I'm Really a Superstar

Several days later.

Zhang Ye finally had some free time.

The news couldn't possibly revolve around him every day. After a few days of hype by the media, everything returned to normal. That was because an even more important event was approaching!

The Beijing Olympics!

There were a little more than two weeks to go before the Olympic Games began!

This was going to be the single largest event in recent times for China. The media outlets had been reporting this for the past few days. They reported on things like who would be the invited guests for the opening ceremony, who would make up the contingent for Team China in the games, which sports stars could not participate due to injuries, and so on and so forth. The Olympics atmosphere was getting hyped up. Although there was still some time until the start of the Olympics, one could clearly sense that there were more and more foreigners around the streets. There were people of all nationalities around.

In all of China, Zhang Ye was perhaps the last one who knew about this. This fellow had only happened to catch a glimpse of the news this morning before finding out about it with a shock!

Zhang Ye wore an exaggerated expression of surprise. "Beijing Olympics?"

His father looked at him and asked, "What's the matter?"

Zhang Ye said, "They're holding it in Beijing this year?"

"Yeah!" His mother said, "Didn't they bid for the rights many years ago?"

Zhang Ye simply nodded when he remembered that this was no longer his previous world. Too many things had changed over here, like the bidding rights for the Olympics and the year that it would be held. Back in his previous world, the bid to be the host country had since long been won, and the Beijing Olympics had been successfully held.

His mother asked, "Oh, don't you have a classmate working at the Central TV Sports Channel?"

"Yeah, Yu Yingyi," Zhang Ye said.

His mother smiled and said, "See if she can get us some tickets for the events."

Zhang Ye said, "I'll ask her. You're interested in going and watching?"

His mother said, "Of course we have to go and watch. It was not easy to win a bid to organize the Olympic Games. Since it's being held in our country, shouldn't we go and give our support? Aren't you going?"

Zhang Ye threw up his hands. "Why would I go and watch it! It's not like you don't know about the relationship between me and the sports world."

His mother smacked her lips and said, "That's true. Which industries have you not offended?"

After the table tennis interview incident, and the resulting scolding battle and skit that called upon the "rejection of prostitution, gambling, and table tennis," the fight between Zhang Ye and the sports world reached a fever pitch. Many of the sports world's executives, coaches, and athletes gnashed their teeth in hatred of Zhang Ye. This was well-known to everyone.

Zhang Ye sat on the sofa and watched the news for a while. After he had a look at some of the famous athletes of this world, he stopped paying attention to the news. He did not really know most of them anyway. He turned to thinking about what he should be doing next. Zhang Ye was feeling a little overwhelmed after his popularity had soared so quickly in recent times, making him the top A-list celebrity in the country, as well as breaking into the Asian C-list rankings. However, he knew that he would have to take it step by step from here. This little bit of achievement was really incomparable to what his target was. The road ahead was a very long one, and he was still too far away from becoming an international celebrity.

What should he do next?

Which direction should he work towards?

Zhang Ye was still undecided. As such, he drove to Rao Aimin's place after he finished eating breakfast. He wanted to ask Old Rao if there was anyone who wanted to work with him recently.

At Old Rao's place.

The moment Zhang Ye stepped into the house, he was given a tongue-lashing!

Rao Aimin pointed at him and said, "I'm telling you, kid, I'm quitting as your agent. Go find someone else who wants this shitty job. Are you trying to tire me out? You're just staying at home with nothing to do and idling around as you like. Meanwhile, I have to take calls for you even when I go to the bathroom! Do you want to die?"

Chenchen walked in. "Zhang Ye, you've angered my aunt."

Zhang Ye said nervously, "What's going on?"

Rao Aimin slid her cell phone to him. "Just look at how many calls I've taken in these past few days."

Zhang Ye had a look at it and also thought that it was a little too much. There were more than a hundred calls. He quickly put on a placating smile and said, "Big Sis Rao, I know it was hard on you. Can't you see that I'm here now because I care about you? Here, take this Brain Gold supplement regularly." He placed the Brain Gold on her coffee table and said, "Oh yes, has there been any suitable work for me recently?"

Rao Aimin said, "Yes."

Zhang Ye's eyes lit up. "What kinda work?"

Rao Aimin pointed at the bathroom. "The toilet broke, get it fixed!"

Zhang Ye was speechless.

At this moment, Yang Shu opened the bathroom door. "Ai, Senior Bro, you're here?" She wiped her hands clean and said, "Master Rao, the toilet has been fixed."

Chenchen gave her a thumbs up. "Old Yang, well done."

Rao Aimin said, "Look at Little Yang! And then look at yourself! Other than posturing for the media every day, what do you know? If you keep stirring up all that commotion, who is going to handle the fallout for you? Won't they just come calling me for answers? You're pretty habitual in giving out my number to whoever you like!"

Zhang Ye lamented, "But you're my agent."

"Just hire someone better qualified already," Rao Aimin said.

Zhang Ye said, "Please endure it a little. I know it's been hard on you."

Yang Shu immediately said, "That's right, Master Rao. It isn't easy for Senior Bro either, so please help him out." At all times, Yang Shu was on his side.

Rao Aimin exclaimed, "Then do you think it's easy for me?"

Zhang Ye said, "How about I give you a higher percentage of the earnings?"

Rao Aimin howled, "Have you ever taken any commercial appearances? How much money can you earn in a year? Depend on your earnings? Then I'd have starved to death ages ago!"

Zhang Ye gave a wry smile and said, "If you quit now, where on earth am I going to find an agent? I don't know that many people, and I don't trust them either."

