When Chi Jingyuan returned to the dormitory, it was already three or four o'clock, and his movements of changing his shoes became much lighter under the quiet, and he tiptoed to wash up and walked in, but found that Wu Shixun had not slept yet, lying on the bed with this dark circle under his eyes and was quickly tapping on his mobile phone, looking at the brows illuminated by the mobile phone, his mood should not be very good.

Looking at his appearance, if he guessed correctly, it should be a conflict between his female relatives.

However, the girlfriend he has been dating now has been for several months, and with Chi Jingyuan's understanding of him, it is almost time for the enthusiasm to dissipate.

After Chi Jingyuan walked into the room, he glanced at him, and he didn't communicate, he just lay down on the bed, flipped through his mobile phone casually, and when he was just about to sleep, his hand suddenly shook, and he actually received a text message again at such a late hour.

The light in the dark night was a little dazzling, and Chi Jingyuan squinted his eyes and looked at the sender, who was sent by Mingjing Nan.

"Thank you (smiley)."

Zhou Ziyu didn't send a text message after saying that he was going to get off work and go back to the dormitory just now, and according to the time, it is estimated that twice should have just returned to the dormitory not long ago.

I actually had time when I wasn't off work in the practice room just now, but Mingjing Nan specially picked this time to send a text message, and I don't know if he noticed Zhou Ziyu's movements before and deliberately staggered the time.

Chi Jingyuan typed a few words and replied to her: "Why don't you sleep so late?" ”

He could probably guess what Mingjing Nan was thanking for, and the eight achievements were because she had just added a lot of parts to her, so that she jumped directly to the third in terms of singing duration, which was originally ranked at the bottom.

It may also be thanks to Ji Jingyuan for complimenting her, and also designed exclusive movements for her bridge.

I know it, but it's not interesting to say it directly.

"You know (wink) ......"

Mingjing Nan is also very smart, and he didn't continue to say that Chi Jingyuan went down, and he was a little playful to demolish him.

"Mina Xi, are you talking about the assignment of parts, and the good thing that praised you for your bridge singing just now?"

Chi Jingyuan didn't feel embarrassed at all, but asked rhetorically.

"Hmmm."

"Actually, it's not a boast, it's just to tell you the truth, one of the parts that impressed me the most in "Like OOH-AHH" is your two sentences."

"Really?"

"It's because I think you're really good at singing bridge, and you think it's because you smile so well?"

Minami, who was half-lying on the bed, was covered with a quilt, looking at the news on the screen, his mouth was grinning, his teeth were exposed, and his glasses were bent very good.

I read this text message twice again, and the noise next to her disrupted her train of thought a little, Mingjing Nan glanced to the side, then retracted her gaze and smiled and quickly replied:

"Hee-hee...... Now I suddenly hope that it is because of the latter reason. ”

"That's a shame...... Okay, don't think about it so much, go to sleep. ”

"Good night."

……

On February 1st, Chi Jingyuan returned to work as usual.

The crew of "Signal" has entered the right track, both the staff and the actors have run in with each other very well, and the results of the two-week broadcast are gratifying, although they will be a little tired during filming, but the atmosphere of the whole crew is very good, and most of them are talking and laughing.

Just two days after shooting, Ji Jingyuan got off work a little earlier on the 2nd, but this time instead of going to JYP, he went directly back to the dormitory.

"Finally, let's discuss the situation of the songs in this album, and if you have any opinions, I will report to the company tomorrow, and the songs included in the three albums will be determined soon."

When Ji Jingyuan came back, the others were already waiting for him in the dormitory, and soon after a little tidying up, all nine of them gathered in the living room of the dormitory, each of them squeezed on the sofa and sit, and a few people simply sat cross-legged on the ground, and the agent Li Chenghuan clapped his hands after seeing that everyone was there, and presided over the private meeting of the members.

As EXO debuted longer and exploded in popularity, becoming the new pillar of SM Corporation, they have gradually gained more say in their own activities and returns, and the company now refers to the members' own suggestions in many aspects.

