Chapter 214: CCVV's Blacklisting and Banning

"What's the date today?"

Inside the living room of Waterfront Manor.

Jiang Zhe, Xiao Shiyi, and Wang Lin were eating breakfast—steamed buns, fried dough sticks, and soy milk prepared by Auntie Wang—while discussing business.

Xiao Shiyi looked at Jiang Zhe with a strange expression, "It's January 12th."

Wang Lin's expression was also surprised, "Time really flies. January 1st, New Year's Day, was the foreign New Year, but this year, it feels like nothing happened. Hanging out with you lately, I've lost all sense of the date."

Jiang Zhe looked puzzled, "It's been almost two months since I came to this world. In 12 days, it will be the New Year. New Year's Eve is the 28th, and New Year's Day is Wednesday the 29th."

"I'll definitely be spending New Year's Eve and New Year's Day at the TV station!"

"Everyone will be watching the Spring Festival Gala that day; I can't miss this opportunity."

Muttering this, he looked at Wang Lin, "Wang Lin, does this body have any relatives? I mean, besides my parents being deceased; I don't remember this body having any other family."

Wang Lin said thoughtfully, "No relatives. I participated in Old Zhao's political review of you before. You spent some time in an orphanage and were later adopted. However, this body didn't quite fit the criteria for the adoptive family, and you were sent back to the Su City 'Love Orphanage.' If you have any relatives, Director Li might count as one."

At the mention of this, Xiao Shiyi quickly chimed in, "Director Li, I know him. I met him when I went to the orphanage for a visit. He is the director of the Love Orphanage, and the children all call him Dad. He's about 54 this year. Later, when it came to your political review, I was the one running around. I chatted with Director Li about you. Honestly, Director Li didn't really like you because this body of yours was too precocious; you didn't look like an adult, so Director Li didn't contact you even after you became famous."

Upon hearing this, a strange smile appeared on Jiang Zhe's face.

Wang Lin asked in surprise, "What's up? You're happy being a loner?"

Jiang Zhe shook his head gently, "Of course I'm happy. After transmigrating, besides you three and the old colleagues at the TV station, I'm free of burdens. I can't be bothered to make social visits during the New Year; it fits my yearning for a free life."

Xiao Shiyi looked speechless, "Everyone else is having reunions for the New Year, and you're all alone. You don't even have a girlfriend. Are you happy?"

Jiang Zhe suddenly grinned, "Before long, this world will undergo a massive change. You'll know then. Having family in this world might not be a perfect choice."

Xiao Shiyi and Wang Lin stopped speaking after hearing this.

Although they knew Jiang Zhe was a transmigrator, he had never revealed some of the secrets behind it.

To break the awkward atmosphere, Xiao Shiyi asked, "By the way, do we really not need to negotiate with the people from CCVV? I'm afraid they might trip you up during your live broadcasts in the future."

Wang Lin quickly replied, "Yes, in the current situation, your goal is to be a household name and have more people watch our program. Reducing their interference is actually beneficial for us."

Jiang Zhe spread his hands, "Then what do you think I should do?"

"Compete!"

"Compete?"

Wang Lin nodded and explained, "Yes. Currently, the national public doesn't like watching the Spring Festival Gala, but even if they don't like it, the viewership remains at half of the 1.4 billion population: 679 million people. That's the data from the 2024 Spring Festival Gala."

Jiang Zhe looked blank, "Wait, are you joking with me? You want me, a local TV station, to compete with the Spring Festival Gala in live viewership? They had 679 million viewers last year, while my current live viewership is around 20 to 30 million. The key is that not everyone likes watching science interpretation programs; they just want to watch something light and simple. Wang Lin, you're overestimating me, aren't you?"

At this moment, Xiao Shiyi quickly shook his head to explain, "Competing with the Spring Festival Gala is impossible; after all, it's a veteran program. But we can take this opportunity to drive traffic to your program. On New Year's Eve, if you perform something on the program... like live medical diagnosis, it will definitely boost viewership!"

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, are you talking about this?"

After saying this, Jiang Zhe's mind stirred, and his eyes instantly turned golden.

