Chapter 1362: A song called ‘The Clown’!
Translator: Legge Editor: Legge
Later that morning.
Jiaon East.
In the neighborhood the studio was located, Zhang Ye’s car got surrounded by reporters the mont it drove in.
A large number of fans were also crowding around and shouting Zhang Ye’s na.
“Zhang Ye!”
“Please give an autograph!”
“Congratulations to you!”
“Heavenly King!”
“Heavenly King!”
“Zhang Ye, I love you!”
It was bustling and alive in the neighborhood.
In the car, Yan i was wordlessly marveling at this. It was the first ti she was witnessing Zhang Ye’s popularity up-close. “What do we do now?”
Zhang Ye was clearly very familiar with such situations. “Just stay in the car and wait.”
He opened the car door and got down to walk towards the fans. He signed autographs for them one by one while answering questions from the reporters who were standing close by their audio recorders and microphones out. Soon after, Ha Qiqi, Zhang Zuo, and the others rushed forward to take over the task of handling the reporters. anwhile, Zhang Ye finished signing autographs for the fans and also satisfied all requests of taking photos with them. In the end, he excused himself from his fans, and they were also very understanding about it, parting to let him through.
“Thank you!”
“Thank you, Teacher Zhang!”
“Love you to death!”
“Lord Zhang, I’ll always support you!”
“Teacher Zhang, I just enjoy watching you scolding people!”
“Haha, I finally have a picture together with Teacher Zhang!”
“I even got to touch his hand! Heehee, I’ve decided not to wash my hands for the next three days!”
Zhang Ye got back onto the car and drove in.
Yan i did not quite understand the situation. “Are you like this every day?”
Zhang Ye smiled and said, “What do you an?”
Yan i asked, “Don’t you avoid the reporters?”
Zhang Ye said, “If I have urgent matters to attend to, there’s no choice but to avoid them. But if I’m free, I’ll answer as many questions as I can. The larger news agencies and TV stations can easily schedule an appointnt for an interview, just like in your case. But the smaller dia outlets don’t even have a chance to do so, so it isn’t easy for them too. So of them start staking out at 5 AM during the winter while it’s snowing heavily just for a chance to ask so questions but might not even get any work accomplished for their efforts. I just have to answer so simple questions that they pose or do an impromptu interview with them, none of which takes up too much ti. But because of that, they might be able to keep their jobs and bring ho the bacon for their families, so what does it matter to to just say a few extra words to them?”
Hearing that, Yan i was taken aback!
She was really taken aback!
Yan i said, “Director Zhang, this is the first ti I’ve heard such words from a celebrity. You’re such a kind person.”
Zhang Ye smiled and said, “Kind? There aren’t too many people who would describe as that.”
They got out of the car.
Yan i shook her head. “Nobody would give autographs and take pictures with their fans one by one either, especially for a celebrity of your status. I’ve heard before that you never reject your fans’ requests for autographs and pictures, but I thought that was just a rumor. Now that I’ve seen it for myself, I finally believe it. You’re really kind.”
Zhang Ye laughed and said, “It’s not easy for soone to like another person. So just based on that, if they request an autograph, would it really be right to reject them? It’s not a matter of whether I am kind or not, haha. I also do not think that I’m a kind person anyway. All I keep doing is taking advantage of other people every day. You just haven’t seen how I get scolded by them.”
Ha Qiqi and the others returned after they finished handling the reporters.
Everyone went upstairs together.
Zhang Ye said as he walked, “I’ve always been soone who would not let others be happy if they made unhappy. If they make happy, I’ll surely make them happy as well. We only have status as celebrities because of the fans and the ordinary folks supporting us. It’s all due to them that we are who we are. Otherwise, we couldn’t have the good food and clothes that we have. If soone saw you on the streets and called out to you: ‘Hey, Zhang Ye, can I take a picture with you?’, would you just turn your head and leave? If that happened, that person would probably be very disappointed in you for their entire life. It’s just a few seconds of your ti; surely it wouldn’t hurt to make soone happy if you could spare it, right?”
Yan i sincerely said, “I’ve learned sothing.”
She now realized that Zhang Ye was different from all the other celebrities that she had interviewed before!
No fronts.
No hypocrisy.
No deceit.
This was just soone who was very sincere, even if he had so shortcomings here and there.
When they got upstairs, Zhang Ye began working.
Yan i stayed close by to observe. No one was bothered by her presence.
His work today required his urgent attention. The executive director of theSpring Lantern Festival Gala 1 , which would be taking place in a few days, had co to seek advice from Zhang Ye. Even if Director Shen was much older than him, and was also a veteran gala director of Central TV, he still ca over with the sincere hope that he could learn sothing from Zhang Ye.
“Little Zhang, you’ve gotta help out!”
“Old Shen, take a seat.”
“Help look at this skit.”
“Alright, let go through it.”
“I think it’s not too bad, but it still feels like sothing is lacking.”
“Oh, I’ve gone through this skit by Old He before.”
“Yes, it’s one of the skits that was submitted for the Spring Festival Gala’s first approval session.”
“Then I’ll share with you my personal views on it. I think that the problem with this skit lies here—”
He kept working until noon.
After Director Shen left.
Zhang Ye said to Yan i, “Let’s go, back to my place for lunch.”
But Ha Qiqi said, “Director Zhang, the advertisers will be arriving very soon.”
Zhang Ye asked, “There’s still more work?”
Ha Qiqi nodded and said, “You’ve just broken into the S-list, so two of our endorsent advertisers would like to make so changes to their ad campaigns. They want to make use of your ascension into the S-list as part of their ad campaign, but since their advertisents were planned out by you, they’re requesting that you go through it first. They only dare to submit it if it’s to your agreent.”
