Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Eve of the Return
Several members of EXO have birthdays in April and May, including Ji Kyung-won, Oh Se-hoon, Kim Jun-mian, Byun Baek-hyun, Luhan, and Tao.
This year is different from when they first debuted last year, at that time, the members were not familiar with each other, and there were a lot of contradictions, each of them was with their own small circle, and they were colleagues at best, so they didn't celebrate together at all except for taking a certification photo.
After more than a year of low period together, the relationship between EXO members has become much closer, and the team atmosphere is much better, and this time on everyone's birthday, everyone will find time to have a meal together, celebrate and take some photos and upload them to SNS.
But it's just a dinner to have a lively time, and these boys don't have the habit of giving gifts to each other on birthdays.
Ji Jingyuan was the same this time, he didn't go home for this year's birthday, but invited guests to go out for dinner with the members.
It just so happened that the second brother and eldest sister were very busy with work these days, and Chi Jingyuan also called in advance so that they didn't have to take time out of their time, just send the gift to someone.
Although the members of XO don't send it, Ji Jingyuan still received a lot of birthday gifts, several familiar sisters from Girls' Generation all sent congratulations and gifts, as well as Jiang Shiqi, Sun Shengwan, these 94Line relatives, Zheng Eundi, who has never met before, and several female idols who often communicate on mobile phones.
In addition, Ji Jingyuan's fans made him a little moved, on May 13, countless packages were sent directly to SM company from various places at the same time, so that the staff in charge of signing for the receipt were busy all day, and they were really tired half to death.
The gifts are all carefully packaged. The number is very large, and most of the room is placed in the company's storage room, and I don't know how long it will take to dismantle just to demolish it.
In the past, when other EXO members celebrated their birthdays, fans would also send gifts, but the number was not very large.
And Chi Jingyuan has always been a popular member of the group, although they have had a blank period of several months, but he personally will become a hot spot from time to time, such as the occasional Games 3 months ago, which attracted a large wave of fans for him, and his two out-of-the-circle photos are still widely circulated on the Internet.
When other black fans spray EXO members, many people will deliberately skip Yuan.
Because Yuan's fans are well-known in the circle for their strong organization and combat effectiveness, and they are very aggressive, they don't have much reaction when they encounter EXO's hacked post.
But when encountering speeches and posts that slander or scold Chi Jingyuan, they will immediately appear and fight back fiercely, and they will not give up if they don't take the initiative to delete the posts and retreat.
This has a lot to do with Chi Jingyuan's personal charm, and it also has a lot to do with the company's operation and several big fan organizations.
The first few fans before Ji Jingyuan's debut, such as Park Zhina, because they have his contact information, can get some news and photos from him from time to time, and have become famous fans in the fan group.
This birthday Tongtian collective gift was organized by them, and they didn't tell him in advance, which can be regarded as a surprise for Chi Jingyuan.
He was indeed pleasantly surprised, and stood for a long time in front of a half-room pile of gifts.
I opened the first few gift boxes, and there were various gifts carefully prepared by fans inside, each of which was marked with a handwritten greeting card.
"OPPA's return must be successful this time, we will all stick to the first stage broadcast!!"
"YuanFighting, don't worry about sales, my sisters have already discussed, we must rush up sales, let's return this time!"
"Oppa, I'd love to hear the title song you wrote, it must be great! When will I be able to see you on TV? ”
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Some of the notes are crooked, at first glance they are written by young children, and the other strokes are neat and beautiful, and they seem to be quite literate.
Although the words are different, the feelings and blessings are the same.
Ji Jingyuan stared at the gifts and greeting cards in front of him for a long time, he pursed his lips, not knowing what to say.
In the end, he booked a car, asked a few staff members, and pulled all the gifts down to a nearby property of his family and kept them.
Chi Jingyuan decided that this house would be used to store the gifts of fans in the future, although he may not open them all and look at them all, but at least he will not let the company dispose of them at will, and he can't waste some of the fans' thoughts.
I hope that this return and the title song of the reissued album will satisfy the rice.
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"Hmm......"
"Coming back?"
"Inside."
Ji Jingyuan returned to the dormitory and shook his head, changed his shoes, said hello to several members who were sitting on the sofa watching TV, washed up and went back to his room.
Today is the 15th, Sunny's birthday, and in the evening he is invited to a dinner party, which is not over until the end, and he has a drink.
After that, Ji Jingyuan came back first, and before leaving, Xiaoyuan and Pani proposed to go to the Club to play together for a while, and I don't know if I have gone now.
This time, several other members of Girls' Generation came, except for Jung so-yeon and Choi so-young, and these two sisters heard that they had a private matter temporarily, so they left first after taking certified photos.
Kim Taeyeon immediately became angry when she saw Ji Kyung-won, tilted her head, pointed at him aggressively and angrily questioned why Ji Kyung-won came to Sunny's birthday this time, and she called him when Taeyeon celebrated his birthday in March but said that there was no time.
Because it was the busiest time for album preparation, there was really no time.
Chi Jingyuan said in his heart.
He could only apologize with a wry smile, and in the lively expressions of the sisters around him, he slapped a few sycophants before Taeyeon laughed smugly again.
After returning to the dormitory, Ji Jingyuan took off his clothes and lay on the bed, he felt a little tired, closed his eyes and rubbed his head and temples.
Oh Se-hoon and Do Jun-so, who are in the same bedroom, are both playing with their mobile phones in their beds.
After being quiet for a while, Wu Shixun couldn't help but speak:
"I'm going to make a public return to the promotional photos tomorrow, and I'm officially starting to warm up my return, and I don't know what the response will be, won't there be no splash?"
He looked a little worried, suffering from gains and losses.
"Probably not, the company said that it would invest a lot of resources in publicity, and I feel that this return is quite good in all aspects, much stronger than when I debuted."
"And this is the original album released first, I won't say that I don't like the song "Wolf" very much, and the title song "Roar" of the second version, the one written by Jing Yuan, I think it will definitely be popular."
Du Junxiu thought about it and said his opinion. As one of the representatives of the lead singer Line, he is very indifferent to "Wolf".
"Our return this time is much stronger than MAMA in terms of concept and image design, don't worry, I can't predict whether it will be a big hit, but at least it is definitely much stronger than the debut."
Ji Jingyuan lay on the pillow and interjected, looking a lot more confident than Wu Shixun.
Tomorrow is the first wave of publicity, and several people are looking forward to it, so they chatted about it for a while.
"Ringtone ......"
After saying a few words, Chi Jingyuan's mobile phone rang suddenly, he lay on the bed and didn't move, stretched out his hand and groped for it, took the mobile phone from the cabinet next to him to his ear, and connected:
"Yo don't stuff you."
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There was no response, just a faint sound of breathing, faintly audible.
Ji Jingyuan opened his eyes and frowned, took the phone in front of him and glanced at it, it was an unfamiliar number.
"Yo don't you stuff you?" He asked again.
"............", but there was still no sound or response.
"Neuropathy." Chi Jingyuan scolded, and was ready to hang up directly.