look like he's in a good form today."

The American athlete was the next to go. Incredibly, he also screwed up his dive!

At the moment of entry into the water, he got careless and sent the water splashing two meters high!

After the American athlete got out of the pool, he shook his head with a very dark expression!

Li Yang said, "What's going on today? Everyone seems like they aren't in form?"

Yu Yingyi also said in surprise, "This is a really rare occurrence that we're witnessing."

Li Yang said, "It's Chen Xing's turn. His first dive will be a standard dive."

Yu Yingyi said, "Good one, that was a perfect dive!"

"That was really good!" Li Yang said, "Chen Xing should be in first place now. His score wouldn't be bad."

Zhang Ye did not interrupt throughout the proceedings. His hosting and commentary style wasn't to just stick in a word or two every now and then. He preferred not to speak unnecessarily. But if he did, he would make sure it was good enough to amaze!

The scores were given!

Yu Yingyi was stunned. "What? Why is it so low?"

Li Yang was also surprised. "What's going on? That score is too low. It's definitely not a score that Chen Xing should get for a dive like that. What's with the judges? Oh, three of the judges have given him a low score. After dropping two of the scores given, one of the low scores were used to calculate the final score. That's why Chen Xing's score is low for his first dive! If this is the case, that would mean Chen Xing is only in third place after the first dive? That's pretty unbelievable!"

They did not know which country those judges were from, but it was obvious that they were trying to lower the Chinese athlete's score!

The netizens started cursing.

"What the heck!"

"Again?"

"What the hell are they doing!"

"Those idiots! Are they blind?"

"It's so obvious that it should be a higher score!"

"Why isn't Teacher Zhang saying anything!"

Yu Yingyi seemingly "knew" what the netizens were thinking. She turned her head to ask, "Professor Zhang, what do you see of this?"

Zhang Ye pondered for a moment before saying, "I'm very touched."

Touched?

You're feeling touched again?

You were touched by the table tennis player's celebrations yesterday too. You're not actually feeling that emotional! Tell me just what there is to feel touched about!

Li Yang said dumbfounded, "How are you touched?"

The home viewers pricked up their ears and concentrated on listening.

Zhang Ye sighed emotionally, "These Olympics have really touched me. I am not touched by those athletes who have tried so hard but failed to win a medal. Instead, I am touched because those judges and referees who are blind in both eyes are determined to carry out their duties!"

Yu Yingyi held her laughter in. "Pfft!"

Li Yang nearly burst out laughing!

The viewers were all startled for a moment before laughing uncontrollably!

"Hahahahaha!"

"Blind in both eyes?"

"Aiyo, fucking hell, this fellow is too sarcastic!"

"Savage! Hahahaha!"

"I'm so tickled!"

"If we're talking about who has the sharpest mouth in the world, I will have to fucking give it to Zhang Ye!"

"He doesn't even have to use any vulgarities when it comes to scolding people!"

Following that, Zhang Ye began a series of face-smacking antics. This fellow had now gotten into the groove of being a commentator. He was getting better and better at it!

Several of the foreign athletes committed mistakes again!

Meanwhile, the Chinese athlete maintained his high standard and performed a perfect execution again for his second dive. This time, the judges finally give a high score as two of the lower scores got dropped!

The third dive.

The fourth dive.

Chen Xing was leading all the way. There was no longer any suspense for the results.

For every mistake that the foreign athletes committed, Zhang Ye let out a loud cheer!

Zhang Ye said, "Watching our Chinese athlete dive is really boring. He doesn't even make a splash when he enters the water. But look at the Australian, South Korean, and American athletes. Every time they go into the water, they're always making waves. This is just like wild pigs crossing the river. It's so fun to watch!"

The netizens.

"Making waves?"

"Wild pigs crossing the river?"

"Hahahahaha!"

"Let me laugh at this for ten minutes please!"

"This guy is too vengeful!"

"I just fucking love this eccentric style of commentary!"

On this day, Zhang Ye once again brought out the various jokes regarding the Olympics from his previous world!

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Chapter 1179: Zhang Ye commentates the Olympics (Part 5 of 5)

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The seventh day of the Olympics.

It was finals of the team table tennis match.

11-4.

11-3.

11-7.

Yu Yingyi called out, "Great one, we're now leading 1-0 in sets played!"

Bao Han was here today as the guest again. "As long as we can continue playing with this momentum, there shouldn't be any problems!"

Yu Yingyi said, "Our national players are still as dependable as always. Their play is so beautiful."

Zhang Ye said, "There are now many foreigners who have demonized our way of playing table tennis. Oh, look! The cameras have cut to a pair of foreigners who seem to be father and son. What do you think they're whispering about?"

Yu Yingyi instinctively replied, "What?"

Zhang Ye said, "That kid must definitely be asking, 'Dad! What kind of sport is table tennis?' To which his father would probably pat him on the head and say, 'Silly kid, table tennis isn't a sport. It's a form of Chinese sorcery."

Yu Yingyi: "…"

Bao Han: "…"

Zhang Ye said, "We always talk about how we can't find 11 players who can play soccer out of 1.3 billion Chinese people. We're really too harsh on them for that. Look at how it is overseas. Out of 6 billion people, they can't even find four people who can play table tennis."

Yu Yingyi held in her laughter. "Pfft!"

Bao Han laughed and said, "That's because our training system is pretty much perfected. All of our current national players were trained from a very young age. Every step they took to get here has been extremely arduous for them. They've been pushed beyond the type of training that normal people are able to handle. That's why they're standing at the top and have the last laugh."

The match was over!

The final score was 3-0 for an easy win!

Yu Yingyi said, "It's over."

"Congratulations to Team China, you've all done well!" Bao Han looked visibly excited.

"It's time for the press conference and the medal presentation ceremony." Yu Yingyi smiled and said, "Congratulations to Team China for standing up to the pressure to once again stand at the summit. We're really happy for them. They should finally be able to get some time off to relax for a bit after this competition."

But Zhang Ye said, "They won't be able to."

Yu Yingyi said, "Eh?"

Zhang Ye replied, "There's still an even more difficult competition that's coming up after this."

Bao Han was taken aback. "There isn't anything else. We're already done with the singles and team events."

"Yeah." Yu Yingyi said, "We've made a clean sweep of the medals at the Olympic table tennis events. What 'more difficult competition' are you talking about?"

Zhang Ye looked at them and said, "After they get back, they still have to fight for the national championship to determine who's the number one."

Yu Yingyi: "…"

Bao Han: "…"

National champion!

So did he mean that the Olympics were just a warm-up match?

However, Zhang Ye's words made sense as well. This left Yu Yingyi and Bao Han unable to refute him!

…

The eighth day of the Olympics.

At the archery arena.

Yu Yingyi said, "What's going on? South Korea has called for an appeal!"

The guest commentator, a former female archer, said, "A reshoot?"

Yu Yingyi said, "They've misfired yet another arrow!"

The former female archer said, "What? They're appealing again?"

Zhang Ye said, "At the archery arena of this year's Olympics, a new event called 'Appeal' has been created. The South Koreans have an absolute chance of becoming the champion!"

Yu Yingyi held back her laughter. "Pfft!"

"Oh God, the Chinese team has won!"

"We won, we're the champions!"

"Unbelievable! The men's archery team has created Olympic history!"

"The team captain, Wu Yun, looks very emotional right now! Oh, he took off his top and undershirt too! He's letting out a roar!"

"The South Korean team is protesting; they've gone to appeal again? Oh, they're complaining about our Chinese team's shirt removal gesture!"

Yu Yingyi and the former archer were speaking one after the other.

Zhang Ye bluntly said, "What's wrong with removing his shirt to celebrate? Can't he get excited? What's there to fuss over? If you guys had won, you'd have taken off your pants!"

Taking off their pants?

Yu Yingyi was floored!

…

On the ninth day of the Olympics.

It was the Men's 10,000m run.

"It has started."

"There's an interesting piece of trivia about this race. We can see that three of the runners on the Canadian team look exactly the same. That's because they're triplets."

Zhang Ye said, "Then we're in danger."

"Why?"

Zhang Ye said, "If the three of them ran a portion of the race each, we'd definitely have no hope of winning."

Yu Yingyi couldn't think of a good reply.

…

The tenth day of the Olympics.

In the stadium of the swimming finals.

Yu Yingyi said, "The cameras are now showing the rest areas. Our Chinese swimmer, Sun Qi, is currently warming up."

Zhang Ye said, "Why is he holding a thing that looks like a wheel? Oh, Sun Qi is going to wreak havoc in the seas 1 ."

Wreak havoc in the seas!

Do you think he is Nezha!

Yu Yingyi said, "Professor Zhang, that's just a warmup apparatus."

Zhang Ye said, "The cameras are now showing the inside of the stadium. Look at that person sitting there with a staff pass hanging around his neck."

Yu Yingyi asked, "Who is that?"

The other commentator said, "That's a lifeguard."

Zhang Ye said, "He looks so lonely sitting there with his chin resting on his hand. I bet he's thinking about his life. 'What's the reason for my existence?'"

Yu Yingyi held in her laughter. "Pfft!"

The race began.

"Go for it!"

"This is so intense!"

"Come on, Team China!"

"We've won!"

"It's a gold medal! A gold medal!"

"Sun Qi, you did well! Nicely done!"

Yu Yingyi and the other commentator got so excited they looked like they were going to jump up from their seats.

Ten minutes later.

The national anthem played. Soon, the medal presentation ceremony was over.

Sun Qi looked very excited as he bit his gold medal. Suddenly, he got off the podium and jogged toward another zone to hug his coach and teammates. Then, on the large screen display, he apparently took something from his teammate. It wasn't clear what it was, but it looked like a small box or something similar. After that, he strode forward, taking long strides.

Yu Yingyi was startled. "What is Sun Qi doing?"

The swimming commentator said, "Eh, over there is?"

The next second, everyone understood what was going on!

They saw Sun Qi walking up to a woman and excitedly putting his gold medal around her neck. Then he got on his knees and took out a little box that opened to reveal a diamond ring!

Yu Yingyi smiled and said, "He's proposing!"

She was the women's swim team's Li Xiaoxiao. In the previous Olympics, she was a bronze medalist in a 400-meter swim. Sun Qi and Li Xiaoxiao's relationship was no secret. Everyone knew that they were together, but no one had expected that Sun Qi would propose to his girlfriend after winning the gold medal. He was even doing this in an Olympic stadium and in the focus of many live broadcast cameras!

Li Xiaoxiao covered her mouth in surprise and started tearing up!

Yu Yingyi was feeling very happy for them. "This is such a heartwarming scene!"

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "Li Xiaoxiao has said yes. Sun Qi is putting the ring on for her!"

"That's great, I wish them all the best!" Yu Yingyi said.

Zhang Ye suddenly said, "Their union has resolved yet another universal question for humanity."

Huh?

Yu Yingyi was taken aback. "What universal question?"

Zhang Ye said, "If his mother and fiancée fall into the sea at the same time, who would he choose to save first."

Yu Yingyi laughed on the broadcast!

The staff and camera operators in the studio also laughed out loud!

When the TV viewers heard that, they laughed until they doubled over!

…

Over the past few days of the Olympics, everyone had been laughed senseless due to Zhang Ye's commentary. A clearly intense competition that was supposed to stoke up the excitement of the people was constantly taken down another path with those random comments by Zhang Ye!

"This is unbearable!"

"Hahahaha!"

"Aiyo, I can't take this anymore!"

"I really have to take my hat off to that mouth of Teacher Zhang's!"

"He's such a jokester! I'm so entertained!"

"This commentary is really on a godly level!"

"I really like Teacher Zhang so much!"

"The Olympics are coming to an end and I'm starting to feel reluctant to see Zhang Ye go. Will they invite Zhang Ye to commentate for other sports and competitions in the future? If Zhang Ye is the commentator, I'll goddamn watch it even if it's for a Chinese soccer match!"

"Right, me too!"

"How awesome! This fellow is always hogging the limelight wherever he goes!"

"He now has another qualification as a sports commentator on his résumé!"

The viewership ratings for the Olympics live coverage was constantly hitting new highs!

44%!

48%!

51%!

Finally, it even reached 54.3%!

Other than the efforts put in by the Chinese Olympic delegation, Zhang Ye would absolutely be able to claim credit for setting such a mythical and legendary viewership rating. He had played the biggest role in making this happen!

The domestic media was full of praise!

"The Chinese delegation has amassed 25 gold medals!"

"Zhang Ye's commentary wins the unanimous approval of the people!"

"Zhang Ye has added a different flavor to the Olympic Games!"

"A national comedian is born!"

"An official of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games expresses: For the next Olympics, I hope to see Zhang Ye take the role of a commentator again!"

"The Olympic live coverage sets a historical record in viewership!"

"Zhang Ye's domestic popularity score soars yet again!"

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Chapter 1180: Zhang Ye's first music video single?

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Several days later.

The Olympics successfully came to an end.

Zhang Ye was also finished with his commentator role after completing his job successfully. On the way back, he was even stopped by several people a few times.

The first one was at a traffic junction. The moment he got there, he was stopped by a female traffic cop.

The female traffic cop kept looking at him. "Teacher Zhang."

Zhang Ye said rather nervously, "Officer, did I violate any traffic rules?"

The female traffic cop said, "Please show me your driving license."

"Here." Zhang Ye quickly took it out and added, "I didn't drink any alcohol."

The female traffic cop held him there for a long time as she spoke to him.

Zhang Ye kept trying to explain, "I really didn't run the red light. If you don't believe me, you can check the traffic cameras. I really didn't do anything wrong."

The female traffic cop was starting to feel a little embarrassed. "I know that. I just recognized your car from a distance and was hoping to get an autograph from you." To someone who managed the traffic as part of their work, Zhang Ye's license plate and car model was clearly not a secret.

Zhang Ye was both floored and amused. "Hai, you should have just said so. You gave me such a fright." Then he happily signed an autograph for her without hesitation.

The female traffic cop was delighted. After Zhang Ye left, she started bragging about it over the police radio.

"I got an autograph from Zhang Ye!"

"Ah? Where?"

"At the junction of Zixin Road."

"Going where?"

"South."

As a result, Zhang Ye was soon stopped again, at the third junction as he went by another female traffic cop who had sped over quickly on her motorbike.

Was it another traffic violation?

Zhang Ye panicked a little as he frantically pulled to the side.

The female traffic cop got off her motorbike and knocked excitedly on the BMW's window.

Zhang Ye rolled down the car window.

The female traffic cop said, "Teacher Zhang, can I have an autograph?"

Zhang Ye was speechless.

This was the scariest way of asking him for an autograph that Zhang Ye had ever come across.

Finally, he was stopped when he arrived at Old Rao's neighborhood.

Before Zhang Ye became famous, he had lived here for some time. Later, his work studio was established here. Many of the neighbors here knew him well.

"Ah, Teacher Zhang!"

"Zhang Ye is back!"

"Little Zhang, are you done with being a commentator?"

"We watched all of the events that you commentated."

"Yeah, it was so damn funny."

"You got even more famous."

"The commentary for the closing ceremony was really good too!"

Zhang Ye gave them a fist and palm salute and said with a smile, "It was all thanks to everyone's support."

Everyone had something to say.

"Of course we'd support you."

"Who else would we support if not you?"

"You're the most well-known person to come from our neighborhood."

"Yeah, you were born as one of us, so you'll die as one of…eh, that doesn't sound right."

With that, everyone laughed happily.

…

Upstairs.

Rao Aimin was not home today and had probably brought Chenchen out somewhere.

Yang Shu wasn't in either and had probably gone off somewhere to distribute pamphlets to spread the name of Taiji Fist.

Thus, Zhang Ye made his way back to the studio where he received a chart depicting the growth of his popularity score both domestically and overseas during the Olympics period. He nodded approvingly as he went through the statistics.

Zhang Zuo said, "This is for the domestic market."

Zhang Ye said, "OK."

Zhang Zuo said, "These are the statistics for Asia."

Zhang Ye said, "Umm, it's quite good."

Ha Qiqi said, "And an indication chart of how well your reputation is right now. All of the statistics have shown a positive growth."

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "Alright, thanks for all the hard work in the past few days."

Ha Qiqi smiled and said, "We didn't do much. All of it was mainly down to your good performance as a commentator."

Zhang Zuo said, "Right, the viewers really approve of it. Even the media and officials have acknowledged your breakthrough contribution to the commentary field. With your social relations in the industry, to have so many people publicly acknowledging it is a very strong affirmation of your work. Anyway, this role of yours as an Olympic commentator has brought a large increase to your popularity. Although you're still quite a distance away from reaching the domestic S-list rankings, the difference is no longer as great as before."

Zhang Ye said in satisfaction, "Let's take it slowly then. We should always learn to walk before we run."

His goal was definitely to aim for a spot on the Chinese S-list celebrity rankings this year. However, Zhang Ye did not expect that he could surmount this obstacle by just relying on the Olympic commentary that he did. That would be wishful thinking on his part.

An Olympic theme song.

An Olympic promotional song.

An Olympic commentary role.

The few jobs he took turned out to be quite good as the results he gained from them were rather impactful. He was quite satisfied with the way things were. As for the remainder of his journey, he would have to take it step by step.

Ha Qiqi asked, "What plans do you have next?"

"What do you guys suggest?" Zhang Ye sought their opinions.

Everyone chipped in with their ideas.

Take an acting project?

Produce a television show?

Film a commercial?

Release a new song?

It was all the same old things.

Zhang Ye thought for a moment, and then said, "Why don't we release a single first? A music video single."

Little Wang clapped her hands in agreement. "Yes, yes, you've never filmed a music video or released a single before."

Zhang Ye was now more keen to try out activities that he had never done before. Doing something different often helped him increase his popularity much faster, and he had benefited from doing it many times in the past. Like for commercials, he had filmed or produced too many of those. If he were to continue doing the same thing, the results it would bring would definitely not be as good as before. This applied to other activities as well. For example, acting in a movie. If you acted well as a daughter-in-law in one, two, or three films, you would probably be more popular than anyone else for such a role and no one would be able to play it better than you. But then, you'd be typecast soon after and your popularity would eventually plateau. This was not what Zhang Ye wanted. What he needed to have was a well-rounded development that could bring him to greater heights. So it was more important for him to keep pushing out new activities that would bring greater novelty and surprise to the audience. If that happened, his popularity would rise faster.

But there weren't any big projects to take on at the moment. And as a singer, he had not even released an album or music video single of his own, so that really did feel rather unacceptable.

Since he would have to release one sooner or later, why not do it now?

Ha Qiqi asked, "What do you need us to do?"

"Which publisher should we work with?" Wu Yi asked.

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "Let's talk about that later. Having worked hard for so many days, let's all take a few days' break and get some good rest. This will also be a good time for me to think about the music video single, but there's no rush for now."

Zhang Zuo said in amusement, "Aren't you able to compose a song as and when you want? Do you even need to think about it?"

Zhang Ye said helplessly, "This will be my first single, so I definitely have to plan carefully and not be too casual about it. Let me give it some thought."

To other celebrities, all they probably wanted was a good song for themselves. They would only need to find a good production team or invite some celebrities to make a guest appearance in their music videos, and then with some packaging and publicity, get their single ready for release and make an attempt on the ranking charts. But Zhang Ye's aim was clearly higher than that. He did not lack any good songs. What he lacked was a medium to project a feeling across to the audience. Besides, a song and a music video were two entirely different concepts. A music video would require the visuals to match the song. This was even more difficult than producing just the song. Whenever he did something, Zhang Ye's character would always dictate that he do it to the best of his abilities. Otherwise, he wouldn't do it at all. At the very least, he would have to be satisfied with his efforts.

What song should he choose?

How should he sing it?

Who would they invite?

All of these had to be planned properly.

Zhang Ye swept his hand out. "Alright then, everyone. Go ahead on your few days of break."

"OK."

"We'll wait for your news then."

"Are you serious about giving us a few days' break?"

"Thank you, Director Zhang."

"I'll stay here and put in overtime then. We cannot leave the office unmanned."

"Alright, Old Wu. Thanks for the hard work."

"Heh, I'm just doing my part for everyone."

Although the studio was recently established, everyone had been old colleagues for many years. All of them had weathered the storm and fought on the same side. So the esprit de corps in the office was very good, and everyone behaved like they were friends.

Zhang Ye walked to the bar and poured himself a glass of wine as he gave some thought to the music video.

At this moment, Dong Shanshan called.

Zhang Ye picked the phone up with a smile and affected: "Hello, Teacher Shanshan."

"Hello, Teacher Zhang." Dong Shanshan laughed and said: "Are you done with your work?"

Zhang Ye said: "Yeah, now that the Olympics have ended, I have nothing left to do. What's the matter? I'm at my studio. Do you want to call Yingyi and the others over for a drink?"

Dong Shanshan said: "Why would you want to drink so early in the morning? I'm calling to check whether you'll be free the day after tomorrow."

"Yes, why?" Zhang Ye asked.

Dong Shanshan smiled. "School will be reopening soon. Many of our classmates talked about wanting to go back to campus to visit the teachers and have a look at the place where we fought our battles and lived our lives."

Zhang Ye immediately said, "I agree with them. It'll be good to do that."

Dong Shanshan said: "We've graduated for several years but have not been back before this because we were too embarrassed that we hadn't found our success yet. But everyone has been working hard for the past two years and have more or less gained some achievements by now. So we came up with the idea of having this class reunion and hopefully gather the people from our class."

"Can you contact everyone?"

"I can only try, although most them have already been notified."

"Alright, I definitely don't have any problems attending the reunion."

"Then it's settled. I'll go and contact the rest now."

"Sure, I'm starting to miss everyone too."

After hanging up, Zhang Ye gulped down the entire glass of wine.

Going back to his alma mater?

Reuniting with his old classmates?

Suddenly, he was quite looking forward to it!

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Chapter 1181: Zhang Ye gets into another fight!

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Saturday.

Morning.

Dong Shanshan purposely called Zhang Ye to remind him.

Dong Shanshan said: "It's time to leave your house."

Zhang Ye replied: "I know, it's the class reunion, right?"

"I was just afraid that you would forget about it. Alright then."

"I'll be right there."

"See you at the old teaching area, the place where we used to attend classes."

"Got it."

After hanging up, Zhang Ye brushed his teeth and washed his face. Then he got changed.

His mother said, "You're wearing that?"

Zhang Ye laughed and said, "What do you expect me to wear?"

"I've already found something for you." His mother took out a suit.

Zhang Ye sighed, "I'm only going there to visit my teachers and old classmates. It's not like I'm taking part in the school reopening ceremony, so why would I wear something that grand? Whatever, I'm leaving."

…

At 9 in the morning.

At the main entrance of Media College.

It was not the first day of school yet as official classes would begin a few days later. But there were quite a number of students starting to return back to school from their hometowns. Students with their luggage could be seen all around. They would break out into chatter and jokes whenever they bumped into fellow classmates along the way.

"Where did you go for the summer holidays?"

"I went on an overseas trip, what about you?"

"I stayed at home and watched the Olympics."

"I watched it too!"

"Eh, why did they cordon off the main entrance with security tape?"

"Are we not allowed to enter?"

"There's a film crew shooting, so we have to wait."

"Eh? What are they filming?"

"I think it's a movie. I saw Ning Lan just now."

"Wow, where is she? Where is she?"

"We can't go in through the main entrance. Let's take the rear entrance."

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Many of the students were stopped at the main entrance. They waited there for some time and were joined by more and more students who had just returned to school. All of them stood there glassy-eyed as they waited to be allowed back into the school. There was hardly anyone who would choose to go by the rear entrance as Media College had a pretty large campus. The main entrance and rear entrance were basically at opposite ends of the school, so getting there would take at least 25 minutes. Further, most of the students were lugging around large and small bags filled with their belongings.

On the opposite side of the road.

Yu Yingyi was walking over with a young man.

All of a sudden, a car pulled up beside them. The car window came down to reveal Zhang Ye in a pair of sunglasses. "Old Wang?"

Yu Yingyi looked over and said to Old Wang, "See, speak of the devil."

"Zhang Ye!" Old Wang pointed at him and laughed loudly.

Zhang Ye got out of the car and said, "Where have you been for the past two years?"

Old Wang smiled and said, "Just getting by and supporting my family."

Old Wang was also classmates with Zhang Ye and the others. Back then, his older looks earned him the nickname of Old Wang among their classmates. After calling him that for so many years, Zhang Ye had forgotten his real name.

Another person headed toward them.

"Yo, who's this we have here?" A rather pretty woman walked over gracefully.

Yu Yingyi said in surprise, "Aiyo, Xiaoqian."