For example, this time, the company put down the choice of some songs, and EXO's own opinions will play a very key role.

This time we got together to discuss this matter, but the members present were all very familiar members, far less formal than in the company meeting, all of them sat loosely in slippers, and some people just opened two packs of snacks and chatted while eating.

""Heaven must be included, my brain is about to explode in order to write lyrics." Park Chanyeol started with some urgency.

In addition to Ji Kyung-won, there are several members in XO who have been trying to write songs, but the things that have been made before are not valued by ordinary companies, and this time, out of consideration for the market, Park Chanyeol and Kim Jong-dae have their own songs that they participated in writing lyrics to enter the inclusion candidates.

"That song of yours should be fine...... Put aside the included songs in advance, and unify the opinions of the title song first. Lee Seung-hwan interrupted him with a frown, directing the discussion to the title song.

Jin Junmian held a cup of coffee, lowered his head and flipped through the information and said: "This time with a double main hit, "Monster" has been confirmed to be the first main hit, which one do you think is more suitable for another song?" ”

After the return plan of the third album was proposed, many production meetings have been held, and the format of this review has been determined before, and the third album of EXO will not be released in four months and month by month like last year's second album, but will return to SM's usual routine, releasing two albums every two months in the form of original and reprint.

However, SM Company did not mess up, this time the original version and the reprint will be in the form of a double main hit, just to select songs, in the music library, and outside to buy hundreds of songs that match the style for selection.

"It was almost discussed last time, and now among the remaining candidate songs, there are only a few of them with main quality, and they are more excellent."

"Fire", "Lucky One", and "Missing", "Lotto", ......" Bian Boxian also flipped through the information and read out several candidate names in turn.

In fact, they don't even need to read the information, they have heard these songs many times when they choose them, and many of them can actually sing them.

"I think Lucky One is good, it's a great style." Du Junxiu raised his hand and directly expressed his opinion.

Bian Boxian's eyes lit up, and he also echoed, "I also think of "Lucky One". ”

"I think 'Lucky One' is average...... I like "Missing" the most, and the sound of this song must be very good, really good. Kim Jong Dae is a loyal fan of lyric music, and after finishing speaking, he couldn't help but hum two sentences: "I miss you, I miss you......"

"I love ...... Fire"

They have actually discussed this topic many times in private, but everyone likes different styles, and they have never been able to get a unified opinion.

"What do you think of Jingyuan?" Jin Junmian looked at Ji Jingyuan.

For music, the members of EXO still believe in Chi Jingyuan's professional ability and vision, and Chi Jingyuan's suggestions are very important in this regard.

"Me? I can do whatever I want. ”

As soon as he stuffed a potato chip into his mouth, he was called by name, and Ji Jingyuan replied with some vagueness as he swallowed something.

"Don't be casual, "Monster" is the title song that has been decided, and the other candidates "Fire" and "Missing" are all self-composed songs by you, among which "Fire" is still the song you proposed to be added to the song, give some advice."

Seeing Chi Jingyuan looking so lazy and improper, Bian Boxian complained twice with some dissatisfaction, glanced over here after finishing speaking, then got up and walked over and unceremoniously took a bag of unopened potato chips from his feet and sat back.

"'Fire' is not my own composition."

Hearing this, Ji Jingyuan hurriedly swallowed the snack, coughed and emphasized seriously: ""Fire" is a song written by Jiang Xiaoyuan, I just participated in the arrangement and lyrics, at most it is a second work......"

Last year, Chi Jingyuan, the second official album, not only provided a return model, designed some publicity plans and participated in determining the overall style, but also included several self-composed songs, including "Spring Day" and "Boy with Luv" These high-quality hits.

However, in this year's three episodes, he did not participate as deeply as last year.

One is because last year's second album somewhat emptied the accumulation in his music library.

Ordinary songs are easy to play, but excellent quality songs are not unlimited, he has so many inspirations in the past two years, such as "Boy with Luv", there are no two songs in total.

