Chapter 200 - WebTV’s Invitation for Zhang Ye! (1/2)

Afternoon.

It was a day off for his parents and they were having an afternoon nap.

In the small bedroom, Zhang Ye was lying in his own room, staring blankly at the ceiling deep in thought. He felt that his career was now at a dead end. There was constant drama happening. After his departure from the television station, there had been no job offers that could further his career objectives. Having odd jobs and incidents here and there was not the solution, this kind of fame was not sustainable in the long run and he would spiral back down into being an unknown. This was not what Zhang Ye wanted to see happen. If he were to depend on such incidents to maintain his popularity, firstly, he would become too tired. Secondly, when would he ever breakthrough into the D-List rankings?

The official website had now placed Zhang Ye as the top few in the E-List Celebrity Rankings. Even after launching his book and filming a movie, it did not let him advance into the D-List. This showed how difficult it was. The celebrities who were placed above him were no pushovers too. They were also garnering more and more popularity every day. If he couldn’t even advance into the D-List, then there was no point mentioning how Zhang Ye wanted to head towards being an A-List celebrity or even international star — This would become an unattainable dream.

Keep thinking of it!

He couldn’t keep being like this forever!

But where could he go? Where could he go? Zhang Ye still had no direction!

Singing? It still wasn’t the right time yet. His singing prowess was not yet good enough. To go the direction of being a singer at this point in time would be making a fool of himself. How about writing songs for others? That would be killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. Although it could help maintain his popularity for the time being, it was not a long term solution. Everyone will pay attention only to the singer, not the composer or lyricist. No matter how awesome you were, you couldn’t possibly become an A-List celebrity by writing songs only. You wouldn’t even make it into the C-List. Acting? With his acting skills, wasting all that film as a minor supporting role and spending a full day just to barely do a pa.s.sable take, it was better not to think of doing it at the moment. Zhang Ye still needed life experience and work experience. He needed to slowly learn and understand all these life lessons. Be a director? Without an inkling fart of qualifications, who would dare let him direct? Besides, Zhang Ye didn’t even know how to direct. He did not even know how to operate a camera. Write novels? The novel industry also had its limits. Compared to a singer or an actor, it was a small market. Even if Zhang Ye tirelessly wrote a bestseller, a singer who had a lukewarm song would receive much more attention than him as a novel writer, unless he wrote one novel a day and a few hundred novels a year. But that would get him captured and used for scientific research. Television station? No one dared to employ him anymore, so it was a negative. His old job as a radio host? There was too little audience over there. Zhang Ye could not possibly live in the past. Even if he did well there, he might not get into the D-List rankings. The audience base was just not enough!

That’s it!

All his paths were blocked!

Zhang Ye was almost crying. Was this his fate? Was there no other way he could move forward? G.o.d, don’t mess with me like this, really don’t do it like this!

Maybe G.o.d heard his cries for help.

Suddenly, he received an unexpected call.

A week after Zhang Ye left his job, an unexpected party handed him an olive branch.

It was the very sweet voice of a female on the other side. It was probably a woman whose age was not too young, “h.e.l.lo, is this Zhang Ye’s number?”

“It’s me.” Zhang Ye said as he laid in bed, “You are?”

The woman laughed, “It wasn’t that easy to find you. I had to get help from a few good friends before I managed to contact an old leader of yours who gave me your number. OK, let me introduce myself. My English name is Victoria and I’m the owner, investor and CEO of Weiwo Company. Our company’s main operation is in WebTV. I believe you might have heard of our website before, it’s one of the forerunners of this industry. As for me, I am probably much older than you, but you can call me Old Wei or Sister Wei, whichever is fine. It’s just a form of salutation. I’m alright with such things.”

Man, you can have such an English name?

Zhang Ye was not really bothered by this, “I will call you President Wei, you were look for me for?”

“I have many friends who are devout Buddhists and I myself am also very interested in Buddhist teachings. A few days ago, I was having a discussion with 2 friends over a meal about your gatha. When I heard it, I became very interested. Only then did I know that there was such a radio host in Beijing.” The woman named victoria continued to speak, “I spent an entire night watching you on BTV-Arts Channel’s ‘Zhang Ye’s a.n.a.lysis of the Three Kingdoms’ and I thought that it was really good. The 1st episode had already captured my interest and then I also went to read your poems. I even listened to ‘Ghost Blows Out the Light’ from your time at the radio station. I understand that all of these are your original works? ‘Lecture Room’ was a program that was mainly planned and produced by you?”

Zhang Ye humbly said, “I guess so, but it was also a team effort.”

He had not expected that by his partic.i.p.ation in a movie filming would lead to so many things. It had even attracted the attention of the CEO of a company. She even called him herself!

Look at this!

There were also benefits caused by all these incidents!

Victoria said, “Our web portal has been doing WebTV for over a year now. When I saw your program for the first time, I knew that you were the host that our WebTV was looking for!”

Zhang Ye felt overwhelmed and said, “You are praising me too much.”

“How about it?” Victoria laughed a little saying, “Are you interested in coming to develop yourself in the WebTV industry? I heard that you have been blacklisted by all the television stations and can’t return to that industry anymore. But our side here does not have so many rules like them, as long as you are willing to come, our unit will create a program for you. You are good at program planning, you can decide on a program for yourself. You can also choose what time you want it to be broadcasted at. I will let you recommend your own salary, all of these can be discussed!”

Ah?

Recommend my own salary?

Decide on my own program?