Xiaoqian waved at them. "Yingyi, Zhang Ye, Old Wang, long time no see."

Old Wang had wooed Xiaoqian back when they were still attending university. When he saw her, his eyes immediately lit up. "Xiaoqian, you totally disappeared after our graduation. What have you been busy with?"

But Yu Yingyi, who had been in contact with her, said, "What does she have to be busy with? She's leading the tai tai 1 life now. After graduation, she worked as a broadcast host for half a year before marrying into a rich family."

"What rich family?" Xiaoqian said helplessly, "Don't talk nonsense, alright? I'm now a full-time housewife taking care of my children every day. It's driving me crazy. See, when I heard that there will be a class reunion, I agreed to it immediately." Then she gave Zhang Ye a long look before saying, "Nice, you've become handsome."

Zhang Ye chuckled and said, "But of course."

Old Wang belly laughed. "He's far more than just handsome. Our Boss Zhang is flourishing now that he's gained a place in the Asian scene."

Xiaoqian was overcome by emotion. "Yeah, who'd have thought that the fellow who was last in our class would turn the entire entertainment industry upside down in these past two years. Honestly, if you had asked me who would be able to make it amongst those of us in our class, I would have thought that it would be Shanshan, Wang He, or maybe even you, Old Wang. But as for Zhang Ye…I wouldn't have freaking believed it at all." She went over and pinched his arm and touched his face. "Just what steroids are you on?"

Having not met up in several years, everyone was teasing each other the moment they met again.

Suddenly, a barrage of scolding voices came from the school entrance!

Zhang Ye looked over, "Eh?"

Xiaoqian and Old Wang also looked over. "What's the matter?"

"They're doing some filming over there?" Yu Yingyi said.

There were two students over there who seemed to have taken some pictures with their phones. As a result, a staff member from the film crew went over and pointed at them while berating, "What are you all doing? Can't you see what's written on the sign? No photography!"

One of the female students meekly said, "We didn't take any pictures."

"Hand over your phones!" the film crew staff member said with a dark look.

A middle-aged woman from the film crew added, "Don't stand around here watching. Look away, we're filming right now."

It looked like the cameras had stopped rolling over there.

Ning Lan was seated in the break area.

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The director and several of the main cast members looked like they were discussing their script.

When a few of the students saw that, they grabbed their luggage and prepared to enter the school gate.

The same person from the film crew immediately pointed at them and gave them a hard look. "What are you all doing! We're filming, can't you tell! All of you, wait there! Who allowed you to come in!"

A student said, "But didn't the cameras stop rolling?"

"Who told you that? Are you the director?" The film crew staff member was speaking very rudely.

Another student pointed at the school and said, "But the director and actors are resting. We've been waiting here for an hour."

A person from the film crew who looked to be the assistant director came over at this time. He shouted, "Go around to the rear entrance and stop crowding around here watching! Use the rear entrance!"

"But our dorms are right in the front."

"The rear entrance is too far away."

"You've stopped filming, so why can't we go in?"

"How can you be so rude?"

"We're just trying to return to school, is there anything wrong with that?"

"Yeah, we've been waiting for an hour too."

The students were all muttering now.

Some of the parents who had sent their children back to school also started pointing at them.

The assistant director said loudly, "I'll repeat this again! We're filming right now. No unauthorized personnel will be allowed in. Don't you know how to follow the rules? It's not like there's only one entrance to the school!"

The students and their parents were very unhappy about this!

At this moment, Zhang Ye and his classmates walked over!

From within the crowd, Zhang Ye's voice resounded, "Just go in this way! Let's see who tries to stop us!"

Yu Yingyi was startled!

Xiaoqian hurriedly tried to pull him back but was unsuccessful in doing so!

The Media College students were all startled and turned around to have a look!

The students' parents also looked over in shock!

The film crew's assistant director and staff member were angered. Who's that? Who's so audacious? They immediately looked around to see who shouted. Then they were stunned!

A distance away.

Ning Lan, who was seated under a sunshade, narrowed her eyes.

The male lead of the film, a B-list celebrity named Zeng Wei, frowned. "Why are they arguing over there?"

The female supporting actress looked over to the school gate. "Whose voice was that? It sounds so aggressive? How dare someone try to trespass into the filming location. Who do they think they are?"

Ning Lan blinked. "I have an ominous feeling about this."

Zeng Wei was taken aback. "Sister Ning, what's the matter?"

Ning Lan said helplessly, "That voice, why does it sound so familiar?"

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Chapter 1182: The two extremes of the entertainment industry!

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At the main entrance of Media College.

Many of the students were surprised.

"Zhang Ye!"

"It's Professor Zhang!"

"Our senior is here!"

"Senior!"

"Hi, senior!"

Many of the students were referring to him affectionately as their "senior." Zhang Ye could be considered the most famous figure to have graduated from Media College. Many of the teachers would often bring him up during their lessons as an example to motivate everyone. Um, but of course, there were also times when they used him as an example of how not to behave.

That assistant director came up to him. "Teacher Zhang, what's the meaning of this?"

Zhang Ye nudged his chin out in defiance, "And what's the meaning of you blocking everyone from entering?"

"We're in the middle of filming a movie," the assistant director justified.

Zhang Ye said, "If you want to film, do it to the side! Why are you blocking the entrance!"

The assistant director pointed to the other side and said, "This scene will include a shot using this as the background, so we cannot have anyone standing around here. What if the scene gets messed up?"

Zhang Ye said loudly, "I don't care about that! You find a way to handle it yourselves!"

The assistant director was enraged. "How can you be so unreasonable?"

Zhang Ye pointed at the students and said, "The students have just returned to school with their luggage and are standing at the school gates waiting to enter, yet you people are here stopping them from going in. So who are the ones being unreasonable here!"

The assistant director said furiously, "We're filming here and have already informed the school!"

Another person from the film crew came up saying, "We're not finished filming the scene yet, so we can't have anyone standing around over here!"

Zhang Ye said, "What's the big deal with your filming? This is Media College, a place for students to attend classes. Don't come here and disrupt the students' daily lives. You can film all you want, but how can you block the entrance and not allow the students of the school to enter? Do you think your film crew is that big a deal!? You're even trampling on the people who rightfully belong here?"

The students also started shouting!

"Right!"

"What's the big deal about your shoot?"

"Coming up to us with that arrogant tone of yours, are you people trying to bully us!"

"We're just trying to return to school, is there anything wrong with that?"

"They even wanted to take away the students' phones just now!"

"Hmph, stop acting all smug!"

That assistant director said, "If you all have anything that you're unhappy with, get the school authorities to talk to me!"

Zhang Ye said, "I am the school authority!"

Zhang Ye: Associate Professor of the School of Broadcast Hosting at Media College.

The assistant director choked on his words, but firmly got out, "Professor Zhang, this is a movie funded by Taiqi Films. We're on a tight schedule and tight on time, you…"

Taiqi Films, the largest film and television company in the country!

Just this name alone was enough to cause anyone in the entire entertainment industry to cower!

And yet, Zhang Ye pulled away the cordoning tape that the film crew had put up. "I don't fucking care whose movie this is!" Then he said to the students, "Just go in through here!"

The students and their parents rowdily entered!

"Oh!"

"Let's go!"

"We can finally go in."

Two of the film crew's staff were infuriated. They went over and tried to prevent the students from entering!

At this moment, the Leg of God appeared again!

When Zhang Ye's outstretched leg came out, the two staff members immediately staggered and fell flat onto the ground!

"Little Li!"

"Little Zhou!"

"How can you hit them?"

The film crew's staff were having none of it. Over twenty people ran over!

But Zhang Ye did not look bothered. He pointed at the gate and yelled, "Keep coming in! Let me see who dares to block anyone from doing so!"

The school authorities had been alerted as well. Quite a number of teachers came rushing over to the entrance.

"What's this?"

"Professor Zhang, what's going on here?"

"Aiyo, why is there fighting?"

From their rest area, the film's main cast finally came over.

Ning Lan shouted, "All of you, stop!"

A person from the film crew said, "Sister Ning, he's pushing it too far!"

"How can we continue filming?" the assistant director said angrily.

Ning Lan looked at Zhang Ye speechlessly. The two of them were very familiar with each other and also on very good terms in private. "Zhang'er, give me some face, will you? We should be done after two more scenes. It won't take more than ten minutes. I'll speak to the students afterwards and apologize for inconveniencing them, alright?"

But Zhang Ye said, "Not even for a minute. Now's the peak period for students returning to school. What's the meaning of blocking the way into the school like this? Sister Ning, it's not that I'm not giving you face. But just based on those people's attitudes, I will not budge for anyone!" He pointed at the assistant director and said, "Do you guys want to leave by yourselves or would you rather that I show you all out?"

"Heh, did you wake up on the wrong side of bed?"

"Yes!"

"Why are you shouting at me?"

Several of the Media College teachers who learned about the situation complained as well. "They're blocking the way just because of their filming? They even yelled at the students?" And so, the teachers did not feel that Zhang Ye had done anything wrong this time.

A parent said, "Those people were really threatening just now!"

Another parent harrumphed, "They have no manners at all!"

The accusations were getting louder and louder as the film crew started coming under pressure!

Finally, their director said, "Let's go."

"Director!"

"This…"

"We're stopping the shoot already?"

The film crew's staff were all asking questions.

The director said with a sunken expression, "How can we continue filming with things like this?"

Giving in to the pressure, the film crew finally packed up and left. The pressure from the students and school authorities was only secondary. The main cause was actually Zhang Ye. He was known to be a really stubborn and difficult person to deal with. He did not even give any face to Ning Lan. When Zhang Ye flared up, he really did not care about who was on the other side.

When the film crew left, the students broke out into cheers!

"We can finally go in!"

"Thank you, senior!"

"Senior, thanks!"

"You were really fearsome!"

"Your voice is so domineering!"

The students had endless admiration for him. This was really a case of seeing is believing! They'd only heard stories of Zhang Ye doing amazing things. But when they finally witnessed Zhang Ye getting mad in person, the feeling they got was totally different from hearing those stories. Professor Zhang's domineering image was so satisfying to see!

Taiqi Films.

A famous director.

Ning Lan as the lead actress.

All of those names were quite famous!

Not just anyone would dare to step forward to speak up for the students like this!

Old Wang was dumbfounded!

Xiaoqian didn't know how to react. She turned to ask Yu Yingyi, "Is he always like that?"

"He's always like this." Yu Yingyi said helplessly, "It's not like you've never read about his news these past few years. He's always getting into fights with people. Today's situation is one of the better ones since they didn't actually come to blows."

Xiaoqian said, "I guess I now understand why people are so easily offended by him. I just wonder why he can do so well in the entertainment circle with that temper of his."

Yu Yingyi gave a wry smile. "I wish I knew too."

Zhang Ye had just come back to the group after handling the problem. He answered the question with the most pretentious of statements, "Because of justice!"

Old Wang rolled his eyes. "Oh, come on!"

Di di di.

Di di di.

The notifications from his chat app kept sounding.

Zhang Ye took out his cell phone and had a look. There were a lot of notifications from the Goof Group chat in which Ning Lan was chiding Zhang Ye.

Ning Lan: "This fellow is driving me to my grave!"

Ning Lan: "Disloyal friend! How can he turn on me just like that!"

Ning Lan: "@ZhangYe! Show yourself!"

Huo Dongfang sent a smiley face. "What's with the two of you?"

Xiaodong blinked. "What's the matter, Sister Ning?"

Fan Wenli: "Pass the popcorn."

Amy: "I'm just gonna sit here and watch."

Ning Lan sent a flood of messages describing Zhang Ye's "crimes" in detail.

Finally, Zhang Ye appeared. He sent a silly and adorable sticker of a kitten repeatedly blinking its eyes.

Ning Lan was somewhat amused even in her anger. "You dare show yourself? And act cute?"

Zhang Ye sent another similar sticker.

Ning Lan replied with an enraged emote.

Zhang Ye sent an innocent-looking cat sticker.

Ning Lan replied with a gif of someone getting beaten up.

The two of them started resorting to arguing with these stickers. It amused the other celebrities in the chat group when they realized that the argument between these two wasn't going to go out of hand after all.

For those who did not understand them, they might have thought that these two had really fallen out. But anyone who knew better would know that the two of them would never fall out over a small matter like this. After all, it was Zhang Ye who went by himself to rescue Ning Lan when her film crew was surrounded by a group of martial artists and stopped from leaving.

However, Zhang Ye would definitely have offended all of the others in the film crew. Hai, since this was not the first time it had happened, everyone had gotten used to it.

In the entertainment industry, there were two extremes.

The first extreme was Zhang Yuanqi's friends. She had the greatest network of friends in the entertainment circle!

The other extreme was Zhang Ye's foes. He also had the greatest number of enemies in the entertainment circle!

These two extremes would probably not be surpassed by anyone within the next ten years!

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Chapter 1183: A song called 'To Youth'

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In the school.

In a garden near the old teaching area.

When Zhang Ye, Yu Yingyi and the others arrived, they saw many familiar faces around. Zhang Ye could recognize some of them immediately but was unable to recognize most of the others. A few years was not that long to speak of, but neither was it a short time. However, that was more than enough to change a person on the inside and the outside.

Zhang Ye greeted them from afar, "Fellas!"

"Zhang'er!"

"Aiyo, here comes our big star!"

"Yu'er is here too!"

"Xiaoqian!"

"Ah, Old Wang!"

"I've missed all of you so much!"

"Haha, He Kui!"

"Whoa, Wang He, didn't you go back to your hometown?"

"I came back long ago. I'm back to hosting again."

"Ah? Didn't you offend someone in the past?"

"Zhang Ye found someone to help me resolve that issue."

"Good, that's really great!"

"Old Zhou, how did you put on so much weight?"

"Hehe, the pressures of life did me in."

"You're under so much stress and still eating that much? I nearly couldn't recognize you!"

Since Wang He, Ma Xufei, He Kui, Yu Yingyi, Dong Shanshan, and Zhang Ye had often been attending parties held at Dong Shanshan's villa, there was nothing much to catch up on between them. As for the remaining old classmates they had lost contact with for "many" years and not seen for a long time, they were naturally more excited to see each other again. Everyone hugged one another the moment they met. Some of them put their arms around one another's shoulders and started chatting, while others who had misunderstandings in the past laughed when they saw each other as they thought back to those petty grudges they held when they were still in school.

Zhang Ye was also very excited. After hugging one person, he hugged another. "Liu'er, you're looking as spirited as ever!"

Liu Tie laughed heartily. "I'm not as spirited as you are. I've been reading a lot about you in the newspapers, getting into fights with people. Why are you still so hot-headed like when we were still in university?"

"I abhor evil, can't help it." Zhang Ye laughed.

Ma Xufei asked, "Oh yeah, what just happened at the main entrance?"

"Yeah, it sounded like there was a disturbance over there." Wang He asked, "Was there a fight?"

He Kui said, "I heard it too. Wasn't a film crew doing a shoot over there? Are there fight scenes in 'A Youthful Campus'? Why didn't I hear about them?"

At this moment, Dong Shanshan walked over from afar.

"Wow!"

"Goddess!"

"The school belle is here!"

"Shanshan!"

During their school days, Dong Shanshan was one of the leading figures of the school. It was the same even after their graduation.

Seeing how the guys were all rushing up to welcome her, Yu Yingyi and Xiaoqian jokingly scolded, "Bunch of rascals, all dazed at the sight of a beauty!"

Liu Tie asked, "Are they still filming at the main entrance?"

Dong Shanshan was wearing an especially eye-catching dress today. She laughed and said, "How could they still be filming? The film crew has been chased away by someone's scolding."

Wang He was startled, "Ah? Why's that?"

Dong Shanshan said, "I think it was because they were blocking the main entrance."

He Kui said in surprise, "Damn, who would dare to chase them away?"

"Ning Lan is part of that film crew, and they're headed by a big name director too." Ma Xufei said dumbfounded, "Who's crazy enough to chase them away with their scolding?"

Dong Shanshan gestured with her chin, then laughed and said, "Who else do you all think has the balls to do so?"

Yu Yingyi and Xiaoqian covered their mouths and laughed nonstop while looking at Zhang Ye.

It was only then that everyone realized!

"Holy fuck!"

"Zhang'er, you scolded them away?"

"Did you have gunpowder for breakfast before coming over?"

"Dude!"

"Hahahaha, awesome!"

"If I knew that something like this had happened, I would have gone to take a look!"

"I missed the show!"

"I've already experienced for myself Zhang'er's temper. He's still as domineering as before!"

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "Oh, come on, stop bringing that up. I've been offending more and more people lately. I don't even know what might happen to me in the future."

Liu Tie said, "They even dared to block people from entering through the main entrance, so I don't think you were wrong in scolding them away. Ai, the students these days are really too meek. If we had been stopped from entering during our time, us bros would fought against them!"

Ma Xufei cut him off. "Stop boasting, will ya?"

Liu Tie said, "How am I boasting? When the people from the Education Commission sat in and observed our classes in our second year, they kept criticizing our class adviser for no good reason. Who was it that took water balloons from the dorms and pelted them?"

Wang He said, "Holy shit, that was you?"

Dong Shanshan laughed and said, "Oh, that unresolved case from all those years ago?"

Liu Tie coughed. "Well, about that, I only filled the balloons up with water."

"Then who threw it at them?" Everyone was getting curious. This event caused such a sensation at the time.

Liu Tie pointed his chin to the person next to him. "That would definitely have to be someone as stupidly brave as Zhang Ye. Who would dare to do that other than him?"

Zhang Ye gave a dry laugh. "Well, we were young and impulsive."

Xiaoqian rolled her eyes. "You again?"

Yu Yingyi laughed loudly. "We've finally cracked the case. You're lucky no one found out at the time. Otherwise, you two would probably not have graduated."

The group started chatting and reminiscing.

The cool breeze felt good.

And the ground was sprinkled with fallen leaves.

"Back then, we were really happy."

"The gossip of whoever got together with whoever was enough to keep us entertained for an entire day."

"This path feels really familiar."

"How can it be unfamiliar? The last time we saw each other after taking our graduation photos and before going our separate ways was right on this path. I remember clearly that it was the evening and the sun was almost setting. The sunset that day was an especially beautiful one too."

"Yeah."

"I'll never forget that day either."

"What a pity that not all of us are here. We've only managed to gather this many of us."

Many of them fell silent.

Zhang Ye asked, "Where's Li Lian?"

Xiaoqian hesitated for a moment. "She's divorced and uncontactable."

Ma Xufei asked, "What about Orange?

Old Wang paused for a brief moment before saying, "Orange was arrested for embezzling public funds. It was a pretty large amount, so I doubt he'll be released anytime soon. When I went to visit him at the beginning of the year, half his hair had gone grey." He stopped talking.

Zhang Ye said in surprise, "How can that be!"

Old Wang said, "Shit happens."

Dong Shanshan said, "Is anyone in contact with Little Qiu?"

No one spoke.

Yu Yingyi looked at Liu Tie. "Didn't you attend high school with Sister Qiu? You two should still be in contact, right?"

Liu Tie pondered for a second. "She won't let me tell anyone."

"Just what is it?" Dong Shanshan probed.

Liu Tie finally said, "Little Qiu…she was in an accident several years ago that broke both her legs. Her husband is pretty good to her and has been taking care of her for the past two years."

Xiaoqian covered her mouth as her eyes reddened. "How can that be!"

Dong Shanshan said dumbfoundedly, "Little Qiu and I learned dancing together. She's always fond of moving around and would drag me to the field to practice our foundations. We even promised each other that we would perform together in the future on the largest stage in the country…."

Liu Tie said, "She…can't dance anymore."

Zhang Ye bent over and picked up a leaf from the ground. He brought it to his mouth and started blowing on it a few times. But he didn't create any music with it. "Sister Qiu taught me how to play music with a leaf and wanted me to play something while she danced to it. But I was really stupid at the time and couldn't do it even after practicing for a long time."

Xiaoqian wiped away her tears.

There was silence.

Suddenly, some giggles coming from around them.

A group of teenage boys and girls appeared with a number of musical instruments and placed them at the bottom of the stairs.

"Let's keep moving our stuff."

"I'm so looking forward to commencement."

"Me too, heehee."

The teens went back upstairs.

Zhang Ye clutched the leaf and somehow walked over. He placed the leaf he couldn't play onto the stone table and looked at it for a short while. Then he turned around and sat down on the steps. He took one of the acoustic guitars the teens had just put down and suddenly started strumming.

Dong Shanshan looked over.

Liu Tie looked over.

Their twenty-odd old classmates also looked at him.

Zhang Ye closed his eyes and a song drifted out.

"Perhaps we won't see it again.

"That golden sky where we bid farewell.

"Some people are destined to never meet again.

"Those once green and young faces.

"I pick up a windmill palm's frond.

"And place it on the natural slate rock.

"In memory of the youth that has passed by

"And the innocent promises of which we talked."

Yu Yingyi's hands trembled. She could not control herself all of a sudden and went over to pick up a violin from a case lying on the floor while holding back her tears. Then she started playing it gently!

Wang He also went over and grabbed the wind chimes!

Xiaoqian sniffed!

"The wind now sings.

"Singing a song of the places it's been to.

"In the darkness,

"a flower blossoms for you.

"The moment you turn around,

"a smile beautiful as the sunset's crown.

"It once blossomed in the spring of our youth."

The clumsy playing of the wind chimes.

The out of tune violin playing.

The teens came running back downstairs when they heard the music. Who? Who touched our instruments? Those are meant for our performance tomorrow! But when they came downstairs in anger, they were stunned by what they saw. Or rather, they were in shock!

Dong Shanshan, wearing a red dress was moving around in the wind!

Stepping around, she held her dress with one hand and broke into a dance!

Zhang Ye's voice was full of sorrow.

"Perhaps we won't see it again.

"That golden sky where we bid farewell.

"Some people are destined to never meet again.

"Those once green and young faces.

"I pick up a windmill palm's frond.

"And place it on natural slate rock.

"In memory of the youth that has passed by

"And the innocent promises of which we talked."

The red dress was swirling!

Dong Shanshan danced faster and faster!

This sorrowful beauty deeply moved the teens!

"The wind now sings.

"Singing a song of the places it's been to.

"In the darkness,

"a flower blossoms for you.

"The moment you turn around,

"a smile beautiful as the sunset's crown.

"It once blossomed in the spring of our youth."

Dong Shanshan was crying as she danced. She could feel herself becoming one with the song!

"Mmmmm…

"Mmmmm…

"The youth that has passed.

"The innocent promises that we made."

Yu Yingyi was crying!

Xiaoqian was crying!

The song " To Youth 1 " had left them sobbing uncontrollably!

1. To Youth - https/youtu.be/W8SzvYfn1bU

Chapter 1184: Shooting the music video together!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

The song came to an end.

But the melody still seemed to be reverberating through the air.

Dong Shanshan stopped dancing. "What's this song called?"

Zhang Ye said, "To Youth."

Dong Shanshan nodded. "That's a good title."

This was a song of Han Hong's, and it was written and composed by Leng Wanwan. Back in Zhang Ye's previous world, this song was very popular and sung by a lot of people. However, perhaps due to a lack of promotion, this song didn't manage to become a classic. However, Zhang Ye still liked it very much. To him, the song "To Youth" could be considered one of his few favorite songs from his previous world. And carried by today's emotions, he finally brought this song to this world.

The teens nearby were all visibly moved and finally came back to their senses.

"Ah!"

"Zhang Ye!"

"Dong Shanshan!"

"Yu Yingyi!"

They got recognized!

It was only then that Zhang Ye and the others realized there were others around.

Zhang Ye smiled as he returned the guitar to them. "Sorry about that, I was just borrowing your instrument for a bit."

Yu Yingyi also returned the violin to them and said gently, "Thank you."

One of the girls waved it off. "Alumni, you don't have to stand on ceremony."

One of the boys said in admiration, "Just use them as you please, it's fine."

"Alum, how do you sing so well!"

"Yeah, I was crying listening to it."

"Alumna Shanshan, you danced really well!"

"This is unbelievable! Truly unbelievable!"

The sophomores were talking excitedly.

Zhang Ye said, "It's all credit to Shanshan's dancing and Yingyi playing the strings so well."

Yu Yingyi who was still immersed in the sadness of the song was a little annoyed by Zhang Ye's words. "What do you mean playing the strings? It's called a violin, alright? But I have to say that I'm no professional. I only learned it for two years in school. I'm just an amateur, so it was lucky that I didn't ruin the song."

But Zhang Ye said, "You really played great."

Yu Yingyi sighed, "I just went with the flow."

A girl admired, "All of you were amazing!"

