Everyone entered the venue.
Soft music was being played from the sound system.
The venue of the annual staff party was very spacious and looked like a proper gala venue. However, all of the seats in the audience had been changed and replaced with round tables and chairs. A rough count showed that there were at least 30 tables, and even if each table could seat eight people, there would still be more than 200 people present. It was quite a grand scene. There were also special cameras on both sides of the hall, recording the entire process of Central TV's grandest annual staff party.
"Where are we going to sit?"
"This way, please."
"What about our Department 3?"
"Chief Zhou, Department 3 is in the second row."
The staff members led everyone to their seats.
When Yan Tianfei and Zhang Ye led their people over, someone also rushed over and led them to the side. "Department 14's seats are over here. Follow me."
But before long, that staff member led everyone to a lonely round table in the far right corner of the venue. This seat could not be said to be too remote as it was too far away from the podium. Even those with good eyesight would not be able to see the faces on the podium from here. At most, they would see a blurry silhouette that could only be seen through the big screen at the side. There was no sign on the table either. After a while, another person quickly walked up from behind and placed a signboard with the words "Department 14" on the two tables on this side. It was obvious that this was a temporary change of seats for them.
Ha Qiqi held her breath and said, "This is where we are?"
"Yes." That staff member coughed.
"Are there no other seats?" Yan Tianfei's secretary asked with a dark expression.
That staff member said, "Uh, they've all been arranged. There are no more empty tables left." Then he turned around and left.
Yan Tianfei waved his hand. "Have a seat."
Everyone took their seats. They looked to their left and back with extremely dissatisfied expressions.
Their table was next to a wall on both sides. One side of the wall was sealed off, while the other side was a small door leading to the emergency exit. There was even a crack in the door, so it was quite cold inside.
Little Wang said indignantly, "What kind of treatment is this?"
Huang Dandan also said, "This seat is too remote!"
"I just realized that the station doesn't like us at all!" Wu Yi said unhappily.
Zhang Ye said, "It's not that you don't want to see him, but that I don't want to see him."
They understood that Zhang Ye was speaking the truth. The people at the station did not want to see him, so they banned him from attending the annual staff party. Even if they allowed Zhang Ye to attend due to the pressure, they would not let him have a comfortable time. In the blink of an eye, Department 14's table had been moved to a corner of the hall and they were almost placed outside the safety passageway. It was as though this was the only way they could not see or feel annoyed.
Yan Tianfei said, "Teacher Little Zhang, you don't have to worry about the bonus. I will help you settle it after the annual party is over. Let's see who dares to deduct your bonus then!"
Zhang Ye smiled. "It's fine, Director Yan."
But Yan Tianfei said, "Your year-end bonus is in the hundreds of thousands, how can you be fine!"
Yan Tianfei's secretary also said, "This punishment in itself is unreasonable!"
"I'm really fine." Zhang Ye said, "Director Yan, it's fine as long as you say that. Don't worry about it. Just deduct the year-end bonus, but it's not that easy to take my money."
Yan Tianfei was stunned. "Oh?"
Zhang Ye suddenly asked, "Oh yes, how are we going to do the lucky draw later?"
Ha Qiqi said in surprise, "Director Zhang, are you thinking of winning a prize?"
Zhang Ye smiled and said, "I was just asking."
"The chances of that happening are too low, especially for those few big prizes." Zhang Zuo shook his head repeatedly.
Yan Tianfei's secretary had attended quite a few of the annual staff parties, so he knew a lot more. "It's just like a normal lucky draw. Everyone will have a chance to win it. Usually, after a performance, a prize will be drawn and the computer will randomly draw the prizes. Whoever gets the prize will get it."
Zhang Ye nodded and understood.
Everyone else thought that Zhang Ye was just casually asking and did not think much of it.
After a while, someone sat down at the table next to them.
One table was for the Foreign Language Department, while the other table was for the Agriculture Department. Although the people from these two departments were also seated in the back row, their seats were at least slightly better than those from Department 14 as they were closer to the center. When they saw Yan Tianfei, Zhang Ye, and the others, these people had strange and complicated expressions on their faces. With Department 14's outstanding results this year, it was normal for them to be seated in the first two rows. But in the end, they were thrown to the corner. Therefore, in Central TV and many state-owned enterprises, sometimes results were not the most important thing. The most important thing was to follow in the footsteps of the leaders.
"Eh? Who's that? "
"Someone from Central TV Department 5?"
"A newcomer from the Sports Channel? What a beauty! "
"I've never seen her before either."
"I've heard of her. I think she's called Yu Yingyi. She's a sports commentator and host that Central TV Department 5 recently hired. She's quite famous on the Internet."