Although Xiao Shiyi and Wang Lin knew about this peculiar ability, witnessing it again, they couldn't help but be shocked.

"Yes, yes, yes, that's it, the Golden Eyes."

"Is it this kind of gaze that allowed you to see Old Qian's illness?"

Jiang Zhe's mind stirred again, deactivating the Truth-Seeing Golden Eyes, and he explained, "Yes, that's this ability. However, we are a popular science program. Doing live medical diagnosis will definitely attract attention from people with ulterior motives."

Wang Lin frowned and asked, "Then what should we do? You won't come forward to explain, and you won't come forward to admit fault. Are we just going to ignore CCVV's blacklisting of us?"

After saying this, he opened his laptop and personally clicked on the Weibo post that CCVV had posted a while ago.

Then he pushed the computer to Jiang Zhe.

He looked at it carefully, and a snarky comment appeared before his eyes.

[CCVV Official Weibo: It is a great pity that for the Science-Powered Nation Plan, we failed to invite the Suzhou TV Station host, Jiang Zhe; we couldn't even get through to him on the phone. Perhaps our CCVV temple is too small, and the great master doesn't think much of us.]

Then, a bunch of snarky comments followed in the comment section.

"Sigh, there are all kinds of hosts these days. People from small places think they're famous, so they can ignore the authorities."

"I've watched that program; it's all nonsense. The key is that there are fools who believe it."

"Jiang Zhe, he's an internet celebrity these days. Ignoring an official invitation, he's probably going to be blacklisted at the national level."

"Exactly, find an opportunity to ban him, make Suzhou TV Station blacklist him. Once he loses his platform, he'll definitely have to come back and apologize to us at CCVV!"

"Has he been banned yet?"

"Not yet, can't find a reason to ban him."

"Then just give him a random label—suspected of spreading false information—can't we ban him for that? I've long been annoyed by him. A nobody with no credentials daring to spout nonsense on official platforms, talking about 'Universe Cyclic Theory' and 'Infinite Onion Universe.' Does he really think reality is an illusion?"

"What can we do then? It's said that Jiang Zhe has military backing, so we at CCVV can't ban him~"

"..."

Seeing this, Jiang Zhe nodded silently, "I roughly understand now. CCVV is relying on being a program for the common people to act snarky because I didn't reply to them earlier."

"I guess they must have taken some action during this period."

"Later, after the order was issued, it was rejected by our local military in Su City."

Wang Lin asked curiously, "The military? You have military backing?"

Xiao Shiyi looked surprised, "Wait, was it that time when a bunch of leaders from all over the country called us in the leadership meeting room, demanding we hand over that black technology? I think it was called [Mind-Reading Black Technology]?"

Jiang Zhe nodded gently, "Yes, that was the time. The time I sat in Officer Su Cheng's car with Xiao Shiyi. He came to treat us to dinner that time to get the black technology. I gave it to him, and later I guess Officer Su Cheng gave it to the military. The news released from the military side led people on the internet to guess that the police and military black technology came from my hands."

Upon hearing this, both of them suddenly realized.

"That makes sense now."

"Then we don't need to worry about CCVV's provocations; we have the military backing us. We don't fear them, and they don't dare to take any action against us."

"However, Old Jiang, you still have to make a call to ask Officer Su Cheng, so that you don't make Xiao Shiyi and me worry about your future every day."

Due to the request of his two best friends, Jiang Zhe couldn't refuse them, so he nodded and took out his phone to call Officer Su Cheng.

Soon, the call was connected.

"Jiang Zhe?"

Jiang Zhe said, "Officer Su Cheng, it's me. Do you have any news about me lately?"

The person on the other end was silent for a moment, then chuckled, "Is it about that CCVV matter?"

"You actually know?"

"Yes, actually it's because your station director didn't receive CCVV's invitation call, and later was blacklisted by CCVV. After that, they made some small moves against you, trying to get superiors to issue instructions to impose rectification requirements on your Suzhou TV Station. I estimate that your station director didn't receive any so-called rectification requirements; needless to say, you definitely couldn't have received one."