Chapter 545 - Voting begins! (2/2)
A female cla.s.smate said, ”No, I've already given my vote to Steven, my Caucasian prince!”
Another female cla.s.smate said, ”Me neither. I'm going to vote for Endo. I love that j.a.panese hunk! He's so handsome! I've always voted for him as the most popular celebrity every year!”
In the end, none of them gave any face to the second sister.
Cao Tong could only angrily stomp her feet. Unlike her sister, she did not have that much popularity among her cla.s.smates and it made her feel like giving up!
Meanwhile, the third sister, Cao Mengmeng was making some calls: ”h.e.l.lo, Dongzi. Don't ask me anything, just get on Weibo now and vote for my brother….What do you mean who is my brother! He's Zhang Ye!”
The room was full of noise and sounded like a big mess of chattering.
Zhang Ye felt a little embarra.s.sed by all the goings-on, feeling as though his stature dropped. He couldn't help but say, ”Come on you all, don't go around begging for votes. It's just a few votes, so what effect could it have on the poll? No matter what, your brother is a top C-list celebrity. If I just called out for votes, I would be getting lots of them within a short moment. With all of you going around begging for votes, it makes me seem like I'm not a popular person.”
The three of them ignored him, acting like he wasn't there. They just continued looking for their friends to ask for votes.
Seeing his sisters trying so hard, Zhang Ye felt quite touched about it. He felt if he did not try hard himself as well, then he would have let down his sisters!
Canva.s.sing for votes?
He should get to it himself too!
The quote earlier from the Divine Comedy suited the occasion but lacked some charm and impact.
Suddenly, Zhang Ye's doubters appeared on Weibo.
”He wants to compete for this award too?”
”He's overestimating himself!”
”This poll belongs to the A- and B-lists celebrities. What has it got to do with you?”
”Zhang Ye has really been unbanned? His name is included in the nominee list? What the heck is the SARFT doing? This sort of person should be banned for life! If you let him make a comeback, he will surely go around scolding people and cause a mess in the entertainment circle again! The previous time, when he went around scolding the other celebrities saying 'what lousy XX is this,' do you know how many people hated him to the bones because of that? Everyone hated him so badly that they wished they could just silence him!”
Most of the doubters were fans of Zhang Ye's adversaries.
When Zhang Ye saw this, his temper flared and he sent another Weibo post: ”Please vote for me!” and added a quirky quote, ”…Wear the shoes of others', so that others have no shoes to wear! Walk on others' paths, so that they have no paths to walk!”
When the people saw this post, many of them burst out laughing!
”Pfft!”
”Why does he even have to steal shoes!”
”Teacher Zhang, what are you trying to do!”
”Hahaha, what a great way to let the others have no paths to walk on!”
”Right, those of us from Zhang Ye's fan club must adopt such a stance of imposition! If G.o.d blocks us, we will kill G.o.d! If Buddha blocks us, we will kill Buddha! I want for the sky to not cover my eyes! I want for this land to not bury my heart! I want for all those countless celebrities to pack up and scram!”
”Get them!”
”Vote for Teacher Zhang!”
”This is the first battle since Teacher Zhang has returned! Let's fight it out with them! We need to get Teacher Zhang a good ranking!”
”Get ready for battle!”
”Haha, let the tempest come strike harder!”
Zhang Ye's hardcore fans were more than willing to battle it out for him. They'd bled and sweat together with Zhang Ye all the way up until now. There was no trouble they were afraid of. Instead, they craved it. Whenever they saw a battle happening, their eyes would light up—this was a common characteristic of Zhang Ye's fan club. Wherever you looked, whether it be internationally or domestically, you could only find such a fan club right here!
When the other celebrities and their fans saw Zhang Ye's newly posted Weibo update, they were speechless. Especially those fans who had earlier battled countless of times with Zhang Ye, the representatives from…Lee Anson's fan club, Lee Parkwoo's fan club, Tang Dazhang's fan club, etc. They all could only think of one thing, if you have been unbanned and are trying to make a comeback here, do it quietly. Don't go around offending others when no looked to make trouble with you. What are you trying to do here, carpet bombing everyone and talking about walking on someone's path so that they couldn't walk on it? Whose shoes were you intending to wear so that they would have no shoes to wear?!!
Be careful of getting smelly shoes!
Many of them immediately started to counterattack him.
”Pfft!”
”We need to get rid of Zhang Ye!”
”Yeah, everyone, join our hands together and get him!”
”That person really makes my blood boil! His fan club is also asking for it!”
”Hur hur, it's not like everyone has only just gotten to know Zhang Ye. The sort of person he is, don't you all know it well already? He just has a special charm to him—a word from him and everyone will hate him! Look at this, he has just made his comeback recently and he's acting up again! A leopard doesn't change its spots!”
He was getting a mixed reception!
The disputes were renewed!
In everybody's eyes, Zhang Ye seemed to have the innate ability to create trouble. But only Zhang Ye himself knew that his words now didn't carry any other meaning. It was just to ask for votes with some impact behind them, and to hit at those who doubted him. So why were all these people reacting so strongly? It was as though he was intent on declaring war on all of the other celebrities? But he did not have that intention!
Really, this was all just for the sake of art, don't you all know?
Zhang Ye could only shake his head slightly. Wear the shoes of others', so that others has no shoes to wear, walk on others' path, so that they have no paths to walk, what did those words mean? It can't be that none of you can understand it, right? There was a deep meaning to this, a hidden meaning that was the ultimate answer to all of literature. It was not as simple as anyone thought it to be. When you look at it for the first time, that phrase might not seem like anything. But if you looked hard and thought about it, it would dawn upon anyone with a sense of upbringing in literature that…well, that it doesn't have any other meaning to it.
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