After the students moved everything away, Wang He sighed, "This song is basically about us. I really fucking miss our buddies we might never see again!"

Liu Tie said, "Thanks, Zhang'er. You even wrote all of us a song for remembrance."

Dong Shanshan said, "How I wish Little Qiu could hear this as well."

Zhang Ye suddenly said, "She will."

Xiaoqian asked, "Are you going to release this song?"

Zhang Ye said, "Of course. Not only am I going to release it, I even want to shoot a music video for it. I've been thinking of releasing a music video for a new single for the past two days, but I couldn't come up with anything at all. But I've decided now."

Ma Xufei said, "That's great!"

Old Wang said, "You must release this!"

Xiaoqian said, "We'll be waiting to listen to the official version!"

However, Zhang Ye said, "There won't be an official version."

Wang He was taken aback. "But why?"

"The way we it sang today is more or less the official version," Zhang Ye said with a laugh. "So I will need everyone's help. Let's do this together and release that music video."

Xiaoqian asked, "You want us to be in it?"

Zhang Ye said, "Yes. Shanshan will dance, Yingyi will play the strings, Wang He will chip in with the chimes, and everyone else will have their parts as well. All of us must be in it."

Xiaoqian said, "Are you sure we'll be able to do this?"

Yu Yingyi found it both funny and embarrassing. "With my amateur playing, embarrassing myself in front of our classmates is OK. But now, you want me to play the violin in your music video too? Aren't you afraid of getting scolded by others?"

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "It's exactly our group that I want in the music video. If I invited a group of professionals, the song wouldn't be about our youth anymore, would it? It's exactly because this is our school and we're at this place with our group that it's going to work. I'll go back and get the team ready. Then we can shoot the music video here tomorrow. What do you guys say?"

"Hell, what do you think?"

"Come on then, let's do it!"

"Would we be afraid of you?"

"What's there to be scared of!"

"With your reputation, we might even be able to have some of your fame rub off on us and get recognized in public."

"Yeah, let's make use of your reputation to gain some fame."

Everyone agreed instantly!

Dong Shanshan said, "Then let me go and improve on the dance a little."

Zhang Ye quickly said, "No, you mustn't. Just dance like you did today."

"But I was just randomly dancing, I didn't even know how I danced." Dong Shanshan said, "I just went by feel."

Zhang Ye said, "Then just dance according to your feelings when we do the shoot. Honestly, your dance really stunned me. If the music video does not have your dancing in it, it would definitely be much less interesting." Dong Shanshan's dance was what led Zhang Ye to make the decision to shoot a music video for this song. Back in his previous world, "To Youth" did not have an accompanying music video and the song was also not famous enough that everyone knew about it. This was the reason why Zhang Ye wanted to give it a try. He wanted to know if this image that shook him would also gain the recognition of the people, and possibly allow this song to discover a different light in this world!

Xiaoqian agreed, "That's right!"

Yu Yingyi also praised, "Shanshan, you don't know how beautiful you looked just now."

Dong Shanshan threw up her hands. "Alright, since you guys don't mind it, I won't either. It's not my first time working with Zhang'er anyway."

Yu Yingyi quipped, "Yes, you two are thicker than thieves."

Xiaoqian giggled and said, "Zhang'er even wrote that 'Ms. Dong' song."

"Was that for me?" Dong Shanshan laughed.

Wang He said, "Who else would it be for?"

Yu Yingyi harrumphed, "Others might not know your birthday, but would we not know? It was the actual day of your birthday when that King of Masked Singers' episode was recorded. Zhang'er even added the phrase 'happy birthday' to the end of 'Ms. Dong,' so who else could he have written it for other than you? Ai, Zhang'er, when are you gonna write a Ms. Yu? We're such old classmates, so you better not practice favoritism, alright? You can't just write a song for Shanshan and not for us."

Xiaoqian added, "I want one too."

Ma Xufei said, "And me."

Zhang Ye said, "Whoa, please spare me."

Dong Shanshan helped him smooth things over. "Oh right, Boss Zhang. How are we going to split the profits?"

Ma Xufei asked, "Yeah, how?"

He Kui joked, "Haha, you'd have to pay us an appearance fee."

Zhang Ye did not hesitate at all. "We'll do it however you guys want to."

"Boss Zhang is really generous!" Liu Tie gave him a thumbs up. "But we're just joking with you. We're doing this together. There's no need bring up the issue of money."

Xiaoqian said, "I don't need it either."

Everyone was now saying there was no need for it.

Dong Shanshan spoke, "I have a suggestion. Excluding repaying the production and publicity budget, whatever the music video earns, let's donate all the proceedings to Little Qiu to get her legs treated."

Zhang Ye smacked his thigh and exclaimed, "Yeah! That's settled then!"

Wang He gave two thumbs ups. "That's a good suggestion. We didn't know about it before, but since we know now, we must do our part for her. I don't have much money, but I do have strength!"

"Well said!"

"Count me in!"

"Let's all chip in a part of our strength to help Sister Qiu stand on her feet again!"

Zhang Ye, seemingly wanting to take it all on, said, "Leave this to me. We'll let Liu Tie bring all the money that the music video earns to Little Qiu. If she can't get it treated in China, she can always go overseas. If she still can't get it treated overseas, then she can get prostheses. There are disabled athletes who have lost both their limbs taking part in the Special Olympics 100-meter race. All of those athletes can run faster than us, so I don't believe that Little Qiu won't be able to stand up! I don't have many friends, but it shouldn't be a problem to get a recommendation to a foreign specialist hospital for treatment. Leave this to me!"

"That's right!"

"Yeah, let's do it!"

"For Little Qiu!"

"For Sister Qiu!"

In an instant, everyone was full of fighting spirit!

For a common goal, these young adults had gathered together again and were shouting catchphrases of what they wanted. This was very nostalgic, and every one of them harbored an inexpressible emotion within their hearts.

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Chapter 1185: A smashing release!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

Several days later.

A promotional poster was put out.

A red dress made up the bulk of the poster's composition and color.

"The music video of Zhang Ye's first single to get a smashing release today!"

"Countdown: 1 hour."

The netizens kept posting on the Weibo of Zhang Ye's Studio.

"Hurry up!"

"The publicity has been going on for days already."

"Why hasn't it been released yet?"

"It's Zhang Ye's first single, I can't wait!"

"Judging by the poster, it already looks like it'll be awesome."

"Just wait a little longer, it's coming soon."

"Damn, there are this many people waiting for it to be released?"

"But of course. Teacher Zhang has never released a single in such a grand manner before, and it's even a music video. Before this, 'The King Sent Me to Patrol the Mountains' was recorded on the radio program, then 'Beijing Welcomes You' was performed with an all-star lineup, while 'You and Me' was a duet with Lillian that was edited out from the Olympics opening ceremony performance. All those can't be considered actual music videos, so now that we're finally getting a proper one, of course I have to support it. I will sacrifice everything else and wait for its release!"

"Just based on Zhang Ye's reputation, I'll watch it."

"Regardless, I'm also looking forward to it."

"I heard that he shot the music video with his classmates."

"Li Xiaoxian is also releasing her single today. I'm talking about Sunset Glow from King of Masked Singers."

"Ah? Spring Garden's Li Xiaoxian is going solo?"

"Surely not, right? She's only releasing a single. Even their group leader, Xiaodong, has done it before."

"Ah, check this out!"

"What happened?"

"Li Xiaoxian's release date for her single has changed!"

"Pfft, are you sure?"

"The date was set in stone a month ago."

"Yeah, wasn't it scheduled for today?"

The netizens suddenly discovered that the reason given for Li Xiaoxian's change in her release schedule was that they had encountered some technical difficulties at the publishing stage. That was why they had to change the release date to next week.

Then, a young C-list singer's agent also delayed their new album's release date. It wasn't delayed by long, just two days, and the reason given was that their publicity department had gotten the dates mixed up.

A music industry insider posted on Weibo: "Are they trying to avoid Zhang Ye?"

Another industry insider posted with a laugh: "Looks like no one is willing to fight it out with Zhang Ye during the same promotional period."

None of the industry insiders and netizens believed the reasons given for the delays.

"Bullshit, what mix up of dates!"

"They announced it two weeks ago and it's suddenly a mix up now?"

"If they're avoiding Zhang Ye, just say so. Is it that difficult to admit?"

"Haha, just look at Teacher Zhang's relations with others. This single that he's releasing has really come too suddenly. It's not only us, even a lot of the music industry insiders were caught by surprise!"

"Well, they don't really have a choice but to avoid it."

"Yeah, surely they wouldn't want to go head to head with Zhang Ye, right?"

"Well, I reckon that even Chen Guang would do the same."

"Do you guys think Zhang Ye will sweep the charts this time?"

"That's almost definite, isn't it? During King of Masked Singers, which songs of his didn't make it into the charts?"

"But it's different this time. It's going to be a music video, so we'll have to see the artistic value and how well it matches with the song. Zhang Ye may be good at writing and singing songs, but making a music video…"

The scheduled time for release was nearing.

Counting down:

Five minutes.

Three minutes.

One minute.

Zhang Ye's fans went onto the exclusive online video hosting site releasing the music video for "To Youth."

More came from the industry itself to check it out. Almost everyone involved with music had come to have a look for themselves what Zhang Ye's music video single would look like. They were incredibly curious about it.

The music video was released!

A mellow scene appeared on screen.

A gentle autumn breeze blew past. The leaves on the trees were rustling. A hand appeared on screen grasping a fluttering tree leaf. Then, the hand brought the leaf up towards the mouth and the person started blowing on it. But there was no sound.

It was Zhang Ye's face.

The camera zoomed out and a lot of people started walking towards the screen from a distance. They finally gathered at the center of the shot.

A lot of viewers were taken aback.

It was a school campus?

This was Media College?

Zhang Ye's alma mater?

…

At a house somewhere.

Qiu Yumei was languishing in bed. There was no spirit in her eyes.

Her husband asked, "Want some more?

Qiu Yumei replied, "I'm not eating any more."

"Do you want some water?"

"I'm not thirsty."

Her husband said nothing as he covered her with a blanket. He turned around and sat down in front of the computer to put on some music for her to listen to. To his surprise, he saw Zhang Ye's music video!

He reflexively clicked on it. "Little Qiu!"

Qiu Yumei did not open her eyes. "Huh?"

He pointed at the computer in excitement and said, "It's your classmates, Zhang Ye, Liu Tie, and everyone else!"

The song played.

"Perhaps we won't see it again.

"That golden sky where we bid farewell.

"Some people are destined to never meet again.

"Those once green and young faces."

Qiu Yumei suddenly opened her eyes. She was stunned!

Zhang'er!

Shanshan!

Yingyi!

Tie-zi!

Old Wang!

You guys! You guys—

…

At a work site.

A young man wearing a hard hat was covered in mud. He said loudly, "Let's seize the time we have left. There are only a few days left, so let's hurry to meet the deadline. I'll request bonuses for all of us once we're done!"

However, there were a few workers who were still watching something on their phones a ways away. They were very focused on whatever it was.

What's this?

On their cell phones during work hours?

The young man strode up to them. Just as he was about to say something, he was startled!

"I pick up a windmill palm's frond.

"And place it on natural slate rock.

"In memory of the youth that has passed by

"And the innocent promises of which we talked."

It was Zhang Ye?

Shanshan?

Wang He?

The young man was dumbfounded!

…

In a street.

At the entrance of a grocery store.

The crowd of people had stopped in their tracks and were all pointing at a woman holding a basket in her hand. That woman looked a little old, like she was in her 30s, but she was not actually that old. There was still a hint of beauty hidden beneath her gaunt and pale face!

"The wind now sings.

"Singing a song of the places it's been to.

"In the darkness,

"a flower blossoms for you."

The basket in the woman's hands dropped to the ground.

She held the cell phone playing the music video and held her head in her hands as she squatted down and started crying!

"The moment you turn around,

"a smile beautiful as the sunset's crown.

"It once blossomed in the spring of our youth."

…

The music video ended.

Several lines appeared at the end of it.

"To the youth that we will someday no longer possess!

"To the old friends we once stood side by side with!

"Where are all of you now?

"Are you…doing fine?"

The music video was pretty short, but it felt quite long.

Countless people finished watching it with a sense of shock!

The totally unprofessional sound of the violin, the totally wrong way of playing the chimes, the sorrowful voice, the long dress fluttering from the dancing, every image was just too shocking to them!

Zhang Xia posted on Weibo with a sigh: "How wonderful!"

Li Xiaoxian's Weibo: "This is what art is."

An industry insider: "Dong Shanshan's dance was the sublimation of the entire song and music video! That red dress was simply stunning!"

A big shot of the entertainment circle: "The person playing the violin is that host from the Central TV Sports Channel, right? It sounds so amateurish and she probably didn't learn the instrument for long, but why am I so touched? Perhaps this is what youth means. Perhaps being youthful means that one will never be perfect! It's a really stunning music video!"

The reviews from the industry were very good!

The comments from the netizens were even better!

"This is really awesome!"

"I cried listening to it!"

"Me too! I can't calm down!"

"Zhang Ye, you're marvelous! Dong Shanshan, you're marvelous! Yu Yingyi and everyone else, you're all marvelous!"

"If only I was born a few years earlier! It would have been nice if I were in the same class as Zhang Ye, Dong Shanshan, and the others! I'd really like to know what their story was!"

"This song is to die for!"

"I cry every time I listen to it!"

"My classmates, where did they all go!"

"I'm starting to miss my classmates too!"

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Chapter 1186: Earning rave reviews!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

Goof Group.

Several big names of the music industry were discussing the music video for "To Youth."

Fan Wenli: "This music video will definitely succeed and do very well."

Chen Guang: "Zhang'er's undoubtedly good at what he does."

But Amy said: "This time, Shanshan helped him a lot. Without Shanshan's tearful dance, this music video wouldn't have gotten as much attention as it did. Just look at the reactions on the Internet. The comments blew up and everyone is saying how captivated they were by Dong Shanshan's dance. I watched it five times and felt shocked every single time!"

Fan Wenli said: "In the past, everyone always referred to Dong Shanshan as just a vase. They always said that she could only depend on her figure and looks to make it in the industry, but this music video has shut many of them up. Dong Shanshan will definitely be a big name in the future as well."

Xiaodong said with a laugh: "Luckily I got Xiaoxian to delay the release of her single."

Li Xiaoxian was a little annoyed at that. "I was hoping that I could compete against Teacher Zhang."

Amy sent a sulking emote. "Oh, come on, how could you compete against him? It's Zhang Ye's song. Anyone who goes head to head against it would just die. There's no one who could go against him and win, unless it's Sister Zhang."

Suddenly, Zhang Ye appeared.

Zhang Ye: "@everyone"

"Wow, the star himself is finally here."

"What?"

"What's with the @everyone?"

"You're getting arrogant, aren't ya!"

"Zhang'er, the music video was really good. Congratulations!"

After Zhang Ye thanked them, he said: "Does anyone here know a good orthopedic institution overseas?"

"What's the matter?"

"An overseas hospital?"

"A hot-blooded youth like you asking about this, did the sun rise from the west today?"

Zhang Ye said: "I'm asking for a friend. She got in an accident two years ago and can't stand anymore."

When they read this, no one made any more jokes.

"No, I don't know any."

"I do know a medical practitioner overseas, but they don't specialize in orthopedics."

"Does anyone know someone? Help link Zhang Ye up if you do."

At this moment, Zhang Yuanqi appeared.

Zhang Yuanqi: "Send me some information about your friend's general condition."

Zhang Ye was taken aback, then immediately said: "Alright, thanks."

Soon after, she said: "I've spoken to my assistant. Get your friend to contact her and she'll help arrange everything for you. This is her number, 136XXXXXXXX."

Zhang Ye: "Much thanks!"

Zhang Yuanqi: "It's nothing."

…

In the studio.

A group of people were looking very happy.

"Director Zhang, it was a great success!"

"It's on fire! Our first attempt at a music video and it's already sweeping the charts!"

"Just look at it, these are a few of the biggest billboard charts in the country!"

"Haha, is there anyone else? I want to know if there's anyone who wants to challenge us!"

"This is only our first music video single and its performance is already defying all common sense!"

"How can it not? I was crying after Teacher Shanshan finished dancing in the video! Just look at Weibo. That dance has gone viral! So many people are saying they want to learn it as well!"

Zhang Ye chuckled. "Who are they going to learn it from? That dance will look different every time Shanshan performs it. She's expressing her emotions through dance."

Zhang Zuo said, "That's why it's so touching!"

Zhang Ye asked, "How much has it earned?"

Zhang Zuo said, "Based on the current calculations, around 1.2 million RMB. Actually, it's not much money at all. The music video was released for free and the only way it could earn money was through copyright fees and hosting fees from the platforms. There's also a few cents earned each time the song is sung in karaoke, but that amount of money will only be recouped much later on." He thought that Zhang Ye was only concerned with making money from the music video, so he said, "If you're thinking about raising the profitability of the studio, this won't earn you more than you could earn by appearing in a commercial. A music video is just for getting your name out there."

"I know that." Zhang Ye naturally knew that this was so.

The business model of the entertainment industry had changed long ago.

Releasing an album to earn money?

Holding a concert to sell tickets?

Such ways of earning money were things of the past.

The model now was to release things for free. You'd still have to cut an album and hold concerts, but those were not done because it would earn you money. They were only a tool to get more popular and gain a reputation. When your fame went up, you'd automatically be worth much more. Afterwards, you could take on projects like commercial appearances, advertisements, movies, TV dramas, variety shows. They would all bring much greater profits since your name was already out there.

Zhang Ye thought about it for a bit, then said, "About that, if anyone asks, just tell them that the music video earned 2 million RMB."

Ha Qiqi was taken aback. "Ah? But we didn't earn that much from it."

"I know, but do it anyway," Zhang Ye instructed.

"OK."

"Understood."

Everyone knew Zhang Ye must have a reason for doing so.

Then Zhang Ye went to check his bank account. Together with the money earned from the music video, he wouldn't have a problem raising 2 million RMB. Since he didn't do commercial appearances, he didn't really have that much money either. But gathering a few million yuan was definitely not an issue. And so, he got his assistant, Little Wang to register a debit card and checking account in which he deposited 2 million RMB.

Then he called Dong Shanshan.

"Shanshan."

"Yes."

"The money is in."

"OK."

…

That same night.

At Qiu Yumei's house.

The doorbell rang.

"Ai, coming, coming." Little Qiu's husband went to get the door. When he saw who was outside, he immediately welcomed the person in after a moment of shock. "Tie-zi, you're here?"

"Is Sister Qiu home?"

"Yes, she's in."

Liu Tie was alone.

From the living room, Qiu Yumei's voice drifted out. "Tie-zi, come in quickly."

Liu Tie entered the room with a smile. "Sister Qiu, how are you feeling? I haven't visited you in quite a while."

Qiu Yumei said excitedly, "You guys appeared in Zhang'er's music video! I saw everyone! It's good, it's really good! Everyone's still the same! Shanshan is still as beautiful as ever, Yingyi has now become a sports host, everything is going really well for everyone!"

Liu Tie said, "Everyone misses you. They all wanted to come and visit you."

Little Qiu fell silent, then said bitterly, "I'm like this, so how can I face the others? Did you tell them about me? That mouth of yours! I won't tell you anything anymore."

Liu Tie said, "Even if I didn't tell them, they would have found out sooner or later."

Little Qiu repeatedly said, "You mustn't bring them here. I won't see any of them."

Liu Tie said, "I know, I didn't ask them to come."

Little Qiu heaved a sigh of relief. She really didn't want to face everyone.

"By the way, this is the money we earned from the music video." Liu Tie smiled and took out a debit card and placed it on the table. "There's 2 million RMB in it."

Her husband was stunned. "2 million RMB?!"

Qiu Yumei immediately said, "What's the meaning of this?"

Liu Tie said solemnly, "It was not my idea alone. Every one of us wanted to do this for you. Although we're saying that this money was earned through the music video, it was Zhang'er who made the biggest contribution. We were just doing our best to support him, not for anything else, but just for you to be able to stand on your two feet again." Then he took out a piece of paper. "Keep his telephone number safe and contact her today. Zhang'er found someone and has already contacted the best hospital in America. He already made some inquiries and found out from them that your kind of injuries are pretty difficult to recover from. But there's still a way to treat it as they have done something similar before. The only issue was that the previous case had dragged on for too long, so it affected the treatment."

He looked at Qiu Yumei's husband and said, "So go over there and have a look. If there's anything that you two need later, contact us again."

Her husband said emotionally, "This…how can we accept this?"

Liu Tie pushed the number into his hand. "If you need manpower, come to me. All I have is strength with no place to use it. If you need money, go to Zhang Ye. He's so poor that all he has left is money. So don't drag this on. We're all doing this so that Little Qiu can get treated. If there's anything you want to protest, do it after you've recovered."

Qiu Yumei bit her bottom lip and said, "I can still stand?"

"Definitely!" Liu Tie said without hesitation.

All of a sudden, Qiu Yumei looked at the window. "Did they come?"

Liu Tie smiled and said, "No, it's only me. Zhang'er said he doesn't want to see you now. He wants to see that bubbly and active you from back then, not the whiny you who keeps staying in bed—those were his exact words, not mine. So take it up with him if you're offended, hahaha."

Qiu Yumei also laughed. "Is he still as hot-tempered as before?"

"Yes." Liu Tie said amused. "He's still as short-tempered as ever."

Qiu Yumei went silent for a moment. Then she sat up from her bed and smiled. "Go back and tell Zhang'er this. If I were to suddenly stand up in front of him someday, he better not have the living daylights scared out of him!"

Her husband said in a stunned manner, "Little Qiu."

Qiu Yumei said determinedly, "Make the call. I'm going to get my legs treated."

Her husband wept with joy. "I'll call, I'll make the call immediately!"

"Thanks to my old classmates, we can go and have a taste of American food!" Qiu Yumei's eyes shined with a glimmer of hope and she looked much more spirited!

Liu Tie felt very happy!

The exultant Sister Qiu from those years ago looked like she was back again!

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Chapter 1187: An invitation to the Welcoming Ceremony!

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Downstairs, below Little Qiu's house.

A group of people were whispering among themselves.

Meanwhile, Zhang Ye, Old Wang, and Old Zhou stood a little further away to smoke.

At this moment, footsteps came from the apartment corridor. Liu Tie appeared after coming down from upstairs.

"How was it?" Xiaoqian quickly asked.

Liu Tie hushed them. "Let's talk when we get out of the neighborhood."

Dong Shanshan said anxiously, "Did Little Qiu agree?"

"Will she go and get her legs treated?" Wang He asked him in concern.

Once they were out of the neighborhood, Liu Tie smiled and said, "She finally accepted the money after much persuasion. Sister Qiu's husband is already contacting Zhang'er's friend. I can tell that Sister Qiu's attitude this time is different. She really wants to get her legs treated so that she can spryly stand up in front of us!"

Zhang Ye laughed and said, "We're all waiting for her!"

Ma Xufei slapped his thigh. "That's great!"

He Kui said excitedly, "We were afraid that she wouldn't agree to it and refuse to accept our money. Since Sister Qiu accepted it, everything can be discussed!"

Yu Yingyi asked, "Zhang'er, is the hospital you recommended good?"

Zhang Ye said, "It was recommended by Zhang Yuanqi, so it shouldn't be a problem."

Recently, their group of classmates had been gathering every day to discuss this matter. They genuinely cared about Qiu Yumei, so they were very happy about how this had turned out.

Hope filled their hearts.

Would she be able to stand again soon under her own strength?

Dong Shanshan gestured with her hand and said, "Come, let's head to my house. I'll treat everyone."

"Alright!"

"Is the school belle going to cook?"

"Me? Cook? I'm only afraid that you guys wouldn't eat my cooking!"

"Haha, I won't mind even if I'm poisoned to death!"

"I'm so happy today. Let's drink too!"

"Oh, come on, we better not drink."

"Why not, Shanshan?"

"The last time Zhang Ye, Yingyi, and the others came over to my house, we drank too much. As a result, Zhang'er and I nearly caused a delay at the Spring Festival Gala's rehearsal the next day. Everyone at Beijing TV was waiting just for the two of us."

"Hahahaha!"

"There was such a shameful incident?"

"Tell us about it along the way!"

Several cars started driving off and headed toward Dong Shanshan's villa at Yizhuang.

On the way, Zhang Ye received a call. It was from their former class advisor at Media College, Su Hongyan. He quickly answered: "Yo, Teacher Su."

Su Hongyan said happily: "I saw your music video. It was really good."

