Chapter 506 - The years greatest scolding war! (1/2)
Chapter 506: The year's greatest scolding war!
”h.e.l.lo, Master Xu, are you online?”
”I'm about to sleep. It's already this late at night, what's the matter?”
”Go and take a look quickly. Zhang Ye's gone mad. He's looking for trouble everywhere!”
”What matter of his would concern me?”
”He...he scolded you as well!”
”What!?”
”h.e.l.lo, Teacher Chen!”
”Who is this?”
”I am Little w.a.n.g from the publis.h.i.+ng firm.”
”Oh, oh, I know who you are.”
”Your new book has been scolded by Zhang Ye on Weibo!”
”Ah? You son of a gun, Zhang! How dare you try to bully me!”
The disturbance was large!
He had caused too much ire!
In the late hours of the night, countless celebrities who were turning in or had already gone to sleep were woken by Zhang Ye's attacks. Many netizens also did not bother with sleeping anymore as the fans of those celebrities were making a fuss, as though they were on steroids! They rushed forward to curse at Zhang Ye, while those who were unaffected joined the war as spectators. It wasn't too much trouble since all they wanted was to observe what would ensue! Some of them even tried to muddy the waters and gave Zhang Ye's posts Likes!
”Zhang Ye! Come out!”
”Where is he? Is he running away after scolding others?”
”This idiot is such a coward! How maddening! I've never been angered so much by a celebrity! Just how many Teachers have you scolded in such a short span of time? Let's see how you are going to end up today!”
”Haha, Teacher Zhang is being so cute today!”
”Supporting Teacher Zhang Ye! I wonder what you all will do!”
”Right! Supporting Zhang Ye! In the past, it was always Teacher Zhang who released a work before getting hara.s.sed by those bunch of people who seemed to have something against him. They would scold and doubt him before denouncing him. Once, twice, even thrice, but now the tables seem to have turned. d.a.m.n, based on what reason does it always have to be Teacher Zhang getting scolded by you guys? This time, it's our turn to challenge you all! It would be impolite to not reciprocate! Is there a rule saying that only you people can scold Teacher Zhang and he isn't allowed to do the same to you all!?”
”Right, well said! Like that Meng Dongguo, Deputy Station Head Jia, Tang Dazhang, Lee Anson, and those other literary and crosstalk world people who jumped at everything Teacher Zhang did and endlessly repeated it! Now it's our turn!”
”Everyone, let's do this! Support Zhang Ye!”
”Brothers, let's attack! Let's scold that wretched Zhang Ye!”
The netizens sparred and fought with their words and the mess that followed was better left unsaid!
Actually, Zhang Ye's cellphone would have been exploding with calls if it were not for the fact that he had been expecting it to happen and turned it off before he started scolding people on Weibo. He was enjoying the peace and quiet right now as he watched these people, whom he was scolding, react to him. Zhang Ye suddenly felt very satisfied. Just like how his fan had described, he had always been reactive in the past and fought back with his face-smacking after being scolded. It had always been this way, but now that he had been banned and had gained almost no attention for his new novel's release, Zhang Ye even felt a little bit lonely. So this time, he decided that he would actively seek the wrath of his ”old friends!”
Many of the celebrities who were scolded issued statements accosting Zhang Ye!
A lot of critics and other people published their thoughts through various channels to strongly denounce Zhang Ye's act of aggression in scolding so many people through Weibo!
The battle was increasingly getting out of hand and more and more people were gathered to witness this unprecedented Weibo war! The number of times Zhang Ye's Weibo post and comments were forwarded was exploding and heading straight for the top of Weibo's ranking page. Other forums and Tiebas were also full of criticism for Zhang Ye!
Zhang Ye's blog was naturally one of the battlegrounds in this war! It was at this time that the click rate for Legend of Wukong began rising at an unbelievable speed. It rose so quickly that it would shock you just to see it! Every time the page was refreshed, the click rate for those six chapters would rise by a large number again!
1 million!
1.5 million!
2.3 million!
That rate of increase blinded the eyes of many observers!
”Ah, this novel's really good!”
”I accidentally clicked on it and read it but it's quite good!”
”I came to watch the scolding war wondering what was going on, but ended up seeing Legend of Wukong and reading it. I couldn't even stop once I started! What a great 'I want for the sky to not cover my eyes!' Aside from Zhang Ye's character, which I do not want to comment on, his literary level really leaves people speechless! It can only be described as amazing!”
”Good read!”
”Stop scolding people and quickly update the novel instead!”
”Zhang Ye, stop scolding people. Come back and publish your next chapter! I want to read on to find out what happens!”
Most of these people did not know about Zhang Ye's new novel until the scolding incident happened and caught their attention. The popularity of the novel suddenly surged!
3 million!
3.5 million!
It was still rising!
This scene had left many people dumbfounded. The novel had only just been published earlier that night and wasn't even completed. There were only six chapters and only how many hours had pa.s.sed since then? The number of times it was read shocked many of them. Then some of them a.n.a.lyzed the numbers and felt that if Zhang Ye had not been banned previously, he would still have been unable to get so many views in such a short period of time. But now that he was banned, how the heck did he get this many views!? There were no reports of it on the news, no media promotions, and no direct promotions and it still managed to reach such heaven-defying readers.h.i.+p??
Quite a number of people from the other side of the war finally understood.
”Everyone, stop scolding already!”
”Don't go onto Zhang Ye's Weibo or blog!”