This director lacks vision.

Chapter 365 The Rewards from the Spring Festival Gala

As soon as Jiang Yifeng entered the lounge, he saw the three hot and sexy women sitting together, chatting and laughing.

Li Yunxiao sat alone next to him, playing on her phone.

Jiang Yifeng didn't like having too many people during the Chinese New Year, so he had told Liu Yifei and Jing Tian well in advance that they should go home after their performance and not wait for him.

Later, Jiang Yifeng will also go back to his home in the Diaoyutai compound to stay with Rela Ai.

He was unaware that Gao Yuanyuan had gathered a group of people at the courtyard house, and even if he had known, he wouldn't have wanted to go.

As for Li Yunxiao, she bought a plane ticket to go home tomorrow afternoon.

Having nowhere to go tonight, I'm staying with Jiang Yifeng.

This also shows Jiang Yifeng's special treatment of Li Yunxiao.

So in the lounge, the three hot girls didn't really pay any attention to Li Yunxiao.

Clearly, she felt threatened and didn't want any more people to join her harem.

If it were any other woman, she might have all sorts of thoughts and feel wronged, but Li Yunxiao wouldn't.

This girl is easygoing and has a lively personality. She sits cross-legged on the sofa by herself, entertaining herself.

Upon seeing Jiang Yifeng enter, she immediately exclaimed, "My dear boss! You're amazing! Weibo is full of praise for you!"

Jiang Yifeng sat down next to Li Yunxiao.

She immediately crawled over like a kitten, curled up softly in Jiang Yifeng's arms, and proudly showed him her phone.

The smooth movements and intimate expressions left the three hot girls stunned.

Jiang Yifeng glanced at Li Yunxiao's phone and said with a smile, "Isn't this all praise for you?"

Li Yunxiao's phone was displaying the Weibo interface, and she was browsing the trending topic #LiYunxiao, the female lead of Red Ling, is so beautiful#.

Seeing Jiang Yifeng come in, she was so eager to show off her treasure that she forgot to leave the conversation behind.

Li Yunxiao made a fool of herself, and found it funny, so she burst into laughter.

With that smile, Naza and the others understood why Jiang Yifeng treated Li Yunxiao differently.

This girl has a slightly cold expression when she's not smiling, and her features aren't particularly striking, but when she smiles, it's incredibly infectious and sweet.

Jiang Yifeng took Li Yunxiao's phone and glanced at the trending topics on Weibo, which were all related to the Spring Festival Gala.

Indeed, it received rave reviews, especially the programs customized by Jiang Yifeng, which sparked a lot of discussion.

The top trending topic on Weibo is #BestSpringFestivalGalaOfTheDecade#, which shows that people are generally satisfied with this year's Spring Festival Gala.

To receive such high praise right after a gala has ended is truly impressive.

With the passage of time and the filter of memory, the evaluation of the 2014 Spring Festival Gala will only get higher and higher.

Naza glanced at Li Yunxiao and said, "The Spring Festival Gala program team has conducted a poll on Weibo. Currently, the program with the most votes and the most positive reviews is still our opening song and dance performance."

Chi Ling is also good, but she's nowhere near as popular as Wan Jiang.

Wanjiang is more suited to the Spring Festival Gala stage, and he opened the show with an underwater flying dance, performed by the 101 generation group who haven't performed together in a long time.

With all these advantages combined, the show was naturally very popular, and its vote share in the Yangshi poll was comparable to that of the underwater flying dance.

In comparison, while the show "Red Cliff" is also good, it has far less popularity.

Naza said that intentionally to suppress Li Yunxiao.

Li Yunxiao didn't refute, but nodded in agreement, saying, "That's right, Wanjiang is very popular, even more so than Chiling."

Sister Naza, you guys are much better than me.

Her words made it hard to tell whether she was just a tea server or speaking from the heart.

But it doesn't matter about Naza anymore, at least let Li Yunxiao know his place first.

Naza waved, and Reba immediately understood. She took out a thermal food container from behind her and placed it in front of Jiang Yifeng.

Naza opened the box, and the aroma of mutton wafted out. She smiled and said, "This is mutton rice with my mom. Uncle, please have some. I see you've been busy all day and haven't eaten much."

Zhang Tianai took a can of cola from the small refrigerator in the lounge and poured it into a glass.

Dilraba placed the tissue next to the cup.

The three women's movements were fluid and perfectly coordinated, leaving Li Yunxiao speechless.

She bluntly said, "Does being a mistress these days mean you have to be so good at taking care of people? Well, I'm still too young."

