Chapter 54: Irene

As soon as Chi Jingyuan walked around the corner, he was seen by Sun Shengwan, their eyes collided in the air, Chi Jingyuan put his index finger on his mouth and gently shushed to signal not to make a sound, and Sun Shengwan immediately felt happy, she immediately showed a cheap smile and nodded, with a vivid expression and a sense of participation, she glanced at Pei Zhuxun secretly, and then held back a smile and watched Ji Jingyuan walk lightly and silently behind Pei Zhuhyun.

The girl on the side who didn't recognize it also noticed Chi Jingyuan, she instantly recognized this senior's eyes widened and she was very surprised, and then immediately saw what he wanted to do, and covered her mouth very knowingly and said nothing.

Ji Jingyuan quietly walked behind Pei Zhuhyun, and gently lowered his head and leaned over to the back of her head, this sister was still carefully staring at the lines on the door at this time, not knowing whether she was in a daze or studying something.

Under the playful gaze of the two people next to him, he suddenly asked out loud, his voice was deliberately low, and his tone was a little serious:

"What are you looking at?"

"Ah......h

The expected frightened screams came as expected, like a baby coming home and opening the door to see a wolf waiting for her in the house, which was terrible and heartbreaking.

Bae Joo-hyun's body shook a few times, and when he wanted to look back to see who it was, he was very panicked, and he accidentally tripped his left foot and his right foot, and the whole person fell diagonally backwards.

Ji Jingyuan, who had been prepared, hurriedly stretched out his hand, grabbed her waist on one side and didn't let her fall, and grabbed her arm on the other hand and dragged her back, allowing Pei Zhuhyun's body to stand on the ground again, and at the same time making her turn half a circle in his direction.

It's like fiddling with a big doll.

"Hoo ......"

As if she had just taken a roller coaster, Bae Zhuhyun stood there in panic and patted her chest lightly to slow her breath, as soon as she looked up, she saw Ji Jingyuan with an innocent face who was winking at her, and at the same time, she also saw the two sisters next to her who were covering their mouths and snickering wildly, a sense of shame and indignation rushed to her mind, staring at him and rushing forward directly, and patted Ji Jingyuan on the back hard.

"Yikes! Again, huh? ”

"Again?"

"Again, again?"

Like an angry rabbit jumping on his feet, Bae Joo-hyun frowned and gritted his teeth, his face was red, and he slapped him hard, and shouted angrily every time he hit his mouth.

Chi Jingyuan felt that her current appearance of fried hair, which was unusually calm and demure, was very interesting and contrasting, but on the surface, she pretended to be beaten and was in pain, and kept raising her hands in surrender.

Seeing Ji Jingyuan like this, after a few beatings, Pei Zhuhyun's anger also disappeared a lot, and finally she stood there, the hair on her forehead was a little messy, her right hand was inadvertently placed on her waist, and she glared at him viciously while panting slightly: "Next time you deliberately scare me like this, I will kill you!" ”

Then he glanced at Sun Shengwan and the two of them fiercely, and asked the two of them to quickly hold back their smiles and quickly shake their hands to indicate that it has nothing to do with us.

"Arazo ......"

Ji Jingyuan raised his hand to indicate that he knew, but at the same time looked Pei Zhuhyun up and down, looked at the blush on her plain face, and asked with some curiosity: "What are you talking about......?" Does Joo Hyun Xi often kill people? ”

"Haha......" Sun Sheng couldn't hold back his laughter after two poofs.

"...... you" Pei Zhuhyun's anger came up again, and he looked up at Ji Jingyuan and raised his small fist as a threat, but he laughed angrily just holding himself up.

"Why did you come here all of a sudden, didn't you say that you've been busy filming commercials lately, and you don't have a trip today?"

Bae Joo-hyun glanced at him angrily, raised his foot and gently kicked his calf to reluctantly stop the matter, and then quickly lowered his head to tidy up his messy bangs and asked.