Zhang Ye said to his classmates in the car, "Haha, Teacher Su just praised us."

Yu Yingyi giggled as she stretched her neck and said: "Teacher Su, did I play the violin well?"

"Yes, it was good." Su Hongyan said: "Are you all together?"

Zhang Ye switched the call to speakerphone. "Everyone is here. We're holding a party right now."

Su Hongyan said: "Heh, how convenient. College is reopening tomorrow and I have something urgent that I need to ask of you all. For tomorrow night's Welcoming Ceremony for the new students, the school has plans to make it even grander and livelier this year. They wanted me to contact you to come up with a program for us, and the rest of the kids from our class that year can also join in on the fun. It'll be fine if you guys just perform a song or something. Just do as you guys think will be suitable for the ceremony."

Zhang Ye exclaimed: "It's only a day away, why didn't you tell us earlier?"

Su Hongyan said: "You wrote 'To Youth' on the spot, don't you think I know well enough? Isn't one day more than enough for you? Little Zhang, I'm telling you, you better not decline this. You're an associate professor at our Media College, but now? You haven't even given a day's worth of lessons or participated in any of the school's activities. Surely you can't do things this way, right? You would have to prepare a lesson and perform a song for the school. Otherwise, if we bring up the fact that you composed that poem for Peking University, there would be no end to it."

Zhang Ye didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Alright, you just want us to come up with a program, right? We'll come up with something then!"

"That's the right way." Su Hongyan laughed and said: "You have to prepare the lesson well and impart some of your experiences to this year's incoming students."

Zhang Ye said: "Sure."

Yu Yingyi stretched her neck and said: "We guarantee that we'll do a good job!"

Xiaoqian giggled and said: "Teacher Su, just you wait and see."

Su Hongyan said in satisfaction: "Alright, I'll be waiting to see what you guys come up with."

The car was parked.

They arrived at the villa.

Upon getting out from the car, Zhang Ye said, "Our class advisor has instructed, that as the alumni representatives, all of us are to perform a song together at the Welcoming Ceremony tomorrow. What do you guys say to that?"

"Sure!"

"Since Teacher Su has spoken, we definitely have to do it!"

"But my singing is terrible."

"No worries, Zhang Ye will be the lead singer anyway."

"I know how to play the drums a little."

"I've taken some bass lessons, but I'm not good at it."

"If you need piano accompaniment, look to me. This sis didn't take seven years of lessons for nothing when I was young."

The students who could pass the Media College entrance exam were mostly multitalented. Although they could not be compared to professionals, they had an assorted range of skills to some degree.

Zhang Ye said, "Alright then, I'll compose the song so we can quickly rehearse!"

Dong Shanshan smiled and said, "Then I'll go and borrow some instruments?"

"Can you get those?" Zhang Ye asked, "Where are you going to borrow them from?"

Dong Shanshan pointed at the surrounding villas. "Two of my neighbors are music teachers and have instruments at home."

Wang He volunteered. "I'll help you carry them over."

"School belle, just leave the menial work to us."

"And me too!"

"Wow, you're all so thoughtful!"

Everyone laughed.

It looked like they had been brought back to the times when they were still students. Dong Shanshan stood out from the rest as a group of male classmates was surrounding her. Meanwhile, Yu Yingyi, Xiaoqian, and other girls provided the comic relief with their impromptu remarks and gestures.

Zhang Ye started writing the song.

What should he use?

What should they sing for the students this time?

All of a sudden, Wang He, who just came back from carrying the instruments, received a call. Then he grew excited. "Da Hui! You rascal!" Then he switched the call to speakerphone and shouted to the others, "Come over quickly, Da Hui has contacted us!"

Zhang Ye was very happy.

Everyone came over and tried to get a word in.

Wang He said: "You rascal, where did you disappear to?"

Yu Yingyi said: "You even changed your phone number. Did you die?"

Xiaoqian said: "You're really too heartless!"

Old Wang said: "Yeah, no one could get in contact with you at all!"

At the other end of the line, Da Hui laughed and said: "Are the bros all there? I was working in Beijing all this while but haven't been doing well, so I was too embarrassed to face you."

Zhang Ye asked: "Where are you working?"

"At a construction site."

Zhang Ye laughed and said: "You're moving bricks?"

Da Hui answered: "Bah, I would have to be able to move them first to do that. I'm a supervisor at the work site, so you can consider me a junior manager of sorts."

Yu Yingyi exclaimed: "Can the jump in your profession be any larger than this!"

Zhang Ye said: "Da Hui, get over here quickly! We're going to perform a group song at our alma mater's Welcoming Ceremony tomorrow. You're the cultural backbone of our class and we're just missing you!"

Da Hui replied: "Alright, I'll head over right away!"

Liu Tie shouted: "Hurry up, bastard! Everyone here misses you a lot!"

Da Hui sounded like he was suppressing his excitement. "Alright!"

Half an hour later, another classmate who had lost contact with them finally managed to get in touch again. "You guys are awesome! Too awesome! I saw the music video you guys shot! I was so fucking touched that I cried all over the place! Where are you guys? I miss all of you…What? There's going to be a performance?…Me? I'll go! Of course I'll go! Send me the address!"

They thought they would not see each other again after all this time. But many of their long-lost classmates reached out to each other again because of the "To Youth" music video. Zhang Ye and the others were all very excited!

Everyone was back!

Their old friends were all back!

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Chapter 1188: Starting a gang fight (First Half)

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Throughout the night.

It got rather boisterous at Dong Shanshan's villa.

"Da Hui, have a taste of my kick!"

"Damn, enough of that crap already. We have to start rehearsing the song!"

"You deserve it for disappearing for so long!"

"Haha, Old Zhou. You're talking like you didn't disappear off to somewhere yourself!"

"Hey, hey, hey, can you guys be a little more focused?"

"Rehearse the song properly or Boss Zhang will bug us later. His songs are all classics, so we better not spoil it on our watch. Otherwise, he'll definitely cry his heart out."

"I don't care whether he cries or not. He put his smelly socks under my pillow when we were still in uni. That son of a gun! I've yet to take revenge on him after our graduation! Even though that guy's now an A-list celebrity, this bro isn't afraid of him. I'll expose this incident to the media later and shame him in public!"

"Don't, bro! I'm a teacher now and that wouldn't look good on me, man!"

"Hahahaha!"

"Keep it down. The neighbors have already complained to me three times."

There were sounds of them fooling around, playing instruments and rehearsing their song.

With more than twenty of them gathered together, the entire villa was extremely noisy.

After fooling around and rehearsing for an entire night, everyone decided to stay over at Dong Shanshan's place. The girls took two of the bedrooms while the guys squeezed into another bedroom. Some of them even slept on the sofa or went into the guest bedroom to rest for the night. As they had some drinks earlier, they just laid down and fell asleep in the most disorganized of ways.

The next day.

It was the day of the commencement.

When everyone woke up, it was afternoon.

"Hey, wake up!"

"Look at the time! We better not delay today's important matters."

"We need to reach the gala venue before 6 PM."

"Are we going to practice more?"

"We've practiced quite a lot, so it shouldn't be a problem."

"Let's have something to eat before we leave for the Welcoming Ceremony."

Everyone got up and went to wash up. But as there were so many of them, they had to take turns and line up.

Dong Shanshan ordered takeouts for everyone while Yu Yingyi, Xiaoqian and the other girls tidied up the rooms.

Zhang Ye was the busiest of them all. This group of laypeople were free to mess around and do as they wish, but Zhang Ye could not do so. Adopting an attitude of rigorous teaching, he picked out a few of those who did not sing well last night and taught them how to do it properly. For example, he showed them how to control their breathing during certain parts of the song, and so on and so forth. When it came to work, he would never be sloppy.

Just when everyone got busy with their own parts, an unexpected call came in.

Curious, Xiaoqian took a call from an unknown person. "Hello? Who is it?"

Then she heard a girl crying on the other end of the line.

"Who's this?"

"Xiaoqian."

"Ah! You're…Hu Feifei!"

Hu Feifei?

Everyone was stunned.

They were very familiar with this name. She was a gorgeous girl who was also their old classmate. But Hu Feifei was a very proud person and rather materialistic as well. Although she did not have any conflicts with anyone, their relationship with her could not be considered close. At most, she got along slightly better with Xiaoqian as Xiaoqian was also the type of person who liked buying brand-name goods. However, it was later rumored that Xiaoqian and Hu Feifei had a quarrel that led to them falling out.

Flustered, Xiaoqian said: "Don't cry anymore, don't cry…Tell me, what on earth happened? We're all here….Yes, we are all over here. Let's talk about it when you get here!"

After hanging up, everyone started questioning her.

Zhang Ye asked, "What happened?"

Dong Shanshan said, "Did something happen to Hu Feifei?"

Xiaoqian quickly said, "I don't know either. I haven't talked to her much since our senior year. She just started crying over the phone, so I asked her to come over here straight away!"

Wang He analyzed, "She never liked being outdone by others. Back in our uni days, she worked part-time for two months just to buy a bag that cost several thousand yuan. She cared a lot about face and wouldn't cry in front of us over a trifling matter like she just did."

Yu Yingyi said, "That's not right. Hu Feifei met a rich boss even before she graduated from school. I heard that she was enjoying the good life, and there were even quite a few people who were extremely envious of her."

After about half an hour.

The doorbell rang. But when the door opened, everyone was stunned!

Zhang Ye said in a startled tone, "Hu Feifei?"

Xiaoqian's jaw dropped. "You…you…"

Their first impression of her was that she looked like an old auntie. She looked like she had aged a lot, and she did not even bother to dress up properly. To any outsiders, this woman looked around seven years older than the group of people in the house. But they could still recognize her. This was Hu Feifei, their old classmate!

Ma Xufei shouted, "How did you end up like this!"

Why did the class belle from back then become so haggard?

How many years had it been? How many years had it been since they graduated?

Back then, some people in the house who disliked Hu Feifei's character. But when they saw her in such a state, they did not say anything. There was no gloating. Instead, their hearts ached for her.

When Hu Feifei saw these familiar faces, she stood there in a trance. She looked at them one by one. "Liu Tie, He Kui, Shanshan, Zhang Ye…"

Dong Shanshan hurriedly said, "What happened, Feifei?"

Hu Feifei bit her lip as she shook her head. "It's nothing, it's nothing. It's just that I really missed you guys. I saw your music video yesterday when I went to the grocery store. Then, I started crying because I really missed all of you. Actually, I've wanted to contact everyone these past few years. I've really missed you guys so much. I'm really fine." Tears started falling from her eyes as she spoke.

Xiaoqian said anxiously, "Impossible! Something must've happened to you!"

Dong Shanshan pulled Hu Feifei in. "Come, let's talk in the house."

Dong Shanshan, Xiaoqian, and a few of the girls pulled Hu Feifei into a room and closed the door.

Wang He sighed. "I really can't believe this."

He Kui said, "Hu Feifei was such a beautiful and proud person in the past. How did she…"

Zhang Ye said with a sunken expression, "Let's see what Shanshan and the others can find out from her."

"There's definitely something more to this," Liu Tie said.

About ten minutes later, they heard Xiaoqian and Yu Yingyi's furious scolding from the room. Then the door opened. The girls walked out angrily!

Xiaoqian cursed, "Son of a bitch!"

Yu Yingyi raged, "What a bastard! How could he bully you like that!"

The guys asked, "What's the matter? Hurry up and tell us!"

Xiaoqian's heart ached as she hugged Hu Feifei. "Her husband's not even human. He's been hitting her every day." She grabbed the cuff of Hu Feifei's sleeve. "Look at this!"

Hu Feifei did not want her to show them. "No!"

But her sleeve got pulled up. Bruises covered her arms!

Xiaoqian said, "This was inflicted just an hour ago!"

Yu Yingyi clenched her teeth and said, "There's even more on her body! We saw them just now; she's totally covered in bruises. This is simply…" Her eyes reddened!

Zhang Ye's eyes turned cold!

Wang He clenched his fists. "Goddamn!"

Liu Tie said in a rage, "Fuck! Is he even human?"

Dong Shanshan told them about how Hu Feifei glamorously married a tycoon after their graduation. But alas, her happiness was short-lived. Her husband soon found another woman. As Hu Feifei was a very proud woman, how could she possibly accept that? So she argued with him. But in the end, she got beaten up by him. After it happened once, it continued without end for the next three years.

Xiaoqian cried as she hugged Hu Feifei. "How did you endure it all this time?"

Hu Feifei started crying.

Yu Yingyi asked, "Why didn't you come to us?"

Hu Feifei sobbed, "Back then, I looked down on everyone and my relationship with you guys was only so-so. Everyone knew that I was doing very well and even got married to a rich guy, so h-how was I supposed to bring it up!"

Da Hui said, "Does your family know about this?"

Hu Feifei said somewhat afraid, "I didn't dare tell anyone, I didn't dare tell anyone at all!" She looked at everyone as she cried. "I regret this, I regret this so much. Zhang Ye, Shanshan, Yingyi, Wang He, I've been watching your shows every day all these years. Ever since the first day that you guys debuted, I've been watching all of your shows. I'm so envious of you. Back then, if I had…if I had…"

Xiaoqian hugged her. "Don't say anymore, shhh."

Hu Feifei cried for a while before suddenly looking at her watch. "I have to go now. I told him that I went out to buy groceries. If he doesn't see me by the time he comes home, he'll…"

Wang He flew into a rage. "You still want to go back there?"

Zhang Ye said in a low and serious voice, "Where is he now?"

Hu Feifei said, "He's out drinking with his friends at the restaurant."

Dong Shanshan raised her head and looked at them. "Fellas, how should we handle this?"

Yu Yingyi also said, "Everyone, let's get to talking!"

Everyone kept exchanging glances.

Suddenly, Zhang Ye roared, "What's there to talk about! He's bullying her to such an extent! Is there still a fucking need to talk?"

Liu Tie shouted, "Fuck his ancestors!"

Wang He said, "Let's fight him!"

"Fuck him!"

"He's a blight on the earth!"

"I'll fucking destroy him today!"

"Brothers, let's go!"

"Yeah!"

The angry shouts were so loud that it was deafening!

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Chapter 1189: Starting a gang fight (Second half)

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In the evening.

Night had not yet fallen though the sun had begun to set.

Outside a restaurant situated in a remote but beautiful location, five cars sped over and stopped a short distance away. When the car doors opened, more than 20 people got out from them!

Zhang Ye said in a cold voice, "Is it here?"

Hu Feifei tugged at him and said, "Don't go, don't go!"

Dong Shanshan stared at her. "Do you want to continue getting beaten up by him for the rest of your life?"

"I want a divorce. I-I'll try to think of a way to get it," Hu Feifei said.

Wang He said, "You should have divorced him long ago."

Hu Feifei said, "Don't worry about me. Especially Zhang Ye, Shanshan, and Yingyi. You three are celebrities now. I'll resolve this matter by myself. If the reporters hear of this, you'll be finished!"

Zhang Ye sneered. "It's not like I have never done something like this before. When did it all come tumbling down for me?"

Wang He said, "Right, let's just follow Zhang'er's lead. He's very experienced with this sort of situation!"

Hu Feifei said, "But there's a lot of them in there!"

Zhang Ye asked, "How many?"

Hu Feifei said, "A lot. I don't know exactly."

Dong Shanshan said firmly, "Don't worry, just leave it to us!"

Xiaoqian announced, "We have to help Feifei stand up to the suffering she's been through!"

Hu Feifei was still trying to stop them as she was not willing to implicate everyone due to her personal problems. In the past, she was never considered to be close to them. But now that everyone was so infuriated over what had happened to her, she felt truly touched. Still, no matter what, she really did not wish to drag them down. This was especially true for Zhang Ye and Dong Shanshan. What was their status now? A university professor, a world-class mathematician, and a famous author with countless other honors. If they really got into a fight here…

However, Zhang Ye looked at Hu Feifei. "Hu Feifei, if you still have any pride left from back then, you should stop trying to convince us! You should be standing with us at this time in solidarity! The you that I knew was never like this! The Hu Feifei that I knew was always walking around with her nose up in the air! That's who my classmate was!"

Nose up in the air?

Could she go back to being her previous self?

Hu Feifei's eyes reddened!

Suddenly, there was some movement at the entrance of the restaurant.

"Boss He, thank you for treating us."

"Had your fill?"

"Of course."

"Boss He, Sister-in-law, then we'll be going now?"

"Hur hur, what are you talking about? I'm no sister-in-law."

"Isn't it just a matter of time?"

The group was led by a middle-aged fat man who was holding hands with a very beautiful young woman. He was chatting and laughing in the group. There were about 18 of them in total.

Yu Yingyi kept her eyes on the group. "Is it that fatass?"

Hu Feifei clenched her teeth as she nodded in affirmation!

Xiaoqian shouted, "Gentlemen, it is time to make our move!"

Yu Yingyi pointed at them and said, "Don't any of you back out! If anyone here gets taken down, I'll forever look down on them!"

Liu Tie said with a fierce look, "Cut the crap, let's fight them!"

Old Wang said impatiently, "It's not like I've fucking never gotten involved in a gang fight before!"

Old Wang then looked around and picked out a thin wooden stick from the bushes.

When Zhang Ye saw that, he said, "What are you doing?"

Old Wang exclaimed, "Getting ready to fight of course."

Everyone looked at Zhang Ye, unsure about what he was driving at. But when they thought about it, they realized he was right. They were all people of status, so if they injured others badly with a stick, it would be hard to explain. Zhang Ye was right to remind them.

Old Wang threw the stick away.

But the next second, Zhang Ye also walked over to the bushes and searched around. He fished out two bricks and threw one of them to Old Wang. "Have you really been in a fight before? Who can you beat up with that thin wooden stick of yours! Use this instead! Smash it into their fucking faces! Brothers! Move out!"

Everyone was dumbfounded!

"Holy shit!"

"Zhang'er is still the most ruthless one amongst us!"

"Well done!"

"I'll find a brick as well!"

The people at the restaurant's entrance discovered their presence as their group was too large!

Hu Feifei's husband looked over in bewilderment and was startled. Then his expression darkened. His friends and his company's staff were also stunned when they saw them.

"Sister-in-law?"

"Isn't that person Boss He's…"

"What's going on?"

"Who are those people?"

"Ah, is-isn't that Dong Shanshan?"

"Zhang Ye! I see Zhang Ye!"

The mistress blanched!

Boss He cursed angrily, "Bitch, you—"

But before he could finish, Zhang Ye rushed him. "Motherfucker!"

He swung the brick and smashed it straight into the chest of Hu Feifei's husband. The massive force sent the 100-kg fatass tumbling to the ground!

Boss He cried out in pain, "Ahhhhhh!"

He Kui shouted, "Good one!"

Wang He yelled, "Kill them!"

With that confrontation, a fight broke out!

Zhang Ye did not care about the others as he lunged at the fatass and kicked him!

Only then did Boss He's friends who were standing beside him manage to react. They charged forward in a rage, wanting to beat Zhang Ye up!

Wang He kicked one of Zhang Ye's attacker's leg!

Old Wang screamed as he swung his brick around randomly!

Liu Tie was the most capable at fighting. He grabbed someone who was planning to sneak up on Zhang Ye and punched the person several times!

Da Hui got punched once and became furious. He picked up whatever was next to him and smashed it into someone regardless of the consequences!

Meanwhile, Zhang Ye repeatedly kicked Boss He. "I'll fuck your grandpa! You wanna act mighty? Go ahead! How dare you hit our classmate? You must be fucking crazy!"

Boss He shouted with a bruised and swollen face, "Call for help! Go and call for help!"

Xiaoqian cheered, "Yeah! Beat him up good!"

Dong Shanshan did not idle around either. "Old Wang, behind you! He Kui! Get that person beside you!"

With slightly more than a dozen people up against over twenty of them, the fight was very one-sided. Without much resistance, more than half of that fatass's followers fell to the ground!

Boss He's mistress yelled, "Call the police! They're beating up people! That bitch has gathered reinforcements!"

Hu Feifei erupted. She rushed forward and slapped the mistress. "Fuck you! You're the one who's the bitch!" Smack smack smack smack! She gave her a few more slaps!

The mistress fought back by grabbing Hu Feifei's hair!

As Xiaoqian was standing closest to her, she held the mistress tightly and kept her under control!

Yu Yingyi let out a curse and rushed over to help as well!

The three women started hitting one woman, each of them looking fiercer than the others!

A short minute later, the fatass and his followers had all been beaten to the ground!

Zhang Ye grabbed him by his collar and punched him a few more times. "You fucking bastard!"

Wang He ran over in anger and kicked Hu Feifei's husband in the stomach. "Bastard!"

With vicious eyes, Liu Tie said, "You should have checked out who her classmates were before you hit her! From now on, I'll fucking give you a beating whenever I see you on the streets!"

The fatass was so badly beaten that he couldn't say a word!

His followers were lying on the ground and rolling around as they wailed in pain!

As for the onlookers nearby, they were all so dumbfounded that they even forgot to take out their cell phones to take pictures or record videos of the fight. The entire time, they looked shocked and astonished!

Zhang Ye?

Dong Shanshan?

Yu Yingyi?

What are they doing?

Are they…taking part in a gang fight?

No, no, they must definitely be shooting a movie. How could they as people of status possibly be involved in a gang fight? Right, they must be shooting a movie! Eh, but where are the cameras?

All of a sudden, police sirens wailed!

Ma Xufei shouted, "The police are here!"

Zhang Ye bellowed, "Get in the cars! Run!"

Yu Yingyi said, "Fellas, it's time to retreat!"

Everyone scattered at the command and drove off immediately after hopping into the cars!

Only then did the onlookers realize what had just happened!

This was not a movie shoot!

This was really happening!

Chapter 1190: Let us finish singing this last song!

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The police cars came to a sudden stop.

As someone had reported a gang fight, three police cars were dispatched to handle the case.

When one of the police officers got out of his car and saw a group of people wailing on the ground, he looked up and saw several familiar faces running off into a car. He didn't know what to think.

Eh?

Teacher Dong Shanshan?

Teacher Zhang Ye?

And there was even Central TV's Yu Yingyi?

A gang fight? Surely this was just a filming session, right? Did Zhang Ye finally cross over into the movie industry?

The policeman was speechless. "Who called the police? Is this a prank call!"

"Ambulance! Call an ambulance!" The fat man clutched his stomach and groaned.

That policeman gave him a look. "Alright, quit groaning already. Which film crew are you all from?"

The fat man: "…"

The crowd: "…"

That policeman said, "Get up, your director has left, so why are you all still acting? Do you have to put in so much effort? You seem pretty good at acting. Which institute did you guys graduate from? Central Academy of Drama or Shanghai Theater Academy?"

The group of people who had just been beaten up grew helplessly angry!

Pff! Someone spat a broken tooth out onto the ground!

That policeman was startled.

The nearby crowd was also taken aback!

"Holy shit!"

"They're not doing a shoot!"

"Chase after them!"

"Get in the car and give chase, quick!"

Up ahead.

Zhang Ye was speeding like crazy!

Dong Shanshan was driving another car in front and was going at an even faster speed than him!

Liu Tie was screaming, "They're catching up!"

Yu Yingyi exclaimed, "Go faster!"

Zhang Ye asked as he drove, "When does the Welcoming Ceremony start?"

"It's already started!" Xiaoqian said.

Yu Yingyi added, "Our performance is going to be the finale, we can still make it!"

Zhang Ye laughed loudly. "Alright then, sit tight!"

Hu Feifei was almost in tears. "Zhang'er, how can you still laugh? We're in big trouble this time, really big trouble." Looking at the police cars appearing in the rearview mirror, her heart was in pieces. She said remorsefully, "It's all my fault. I'm to blame for getting all of you into such trouble. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have come to you guys! What are we going to do now?"

Wang He was also in the same car as them.

Wang He also got a little worried after the impulsiveness of his actions. He said, "I'm only a small-time host, so it doesn't matter much for me. At most, I'd get detained for a few days. What can they do to me? But it's different for Zhang Ye, Shanshan, and Yingyi!"

Yu Yingyi smiled and said, "At most, I'll just quit my job and start over!"

Zhang Ye laughed. "Well said, we can always start over!"

Hu Feifei said anxiously, "But you guys—"

"Hu Feifei, let me ask you this," Zhang Ye interrupted. "Did you get a kick out of beating them up?"

"…I did!" Hu Feifei said through her teeth.

Zhang Ye asked another question. "Did it help you blow off steam?"

Hu Feifei revealed a smile. "Yes!"

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "Haha, then that settles it! That matters more than anything! What's the point of worrying? Whatever happens, happens! Feifei, your smile is very nice. You've shown this bro that haughtiness of yours again. Good, keep it up! The condescending Hu Feifei from that time was never one to get bullied!"

