Chapter 1352 - The Spring Festival Gala comes to a close!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

At Central TV.

Broadcasting Studio 1, production control room.

All of the staff members were holding their breath.

Zhang Ye was seated in the command position with an earpiece on and taking charge of the operations personally. He stared at the video monitor while slowly sliding two buttons upward.

“Five.”

“Four.”

“Three.”

“Two.”

“One.”

“Cut! We’re done!”

The Spring Festival Gala’s live broadcast signal was cut.

Exhausted, Zhang Ye plucked out the earpiece and threw it onto the table. He heaved a long sigh of relief with a smile on his face before turning his head to everyone and saying, “It has ended!” The broadcast signal had been transferred over to Central TV Department 1’s backend master control 1 . The television signal was definitely still going, but whatever was being broadcast now was no longer under the control of the Spring Festival Gala’s executive director. Zhang Ye was only responsible for the Spring Festival Gala, and at this moment, Zhang Ye and the Spring Festival Gala’s production team’s responsibilities also ceased!

With this “it has ended.”

Everyone in the production control room broke into jubilant cheers!

“Our work is done!”

“Happy New Year!”

“Ahhhh!”

“We did it!”

“Yeah, we did it!”

“This year’s gala was great! We were so awesome!”

Everyone could only express the excitement in them by shouting it out.

Then the production control room’s door flung open. Outside, the staff members of the production team came rushing in one by one. The Spring Festival Gala Organizing Committee’s members were also standing outside!

They were all here!

Everyone had come over!

A bustling 60 to 70 people were both squeezed into and out of the production control room!

Some of them hugged together amid the screaming!

Some of them fist pumped and cheered!

Some of the female staff members were even surreptitiously wiping away tears of joy!

It really hadn’t been easy. This year’s Spring Festival Gala had really not been easy at all. Li Ke had suddenly quit and there was no one left to take the role of the executive director. They kept encountering difficulty after difficulty. With the Spring Festival Gala fast approaching, Zhang Ye stepped in and led the production team to stage a stunning reversal to turn the tide! Before this, who could have expected that this year’s Spring Festival Gala could be done to such an effect?

No one!

No one could have expected it!

But Zhang Ye managed to!

All of them managed to!

Zhang Ye embraced them one by one.

“Old Han, you’ve worked hard!” Zhang Ye said.

Assistant Director Han said, “It’s no big deal.”

Zhang Ye said, “Old Ha, you’ve worked hard.”

Ha Qiqi said, “No, you’re the one who has suffered!”

Zhang Ye said, “Old He, the lighting was superb!”

Old He said, “It was because we had your leadership!”

Zhang Ye said, “Old Sun, you had to put up with a lot over at the venue today.”

Old Sun said emotionally, “That was nothing, that was nothing!”

Zhang Ye asked to embrace every staff member and addressed them by their names as he told each of them “you’ve worked hard.”

But everyone knew that the one who had worked the hardest of all was not them!

The person who almost single-handedly carried the entire Spring Festival Gala, the person who had spent two months in a row working on the front lines—was standing right before them!

The executives came in and grabbed hold of Zhang Ye’s hands!

Chief Zhao said, “It was hard on you! Director Zhang, you were amazing! You were so amazing!”

Director Ma said loudly, “This was the best Spring Festival Gala that I’ve ever watched! You’re really a god!”

Deputy Chief Liu said, “Director Zhang, thank you! Thank you!”

But Zhang Ye sincerely responded, “I should thank the few of you instead. We had differences of opinion, but you all still gave in to me and did your best to accommodate me, I—”

Director Ma quickly said, “Let’s not bring that up, it’s already in the past.”

Chief Zhao said, “That’s right, that’s right, it’s already in the past.” Then, he gave a loud laugh and said, “If you’re still coming back to helm the Spring Festival Gala as the executive director next year, Old Zhao and I would like to team up with you again!”

Zhang Ye was startled. He hurriedly waved it off, saying, “Whoa, please spare me! You still want me to direct the Spring Festival Gala? This year’s event has already nearly taken my life; I’m not gonna do it again!”

Everyone laughed loudly. Yes, this year’s Spring Festival Gala was indeed full of scares and shocks!

Suddenly, an executive on the organizing committee said, “Here, everyone, quiet down for a bit. May I suggest that we give a round of applause to Director Zhang?”

Everyone started shouting:

“Sure!”

“Sure!”

“Sure!”

Zhang Ye quickly said, “Please, there’s no need for that.”

However, no one seemed to have heard him. Applause rang out!

“Director Zhang!”

“Thank you!”

“Thank you!”

“You’ve worked hard!”

“Director Zhang, it was all thanks to you this time!”

“You’re basically a god among men!”

“If we didn’t have you taking charge this time, we really wouldn’t know what to do!”

“Director Zhang, thank you!”

The applause continued for a long time!

Everyone was grateful and giving their heartfelt thanks!

They had all witnessed Zhang Ye’s suffering, hard work, and sacrifices in recent days. During the two months of preparing for the Spring Festival Gala, the light in Zhang Ye’s office had never been flipped off. With all of the external pressure placed onto him, the production of the programs was also overseen by him personally. Even the criticism from the fallout of the Five Cards of Fortune Collection campaign had to be placed onto Zhang Ye himself and deflected from Unipay and the Spring Festival Gala. Zhang Ye had already predicted early on that this would be the outcome, so he started making plans when nobody realized it yet. He had Unipay settle the PR issues first, and even got them to deliberately set the amount very low when the red packets were given out in his name. All of it was done so that he would become the person to bear the blame for everything!

The dirty work!

The tiring work!

He took on all of it!

He was a director worthy of all the respect in the world!

All of a sudden, the crowd of people parted. A lot of people were pushing to the sides to create a path as a woman gracefully walked in from outside.

“Chief Wu!”

“Ah, Chief Wu!”

It was Wu Zeqing!

Zhang Ye was also stunned. “Hey, what are you doing here?”

Wu Zeqing smiled. “I was waiting for you, of course.”

Zhang Ye exclaimed, “I was overseeing the Spring Festival Gala’s recording. Why did you come here to wait for me? When did you arrive?”

Director Ma laughed and said, “Chief Wu was here since the live broadcast began. She’s been waiting all this while backstage.”

“Look at you.” Zhang Ye grumbled, “It’s so noisy here. Wouldn’t it have been more comfortable to wait at home?” He might be complaining, but he was very touched at heart.

“Director Zhang, do hurry back home.”

“Yes, you must be tired out from the entire day.”

“Hurry back home with Chief Wu.”

“Director Zhang, happy New Year!”

“Chief Wu, Director Zhang, happy New Year!”

Everyone was wishing them well.

Zhang Ye also said, “Alright then, all of you hurry back home too. We’ve been so busy for the past two months, so be sure to rest well for a few days. I estimate that the viewership ratings will only be released tomorrow or the day after. We’ve already done all that we could and the acts have all performed up to expectation. In fact, they even exceeded that! However the viewership ratings look, there isn’t anything regrettable. We can only wait for the results, so go back home and enjoy the new year without worry. Let’s not think too much about anything else!”

Viewership ratings?

Yes, they were only waiting for the viewership ratings to be released now!

They had done their best, but the results still depended on how the viewership ratings would do. Everyone was really looking forward to the day it would be released!

The higher-ups had set the target for them to hit at 20%?

Could they exceed this figure?

How much could they exceed it by?

No one dared to presume too much!