Chapter 7: Something I Like
"And what about you, are you crying?"
Looking at Bae Joo-hyun, who was wrapped in a hat on his head and became round, Ji Jingyuan laughed and shrugged his shoulders: "That's not true, although I was quite excited to win the Newcomer Award, I didn't feel like crying...... Maybe the other brothers cried too violently, which made me feel a little funny and dispelled some of the emotion."
At the end, he thought for a while and added: "If you want to say that you can't hold back your tears, when we EXO debuted and got the first place, it was the most touching, and the memories at that time were so deep, the other members in the backstage were crying miserably, and I was just ......a little bit at that time."
The scene where EXO relied on "Wolf and Beauty" to get the first singer after his debut, Ji Jingyuan is still a special surprise in his mind, his debut was not smooth, and the satisfaction, sense of achievement, and sourness caused by the hardships of getting the first singer in one year and two months make him remember it vividly in his retrospect.
Looking back now, it was of course good to get one within a few days of debut, which can be called a monster newcomer, but after going through difficulties, it took a long time to get what I dreamed of with hard work and perseverance, and this experience was more memorable and mellow than the previous one.
"The first one......
Hearing this achievement, which seemed to be far from redvelvet, Bae Joo-hyun looked up at the sky with some longing.
Since their debut, they have returned twice, and their best result is that they have entered a candidate once in their debut song, and other aspects are basically a bit miserable.
To be honest, with the current situation of Redvelvet, several members, including Bae Joo-hyun, are a little afraid to expect a trophy.
"The last return didn't meet expectations, and we haven't been able to get any trips since November, and everyone in the group was very disappointed and worried about the last time we had comeback."
Bae Joo-hyun remembered the tormented mentality during that time, the focus in his eyes was a little sluggish, and he muttered as if he was talking: "This year, suddenly the company notified the addition of a new member Yilin, and at the same time, there was a new return plan, and today I also won the newcomer award, I don't know why it went smoothly all of a sudden, and now I feel much better every day...... When they finished eating just now, they all felt a little emotional, and they all felt hopeful."
"Zhu Hyun Xi, you won't be proud to have won a newcomer award, there will be a Seoul Song Award in a few days, and the gold content is also very high, so let's be happy after winning the newcomer award."
Chi Jingyuan glanced at her, not only did he not comfort him, but he also pouted and complained, he changed his sitting position, leaned back in his chair, and said a little lazily: "And didn't I tell you about it by the river before, since then, it will take less than six months to see the sunrise, and now if you convert the time, there will be three months left."
Ji Jingyuan's tone sounded very determined, but it made Pei Zhuhyun can't help but think of the scene and the conversation between the two that night, and then think of "Let It Flow" not long after, thinking of the shock and emotion of that night, I only felt that my body became warm all of a sudden, the corners of my mouth drew a good-looking arc and smiled very happily, and my eyes turned to look at him with watery eyes.
Without waiting for Ji Jingyuan to turn her gaze, she took the lead in retracting her gaze, raised her head and continued to look at the sky, tugging the brims of her hats on both sides slightly, and her voice was light and lively: "Seoul Song Awards? Let's hope...... Actually, I've always liked to look at the night sky, when I was a child, I used to sit on the swing near my home at night, and I especially liked to look at the planets in the sky......
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Listening to her words, Ji Jingyuan couldn't help but look up at the night sky, just looking at it for a few seconds, the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching, the sky was a little gray at this time, not to mention the stars, even the moon looked a little unclear, the light was slightly dim, and he didn't experience what Pei Zhuhyun said, "It's really beautiful, it makes people feel relaxed......
Glanced at her strangely, this sister didn't know how to see the beautiful night sky through the haze, and felt that after she won a newcomer award, it suddenly changed tonight
It's got a little emotional.
It's just that this kind of sentimentality doesn't match the bear smiling face pattern on her clothes at this time, and the round and bulging cute appearance of wearing a sweatshirt and hat.
After trying a few times, he still couldn't fit into Pei Zhuhyun's state of mind, Ji Jingyuan tilted his head and looked at the night sky for a while, and exhaled softly: "Actually, I used to like watching the night sky, but I didn't like it tonight."
"Why?" Bae Joo-hyun turned her head to look at him curiously.
"......" withdrew his gaze to look at the night view with some interest, Ji Jingyuan spread his hand at Pei Zhuhyun, and said as a matter of course, "Because there are more favorite things to see now."
After a pause, Bae Joo-hyun felt a warm current surging into her heart, and her mouth opened slightly as if she wanted to laugh, but she quickly tried to hold it back. She was not shy, she brushed the air bangs that came out of the brim of her hat, her eyes were shining and she looked at Chi Jingyuan, her feet that were originally on the ground involuntarily lifted up, and she stepped on a pair of small cotton slippers and happily cocked twice, obviously a little excited and emotional in her heart.