Outside.
The people from Central TV Department 5 gradually entered the venue.
Yu Yingyi was also one of them. The moment she entered, she looked left and right. Suddenly, her gaze fell on a table in the corner and she was slightly taken aback. She asked the person beside her, "Why are the people from Department 14 sitting there?"
That colleague gave a wry smile and said, "You came in late just now with your makeup done, so you didn't see it. There was almost a fight at the entrance. It's already good enough that the people from Department 14 could come in, so why would they care where they sit?"
Yu Yingyi immediately asked, "What happened?"
"It's still Zhang Ye." That colleague explained to her what had happened.
When she heard that, Zhang Ye's old classmate was also speechless for a long time. In the past, Yu Yingyi had often heard from the newspapers that Zhang Ye did not have a good relationship with Central TV. Zhang Ye had even said it himself, but since she had not seen it with her own eyes, Yu Yingyi did not have a concept of it. But now, she finally had a clear understanding of it. Everyone in Central TV really had a bad opinion of Zhang Ye. Hai, this old classmate of hers was really too much. Just how did he manage to survive in this industry! Central TV was the same too. He was the host and executive director of two nationally watched shows, so why were they always competing with him! Just how unlikeable was Zhang Ye? It was the new year, yet he was not even allowed to attend the year-end celebration?
On the other side, Zhang Ye also saw her. She was wearing a bright red gown today and was very eye-catching in the crowd. Slightly taken aback, Zhang Ye found out that Yu Yingyi had already joined Central TV Sports Channel. He took out his cell phone and sent her a text message.
Zhang Ye: "I see you. Turn around, in the last row."
Very quickly, Yu Yingyi replied: "I saw you a long time ago."
Zhang Ye: "Then why didn't you call me?"
Yu Yingyi: "Didn't you tell me to pretend not to know you?"
Zhang Ye: "Damn, you're really pretending not to know me?"
Yu Yingyi: "Of course!"
Zhang Ye: "…"
Yu Yingyi: "Hahaha."
As he was laughing and chatting with his old classmate, Zhang Ye suddenly felt a gaze on his face. It was a sixth sense, so he raised his head and looked around. He really did see a few unfriendly gazes!
Central TV Department 1's Jiang Yuan was looking at him coldly.
And Xu Yipeng.
There were seven or eight people at his table, and half of them were looking at Zhang Ye with disgust. They were even saying something about Zhang Ye, and it was obvious from their expressions that they were not saying anything nice. There was another table of people in the first row, and some of them were also frowning as they looked in the direction of Zhang Ye and Department 14 — these two tables were mostly people from Central TV's Spring Festival Gala production team!
Jiang Yuan said, "Why did they really let him in?"
Xu Yipeng said, "Who knows what the higher-ups are thinking!"
"This Zhang Ye, we're not done with him!" A planner from the Spring Festival Gala production team said, "No one speaks like that! Why is he scolding our Spring Festival Gala? "
A female producer from the Spring Festival Gala production team said, "That crosstalk was too much. I believe that not many people would want to see him today."
Another person said, "Didn't the Spring Festival Gala production team already complain to the station heads about Zhang Ye? In any case, his bonus for this year will be gone. Although this amount of money doesn't really matter to him, it can at least be considered as venting a little."
Another person said, "What kind of venting is this? He should be fired! "
"Let's not talk about him anymore. It's affecting the mood!"
"Right, let's not talk about that bastard anymore!"
Actually, it wasn't just them. With such a huge commotion at the entrance just now, who wouldn't want to talk about it? Some of those who came later and were not present at the time also hurried over to find out what had happened.
At a table in the front row.
This was the table where the station heads were seated.
A staff member came over to report. "Sir."
Deputy Station Head Zhou asked, "How is it?"
That person hurriedly said, "It's already been arranged. Zhang Ye has been seated in the corner of the last row."
Several of the station heads looked behind them.
A deputy station head nodded. "The Station Head will be here soon. The Station Head has also seen that crosstalk on Beijing TV's Spring Festival Gala. I heard that he was very angry, so don't let us see Zhang Ye today."
That person assured, "I definitely won't."
"Hey, the Station Head is here."
"Let's go and welcome him."
The station heads all stood up.
"Station Head."
"Station Head."
The Station Head gestured with his hands and said with a smile, "Hurry up and take a seat."
The main character had arrived. The venue was filled and the annual staff party officially began!
There were three hosts hosting tonight's annual staff party, two men and one woman. One of the men was Central TV Department 1's Chen Ye.
Chen Ye said with a smile, "Good afternoon, dear leaders and colleagues!"