Although Nazar was unhappy with Li Yunxiao's term "little lover," she still said, "You still have a lot to learn. Don't think that just because you've won over the older man, you can do whatever you want."

Li Yunxiao nodded again and said, "Okay, Sister Nazha, thank you for your guidance."

This sincere attitude made Naza too embarrassed to say anything more.

Jiang Yifeng was indeed hungry, and he had things to do later, so he quickly ate his meal.

In less than 10 minutes, a box of hand-grabbed rice was gone from Jiang Yifeng's stomach.
He took a sip of his iced cola and sighed contentedly, "Naza is still the most caring person."

Naza immediately beamed and said happily, "Of course! Our Hot Love is your most secure base!"

It has to be said that Nazha has also improved. Her line, "We love her so much," warmed the hearts of Dilraba and Zhang Tianai.

The song "Unforgettable Tonight" filled the studio, marking the end of this year's Spring Festival Gala.

The staff began cleaning up the scene.

Jiang Yifeng arrived at the control center of the studio and gave each member of the visual effects team a large red envelope.

Thank you all for your hard work, and I wish you all a Happy New Year!

The visual effects team deserves much credit for the success of this year's Spring Festival Gala.

For the past two or three months, they have been working overtime almost every day, constantly changing and optimizing the visual effects solutions.

After receiving the bulging red envelopes, everyone cheered.

They receive wages and bonuses for working overtime, and this red envelope was Jiang Yifeng's personal extra reward, a pleasant surprise.

"Thank you, President Jiang!" "Long live President Jiang!"

Happy New Year! May the Year of the Horse bring you good fortune!

Dozens of people were making a ruckus, shouting and yelling while holding red envelopes, both to thank Jiang Yifeng for the red envelopes, to celebrate the New Year, and even more so to celebrate the success of the Spring Festival Gala.

The commotion they made was quite loud.

The rest of the production crew looked over and saw the large red envelope in the visual effects team's hand; everyone was envious.

Sa Beining even came over to cause trouble, reaching out to Jiang Yifeng: "President Jiang, I'm also your employee, so please include me when you give out red envelopes!"

Jiang Yifeng said with a smile, "The red envelope is for people, not for monkeys."

This remark caused the entire audience to burst into laughter.

Sa Beining's antics on the Spring Festival Gala really did resemble a monkey.

Zhu Tong walked over and invited those who hadn't left yet to take a group photo together.

After taking the group photo, Zhu Tong found Jiang Yifeng and excitedly said, "This year's Spring Festival Gala achieved a peak viewership rating of 44.8%! The average viewership rating is expected to be 40.7%! This is just an estimate; the data will be calibrated later, but there shouldn't be too much error!"

Director Jiang, you are truly amazing! The last time the Spring Festival Gala achieved a viewership rating of 40% was in 2004.

Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye. While overall radio and television viewership has declined, our Spring Festival Gala's viewership has bucked the trend and increased—it's practically a miracle!

Seeing that Zhu Tong was very excited, Jiang Yifeng did not interrupt her.

To be honest, Jiang Yifeng was also surprised that this year's Spring Festival Gala achieved an average viewership rating of over 40%.

Looking at future trends, the last peak of the Spring Festival Gala was in 2009 and 2010, with viewership ratings of 35% and 38% respectively, and then it remained around 30% for the next few years.

Between 2020 and 2023, the Spring Festival Gala only had a viewership rating of around 20%.

The situation did not improve until 2024, when the ratings returned to 34%.

In general, the viewership of the Spring Festival Gala has indeed been declining.

The Spring Festival Gala directed by Jiang Yifeng saw a surge in viewership against the trend, giving the Gala a brief resurgence.

Zhu Tong continued, "Director Jiang, shall we do it again next year?"

Clearly, Zhu Tong is comfortable clinging to Jiang Yifeng's coattails and wants him to continue directing the Spring Festival Gala.

Jiang Yifeng shook his head and said, "It would be good if I could experience the Spring Festival Gala again. I'll skip it next year; I have other things to do."

In fact, Jiang Yifeng has been waiting for the system's response ever since the Spring Festival Gala ended.

However, the system did not respond, indicating that directing large-scale galas was not included in the reward scope.

Given this, Jiang Yifeng no longer wants to direct next year's Spring Festival Gala.

Once is enough for this kind of experience.

Moreover, he has a rather domineering style. Directing once is one thing, but if he keeps clinging to the position of director of the Spring Festival Gala, he will definitely offend more people in the long run and will inevitably be attacked.

