Chapter Seventy-Four: Good News
Thailand and the whole of Southeast Asia are one of the important areas of KPOP activities, and many well-known and up-and-coming idol groups will try to come here to do some activities to increase their awareness in Asia.
Although EXO has been limited to boy groups mainly active in the peninsula and Xia Kingdom since their debut, they also attach great importance to the market in Southeast Asia, and their popularity here is also quite good.
After returning from Thailand, Ji Jingyuan returned to the crew of "Unborn" non-stop, and he was relieved to see him return, whether it was the director, writer or other actors.
Not long after the filming started, the leading actor was injured and left, and many people who didn't know the specific situation in it were a little apprehensive in their hearts, and even if they had been filming other people's scenes for more than eight days, there was not much to shoot, even if it was a group scene, but the frequency of the protagonist Zhang Kelai's appearance was too high, and without Chi Jingyuan, it was really a little hard to shoot.
As soon as he walked into the 15th floor of Lotte Plaza, Chi Jingyuan was warmly welcomed, and a group of seniors gathered together to applaud and coax him to return from injury, so enthusiastic that Chi Jingyuan himself was a little embarrassed.
Although he was absent for more than a week, fortunately, the crew started filming relatively early, leaving nearly two months of filming before the premiere, plus the previous filming was very smooth and the progress was fast, so far the remaining time is quite sufficient, but Chi Jingyuan will definitely be busy in the next few days.
At the same time that Ji Jingyuan returned to the crew to resume filming, he was exposed to love one after another when he was young, Bian Boxian's love affair was exposed, Luhan quit the group, FX ended the event early, and Red Velvet was boycotted when he debuted, and so on, SM finally announced a good news on the 15th.
At noon, an announcement was made that its girl group Girls' Generation reached a full contract renewal and will continue to operate as a member of Girls' Generation and a singer affiliated to SM for the next three years.
A person familiar with the matter said that this renewal is completely different from the model they signed together before their debut, and this time it is the result of negotiations between the members and the agency after negotiations. The members of Girls' Generation, who have entered the ranks of big-name stars, have each offered different conditions according to their own needs, and the contract renewal of all members was finally completed after many rounds of negotiations.
Some insiders also revealed that in fact, the renewal of Girls' Generation and SM Company had been completed quite early, because the news had not been made public at that time.
As for why it was suddenly announced now, the specific reason is not clear.
As soon as the news came out, SM's stock price rose in response, and the excitement of the SONES who still held on to it on the Internet was overflowing.
This year's Girls' Generation is really a bit of a water reversal, from the beginning of the year to now, there have been few things that go well, and the contract year has been until September, and there is no accurate letter, so that many young fans have been a little worried, for fear that when they wake up, they will hear something completely unacceptable to the news of 'not reaching a renewal, Girls' Generation will not disband' or so on.
Seeing the full contract renewal reached this time, many of the previously suppressed sones all raised their eyebrows and made various statements on the Internet: "Even if this year's results are indeed not as good as in previous years, as long as the nine girls are together, there will be no problem, no matter the mountains and valleys, we will always support them!" ”
"No matter how much Girls' Generation declines, it will always be a mountain in front of all girl groups, and I know that this gold signboard is impossible for SM to give up."
"As expected, how many people in the entire peninsula don't know the name of Girls' Generation?"
"Taeyeon, you should have gotten solo resources for this contract renewal, right? We've been waiting for a long time, so hurry up and sing your favorite song, Wuli Gold Singer! ”
"It's girlhood now, it's girlhood later, it's girlhood forever!"
Just looking at these speeches through the screen, Chi Jingyuan could feel the joy and relief of the sones, they had really been suppressed for too long.
He didn't care much about this matter during this time, although he may have reached a contract renewal a long time ago, but after seeing it, Ji Kyung-won was still very happy for Taeyeon Sunny's sisters, and he also took the time to call Kim Taeyeon and Sunny to congratulate him when the crew was resting.
It's just that the process of the call was a bit unexpected by him, whether it was Kim Taeyeon or Sunny, it didn't seem to be much happy about this matter, although the two of them smiled to express their gratitude and made a few jokes, and the tone was not unusual, but he was a little keenly aware that there seemed to be a trace of reluctance in the laughter of the two, as if they were not in a good mood these days.
However, it may also be that Chi Jingyuan thinks too much about himself and feels wrong.
Sunny didn't say anything else, chatted about the recent situation, and hung up after caring about Ji Jingyuan's recovery from his injury.
On the day of Chi Jingyuan's accident, they had already spoken on the phone separately.
