What the "If You Are the One" program team wants to do most now is to find a way to revive this old-fashioned marriage and love program, even if it means giving up all the advertising revenue.
Jiang Feng was a matchmaker master who didn't care much about money, so the two parties hit it off immediately.
So, that evening, the official Weibo account of If You Are the One announced the news in a high-profile manner.
The message reads as follows:
"If You Are the One has been with us for fourteen years. Thank you for your support along the way. Now If You Are the One has been upgraded again!
With the arrival of Master Jiang, dating and marriage have reached new heights!
The nationally renowned matchmaker has joined the show to diagnose and prescribe for your love, and comment on the guest status to help you find a successful match. Come and join the revised version of If You Are the One, and find true love with Master Jiang! Let the flower of love bloom here, and let the door to happiness open here!
The XXth episode of If You Are the One is being prepared in full swing, so please stay tuned! "
Jiang Feng forwarded the post and commented: "Thank you for the invitation from the If You Are the One program team. I will be a guest commentator on the show. I sincerely hope that all lovers in the world will eventually get married."
Jiang Feng now has tens of millions of fans across the entire network. These are not zombie fans, but real active fans. His reposts and comments instantly attracted the attention of many fans.
Soon after, a number of big stars who had close ties with Jiang Feng also forwarded and commented:
Xiao Min: "Hey, Master Jiang is the guest commentator of If You Are the One? I really have to watch this show!"
Fan Xiaoli: "Wow, I'm so looking forward to it. With the participation of Master Jiang, If You Are the One will surely return to its peak and create glory again!"
Principal Gu: “I’ve paid attention!”
Teacher Yu: "Looking forward to Master Jiang's performance!"
Aunt Li: "It is a blessing for the male and female guests to have Master Jiang diagnose and prescribe for love."
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Jiang Feng's influence was already great enough, and with the reposts and comments from many big stars, the popularity of the old dating show "If You Are the One" continued to rise.
"If You Are the One" is a flagship program after all. Even after more than ten years, its ratings have dropped significantly and are no longer as high as they once were.
But its average viewership for each episode is still as high as over 0.5%, and it still has many fans.
As a result, with the forwarding and publicity of a group of fans, the news quickly spread to the point where it was known throughout the entire network.
Related topics even directly rushed to the hot search list, especially the topic #Master Jiang joins "If You Are the One"# which topped the hot search list. The lively scene seemed to have returned to the time when the show was at its peak a few years ago.
Such high attention has made the "If You Are the One" program crew very excited. They feel that inviting Master Jiang to join was the right move. Everyone seems to be excited and starts to get busy preparing for the latest episode.
However, although the attention has indeed increased, many viewers’ impression of the show “If You Are the One” is hard to describe.
Netizen A: "The routine of this show is too old-fashioned, lacking innovation and imagination. After so many years, I have become aesthetically fatigued."
Netizen B: "It's just a show that keeps on hyping itself up. It's meaningless."
Netizen C: "What kind of blind date is this? It's just a show, and the female guests on the stage are all trying to establish their own personas. Even if they hold hands, it's just for the show effect."
Netizen D: "How many of the female guests on the stage are really dating? They are all for fame and their own interests. Their values are so distorted that it's disgusting to watch them."
Netizen E: "I thought this show was pretty good when it first came out, it was quite fresh, but later on it became all the same, I lost interest after watching it for a while!"
Netizen F: "This show is still interesting, but it's a pity that the female guests' acting is too exaggerated, which makes people feel distracted when watching it."
Netizen G: "How many times has this been revised? Every time they say that it will be this and that after the revision, but it's always the same old story. Anyway, I've lost interest in this show a long time ago!"
Netizen H: "After more than a decade of broadcasting, it is hard to have a fresh feel no matter how many revisions are made. Moreover, after so many years, all kinds of male and female guests with different personalities have been gathered. It is basically impossible to make innovations on this basis."
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There are many voices on the Internet that are pessimistic about "If You Are the One". These viewers may have been former fans of the show, but as more and more negative news about the show emerged, these viewers turned from fans to haters for various reasons.
