Chapter 406 - Shouldering all Responsibility! (1/2)
Late at night.
A nationwide outcry!
Each year at this time, whether it was on TV or in other forms of media, the topic of discussion would usually revolve around the Spring Festival Gala. They would either be discussing a certain celebrity or program, but this year was different. On the first day of the new year, the topic of discussion was not about the Spring Festival Gala, but about the fight after the gala. It had shocked the entire nation!
At Zhang Ye's maternal grandma's house.
”What the h.e.l.l! Something bad has happened!”
”What's the matter, Mengmeng? Why are you shouting?”
”Our brother....he beat someone again!”
”Don't fool around. Why are you spouting nonsense on the first day of the new year.”
”I'm not spouting nonsense. Come and watch the news! Hurry!”
Upon hearing this, Zhang Ye's parents rushed over to see. His maternal grandparents and other relatives also put down whatever they were doing and came over. They were stunned by what they saw!
His mother immediately cursed, ”That d.a.m.ned child! Why can't he sit still!”
His father remained silent as worry showed all over his face.
Jiaomen
Rao Aimin's house.
”Aunt.” Chenchen called out to Rao Aimin, who was cooking dumplings in the kitchen, with a deadpan face. She pointed to the TV and said, ”Zhang Ye is on the news again.”
Rao Aimin took a look, ”Heh, this kid's zodiac sign must be a gunpowder keg. He explodes so easily!”
At a house somewhere.
Inside a certain bedroom.
Dong dong dong. The sound of the door being knocked on furiously came from outside.
Wu Zeqing was already tucked in bed, getting ready to sleep. She called out, ”Who is it?”
”Aunt, it's me!” Wu Mo replied from outside the bedroom, ”Are you asleep yet? Watch the news, quickly! Zhang Ye's in trouble!” He had actually fallen asleep as well. His parents and family were all watching TV downstairs when they saw the celebrity spokesman for Wu Mo's commercial appear on the news, so they immediately woke him up.
Somewhere
An old man said, ”Shanshan, isn't that your old cla.s.smate? That guy who does the talk show?”
Dong Shanshan came out of the room in her pajamas and said, ”Zhang Ye? What's up about him?”
”He's on TV. It seems like he’s beaten someone up!” The old man said.
The news spread like wildfire!
Lee Anson had been beaten up! Zhang Ye's on the headlines!
As it was a period that was rather special, there wasn't much news to begin with. When this piece of news broke, it only took 30 minutes for it to take the top spot on Weibo. The number of people who were discussing and forwarding the post was difficult to measure, as it kept increasing every second!
”I'm shocked!”
”Zhang Ye's creating trouble again!”
”Teacher Zhang, you're really f**king can't stay idle for one day!”
”Hahaha, this is making me excited! Teacher Zhang was indeed worthy of being the leader of Professional Korean Insulters! Only he'd dare to do something like this!”
”Deserved beating, good beating, such a beating to make Lee Anson wail in agony!”
”What's so good about that? This will lead to adverse effects, what is Zhang Ye even thinking? Eh, but it's also because that Lee Anson was so stuck up. He's really deserving of hate! If only he had treated our Chinese fans with more respect, giving them a few autographs and helping the girl up after she fell, then things wouldn't have turned out this way. Even if Zhang Ye's temperament was bad, those who know him would vouch for him to be reasonable. Lee Anson was mainly to blame for this incident with only some responsibility to Zhang Ye.”
”Zhang Ye doesn't need to be responsible! That Lee Anson is earning our Chinese people's money and enjoying the adoration of our Chinese fans, yet he doesn't even treat them as people? F**k! That's so maddening! I'm just angry that I wasn't at the venue! Otherwise, I would have given him the ultimate beating!”
”Zhang Ye's impressive!”
”That's a good one! I'm starting to like Zhang Ye more and more!”
”Me too. Teacher Zhang Ye is so different from other celebrities!”
”That poem was so well written! 'I love this land'? We love this land too!”
”That's right, Zhang Ye's really the type of person I like, but this time, the trouble he has caused is not small. If the other party were to take legal action, he'd definitely be detained?”
”Is it that serious? It was Lee Anson who was at fault in the first place!”
”If it's really in accordance with the law, then Teacher Zhang Ye would be the one at fault. It could even be argued that Zhang Ye was responsible for the whole incident, as he was the one who made the first move!”
”Support Zhang Ye!”
”Support Zhang Ye+1!”
”Get out of our country, Lee Anson!”
As each media outlet reported the incident in detail. Every citizen who knew about it also expressed their own views on it. Most of them fully supported Zhang Ye and thought that his actions were appropriate. A small minority of them felt that it was uncalled for and also expressed their feelings about it. Yet another minority group, the group of Lee Anson's hardcore fans, who were made aware of the incident, strongly denounced Zhang Ye on the internet. They called for action to be taken against Zhang Ye, so as to be fair to Lee Anson. They threatened the police department to punish Zhang Ye heavily, otherwise they would take the matter up with them!
Police station.
It was just around the area at Bayi Lake. Driving there only took a few minutes.
This police station was much larger than the one that Zhang Ye had been in last time. After entering the building and making seven or eight rounds while walking, he was led to a room.
The young policeman asked, ”Teacher Zhang, water for you?”
Zhang Ye asked, ”Do you have warm water?”
”Yes, let me get some for you.” The young policeman said politely.
After a while, he brought the water to Zhang Ye who took it from him, ”Thank you.”
Seeing no one around, the young policeman secretly gave him a thumbs up and said, ”What I'm going to say does not represent any official stance, but personally, I find you to be really great. I've been unable to stand those Koreans for a long time now. On your ”Zhang Ye's Talk Show”, as long as it's a segment insulting Koreans, I'd watch it!”
Suddenly, someone arrived outside.