Hu Feifei didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Stop ridiculing me already. Listen to the words you're using to describe me. Don't you have anything better to say about me?"

Yu Yingyi said with a giggle, "His tongue has always been this sharp!"

Xiaoqian hugged her over her shoulders. "Feifei, divorce him immediately when you get back!"

Yu Yingyi said, "Yeah, you have our support! We've got your back!"

Hu Feifei summoned up the courage and nodded furiously. "OK!"

She looked at Yu Yingyi, then at Xiaoqian, then at Zhang Ye. Without realizing it, Hu Feifei closed her mouth tightly as her eyes reddened.

Today was the happiest day since her graduation!

It was still her classmates who were the best!

It was still these long-time friends who were the best!

Thank you, everyone, thank you!

Zhang Ye warned, "Sit tight, I'm going faster!"

Wang He said, "Drive!"

Yu Yingyi shouted, "Gogogo!"

All of a sudden in this tense moment, Xiaoqian sang loudly in a rather good mood, "Run forward! / Despite the side eyes and insults…"

There were a few cars ahead of them who were also making their escape!

Old Wang said in a panic, "What're we gonna do! What're we gonna do!"

Ma Xufei asked, "Eh? Where's Zhang'er's car?"

Dong Shanshan looked into the rearview mirror. "They must have gone to draw the police away. Let's go faster, we'll meet up at the school. We must finish performing that song!"

He Kui said in an unaffected manner, "Shanshan, you didn't beat them up anyway, so don't follow us when we reach the school. Just run. Let the police arrest us!"

Dong Shanshan said, "Why are you saying that! All of us were in it together, so we must take responsibility for it together as well!"

"Great!"

"We'll take responsibility together!"

"All for one, and one for all!"

Up ahead.

They had reached Media College.

The cars were furiously honking as they went straight in through the gates.

The security guard was dumbfounded by the sight and did not know what was happening!

As Zhang Ye was leading the police on a wild chase, he was the last one to enter the school premises. His car window was already down as he slammed on his brakes at the main gate. He shouted to the security guard there, "There are some police cars behind us. Help us hold them off for a bit. Thanks, man!"

When the guard saw it was Zhang Ye, he immediately said, "Professor Zhang? Alright! I understand!"

Police?

Why was there the police?

He did not probe further and immediately closed the main gate!

Zhang Ye was a graduate of Media College and also an associate professor at the school. Needless to say, he was definitely going to side with one of their own!

Another guard suddenly appeared. "What's going on? Why did you close the gate?"

That old guard said, "Don't ask. Let's go and pretend we're not around!"

The young guard said dumbfounded, "Pretend we're not around?"

The old guard replied, "We'll just hang around in the bathroom and not open the gate for anyone. Professor Zhang must have stirred up some big trouble again, so let's help him delay things for a bit!"

The young guard said, "What? Zhang Ye? Understood!"

At the entrance of the Grand Auditorium.

Dong Shanshan and the others were waiting anxiously!

"Where are they?"

"Why are they not here yet?"

"Give Zhang'er a call!"

"Did he get caught?"

"Hurry up, the ceremony is ending soon!"

Over a dozen of them were pacing around anxiously!

A car engine rumbled closer!

"He's here!"

"It's Zhang'er's car!"

"This is great!"

The BMW came to a stop!

Zhang Ye, Yu Yingyi, Hu Feifei, and the others got out!

Dong Shanshan yelled, "Zhang'er!"

Zhang Ye shouted, "Let's run inside!"

Wang He said, "Let's go! Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

With that shout, Zhang Ye led the pack into the auditorium!

Dong Shanshan and Hu Feifei smiled at each other as over twenty people followed behind them and ran inside!

There were students all around.

There were also some teachers.

Watching this happen, everyone was stunned. What's happening? What are they doing? The ceremony has already started; why are they only here now?

The twenty-plus group of them were running like crazy!

All of them knew they were in trouble. They knew today's incident was absolutely not a small matter at all. However, none of them stopped in their tracks. Instead, they ran even faster as the adrenaline rush made them even more hyper. Almost all of them felt like they had gone back to their student days where they had not a care in the world, a time where laughter and anger filled their days. At that time, they were also rowdy like now, chasing and running without stop!

They were there!

They were almost there!

There was only one song left!

Let us finish singing this last song!

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Chapter 1191: Uncompromising through the years!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

In the auditorium.

The atmosphere at the Welcoming Ceremony was extremely passionate.

"It's almost ending."

"We're already into the final program."

"I heard that Zhang Ye and Dong Shanshan will be performing!"

"Yeah, our seniors are all back!"

"I'm so looking forward to it!"

"Right, I like them sooo much!"

"I heard that they'll be singing, and it's going to be an original too!"

"I applied for Media College this year just because of Zhang Ye!"

"Me too, and we're going to get to see them immediately too!"

The freshmen were all waiting in anticipation. Quite a few of the sophomores and juniors also came to attend today's ceremony. They were also waiting to watch Zhang Ye, Dong Shanshan, and the other seniors' show!

But unknown to them, the backstage had plunged into chaos!

The staff members kept making calls until their cell phones died.

"No one's answering!"

"Where are they?"

"Why aren't they here yet?"

Ever since the ceremony began, they hadn't seen a trace of them!

Su Hongyan was getting very anxious and pacing back and forth. Suddenly, heavy footfalls sounded. She looked up immediately. "Aiyo! My little ancestors, where have you all been?"

Wang He panted, "We're here!"

Su Hongyan was taken aback. "Hu Feifei's here too?

Hu Feifei felt extremely agitated. "T-Teacher Su!"

Su Hongyan took her hand. "Where did you disappear to for so long? And the rest of you, why did you arrive in such a…"

Old Wang huffed and puffed. "Teacher, it's difficult to explain!"

Yu Yingyi asked, "Is it our turn yet?"

"It's your turn right now!" Su Hongyan said, "Quickly get ready!"

A distance away, a school official said, "What's there to get ready for? There's no time, just get onstage!"

Zhang Ye said, "Alright, let's go!"

The group of them shouted in unison, "Let's go!"

The stage went dark and the curtains were drawn.

An atmosphere of excitement was building up in the auditorium as everyone knew that the finale was coming up.

"Alumni!"

"Alumni!"

"Alumni!"

"Alumni!"

A lot of people in the audience started shouting!

There were no empty seats in the thousand-person auditorium!

Behind the curtains, Zhang Ye, Dong Shanshan, and the others were on their instruments. The microphones were also in place.

Xiaoqian smiled and said, "Fellas, how long has it been since we performed on stage together? Do you guys remember?"

"Four years," Hu Feifei said with a smile.

Dong Shanshan's reminiscing could be seen on her features. "Yeah, it's been four years. The last time was during prom in our junior year. Our class sang a song that shocked the entire school as we performed it too terribly. We even got singled out to be criticized!"

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Da Hui belly laughed and said, "Then let's shock them again!"

Zhang Ye said, "Fellas, let's tell this story of ours to the underclassmen!"

Hu Feifei put out her hand. "Youth never dies!"

Zhang Ye placed his hand on hers. "Youth never dies!"

Dong Shanshan shouted, "Youth never dies!"

Everyone's hands came together!

"Let's do it!"

"Gooo!"

The curtains lifted!

Su Hongyan and many of the other teachers were sitting in the audience.

The many students of Media College started screaming crazily!

Zhang Ye carried a semi-acoustic guitar and walked to the lead singer's position. Yu Yingyi raised a violin, Da Hui took the drummer's position, and everyone else got into their positions!

Zhang Ye nodded to Da Hui.

Da Hui snapped his fingers for the countdown and played a beat!

Once.

Twice.

Thrice.

The piano played as well.

The strumming of the guitar followed!

Zhang Ye closed his eyes and stepped up to the microphone. He opened the song 1 with a very high note, his voice stunning the entire audience of teachers and students. He sang loudly, "Just where is that world overflowing with flowers? / If it's a real place, then I will find a way to get there."

The second lead vocalist, Wang He, laughed, "I want to tower on the highest peak in that place, / ignoring if there are steep cliffs all around."

While smiling, Dong Shanshan sang, "By living fast and loving hard, death is nothing to fear. / Not living for the sake of others but to be proud of myself here."

Da Hui continued drumming and stuck his head close to the microphone. "I have never chosen to give up on my dreams, / even on days that are broken at the seams."

Old Wang raised a hand. "Perhaps I have no talent!"

Ma Xufei sang, "But I have the simplicity of a dream!"

He Kui had a smile on his face. "I will demonstrate it with all of my being."

Hu Feifei sang emotionally, "Perhaps my mouth is clumsier than my feet!"

Xiaoqian embraced her. "But I'll never stop searching."

Yu Yingyi shouted, "I will give all of my youth without regret!"

All of a sudden, a roar of voices exploded!

The music and rhythm soared!

Everyone who was standing onstage gave a look to the person beside them. Zhang Ye looked at Wang He; Dong Shanshan looked at Yu Yingyi; Xiaoqian looked at Hu Feifei. Then, all of them raised their hands in unison!

They roared together!

There were mad grins on their faces!

"Run forward!

"Despite the side eyes and insults!

"How can you experience all life has to offer without suffering!"

They put down their hands and then pounded their chests.

"Destiny can't make us kneel and beg for mercy!

"Even if!

"Our arms are soaked in blood!

"Keep running!

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"With the pride of a pure heart!

"How can you see the beauty of life if you don't stick it out!

"Instead of clinging to life, live passionately, burn brightly!

"Someday it will sprout again!"

Su Hongyan looked totally stunned!

All of the students in the audience also looked very shocked!

The imagery of a "me against the world spirit" and "youthful passion," the story of Zhang Ye, Dong Shanshan, Hu Feifei, and the others, everyone could seemingly see all of it in this moment!

All of them stood up!

In this very moment, the entire audience was moved!

The auditorium doors had been opened at some point in time, and there were eight or nine police officers who had entered the building. However, they did not go to arrest anyone. They just stood there stunned as they watched the people onstage in shock. Similar to those in the audience, an image was conjured up in their minds as they felt the full effects of the song as well!

Zhang Ye?

Dong Shanshan?

Yu Yingyi?

Wang He?

Just what kinds of people were in this group?

Everyone saw the illusion of a brilliant light flashing before their eyes!

Zhang Ye, Wang He, and Da Hui raised their fists. "Run forward!"

Ma Xufei, Old Wang, and He Kui roared, "Despite the side eyes and insults!"

Dong Shanshan, Yu Yingyi, and Xiaoqian shoutsang in a high register, "How can you experience all life has to offer without suffering!"

Hu Feifei's tears were flowing down her cheeks as she howled while crying, "Destiny can't make us kneel and beg for mercy! / Even if! Our arms are soaked in blood!"

The people onstage were moving closer and closer to each other!

Then they hugged each other by putting their hands over each other's shoulders and screamed as crazily as they could.

"Keep running!

"With the pride of a pure heart!

"How can you see the beauty of life if you don't stick it out!

"Instead of clinging to life, live passionately, burn brightly!"

All of them looked at one another!

Zhang Ye started them off by raising his middle finger and pointing it angrily at the sky!

Dong Shanshan looked up and raised her middle finger!

Hu Feifei put up her hand and raised her middle finger!

All of them raised their middle fingers!

Fuck giving up!

Fuck cowardice!

Fuck reality!

All of them pointed angrily at the heavens and looked up at it.

"For our beautiful dreams!

"Uncompromising through the years!"

Su Hongyan was wiping away her tears!

Many of the students could feel their blood surging!

These were their alumni!

These were their alumnae!

Wonderful! Your story…is just wonderful!

1. Chasing Dreams with a Pure Heart

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Chapter 1192: Zhang Ye gets arrested again!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

Cheers!

Screams!

Applause!

Yells!

The entire auditorium was turned upside down!

"Chasing Dreams with a Pure Heart" was from Zhang Ye's previous world and GALA's most famous song. It was an extremely difficult song to sing as its high notes were almost unreachable by most singers. It was even hard for GALA 1 's own lead vocalist. Other than Zhang Ye, everyone else's singing was appalling. They sang from their throats, with some of them even cracking or getting hoarse. There was even someone who sang the lyrics wrong. And yet, somehow, no one listening felt that their singing was bad. Instead, they were so shocked they felt it was even more touching than listening to those who sang with great technique. It was an indescribable feeling!

Some songs were probably not meant to be sung with a good voice!

They depended more on emotions and heart.

A pure heart?

"How awesome!"

"'Destiny can't make us kneel and beg for mercy?' The lyrics are really great!"

"Uncompromising through the years!"

"Alum!"

"Alumna!"

"Ahhhh!"

"This is the best live performance I've ever heard!"

"Why are our alumnae crying too!"

Hu Feifei, Xiaoqian, and a few other girls were bawling on stage. In these few years since their graduation, they had been through too much. Treated with indifference? Setbacks? Hardship? Derision? They did not know how they made it through to where they were now. They never thought that they would be able to gather here again one day and do something so crazy, and also perform such an amazing song!

Several teachers in the audience were sighing.

A former teacher of theirs said, "These children have all grown up."

But another teacher said, "They've not grown up at all."

Su Hongyan smiled and said, "Yes, they're still the same as they were back then. I've never in my life advised a class of students that gave me a headache as bad as they did!"

A female teacher laughed and said, "It's now other people's turn to have a headache over them!"

The performance was over!

The Welcoming Ceremony also came to an end!

Zhang Ye and the others headed backstage.

Wang He said, "That was so cool!"

Da Hui laughed heartily. "I feel like my throat has been split open!"

"That was fun!" Old Wang shouted. "Exciting!"

Ma Xufei said, "We haven't let ourselves loose in so many years!"

Hu Feifei gave a wry smile and said, "For that bit I sang, Xiaoqian had to teach me for so long while we were in the car. But I still couldn't remember all the lyrics and even sang a line wrong, didn't I?"

"Perhaps my hands are clumsier than my feet."

That line was sung as "Perhaps my mouth is clumsier than my feet."

Zhang Ye said happily, "It's fine. That line suited you more, so it's pretty good."

Yu Yingyi rejoiced, "I had such a kickass time singing today!"

Zhang Ye whistled to get everyone's attention and said, "We've finished singing. So let's not keep those people waiting anymore. Let's move out, fellas!"

"Let's go."

"Yeah, let's go!"

"Haha!"

"Time to depart!"

"Whoa, what do you mean by time to depart? That sounds so pessimistic!"

"Then what should I call it?"

"We're just surrendering ourselves."

"That sounds even worse!"

"We should say that we're martyring ourselves instead!"

"Man, you guys are going off on a tangent."

There was no hesitation from everyone as they walked outside in laughter.

A group of police officers were standing outside, not knowing what to do.

A policeman asked, "Brother Li, do we go inside to arrest them?"

The old policeman rolled his eyes. "If we do that at this time, the students will definitely prevent us from leaving."

"Then what do we do?"

"What if they escape? We can't—"

"Yeah, we can't wait around anymore!"

While they were discussing, the police officers suddenly turned their heads in surprise when they saw Zhang Ye, Dong Shanshan, Hu Feifei, and the others walking towards them in laughter. The police officers couldn't react to this sight. What was going on?

Zhang Ye said, "Sorry about that, officers."

Yu Yingyi said, "We'll be going with you now."

Liu Tie put out his hands. "Do we need to be cuffed?"

Old Wang blinked and said, "Does this count as turning ourselves in?"

The police officers looked at one another. "Aren't you guys going to run?"

Zhang Ye laughed and said, "We've finished singing and done what we needed to do, so why do we need to run?" Then he looked at two of the police officers and said in surprise, "Why do you two look a little familiar?"

The two of them didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Because we've arrested you before."

Hu Feifei laughed, "Pfft!"

Dong Shanshan and everyone else were also giggling.

"Ah? When?" Zhang Ye was taken aback.

The police officers said, "A few years ago, you beat up someone at Beijing TV. That case was handled by our police station. Even now, the little dark room has that poem you wrote while you were in there."

Zhang Ye said endearingly, "Oh, my old friends."

The police officers gave bitter smiles. Who are your old friends? Can't you give us less trouble to deal with? They really did not want to arrest Zhang Ye, not to mention Dong Shanshan and Yu Yingyi this time as well. Thinking back to when Zhang Ye was not as famous as he was now, he alone had almost single-handedly turned the police station upside down. There were so many reporters and citizens who nearly flattened their police station to the ground. Just that memory alone made them fearful.

But they still had to handle the case.

One of the police officers sighed. "Get in the car then."

Zhang Ye nodded. "Let's go."

The group of them rowdily followed.

Driving back, the police still felt worried that this group of people would try to escape. They were on full alert to prevent that from happening. After all, Zhang Ye had once created trouble for them at their station. But by the time their police cars arrived back at the station, there were no tricks from Zhang Ye and the others. They did not even kick up a fuss or complain about anything. Instead, they were all very calm and cooperative.

But unbeknownst to them, Zhang Ye had already accepted this outcome.

The last time he was arrested, it was because he had been a good samaritan. It was Beijing Television's Wang Shuixin's son who tried to hit others first that made Zhang Ye hit him in retaliation. He didn't find that to be wrong, so of course he wasn't happy about getting arrested. He definitely had to reason with them as he was not at fault and just did it in self-defense. However, Zhang Ye and the others knew that they were definitely in the wrong this time. It was definitely an offense to beat up other people, so they did not argue against it!

When it was time to admit that he was in the wrong, he would do so!

When he had to answer to his responsibilities, he would never run away!

…

Online.

A video of the Welcoming Ceremony at Media College was uploaded to the internet!

"Chasing Dreams with a Pure Heart" went viral!

"It's great!"

"The lyrics are awesome!"

"Who wrote this song?"

"Idiot, it was definitely Zhang Ye!"

"They sang great!"

"Shanshan also knows how to sing? I have a crush on her!"

"Haha, Yu Yingyi was there too!"

"All of Zhang Ye's classmates were there?"

"Their friendship is really admirable."

"So that was what their youth was like! To keep running forward!"

"I could feel my blood race when I listened to the song! It's so intense!"

Not long after, breaking news struck!

It came with nearly no warning or anticipation!

"Newsflash: Zhang Ye Arrested!"

"Dong Shanshan and Yu Yingyi were taken away to the police station on suspicion of taking part in a gang fight!"

"Zhang Ye, Dong Shanshan, and others involved in a gang fight!"

This news came like a crash of thunder. It exploded across China, and anyone who heard of it very nearly vomited blood the moment they found out!

They had been arrested?

A gang fight?

Countless people fainted on the spot!

If it were just Zhang Ye involved in the gang fight, we'd believe it. Just at the recent Olympics, he beat up those foreign referees. This fellow would always stir up some trouble every now and then, so we've gotten used to it!

But what are you guys saying now?

Dong Shanshan?

Yu Yingyi?

Those two were involved in a gang fight?

Fuck that! Did you get it wrong?

They are our goddesses, come on!

On Weibo.

"My titanium dog eyes are blinded!"

"Mine too! Oh, my goddess Shanshan!"

"What the fuck, what gang fight?"

"Is this fake news?"

"It's definitely not fake news, but what really happened?"

"Yeah, why did it happen?"

"Zhang Ye is used to getting into fights, but how could Dong Shanshan and Yu Yingyi have fought as well? Something must've happened, and it must have been a major issue!"

"Zhang Ye, your sister!"

"Bringing our goddesses to a gang fight? Only you would do something like that!"

"Our goddesses have been led astray by you!"

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Chapter 1193: A pure heart!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

At the police station.

The bureau chief arrived in a hurry.

Zhang Ye acted friendly and said while waving, "Chief, long time no see."

The bureau said helplessly, "Teacher Zhang, what are you doing here again? I was just going to Tianjin on a business trip when I heard and had to rush back. Spare us, will you? The last incident you stirred up caused chaos at our police station. We were put on the radar of the city's Public Security Department and investigated until I nearly lost my job. It's not that I'm curious, but how have I offended you this time? Why do you keep coming back to haunt me? Can you do that to someone else? Go to another police station? I'll thank you for that, Teacher Zhang!"

Zhang Ye gave a dry laugh and said, "It's not like I know which district you're in charge of."

The bureau chief looked listless. "So what is it this time?"

Ma Xufei said, "It was a misunderstanding, just a misunderstanding!"

Da Hui blinked and said, "Chief, since we're so familiar with each other, can you please let this go?"

The bureau chief rolled his eyes, thinking who they all were trying to act familiar with him. "How am I supposed to let this go? Someone has reported you guys for beating up people in a gang fight out on the public streets. You even hurt quite a few people."

Yu Yingyi asked, "Are their injuries serious?"

The bureau chief looked at the old policeman nearby.

The old policeman gave a bitter laugh. "It's not exactly serious, and they should only be external injuries. But a few of them are insisting on remaining in the hospital. They want to stay the night and get thoroughly examined, so they're definitely not going to let this go."

The bureau chief banged on the table and said, "This matter is very severe."

Hu Feifei stood forward. "It was all because of me; I was the one who led them, so arrest me!"

Zhang Ye said, "Oh come on, you need to be believable when you make such a claim. I was the one who led them."

The bureau chief said, "We already know part of the story from the victims themselves. Now tell me your side of it. We need to take your statements as well."

The old policeman said, "You guys are schoolmates, right?"

Wang He corrected, "Classmates."

Zhang Ye immediately pointed at Hu Feifei. "Our classmate was beaten by that fatass He. It's a case of domestic violence that has happened for two to three years."

Dong Shanshan said, "Feifei, show them!"

Hu Feifei pulled up her sleeves.

A policewoman went over to have a look, then looked at Feifei's neck and took a deep breath before saying angrily, "The blows are this ruthless?" She turned back around and said, "Chief, this is really too much!" A woman would feel for a woman, especially on matters of domestic violence.

Hu Feifei did not say a word.

Zhang Ye pointed at her and said, "Tell me, do you think we can tolerate this? We had to do something!"

The bureau chief smacked his lips. "You still can't beat people up on the streets."

Zhang Ye said, "Then next time, we can beat them up secretly?"

"Of course not!" The bureau chief was floored. "You guys have broken the law."

Zhang Ye nodded and said, "Alright, then let me take responsibility for this alone. Let the rest go."

"Zhang'er!"

"What are you saying?"

"That's pointless!"

"Everyone had a part in it!"

"Right, we'll bear responsibility for it together!"

"Isn't it just getting detained? We'll take it!"

The bureau chief looked at the group of hot-blooded youths helplessly. "You're all pretty loyal." After a pause, he continued asking them about the details of what happened in the evening. Then he gestured to a few of the police officers and asked them to leave the room before saying to Zhang Ye and the others, "We handle several such cases a day, and they're considered neither major nor minor matters. From a moral viewpoint, Little Hu is definitely the victim and the judgment should be biased against you guys. But the way that you guys chose to handle this was very inappropriate. Couldn't you have reported it to the police? Couldn't you have contacted a lawyer to sue him? Why did you have to resort to violence? That's right, Teacher Zhang, aren't you a lawyer yourself?"

Zhang Ye said, "I haven't gotten my license to practice yet."

The bureau chief sighed. "The one who attacks first is the most disadvantaged. Besides, they reported it to the police and have evidence and eyewitnesses as well. Even if I want to help you guys, there's a limit to what I can do. So unless the other party decides not to pursue this, the case won't be dropped. We'll have to go by procedure and detain whoever needs to be detained."

There was a knock on the door.

The bureau chief said, "Come in."

A policewoman said, "Chief, you have a call."

The bureau chief looked over. "Who is it?"

The policewoman looked at Zhang Ye. "It's Zhang Ye's agent, Rao Aimin."

Then another person came in. "Chief, the PR rep of Zhang Ye's Studio, Ha Qiqi, is here."

Soon after, another policeman ran in and said, "Chief, a director at the Ministry of Public Security called to plead for Teacher Zhang."

Ministry of Public Security?

The police officers' eyes twitched.

Zhang Ye blinked several times. He knew who it was. Rao Aimin's junior martial brother must have found someone to speak up for him since he worked at the Ministry of Public Security.

"Chief!"

"The media has arrived!"

"There are more than 30 reporters blocking the main entrance!"

"Chief, there are people from Beijing TV here as well. It's Teacher Dong Shanshan's boss!"

"Central TV Sports Channel's deputy director is here too! They want to bail Teacher Yu out."

They could hear an uproar happening outside.

Especially that loud voice of Ha Qiqi's. It was extremely piercing. "And what are you all arresting him for? Based on what charges! The lawyer is already on the way here! I want to see Director Zhang right now!"