Of course, there are many voices that are pessimistic about "If You Are the One", but there are also many voices that support "If You Are the One". Some of these people are die-hard fans of "If You Are the One", and most of them are fans of Master Jiang.
Master Jiang's matchmaking experience has made his fans admire him very much. These fans have always wanted to know how Master Jiang does matchmaking. Now they can see Master Jiang on the stage of "If You Are the One", and they are very excited.
They have a hunch that with the addition of Master Jiang, "If You Are the One" will present a completely different effect than before.
Therefore, various supporting comments continued to emerge, and their number was much greater than the comments that were pessimistic about "If You Are the One".
In short, the revised version of "If You Are the One" has become popular before it even aired.
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After the news spread online, Jiang Feng also received many calls from relatives and friends, all asking him about joining If You Are the One.
Even his mother called Jiang Feng after hearing the news and asked, "Xiao Feng, are you really going to be a guest commentator on If You Are the One?"
Jiang Feng said: "Yes, not only did I become a commentator on If You Are the One, but even the male and female guests who participated in the recording of the show were selected by me from the many clients of the matchmaking agency."
Jiang's mother said excitedly, "Then I can't miss it. When will the show be broadcast?"
Jiang Feng smiled and said, "I don't know yet. I'll tell you when it's decided."
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Saturday, October 12, 2024.
At noon, in a ward of a tertiary hospital in Zhonghai, Sun Xiaoyan was feeding a patient a light bowl of vegetable and minced meat porridge.
Sun Xiaoyan was born in a rural family with parents and a younger brother.
When she was three years old, her mother was paralyzed in bed due to an accident, which made the already poor family even worse off, and the family lived in extreme poverty.
Therefore, when Sun Xiaoyan was very young, she had to take care of her mother and help with housework.
After finishing junior high school, in order to reduce the burden on her family as soon as possible, Sun Xiaoyan did not plan to continue to high school even though she had good grades. Instead, she went to a technical school and chose the nursing major.
Because she had inquired and found out that being a caregiver was the most profitable job.
This is indeed the case. After Sun Xiaoyan became a caregiver as she wished, the money she earned was far more than what the other girls in the village could earn, and it greatly reduced the burden on her family.
But then again, caregivers do dirty and tiring work, and sometimes they have to face challenges from clients. This is not an industry that most people can stick to.
But Sun Xiaoyan had to take care of her paralyzed mother at a young age. The work of a caregiver was difficult, but when she thought of the high salary, she worked very hard.
Today, Sun Xiaoyan has been working in the nursing industry for more than ten years. Because of her excellent nursing skills and conscientious and responsible work, she has been well received by patients and their families.
With a good reputation, more and more patients' families asked her to be a caregiver, which increased her income significantly.
The patient that Sun Xiaoyan was taking care of was going to be discharged today. She carefully fed the patient porridge, packed up all the patient's things, and then sat there talking to the patient while waiting for the employer to come and settle the wages.
Ten minutes later, the patient's family arrived.
After greeting each other, the patient's family took out two red envelopes, one large and one small, and handed them to Sun Xiaoyan, saying, "Nurse Sun, this is your salary and a small red envelope as a reward to you. Thank you for taking care of my mother wholeheartedly during this period of time."
Sun Xiaoyan accepted the red envelope with a smile on her face, and then thanked him: "Thank you for your affirmation, this is what I should do."
Both parties exchanged some pleasantries, and Sun Xiaoyan gave the patient's family some instructions before happily taking her wages and leaving the hospital.
At this moment, a familiar ringtone sounded. Sun Xiaoyan took out her cell phone from her bag and saw that it was an unfamiliar number from Guangxi Province.
For her, unless it is a clearly marked harassment call, she will answer the call no matter what kind of strange phone call it is.
After all, the person who called might very well be her new employer.
"Hello, how are you?" Sun Xiaoyan answered the phone and greeted.
A very pleasant male voice came from the phone: "Hello, is this Ms. Sun Xiaoyan?"
"I'm Sun Xiaoyan, who are you?"
