The next day.
Around nine in the morning.
Central TV's compound.
The car drove to the door. The pole was still blocking the car, but when the guard saw the car, he shivered. He didn't even ask who was in the car or if there was a pass. He just put the pole up and let them in. Then he raised his neck and looked at the BMW X5 with a complicated and bitter smile.
This car again!
That jinx had returned!
In the car.
Dong Shanshan wondered, "Don't you need a pass?"
Yao Jiancai said, "Zhang 'er has an appointment with the director's team."
Dong Shanshan said, "Even if we have an appointment, we still have to show our credentials, right?"
But Zhang Ye laughed and said, "My license plate is my pass."
Dong Shanshan laughed and said, "You can strain your back again."
Actually, Zhang Ye was not bragging.
At Central TV, there wasn't a single person who did not recognize Zhang Ye's car!
How long has it been?
Half a year?
One year?
Or even longer?
Looking at the television tower, Zhang Ye sighed.
Hello Central TV, I, Hu Hansan, am back!
After parking in the parking lot, Zhang Ye, Yao Jiancai, and Dong Shanshan got out of the car and went upstairs to the office of the Spring Festival Gala production team. Today, Zhang Ye and the others had come over to meet Li Ke and have a simple meeting with the language production team to get a better understanding of the direction and the demands of the works. Only then would it be easier for them to select the scripts. As for the first approval session for the Spring Festival Gala, it would still be a few days before it started.
A meeting.
The first trial.
Second trial.
This was the basic screening process for Central TV's Spring Festival Gala.
Of course, sometimes there would be a third trial, but that was not necessarily the case.
The office was also in a mess.
The Spring Festival Gala's production team had just been formed. This year, Li Ke had come to save the day. The language director was a famous scriptwriter. As for the rest of the directing teams, they were probably still the same old team. Most of them were staff from the other departments of Central TV, with Central TV Department 1 taking the lead.
"Xu!"
"Yes!"
"Where's Director Li?"
"The higher-ups are here. Director Li is communicating with them."
"I have something urgent on my side. Can you decide on the stage plan?"
"The higher-ups don't agree. They say it's too extravagant and wasteful."
"Aiya, what should we do?"
"Let's see how Director Li negotiates with the higher-ups."
"It's like this every year. They want us to do a good job on the Spring Festival Gala, but they refuse to approve of it and don't let us do as we please. How are we supposed to do that?"
"Alright, don't talk nonsense."
Then Zhang Ye and the others came in.
Suddenly, the entire office fell silent.
One person.
Ten people.
Twenty people.
Everyone looked at Zhang Ye.
Yao Jiancai whispered to Dong Shanshan, "Look at Little Zhang's aura."
Dong Shanshan was also laughing. "How is this an aura? This is infamy."
Zhang Ye said openly, "Is Director Li around?"
A female staff member said, "Director Li is not here."
Zhang Ye asked, "When are you coming back?"
Another person from the Spring Festival Gala production team said, "We're not sure either."
Zhang Ye nodded. "Alright, then I'll wait for him."
When he turned around, Zhang Ye found a place to sit down. He even gestured for Yao Jiancai and Dong Shanshan to come over and have a seat. It was as though he was returning to his own home and did not stand on ceremony at all.
The people on the Spring Festival Gala production team were getting a little angry. They were all too familiar with this person. He had fought a lawsuit with them, scolded their leaders, and caused a ruckus at the television station. Most importantly, it was Zhang Ye who led the criticism during last year's Spring Festival Gala. He had slandered the entire Spring Festival Gala production team and caused them to be scolded quite a bit. They did not know how the other Central TV departments felt about him, but the majority of the people on the Spring Festival Gala production team hated him to the core. So when Zhang Ye arrived, they also ignored him and tried to avoid him as much as possible.
As for giving him a hard time?
Forget it then. They really did not dare to do so. His wife's position in the SARFT's Party Committee was even higher than their Central TV head!
They could not afford to offend him, but they could afford to avoid him!
Hai, why did Director Li invite him! Of all people, why did they have to invite this scourge over?
As a result, the office fell into a particularly awkward atmosphere.
But even though they did not say anything, Zhang Ye was still quite a chatty person. He sat there and poured himself a cup of tea, occasionally calling out to someone and then chatting with them.
"Eh, isn't this Central TV Department 1's Little He?"
"Ah."
"How have you been recently?"
"Ah, I'm doing pretty well."
"That's good then. I see that you've gotten thinner. Are you always getting bullied by Director Jiang?"
"Director Jiang has already been transferred away!"
"What? Surely not, right? "
"It's true."
"Director Jiang is such a 'kind' person."
"…"
"Why did he get transferred away?"
"…"
"Eh, you must be Little Liu from Sing!'s program team, right?"
"Uh, that's me."
"The show is doing quite well."
"Uh."
"What were the final viewership ratings? I didn't even pay attention to it after that. "
"It wasn't much."
"Surely not?"
"It really wasn't much."
"Don't keep a low profile, speak up."
"It … it really wasn't much!"
Zhang Ye drank his tea and chatted with everyone.
Dong Shanshan had to give it to him.
Yao Jiancai was also rolling his eyes at the side.
Quite a few people from the Spring Festival Gala production team were nearly in tears. Your sister! Aren't you just deliberately trying to piss them off! Can you not rub salt in the wound? Don't you know that Central TV Department 1's Deputy Director Jiang Yuan was transferred away after the leadership change? Bullsh * t! Director Jiang fought with you many times in the past, so how could you not know about such a big deal? And you still dare to talk about how high Sing!'s viewership ratings were? Don't you know how high it was? Didn't you just get taken down by your I Am a Singer?!
Heavens!
Hurry up and get rid of this fellow!
They finally understood why Zhang Ye offended people so easily. This fellow was born with a "halo of ridicule." Just a casual remark from him could infuriate someone to death!
Finally, an assistant director of the Spring Festival Gala appeared.
Everyone hurriedly said:
"Director Wang!"
"Director Wang, you're finally here!"
"Teacher Zhang, you're here. Regarding the press conference, you —"
He was here to save the day!
They couldn't take it anymore from Zhang Ye's sarcasm!
But when he heard that, the assistant director was taken aback. Before he could even step into the office, he slammed on the brakes and turned around to leave. "Oh yes, I still have some matters to attend to over there. Let's wait for Director Li to get back before we discuss the press conference."
"Ah?"
"Director Wang?"
The production team staff were dumbfounded!
Yao Jiancai: "…"
Dong Shanshan: "…"
Zhang Ye was also a little speechless. "What's going on?"
Yao Jiancai laughed and said, "How many people have you offended?"
Zhang Ye had worked at Central TV for even longer than he had at Beijing TV, so how could he possibly count how many people he had offended? He couldn't even remember some of them. But what was certain was that there were not many people at Central TV who were willing to deal with Zhang Ye. So even though it was Executive Director Li Ke who invited Zhang Ye to participate in the selection process, many of the production team staff still avoided him.
Whoever is willing to host him can go ahead!
In any case, I won't host him!
— The Spring Festival Gala production team was surprisingly of the same mind!
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