However, Kim Taeyeon made an invitation that made Ji Kyung-won a little surprised:
"We are recording TTS's reality show recently, and there are several episodes of the project to invite our friends to come and record together, Jingyuan, do you want to come and have a fun."
Chi Jingyuan was stunned for a second, and reflexively said, "Reality show?" Nuna, you're coming back? ”
"Didn't I tell you a long time ago? The company also released a lot of news and concept photos a few days ago......" As she spoke, Kim Taeyeon realized that something was wrong, and her voice suddenly became louder: "Ah, Ji Jingyuan, have you not paid attention to the recent situation of Nunamen at all?" We TTS are about to return to this important thing, as friends you don't know? ”
"Ani, how could I not know, I've already seen the MV trailer released today, and the shooting is pretty good, TTS Dafa!"
Chi Jingyuan popped out the call page, quickly opened the s, and then glanced at the news on the top headlines, and replied in a very relaxed tone: "There is no problem with the reality show, Nuna, you ask your agent to send me a rough recording schedule, if I can spare time, I will definitely come." ”
"Okay, then I'll let him send it to you then."
Kim Taeyeon's voice sounded quite happy, but she still added: "But Jingyuan, you're not filming recently, just come on your own time, forget if you don't have a schedule." ”
"Alaso."
Chi Jingyuan said that he understood, and hung up the phone after chatting a few more words.
Regardless of the speculation, it is indeed good news to renew the contract at a young time, whether it is for the fans, the company and the members themselves.
It's like saying everything, this is already a golden signboard.
But it's OK to care about and congratulate, and I haven't had time to think about anything else in the past two days.
After returning to the crew, it was very dark to make up for more than two days, from the start of the morning to the end of the morning at midnight, basically all of Chi Jingyuan's scenes, just like to make up for the eight o'clock time before resting.
However, after two busy days, Ji Kyung-won said goodbye to the crew again and returned to the EXO to start preparing for the Incheon Hallyu Tourist Concert and the opening ceremony of the Incheon Asian Games on the 17th and 19th, respectively.
The former is fortunate to say that EXO has participated in several times and is already very familiar, singing "Overdose" is no problem with a little rehearsal, mainly for the rehearsal and rehearsal of the warm-up stage of the Asian Games later.
This belongs to the task assigned from above, and from the company to the group, it is extremely important, and there is no room for any mistakes, and everyone in EXO has spent all their time on this in the past few days, and I don't know how many times it has been rehearsed just for rehearsals.
Not only them, but several other groups that also have stage performances are the same, for example, BIGBANG doesn't play any mystery and personality this time, and they have been rehearsing together in the venue all day like EXO these days, and they have seen each other countless times in the past two days.
It's just that the age and age gap between the two groups is a little big, the relationship between SM and YG is average, and the relationship between the members of the two regiments is not very good.
In addition to the warm-up stage, EXO-M team Lay and two people were also invited to make guest appearances as special reporters for the Asian Games on Xia Guo TV, and will participate in the live broadcast and interview of the Asian Games, which can be regarded as a relatively good card.
In fact, at first, I thought about letting Ji Jingyuan and Lay be the special reporter, but after some consideration and discussion, they decided to select people in the M team, and finally selected Xia Wen's best member.
Chi Jingyuan himself does not lack this exposure, and he himself has been busy for the past two days, and he is almost out of breath.
On September 19, the Asian Games were officially held at the main stadium of the Incheon Asian Games, and on the warm-up stage before the opening ceremony, the EXO that many fans had been waiting for finally appeared.
Chi Jingyuan and the members were all dressed in gray suits standing in the middle of the empty stadium, eleven people posed in the classic pose of the 'Tree of Life', and the eyes of the 60,000 spectators in the surrounding audience were all focused on them, including many people of great status, and in the TV in front of them, they were filming a live broadcast of them, and I don't know how many thousands of people were watching them.
There is a real feeling of being watched by everyone.
To be honest, when Chi Jingyuan was standing here just waiting for the opening, his legs were shaking slightly, his chest was breathing very rapidly, he kept exhaling with his head down, even though he had rehearsed countless times, but when he really stood on this stage, his whole body was very nervous.
He has never been so cramped on the stage of his debut, and this feeling of heart beating wildly has not been felt for a long time.
Chi Jingyuan could detect that he was not the only one who had this kind of experience, he could clearly see that Wu Shixun who was standing in front of him, Luhan who was running away, and Bian Boxian, who was holding his arm and playing the tree branch, were shaking their hands and legs, obviously panicking to death, and completely lost the disdainful appearance on their faces before they played.
