I'm Really a Superstar

Chapter 1268: It’s been hard on you!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

At the Heavenly Queen’s house.

Zhang Yuanqi turned her head and said with a smile, “Didn’t you say that Zhang Ye doesn’t know how to sing anymore?”

Fang Weihong feigned ignorance and gave a wry smile. “Did I say that, Sister Zhang?”

Zhang Yuanqi nodded. “I think you did.”

“Oh, then you just remembered wrong,” Fang Weihong said.

…

At Chen Guang and Fan Wenli’s house.

Watching TV, Fan Wenli looked stunned!

She muttered to herself at home, “I knew it!

“I was thinking that you couldn’t have suddenly lost your ability to sing!”

“If you had sung like this from the beginning, how many people in the entire music industry would be a match for you!”

…

At the studio.

Little Wang was wiping away her tears!

Ha Qiqi’s eyes reddened!

Zhang Zuo and the others were also unable to control their emotions!

“Who fucking says that Director Zhang doesn’t know how to sing!”

…

At an entertainment company.

Several new singers were amazed.

“Wonderful!”

“This singing has to be the top in the industry!”

“The song is really good too!”

…

At Zhang Ye’s house.

His mother’s eyes were wet. “This is the song that Little Ye wants to sing?”

Wu Zeqing said, “Yes.”

“That was a really nice song.”

“Yes, it was.”

His mother wiped her tears away and said, “But I still prefer ‘Small Apple.'”

Wu Zeqing laughed. “That’s right, anything he sings is good.”

…

A song.

And a piano.

That was all it took to move everyone!

In the live broadcast studio.

“Champion!”

“Champion!”

“Champion!”

The audience’s shouting was deafening!

Some of the fans who had been holding up LED boards of Zhang Xia, Chen Guang, Spring Garden, and the other singers’ names also stood up and screamed for Zhang Ye. It was as if everyone at the venue had gone crazy!

Zhang Ye simply shook his head.

Champion?

Forget that.

I can’t accept that honor.

He only wanted to sing well for this last song. It was a luxury and a headstrong thing to do, but it was more than enough for him. He didn’t want anything else. Zhang Ye was pretty happy. So many people listened to him sing, shed tears for him, and shouted his name, which was all he needed. He had nothing to regret now that he had expressed his true feelings at the fall of the curtain.

Dong Shanshan went up onstage. “Director Zhang, this is your final performance on the stage of I Am a Singer. Do you have anything to say to the audience?”

Zhang Ye thought for a bit and looked into the crowd. “Thank you.”

Dong Shanshan said, “Everyone is given a minute to campaign for more votes.”

Zhang Ye hesitated for a moment, then said again, “Thank you.”

He didn’t say anything other than thanking everyone twice.

Zhang Ye exited the stage and walked past the audience as he left.

A young man suddenly stood up. “Zhang Ye! Good luck!”

A teenage girl shouted in tears, “Go Teacher Zhang!”

“Zhang Ye!”

“Good luck!”

“You’re the best!”

“You’re just the best!”

Once he left the stage, Hu Fei, Hou Ge, and the others were waiting for him.

Zhang Ye smiled. “Whoa, what’s with this?”

“Director Zhang!” Xiao Lu came up to him, sobbing.

“Hey, hey, hey.” Zhang Ye quickly gave her a token hug and patted her on the back. “Alright, enough, what’s with this, what’s with all of you? Good god, we still have a show to record. With over half of our program team’s senior leadership gathered here, can we still record? Let’s get back to work.”

Han Qi was also wiping away her tears.

Hu Fei said, “Zhang’er.”

Dafei said emotionally, “You’ve suffered!”

Zhang Ye laughed and said, “What do you mean I’ve suffered? Making such a good show and standing on such a big stage for so many people to hear me sing, how is that called suffering? If that is suffering, then what about those who are really suffering? I’m very fortunate. In fact, I should apologize to everyone. Changing the song, having everyone change the lyrics in a hurry, and getting a piano for the performance at the last minute during a live broadcast, I’m sorry, I promise this will be the only time it happens.”

Hu Fei also laughed. “You’re speaking like you haven’t done this before.”

During King of Masked Singers, he had requested a song change many times.

Zhang Ye said in embarrassment, “Brother Hu, don’t expose me like that.”

Hu Fei kept quiet for a moment. “Director Zhang, it’s…been hard on you.”

Zhang Ye said, “I was just serving the people, nothing hard about it.”

Hou Ge said, “I don’t think it’s possible to catch up on in the voting. The champion should have been—”

Zhang Ye waved it off. “Oh come on, we should leave that fight to Old Chen and Grandma Zhang.”

Xiao Lu suddenly stopped crying. She turned around and said, “What’s Shanshan saying?”

“Eh?” Dafei, Hou Ge, and the others also turned around to look.

The door that connected to the soundstage was shut, but faint sounds from inside could be heard from here.

When Zhang Ye heard it, he was also taken aback for a second.

…

On the stage.

A lot of the audience members were still immersed in the shock of that song, “The King of Karaoke.”

Dong Shanshan raised her microphone and said quietly, “Since Zhang Ye does not want to ask for votes, let me use the remaining time to say something. I’ve known Zhang Ye for many years. We sat together for our four years in university as well as shared the same office cubicle for a year after our graduation. Later on, we even worked together on quite a few shows and also shot a music video together. If we have to identify those in the industry who know him best, I should probably count as one of them. All of you should know full well what kind of a personality he has. He’s very straightforward and always speaks his mind, doing whatever he deems fit. But to tell you the truth, today’s also my first time seeing him like this.”

The audience nodded.

Yes, they’ve never seen him like this before!

Dong Shanshan smiled and said, “That guy’s always eager to win. Be it any competition, even if it’s just a simple comparison, he always wants to get first place.” With a pause, she continued, “But he did not do so this time. Ever since joining the show as a competitor, he’s also been working in his roles as the director, vote counter, and host. He was fine with however much overtime he had to put in at work, just so that the show would be able to go on without a hitch. In order to protect the other singers, he endured? Compromised? Kept silent? In the past, these were words that I would never link to Zhang Ye. But I saw all of that in him this time. It’s only now that I realized that the Zhang Ye I knew could sacrifice so much. For the show, for his colleagues, for the greater good, he was willing to endure it and take a step back.”

The audience went silent.

In the crowd, the music critics and fellow professionals were also silent.

Dong Shanshan smiled and said, “The reason why I’m saying this is not because I want to get votes for Zhang Ye. I just wanted to tell him this. Director Zhang, it’s been hard on you.”

Silence.

There was not a sound.

Then, in the span of a pin dropping, applause broke out from the audience!

The music critics were applauding!

The audience was applauding!

There were even some people who stood up and gave a thumbs up high in the air!

One person!

Ten people!

A 100 people!

The cameras panned over to them instantly!

Countless audience members were giving a thumbs up in the direction of the door that Zhang Ye had left through. The sight was astonishing, and every home viewer also felt very touched when they saw this on TV!

They had not understood!

Didn’t Zhang Ye lose his ability to sing?

Then how did he suddenly regain that ability?

After listening to Dong Shanshan’s speech, they finally understood!

So it was because he was only here to accompany them!

So it was because he had been protecting everyone all this while!

So it was because he couldn’t win right from the moment he took on the role of the singer-host. He was destined to be a supporting role working in the shadows of the others!

What kind of feeling was that?

What kinds of emotions did he feel?

It was something they couldn’t understand, but they knew that this was an extremely difficult choice for a person like Zhang Ye to take!