Chapter 356 - Looking for Zhang Ye to be a spokesperson? (1/2)

The next day.

It was around 7 in the morning.

Zhang Ye was awoken from his nightmare. Touching his back, he could feel it was completely soaked from his cold sweat. Hai, it was all because of last night's incident that had given him a big scare. To be honest, it wasn't so much being scared, but rather that he was totally embarra.s.sed about the situation.

The door opened.

His mother walked in, ”You're up?”

”Yea.” Zhang Ye acknowledged.

His mother said, ”Then come quickly and have breakfast, you still have to get ready for work.”

Zhang Ye blinked a few times, ”I don't think I will be going to work today? After all, there's no cla.s.ses at the university anymore and it's the last day before the winter break.”

His mother haughtily brushed him off, ”That’s all the more reason you should step up. Why do you have to find an excuse on the last day? Quickly get up and have your breakfast. Don't be lazy like a pig. I have not questioned you why you came back so late last night. You jogged for 2 hours? Since when did you have so much stamina!”

Zhang Ye quickly waved her off, ”Don't bring up yesterday's issue. I get a headache whenever you mention it. I will just get up.” He continued grumbling as he got up, ”Hai, if I said I was going to have a jog at that time of the night, why didn't you and dad stop me?”

His mother was amused, ”Rascal, you said that you wanted to go out for a breather, how dare you push the blame on me and your dad now?”

Zhang Ye wanted to cry, ”You must definitely stop me next time if I mention I'm going out at night.”

After breakfast, Zhang Ye went off to work. Once bitten, twice shy. Truthfully speaking, he really did not want to go to the university today. He did not know what he would do if he b.u.mped into Wu Zeqing. Although there was already a conclusion for the case of the photos from Wu Zeqing, Zhang Ye still did not feel comfortable about it. Even if she had said so and a.s.sured him, things do not get brushed aside so easily. After all, those photos were not any normal photos.

Peking University.

Zhang Ye drove into the university.

The security guard took a look, then smiled and greeted, ”Teacher Zhang, good morning!”

”Good morning.” Zhang Ye said.

There were so many teachers at Peking University and the security guard couldn't possibly know all of them, but he knew Zhang Ye well. Not a single person from Peking University would not know Zhang Ye. He said, ”There are some renovations going on at the Chinese department auditorium. There are construction materials all over the place and the car park is closed off. I suggest you park your car outside.”

Zhang Ye looked at him, ”OK, thanks for the heads up.”

He parked his car outside and walked towards the the main entrance.

As he made his way over, a lot of people were looking at him. About 7 or 8 people surrounded him.

”It's Zhang Ye!”

”Aiyo! We finally saw him in person!”

”Are you here at Peking University to work? Let's get an autograph quickly!”

There were old ladies and young children in the group. Men, women, seniors, and young people were all fans of his. Even as an A-list celebrity, it was rare to find someone who could attract such diverse fans. A typical celebrity would usually find themselves with a more specific demographic of fans. Like those singers from Korea, their fanbase were mainly targeted at teens below 20. Then the A-list domestic actors mainly attracted those in their 20s to 30s, while some of those veteran actors would have fans ranging across several age groups, but still generally around 30s to 40s. However, it was different for Zhang Ye. He had not limited himself on the topics that he could talk about. He had read children's stories, created 'Lecture Room', created a talk show, wrote a song, published a book, scolded people, and made trouble. These were the reasons why there was no particular age or gender of the people who liked him. His fans ranged from age 4 to 80, all pretty similar in numbers.

To other people, this was Zhang Ye's disadvantage because he did not have a proper focal point for fans, but Zhang Ye himself thought otherwise and felt that this was an advantage instead, since his goal was different from others. He wanted to become the top celebrity in the world. This was something that no one had managed to achieve yet and was obviously not something that someone with a focused age group fanbase would be able to do. There was no meaning to have a focused fanbase and they would never be able to reach the top that way. Even though Zhang Ye's path would mean that he would move along slower than others and may be more difficult, each and every step he took was real advancement and was very steady and stable. His foundation was also very strong. This was the meaning of a beard well lathered is half shaved. Although his popularity was a little messy right now as he has been dabbling in all areas of work and had not reached an end point where he could fully maximize his popularity and fame, Zhang Ye was already extremely satisfied. The advantage of having such an all encompa.s.sing fanbase would slowly show in the near future.

”Zhang Ye!”