Without waiting for Ji Jingyuan to answer, she suddenly remembered, stood up straight after pulling her bangs a few times, pointed to the girl next to her and took the initiative to introduce: "By the way, this is Park Xiurong Joy, who told you on the phone a few days ago." ”

"Senior Yuan, Anihassai."

The girl named Park Xiurong hurriedly walked over and bowed in two steps, and after standing up, she kept looking at Ji Jingyuan's face and couldn't help but look at it, she has been admiring this EXO predecessor for a long time, although she had met a few times in the company before, but she basically didn't get much response to greetings, and she estimated that the other party didn't even have any impression of what she looked like.

"Hello......" Ji Jingyuan also smiled and nodded, not very enthusiastic but not very cold, and at the same time swept Park Xiurong's eyes up and down silently.

Yan can't say it's amazing, but it's quite recognizable, and it's quite infectious when you laugh.

And this height is very good, it is the height that Bae Joo-hyun dreamed of.

and Sun Shengwan.

A few days ago, Bae Joo-hyun and several people excitedly called Ji Jingyuan and told him a major piece of good news.

After two rounds of screening and elimination, they have basically determined the four people who will be the first to debut, in addition to Bae Joo-hyun, Jiang Shiqi, and Sun Shengwan, there is also Park so-young.

If there were no royals falling from the sky, it would be the four of them.

The other remaining trainees are not completely eliminated, but I heard that this project is still moving in the direction of 'unlimited increase in members', and it is possible to add new members to this girl group project every year in the future.

According to Jiang Shiqi, if there are no accidents, they should be expected to debut at the end of this year, around November.

There are still four or five months to go, but at least after so many years of hard work and anticipation, they are finally about to bear fruit.

Chi Jingyuan still remembers the wild excitement and irrepressible excitement in the voices of these people when they talked on the phone that day, as well as the choking and sobbing sounds that were easy to hear.

Thinking about the few times Ji Jingyuan and Pei Zhuhyun met by chance in 2012, the other party was depressed and sad, confused and anxious, and he didn't know how many acne he had on his hot face, which was really emotional.

But even if she made her debut successfully at the end of this year, Bae Joo-hyun, who was born in 91, is completely an older female idol, and she is the same year as Girls' Generation Busy Seo Hyun who debuted in 2007, and is even a few months older.

It's magical.

After Ji Jingyuan and Park Xiurong nodded, they clapped their hands with Sun Shengwan, who came over with a smile, and said casually: "After being busy for so many days, you should always slow down a little, right, we XO have a dinner party nearby, and I am going to go over and just meet you now...... What about Shiki? Waiting for her? ”

Such an obvious gap in intimacy made Park so-young purse his lips and feel a little envious in his heart.

"Inside, Shiki was called over by the head of the room, and we'll come over in a while, and we're waiting for her to go eat something together."

Bae Zhuhyun breathed a sigh of relief after tidying up the bangs, and replied with some lingering anger as he looked at Ji Jingyuan.

"Didn't you say managing your body?"

"It's okay to eat once in a while."

"Yes, too...... Have you started practicing your debut song? He asked with some curiosity.

"Well, it's already started, and I've been learning choreography with my teacher recently." Sun Shengwan snapped his fingers and twisted his waist and hips exaggeratedly, as if he was showing him.

"Yes, around this time, I heard from the members that EXO also started practicing their debut song about half a year in advance."

Chi Jingyuan nodded, he didn't talk much, he tightened his shoulder bag and prepared to leave:

"Okay, the members are still waiting for me, I'll leave first, and I'll talk about it next time I'm free."

"Hmm."

"Bye-bye."

"Goodbye senior......"

All three girls said goodbye to him.

Ji Jingyuan took two steps and seemed to suddenly remember something, half turned around and looked back at Pei Zhuhyun, squinting at the smiling sunshine: "By the way, I almost forgot to tell you......"

"Congratulations, Irenexi."

Hearing this, Bae Zhuhyun also looked at him, the two glanced at each other, she blinked her eyes and then smiled and showed her little white teeth, the expression that had been a little angry just now disappeared in an instant, she brushed her hair, and gently saluted with the corners of her mouth that could not hide her smile:

"Inner, thank you Yuan-senpai."

