Chapter 461 - Notions of the People! (2/2)

Now that it had happened, there was no reason to avoid it. Zhang Ye was starting to feel much calmer now. He laughed a little and said, ”Director Feng, thank you for your kindness, but I have no interest in planning a program for others. Besides, if the SARFT were to pick on me again, the program might even suffer because of me. I don't wish to create more trouble for the company, so I will take the initiative to submit my resignation.”

Feng Guiqin felt it was a pity that it had to come to this, so she tried to persuade him, ”There's no need for you to resign. Why don't we just freeze your duties for now and leave it until later to decide. We will still be paying your salary during this time.”

Zhang Ye felt that he could not take advantage of the situation. He did not need the money anyway, ”Director Feng, let's just decide it my way. I will submit the resignation letter to you as soon as I can. Help me to process it and I will sign off on it.”

Feng Guiqin took a deep breath and sighed, ”This is really an unexpected calamity. Honestly speaking, the whole company is feeling bad for your unfair treatment!”

”There's no way around this, it has caught up to me.”

”For a person of your capability and talent, sigh!”

”Thank you for taking care of me all this while, Director Feng.”

”That's what we should say to you instead, Little Zhang. Take care.”

Thereafter, a person from Beijing Television Station, that Zhang Ye did not know, called. He told Zhang Ye about his ”Zhang Ye's a.n.a.lysis of the Three Kingdoms” and some of his fairytale stories on Beijing Radio Station, which had been scheduled for a rebroadcast would all be suspended immediately. He did not say much as he was no longer a staff of the Beijing Television Station. He did not have a contract with them, so they were only informing him out of courtesy.

After hanging up these calls, Zhang Ye's mood became a little heavy. He was a broadcasting major graduate. Even though he dabbled in poetry and also became a teacher, he had always been a host first. This time, he had lost his job as a host and his programs had all been suspended as well. This made him feel like a part of him had died. He felt empty. From the beginning, throughout all this time, his dream was only to be a famous person. He wanted to be in the spotlight and stand on the world's greatest stage. Therefore, he placed a lot of importance in fame and reputation. That was the reason why he kept climbing with all he got to where he was, but now, when it came to him losing all of that, Zhang Ye suddenly felt that he had not only been trying to gain fame and reputation all this while. He was surprised to even admit that he might have really liked what he did. Even if he ended up with no results to show for or unable to gain fame, he would have wanted to continue on doing what he did!

To stand on stage!

To live on stage!

To die on stage!

But now, this little request of his had become a dream once more. Right now, he would not even have a chance to stand on stage anymore!

His heart was dead cold — that was what he was feeling now.

Then, another three work related phone calls came in. Zhang Ye was already in no mood to answer.

The first call was from the Peking University's website webmaster. He called to inform Zhang Ye that his public lectures on ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ had already been taken down under the orders of management.

Zhang Ye did not feel anything, but asked, ”What about next month when school reopens? Do I continue to give my lectures? Am I still going to serve as a Chinese department's teacher?”

The webmaster vaguely answered, ”Oh, I don't know about that. I'm only in charge of the website. You could ask Dean Chang of the Chinese department.”

Zhang Ye nodded, but did not bother asking Chang Kaige. He did not even make a call to Wu Zeqing, who had a good relations.h.i.+p with him. Because he did not want to bother others about whether they would continue to use his services. He'd just go with whatever happened. In his current situation, Zhang Ye was ready to accept any outcome!

The next call was from the Beijing Education Publis.h.i.+ng Firm. They had worked with Zhang Ye on ”Ghost Blows Out the Light” before as well as his other fairy tales.

The person said, ”Is that Teacher Zhang Ye?”

Zhang Ye said, ”It's me.”

That person was a youth. He said, ”h.e.l.lo. I am from the Beijing Education Publis.h.i.+ng Firm's legal department. Regarding your 'Ghost Blows Out the Light', 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', and 'The Wizard of Oz', they have all been taken down by the major bookstores and returned to our publis.h.i.+ng firm. According to your agreement with our firm, you have breached some of the terms of the contract. As this was due to your misdemeanors, you have caused great financial loss to our company. Now, the firm is about to terminate this contract and we will be requesting compensation. I'm calling to inform you of this first. As for further details, our lawyers will contact you again.”

Zhang Ye's eyes narrowed, ”How much compensation is your company seeking?”

The youth replied calmly, ”According to your simplified Chinese edition's buyout price and the breach of contractual terms, we are seeking a compensation of 3.5 million. I'm not in charge of the issue here, so our lawyers would be handling it instead. If the matter can't be resolved, then we will appeal to have this resolved through civil action.”

But Zhang Ye was even calmer than he was, ”Don't activate your lawyers. There's won't be a need for civil action either. 3.5 million, right? OK, send me the contract. I will transfer the money to you immediately.”

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