"Hmm......" After looking at each other for two seconds, Chi Jingyuan stretched his waist, took the initiative to stand up, and beckoned to her: "Let's go, it's not too early, if you don't go back, your agent may have to check the house later."
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The heat and impulsiveness in his heart were interrupted a lot at once, and Pei Zhuhyun couldn't help but pouted and glanced at Ji Jingyuan, and then stood up, with a suppressed and very light dissatisfaction in his tone: "After winning, you will help me cover up."
"You two live in one room?" Chi Jingyuan took the lead and the two took the initiative to go back, and he asked curiously.
"yes, she's good at everything, but sometimes it's a little bit of a fuss." Trying to regain his composure, as if remembering Sun Shengwan's private appearance, Bae Joo-hyun chuckled.
"Cut, maybe people still think you're boring...... Chi Jingyuan said a fair word for his peers, he liked Sun Shengwan's character very much.
The two walked back indoors and sat up the ladder together.
As the door closed, the two people inside seemed a little silent, as if they had brought the silence of the park back to here.
The door opened again with a "ding", and the floor where EXO lived arrived, and the redvelvet's room was still a few floors above.
Bae Joo-hyun pursed her lips, and just when she was about to say goodbye, Ji Jingyuan had already walked out, stood outside the elevator and nodded at her, waving her hand to say goodbye: "Let's go, good night."
"Hmm......" Seeing that the other party was so free and casual, but what she was about to say was blocked back, Bae Joo-hyun also nodded slightly, smiled and looked at the other party's face through the slowly closing ladder door, until the two sides of the ladder door came together to separate the sound and still maintained the same posture, until the next time the elevator opened again, she woke up and walked briskly.
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Early the next morning, all the artists who came to participate in the Golden Disc Awards, including other artists of SM Company, flew back to Seoul on the front foot, only EXO was shouted by the agent early in the morning, and after breakfast, he took a bus to the Water Cube.
Tonight there will be a Youku-full video night party.
2014 was a year of explosion of video data, with the Divine Comedy "Little Apple" sweeping all corners of the mainland, and the popular world's "Ice Bucket Challenge" providing a powerful sample for the spread of public welfare and charity.
In order to review last year's image video and related figures,It is the first time in the video industry to carry out a cross-platform full content inventory,As the largest video website in Xia Country,Youku hosted this party,Since last November, the news has been released for voting,Non-stop publicity in the middle,The location was also selected at the Water Cube,All aspects have been done greatγ
EXO is a relatively popular performer, and it is still the stage performance time of the three songs, and the Chinese version of the three title songs of "Wolf and Beauty", "Roar" and "Addiction" caused a lot of restlessness.
After the 16th event, EXO returned to the peninsula overnight, but before he had been in Seoul for half a day, half of the team members took a flight to Europe with the SM team after a morning of production meetings.
They are going to officially start filming the title song of the single album "E" "Arseille France Marseille, Edinburgh England, Berlin Germany, Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, barebaby".
In addition, all of these ten regions have been recorded in history, and there have been rumors of residents and tourists witnessing strange space phenomena such as UFOs, which also corresponds to one of the concepts of the EXO group, and in the trailer, it will explain the inextricable connection between aliens with superpowers, solar eclipses, and EXO members.
What's even more coincidental is that if these ten places are connected together by lines on the world map, they just happen to be the official LOGO of the second series of EXO that has been designed this time.
All kinds of coincidences are linked together, which can't help but make people think about it very scary, and at the same time, I have to feel that the ingenuity of the people who designed this project has actually strung together so many seemingly completely unrelated cities, and it just corresponds to the theme concept of this EXO's return, which is really amazing.
It can be said that the comeback trailer of EXO this time is full of admiration in terms of planning, texture, concept, and force, as well as plot and metaphor, and it suddenly opens a world of distance from ordinary male idol groups.
Even if they are not fans of EXO, just ordinary passers-by, even black fans can't help but be surprised and emotional when they see this teaser video that is very different from other groups, and subjectively in their hearts, they will naturally distinguish EXO from other boy groups by an obvious grade.
At that time, Ji Jingyuan got the information given to him by Li Xiuman, and when he saw this project that had not yet been adopted, he felt that it was really good, and he looked very powerful, so he later took the initiative to mention this teaser design, hoping that it could be applied to XO's return this time.
In order to shoot this teaser video, SM also invested a lot of resources, because there are too many regions and cities to go to and in several corners of the world, so the company designed to shoot in batches, and this time the first shot is a member of the European side.
At the same time, because I am going to return to Seoul on the 21st to participate in the Seoul Music Awards, the time this time is very tight, and the itinerary is very full.
After a transfer in the middle, he finally arrived in Berlin after flying for twelve hours in a row, and when Chi Jingyuan stepped off the plane, his feet were soft, and he was dizzy and had no strength.