With an 'OK' gesture, Ji Jingyuan smiled and turned his head to leave with his bag on his back, leaving three girls staring at his back with different expressions.

…………

The party in the evening was quite lively, a vote of people chatted while eating and drinking, and when the mood came up, they complained about the company's unhappiness together.

Bian Boxian, who had been depressed for several days, was also taken to drink a few glasses, looking like he wanted to vent.

He was emotionally okay this time, the company did not forcibly order him to break up, and he could continue to secretly date after the matter passed.

But the setbacks in his own career can only be borne by himself.

As for the importance of feelings and careers, everyone's trade-offs are different.

But for most idols, it should be a career.

It's just that I don't know if Byun Bae-hyun and Kim Ji-sook will continue to date in the future after both men and women were attacked by a large number of fans and attacked by angry planetary rice at the same time.

After a meal and a drink, it still had an effect, at least the atmosphere of the team was much better, and Bian Boxian looked a little more energetic.

But it's just to comfort himself, he lost 170,000 fans in less than a week, the box office of the musical has been greatly affected, and he still has a few personal fan stations that were directly shut down by the angry and disappointed webmaster.

These are real losses of his personal career and popularity.

As for Kim Ji-sook, she couldn't say a word when she was attacked by EXO's fans, Ji Jingyuan also took the time to go to ins to take a look these days, and many of the comments were really excessive, and at a glance they were full of all kinds of insulting words.

If you read this kind of text every day, you will probably be depressed after a long time.

Despite the disturbances from the outside world, their activities could not be suspended, and the next few days EXO continued to run the itinerary normally, except for team activities, members with personal resources were busy with their own affairs.

Since returning from the 18th, Ji Jingyuan has been shooting LG commercials, and at the same time accepting various interviews to promote, even if he is very good at shooting commercials, he is really tired enough.

However, the effect is still very obvious, in the past few days, several relatively large commercial district squares, office buildings, and landmark buildings in Seoul have been able to see the giant billboards and banners of Chi Kyeongwon's endorsement of LG, and his face and name are being seen and heard by passers-by all the time, both in popularity and in his own style.

On June 27th, EXO-K participated in the recording of the mid-year summary special of "Music Bank".

This is also EXO's first public official stage performance after Bian Baek-hyun's love turmoil, but unfortunately only Team K participated, and the main owner Baek-hyun did not come.

Baekhyun's love exposure did have some impact on the entire EXO team, after all, Girls' Generation Zhuyu was in front, which made many people worry about whether it would be just the beginning, and there would be many members exposed in the future.

In general, the sense of trust is reduced, and I am a little panicked.

But after all, it's just speculation and worry that hasn't really happened, except for Bian Boxian's own popularity, EXO's basic plate has not been shaken, and it is still one of the hottest boy groups on the peninsula, as long as the appearance is still full of cheers and screams.

KBS's "Music Bank" holds a summary feature almost every year, sometimes once a year, sometimes twice. Or in the middle of the year, or at the end of the year.

This year-end summary special, in addition to IU, the performance that impressed Chi Jingyuan was a special stage for the cooperation of several girl groups.

IU released the cover album "Flower Bookmark" in May this year, changing the innocent style of the past into the image of a 'sister who can play', the sound source of the whole album is very good, and the results of many singles are very beautiful.

Among them, the cover of the title song "My Past Story" Chi Jingyuan thinks it's very good, he listens to it and thinks it's much better than the original singer Zhao Peide, it sounds very feeling.

The other is the girls' generation "" special stage covered by the three girl groups girlsday, AOA and bestie, a total of twelve people, a black suit and top hat, looks very imposing.

After recording the stage, Team K left the TV station without waiting for all the artists to take the stage at the end, returned to the company to make preparations for a short time, and rushed to the airport with the company team and Team M, who had been waiting for a long time, and they waited for a flight to Xia Guoshan City, and there will be a concert tomorrow night.

In order to participate in this "Music Bank" mid-year summary special, the time is so tight, and I don't know how the company arranges it.