Rao Aimin said, "In any case, I've already got too much on my hands!"

Suddenly, his cell phone rang.

It was a call from Ha Qiqi.

"Director Zhang!"

"Ai, Sister Ha."

"Where are you?"

"I'm at a friend's place. What's the matter?"

"Everyone has quit their jobs and plans to go join up with you."

"Ah?"

"Will you take us in?"

"What happened? Come over first!"

Twenty minutes later, a group of people gradually arrived at Rao Aimin's house.

Ha Qiqi, Zhang Zuo, Little Wang, Wu Yi, Tong Fu, and some others were all from Zhang Ye's old team. The longest serving member had worked together with him on The Voice, while the more recent ones worked on A Bite of China and the Documentary on Air Pollution in China together with him. This was the best program team in the TV show industry!

Zhang Ye wondered, "Why did everyone quit?"

Zhang Zuo replied, "Old Ha and I did not renew our contracts after it ran out, so we were considered to have left by ourselves. Little Wang was sacked over a minor matter. The higher-ups skipped over Director Yan's authority and got her fired."

Little Wang said angrily, "I only rebuked someone from Central TV Department 1!"

Wu Yi said, "I resigned out of anger!"

Zhang Ye looked at the others.

Tong Fu said, "Since everyone left, I followed suit."

Little He added, "I prefer working with Director Zhang, so I resigned too!"

"Director Zhang, we'll listen to your plan!"

"Yeah, we'll all listen to you!"

"There's no way we can continue working there! All of us used to be on your team, so the higher-ups are always picking on us! They kept making things difficult for us and treated us with a bad attitude. Who would want to tolerate their behavior!"

Everyone started complaining!

Zhang Ye said in a speechless manner, "But you all are the industry's best program team. How can they just let you guys leave like that?"

Ha Qiqi said bitterly, "Director Zhang, not many people know about us even though we are the industry's best program team. To put it bluntly, how can we still claim to be number one if you're not on the team?"

Zhang Ye waved it off. "Take a seat and tell me more."

Chenchen waved to them. "Old Ha, Old Zhang, Old Wu."

Zhang Zuo smiled and said, "If it isn't our Little Leader."

Little Wang said joyfully, "Ah, Chenchen has grown taller!"

Chenchen replied, "Mmm, I guess I did."

Zhang Ye introduced everyone to his assistants. "Some of you might have seen them before and some have not. This is Rao Aimin, my agent. This is Yang Shu, my bodyguard." Then he introduced Ha Qiqi and the rest of the others one by one to Rao Aimin and Yang Shu. "When you weren't around for those six months, I had some trouble juggling my show's production work and taking care of the child. At that time, I brought Chenchen with me to Central TV where everyone helped take care of her. They all treated Chenchen quite well."

Rao Aimin acknowledged him and said lightly, "Stay for the afternoon. I'll make lunch."

Ha Qiqi quickly said, "Sister Rao, there's no need to trouble you."

However, Zhang Ye said, "Don't stand on ceremony with her. Old Rao is a very good cook. You'll all regret it if we don't stay for lunch."

"We? Did I say that I want you to stay for lunch?" Rao Aimin said.

Zhang Ye pretended not to have heard her. He turned to ask Tong Fu, "How did Huang Dandan's surgery go?"

Tong Fu smiled and said, "She's recovering quite well. She even kept saying that she wanted to come and join you, but I stopped her."

Zhang Ye said, "That's good. She should rest up for now, so don't let her get back to work yet."

Little Wang said fervently, "Director Zhang, let's pull off another big one this time!"

"Whoa." Zhang Ye said in amusement, "Are you planning on robbing a bank?"

Little Wang coughed and said, "We can do something on a smaller scale too. We're jobless anyway. If you don't take care of us, we won't have anywhere left to go."

Zhang Ye laughed and said, "Didn't I say this before? If you all don't have anywhere to go in the future, just come look for me and we can plan something. I was so looking forward to you all coming and join me. It's not easy to build another team that has such a deep bond and understanding. It's Central TV's loss that they did not keep all of you in the company. Let me do a headcount. One, two, three, four, five…There's a total of 13 people. Good, so almost the entire team is here."

Ha Qiqi laughed and said, "Basically everyone on the old team is here."

Tong Fu raised his hand. "And some from the new team."

Zhang Ye decided, "Alright, I'll take everyone who wants to join me!"

Ha Qiqi asked, "Then what are we looking at doing?"

Zhang Zuo asked, "Yeah, what should we do?"

They all knew Zhang Ye well. There was a very strong friendship and trust after working together for such a long time. This was not purely about tapping on the interests that each one of them could offer. The reason why everyone came to Zhang Ye the moment they left the Central TV Documentary Channel was not because they had nowhere to go. There were endless people in the industry trying to poach them, yet they were all here because they still wanted to work with Zhang Ye.

Zhang Ye was quite happy that his old team that had swept through the entertainment industry was now reunited. When he thought about Rao Aimin's earlier complaints of being too busy, Zhang Ye suddenly had an idea. This idea was probably one that he had in mind since a very long time ago!

Zhang Ye suggested something astonishing. "Let's set up a studio!"

Ha Qiqi was taken aback. "A studio?"

Zhang Zuo said in surprise, "Aiyo, that is a good idea!"

"Right, all the A-list celebrities have their own studios!" Wu Yi said.

Little Wang clapped her hands and said, "I'll join!"

"Me too!"

"Count me in!"

"Haha, and me too!"

"Follow Director Zhang's lead! And he'll give you meal to eat!"

"A studio is a great idea!"

"I've been waiting for a long time for this day!"