This plan is really good, but the time to shoot the flight is really a little longer, and the thought of flying for so long when he goes back in two days makes his scalp a little numb.
They arrived in Berlin in the early hours of the morning, and the teaser video here was part of Kim Min-seok's part, and it happened to be filmed in the evening, so the group went to the hotel booked by the company staff for a short repair and then went straight to work.
Because the length of the trailer is more than a minute at most, and the middle has to count the LOGO display of EXO and SM companies in the next ten seconds, the duration is very short and there is not much difficulty in shooting, so the progress is quite fast, and after being busy all night, I went back to rest after filming Kim Min-seok's trailer, and everyone moved directly to the next city.
"Click." Standing in front of the Church of Saint-Nizier, Chi Jingyuan took two selfies with his mobile phone at the door carved with gorgeous reliefs outside the church behind him.
After flying for so long, I finally came here, and I definitely want to take some photos as a souvenir.
"Jingyuan, come here."
The staff was setting up the filming equipment, and the PD waved and shouted from there.
"Wait a minute, just walk up this long staircase, and we'll shoot from behind you, from far to close-up, and remember not to look at the camera." PD began to point to him
The director will wait for a while to let the filming process, in fact, Ji Jingyuan has already seen the sub-shots in the script before, and this time it is the last time to emphasize it.
"Got it." Chi Jingyuan gestured to indicate that it was ase.
This kind of teaser video is really no difficulty for him, a representative of young actors on the peninsula.
In the planning done by SM Company this time, there are many concepts of EXO's regular second album, but the main concept is to undertake the mini second album "Addiction".
The general concept of "Addiction" is that the EXO Twelve have lost the superpowers they once relied on and become ordinary people, locked in a labyrinth where there is no way out.
And this time, in the second official series "EXO-L", the remaining nine members of EXO escaped from the maze and gradually regained their superpowers, while the superpowers of the three members who withdrew from the team were transferred to the other members, and they also had subtle collisions and connections with UFO aliens and strange phenomena such as solar eclipses.
It sounds a bit mysterious, but it's also one of EXO's core selling points to attract fans, from the debut song "MAMA" to the present, "olf", "Roar", "Addiction" each album actually tells a concept and a story, and it is coherent and echoing each other.
SM is also the entertainment company that likes to play this thing the most, and most of their groups will have their own "concept" when they debut and return.
These things will make many fans have a strong interest in discussion, and to a certain extent, it will greatly increase the attractiveness, compulsion, and fan stickiness.
The shooting went well, and after the weight of the church was completed, the group quickly changed the scene and began to rearrange it in front of a nearby alleyway.
"Jingyuan, is it cold?" Assistant Nuna Li Youzhen saw Chi Jingyuan sitting on a folding chair and kept rubbing his hands, and asked with concern.
"It's so cold, Nuna......" Chi Jingyuan nodded vigorously.
In order to shoot, he wore a thin black jacket, a crewneck shirt and jeans at this time, even though he was still wrapped in a down jacket, but the temperature was still freezing in the middle of the night.
Li Youzhen trotted a few steps, took a hair dryer over, plugged in the wire and stood behind him, and began to blow the wind on Chi Jingyuan's neck, the warm warm wind passed into the seam of his clothes from above, making him a lot warmer all of a sudden, and he exhaled comfortably, and a white mist emanated from his mouth.
The hair dryer is an artifact for artists to warm up between winter shooting, and it is really comfortable to be blown by the hot wind in the extremely low temperature winter.
While enjoying the service of his assistant Nuna, Chi Jingyuan listened to PD's explanation, and in order to drown out the sound of the hair dryer, the other party specially amplified his voice.
Chi Jingyuan's personal teaser plot is probably that he appeared at the door of the church of Lyon, walked into the church until he reached the nearby alleyway, suddenly the street lights around him began to flicker, and then kept going out, he ran in the alley in a little panic, and all the lights in the past went out one after another, and all the lights in the whole city began to disappear and became pitch black.
The origin of the plot is because of the superpower "Light" that Ji Kyung-won was given in EXO, he has just regained his superpower but for some reason he has fallen into a loss of control.
In the end, Chi Jingyuan broke into a room, and the darkness suddenly generated starlight to illuminate the neighborhood, and the tables and chairs in the room in front of him all floated under the production of special effects, and Chi Jingyuan quietly gasped softly in the half-dark and half-bright room, his face expressionless.
This is a hint that Luhan, who has retired from the team, and the superpower "mind manipulation objects" that Luhan once held has been transferred to Ji Jingyuan's body to a certain extent, which can be regarded as a continuation of the concept and setting of the retired members.
Including Taoy, who also left, their abilities will also be transferred to other members in the video.
Presumably, XO's fans may also be full of emotion when they see these scenes and the superpowers of those members who have quit the group, and then smile.