In the waiting room of Incheon International Airport, dozens of SM members were sitting together, and 12 members of EXO were sitting in two rows, and the plane was about a few dozen minutes away.

Boredom, Chi Jingyuan turned on his phone and swiped the news.

The hottest news in the past two days, in addition to EXO's love affair with Bian Boxian, the rest is the termination of BTS's Wu Saike.

After a period of silence after filing the complaint, Wu posted an article on the Internet a few days ago, writing a small essay to express his feelings, and at the same time published several sets of photos to prove that what he said was not wrong, proving that he had indeed been treated unfairly by the company, and had been ostracized and bullied by other members.

Chi Jingyuan also watched the news, they were all ambiguous photos, and the small essays he wrote were all his own words, and the proof was not very strong.

However, it did convince some passers-by, especially the many ordinary people on the peninsula who were disgusted with bullying and its loathing.

Although they despise and dislike Wu's escape and termination behavior, they also have the same disdain for BTS, which has been excluded.

Of course, there must be many people who don't believe it, and feel that what such an untrustworthy villain said is not worth believing at all, especially the fans of bulletproof itself, who have hated Wu to the bone.

The two sides quarreled endlessly, and the public reputation of BTS, which was originally only a second- and third-tier boy group, has been affected a lot, a bit similar to the previous tara, although the company completely vetoed all of Wu's remarks, and announced that it will continue to operate as a six-member group in the future, but in any case, it is definitely not as good as before.

And since then, Wu hasn't said anything on the Internet, I heard that he joined the group to film.

It is still too early for the court to pronounce the verdict, and this matter can be regarded as an end in the short term.

As for whether there is bullying or not, Chi Jingyuan doesn't know, but based on his own experience, there may be exclusion or small group behavior within their team, after all, he has been a member for a short time, and he is a Canadian citizen.

But this kind of behavior is common in any combination, it's not a big deal, and it doesn't rise to the level of bullying.

It can only be said that it is really unlucky to meet Wu.

After watching and chatting for a while, Chi Jingyuan clicked on YouTube again, the popularity of his "dope" direct shooting has gone down a lot, and the current number of hits has slowed down significantly after staying at 15 million.

Because of the popularity and popularity of his direct shooting, and it has caused a lot of beneficial effects, countless companies and idols in the industry, including SM itself, have followed suit, and the number of direct photos uploaded on the entire YouTube pipe has increased geometrically since June.

Some artists don't even care whether it is a formal stage or not, as long as it is a performance, they will let people take a direct shot and upload it to YouTube, anyway, there is no cost, in case it is as popular as Chi Jingyuan.

However, so far, the clicks of most artists' direct shots are very average, and there is no sign of explosion.

In this case, not to mention 10 million hits, even 1 million is a difficult data to achieve, even among the members of the K team on the same stage, in addition to himself, there are only two people in the direct shooting of "dope" who have reached 1 million by virtue of the previous east wind.

And Chi Jingyuan's 15 million hits are completely disconnected, which is enough for them to chase for several years.

Looking at him, he suddenly saw the title of a video, and couldn't help but click on it.

This is a fan's dinner shot, which was filmed on the recording of SBS's "Popular Songs" on June 22.

The current MCs of "Popular Ballads" are Hwang Kwang-hee, Lee Yoo-fei, EXO's Kim Jun-mian and Byun Bae-hyun.

The other two in the video are not there, Kim Junmian and Bian Boxian are smiling and reading the host speech on the stage facing the audience below, but many fans below are holding a banner that they don't know how to get in, and they are also shouting at Bian Boxian constantly.

What is written on the banner and shouted is the same word:

"Traitor!"

The shrill shouts continued to sound, and the rice players waved the banners in their hands with great emotion.

Judging by their appearance, these people should all have been fans of Baekhyun before.

And the faces of the two EXO on the stage were obviously a little stiff, especially Baekhyun could see the change in his face at a glance, and his expression darkened a lot at once.

The video ended here, and the plane was about to arrive, Chi Jingyuan put away his mobile phone and sighed in his heart, and he was also a little puzzled.