The bureau chief wiped his sweat away and said, "Go and handle it."

The door closed.

Feeling a headache coming on, the bureau chief said, "People from all kinds of places are starting to arrive here. Just look at this, what's going to happen now? Do you think it's easy for me to be a police chief here?"

Zhang Ye said, "I'm sorry about that. Blame it on me, I've really troubled you guys this time."

The bureau chief did not expect to hear such words from Zhang Ye, so he said, "Teacher Zhang, we've crossed paths before. I know what kind of person you are and that you would not hit others for no reason. If I were in your shoes and knew that my good friend was getting abused, I would've done the same even if it meant getting detained! But the problem is that you're too well-known. Everyone in China knows you, and you have so many enemies as well. Now that this matter has blown up on the Internet, we cannot downplay this case even if we wanted to."

Zhang Ye said, "I understand, but as for my classmates—"

"How about this?" interrupted the bureau chief, "You and a few of the leaders of the group can't leave today. As for the rest, I'll give you some face and allow them to leave."

Zhang Ye asked, "What about Hu Feifei?"

The bureau chief thought about it. "She can go back as well."

Zhang Ye immediately said, "Thank you so much!"

"No, that won't do!"

"Right, we won't leave!"

"If we are to leave, we'll leave together!"

Everyone shouted in agreement.

But Zhang Ye said, "That's enough. Is this such a good situation that you guys want to be part of it? Feifei, Xiaoqian, Yingyi, Shanshan, all of you go back first. And the rest of you who can leave, just leave. I'll stay behind here, so don't worry."

Dong Shanshan looked at him. "Are you going to be fine?"

Zhang Ye laughed and said, "What do you think? It's not like this is the first time I'm here, so just lead them out. By the way, don't let Hu Feifei go back home. Let her stay with you for now."

Dong Shanshan nodded. "Alright, I'll think of a way to get you out of here when I get out."

"OK," Zhang Ye said.

Then Dong Shanshan pulled Hu Feifei and Yu Yingyi away, saying, "Let's go. It'll be hard to get things settled if all of us stay here. Let's go outside and ask around to see how we can get them out."

Wang He waved his hands. "Just hurry up and go."

Da Hui said with a laugh, "Us men aren't afraid of staying here."

Yu Yingyi said firmly, "Wait for us!"

Hu Feifei said through her teeth, "I'll think of something!"

Zhang Ye smiled. "It's fine. At most, we get locked up for seven or eight days."

Hu Feifei said, "I'll definitely get you guys out!"

Zhang Ye waved them off, "Just go."

The female classmates all left.

The remaining people were then sent to the "little dark room."

When he went inside, Zhang Ye started reminiscing. A few years ago, he had written a poem on the wall that plunged the police station into chaos.

The poem was still there!

The faint writing could still be seen on the wall!

Wang He stared at the writing. "Shut are the doors for humans."

Da Hui continued, "Open is the entrance of a dog cage, a high pitched sound is heard—Crawl out and freedom will be granted….Pfft, Zhang'er, you wrote this!"

Everyone was amused!

He Kui suddenly said, "Why not write another one now?"

Several of the police officers who sent them into the room were scared out of their wits when they heard that!

A young policeman shouted, "Don't! Don't write another!"

A policewoman said, "Teacher Zhang, calm down! Calm down!"

Zhang Ye said, "Don't worry, I'm not writing anything this time."

The police officers heaved sighs of relief and walked off with a lingering sense of fear.

Zhang Ye sat down on the floor. "Come on, bros. Take a seat."

Wang He made himself at home and said, "There's nothing to do anyway, so why don't we talk?"

Ma Xufei lay on the floor. "Ah, how comfortable."

Zhang Ye said with a laugh, "Then Old Ma can stay a few more days."

"Forget that." Ma Xufei rolled his eyes and said, "If I can get out of here, I'll definitely go. Who wants to stay in a place like this?"

Zhang Ye said, "So you guys now know how I felt a few years back?"

He Kui said, "Ai, I wonder how many days we'll be in here. We might even get transferred over to the prison?"

Old Zhou whistled and said, "I suppose we're getting badly scolded all over the Internet."

Zhang Ye chuckled. "I bet they're all insulting me."

But this time, Zhang Ye was really wrong about that.

…

On Weibo.

By now, the details of this case had been uncovered layer by layer!

It was true that a lot of people were criticizing Zhang Ye. There were even people of status who were well-respected, consisting of experts and academics who were mainly Zhang Ye's past foes. There were also some people who criticized Dong Shanshan and Yu Yingyi. However, there were even more people who did not criticize them. On this matter, the people's evaluation of Zhang Ye, Dong Shanshan, and the others was instead very fair.

"Beating up people is wrong, but it's understandable in this case!"

"Domestic violence should not be tolerated!"

"It was Zhang Ye and Dong Shanshan's old classmate who got abused first. You couldn't see something like this without taking action! Damn, if it were me, I would've beaten up that person too!"

"That He guy indeed went overboard. We can't blame Dong Shanshan and Yu Yingyi for this incident. Instead, I see them in a different light. They are truly goddesses! They have guts and principles!"

"Right!"

"I'm Shanshan's fan from now on!"

"Think of those celebrities who only care about themselves and act dumb or divert the topic whenever something happens. They only know how to think about themselves first when their friends are in trouble and try not to get implicated. Is there any meaning in being someone like that? I prefer people like Zhang Ye and Dong Shanshan who dare to shout and fight for their beliefs! They were willing to step in and do something based on their friendship with an old classmate. Even if they did wrong, it's understandable why they did it! Don't just come online to criticize others after you hear about a fight!"

"Just on this issue, I have to pay respect to Zhang Ye and Dong Shanshan!"

"For big shot Zhang Ye, and well-known hosts Dong Shanshan and Yu Yingyi, they were willing to put their reputations at stake. It must have really been difficult for them!"

"That He guy deserves it!"

"Zhang Ye should be let off with a slap on the wrist!"

"Right, cut him some slack!"

"What a pity. I had just finished listening to that shocking 'Chasing Dreams with a Pure Heart' and didn't expect that they would really handle things like how they had sung. Thank you, thank you to all of you. You've let us witness many beautiful sights. Zhang Ye, Shanshan, Yingyi, please keep running, forever with the pride of a pure heart!"

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Chapter 1194: Released!

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The next day.

Some time in the morning.

Ma Xufei woke up groaning, "Aiyo, my waist, it hurts so bad!"

This groaning voice woke up everyone else in the room. All of them saw Ma Xufei, who was lying on the floor, get up while clutching his waist as he moved about stiffly.

Wang He yawned. "What time is it?"

Zhang Ye, who was lying on the table, also woke up. "It's light out?"

Suddenly, the door to the "little dark room" opened.

The bureau chief came in with a smile. "Alright, pack it up, you guys are free to go."

Zhang Ye was taken aback. "Huh?"

Wang He was also surprised. "We can go?"

Ma Xufei was stunned. "Aren't we getting detained?"

He Kui rubbed his eyes in a daze. "What? Have we been sleeping for seven days and seven nights?"

Old Wang said, "Pfft, are you a pig? Sleeping for seven straight days!"

The bureau chief looked relaxed. He said, "That He guy you all beat up has dropped the suit. He said that you guys were just fooling around, and the hospital has also cleared them of any serious injuries and said that they'd be fine." He looked at them and said, "Don't ask me why; I don't know the reason either. In any case, you can go now. Your cell phones and personal effects have all been brought over, so come and claim whatever belongs to you."

Zhang Ye laughed. "So we can really leave?"

The bureau chief rolled his eyes. "What's the matter? Don't tell me you've grown fond of staying here? I have to say this, Teacher Zhang. Please don't stir up any more trouble in future. And if you decide to fight someone again, please don't do so in my jurisdiction, alright? For all of last night, our police station was the focus of the nation's attention. It was so stressful that I even considered an early retirement! Please give us a break and stop bringing trouble to our police station!"

They continued talking as they made their way out.

In the police station's yard, quite a few people were waiting!

"Old Zhou!"

"What are you doing here, honey?"

"You jerk! You've been locked up, how can I not come?"

"He Kui!"

"Ah, Dad."

"How old are you? Why are you still getting into fights?"

"Hehe, I got a little impulsive."

Their family members were here to pick them up.

Zhang Ye also knew quite a few of them. "Auntie Sun, Uncle Zhou."

Several of the parents looked at him. "Little Ye, I have to lecture you. You're the most successful one of them all and should be leading by example, so how can you lead them to do something like this?"

Zhang Ye quickly said, "It was my fault, my fault."

But of course, Zhang Ye had the most people coming to pick him up!

Ha Qiqi eyes turned red. "Director Zhang! You made all of us so worried!"

Zhang Ye smiled. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

His parents were also here and they lashed out at him!

Zhang Ye did not talk back and just listened to them as they scolded him.

Little Wang and the others also hurried over. There were three or four people who came from the studio.

"Director Zhang."

"Have a change of clothes."

"Are you hungry? I brought some food over for you."

"Director Zhang, do you want a drink? It's still warm, quickly drink some!"

"Did you sleep well in there?"

His junior martial sister drove here to wait for him as well. "Senior Bro, I got your car from Media College and drove it here. Master Rao is outside handling the reporters."

A group of people busily waited on Zhang Ye, with some of them giving him something to eat and some of them giving him something to drink. When he choked, someone would instantly pass him a napkin!

His group of classmates were speechless as they watched. Wasn't this treatment far too different from theirs?

He had someone who drove here to pick him up.

He had someone to bring him tea.

He had someone to pour it for him.

When can we reach the point that we can get this treatment too!

They became incredibly jealous as they watched Zhang Ye!

All of a sudden, more people came in from outside. They were Hu Feifei, Dong Shanshan, Yu Yingyi, and a few other female classmates of theirs.

So Zhang Ye said, "Dad, Mom, why don't you two go home first."

His mother stared at him. "I'll pick it back up with you when you get home."

"Alright, alright." Zhang Ye signaled to Yang Shu. "Yang Shu, send my parents home."

"OK." Yang Shu led Zhang Ye's parents away to send them back.

Only then did Zhang Ye ask Hu Feifei, "So what happened?"

Wang He, Ma Xufei, and the others also came over.

"That's right!"

"How did we get released so quickly?"

"Who'd you guys go to?"

"Did that He guy suddenly come to his senses?"

Hu Feifei smiled and said, "The public's siding w. He's under too much pressure and couldn't bear it, so he decided to just let this go as he doesn't want trouble for himself. Who hasn't heard of Zhang'er's reputation? Zhang'er is one of the biggest names in the country, so I'm sure that he's also kinda afraid of him."

Wang He speculated, "That's impossible!"

Ma Xufei said, "Yeah, how could it be that simple?"

The public was on their side this time. The majority of people felt they had their reasons for doing what they did. Although some people criticized them for their wrongdoing, they did not outright express their support for Hu Feifei's husband either. Those who criticized Zhang Ye, Dong Shanshan, and the others were also scolding Hu Feifei's husband without exception. In fact, they were even more critical of him. Some people dug up He's family background and company situation; even his home address had been exposed. If they were to say that he was under pressure, he definitely was. But that still wouldn't amount to him doing a 180, would it?

Hu Feifei changed the subject and said with a laugh, "Oh yes, I have some very good news to announce. I'm getting divorced! Please congratulate me, everyone!"

"Congratulations!"

"Yeah, congrats!"

"That's a good thing!"

"You should have done this a long time ago!"

But Zhang Ye did not let it go. He needed to clear this up. "So what really happened? Hu Feifei, tell me the truth. Do you really think we're so easily fooled?"

Hu Feifei smiled and said, "But that's really how it was, he couldn't bear all that pressure."

Zhang Ye looked at her. "Are you going to tell me or not?"

Xiaoqian couldn't hold it in any longer. "I'll tell!"

Hu Feifei glared. "Xiaoqian!"

Xiaoqian ignored her and said, "Hu Feifei has already signed the divorce papers. But she won't be seeking any settlement on the condition that He must step back from taking any action on you guys and drop the suit!"

Da Hui was startled. "What?"

Wang He said, "Hu Feifei, aren't you being silly like that?"

Ma Xufei said angrily, "What are you thinking! You should have asked for a settlement! He's abused you for so many years, how can you not get something from him? Why did you do that! However long we're detained, so be it. It's no big deal!"

Hu Feifei smiled. "Well, he doesn't have much money left anyway. His company has been going downhill in recent years and is almost an empty shell now. He even sold off a car and a property recently to pay off his debts. He's in dire straits, and besides, I've also thought it through. I don't want any of his lousy money. I just want to get back to being a host and earn myself a living. Ai, but I think I'm too far behind everyone now. I don't even know if I can make up for the time I've lost over the past few years." She sounded a little hesitant. "Do you guys think that I can still get on a stage?"

Wang He said, "Definitely!"

Yu Yingyi said, "Right! You can definitely do it!"

Zhang Ye praised, "It's good that you've thought it out. You're right, what need do you have for that lousy money of his."

Xiaoqian gave him a look. "Zhang'er, you had better help Feifei find a good job. We're counting on you."

"Don't worry." Zhang Ye, taking it all on, said, "I'll help Hu Feifei contact some people later."

Dong Shanshan also said with a laugh, "Feifei, stay at my place for now. It's boring living by myself anyway."

Hu Feifei did not turn her down. "Sure, I have nowhere to go, so I guess I'll have to disturb you for a few days until I find a place to move to."

"Let's go!"

"We're going back home!"

"Hahaha!"

The police officers at the station got quite moved from watching this.

All of them were willing to get detained just because they wanted to get justice for their classmate!

While one of them was willing to leave a marriage with nothing to her name in order to save her classmates!

Classmates?

What a beautiful term it was!

…

Outside, the reporters had clogged the entrance!

When Zhang Ye, Dong Shanshan, and the others came out, the reporters rushed up to them!

Zhang Ye gave Ha Qiqi and the others a look that they immediately understood. The studio's staff immediately went up to block the reporters.

"Fellas, run!" Zhang Ye shouted. Hu Feifei and the others instantly widened their strides and ran away from the reporters. Someone started singing, to which Zhang Ye and everyone else loudly sang along with!

"Instead of clinging to life, live passionately, burn brightly!

"For our beautiful dreams!

"Uncompromising through the years!"

Chapter 1195: The prospective daughter-in-law comes to visit!

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Later that afternoon.

Slightly before 2 PM.

In the courtyard of the Wu residence.

The courtyard house door was unlocked, and Zhang Ye pushed it open to get in. "Auntie, Uncle, is anyone home?"

Li Qinqin came out from the northern house looking rather surprised. "Little Ye? When did you get released?"

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "I was let out this morning. Auntie, I bought you some fruit. I'll just place it out here in the courtyard." He left them on the stone table.

Wu Changhe also stepped out from the house. "What are you doing here, kid?"

Li Qinqin said, "Quick, let's go inside."

Zhang Ye said helplessly, "I came here to escape from the commotion at home. My parents will nag me if I go back. They've been nagging me the entire morning, and the studio is packed with reporters. If I go back there, wouldn't I just get bombarded with questions? So I can only make my way here to your place to lay low for a while. I've called Old Wu. She said that she'll be coming over in a while too."

Just as he finished speaking.

Wu Zeqing arrived.

"Whoa, that was fast!" Zhang Ye turned around.

Wu Zeqing smiled. "I saw you driving over here. I was right behind you."

Li Qinqin complained to Zhang Ye, "You really made us worried about you."

Zhang Ye chuckled and said, "Hai, Auntie, I'm fine."

Wu Zeqing made him go into the house. "My mom had to go around yesterday asking so many people to find out about your circumstances. She was really hoping that someone could help get you released. You don't even know how worried she was."

Zhang Ye was extremely touched. "Aiyo, Auntie, I'm terribly sorry about making you worry."

Wu Changhe said nonchalantly, "If you know how to be sorry, you shouldn't have taken part in a gang fight."

Li Qinqin gave her husband a small nudge. "Didn't you also check with many people regarding Little Ye's case? You even pushed for me to call up an old classmate who was working at a police station!"

Wu Changhe grunted, "I did that for my daughter."

Wu Zeqing laughed and said, "See how well my parents treat you."

"Thank you, Uncle. Thank you, Auntie." Zhang Ye thanked them sincerely.

Li Qinqin gave her daughter a sharp look. "Only you weren't worried."

Wu Zeqing said gently, "He can handle it himself. Why would I need to worry?"

Li Qinqin said unhappily, "What if something had happened?"

Wu Zeqing laughed. "He knows what he's doing."

"What does he know?" Wu Changhe said in a speechless manner, "Which A-list celebrity out there goes around taking part in gang fights? I've never even heard of that happening before!"

Li Qinqin added, "Right, don't be so impulsive next time!"

Zhang Ye did not know how to answer them.

Instead, it was Wu Zeqing who answered for him. "Since he handled it that way, he must have his reasons for doing so. Alright, let's not talk about this anymore." Then she looked at Zhang Ye. "Shall I make you something to eat?"

Zhang Ye put his hand on his belly. "Yeah, I didn't really eat lunch."

"Alright, give me a bit then." Wu Zeqing headed to the kitchen and busied herself.

Wu Changhe and Li Qinqin both rolled their eyes. Their daughter was really spoiling her boyfriend. After such a big incident, she didn't even direct a word of blame at him. Instead, she even spoke up for him? What was this! They were speaking in such harmony. If it went on like this, wouldn't there be bigger trouble in the future? And they weren't even married yet! If they really got married, wouldn't these two turn the entire Chinese entertainment industry on its head? A showbiz celebrity who loved making trouble, and a woman in a position of power who was coincidentally the authority of the entertainment industry, who could stop them in the future?

After lunch.

Wu Changhe went to power on the computer to play Go.

Wu Zeqing brought Zhang Ye to her bedroom in the west wing. Old Wu didn't live here usually but she would stay over sometimes when it rained after visiting her parents.

The decor in the room was middling, but it was quite clean and tidy.

The moment Zhang Ye stepped inside, he flopped onto the bed. "I'm exhausted."

Wu Zeqing sat next to the bed. "You didn't sleep well while you were in jail? Then get some rest while you're here. You can take off your shoes and put my slippers on."

Zhang Ye blinked several times and turned sideways. He hugged her waist and placed his hands on her leg. Through her black suit pants, he could feel the softness of her leg. "I've been too busy these days, commentating for the Olympics, releasing a music video single, and even getting arrested. I haven't seen you in such a long time. How is everything at work? Have you been busy?"

Wu Zeqing smiled and said, "It's the same as usual. You know, you really should take things a little easier in the future. Don't worry my parents anymore."

"I understand." Zhang Ye said, "Haha, I'll lie low for a while and work on my character. Your parents are really quite good to me. I really hadn't expected that."

Suddenly, the thud of footfalls approached.

It was Li Qinqin. "Zeqing?"

Wu Zeqing turned around. "Mom, come in."

Zhang Ye immediately pulled his hands back and sat up on the bed.

Li Qinqin came into the bedroom and said with a smile, "Is Little Ye tired?"

"No, I feel awake." Zhang Ye smiled.

Li Qinqin nodded and sat down as well. "Zeqing, I had a discussion with your dad just now. The relationship between you and Little Ye is more or less confirmed. I've been thinking of having a meal with Little Ye's parents someday to discuss you two and your wedding. How should it be held? Should it be a grand one or a simple one? Which day should we hold it on? All of that needs to be discussed. When I brought this up last time, the two of you didn't seem anxious about it, so I'm here to hurry you two along."

Zhang Ye grew spirited. "I'm anxious, Auntie, I'm anxious."

Li Qinqin was happy to hear that. "I'm anxious too."

Wu Zeqing smiled. "I still have to pay them a visit, don't I?"

Li Qinqin followed with, "Then when will you go over to Little Ye's place?"

Wu Zeqing thought about it for a moment before saying, "I have to check with my secretary first and see what my schedule's like, and when Little Ye and I can both get a day off to go visit them. Besides, I still have to buy a gift for them when I go over."

Li Qinqin smacked her lips. "Why does it have to be some other day? Aren't you two free today? There's no time like the present, so why don't you do it today? You don't have to worry about bringing a gift. I'll go and do it for you this afternoon. Each of you is busier than the other; do you think it'll be that easy for the two of you to find another free day together? Just do it today!"

Wu Zeqing smiled and looked at Zhang Ye.

Zhang Ye immediately understood that she was asking if he agreed. So he said with much anticipation, "I have no problem with that. My parents are both at home. I just need to call them to tell them."

Wu Zeqing nodded. "Alright then."

Li Qinqin said happily, "Great! Zeqing, when you go over, remember to speak nicely. This is your first time paying them a visit, so you have to pay attention and be considerate of everything. Don't forget your manners, understand?"

Wu Zeqing said, "Hur hur, would I not know that?"

Li Qinqin said, "Sure, you know everything!"

Wu Zeqing said, "I'll go and get ready then. I need to change."

Zhang Ye snapped his fingers. "I'll go and make the call!"

It was a rather big affair, but it was settled just like that.

Zhang Ye was getting very excited. Having a girlfriend and bringing her home to meet the parents were two very different things. So he went out to the courtyard and called home.

His father answered the phone.

The moment he heard Zhang Ye's voice, he said, "Where'd you go? You ran away just because we lectured you a little? Hurry up and come back. Your mother is still angry with you."

Zhang Ye laughed and said, "Dad, I'll be back in the evening. Tell Mom to tidy up the house a little. I'll be bringing someone home."

His father was taken aback. "Who are you bringing over?"

Zhang Ye said confidently, "My girlfriend."

His father was stunned. "You have a girlfriend?"

When his mother heard, she exclaimed as well. "What?"

Zhang Ye said, "I do. Didn't I tell the two of you a long time ago?"

His father immediately said, "OK, OK, we'll get ready. What time will you two get here?"

"Around 5 PM or so."

"OK, I'll let your mom know!"

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Chapter 1196: Good kid, beautifully done!

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At home.

His parents were currently tidying up the house.

"Why was it so sudden?" his mother muttered.

His father shook his head. "Who knows! He just said that he'll be bringing his girlfriend back and told us to tidy up the house a little."

His mother was sweeping the floor with a broom. "He didn't mention who it was? What's her job?"

His father said, "I don't know. Is Little Ye really in a relationship?"

"It seems like it." His mother said, "I've heard him mention it before, but I thought he was just humoring me. Who would have thought that he was serious about it."

His father quickened his tidying. "Let's hurry up then. We don't want her coming over and seeing our house in such a mess. We have to give her a good first impression."

His mother worried, "Old Zhang, what would you say if we don't approve of the girl who Little Ye brings home? I'm really afraid that he'll bring home someone shady. I'm telling you beforehand, you had better present a united front with me and be on the same side. If it so happens that we find the girl unsuitable, we must firmly oppose their relationship. We can't let our son see a glimmer of hope in convincing us. We must deny him outright since this is marriage we're talking about!"

His father felt a little hesitant. "Let's see who it is first."

His mother said while sweeping the floor, "Alright, I'll go out to buy some groceries then."

"Buy more than usual," his father instructed.

They busied themselves around the house the entire afternoon.

After his mother came home from grocery shopping, she did not pluck or wash the vegetables. Instead, she put everything into the fridge and left some handmade noodles on the cutting board.

His father wondered, "What are you doing? Aren't you going to prepare some food ahead of time?"

His mother said in a petty manner, "I have to hold back a little first."

"Why did you buy the handmade noodles?" His father was puzzled.

His mother whispered, "In case we're not happy with the woman Little Ye brings home, we'll make the noodles for them to eat and just get this meeting over and done with. It'll also be a way to express our attitudes for her."

His father said in a speechless manner, "You're going to serve her noodles on her first visit to our place?"

His mother said, "Well, I have to be prepared for both situations. Whatever, just follow my lead later."

His father looked at his watch. "It's almost time, right?"

"They should be here soon." His mother was finally done prepping. She went over to sit down on the sofa and turned on the television. However, she saw that her son was still being talked about on the news. "Why are they still talking about this? What kind of girl do you think will suit our son the best with that temper of his? He doesn't know how to take care of people and always loves getting into trouble. Would any of the nicer girls want to settle for a guy like him? They would only get scolded every day if they choose to be with him, don't you think?"

His father said, "Little Ye has many good points too."

"Good points like what?"

"He's quite filial."

"Heh, cut the crap."

"What?"

"He's always getting into trouble and making us worried—that itself is unfilial!"

Ding dong, ding dong.

The doorbell suddenly rang!

His father's eyes lit up. "Coming!"

His mother hurriedly got up. "Go, open the door."

The two of them were starting to feel a little nervous. They didn't know what kind of girl to expect behind the door. His mother hesitated for a moment before she pulled open the door.

