After Zhang Ye got off the subway, he met Wang Xiaomei, who had been recognized by two male fans, in front of the station platform. Teacher Xiaomei was giving the fans her signature.
“Thank you, Teacher Xiaomei.”
“You’re welcome. Is that all?”
“Can we get a picture together? I really like your ‘Talk About the World’!”
“Next time. I came to work late today, so I’m running late.”
Seeing Wang Xiaomei cross the road, Zhang Ye also walked up to her, “Teacher Wang.”
Wang Xiaomei turned at look at him and acknowledged tersely, “I heard your program’s listenership rating on Friday had increased once again? 3.31%, right? It’s very good.”
Zhang Ye said, “There are more children resting on Friday, so it went up.”
Wang Xiaomei said, “Aren’t there even more resting on Saturday? Also, parents do not need to work.”
“Uh, I don’t know. It’s of course good if it can increase a bit more.” Zhang Ye said nonchalantly.
However, Wang Xiaomei said, “Work hard, then. It’s not that easy to surpass my listenership ratings.” Her tone sounded a bit prickly. She left after she finished speaking.
Zhang Ye smiled bitterly.
At the unit’s office, today’s atmosphere felt particularly weird.
“Did you hear? The rating for ‘Old and Young Story Club’ on Friday was 3.31%!”
“I knew about it the day before yesterday. It’s really such an exaggeration!”
“Say, do you think Teacher Little Zhang will really reach the top of our channel?”
“It might have just been a fluke. I don’t think it will happen. Teacher Xiaomei has been number one all these years. Her segment’s foundation lies deep, so it shouldn’t be taken down.”
“But Teacher Little Zhang is too fierce! He has already chased to just about 0.3% left. Besides, I’ve heard they are giving him an additional hour over the weekend. They have halted ‘Weekend Laughing Forest’ for two episodes. There are also more people resting over the weekend, so an afternoon session might be able to rival a prime-time session at night!”
“That is still impossible.”
“Right. Teacher Xiaomei isn’t a pushover.”
Everyone was discussing about this matter. The moment that they saw Wang Xiaomei enter, they stopped talking. Following her in immediately to the unit was Zhang Ye, who received a lot of attention from everyone. For a full half an hour, the entire office was quiet. No one spoke a word. Everyone was not really into their work. Today was the Literature Channel’s battle of the top boy and girl. Even if it did not have anything to do with them, they were still curious.
Suddenly, everyone put down the things in their hands.
“Director.”
“Leader.”
Zhao Guozhou had arrived, “Alright.”
This time, he did not need to speak any further, as everyone stopped working and uniformly looked towards him.
Instead, it was Wang Xiaomei and Zhang Ye, who were the people directly involved and today’s main characters, that did not have many changes in their expressions. They seemed nonchalant.
Zhao Guozhou looked at the listenership ratings in his hand. His eyes looked very complicated, “Let me first announce the ratings for the programs on Saturday. There are quite a lot of things today, so I will not announce all of them. I’ll first announce the top three.” Looking up to look at everyone, “First place, ‘Talk About the World’, listenership 3.81%!”
3.81%?
Teacher Xiaomei was indeed not someone simple!
Actually, the listenership ratings for “Talk About the World” had been dropping over the past few days, so that even Zhang Ye had managed to chase up to it by quite a bit. People were even worried for Wang Xiaomei. But today’s results made everyone understand that Zhang Ye had no chance. Teacher Xiaomei had gotten serious!
“Second place, ‘Old and Young Story Club’, listenership… 3.55%!”
Holy ****! Many people gasped again! It added another 0.2%?
Teacher Xiaomei had an explosive increase, but Teacher Little Zhang was not far off, either? However, it was still off by a bit; “Old and Young Story Club” would definitely not be able to catch up!
Sure enough, Zhao Guozhou said, “Next I’ll announce the listenership ratings for Sunday.” When he said this, Zhao Guozhou specially looked at Wang Xiaomei and Zhang Ye, “Teacher Xiaomei’s ‘Talk About the World’, the listenership rating is still at 3.81%!”
Big Sis Zhou sighed as she murmured, “Little Zhang, there will still be plenty of opportunities in the future.”
Aunt Sun also comforted Zhang Ye, “Don’t lose heart. Second place is already very formidable. Don’t compare your segment with ‘Talk About the World’. It’s nothing disgraceful to lose to it.”