How the hell did he say that he wouldn't be in love until he was 35......

……

Bian Boxian's love affair doesn't seem to have a great impact on Xia's domestic fans.

Or that a lot of the rice here focuses on Kim Ji-sook, and the self-deception selectively ignores Bian Bae-hyun.

The concert on the 28th was held at the Shancheng Olympic Sports Center, and the whole process went smoothly and ended perfectly.

After the concert, all the members returned to the hotel, and after a brief meeting with the agent, they announced their disbandment, some of the members stayed in their rooms and did their own thing, while others went around the neighborhood.

Chi Jingyuan walked out of the hotel alone, ready to eat something.

When he checked into the hotel, he remembered seeing a Malatang nearby on the bus, and many people were queuing up at that time, and the business was very good, and he estimated that the taste should be quite authentic.

He also had Malatang a few times in Seoul, but it was obviously improved that he couldn't make the taste of Yamaseong, so it was quite boring.

He remembered at the time that there was time and that he happened to be hungry.

He also specially called Wu Shixun and Du Junxiu together just now, but one of these two called the female ticket, and the other said that he was not hungry and wanted to read the script.

Yes, you can't blame others for not having a mouthful.

Chi Jingyuan wore a camouflage two-piece suit, carrying a bag and came to the door of this 'authentic mountain city Malatang' alone, and now it is late, there are still a few people queuing, and the business is really booming.

He looked outside, picked up his mobile phone and took a photo of the store with the signboard, and sent it to Zhou Ziyu.

He remembered that when he used to chat casually, Zhou Ziyu seemed to have said that he liked to eat stinky tofu, and Malatang was okay.

After sending it, Chi Jingyuan went in and started queuing, and after waiting in line for a while, the mobile phone shook and replied.

"Wow, I really want to eat, are you in the mountain city now?"

Chi Jingyuan looked at it, smiled and quickly tapped the screen, and replied: "I can't eat it, hold it back, I won't tell you." ”

Putting down his phone, he glanced at the dishes in the cupboard not far away, the colors were very good, they looked quite fresh, and he was getting hungrier and hungrier.

When he was about to arrive, the phone shook again, he took it out to take a look, this time Zhou Ziyu did not reply to the text, but directly sent a selfie.

In the photo, she is applying a mask at this time, and it is estimated that her mother bought her the one that said that the whitening effect is very good.

Although the mask covers most of her face, it can be seen that she is making a bitter face, looking at the camera with a wrinkled nose and a slight mouth, and wearing a very conspicuous blue sparkling diamond headband on her long black hair.

This is the birthday gift that Chi Jingyuan gave her last time, it is not expensive but it is not cheap, she is still wearing it in the dormitory so late, it seems that Zhou Ziyu really likes it.

At this time, the team lined up to Chi Jingyuan, he looked at the photo and smiled, put his phone in his pocket and didn't reply, and started to choose dishes with a frame.

After a few minutes, Chi Jingyuan left the restaurant and walked towards the hotel with a plastic bag containing several packed lunch boxes.

He was still soft-hearted, and brought two more servings back for them to taste.

Although it has entered the summer, but it is close to the early hours of the morning, the temperature is no longer as hot and dry as during the day, and from time to time a cool evening breeze blows to make people feel refreshed, walking on the sidewalk and looking at the trees planted regularly on the road, as well as the familiar characters and signboards of the storefronts on both sides, Chi Jingyuan suddenly feels a little like returning to the time when he used to go to school in Xia Guo when he was a child.

When he was about to walk to the hotel, a figure suddenly came out from under the tree in front of him and walked towards Chi Jingyuan, and there was only a middle-aged man in his thirties under the light, looking at him, it seemed that he had been waiting for a while, and it was Chi Jingyuan who was waiting for him.

"Hello, hello, it's Chi Jingyuan, I'm ......" The man walked up and greeted him with a smile, and his hand reached into the suit as if he was about to take out his business card, but he was interrupted by Chi Jingyuan before he finished speaking.

"What company are you?"