The next day.
Zhang Ye arrived at the office at 6 AM with a bag of steaming buns, two hamburgers, and three bottles of mineral water in his hands. He went straight into the editing room and did not come out for the entire day. Even when everyone from Department 14 had already gotten off work, with some of them even taking the initiative to stay behind to work overtime, they still did not see Zhang Ye coming out of the editing room when it was past 8 AM.
Everyone knew that Director Zhang was busy editing the video, so they did not dare to disturb him.
The next day, everyone went to work as scheduled, but they still did not see Director Zhang.
The next day, when everyone arrived at work, they heard from a staff member of Department 14 who was on the night shift that Director Zhang was not in the editing room anymore. He had gone to the recording studio at 4 AM.
Then, another day passed without anyone seeing him.
Little Wang panicked. "Is Director Zhang's health alright?"
"It's already been three days." Ha Qiqi was also extremely worried. "Has Director Zhang not returned home yet?"
Wu Yi wiped his sweat and said, "I heard that he's been staying here the entire time. Not to mention going home, I haven't even seen Director Zhang once in the past few days. Only Little Han, who was on the night shift, has seen Director Zhang twice, and that was when he went out to buy supper for Director Zhang. This … this can't go on like this. With the intensity of his work, I'm afraid that something will happen again, right?"
Tong Fu was scared out of his wits. "Let's go and inform Director Zhang!"
Zhang Zuo didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Back at The Voice, Director Zhang did the same thing. He did not go home for many days and brought his child to stay at the program team's office every day! He never left his side! "
Huang Dandan said in shock, "Ah? Are you serious? "
Ha Qiqi gave a wry smile. "Of course it's true. You and Little Tong are not part of The Voice's program team, so you guys don't know the situation. Our Director Zhang is the kind of person who works without a care for his life. As long as there's something in the program team, there's no need to ask. Director Zhang is always the last to leave work and the first to come to work. We've tried to persuade him before, but who doesn't know about Director Zhang's temper? Since when has he ever listened to us? That's why there's no need to call Director Zhang over. It's useless even if we did. We might even disturb his recording. "
The original staff of Department 14 were a little scared!
Those who had worked on The Voice with Zhang Ye before were not surprised, but still felt a little uneasy.
Until the 30th of November, the recording studio's door finally opened during the day. Zhang Ye walked out with his hair in a mess. His face was filled with fatigue, but his eyes were bright.
Ha Qiqi stood up at once. "Director Zhang!"
Little Wang exclaimed, "Aiyo, you're finally out!"
Zhang Zuo shouted, "Quick, get Director Yan!"
Director Yan had instructed them to inform him the moment Zhang Ye came out. Hence, Tong Fu rushed to the Director's office. After an entire week, they finally saw him!
Before Tong Fu could reach the director's office, Yan Tianfei, who had heard the shouting, had already opened the door and strode over to the office of A Bite of China's program team.
"Director Yan." Zhang Ye smiled.
Yan Tianfei heaved a sigh of relief. "Oh you, you're playing with your life!"
But Zhang Ye did not think much of it. "It's fine, Director Yan. Back when I was recording the talk show and preparing for The Voice, it was more or less the same. It's just that I won't be home for a few days, so it's not a big deal. The main issue is that there's not much time left until our scheduled broadcast time. If I take my time, I'm afraid that I won't be able to make it in time. That's why I have to hurry up and finish the documentary.
Yan Tianfei asked, "How's it going?"
"The documentary is done. We just need to add in the background music and we can submit it for approval," Zhang Ye said.
What?
It's already done?
In just a week, you've already finished everything?
Everyone was dumbfounded. In the past, those people from Department 14 were also looking at Zhang Ye like he was a god. They had often heard rumors of Zhang Ye risking his life, but they had never seen it with their own eyes. Now that they saw it for themselves, they were truly shocked. He was really too desperate. As a leader, if he had to do everything himself, then what were they supposed to do? But on second thought, they did not say anything. Everyone knew that if they could help with the editing and recording, Director Zhang would definitely not stand on ceremony with them. But in the entire program team, there was really no one who could help him. In a place like this where he could showcase his artistic standards, only Director Zhang could do it!
Since the leader was already working so hard, how could they not?
Everyone felt like they were on stimulants as they got busy. Some went to get the background music, some went to do the post-production, and some went to contact the approval team in advance.
Zhang Ye was also supervising from the side. The rest of the work could not be done without him. But since everything that needed to be done was more or less done, he turned on his cell phone.
When he turned it on, there were countless missed calls and messages in his voicemail!
