I Am Really A Superstar

That same day.

There were still ongoing discussions about I Am a Singer on Weibo.

"They"re going to record the seventh episode soon!"

"I"m really looking forward to it!"

"It was such a pity that He Huan got eliminated."

"Yeah, the results of the fourth episode were really too unexpected."

"Has the next replacement singer been revealed yet?"

"Not yet, no one knows who it is."

"I"m always most anxious to find out who the next replacement singer is after every knockout round."

"This show is a blast! Zhang Ye is really f.u.c.king amazing!"

"I Am a Singer"s viewers.h.i.+p ratings are through the roof. Sing! has completely been dismantled."

"Hurry up and get the new episode out. I can"t wait anymore."

"Hahaha, let"s see if Amy will get eliminated in the new round!"

"Amy is truly an undying G.o.ddess!"

"Pfft, everyone is always saying that she"ll be eliminated soon, but she always manages to stay alive!"

"There"s not going to be another show as awesome as this in the entire history of variety shows!"

It was trending #1 on Weibo, was the top searched term, and the songs performed on it filled the Top Chinese Music Chart! Counting all of the variety shows in recent years, there was really none that was more popular than I Am a Singer. The Voice was not, A Bite of China was not, King of Masked Singers was not, and Sing! was even more not so.

But at this moment.

The SARFT issued a shocking announcement!

—After investigating a report, Beijing Television"s I Am a Singer was found to have flouted the rules of using a non-professional host according to Article 21. They are required to rectify this immediately, and all unlicensed hosts will be prohibited from taking any hosting roles on any variety shows moving on.

The announcement was very long, but that was the gist of it.

The SARFT was penalizing I Am a Singer!

At the same time, it was also sending out a warning to all the other variety shows in the industry!

With that, all the people in the country were alarmed!

"What?"

"Heavens! Immediate rectification?"

"So does that mean the show will be taken off the air?"

"How"s that possible!"

"I know about that regulation! There was indeed something like that!"

"But why has it been fine until now? All the other shows were untouched?"

"Didn"t you read what they said? Someone made a report! They got stabbed in the back!"

"d.a.m.n, do they have nothing better to do?!"

"Needless to say, it must be Sing!"s program team who made the report!"

"It"s over, they"re gonna get taken off the air!"

"Surely not, right? I love this show so much!"

…

Central TV Department 1.

Many of the people here went crazy at the news!

"Ha?"

"Immediate rectification?"

"Hahaha, serves them right!"

"This is such good news!"

"If their show gets suspended, our Sing!"s viewers.h.i.+p ratings can definitely break 2%! It might even go higher than that!"

"This is what you call retribution!"

"We can finally enjoy seeing them in a predicament!"

"Hurry up and suspend them already!"

"They might not get taken off the air, but that should be enough to throw a spanner in the works."

"If they don"t handle it well, their viewers.h.i.+p ratings will surely drop like crazy."

…

At Beijing Television.

It was very chaotic.

Zhang Ye was on the line with Old Wu, who had just gotten out of her meeting. He brought up a suggestion to use loopholes to get past the order since something like that had worked in his previous world. "Old Wu, if we register Dong Shanshan as the host for our show, but only in name, and then continue letting the singers host in their capacity as guests or partic.i.p.ants, would it work?"

"I"m afraid not."

He raised several more suggestions but all were rejected.

In the end, Zhang Ye felt rather hopeless when he realized that there were no loopholes that he could take advantage of. Or to be precise, he was left without any loopholes to take advantage of as everyone at the top had it in for him and his team.

Over there.

The calls also arrived one after another for Zhang Ye.

Xiaodong asked: "Zhang"er, what"s going on?"

Zhang Ye said: "It is exactly what you see."

"So I won"t be hosting for this upcoming episode?"

"Yeah, we"re trying to think of ways to minimize the impact of this."

Zhang Xia also called.

"Little Zhang, are we going to be taken off the air?"

"No, that"s not going to happen."

"Then what does the immediate rectification mean?"

"It"s just on the matter of the hosting issue. I"ll be able to handle that."

"Alright, it"s been hard on you. Are we still going ahead with tomorrow"s recording?"

"Of course. Everyone should prepare for recording per usual. We"ll start at the agreed upon time after everyone is finished rehearsing. Nothing will be affected, don"t worry."

"Alright."

Although Zhang Ye was telling everyone not to worry, the partic.i.p.ating singers were still very worried. He was rea.s.suring everyone but had not yet thought of a way to solve the problem.

Beijing Television was also trying their best to pull relations and even the Station Head had seemingly gone over to the SARFT and stayed there for a full two hours before stepping out. Later on, she didn"t even say anything after she got back, so it could be a.s.sumed that there was not much hope. Even if Beijing Television was quite a major station, they did not exactly have much power or authority to speak of.

The singers were all waiting.

The industry was also waiting.

They were all waiting to see how Beijing Television would handle this.

I Am a Singer"s program team was cursing and swearing now.

Xiao Lu shouted, "They better not let me find out which b.a.s.t.a.r.d made the report!"

Dafei said in a rage, "This is too sinister! They"re so vicious!"

"Why couldn"t they have just worked and improved on their own show? Why must they pull others down with them? Do they really think that if our show dies, their show could step up?" Hou Ge also said angrily, "It wasn"t easy to have a variety show that could surpa.s.s 3% of the viewers.h.i.+p in China. We haven"t even managed to make a name for ourselves overseas and have already been backstabbed by one of our own!"

Han Qi scolded, "Villains!"

The program team"s staff were all really mad!

Hu Fei said anxiously, "The deadline is tomorrow. Let"s think of a way to deal with this first!"

So far, it looked like Zhang Ye was the one who was the most tolerant. It wasn"t because he was big-hearted, but that he had been through too many of such incidents before. What kind of situation had he not seen before? There were many more incidents that were even more serious than what had just happened. So he said, "Yes, listen to Brother Hu. Everyone, calm down and try to think of a something first."

Xiao Lu said dejectedly, "There"s nothing that we can do. If we bring in a new host, it will affect the show"s quality. The singers we have don"t have hosting licenses either, so they can"t take the stage role. What options are we left with?"

Hou Ge said, "Yeah, if we don"t want to affect anything and keep making the show as before. Unless the replacement singer for this week can host as well, we could let him do it. But wouldn"t that be too far-fetched? Those singers who can sing well in the music industry are all professional singers. Like they"d have a hosting license as well! Why would they go and take the test to get a hosting license? Do they have nothing better to do? And even if we get a host to cross over, their singing won"t be good enough for them to take to stage. So that"s where the problem lies. There isn"t anyone so wondrous that they would have both a hosting license and be a professional singer at the same…."

Hou Ge suddenly went quiet.

The entire program team office fell silent!

Hou Ge was stunned as he slowly turned around to look at Zhang Ye.

Hu Fei blinked several times and turned his head in the direction of Zhang Ye as well.

Xiao Lu looked over.

Han Qi looked over.

Dafei looked over.

Hou Di looked over.

Everyone was staring at Zhang Ye and did not say anything. They just kept looking at him.

Zhang Ye was dumbfounded!

What the heck!

What are you all looking at me for!

Zhang Ye flatly refused, "No! Absolutely not!"

No one said a thing as they continued looking at him.

Zhang Ye nearly fainted then and there. "Don"t you all even think about that! It is absolutely impossible!"