After a long time, these people were so pretended to be before they appeared.
I don't know how long, in the midst of the noisy sound, the music of "WOLF" finally sounded, and the dance that had been skipped countless times was smoothly displayed under the muscle memory, and after the official start of the performance, the previous tension subsided a lot, and the members were fully immersed in the stage performance.
After the end of "Wolf", the members stood in a row and said hello to the audience and introduced themselves, and then Kim Jun-mian took the microphone and said a few words of congratulations on behalf of EXO, and then continued to perform the next performance, "Roaring Hyo"
After the electronic prelude, which was very familiar to most of the audience, the stadium was thrown into a short burst of loud cheers.
Even though this year's "Addiction" has achieved very good results, "I Need U" and "Dope" are also very popular and have their own fans, but when it comes to exo's most representative classic song, it is still "Roaring Filial Piety", and no one will question this, and the members themselves feel the same.
After Luhan left, the 11-member version of Roar Hyo was much the same as before, but when the second main song was the turn of the second team to perform, Ji Jingyuan would stand up and fill Luhan's position, but he just followed and danced without his own part, and Luhan's part had been divided among several other members.
After the performance, all the members bowed together, and then trotted out of the venue and walked backstage, as if they didn't want to stay here for a second.
It's really a bit stressful to perform on this occasion.
As soon as he entered the backstage, Chi Jingyuan took off his suit and gasped for breath, just two songs made him sweat a lot, his legs and feet were still a little weak, and he felt much more tired than dancing a whole concert.
"Hey...... Hey...... Ahh
"We watched it on TV, the performance was very successful, the director and I were already on the phone, and the company was very happy with our performance."
Returned to the lounge and found a place to sit casually, took the drinks handed over by the agent and the assistant, and everyone took a few gulps of relief, and then listened to Lee Seung-hwan also stood there a little excitedly and summarized.
"Finally got this case, the children have worked hard, but wait a minute, we have to fly to Xia Guo, the company has already booked the ticket, and when we come back, we will have a meal together to celebrate."
Chi Jingyuan and several members of the team all drank water and gestured to indicate that OK was no problem.
It doesn't matter what the dinner party is, mainly like what Lee Seung-hwan said, he finally completed this important stage performance, and he felt a lot more relaxed all of a sudden.
That night, the EXO team flew to Xia Guo Tianjing with the team, and held two concerts in a row at the Mastercard Center on 20 and 21.
These two Tenkyo concerts will be the last two performances of EXO in recent times, and the last two performances of this year's tour in the summer and China, and the next concert will be a long time apart, with the most recent one waiting until the Neon Fukuoka station in November.
In other words, in the next nearly two months, in addition to the advertising that can't be escaped, all of Chi Jingyuan's energy can be put into the filming of the TV series and some incidental publicity.
After the performance, EXO didn't stay and returned to the peninsula, and Ji Kyung-won returned to the crew non-stop after having a meal with the members to celebrate.
The next few days are continuous filming in the dark, and the rest time of the previous days plus the time for rehearsing for the Asian Games are all made up at this time, every day from the morning until the crew gets off work in the early morning, Chi Jingyuan, the actor, is the highlight of the shooting.
Every day is busy and tired, and he once again experienced the fatigue and busyness of filming "Please Answer" and "The Inheritors", and he felt that he had lost a little weight in the past few days.
But Ji Jingyuan is also enjoying it, to tell the truth, the filming of workplace dramas is really interesting, and the atmosphere of the crew of "Unborn" is also very good, director Kim Won-seok often likes to make jokes when he is not angry and trains people, and it is also very interesting to invite several other actors, Li Xingmin shouted several times just by calling Ji Jingyuan to drink some wine.
And it's not just Chi Jingyuan who is very tired, all the crew, including the actors, are actually very hard, but no one says anything, and I don't know what's going on, I feel that the more I shoot, the more energetic I get.
It may be that they are more in love with each other, or it may be that everyone is more confident in this drama.
Today is the 25th, and at this time, the crew of "Unborn" is the rest time for dinner, and Chi Jingyuan and several seniors are eating fried noodles and hamburgers together, while watching the extremely hot news on their mobile phones.
Recently, there was another big scandal, and several of their leading actors are getting together to eat melons and discuss.
As he spoke, the phone in Chi Jingyuan's hand suddenly rang, he glanced at the caller, picked up the paper and wiped his mouth, then nodded to a few actors and seniors at the table, and then took the phone and walked to the side to connect.
As soon as it was connected, an extremely familiar voice came in, and it came straight without even saying hello:
"Do you have time tonight? Come out for a drink! ”