Entertainment: From Street Interviews to Global Stardom

Chapter 34: Rent Collection, Landlord Style!

“Something, I’ll have someone prepare it for you. You find a place to rest first.” The director said with great concern.

Yang Fan smiled mysteriously: “This thing, you really can’t prepare it!”

The director was dumbfounded. In this station, was there something she couldn’t prepare?

The director was curious, but seeing that Yang Fan didn’t intend to continue, she didn’t ask further.

She turned and went to the station chief’s office. She still needed to explain the employee welfare housing matter properly to the station chief.

Shi Lei saw the director leave and then leaned over to Yang Fan: “Hey, Yang Fan, if you need anything, just say it. I can’t help much, but small favors are no problem.”

“You’ve already helped me a lot. I’ll treat you to supper after the show.” Yang Fan said with a smile.

Shi Lei was delighted and said very happily: “That sounds good!”

But soon, Shi Lei realized something was wrong: “Hey, wait, you’ve changed your schedule. You finish at 10 PM, and I have to work overtime until 10 PM just to have a meal with you? Am I crazy???”

Yang Fan burst out laughing: “Hahaha, that’s not within my consideration!”

Shi Lei gritted his teeth in frustration, this bastard!

“Hao Yue, let me take a look at today’s script. We’ll go on the show together later.” Yang Fan called out to Hao Yue while laughing.

Hao Yue hurried over with the script, nervously letting Yang Fan check it: “Okay, sir, this is the script I wrote myself. See if it’s usable.”

Yang Fan quickly glanced through it and said: “It’s okay, but we won’t use this today. I’ll rewrite one later, we’ll use mine!”

Hao Yue was a bit disappointed but didn’t argue, just softly agreed.

“Also, go down and buy three boxed meals, add more meat for Shi Lei.” Yang Fan took out a hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to Hao Yue.

“Three? Three meals? Is the extra one for the director?” Hao Yue asked, puzzled.

“Aren’t you eating?” Yang Fan rolled his eyes at Hao Yue, this apprentice was a bit slow!

What director? This was their overtime meal!

Really, as if the director would stay and work overtime with them!

Hao Yue was very moved and bowed to Yang Fan: “Thank you, sir, thank you!”

“Alright, hurry up and go.” Yang Fan said while opening WeChat on his phone. At the top of the list was a new group chat.

Yang Fan’s Rent Collection Group!

“Hey hey hey, everyone in the group who’s online, the landlord is here to collect rent!” Yang Fan just went online and @ everyone.

Hu Ge, lying idle in the hotel, was the first to see Yang Fan’s message.

“Landlord, The Climbers filming isn’t finished yet, the salary hasn’t come in, no money for you. How about giving me a few more days?” Hu Ge joked with a smile.

Yang Fan also laughed: “Since there’s no money, do you have time?”

Wu Jing: “???”

Zhang Yi: “???”

Jing Boran: “???”

Zhang Ziyi: “What do you mean by having time? Yang Fan, what do you want to do?”

Yang Fan: “My show’s schedule has changed, it’s now 8:00-10:00. To prevent the second half’s external connection segment from being cold, I think I need some backup!”

Wu Jing laughed: “Got it, you want us to call you, right?”

Yang Fan: “Smart!”

Zhang Yi: “Why should we? Isn’t sleeping at that time nice?”

Jing Boran: “Yeah, why should we call you? What’s in it for us?”

Yang Fan: “Right, why should you? Forget it, forget it, pretend I didn’t say anything. I’ll go shout in my fan group, good night everyone!”

“Damn, you guys are always trying to dig at me, and now I just ask for a small favor, and you have the nerve to ask for benefits?”

“You want benefits, huh?”

“I won’t use you then, let’s see who’s anxious in the end!”

Hu Ge: “Hey hey hey, we didn’t say we wouldn’t help, why are you getting impatient!”

Jing Boran: “Yeah yeah, I’ll call, I’ll call, I’ll call, I promise to call on time!”

Wu Jing: “I say, brother Yang Fan, shouldn’t you leave a phone number before you go? So we have to find your station’s external connection number ourselves?”

Zhang Yi: “Yeah, that’s too much, shouldn’t you give us a phone number?”

Zhang Ziyi: “Mango Radio external connection number: xxxxxxx!”

Wu Jing: “In crucial moments, Zhang Ziyi is reliable!”

Zhang Yi: “By the way, what should I say when I call?”

Jing Boran: “That’s indeed a problem. I can’t just say, hello Yang Fan, I’m Jing Boran, I’m calling as promised, right?”

Hu Ge: “Hahaha, that would be something! But if you say you’re Jing Boran, normal people probably wouldn’t believe it!”

Zhang Ziyi: “Hey, Yang Fan, don’t you think you should prepare some lines for us?”

Usually, others interview them. Now suddenly they have to take the initiative, what should they say???

Should they interview Yang Fan instead???

Huh???

This, it seems, can be arranged!

Zhang Ziyi: “You guys chat, I’m leaving first!”

Wu Jing: “Hey hey hey, where are you going, tell me!”

Zhang Yi: “What else? Of course, to prepare the script.”

Wu Jing: “…Really? We have to prepare the script ourselves??? I don’t even prepare scripts for TV interviews!”

Hu Ge: “No choice, who made our landlord ignore us, we have to be self-reliant, I’m leaving, you guys chat!”

Jing Boran: “I’m leaving too, you guys chat!”

Wu Jing: “…”

Zhang Yi: “…”

Yang Fan watched the chat in the WeChat group continue, the curve of his mouth growing wider.

If today’s show doesn’t explode in ratings, he’ll eat the keyboard in front of him!

Taking advantage of the time Hao Yue went to buy the boxed meals, Yang Fan hurriedly wrote some content for the script.

Then the two briefly communicated and repeatedly confirmed today’s talk show content before hurriedly eating a few bites of the boxed meal.

“Dear listeners, welcome to FM89.3, Mango Life Radio at the same time every night.”

“I am the host, Yang Fan.”

“I am the host, Hao Yue.”

“The Yang Fan Talk Show starts now!”

The familiar opening lines came from Yang Fan’s mouth, the difference was that the live broadcast used to be in the afternoon, but now it was at night.

“Yes, you heard it right, the program now playing is the originally scheduled 2:00-4:00 Yang Fan Talk Show.”

“And the originally scheduled program for this time slot, Lin Hai Hotline, has been moved to 2:00-4:00. Friends who want to listen to Lin Hai Hotline can tune in to FM89.3, Mango Life Radio every afternoon, host Lin Hai will be there to meet you!”

“The Yang Fan Talk Show starts now!” Yang Fan briefly explained the schedule change and started today’s show.

Today was the first day of the Yang Fan Talk Show’s schedule change. The first day’s success was very important, otherwise he wouldn’t have made such a big deal about getting those celebrities to help.

As long as today’s ratings are stable, without major mistakes, the subsequent ratings won’t be too bad!

“Hey, Hao Yue, during the days I was away on business, you didn’t cause any trouble, did you?” Yang Fan and Hao Yue began today’s talk show segment in a call-and-response manner.

“Yang Fan, who do you look down on?” Hao Yue glared, instantly not agreeing.

Yang Fan breathed a sigh of relief: “It seems you didn’t cause trouble, that’s a relief.”

“Am I the kind of person who doesn’t cause trouble?” Hao Yue spoke with a gasp, forcefully stirring up the atmosphere.

Yang Fan silently gave Hao Yue a thumbs up, indicating she did well.

“Huh??????” Yang Fan drew out a long sound, full of disbelief.

“Quick, tell me, what did you do?” Yang Fan anxiously pressed.