The female host smiled and said, "Welcome to this year's Central TV annual staff party. I am your host, Jiajia."
The male host said, "I am Hao Dong!"
Chen Ye said, "I am Chen Ye."
Then they said together, "Happy New Year to all of you!"
Applause rang out from the audience!
Jiajia said, "Next, let's welcome the Station Head onstage to give a speech!"
The Station Head smiled and slowly walked up to the stage with his speech in hand. "Hello, everyone. Seeing all of you in such high spirits and full of vigor, I am very pleased. This year has been a glorious year for Central TV. In this year, we have nurtured a lot of outstanding employees and produced a lot of outstanding TV shows. The results are gratifying and obvious to all …"
Hearing this, the people of Department 14 could not help but mutter.
Huang Dandan harrumphed, "Weren't most of those outstanding shows created by Director Zhang?!"
"That's right." Little Wang said hatefully, "But in the end? Director Zhang's year-end bonus was deducted and he was nearly barred from attending the annual staff party. He even assigned us to the last row? "
Tong Fu said, "This treatment, I'm really speechless!"
Chen Ye inadvertently glanced over at Zhang Ye from the podium and felt quite relieved. Rise to the Dance was initially doing very well, but the reason why the viewership ratings had dropped to "dogs" was all because of A Bite of China. It was Zhang Ye's show that had stolen their viewership ratings, so which of the entire Rise to the Dance team did not hate him? Now that Zhang Ye, who was supposed to be the biggest contributor and main character, had been thrown to a table in the corner, Chen Ye understood the station's attitude. A lot of people could also see it clearly — no matter how capable Zhang Ye was, he would never be put in an important position at Central TV! Zhang Ye had been causing trouble for the people of Central TV every day, so much so that even the station heads did not want to see him anymore!
He had offended the station heads.
He had offended Central TV Department 1.
He had offended the Spring Festival Gala program team.
How are you going to continue working? How are you going to make a comeback!
At the podium, the Station Head finished his speech. From the beginning to the end, it was full of praise and commendations. He mentioned many of the teams and also mentioned many of the outstanding staff members, but did not mention Zhang Ye's name at all. Following that, another station head went onstage to give a speech. It was the same as before. He did not mention Zhang Ye at all. It was as though everyone was intentionally avoiding this name and did not want to mention anything related to him.
The annual staff party performance officially began.
Chen Ye announced, "The first performance is Tap Dance. The performing team will be Central TV Department 1!"
Applause thundered!
The opening dance was starting!
"Wow, not bad at all!"
"Haha, Old Sun, why did you go as well?"
"That dance was pretty good!"
"Great!"
The people in the audience were laughing and cheering!
An annual staff party was like this. Many of the performances might not have been very professional or even full of loopholes, but they were all colleagues around them. It was very interesting to watch and the sense of participation was also very strong.
Amidst the warm applause, the dance came to an end.
The station heads were also smiling and applauding, nodding their heads repeatedly.
Central TV Department 1's Director Jiang Naixiong smiled and said, "It's not bad, right?"
A department director beside him said, "Not bad, not bad."
"This group of children has been rehearsing for a month now," Deputy Director Jiang Yuan said.
At this moment, the host went onstage again.
The female host, Jiajia, smiled and announced, "Alright, next up will be the lucky draw segment that everyone is most concerned about. After every performance, we will conduct a lucky draw. The prizes are limited, so it all depends on who gets lucky."
"Yes." The male host smiled and said, "Then let me first take a look at the prizes for the first round of the lucky draw. Please look at the big screen."
On the big screen, an image of a shopping card appeared.
The female host exclaimed, "It's a prepaid gift card from a shopping website."
The male host said, "Each prepaid gift card has a credit limit of 500 yuan. There are a total of 20 of them, and they will be drawn at once. Let's see who will be the lucky one, Old Chen?"
Chen Ye smiled and said, "Alright, leave it to me."
Chen Ye was already standing in front of a computer next to the podium. This was the lucky draw tool for today. The results of the lucky draw would be randomly drawn by the computer.
The big screen then switched to the computer interface.
The emotions of the audience were stirred up!
"It's finally here!"
"It's mine, it's mine, it's all mine!"
"The credit limit of 500 yuan is quite a lot!"
"Yeah, even this year's minimum prize is so high? Then it must be even higher later on! "
"I'm so looking forward to it!"
"Let me win one of them! I didn't even win anything last year! "
At Department 14's table.
Ha Qiqi said, "It's time to test our luck."
Little Wang and a few others were still sulking over what had just happened and did not pay much attention to this prize.
