Chapter 249 - A war of words begins again! (1/2)

Sat.u.r.day.

Early morning.

The bedroom door opened.

“Zhang Ye, wake up,” said Dong Shanshan who was in her work clothes.

Zhang Ye, who was hugging his blanket, turned his head drowsily, “Shanshan, why?”

Dong Shanshan said with a pretty smile, “What do you think? It’s already 8 A.M. Wake up quickly. I’m going to work first. Breakfast has been prepared for you.”

Zhang Ye shut his eyes again, “Okay.”

Dong Shanshan slapped his thighs, “Wake up quickly.”

“I’m not going to work in the morning. I know, I will get up soon,” Zhang Ye vaguely said.

Dong Shanshan glanced at him, “You were watching the news last night to find inspiration? You really asked for it when you promised to do the live broadcast. You could have just kept doing what you did and it would have been good and would get better. But yet, you had to go along with the crazy idea of the Leaders. If a live broadcast was so good to handle, wouldn’t the other online television stations already have done it? I don’t care anymore; I’m off.”

“Byebye.” Zhang Ye closed his eyes and waved.

Five minutes after the school belle left, Zhang Ye finally got up unwillingly. Because of tonight’s live broadcast, the Leader gave him the morning off to prepare for the program. After having breakfast, Zhang Ye continued watching the news as he sorted out the lines for tonight’s show in his head. But what gave Zhang Ye a headache was that there was not much that was interesting in the news recently. Many of the current affairs and happenings had already been used for the last show and couldn’t be used again. This was also the reason why he stayed up so late last night; it was because he could not find a suitable topic and points to talk about!

Give me a topic!

Can’t there be something happening today?

Otherwise, how would this bro do his talk show!

Weiwo had already released the news and this news had already been spread all over the internet.

“What?”

“Zhang Ye is going to do a live broadcast?”

“Is that fake news? Or has Teacher Zhang gone crazy?”

“A program that depends on the host’s oratorical skills and topic for 30 minutes… Can you even do a live broadcast for that? And it’s even a live broadcast over the internet? How much guts did you get from your mother!”

“Haha. It’s gonna be a good night tonight!”

“Looking forward to it. Zhang Ye is still the gutsy one! He even dares to do a live broadcast!”

“I am very interested and looking forward to it, but are you all sure that there won’t be any problems doing a live broadcast? This isn’t a news report or a sports live broadcast. Isn’t it going to be too difficult?”

“Yeah, I heard that Zhang Ye also doesn’t use a script!”

“Right, Teacher Zhang Ye seems to go off-script for the entire show!”

“What a professional! He even dares to go off-script for the whole episode and dares to do a live broadcast. This is what I call a real host!”

“Weiwo WebTV is really brave. There’s no other online television station that dares to do a live broadcast. I definitely must watch tonight!”

As Feng Guiqin predicted, this first-ever live broadcast for an online television station had attracted a lot of eyeb.a.l.l.s. It had further propelled “Zhang Ye’s Talk Show” to a new height. Although it was not as shocking as the first episode of the talk show, the discussions around it were not small either.

An industry insider commented, “Zhang Ye is playing with fire. If the live broadcast fails or anything goes wrong, his popularity would definitely be affected. There’s already no lack of people who curse at him online. This would cause a ma.s.sive increase in those kinds of people. He could have just continued what he was doing, but yet he chose to take this risk. Why?”

Another online television station’s CEO posted a laughing emoticon on Weibo, “Whether it’s Weiwo Company or Zhang Ye, all of this is too radical.”

Following that, another company’s long famous WebTV host a.n.a.lyzed, “Unless Zhang Ye prepares a script or uses a teleprompter this time, I do not think this live broadcast would work. A program like his depends too much on oratorical skills. No script? Fully going off-script? It’s not practical at all! For any hosts, they might not be able to do it well for a genre like a talk show even if they were reading it off a script, as the speed used in speaking can be too fast and too overloaded with information, so let’s not even talk about going off-script! If anything goes wrong during the recording, it can be re-recorded or edited out. But you can’t do that for a live broadcast!”

Everyone was discussing the matter intensely. They were guessing if Zhang Ye would be using a script this time. Because during the first episode of “Zhang Ye’s Talk Show”, the scene of Zhang Ye hosting off-script left a deep impression on everyone. The audience might not pay much attention nor care about this detail, but how could industry insiders and other hosts ignore this? To a truly knowledgeable person, Zhang Ye’s strongest ability was not in his writing of scripts or joke segments, but his ability to go off-script! Many people could write joke segments, but to be able to go off-script for 30 minutes and ensure the smooth delivery of all the complicated joke segments, the ability needed was very demanding. In the hosting world, only a handful of people could do that!

Arguments, discussions.

Everyone was mainly exchanging views.

But suddenly, an unfriendly voice appeared!

A Weibo profile with a picture of a pretty boy with small eyes commented. Those who saw it were immediately stunned. Everyone knew him. This person was called Lee Parkwoo. He had over 4 million followers on Weibo and was from South Korea. He had filmed many dramas in Korea this year which had average ratings. But in China, many people had watched it online. He was even a singer before, an ex-member of a Korean group. Lee Parkwoo was very popular in China right now, with many teenage girls forming his fan base. Lee Parkwoo was not extremely popular in Korea, but he could still do well in China. So for the past year, he had been focusing and based his promotions in China, ready to take root over here. It was not known whether he knew Chinese or if he had a translation a.s.sistant, but anyway, his post on Weibo was in Chinese!

Lee Parkwoo: “I’ve been on quite a number of programs, but I’ve never seen anyone go off-script for a performance like this before. If their company said that he was hosting off-script, would you necessarily need to believe it? There has to be a teleprompter or he refers to the script with every segment before keeping it away. But through editing, it was shown like he did not refer to a script throughout. Realistically, this is falsifying the truth; they just made it seem like it was real!”

“Wow!”