Suddenly, a nasty comment appeared, “Is this Zhang Ye retarded? How are property prices expensive? It’s cheap enough. If you can’t afford it, it’s because you are useless. Don’t complain. Even though I can’t afford one myself, the people around me have all bought one and have paid in full. And they’re even in the top-tier cities!”
This poster was nicknamed “I’mTheBest”.
Someone below replied, “Are you for real? Paid in full? Top-tier city?”
“I’mTheBest” replied “Of course. Those are even houses in the city. It’s not difficult!”
“Laughable.” Someone retorted, “Do you even know how much property prices are right now? Don’t you watch the news?”
ZhangYeNumber1Fan was speechless, “This person watches the news, but I bet it’s News Simulcast*!”
After following Zhang Ye’s Weibo, many of these followers were “fighters”. This challenge had provoked a war. Everyone was now arguing!
All of these comments were posted under Zhang Ye’s Weibo post, so, of course, he felt helpless and irritated. Scolding me? Even saying property prices are cheap? So he followed up with a post “Everyone, don’t argue. Actually, ‘I’mTheBest’ has a point there. I also know a friend who paid in full for a house in a top-tier city, too. It’s not impossible. You can still work for others and be able to afford a so-called luxury home. This is not an impossible dream.”
“An employee can afford a luxury home?”
“How’s that possible!”
“Eh? Why is Teacher Zhang talking for that guy?”
“There’s can’t be any logic in this? Even a fool knows how high property prices are!”
“Teacher Zhang’s gone crazy today, right?”
The masses were now questioning Zhang Ye. Some of their comments were very nasty.
Zhang Ye replied, seemingly unaffected “Listen to my friend’s story first.” He had randomly remembered a very popular story from his old world.
“Tell us!”
“How is this not bullshit!”
“I would like to see how you explain yourself out of this!”
A lot of people began to talk down to him.
Zhang Ye posted “Five years ago, my friend Xiaoke ran into walls when he was seeking employment. In the end, he found a job as a small-time programmer in a small IT company in Beijing. After half a year, Xiaoke felt that he could not continue on like this anymore and came up with a plan to buy a house within five years. Every step was carefully planned and followed! ‘At first, it was really difficult. I could not do any social or entertainment activities.’ Xiaoke related. ‘From the start, I used any free time from work to study financial planning and programming courses to increase my knowledge.’ Just like that, Xiaoke took all sorts of IT certification exams and got his company to give him yearly raises in increments of 3%. ‘I even applied for management courses and got to know many outstanding industry people.’ Using such networking, Xiaoke slowly built up his contacts. Finally, with the five years of accumulated savings of 50,000, adding on the 7.95 million that his parents gave to him, Xiaoke managed to buy his first ever house. It’s even a house in Beijing City’s 2nd Ring Road area. ‘Having a dream that can be turned into reality is the most beautiful.’ said Xiaoke with determination in his eyes.”
At first, everyone was still seriously reading, trying to understand Xiaoke’s miraculous plan to buy a house and learn from it. But when the story ended, everyone passed out!
“Pu!”
“Hahaha!”
“That was a godly reversal!”
“This is definitely Teacher Zhang’s style!”
“Teacher Zhang is too cute! That was such a tease!”
“This is what a master is. A short story can be written with such sarcasm and depth!”
“Turns out to be ironic! I had thought that Teacher Zhang went crazy! I quickly apologize! I’m ashamed to have treated Teacher Zhang wrongly! I will definitely support you in the future!”
“This story has written out our voices and frustrations!”
“This is what a writer should be, at least to me. Look at Teacher Zhang; he can write modern poetry, ancient melody poetry, novels, fairy tales and even such thought provoking and humorous short stories. The Beijing Writers’ Association must be blind. Are you sure that you won’t be admitting Teacher Zhang Ye into the association?”
This story had actually been so overused back in Zhang Ye’s old world. If you surf the internet often enough, you’d have heard of this story before. But it has never appeared in this world before, so everyone’s curiosity was piqued and they laughed so hard at it. Then came the forwarding and dissemination of the story!
A simple short story like that had now been voted to rank 9 of the main page!
An explosive viral effect had been achieved within such a short time!
This also made Zhang Ye secretly shocked. The power of the masses was indeed great. The number of Weibo fans and his Reputation points were both increasing! It seemed like he had to do such things more often in the future. He could not give up any opportunity to be famou