"Ms. Sun, my name is Jiang Feng, and I'm the matchmaker at the Happy Marriage Agency. I know you're still single, but I have a client who's a good match for you. I want to introduce her to you. Are you interested?"
Sun Xiaoyan couldn't help but widen her eyes when she heard this, and her voice suddenly rose an octave: "Are you Master Jiang from the Happy Marriage Agency?"
Originally, she didn't know there was such a person as Master Jiang, but it happened that the news of Master Jiang joining "If You Are the One" was widely circulated on the Internet in the past few days, and it topped the hot search list several times. Only then did she know that there was such a strange person as Master Jiang in this world.
Sun Xiaoyan was somewhat excited that the big shot she had just seen on the news would call her, a small person.
Jiang Feng smiled and said, "It seems that Ms. Sun has also heard of me, which saves me a lot of explanation."
Sun Xiaoyan said excitedly, "I really didn't expect to receive a call from you, Master Jiang. I have also been following the news these days. I heard that you, Master Jiang, have joined If You Are the One. Are you introducing me to someone now? Are you trying to recruit men for the program team?"
Jiang Feng laughed and said, "Ms. Sun, you are worrying too much. I am just matchmaking for my clients. I don't need to personally help the program team recruit men."
Sun Xiaoyan said, "Okay, that was my misunderstanding. I know that Master Jiang, you are best at predicting marriages. It has been more than two years since you started matchmaking, and you still maintain a 100% success rate. You have never failed in matchmaking. I wonder what kind of person you would like to introduce to me, Master Jiang?"
Jiang Feng briefly introduced: "The person I want to introduce to you is from Guizhou Province, 28 years old this year, 1.73 meters tall. Because of his poor family background, he went to Guangdong to work with the older brothers and sisters in the same village after graduating from junior high school.
However, due to his limited education, he could not find a good job in Guangdong and could only do some hard work with low salary.
Hearing this, Sun Xiaoyan said with deep feeling: "It is true. After entering the society, education is really important. The young sisters in our village who work outside can only work in factories as factory girls, or do jobs like nannies and cleaners without education.
There is really no chance of finding a high-paying and respectable job.”
"So for people from ordinary families, the only way out is to study."
Jiang Feng sighed, and then continued to introduce: "He has no education, and he is unwilling to work hard at the bottom of society all his life, so he has been looking for opportunities to make money.
By chance, he learned about the strange profession of fart smeller in this world.
After some hard work, he became a professional fart smeller as he wished. Although this profession is weird, the income is really high. His current monthly income is as high as 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
Because of his high-paying job, his family has completely escaped poverty and become rich. Now a new house has been built in their hometown, and their brothers and sisters all have a way out. The only thing they lack is a wife!
So, he came to my matchmaking agency and asked me to help him find a match. After my calculations, I found that you, Ms. Sun, are a perfect match for him, so I took the liberty of calling you. "
Sun Xiaoyan waited until Jiang Feng finished his introduction before she asked, "Master Jiang, what exactly does a professional fart sniffer do? Why is the salary so high?"
Jiang Feng explained: "As the name suggests, a fart smeller determines the patient's physical condition by smelling their farts. This is a very rare profession, because few people are willing to do this job, which leads to the high salary of this profession."
Sun Xiaoyan was stunned. She didn't expect that there would be such a weird profession in this world. She didn't think this profession was disgusting. No matter how disgusting it was, could it be as disgusting as being a caregiver?
You have to know that being a caregiver is not as simple as feeding people. When encountering some seriously ill patients, cleaning up feces and urine is basic work, which is much more disgusting than smelling farts.
As a responsible nurse, Sun Xiaoyan never complained when cleaning up the feces and urine of patients, and always performed her duties conscientiously, which is also the main reason why she is widely praised.
If she didn't do her job well, not so many employers would look for her!
Therefore, after being shocked, Sun Xiaoyan couldn't help but envy the other party.
They are all engaged in relatively "disgusting" jobs. Not only does she have to work very hard, but her income is even worse than that of a fart smeller. It makes her feel a little "unhappy" just thinking about it.