Chapter 72: Meeting (I) 2/2
About dawn, at the height of the night, he awoke.
Pillowed his left arm, Lin Xiujing was still sleeping sweetly with his face to the other side, holding his palm tightly with one hand, as if he was afraid that he would lose it as soon as he let it go, and he couldn't find it. Gently brushing her hair that fell on her forehead, Ahn Jun-hyuk silently stared at her sleeping face in the dark, and after a while, he got out of bed.
Outside the window, the night was deep, and the neon colors in the distance shone faintly on this side, and it was impossible to see if the snow was still falling.
I fumbled and got dressed, and walked out of the bedroom, the dim and dim halo of the wall lamp in the corridor couldn't be far away, and the downstairs was still a dark and deep color, and I went to the bathroom with my slippers to brush my teeth and take a bath, and when everything was finished, I wiped my hair and came out again, and the white sky of the fish belly filled into the living room, and the sky was already cloudy.
But it was still very early, just after 6 o'clock, the quiet pin drop in the house could be heard, and the belt of the bathrobe was knotted at random, Ahn Junhyuk went downstairs and began to prepare breakfast by himself, and after a while, the sound of Zizi's hot oil cooking began to fill the small kitchen along with the smoke.
At a certain moment, a warm carcass hugged him from behind, and it didn't stay long, just a touch.
"oppa, good morning!"
“…… Good morning!"
So it seems that the greetings are no different from usual, the first day of 2007, begins!
Outside, the first day of the new year seems to be no different, except for a little festive atmosphere, the work is still working, the plan is still being carried out, and the song world is still going on. The shock caused by J.H continues to reverberate.
If you say that the most impressive entertainment company in the whole 2006, it is definitely J.H, not to mention Ahn Junhyuk led J.H in mid-2006, facing the giant IHQ in the circle, and SK Group, which is powerless when ordinary people mention it, it is very beautiful to fight a beautiful battle, but the madness brought by two consecutive songs at the end of the year is enough to make people remember this young company that has only been established for more than a year.
Although the craze of "Don't Leave" has cooled, "Lies" is just the way it is popular.
Labeled J.H. Bigbang is building a nationwide HIPHOP craze. Loose casual sweatshirts and baseball caps, even though it is still winter, are still the first choice for many young people to go out and walk into every mall. The most played in the appliance area is the song with a quiet piano melody. Open the entertainment edition of the newspaper. Almost every headline is reporting on what kind of achievements "Lies" has made.
And the most talked about by the media is that J.H relied on "Lies" to fight back against SM as the deadline for major awards approached.
"J.H is making a strong comeback in the world of music. The way it established its prestige was to cut down the enemy in front of it! Unfortunately, the SM happened to be in front of it. ”
An article published in the fashion and entertainment magazine "CECI" wrote: "Since last year, Ahn Jun-hyuk has repeatedly proposed in public that he hopes to hold the first Korean Digital Music Development Forum led by J.H, but this plan has always been in the gestation stage, and the reason why it cannot be carried out is mostly due to J.H's lack of prestige, according to industry analysis." J.H has plenty of financial resources, and its founder and helmsman, Ahn Jun-hyuk, has a genius strategic and tactical thinking, but all this cannot hide the flaw that J.H is too 'young' compared to many senior companies in the industry. ”
"Being young represents vanity and uncertainty, and at that time, J.H., who only had Ahn Jun-hyuk and Baek Ji-young, was not stable, and many brokerage companies could not believe that it would lead the industrial alliance and bring everyone benefits that were different from what they are now. And when the attitude of the agency wavered, the record companies other than J.H. were naturally ready to make a move - what can J.H do, and what can't they do?"
"It can be said that J.H has taken advantage of the prestige of SK to put forward the idea of a digital music forum, which has become the fat meat of several sharks in the music industry, and if he doesn't want to lose the dominance of this plan, J.H must make the agencies understand: If you don't keep up with us, you will die!"
Obviously, just as 2006 was about to pass, the success of the two songs and the two groups of artists promoted by Ahn Jun-hyuk was gradually achieving this deterrent purpose. According to insiders, in the past two months, the entire music industry has been in a gloomy fog, Yoon Mi-lai and Bigbang have dominated all the lists, squeezing almost all the market potential, people are crazy for "Don't Leave", crazy for "Lies", they have flattened their pockets, raised their ears, and consumers have no spare energy and mood to pay attention to the works launched by other companies, among which SM is the most miserable - these scenery should belong to it!