Zhang Ye checked his watch. “When are they arriving?”
Ha Qiqi said, “In 15 minutes.”
Zhang Ye looked at Yan i helplessly, “Are you fine with eating box lunch?”
“I’ll have whatever you’re having,” Yan i said with a smile.
Zhang Ye called Little Wang over. “Bring us als quickly. We still have lots of work to attend to after lunch.”
Then he called Old Wu.
“Old Wu, we won’t be able to go back for lunch.”
“It’s fine.”
“Eat by yourself, don’t wait for .”
“Alright, what about dinner?”
“I’m not sure, we’ll see how that goes.”
At 2:30 PM.
The advertisent matters were finalized and tied up.
Zhang Ye was just about to take a break when sothing else popped up.
His Weibo account and official website were attacked by hackers. Initial investigations judged that the attack was carried out spontaneously by the fans of the previous Heavenly King who had been replaced by Zhang Ye.
“What are the losses like?”
“There isn’t really much of a loss, but the effect from the attack is pretty big.”
“Your Weibo account has really been hacked this ti.”
“Pfft! Director Zhang has said that his account was hacked so many tis in the past. It looks like it has happened for real this ti!”
“You guys still have ti to crack jokes? Damn, hurry up and handle the issue!”
Past 3 in the afternoon.
The issue was finally resolved.
Zhang Ye said to Yan i, “So how is it? Wasn’t it really boring to follow around for today’s interview? I don’t really have much to do here except to deal with crap.”
Yan i smiled and said, “It’s indeed quite different from what I was expecting.”
Zhang Ye looked at his watch. “Is the interview ending soon?”
Yan i nodded. “Thank you for your ti today, Director Zhang. Congratulations again for getting into the dostic S-list. I also wish that you can continue going higher and further from here.”
Zhang Ye said happily, “Thank you.”
Yan i looked at him and said, “So at the end of it all, there’s one last question I have for you. I’ve been thinking about sothing all this while during the interview, but I just can’t figure it out, nor could I co to a proper conclusion. Therefore, I would like to ask you: What do you think being a celebrity ans?”
What did it an to be a celebrity?
What was a celebrity?
This was quite a difficult question to answer.
Ha Qiqi looked at Zhang Ye.
Little Wang glanced over.
Zhang Zuo, Wu Yi, and the others sat down to listen.
After so thought, Zhang Ye suddenly raised his head and looked at a wall with a mask was hanging from it. It was the mask of The Clown from his ti on King of Masked Singers. He had kept it with him all this ti and hung it on the wall. He asked, “Old Yan, do you know about this mask?”
Yan i smiled and said, “It’s The Clown’s mask.
Zhang Ye said without warning, “Would you like to listen to a song?”
Yan i did not catch his drift. “Listen to a song?”
Zhang Ye laughed and said, “Would you?”
Little Wang raised her hand. “I wanna, I wanna!”
Wu Yi laughed and said, “Of course!”
Tong Fu applauded. “Director Zhang, hit us with it!”
Yan i looked at him. “Of course I’d like to listen to it.”
Zhang Ye walked over and picked up a guitar. However, he did not sit down, leaning against the wall as he strumd the strings.
Everyone was applauding and cheering as they waited for Zhang Ye to showcase his singing!
…
On the sa night.
A Date with Yan i was broadcast.
Zhang Ye’s interview had been edited into an hour-long show. Countless people were sitting and watching TV as they waited to see Zhang Ye’s first appearance on television since reaching the summit. They were all looking forward to seeing what Zhang Ye would say to the world.
His mother was watching.
His father was watching.
His sisters were watching.
Wu Zeqing was watching.
Zhang Yuanqi was watching.
Zhang Xia was watching.
Ning Lan was watching.
Yao Jiancai was watching.
The other Heavenly Kings and Queens were watching.
Everyone in the entertainnt circle was watching.
The country’s citizens were all watching.
They thought that Zhang Ye would be extrely happy!
They thought that Zhang Ye would be in high spirits!
They even thought that Zhang Ye might speak conceitedly during the show. Reaching the summit of the entertainnt circle was sothing that many celebrities would never achieve in their lives!
But that didn’t happen!
There wasn’t any of that at all!
When that song played, when that sorrowful lody sounded from the television, everyone was stunned agape as they watched Zhang Ye play the guitar and sing onscreen. Sorrowful? Why was it a sorrowful lody? Celebrity? What did it an to be a celebrity?
Zhang Ye’s was singing in a deep voice 2 .
“Applause rings out amid the shouts and cheers.
“Smiles welling up along with tears.
“The rising curtain delivers you happiness.
“The falling curtain reserves solitude for him.
“How much practice and how many tears,
“Does it take to stand right here?
“The pain of failure, the encouragent from success.
“Does anyone know how much ti and effort it took to progress?
“The clown.
“The clown.
“He who turns sadness into delight.
“And presents it to you.”
On TV.
The cara cut to Yan i. Everyone could see that tears were flooding down her face!
Watching TV.
Fan Wenli looked shocked!
Zhang Xia’s eyes reddened!
Chen Guang sighed as he stared out the window!
Zhang Yuanqi closed her eyes and thought of many things!
Yao Jiancai sighed and sniffed!
His mother looked at her son and felt very heartbroken!
Dong Shanshan was stunned and her tears started falling for so reason!
“The clown.
“The clown.
“He who turns sadness into delight.
“And presents…it…to…you.”
A Date with Yan i concluded.
But a lot of people watching TV could not calm down for the longest ti!
Many of them had been deeply moved by this song called “The Clown”!
What was a celebrity?
Perhaps this was what it ant to be a celebrity!
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