Chapter 71 - You Really Think I’m a Pushover!? (1/2)

Chapter 71: You Really Think I’m a Pushover!?

At the celebratory lunch, everyone was in good spirits.

Zhang Ye had not felt this relaxed in a long time. Because he was due for a live broadcast soon, he did not drink any alcohol, but instead only ate the food.

Ring, ring, ring. Zhao Guozhou received a phone call. Shortly after he answered, he suddenly did not look too good. He hung up and then took a look at everyone, saying, ”I will head back first; there's a short meeting. You guys head back early after you are done. I've settled the bill already; enjoy yourselves.”

”Ah?”

”Why are you leaving now?”

”Then we should head back, too.”

”That's right; we are almost done anyway.”

Everyone left, one after the other. They decided that they might as well return to the unit together.

Zhang Ye was also wondering about Director Zhao's expression. But he couldn't care about it for now. After he went back, he sat in front of his computer to think about the story for his broadcast. Which should he choose? ”The Wizard of Oz” had finished, and it had been received quite well, too. Should he choose another serialized fairy tale, again?

His colleagues were also treating it as if it were any other day and were chatting during the lunch break.

But at this time, an alarming piece of news had reached them!

It was from an old editor from the Literature Channel, ”Teacher Zhang Ye, your ‘Old and Young Story Club’ has been replaced. The notice has just been pa.s.sed down by the station. Jia Yan's ‘Soaring Youth’ will be taking over. You don't need to do your broadcasting today... Little Jia's pre-recorded program will be broadcasted instead!”

”What?” Big Sis Zhou got anxious.

Auntie Sun asked, ”Why? Why so?”

w.a.n.g Xiaomei was also stunned, ”With the listeners.h.i.+p ratings of ‘Old and Young Story Club’, why would it be taken off the air?”

The old editor explained, ”The management said that ‘Soaring Youth’ was a planned program and would certainly be implemented. Because ‘Old and Young Story Club’’s listeners.h.i.+p ratings soared during the weekend, the station plans to move Little Zhang's program to a weekend broadcast. It will be shortened from 7 days to 2 days, but the program duration will be increased. If that plan is executed, then ‘Weekend Laughing Forest’ will be axed, but all this is still being worked out and is not fixed, so Little Zhang temporarily does not have a segment for now. At least on the notice, ‘Old and Young Story Club’ has been taken off-air.”

Zhang Ye's face sunk!

w.a.n.g Xiaomei was acutely aware, saying, ”He has no program now? Then what about Teacher Little Zhang's Silver Microphone Awards nomination? The rules for the nomination states that if a host has no program duties, they are not eligible to be nominated. Today is the deadline for the nominations, right?”

The old editor paused for a moment, ”That's why he wasn't nominated for the Silver Microphone Awards.”

Once that was said, everyone became silent. The atmosphere was heavy inside the office!

The station was too hars.h.!.+ They were ruthless! Are they not trying to play Zhang Ye to death!?

”Old and Young Story Club” would definitely not be canceled. No one would dare to cancel such an outstanding program. Not only would the station not agree to it, even the audience would not agree to it. That was why the station had only put the program on temporary hiatus and pushed the segment of Deputy Station Head Jia's relative, Jia Yan, up, and then told everyone that Story Club would be s.h.i.+fted to a weekend broadcast.

However, they did not pa.s.s down a doc.u.ment to drag things out. With the procedures coming to a halt, it was only empty talk. Zhang Ye, who had been removed as the ”Late-night Ghost Stories” anchor now no longer had any anchor duties.. at least before Friday! Why was it done this way? The answer was already very clear! Someone in the higher-ups obviously wanted to fix Zhang Ye! They just didn't want him to be up for the Silver Microphone Awards! In fact, they didn't even want him to be nominated! They even went to the extent of putting a cap onto Zhang Ye's program duration and influence! They had changed Jia Yan's program so that it could take over their Literature Channel's number one listening segment without directly informing the audience. By forcefully switching, a large number of Zhang Ye's listeners would end up supporting Jia Yan. This gave Jia Yan a flying start in his ratings!

They had repressed Zhang Ye and let Jia Yan take advantage of the situation, killing two birds with one stone!

This move made Zhang Ye's colleagues heart palpitate!

This was really pus.h.i.+ng Zhang Ye to his death! They even resorted to such venomous trickery? Did they need to push it so far with a rookie? To treat someone who had contributed so much to the station and brought pride to them, did they have to go so far? This had really made everyone's heart go cold!

At this moment, even Tian Bin felt uncomfortable. Given that he had several conflicts with Zhang Ye, he wanted to see Zhang Ye embarra.s.s himself. But no matter how much he disliked Zhang Ye, he also acknowledged Zhang Ye's abilities. His opponent had used his abilities to move up step by step, so even if Tian Bin could not accept it, he had to accept it. He was indeed inferior to his opponent. But what about you, Jia Yan? Just because you have a Station Leader as a relative, just because of that, you can come in and take up our resources? Get favored over every one of us? Even push a colleague off a cliff like that? This has really gone too far! Isn't the Station Leader going too far? Tian Bin may be quite close to Jia Yan, but that didn't mean he liked him!

This time, Tian Bin did not kick Zhang Ye while he was down.

Wu Datao glanced at Zhang Ye, but on this rare occasion, he did not gloat. He only shook his head helplessly and mourned silently for Zhang Ye’s future and the current system. This was such a place that if the leaders wanted to fix you, there was no way of escaping it. You just sat idly and were fixed!

There was always a benevolent side to the human mind. The station's treatment towards Zhang Ye was too much. It was also unreasonable and unfair. This had affected many of the staff in the unit and had left them inclined towards Zhang Ye’s plight!

Big Sis Zhou was nearly tearing, ”They are such bullies! Bullies! Who has Little Zhang offended? How could they do this! The Silver Microphone Awards event only happens annually; if he misses this opportunity, it is over!”