Chapter 47 - 45: Interviews are also a Battle (Part 1)
"Lights ready, host ready, we can start recording now."
Qi City TV Station, Wu Li stood backstage in the studio, ready to go on stage.
Today, he was invited to participate in a Qi City TV Station interview program called "Face to Face."
With the development of the internet, fewer people are watching TV, especially young people, who almost completely rely on alternatives to TV, so television programs’ ratings have been declining year by year.
This year’s ratings for Qi City TV Station were about 0.11, barely making it into the top ten of various satellite TVs. "Face to Face" is a key program among all the programs at Qi City TV Station and also has corresponding broadcasts online.
Pin Yi Company had three contestants appear on "Face to Face," which truly was an effort in promotion, but they didn’t hold much hope for the ultimate effect.
Standing next to Wu Li were two men, one named Han Yuanfei and the other named Lu Ping. Both were professional MMA fighters, currently signed athletes for the Asia ONE Championship, although they had not achieved particularly notable results in the ONE Championship, domestic fighters generally didn’t have many outstanding achievements in MMA events, so Han Yuanfei and Lu Ping still had some fame in the domestic Martial Arts World.
Han Yuanfei and Lu Ping were sizing up Wu Li, and when they learned that Pin Yi had ranked Wu Li as the third seed and were to appear on the program with him, they were quite displeased.
Since choosing to be professional fighters, passion certainly played a role, but more often than not, it was for money; professional fighters all have appearance fees, the greater the fame and better the record, the higher the fee, similar to the star power in the entertainment industry.
Initially, when Chang Zhiyang invited them, he first told Han Yuanfei that Lu Ping was interested in participating and said that if you participate, he will too, then he went to tell Lu Ping that Han Yuanfei had already agreed...
Thus, both Han Yuanfei and Lu Ping agreed to participate in this local tournament due to face, plus a good appearance fee, only for Wu Li to suddenly emerge, and Pin Yi equated him with them, grouping them together for the program.