Zhang Zuo curled his lips and said, "I'm so unlucky today. I don't think I'll be able to win."
Yan Tianfei did not care either. He was still thinking about how to get back Zhang Ye's bonus that had been deducted. He knew that Zhang Ye would not be able to take this lying down, and neither would he!
However, Zhang Ye did not say a word. Instead, he was pointing at something in midair. No one knew what he was doing.
Ha Qiqi and the others gave Director Zhang a strange look before looking away and focusing on the podium.
The game ring:
— Merchant Shop interface.
Lucky Halo (Upgraded), activated!
Zhang Ye did not hesitate to perform a series of actions. He did not even blink as he watched his Reputation Points slowly deplete. Ever since his Reputation Points were almost used up, Zhang Ye did not really use the game ring at all. He had been storing up resources and accumulating Reputation Points all this while. After a long period of continuous growth in his popularity, his Reputation Points had reached a terrifying number. It was so abundant that it could satisfy all of Zhang Ye's needs!
— 100000!
— 100000!
Every second was depleting 100,000 Reputation Points at a terrifying rate!
Over there, Chen Ye was already grinning and pressing the button for the lucky draw. "Alright, let's begin!"
The 20 windows started moving at the same time. Each window represented the final result of the lucky draw. At this moment, some pictures and names were constantly flashing on the screen. For example, for a moment, Ha Qiqi's name and the channel she was in flashed on the third lucky draw window, along with the one-inch photo on her work pass. The 20 lucky draw windows were all held independently, so the names and order that flashed on each window were also different. They were all randomly messed up!
Everyone's eyes were focused on the big screen.
Chen Ye held the microphone and said, "It'll still be the Station Head calling for it to stop, right?"
The female host smiled and said, "For the first prize of the year, the Station Head definitely has to call for it first."
The Station Head smiled and picked up a microphone, saying, "Let's take turns calling for it. Hur hur, then I'll go first." Looking at the big screen, he said softly, "Alright, stop."
Chen Ye immediately clapped his hands!
The results of the first voucher draw were out!
But when they saw the picture that appeared, many of them were slightly taken aback!
Pfft!
How could it be him!?
Yu Yingyi was so happy that she covered her mouth and laughed!
Ha Qiqi and Little Wang also burst out laughing at the same time.
Yan Tianfei could not help but laugh!
The people of Department 14 were all laughing!
The first picture and name that appeared on the big screen was surprisingly Zhang Ye!
Zhang Zuo laughed heartily. "Congratulations, Director Zhang!"
"A good start, a good start!" Yan Tianfei's secretary was also congratulating him.
Chen Ye frowned and thought to himself, "Fuck, how could there be such a coincidence? The more I don't want to see him, the more this fellow appears! "
The other Central TV staff were also thinking the same thing. It was too much of a coincidence. But thinking about it, even though the chances of winning were not high, it was still much higher than winning the sports lottery. There were only a few hundred people, so there was still a chance for everyone to win. It was just that Zhang Ye had coincidentally appeared.
Jiang Naixiong shook his head. What dogshit luck.
The Spring Festival Gala production team staff were also frowning and speechless.
The Station Head looked at the big screen and did not say anything. He just handed the microphone to a deputy station head beside him.
That deputy station head immediately said, "Stop!"
Chen Ye reacted a beat too late and quickly clapped his hands!
The second voucher draw also had an owner. But when they saw the picture in the second window, everyone was stunned again!
Holy shit!
Why was it still Zhang Ye?
How could there be such a coincidence?
The deputy station head who called for it to stop was also stunned and subconsciously handed the microphone to another deputy station head.
Deputy Station Head Zhou took it and said, "Stop."
Chen Ye clapped his hands on the third lottery draw window.
It was still a picture of Zhang Ye!
Another station head said, "You can stop now."
The results of the fourth lottery draw window also appeared!
Zhang Ye's photo had once again appeared in front of everyone!
"Stop!"
— Zhang Ye.
"Stop."
— Zhang Ye.
"Yes, stop."
— It was still Zhang Ye!
The station heads took turns shouting for it to stop 20 times. Chen Ye clapped his hands consecutively 20 times. Under everyone's dumbfounded gaze, the winners of the first batch of 20 voucher draw cards were all Zhang Ye!!
This time, no one could laugh anymore!
Even the people at Department 14's table were looking at Zhang Ye with their mouths agape!
What the fuck!
What the hell is going on?
Your luck is too f * cking good, isn't it?
The station heads' faces turned uglier and uglier. The Spring Festival Gala production team staff's faces also turned green. Motherfucker, all 20 prizes are yours? Did you go out on steroids or something?!
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