Chapter 1171: International Buzz!
Chapter 1171: International Buzz!
Translator: Legge Editor: Legge
In the studio.
The calls came one after another.
Everyone in the studio was busy handling the media reporters while Zhang Ye took calls from his family and friends. The affair had blown up and no one did not know about it!
Zhang Ye held his cell phone to his ear. "Mom."
His mother praised: "Son, that was a good beating you gave them!"
Zhang Ye smiled and said: "Not bad, right?"
"What's so good about that!" At the other end of the line, his father apparently snatched the phone for himself and said: "You are a member of the Party. How can you go around beating up people again? And they're even Olympic referees?"
Zhang Ye gave a hollow laugh and said: "But I didn't beat them up."
His mother snatched the phone back from his father and said: "Don't listen to your father's griping. When he heard that the referees were injured, he happily applauded it and cheered. He only got anxious after he saw that it was you in the surveillance video. Ignore him, you did a great job! We can't get pushed around by them like this!"
Zhang Ye replied: "Got it."
"Will you be fine?"
"What could possibly happen to me?"
"Alrighty then."
Then Ning Lan called.
Ning Lan asked: "Did you really manhandle them?"
Zhang Ye replied: "Let me make this clear: I did not use my hands on them."
"It's the same even if you used your legs!"
"Cough cough."
"You've gotten into big trouble this time."
"Ha, being unafraid of trouble is in my nature."
"I really have to give it to you!"
Another call came in, this time from the songstress, Grandma Zhang Xia.
Zhang Xia asked, "Don't you want to make it in the international scene?"
Zhang Ye said, "I want to."
"You want to? Then why are you still always getting into trouble?"
"Don't worry about me, I know what I'm doing."
"Oh, you! I don't even know what to say about you anymore."
Zhang Ye's friends called him out of concern as they were afraid he had gotten himself into deep trouble this time. But at the same time, they were really impressed by his courage to do something like this. If it were anyone else, they wouldn't have done something that would land themselves in this kind of trouble, more so for a person of Zhang Ye's stature. What mattered most to those in the entertainment industry was their own reputation, especially those who wanted to advance in the international scene. This incident would definitely stain his reputation for the rest of his life and would not be forgotten by anyone. It was already very difficult for Zhang Ye to advance to the top of the domestic entertainment industry with his qualities, so it would be even harder to get to the top of the Asian rankings and advance in the international stage. And yet, he still created this big of a mess? Wasn't he just making things difficult for himself? Wasn't this as good as putting obstacles on his future career path?
But how did Zhang Ye see it?
He didn't care at all. He just went ahead and did it!
Just by that alone, they had no choice but take their hats off to him!
…
Before long, the findings of the police investigation were released!
Chaoyang District Police Station: "Through our investigation, the suspicious man who appeared in the surveillance footage taken at the Olympic venue was indeed Zhang Ye. The preliminary judgment of the police department is that Zhang Ye entered the Olympic venue to return the staff pass as he did not have the opportunity to do so after the opening ceremony ended the day before. In there, he got tripped by an unidentified object on the ground just as he was walking past the five foreign weightlifting referees. After comparison with the surveillance footage, Zhang Ye does appear to have lost his balance at that moment and kickstarted a domino effect where the five foreign referees fell to the ground after one of them was tripped by him.
And on and on it went.
The findings of the investigation went over 300 words!
But the conclusion was summarized in just a word: accident!
When the findings of the investigation were made public, many of the local citizens greatly praised it!
"Giving a Like for the Chaoyang Police!"
"Hahahaha! Well done!"
"The police are serving the people!"
"They know how to spot right from wrong!"
"That's right, it was just an accident!"
"This case was judged wonderfully!"
"That's right, that's right! It had nothing to do with Teacher Zhang!"
"They're exceedingly right! I know that with Teacher Zhang's character, he would definitely not injure the referees at the Olympics venue on purpose. Teacher Zhang would never do something like that!"
"Correct, he's a triple faculty professor of Peking University and Media College. He's an out-and-out intellectual."
"That's right, that's right. Teacher Zhang is a teacher of the people and a member of the Party. How could he possibly do such a thing? We can't malign a good person. The police have finally cleared Teacher Zhang's name."
"The injustice has been redressed!"
"A teacher of the people would not beat people up!"
"Hai, the truth finally comes out. Teacher Zhang was wronged!"
"My tears are overflowing! I'm so happy for Teacher Zhang!"
The people were talking about how righteous the outcome of the investigation was.
But in reality, all of them were laughing their asses off on the inside!
The injustice was redressed?
They were happy for him?
A teacher of the people would not beat people up?
Bull fucking shit!
Everyone knew in their heart of hearts that even an idiot could see that this was done by Zhang Ye on purpose. He wouldn't do something like that? If he wouldn't do something like that, then who would! This was exactly the kind of thing he loved doing! But nobody spoke what they thought. Instead, all of them were protesting this injustice against Zhang Ye, "feeling" deeply indignant about the misunderstanding that other people had of him!
Yao Jiancai's Weibo: "…"
Xiaodong's Weibo: "…"
Huo Dongfang's Weibo: "a…"
When many of those in the entertainment industry saw this, they nearly fainted!
That's enough!
That's really enough!
Can you all not be so funny!
In all of China, who does not know what kind of person Zhang Ye is!
However, some foreign reporters actually got fooled by the findings of the Chaoyang District Police Station's investigation. Several foreign media outlets started reporting about this news.
The English media: "All a misunderstanding."
The Russian media: "The findings of the police investigation show that this is not a criminal case."
The Portuguese media: "Let's turn our focus back to the Olympic events."
But more of the foreign media did not believe it!
Especially the Australian and South Korean media. They reacted to this news in a frenzy. The American media, which naturally sided with their allies, also joined in the commotion and criticized the investigations angrily!
A misunderstanding?
An accident?
Who are you trying to bluff!
Only an idiot would believe that!
The referees who got beaten up were even angrier as they did not agree with the outcome of the investigation!
The Australian media: "Hand over the assailant! He must be severely punished for his actions!"
The American media: "The American delegation demands an explanation from the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games!"
The South Korean media: "The assault on the South Korean referee cannot just go unpunished. Requesting that the Interpol take over the investigation!"
When the Chinese netizens saw this, they rolled their eyes. What Interpol? Do you think this is a terrorist attack?! The American delegation even wants us to give an explanation? Do you treat yourselves as Interpol?
However, there were also some Chinese media outlets that joined in the fray.
A small tabloid: "The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games should give an explanation to the International Olympic Committee 1 !"
An online media outlet: "Zhang Ye has really gone too far! "
A Chinese expert: "Fighting violence with violence never works! It only serves to worsen the conflict!"
A scholar from the education field even resorted to scaremongering: "If the case of the injured international referees does not get handled properly, China will suffer a loss of respect in the international arena. The Beijing Olympics will become a laughing stock!"
A lot of people were supporting Zhang Ye!
A lot of people were also scolding him!
Each side had their views and reasoning!
On the first day of the Olympic Games, all of the domestic and foreign media outlets, along with the people, were in an uproar. All of this was because of Zhang Ye, because of what he had done!
It was an unprecedented occurrence!
Zhang Ye had successfully stolen the headlines from the Olympics!
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Olympic_Committee