When it was halfway open, they saw a beautiful, gorgeous face!

His mother was stunned!

His father was also stunned!

Wu Zeqing smiled. "Auntie, Uncle."

His mother quickly said, "Aiyo, isn't this Little Wu? Why's an important chief like you so free to come over today?" They had met at the King of Masked Singers concert and even sat together. His mother had also invited Wu Zeqing to visit them, but who could have guessed that she would come over today?

Wu Zeqing smiled and said, "I came to visit you."

His mother gave a wry smile and said, "Aiya, what a coincidence. My son just called to say that he would be bringing his girlfriend over today. This is really too coincidental. Why don't you come in and take a seat?"

His father hurriedly said, "You came at the right time. Let's have dinner together. Little Wu has been a great help to our son all this time and should not be considered a stranger."

Wu Zeqing smiled.

Zhang Ye's speechless face was finally revealed behind the half-opened door. "Dad, Mom, what are you two talking about? Hurry up and let us into the house. I'm carrying a bunch of stuff and waiting out here!"

His mother said in surprise, "You scared me!"

His father said startled, "Why did you come with Little Wu?"

Wu Zeqing entered the house.

Zhang Ye, who was carrying large and small boxes, dropped everything the moment he got into the house. "Didn't I say that I was bringing someone home?" He pointed at Wu Zeqing. "I was referring to her!"

His mother exclaimed, "Ah?"

His father was stunned. "Don't be ridiculous!"

Wu Zeqing said, "Auntie, Uncle, I've been in a relationship with Little Ye for about a year, but we haven't told you two all this while. I'm really sorry."

His parents were so shocked they couldn't get a word out. Who could have ever thought that his son's girlfriend would turn out to be Wu Zeqing, the Deputy Chief of SARFT!

This…

This…

His father quickly said, "Little Wu, take a seat. Come inside and take a seat."

His mother grabbed him and whispered excitedly, "Is this true?"

Zhang Ye smiled proudly. "Of course it's true."

His mother said uneasily, "You better not have gotten her to pretend to be your girlfriend to trick us!"

Zhang Ye was floored. "You've watched too many soap dramas, haven't you? You and Dad haven't pushed me to get married or given me any pressure at all, so why would I suddenly bring someone back to trick you two? Have I got nothing better to do?"

His mother smacked her thigh. "Good kid!"

His father was steeping tea for Wu Zeqing. "Have some water."

Wu Zeqing took the cup from him. "Thank you, Uncle. I'll help myself."

Then his mother quickly went over and sat beside Wu Zeqing. She held her hand and said excitedly, "Little Wu, you two have kept this secret so well! You really have good taste, you know? This son of mine, put simply, is just the best. He knows how to take care of people and is considerate as well. Most importantly, he's filial! He's especially filial! He knows how to take care of his own problems and never makes us worried!"

His father was taken aback.

What?

This was not what you said earlier!

Wu Zeqing smiled and said, "Little Ye is pretty good, I know."

His mother bragged, "He's not just pretty good but really good, you know? Although society holds some prejudices against my son, it's because they don't understand him. My son really has a lot of good points!"

Zhang Ye blushed. He changed the subject by saying, "Dad, what are we having for dinner?"

His father said, "Ah, dinner? What are we having for dinner?" He looked at his wife.

Zhang Ye went to the kitchen to have a look. "Eh, why are there only noodles?"

His father said, "Your mother bought that for tonight…"

His mother glared at her husband and said, "What noodles? I bought that for myself to eat tomorrow. It's Little Wu's first time coming to our place, so how can we serve her noodles? Why are you so funny?" She walked to the kitchen and opened the fridge. "Ignore your father, the food's all in here!"

His father was tongue-tied

Didn't you say to prepare for both situations?

What do you mean "ignore me"?

And you're even calling me funny?

His mother said, "I'm going to make dinner!"

Wu Zeqing said, "Auntie, let me do it."

"No, no, no, don't you trouble yourself. Just sit and wait!" Then she shouted, "Old Zhang, come and help me. What are you doing?"

His father walked helplessly into the kitchen.

His mother immediately made eyes at him and whispered, "What do you think of Little Wu?"

His father said, "She's quite good. It's not like we don't know her."

"She's more than just quite good!" His mother beamed. "We must have been blessed by our ancestors! Are you dumb? Why'd you mention the noodles?"

His father said in a speechless manner, "You said to follow your lead!"

Zhang Ye did not understand. "What lead?"

His mother laughed it off and said, "Nothing, it's nothing."

His father said, "It's just that she's much older than Little Ye."

"It's good that she's older!" His mother said, "She can control him that way!"

His father asked him, "What does Little Wu like about you?"

"My charms, of course," Zhang Ye boasted.

His father worried, "Would her parents agree to your relationship?"

Zhang Ye laughed and said, "They've long since agreed. Her dad is Wu Changhe, don't you know? I've been to their place a few times and they're both pretty good to me."

His mother asked, "They don't object to you?"

Zhang Ye shrugged. "What's there to object to?"

His mother slapped his shoulders hard. "Rascal, you've done something good for once!"

Zhang Ye said happily, "Weren't you lecturing me this morning? You're not angry anymore? You don't mind that I got into a fight?"

His mother laughed hard. "If you can get someone as good as Little Wu to become your wife, I won't care even if you get into fights every day! Good kid, beautifully done!"

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Chapter 1197: Zhang Ye gives his first lesson at his alma mater!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

On this day.

Early in the morning.

After several days had passed, calm returned to the entertainment industry. There was no news that could be talked about forever. Even an incident of celebrities taking part in a gang fight would blow over after some time. Other things were always happening that would catch the attention of the media and citizens as they moved on to whatever was more interesting. This was what the entertainment industry was all about.

After the news had quieted.

It was peaceful once more online.

However, it was not as quiet in Zhang Ye's house. More accurately, Zhang Ye's mother had been so excited in the past two days she couldn't calm down at all.

His mother kept pacing around the house and would often bring something up out of the blue. Recently, her behavior had been incomprehensible. "Old Zhang, are there any beauty salons nearby?"

His father asked, "Why?"

His mother said, "I want to get a makeover and some beauty care, of course. When the day comes for our son to get married, I don't want to look old and haggard. It wouldn't look good at all, so I have to start preparing now."

His father said, "You look good just the way you are."

Zhang Ye had already gotten out of bed. He said annoyed, "Mom, you've been fussing over this for two days already."

"But I'm really excited!" His mother still couldn't shake off the excitement she was experiencing. "I have to say, an important executive like Little Wu taking a fancy to you, you must really be blessed, you lucky fool. By the way, what time does she get off work today? Would she like to come over for dinner? Try to ask her over again. You really have to work on solidifying your relationship with her so that she won't slip away from you, understand? Little Wu is so beautiful and gentle. She's willing to cook for you and is an important executive as well. You mustn't let her get away!"

His father rolled his eyes. "You've invited her to our place eight times over the past few days, so can't you give her a break for a day or two? You ask her to come over for lunch and dinner every day; do you really think she has nothing better to do? Aren't you being too enthusiastic? You might just end up causing issues if you scare Little Wu away."

His mother stared at him. "I'm just happy to have Little Wu around. What can you do about it!"

Ever since Zhang Ye brought Old Wu home, his mother had felt really happy about everything. She was obviously overjoyed and approved of her prospective daughter-in-law.

"This won't do! I have to make a call!"

"To who, Mom?"

"To the neighbors."

"Aiya, didn't I tell you to keep it a secret?"

"Then I'll give your grandma a call."

"Just don't say anything, alright? If you do, everyone will find out."

"Then just let them find out."

"Old Wu has a special status and I'm from the entertainment circle, so let's wait until we're married before announcing it."

So his mother continued to pace around the house. Every now and then, she would look at her phone or sit down and stomp her feet. "Aiyo, keeping this a secret is killing me!"

Zhang Ye and his father gave each other a look and laughed helplessly. His mother had no other fault other than being a loudmouth and braggart. Now that she was not allowed to speak about his relationship, she had a horrible time trying to hide it.

Then, Zhang Ye's cell phone rang.

Media College was calling.

Su Hongyan said: "Little Zhang, have you left your house yet?"

Zhang Ye said: "I'll be leaving soon."

"Don't forget about today's lesson. We're all waiting for you."

"Don't worry, Teacher Su, I won't forget." Zhang Ye hung up and told his parents, "Mom, keep keeping it secret. Dad, I'm off to give a lesson at school."

…

Later that morning.

Media College.

There was still an hour to go, but the lecture hall was already packed to the brim. A distance away, a lot of people were still making their way over here in a hurry!

"Fuck, the class is full?"

"Look at the time."

"What'd you expect? Don't forget that Zhang Ye will be giving this lesson!"

"And I thought that I got here early. There aren't any seats left."

"Just find a random spot. I'll attend this class even if I have to stand!"

"Yeah, we can't miss out on our alum giving a lesson!"

"Fangzi, over here! I've reserved a seat for you!"

"Ah, Qiqi, you're great! I love you so much!"

"Just buy me a meal after this! Fucking hell, I've been here since 6 AM to get these seats for us!"

"Damn! You really gave it your all!"

Strictly speaking, it was still not the official start of the school semester. The freshmen were still going through orientation and would only complete it by this afternoon, so the quickest that they could start their lessons proper would be tomorrow. However, the school had specially arranged for Zhang Ye to give this class a talk as they had a deeper intent. Looking at this turnout, other than the freshmen students, even the sophomore and junior broadcasting majors were trying to squeeze into the lecture hall for the class. Further, there were also many students from other departments who came to take part in the ruckus.

This was where Zhang Ye stood out from the other teachers.

He was extremely popular.

He had huge appeal.

And everyone liked him very much.

Outside, Zhang Ye arrived and was humming a little ditty.

Su Hongyan, who had spotted him from a distance away, said with a smile, "Feeling good?"

Zhang Ye said happily, "Haha! Good morning, Teacher Su."

Now that Old Wu had officially been introduced to his parents and having gained their approval of her, their wedding was imminent. So how could he not be happy? He was bursting with joy.

The dean of the Broadcasting Department smiled and said, "Professor Zhang, you have an important mission on your hands today."

Zhang Ye nodded. "I understand."

The dean said, "I suppose it isn't necessary for me to mention how important the freshmen's first class is. The school made many considerations before handing this class to you, so we're sure that you would be up to the task. Basically, this is just going to be an initiation class, so there's no need to cover any professional knowledge or topics like that. You just need to help usher the freshmen into university life and spark their interest in our Broadcasting Department, so it would be great if the lesson is a little more fun. You don't have to give a long talk or speech since students these days have a different way of thinking. They no longer fall for the traditional methods."

Zhang Ye said, "Alright."

The dean patted him. "Then I'll leave this to you."

Su Hongyan reminded Zhang Ye, "Hur hur, do well, we'll be listening to your lecture as well."

Zhang Ye said, "Whoa, that's a lot of pressure on me."

One of the department's associate professors laughed. "Motivation comes from pressure."

After chatting for a bit and getting to know many of the other teachers and professors of the Broadcasting Department, Zhang Ye looked at his watch before striding into the lecture hall.

The dean smiled and said, "Come, let's go in and listen together."

Su Hongyan and the others proceeded in behind him.

Many sets of eyes were now focused on the lectern!

"Alum!"

"Teacher Zhang!"

"Professor Zhang!"

"Wow, he's so handsome!"

"I couldn't see him clearly at the Welcoming Ceremony because I was sitting too far away. I can finally have a closer look this time!"

"Who says that Teacher Zhang is only average looking? I think he's handsome!"

"Right! But more importantly, he's got a really good stage presence!"

Applause thundered!

Many of the freshmen were screaming!

Zhang Ye stood on the podium calmly and adjusted the microphone. Then he smiled. "Hello, everyone. I'm your teacher for your first class of the semester and my name is Zhang Ye."

Applause sounded again!

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "First of all, I would like to congratulate all of you for standing out amongst so many candidates in the National College Entrance Exam and getting accepted into the top department for broadcasting in the country. I would also like to thank everyone here for choosing to come here, for choosing to attend Media College. Around eight years ago, I was sitting here like all of you right now, watching as my teacher gave me my first lesson in university. I could never have expected that, eight years later, I would have the honor of standing here and doing the same." He spread his hands. "In fact, I did not prepare any lecture material for today. I don't have any notes with me, as you can all see. For this first lesson, I just hope to have a good talk with all of you. So there's no need to address me as 'Teacher Zhang' or 'Professor Zhang.' Just call me 'Alum' or 'Old Zhang;' I'm fine with either of those."

All of the freshmen laughed.

"Sure, Old Zhang!"

"Hahaha!"

Zhang Ye looked below and said, "I would first like to ask a question. Why did you all choose to enter the broadcasting major?"

Immediately, countless hands shot up.

Zhang Ye pointed at a girl. "You there, tell me."

The girl stood up excitedly. "Alum, I chose to study broadcasting because of you. My dream is to become an outstanding host like you in the future!"

Zhang Ye laughed and said, "Your answer doesn't sound like you mean it. I think that even if someone else were standing here, you would say the same thing."

Everyone laughed!

The girl was tickled as well!

Zhang Ye picked another person.

A male freshman stood up. "The reason why I chose to study broadcasting is that I like the profession. I think it's really cool."

Zhang Ye asked a few more people and all of them had similar answers. They just liked it.

Zhang Ye asked again, "Then what do you guys think is the most important aspect required for one to do well in the field of broadcasting?"

"Adaptability?"

"I think it's being a good talker!"

"Good looks?"

"Wit has to be the most important thing!"

The answers they gave were slightly more varied this time.

Zhang Ye looked over them. "Every one of you gave different answers to that question, but my opinion is rather different from yours. I feel that the most important aspect in broadcasting is something that all of you have neglected to mention, language. Not just any foreign language, but our very own Chinese language!"

The students in the audience were taken aback!

The Chinese language?

Mandarin? But who wouldn't have a grasp of that?

Su Hongyan looked at the stage curiously.

Zhang Ye smile and pointed into the crowd. "I can see doubt on many of your faces. Everyone here knows how to speak, and by that, I mean that they know how to speak in Mandarin, of course. Otherwise, you wouldn't have passed the Media College Entrance Exam and be sitting here right now. My guess is that all of you are thinking about how to improve your English and pass the CET-4 1 so that you can all graduate from university. That must be the most important thing on everyone's minds, right?"

Quite a few people nodded.

Zhang Ye said, "Actually, I've never been in favor of English being taught as a core subject, and disagree even more about how we have to gain a Band-4 accreditation to be able to graduate from university. As a broadcasting professional, this is simply a penny wise, pound foolish mindset. It is downright misleading!"

The audience burst into an uproar!

Misleading?

Only Zhang Ye would dare to make that claim!

Su Hongyan gave a wry smile. "Dean."

The dean smiled and said, "I knew that he wouldn't give the lesson by the books. It's fine, let's hear what he has to say first."

Zhang Ye added, "Of course, I'm not simply saying this because my English is bad."

Everyone laughed again!

Zhang Ye explained calmly, "Chinese culture is extremely deep, and all knowledge of it is contained within our language. Starting from today, all of you will be introduced to a series of subjects like vocal lessons, speed reading, extemporaneous speeches, and literature and cultural classes. All of them are based on the Chinese language, yet this most important and basic language has been neglected by everyone. Instead, the English language started getting pushed onto the teaching agenda. In overseas markets, only their homegrown hosts would be competent enough to host their own shows. Likewise, only a Chinese host would be able to do well for our shows in China. Why is that? It's all down to language itself! In the career of broadcasting, language is the divisive point and also the greatest limitation that one can encounter! Even if we were to learn English great, we still couldn't speak it better than native speakers. By the same logic, even if foreigners learned Mandarin well and work in broadcasting in China, they couldn't match up to us! Language is the greatest competitive edge for a host, but look at what we're doing. Rather than valuing the Chinese language, we're placing more emphasis on the English language and minority languages? And use CET-4 and CET-6 to determine whether the students can graduate or not? What's the meaning of this?"

Quite a few freshmen fell into thought.

Zhang Ye asked, "Have you ever seen any overseas broadcasting majors who are required to reach a certain proficiency in the Chinese language? Have you ever come across any international students who aren't allowed to graduate just because they hadn't reached a certain level in Mandarin? None, right?"

Everyone started shaking their heads.

Of course not!

Why would they have to be tested in Mandarin!

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "If they're required to be tested on their proficiency of the Chinese language, then I'll be the first to fight for the right to be the question setter. Let me make it difficult for them. If I can write the HSK-4 2 and HSK-6 questions for them, I guarantee that no matter how proficient they are, they won't be able to graduate. Do you guys believe me?"

The freshmen laughed to kingdom come!

"I don't believe you!"

"What kinds of questions will you write?"

"Yeah, tell us!"

"HSK-4 and HSK-6?"

"If foreigners can learn it well, it wouldn't be difficult."

"Yeah, I've even come across foreigners who have great Chinese."

Zhang Ye said, "So no one believes me?"

Everyone cried out, "No, we don't believe it!"

Zhang Ye said with a smile, "Then let me give you guys a few questions to listen to, and let you think about how profound and deep the Chinese language is."

The freshmen were suddenly anticipating it!

The broadcasting major sophomores and juniors who sneaked in also pricked up their ears. They really did not believe that Zhang Ye would be able to make up questions that would befuddle all foreigners!

Zhang Ye said, "The following are HSK-4 test questions. Please listen to the first one."

With a straight face, Zhang Ye said, "A bird shat on the windowsill. Xiaoming's teacher called to him, 'Xiaoming, go clean the bird poop off.'" Taking a pause, he then mimicked a voice of someone surprised and said, "Xiaoming said, 'Off I go!'"

It fell silent!

The entire lecture hall fell silent!

Su Hongyan: "…"

The dean: "…"

The entire group of freshmen: "…"

Zhang Ye asked in seriousness, "The question is, did Xiaoming do any cleaning or just go off?"

Instantly, the entire audience laughed!

"Hahahaha!"

"Off I go?"

"Fuck that 'off I go'!"

"I'll go off on your off I go!"

"Aiyo, I'm dying of laughter!"

Zhang Ye immediately followed up with, "Now for the second question. As the floor was very dirty, the teacher told Xiaoming, 'Xiaoming, scrub the floor clean!'" Pausing, he then widened his eyes and said, "Xiaoming said, 'Scrub that!'"

Su Hongyan burst into laughter!

The dean nearly spat out a glob of saliva!

Zhang Ye said, "The question is, did Xiaoming scrub the floor or not?"

The students were all rolling on the floor laughing!

"Hahahaha!"

"Your sister, what kinds of questions are these!"

"These kinds of questions would never be understood by foreigners!"

"Aiyo, I can't take this anymore!"

"Scrub that!"

Some of them were laughing so hard that tears rolled down their cheeks!

Zhang Ye calmly continued, "Please listen to the third question. Xiaohong asked Xiaoming, 'Do we have to bring pens for today's class?' Xiaoming said—" Zhang Ye mimicked, "—' Dip pens 3 [Depends]!'" He looked over the audience and asked, "The question is, do they need to bring pens for today's class? If they do, what kind of pen do they need to bring?"

"Hahaha!"

"Dip pens!"

"These questions are way too tricky!"

The people in the audience were in stitches. Many of them were cheering and applauding!

Zhang Ye surveyed the crowd and said, "That was only a HSK-4 test question. Now let's listen to a HSK-6 question. This will be a listening multiple choice question."

Everyone was listening with rapt attention.

Zhang Ye said, "Xiaofang said 4 , 'Your sister! Yo momma's Aunt Flo has yet to visit this month. Dis big sis is so worried! This is cheating the Allfather!'"

"Hahaha!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Zhang Ye asked, "The question is, who in this passage would be panicking the most?"

Panicking?

If one's Aunt Flo did not arrive, who would be panicking the most?

Pfft! Does that mean she's pregnant?

Everyone laughed loudly again!

Zhang Ye put up a finger. "A: Xiaofang's little sister."

"Pfft!"

"Hahaha!"

Zhang Ye said, "B: Xiaofang's mother."

"Aiyo!"

"I'm tearing up from laughing!"

"C: Xiaofang's big sister."

"Haha!"

"D: Xiaofang's father."

"I'm laughing my ass off!"

"Yes, her father must be panicking the most!"

"E: Xiaofang's Aunt Flo."

"Hahahaha!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Zhang Ye: "F: Xiaofang herself."

"Hahahaha!"

Zhang Ye blinked and said, "And the last option, Xiaofang's boyfriend…Xiaoming!"

When they heard the last option, many of the freshmen and seniors instantly clutched their stomachs as they let out great big laughs. They were finally convinced. If the HSK questions were written by Zhang Ye, all the foreigners taking it would definitely die. These sorts of questions were simply too wicked. Other than the Chinese, who else could understand them!

Applause erupted!

Everyone was clapping with all their might!

Zhang Ye smiled and said to everyone, "See? Isn't the Chinese language extremely profound and deep?"

Everyone nodded their heads furiously!

"Right!"

"It's so extremely deep!"

"I laughed myself dizzy!"

"Why are you so funny, Teacher Zhang!"

"Aiyo, let me keep laughing!"

Zhang Ye said, "Instead of focusing and placing importance on a language that has brought together several thousand years of Chinese history, we have switched our emphasis to something else. That in itself is already a reckless waste. A host depends on their mouth, which is just a channel to bring across a language. In the following four years of your university life, please make sure you put in the effort to learn Mandarin well, because it's the most important skill that you can have as a host, and a skill that dictates where you stand in the industry!" Then, he looked at his watch before smiling and saying, "Alright, that's all for today's lesson. Class is dismissed."

He turned around and stepped off the podium.

All of the students immediately gave an unending standing ovation!

Su Hongyan chuckled, then stood up as well to clap!

The dean and the other professors of the Broadcasting Department did the same!

How wonderful!

It was truly wonderful!

This initiation lecture was really one of a kind. Whether it was from a professional standpoint or the suitability and interest of the subject, all was impeccable. Although the dean felt that there were some controversial points in there, everyone had their own views on things. They could still find common ground in the lesson, but more importantly, the students' interest was piqued right from the start of the lecture until the very end. There was no point during the lecture where anyone's concentration had lapsed. This was what made the lesson even more impressive!

Having Zhang Ye come and give the first lesson was indeed the correct decision!

From the expressions on the students' faces, it looked like they were looking more and more forward to the official start of their classes. All of them seemed to have a very positive attitude in welcoming the start of the new semester!

After the class ended.

The students walked off in groups.

"That was so cool!"

"Yeah, so this is what it means to attend university."

"Everyone says that all the classes in college are so boring and dry, but it doesn't seem like it!"

"I think so too. That was such a wonderful lesson that I don't understand why the upperclassmen would want to skip their classes."

Nearby, when some of the sophomores and juniors heard this, they couldn't help but smile wryly. Just you guys wait until school has officially started. Then you'll see the reality. In all of Media College, only Zhang Ye would dare and be able to lecture this way! None of the other teachers are like this at all!

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Chapter 1198: Officially engaged!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

On the campus.

The students dispersed.

Su Hongyan went to look for Zhang Ye. "Zhang'er."

Zhang Ye turned around and said with a smile, "Yo, Teacher Su."

"Are you leaving already?" Su Hongyan asked.

Zhang Ye shrugged and said, "Yeah, class has ended, and I have no other business here."

Su Hongyan looked into his eyes and giggled. "You're a natural at teaching. Do come back again when you're free to give the kids a lecture."

Zhang Ye said in surrender, "Oh, spare me, Teacher Su. Shouldn't you know me by now? I might be good at other things, but I'm no good at giving a serious lecture. It's fine if I just come back occasionally to teach, but if you're thinking about getting me to hold classes every day for the students, I won't be able to do that. Besides, I still have a lot of work to handle on my end, so I'll be too busy for such things."

Su Hongyan glanced at him. "There's some good talent in my class; how about taking them under your wing?"

Zhang Ye quickly said, "Are you trying to bring harm upon them?"

Su Hongyan said in a half-threatening manner, "Will you take them or not?"

"Aiya, I will if there's an opportunity, alright?" Zhang Ye said helplessly.

Su Hongyan smiled and said, "OK, you said it yourself. I'll be sure remember it."

Around them, some students passing by spotted them.

"Ah!"

"Professor Zhang!"

"Alum!"

"Alum!"

"Please give me an autograph!"

"Me too!"

"Alum, I have a question to ask you about your line of work."

"I also have something I'd like to consult you about!"

More and more students were gathering around. Su Hongyan walked off with a smile on her face, leaving Zhang Ye to get surrounded by the group of students. He stood there for a long time, signing autographs for them and answering their questions.