The best choice would be to retire gracefully and leave behind the best Spring Festival Gala ever.

Every time the Spring Festival Gala falters in the future, viewers will praise Jiang Yifeng, and the reputation of this year's Spring Festival Gala will only get better and better.

Hearing Jiang Yifeng's refusal, Zhu Tong sighed and said, "The effect of hiring foreign aid this year has been too good, and this policy will continue."

Director Jiang, please consider it for a while longer.

I'll contact you again in June. If you really don't have time, then I'll find another director.

That's what makes Jiang Yifeng so awesome.

His Spring Festival Gala was a success, which allowed the foreign aid policy to continue and enabled other directors to have a meal at the table.

Unlike Feng Xiaogang, whose Spring Festival Gala ratings and reputation were mediocre after he directed it, leading Yangshi to stop hiring outside help.

Of course, with this year's Spring Festival Gala being such a success, the director who will be in charge of next year's Gala will certainly be under a lot of pressure.

Whoever picks up the phone will definitely get yelled at.

After all, none of these people died.

After exchanging pleasantries with several leaders and fulfilling the photo requests of a few special audience members, Jiang Yifeng returned to the lounge and found that there was an extra person there—Li Hong.

She was chatting with Li Yunxiao, and the two were laughing and talking, seemingly having a good relationship.

Seeing Jiang Yifeng enter, Li Hong stood up and said, "Thank you again, Director Jiang, for your recommendation, which allowed me to host such a wonderful Spring Festival Gala."

This is definitely the highlight of my hosting career.

Can I take a picture with you?

Hosting the Spring Festival Gala has many benefits, and Li Hong performed exceptionally well, so she has great potential for future development.

She hadn't removed her makeup yet, and was wearing a red Chinese-style dress, looking elegant and beautiful.

Jiang Yifeng's direction of the Spring Festival Gala not only won over audiences across the country, but also impressed the staff of the Gala production team.

After all, these people witnessed firsthand how Jiang Yifeng, with his ingenious ideas and overflowing talent, brought these creative concepts to life and presented them as a program.

The same goes for Li Hong.

Yuan Li had been sending messages offering suggestions, which was making Li Hong a little confused.

Seeing Jiang Yifeng's amazing performance again, it was hard for Li Hong not to be confused.

As for Jiang Yifeng having many women, Li Hong thought it was a good thing.

She doesn't want to get married either; as Yuan Li said, she just wants to find a man who can keep her warm.

If this man is also very capable and can provide Li Hong with some support, that would be even better.

Upon hearing Li Hong's request for a photo, Jiang Yifeng said, "No problem. Do you want to take it with your phone or a camera?"

Li Hong thought for a moment and said, "Use my phone."

This statement was somewhat ambiguous, and Li Yunxiao covered her mouth and laughed when she heard it.

Li Hong noticed it too, and blushed slightly.

Jiang Yifeng said, "Xiaoxiao, come and help."

Li Yunxiao took Li Hong's phone and took pictures of the two of them.

Jiang Yifeng was initially quite well-behaved, but unexpectedly, Li Hong took the initiative to lean closer and pressed herself against his arm.

Jiang Yifeng smelled a faint perfume scent, a light herbal fragrance, and felt a soft touch on his arm.

Li Hong's position clearly indicates that she is not standing at a distance that is typical of ordinary friends.

As expected of the eldest sister, she acts very decisively.

Jiang Yifeng didn't stand on ceremony and directly put his arm around Li Hong's waist.

Li Hong stiffened for a moment, then relaxed, a smile spreading across her face, her head tilting slightly towards Jiang Yifeng.

After the group photo was taken, Jiang Yifeng took the initiative to say, "Are you free the day after tomorrow? Let's have tea together."

Li Hong was overjoyed, not expecting things to go so smoothly.

She originally intended to follow Yuan Li's plan and get close to Li Yunxiao first.

"I'll be free during the Spring Festival."

"OK, see you the day after tomorrow. I'll send you the specific location tomorrow."

Jiang Yifeng's approach to seducing women is decisive and efficient, seizing every opportunity.

After arranging a time with Li Hong, he left with Rela Ai and Li Yunxiao.

Tonight, I'll teach Li Yunxiao a bit to help her adjust to life in a big family.

Since there were no system rewards for directing the Spring Festival Gala this time, Jiang Yifeng had no choice but to find other compensation.

Li Yunxiao and Li Hong are also very good rewards.

(End of this chapter)