Hu Fei: "Turn on your phone and call me back."
His mother: "When are you coming home?"
Tian Bin: "What's the situation? You even turned off your phone? "
Dong Shanshan: "An old classmate has gone missing?"
Zhang Ye also called his mother back.
"Mom, I'll be home tonight."
"You're done with your work?"
"Yes, I'll be done today."
"That's good then. If you don't call home soon, your dad and I will forget that we still have a son."
"F * * k, surely not!"
Then he suddenly heard his cell phone's chat app ring. It was an invitation to join a chat group. He didn't know how many days ago this message had been sent. When he saw that it was from Hu Fei, he accepted the invitation. When he entered the chat group, he saw that it was filled with familiar faces. They were all his former colleagues from Lecture Room at Beijing Arts Station, who were also the current program team staff of Do You Remember.
Xiao Lu: "Ah, Teacher Zhang?"
Dafei: "Teacher Zhang has joined the group?"
Dong Shanshan: "What have you been up to this week? Have you gone missing? "
Hu Fei also appeared and sent a long string of greetings.
Zhang Ye thought to himself that it would save him the trouble of making a phone call, so he replied at the same time: "I've been busy editing the documentary for the past few days and didn't go home, nor did I turn on the camera. Now that it's done, I'll let everyone know about it. Haha, remember to tune in to Central TV Department 14 on the Friday after next week at 8 PM. Let's see if we can increase the viewership ratings too!"
Hou Ge yelled, "Of course!!!
Dong Shanshan: "Hur Hur, switch all the televisions in the station to your channel."
Hu Fei asked: "Little Zhang, I have something to ask you. Why did you stop promoting your documentary?" Didn't they advertise it well before? It was only a day of publicity? What's the use of that? I don't need to tell you how important publicity is, right? I'm sure you understand, especially when it's close to the airing of the documentary. These two weeks of publicity are the most important and also the best prime time. Even if you know that the documentary won't get any viewership ratings and you don't have any expectations of the documentary doing well, you can't just wash your hands of it like that. After all, you've been filming for two to three months.
Zhang Ye did not go into detail. Hai, don't mention it.
Hu Fei sent a message: Something happened inside?
Soon, they were shocked to find out the reason from the Internet!
…
On Weibo.
In the past few days, some people had been wondering. It was the media and industry insiders. None of them knew what was going on with Zhang Ye and his new documentary.
"Why did they stop promoting it?"
"They can't even see the advertisements on the video hosting websites? It seems like they can only see a few advertisements for Zhang Ye's new documentary on Department 14. Isn't this way too cheap? Basically no one watches Department 14. Every time the overall viewership ratings are tabulated, Central TV Documentary Channel's viewership ratings are even lower than Central TV's Agricultural and Military Channel's. What kind of promotional effect can they have? "
"I wonder what Department 14 is thinking!"
"Aren't they not supporting Teacher Zhang at all?"
"Even if they know that not many people will watch the documentary, they can't just not promote it!"
"They only started promoting it for a day and then it's over? Fuck! "
"Could it be that they're bold because they're skilled? Does Teacher Zhang not plan to promote it at all? "
"I wonder what's going on!"
"There's still a little more than a week before the airing. Will this really work? The documentary that will be broadcast together with Zhang Ye's documentary is Rise to the Dance, which is being promoted to the skies! If they don't even promote it anymore, then Rise to the Dance will definitely take away more of the viewership ratings. What if Teacher Zhang only manages to get 0.000something in the viewership ratings? That would be too unsightly! A bunch of people will definitely kick him while he's down! "
There were also a few in the news.
"A Bite of China has stopped promoting?"
"Could there be a change in the broadcast time for Zhang Ye's new documentary?"
Countless people were guessing!
Then, an insider suddenly revealed a bombshell. It wasn't that Department 14 did not want to promote their documentary, but that their promotional plans had already been prepared. But because Rise to the Dance was lacking funds for the promotion, Central TV Department 1 had "borrowed" the final promotional budget that Department 14 had left for A Bite of China through the Central TV station's leaders. Although it was said to be a loan, it was more like a robbery.
Zhang Ye's fans were enraged!
"Motherfucker!"
"That bunch of bastards! Bastards! "
"Fucking idiots! Fuck their grannies! "
"This is intolerable! Central TV Department 1 has gone too far! "
"What did Teacher Zhang do to you all? How many times have you all stabbed him in the back? "
"I was wondering why Department 14 did not promote it anymore! So that's why! They didn't even have a single cent left! All of it was snatched away by Rise to the Dance! "
"That's too sinister!"