The video of Zhang Ye's lecture was uploaded onto the school's intranet.

Many of the students who did not get into the lecture hall or missed the lesson hurriedly clicked on it to watch. They ended up laughing for the entirety of the video!

"Hahaha!"

"Zhang Ye's lesson is so interesting!"

"It's so damn funny!"

"Chinese is still entertaining to learn!"

"Right, let's study it well!"

"Our alum is so cool!"

Quite a few celebrity teachers had been hired by Media College, and many famous hosts who held honorary teaching roles in the college. However, Zhang Ye was the only associate professor in the entire college whose popularity was one of the highest in the country. Zhang Ye was a singer and a poet as well, so not all of his popularity came from him being a host. But he was a true blue broadcasting graduate, and hosting was his main profession. Since he had won both the Silver and Golden Microphone Awards as a host, even if he could not be considered a spiritual leader of the hosting world, he would still be one of the top hosts around. Not many people would disagree with that.

Naturally, the students were in awe of him.

Because the man they were facing was not just an associate professor or some celebrity, he was the tallest peak in the Chinese world of hosting.

Ring ring ring. His cell phone rang.

As there were too many people around, Zhang Ye did not hear it. It was a female student close to him who alerted him instead. "Alum, is that your phone ringing?"

"Oh, it's really mine." Zhang Ye took it out and saw Wu Zeqing's name on the caller ID. He excused himself from the enthusiastic students and quickly went away to answer the call. "Hello, Old Wu. I just finished lecturing, what's the matter?"

Wu Zeqing said: "I'm at home now. My mother was just asking me about meeting your parents. Hur hur, she's quite anxious about it, so when is a good time?"

They had already talked about the two families meeting with each other, but the exact date was not set yet.

"Any time is fine."

"Are you done with your work?"

"Yes."

"What about your parents?"

"They're just idling at home."

"Then why don't we let them meet today? You can check with them first."

"No need, it shouldn't be a problem."

"Where should we meet?"

"We definitely cannot go out and have dinner. Everyone would recognize me wherever I went, and your status is special too. Uh, why don't we have it at your parents' place?"

"Sure, just check with your parents if they're busy today. We can always arrange for them to meet in a few days."

"What could they be busy with? My mom has been urging me for the past two days as well. Let's just go ahead with this arrangement. I'll give them a call and let you know after I've confirmed it with them."

Zhang Ye made the call on his drive back home.

"Mom, do you want to meet Old Wu's parents today?"

"What time?"

"How about tonight?"

"Great, that's really great. Your dad and I are free anytime!"

"Alright then, I'll come home to pick you two up. Get ready, alright?"

"Alright, alright, I got it."

When he reached home, his parents were changed and ready.

His father had dug up a tunic suit from somewhere that resembled something from 800 years ago. But wearing it, he looked rather spirited, and it did not look outdated on him at all. His mother was checking herself out in front of the mirror.

His father asked, "How did the lecture go?"

Zhang Ye said happily, "So good that there was critical acclaim."

His mother stood up. "Alright, let's go."

"Eh? You want to go now? We arranged the meeting for dinner tonight, so we can leave later in the afternoon," Zhang Ye said.

His mother grinned and said, "What do you know? We have to go out to buy some gifts first, and I have to get my hair done. This is our first time meeting them, so we mustn't be too casual about it, understand?"

His father, who rarely shared the same opinion as her, agreed, "I need to do my hair too. It's been such a long time since I've dyed it. All my grey hairs are starting to reappear."

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "Alright then, let's go."

Buying things.

Dyeing their hair.

Doing makeup.

After going around all day, they finally finished at 4 in the afternoon.

…

At Old Wu's residence.

In the courtyard house.

Li Qinqin kept asking, "Are they here yet? Where are they?"

Wu Zeqing smiled and said, "They should be arriving soon."

Wu Changhe worried, "There's no space left in the yard to park the car. Get Little Ye to drive it to the east entrance and park there."

"He knows." Right as Wu Zeqing finished speaking, there was a knock on the courtyard door.

"They're here! They've arrived." Li Qinqin went outside happily to welcome them.

When the door opened, Zhang Ye and his family stepped into the courtyard.

Zhang Ye immediately introduced everyone, "Auntie, Uncle, these are my parents."

Li Qinqin said very passionately, "Brother, Sister, come in quickly."

Wu Changhe did not have his usual stern look and was all smiles. "Come into the house and have a seat. We're probably older than you two by just a few years, so don't mind if we just address you two as brother and sister."

His father smiled and said, "Big Brother, there's no need to be so courteous to us. I've always liked watching you play Go, and now I've finally gotten the chance to meet you in person."

Wu Changhe's eyes lit up. "Bro, you like to play Go too?"

Zhang Ye's mother smiled and said, "He really liked Go in his younger days and was adamant that Little Ye sign up for extracurricular Go classes during elementary school."

"Then let's play two games later," Wu Changhe said happily.

His father quickly waved it off. "I can't, I'm terrible at Go."

Li Qinqin laughed and said, "Changhe will play anyone he can find. Our neighbors used to like visiting our home, but no one comes around these days."

Zhang Ye volunteered himself. "It's alright, I'll play Uncle."

Wu Changhe rolled his eyes and said, "I'm not playing you."

Zhang Ye laughed.

Next to Zhang Ye's parents, Wu Zeqing chuckled and said, "My dad can't beat Little Ye—that's why he's not willing to play him."

Everyone laughed.

In the house, after tea was served, everyone sat down and chatted up a storm.

"Little Wu is such a nice child."

"Little Ye is very nice too, I like him very much."

"It looks like the two of them have been dating for quite some time."

"Yeah, we only found out about it recently as well."

"Say, why did they have to keep it from us?"

"Hur hur, we wouldn't understand what the children these days are thinking."

Their meeting was arranged with the approval of both sides in regards to the relationship between Zhang Ye and Wu Zeqing. So there were no unnecessary issues brought up during the meeting. His parents liked Wu Zeqing, while Li Qinqin and Wu Changhe had also acknowledged Zhang Ye as their future son-in-law. As for buying a house? The betrothal gifts? None of them mattered since neither family lacked money, so there were no obstacles in their talks. With this common understanding, it was naturally going to be much easier to handle.

It was time for dinner.

Wu Zeqing and Zhang Ye were in charge of cooking today. Of course, the latter's contribution was as good as negligible. Other than messing around in the kitchen, this fellow was basically no help to Old Wu. He even secretly took a few bites of the dishes before serving them.

At the dining table.

Zhang Ye's mother said, "Big Bro, Big Sis, our children's relationship has progressed this far and we didn't know about it. Regarding their engagement, we wonder if you two have any traditions or practices that you might be particular about?"

Li Qinqin immediately waved her hand and said, "Oh, we're not fussy about that."

His father said, "That won't do. We'll do it according to your traditions; we can't ignore them."

Wu Changhe laughed and said, "We aren't particular about it. When I got married to Zeqing's mom, we didn't even have any betrothal gifts. It was just a meal between two families and the wedding was considered complete."

Li Qinqin asked, "Do you have any traditions that need to be observed?"

His father immediately said, "We're not fussy either. We always meant to do it according to your traditions."

Li Qinqin smiled. "We only intended to have our two families meet for a simple meal to confirm the engagement. That's how we did it back then too."

Zhang Ye exclaimed, "Then does it mean that we're engaged as of today?"

Li Qinqin looked at her husband. "I think it counts?"

Wu Changhe nodded and said, "It does!"

His mother exclaimed, "But we haven't prepared anything. The sweets, alcohol, betrothal gifts…"

Li Qinqin smiled and said, "Those are just a formality, so let's not be too particular about them. We'll talk about the formalities again when it's time to hold their wedding."

His mother said excitedly, "Alrighty then, let's make today the day of our children's engagement!"

Wu Changhe said, "We're one big family now."

Li Qinqin asked, "As for their wedding, do you intend to make it a grand one or a simple one?"

"It has to be a grand wedding!" his mother said.

His father nodded. "Right, we'll hold a grand wedding for them."

Li Qinqin was thinking the same. "Then we'll leave it to you. If there's anything you need our help with, feel free to let us know. We can help out too."

His mother was smiling from ear to ear. "Don't worry, we'll handle everything. I'll check the almanac for an auspicious day when I get home, then we'll set a wedding date for them."

Li Qinqin said, "Alright."

Wu Changhe raised his glass and said, "Brother, a toast."

"Cheers." His father clinked glasses with Wu Changhe.

Wu Zeqing stood up with a smile. "Uncle, Auntie, I can't hold my liquor well, so I'll use this cup of tea in place of wine to toast you two."

Zhang Ye hurriedly raised his glass and said to Old Wu's parents, "Uncle, Auntie, let me toast you two too. In the future, you can summon me anytime you need a hand at home. Just order me around like I'm your own son."

Li Qinqin was all smiles. "Sure, sure."

This was meant to be a meeting over dinner between the two families. But they never expected that this meal would end up as their official engagement party. Zhang Ye was so happy that he drank a lot more glasses of wine!

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Chapter 1199: 'When You Are Old'!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

At night.

It was past 8 PM.

Zhang Ye's dad and Wu Changhe were having a game of Go in the room. His mother and Li Qinqin were both chatting happily as they discussed how the wedding should be held. Meanwhile, Zhang Ye and Wu Zeqing were spending time together in the west wing.

In the bedroom.

Zhang Ye was finally getting buzzed from drinking too much. He was starting to mumble a lot as he hugged Old Wu's waist.

Wu Zeqing gently massaged his temples for him. "If you can't drink, don't drink that much."

"Hai, I was just really happy today," Zhang Ye said exuberantly.

Old Wu chuckled. "For something that was set in stone long ago, why are you only feeling happy today?"

Zhang Ye laughed, "Haha, that's different. How can we compare setting it in stone with actually being engaged? Today, everything has been officially decided, so I'm finally feeling relieved."

Wu Zeqing smiled. "Were you afraid that I would run off with someone else?"

Zhang Ye was amused. "That's not it. I doubt you'd find anyone as good as me anyway."

Wu Zeqing squeezed his temples. "Hur hur, that's true."

There was no joking around.

There was no teasing either.

Just a simple and assuring "that's true."

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "If there's anything I am afraid of, there's just one thing."

Wu Zeqing asked, "Tell me."

Zhang Ye smacked his lips and said, "I'm afraid that all of this is just a dream. And when I open my eyes tomorrow, I'll wake up from it just like that."

The meaning behind these words would not be understood by anyone but Zhang Ye. To open one's eyes and see the world totally changed, to come to a place where one was a total stranger, he couldn't finish talking about it even if he had three days and three nights to do so. His experience so far was nothing short of mythical. Even if he were to tell it to anyone, no one would believe him. Sometimes, Zhang Ye really was scared he would wake up one day to find Old Wu no longer around and that everything else would disappear as well.

Old Wu replied, "There are times I feel afraid too."

Zhang Ye looked at her and asked, "What are you afraid of?"

Wu Zeqing smiled and said, "I'm afraid that I'll wake up one day and see that you're still young while I have become old."

Zhang Ye rolled his eyes. "You're so good at taking care of yourself, so how could that happen? C'mon, even if it was about getting old, I would be the one to age first. You're only a few years older than me, so I'd definitely age much faster."

Old Wu suddenly said, "If one day, I were to really grow old, would you—"

Footfalls interrupted her as they approached and the door opened.

Li Qinqin, Wu Changhe, and his parents had all come over.

Li Qinqin overheard the last part of their conversation, so she asked, "What about growing old?"

Wu Zeqing said gently, "It's nothing."

Wu Changhe said, "Your auntie and uncle said that they're leaving soon."

"It's getting quite late, so we'd better get going," his mother said with a smile.

Zhang Ye stood up. "Alright then, Auntie and Uncle, we'll be going."

Li Qinqin smiled and said, "Come over when you're free. There's no need to call, just come as you please."

Zhang Ye grinned and said, "Don't worry, I'll treat this place like my own home and won't stand on ceremony. Oh yes, about that rosewood chair Uncle has, it looks really nice. Can I bring it home?"

Wu Changhe rolled his eyes. "How dare you!"

His mother whacked him on the back. "You're really not standing on ceremony, huh!"

Li Qinqin giggled, "Hahahaha."

Everyone laughed.

At the entrance of the courtyard, Old Wu's family were seeing Zhang Ye's family off.

When they returned back into the house, Li Qinqin casually asked, "Zeqing, what were you and Little Ye talking about earlier?"

Wu Changhe said, "Why are you poking your nose into the lovebirds' affairs for?"

"I'm just asking out of concern." Li Qinqin rolled her eyes at him and said, "Why do you keep involving yourself with everything. Just go and play Go and leave us mother and daughter be."

Wu Changhe harrumphed at them and returned to his room to switch on the computer.

A moment later, Wu Changhe exclaimed from inside his room, "Eh, my daughter, come over quick. Little Ye has just updated his Weibo a moment ago!"

Li Qinqin rushed over as well. "Didn't he just get in the car?"

Wu Changhe said, "He probably updated it from his phone."

Wu Zeqing also went closer and lowered her head to see.

" When You Are Old 1 "

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your beauty with love false or true,

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,

Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled

And paced upon the mountains overhead

And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

—Written on September 9th.

—I, Lord Zhang, got engaged!

Li Qinqin smiled. "Oh, that Little Ye."

Wu Changhe pointed at the poem on the screen and said dismissively, "Look at this, how hackneyed can he get? When you're old? When you're old and grey? What day and age is it? Do people still fall for sweet nothings like that?"

Beside, Wu Zeqing smiled and said, "I do."

Wu Changhe was speechless.

Li Qinqin said, "You're just jealous of Little Ye's literary talent. Dearest daughter, you just don't know how your dad wooed me back then. He wrote letters to me and would always start them off with 'My dear comrade Qinqin.' Ooh, it gave me such goosebumps back then."

Wu Changhe was furious. "Li Qinqin, are you looking for a fight?"

Li Qinqin pouted and said, "See, he's panicking now that I've mentioned it."

Wu Zeqing stood there smiling, but her eyes fell back to the poem. In just a short span, she read it many, many times.

…

Meanwhile.

It blew up on Weibo!

When that poem was released, heroes from all over the place flocked to it. Zhang Ye's followers on Weibo had reached more than 10 million people a long time ago. On top of that, he did not usually post on Weibo. And when his Weibo was updated, it was rarely about his current status, pictures, or minor details of his life. It was always either used for writing poems or scolding people. In any case, it would always lead to major events, so the citizens and media personnel always paid close attention to it in case it got updated.

It was the same today.

The moment everyone saw the post, all of them were dumbfounded!

"Holy shit!"

"Teacher Zhang's gotten engaged?"

"What? That's impossible!"

"Someone is willing to marry such an immoral guy? Who would be so bold!"

"Hahaha, could it be that girl who is like a lilac in one of his poems?"

"I guess it should be her! Who could she be?"

"A celebrity? Or could it be just an ordinary girl?"

"Dunno, there's no news at all!"

"Those paparazzi suck at their jobs. Lord Zhang has gotten engaged, but they don't even know who the woman is? We need to give them negative reviews!"

"What a beautiful poem!"

"Zhang Ye's love poems are always different from other people's!"

"It's obvious he's been spoiled happy today. He even called himself 'Lord Zhang'! How shameless can he get! Haha!"

"No matter what, we ought to congratulate Zhang Ye first!"

"Show us her picture!"

"@ZhangYe! Which girl are you marrying?"

"They must have been secretly dating for a long time. Otherwise, they wouldn't have announced the engagement like this. Our media is behind the times, Zhang Ye has kept it too well-hidden!"

"I thought that with Teacher Zhang's temper, he would never find a partner in his lifetime."

"Pfft, I thought so too!"

"I just wonder who Mrs. Zhang is going to be!"

"Come on out, Mrs. Zhang!"

"Summoning Mrs. Zhang, please show yourself immediately!"

The netizens were stirring up a commotion!

Zhang Ye's looks had always been his disadvantage, but there were times when it turned into an advantage for him.

Although his appearance was not remarkable, it was a bit above average. So he clearly could not take the journey of an idol. He could only work harder and put in more effort than the other idols to be able to make a name for himself in the entertainment industry. Every step of his had been extremely difficult. But likewise, now that he had climbed to his current position, it did not really have much of an effect on his popularity even when he announced that he was getting engaged. There was no need for him to hide or keep it a secret. He could openly make the announcement by posting it onto Weibo.

Others would not dare to do so!

Like Dong Shanshan.

Like Huo Dongfang.

Like Ning Lan.

Like Zhang Yuanqi.

Some celebrities would have a clause in their contracts with their talent agencies to not get into a relationship for a certain number of years. All of this was done to prevent them from losing popularity, since some fans were pragmatic and would go to similar celebrities and become their fans if they knew their idol had gotten married. Countless cases happened in which many celebrities lost a great deal of their popularity after announcing their marriage. Of course, there were some who managed to maintain their fan bases, but no one really dared to take such a gamble.

However, Zhang Ye was not afraid of this. He really was not afraid.

That was why he could behave so much more freely than any of the other celebrities.

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Chapter 1200: The top few spots of the entertainment industry!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

After returning home.

Before they even opened the door, they heard the phone in the living room ringing.

His mother picked up her pace to answer the call. It was from Zhang Ye's third uncle.

"Sis, Little Ye has gotten engaged?"

"Haha, yes."

"Aiyo, why didn't we know anything about this!"

"No one knew."

"Whose family's kid is it?"

"Little Ye won't allow me to say it. He wants to keep it a secret."

"We're all one family. Why's there a need to keep it a secret?"

"Hehe, because my daughter-in-law is someone special."

The calls kept coming one after another. There were calls from his maternal grandma, his uncles and aunties. When they found out about the news, all of them called over in surprise and tried their hardest to find out who his fiancée was. His mother wanted, of course, to say who it was. She had been forcing herself so hard to keep her lips sealed in recent days. But due to the fact that the engagement was very important and of great public concern, coupled with the fact that Wu Zeqing was no ordinary woman, she prevented herself from revealing the secret for the time being.

Zhang Ye was also busy taking calls on his cell phone.

Or, to be exact, he took the initiative to call every one of his friends. He did not wait for them to ask. Instead, he called them to let them know about the good news, happy as a clam!

First, he made a call to Yao Jiancai, his old partner he was on the best terms with.

"Old Yao, I've gotten engaged."

"Don't joke."

"Damn, I really did!"

"You don't even have a girlfriend, so who are you getting engaged to?"

"Heh, who says that I don't have a girlfriend?"

"Kid, are you telling the truth?"

"It's so true that it can't get any more true. Hurry up and congratulate me."

"Congratulations! Ai, which family's daughter was unlucky enough to get picked by you?"

"Your sister!"

Then he called Beijing Television's Hu Fei.

"Brother Hu."

"I saw your Weibo, what's up with that?"

"Haha, I just got engaged."

"This came too suddenly, but it's still good news! Congratulations!"

"Thank you."

"When's the wedding?"

"It should be soon."

"Great, let us know when the date is set. We'll definitely be there!"

"That's a must!"

Over a dozen calls were made, and Zhang Ye informed all those he could inform. When he finally checked his cell phone, the Celebrity Goof Group was also exploding with messages. Everyone in there was trying to guess who Zhang Ye's fiancée was.

Ning Lan: "Haha, who do you guys think is so unlucky?"

Fan Wenli: "lol"

Chen Guang: "Boss Zhang has kept the secret amazingly well. Even I did not know a thing about it!"

Huo Dongfang: "Anyway, congratulations!"

Xiaodong: "Ahhhh, could Boss Zhang just be joking around?"

Chen Guang: "That might be the case too. Hardly anything honest ever spews out of his mouth."

At this moment, Zhang Ye appeared. "It's not a joke, I'm serious."

Amy sent a voice message that said: "You've finally shown yourself! Everyone here is guessing whether she's also in our industry. So then, who is it? I'm so curious!"

Everyone kept flooding the chat group with messages and were constantly asking who it was!

Many of the big name celebrities lurking in the group also came out to observe the ruckus.

Zhang Ye answered: "She's both in and not in showbiz."

Ning Lan: "Do we know her?"

Zhang Ye thought for a moment, then typed up a response with a smile on his face. "You've all probably heard of her, but I'm not sure if you know her personally. I'll keep it a secret for now and announce it when we're getting married."

Director Li Ke: "Are you trying to suffocate us with suspense?"

Fan Wenli: "When will the wedding reception be held?"

Zhang Ye: "Hai, it's not set yet."

Li Xiaoxian laughed. "But I must admit, Teacher Zhang's way of dealing with this is so cool. He can announce such news as he wishes, or get married if he decides to, unlike the rest of us. We even have to keep a low profile when we're meeting up with a male friend as we're afraid that it will lead to gossip and cause our popularity to drop, much less talk about marriage. I really envy Teacher Zhang for that."

Amy sighed. "That's right. Lord Zhang's fanbase is far more dependable than ours. Now that he's reached where he is, he doesn't have to worry about anything else. But for us, we're still unable to get past the issue of marriage. I wonder how many people can get past it."

Ning Lan: "Amy, you're dating?"

Amy: "Would I dare?"

Xiaodong: "Heehee, Amy's thinking of earning more money first before getting married when she no longer has anything to worry about. By then, she'll have officially bid farewell from the entertainment industry."

Everyone started discussing how "celebrities could get married without losing fans" and engaged in deep discussion. Using Zhang Ye as an example, and highlighting many other cases of celebrities in the entertainment industry, they did some analysis before finally arriving at a surprising conclusion—how can a celebrity get married without losing fans?

Hur hur!

Only God would know something like that!

On the very same night, the media was also having a grand ol' time.

"Zhang Ye announces his engagement!"

"The great reveal of Zhang Ye's fiancée!"

"Breaking news! Zhang Ye secretly obtains certificate of marriage!"

"According to eyewitnesses, Zhang Ye often has late night meetings with Dong Shanshan!"

"The exclusive reveal of Zhang Ye's fiancée: university classmate Yu Yingyi!"

There were all kinds of rumors, many of them sounding very official and true. All kinds of expertly photoshopped pictures started appearing as well, but were in fact just random people trying to ride the wave. In the end, they even bamboozled some of the official media outlets who started blindly analyzing things without verifying sources. A lot of people swore they figured out who it was.

Without even looking at it, Zhang Ye knew they had gotten it all wrong. If anyone really knew who his fiancée was, they would never release the news just like that.

…

At night.

After the commotion died down, everyone got on with their own things again.

Zhang Ye browsed the updated Chinese Celebrity Rankings Index and checked on his current ranking. He was still in first place in the A-list rankings and his popularity score had grown by quite a bit again. But looking at the few people in the S-list rankings who were standing at the top of the entertainment industry, he was still not closing in on their popularity score by much. Of those top few people, someone had just played the main lead of a movie that grossed over 300 million RMB in the box office, while another's new TV drama set the country ablaze. There was also someone whose new song had jumped into the middle of the charts on an authoritative international music chart. Every one of them was better than the other.

Zhang Ye was very popular!

But so were the others! They were also building on their fanbases every day!

Although, among those at the top, there was a Heavenly King whose popularity was no longer as great as his younger days and was going downhill without gaining much popularity these days. But a starving camel is still bigger than a horse. With so many years of accumulated popularity, he was not someone Zhang Ye could easily surpass in a short amount of time. The S-list rankings had not been updated in so long. It had always been those few who ruled the entertainment industry and was a place so monolithic that there had barely been any changes to it.

Looking at those familiar names, Zhang Ye made up his mind. After getting engaged, his fighting spirit and motivation were kindled. All he was thinking about was how to break into that monolith and gain a foothold in the S-list rankings.

Impossible?

Unrealistic?

That wasn't something that Zhang Ye was willing to consider!

Because this was something that he had to do sooner or later!

There was still a very large gap between the A- and S-list rankings. If one could really break into the S-list, the position would probably not matter since it was theoretically not much of a difference who ranked higher or lower. They were revered all the same and were at the top of the food chain. But an A-list celebrity was just different from an S-list celebrity. No matter how close one's popularity score was to theirs, the status was just not the same—this was also why Zhang Ye was so stubborn about climbing to the very top. He had already opened his account on the Asian Celebrity Rankings Index, but he didn't pay much attention to it because he knew that he needed to get to the top in China first. Only with that base could he have a future within Asia and aim for the international entertainment scene. Otherwise, if he were to aim for the international market without having gained a proper foothold domestically, it would obviously not be reliable. Everything had to be done in a fastidious and proper way.

He would just have to put this on the agenda then!

He needed to secure one of these top spots in the Chinese entertainment industry!

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