"As we all know, at the end of the year, SM was trying to regain its declining status through TVXQ. SM also has no shortage of ambitions to dominate the record industry, and as early as a few years ago, it joined forces with several other companies to try to form a consortium organization, which of course failed in the end, and collapsed for several years. This comeback is rushing to the top again, and it is obvious that he also covets the dominance of the Digital Music Development Forum, and has the idea of making a comeback, but unfortunately, the ambition was cut down by J.H as soon as it sprouted, and it became the first flag object of J.H's reign in 2007......"
As reported in this article, the most talked about in the circle now is J.H. Company, which is so aggressive, threatening the success of Yoon Mi-rae and Bigbang in one fell swoop.
Some people speculate when J.H will re-propose the "Development Forum" plan, some people speculate that this time J.H will be overtaken by J.H at the last moment, SM will be angry and tear up the strategic alliance agreement signed by the two sides just a year ago, and some people speculate whether J.H will continue to make persistent efforts and continue to launch a third wave of offensives.
The last issue is also the most concerned issue of many brokerage companies, although it is more embarrassing to mention, but, as reported by the media, they are indeed frightened.
J.H's operation and packaging ability exceeded expectations, and even more than expected was Ahn Junhyuk's creative ability, to this day, no fool would be optimistic that Ahn Junhyuk wrote two songs and Jiang Lang was exhausted, everyone was using the most pessimistic point of view, calculating Ahn Junhyuk, and then tremblingly wondering, that demon-like young man, will it happen again?
Everyone can't forget that in the past two months, the artists of their own company have been under the heavy pressure of Yoon Mi-rae and Bigbang, and they can hardly breathe the huge pressure - the records can't be sold, and people like "Don't Leave" and "Lies";
Those days were so embarrassing, and if J.H had come a few more times, I don't know how many small brokerage companies would have been forced into bankruptcy!
This is the case with a narrow market, which artist or company is on fire, the opposite is the bleak departure of other people, the success or defeat of the king, and the bloody reality is staged all the time.
Despite a lot of speculation, J.H was always indifferent about the next step of the plan, but on the one hand, he made every effort to promote Bigbang, and on the other hand, on the first day of 2007, he launched the long-brewing "trainee selection system"!
……
……
Morning of 1 January, 2007.
The wind and snow that ravaged Seoul all night gradually weakened as the sky gradually brightened, and the falling snow flakes no longer seemed to be as dense as a curtain, but became sparse and weakened.
Early in the morning, she took a bus from her home to Apguting to Apguting, and after a few transfers, when the very familiar building of J.H headquarters was finally in sight, the wind had disappeared, and the scattered snowflakes were falling.
"Whew-"
Jumping out of the car, taking a deep breath and exhaling, a thick white mist rose from his mouth, and Quan Baolan jumped nervously on the spot, clenching his fists as he walked towards the busy office building.
J.H's advertisement for the launch of the trainee program on January 1 began on the day of Bigbang's debut, and with the success of Bigbang, it naturally caused a strong response, and of course, for her, or all Ahn Joon-hyuk fans, this is something that she has been looking forward to for a long time.
I still remember the summer of the year before last, in the lush and scorching Nanshan, she rushed to the "uncle" who had gone away, saying that if he wanted to start a company and recruit trainees, she would definitely go.
"I don't know if I still remember......
The mood was suddenly very apprehensive, and I didn't know whether Lu Dao should stick to the original idea, but after hesitating for a moment, seeing that there were people coming and going, and I don't know how many reporters were wandering around the building outside the gate, the girl clenched her fists, or gritted her teeth and walked over.
It's all here, and there's no reason to retreat!
In fact, J.H Building, Quanbaolan is not the first time to come, since the opening of Building 1, there are often illegitimate meals here, as one of the senior bastards of Anjia Xiaozhu, how could Quanbaolan let go of this place, as early as a few months ago, she and a few peers touched this place before and after, only the interior because J.H security is very good, so I have not entered.
Thinking that he would be able to see the place where the "uncle" worked and practiced in a while, Quan Baolan was a little excited.
She sent a photo on the Internet to pass the primary election, probably the first time it was held, and the energy invested was relatively large, J.H was very efficient, and she sent her an identity sheet on the day she passed the primary election, and then she only needed to show it to the security room.
The person who checked her identity was a middle-aged man with a rather serious expression, and after checking her identity on the intranet, the other party's tense expression relaxed a little, and handed her back the form: "The selection venue is in Building 3, na, it's over there, you go by yourself, but remember not to run around, otherwise if you are kicked out by the security guards, you will automatically lose your qualifications!"
…… So strict......
Quietly sticking out her tongue, Quan Baolan hurriedly promised not to run around, and then stepped into J.H's door with excitement.
At that moment, she had mixed feelings. (To be continued......)