"From today onwards, I'll turn from a passerby to a hater of Chen Ye!"
"That Executive Director Xu Yipeng is probably not a good person either!"
"Isn't Central TV being too biased?"
"Fuck, what the hell is this! What do you all think this is? "
"They don't even want to give a single viewership rating to Teacher Zhang and his documentary! They're trying to kill them all! Everyone knows that Teacher Zhang's documentary definitely can't compete with a large variety show that has so many big names. But even so, you all still want to stab him in the back? "
"There's no promotion at all, so what's the point of broadcasting it!"
"Teacher Zhang, don't broadcast it anymore. These people are too f * cked up!"
"Right, we're not doing this anymore! We're not going to serve them anymore! "
Some of the media staff could not even bear to watch this any longer and started posting their posts.
"A Bite of China has yet to be broadcast, but it's already a dead end!"
"Even the cleverest housewife can't cook without rice. If A Bite of China's viewership ratings are extremely bad, please don't scold or be disappointed. Everyone knows that Zhang Ye has already tried his best!"
"Does a television station need to be fair?"
Of course, there were also those who disliked Zhang Ye or those who had always supported Rise to the Dance who were gloating and scolding others.
Those who disliked Zhang Ye were all smiles.
"Serves them right!"
"Zhang Ye's legend should have been destroyed a long time ago!"
"You all think too highly of him. Actually, what's so special about Zhang Ye? He's just a normal person. At most, he's just a little luckier than others! "
"Hahaha, even without the promotional budget, it's actually a good thing for Zhang Ye and Department 14. With a reason and an excuse, even if the viewership ratings drop even lower in the end, even if they hit a record low, they'll still have a reason to complain. This will actually save them some face!"
"Zhang Ye's legend in the viewership ratings will end here!"
"From now on, it's Teacher Chen Ye's stage! Rise to the Dance, you can do it! Surpassing The Voice will be a piece of cake! "
At 5 PM, due to too many doubting voices, Central TV's official Weibo also posted a clarification. They used a bureaucratic tone to explain that they were not targeting any specific channels or individuals, nor did they have any reason to do such a thing. They even used the term "big family" to describe their internal unity and camaraderie.
But who among the netizens were stupid?
Camaraderie? Unity? Bullshit your grandma!
The very fact that you guys are saying these things is already chilling and infuriating!
Zhang Ye's group of fans were all feeling injustice for Zhang Ye and scolded him incessantly. Later on, even a few industry insiders came forward to speak up for Zhang Ye.
Beijing Television's Hu Fei: "The current Central TV is probably no longer the Central TV of the past."
An entertainment media's deputy editor: "Some people are getting uglier and uglier as they get older!"
Hunan Television's deputy station head: "Hai, a viewership ratings legend has been destroyed. Is that really something to be happy about and proud of? But why do I feel that it's so ugly? "
This incident had caused too much commotion. Online, countless people were debating about it!
There were many people on the positive side!
The negative side was not to be outdone either!
If it weren't on the forums and Weibo, these two groups of people would have already started fighting!
In the end, it was at this moment that Zhang Ye, who had disappeared for a week, appeared again. He used his long-lost Weibo to post a poem. It was a poem by the famous Wen Yiduo from his previous world. Compared to "Dead Water," this poem was basically not that famous and not many people had heard of it. But back in his previous world, Zhang Ye was quite fond of this poem. Even without using the Memory Search Capsule, he could still recite it fluently!
The netizens all came running over!
"Zhang Ye has appeared!"
"Quickly come and watch!"
"It's another poem!"
"Zhang Ye has written another poem. Let me see what it's about!"
There was no need to say much about the content. Just the words "Zhang Ye has written another poem" was enough to attract the attention of countless people. This was because every single one of Zhang Ye's poems was too famous!
Hu Fei quickly opened his Weibo!
Dong Shanshan immediately came over to watch!
Zhang Yuanqi's manager, Fang Weihong, had appeared!
Ha Qiqi, Zhang Zuo, Tong Fu, and the rest of A Bite of China's program team also realized this and hurriedly opened up Weibo to share the news!
This was a modern poem. It was very short, but it sent chills down anyone's spine!!
"Rotten Fruit"
My flesh has long since been chewed to pieces by the black bugs
I sleep on a bed of cold, spicy moss
Might as well let the rotten get even worse,
Only waiting for the rotten to break through my nuclear armor
My claustrophobic soul,
Wearing a pea-green tank top
Wearing a pea-green tank top,
Laughing so hard that I'm about to jump out!
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