The second is that because Li Xiuman has already communicated with him, his solo project should officially start in the second half of this year, or at the end of the year, so he has to leave a few songs for collection, but he has no inspiration for the title song yet.

Despite this, this time Chi Jingyuan still made a lot of efforts in the selection of songs, in addition to recommending the unique style of "Fire", he also came up with three self-composed songs, including "Missing", but the other two songs may not be selected by the company in general.

"Then you wrote "Missing", right?"

"Well......" Chi Jingyuan was asked, put down the potato chips in his hand, raised his eyes and thought about it seriously, and said: "Actually, among the several title songs, I am most optimistic about "Missing", but this song is too lyrical, in terms of style, it does not match the theme style of our return this time, and it is not very suitable as the main track of the album, and the company intends to let us test the overseas market this time, Kpop lyrical songs are not popular in the English region......"

"Actually, this song is especially suitable for the title song of our winter college, but the style of the songs included in the three albums this time is too strong, so I recommend it to come in and neutralize it, take care of the fans who don't like the style too much, and it's all dance music that will affect the music source results, I think at least the music source results of "Missing" should be good."

"I recommend "Fire" because the style is more unique, and if it is paired with excellent choreography, I feel that it will be more appetizing to European and American fans...... Otherwise, "monster" is actually very good as a main song, and the style is groundbreaking in Kpop dance music, and the quality is very high, so I don't care if the other main song is "fire" and "lucky one", but if I really want to choose......"

Speaking of this, he felt that all the members around him were looking at him, but Ji Jingyuan didn't have any nervousness, and picked up the potato chips and fed them into his mouth: "Fire", "Lucky One...... It's a bit ordinary, and I think there are only two sentences in the whole song that are more eye-catching, and it's not as good as "Lotto". ”

Hearing his words, several members around nodded slightly, obviously influenced by him, and even Du Junxiu, who liked this song very much, didn't insist so much.

"That's right." At this time, Du Junxiu remembered something, poked him and asked, "What was the name of the song you called me to record the demo last time." ”

"Answer"" Chi Jingyuan gave the answer after a short recollection.

"I think this song is very good, and watching the song is also a men's group dance music."

"It's too late now, it's already at this point." Ji Jingyuan shrugged after thinking about it for a moment.

"Actually, I think the song we wrote the lyrics is actually quite suitable as the main hit." Kim Min-seok made an opinion next to him.

"Oh?" Hearing this, Chi Jingyuan became interested, looked over and asked, "Brother, how is the progress of your song?" ”

This is the task given to them by the company and kenzie, to write the lyrics for a song provided by the new musician PDOGG, but because of the limited style, Ji Jingyuan didn't participate much, leaving the work to the other members, and then didn't pay much attention.

However, this piece is very good, although he didn't participate much in the lyrics, but the arrangement has his own strength, and the quality of the final finished product must be checked by him.

"I'm just about to tell you, it's almost done."

"That's good, I'll show it later." Chi Jingyuan nodded and asked casually, "What's it called?" ”

""Blood and Sweat", we thought about the name for a long time, what do you think?

"Well, isn't it a little exaggerated, even if the debut is not very smooth, but it won't be 'blood and sweat', right?"

"Artistic techniques, fans just like it......"

"Okay...... That's what to say. ”

In the end, all of the EXO owners agreed in a friendly atmosphere.

Last year's second album was too high-quality, except for a few hit title songs, all the songs of the album were excellent, and a huge amount of resources were invested in publicity, as well as the adoption of a novel and special return mode, coupled with the gimmick of competing with bigbang, creating an album that is difficult to surpass in Kpop history under various conditions, almost a milestone-like album.

And this year, although SM has also given a lot of resources, and the selection of hundreds of songs in the music library is already very supportive, but at present, it seems that whether it is the mode or the song, compared with last year, there is always a little dwarfed taste, whether it is the company, or the members of XO have a faint feeling of this.

But this is the reality, how can a big hit with good quality appear so easily, such as "Roar" and "Boy with Luv", songs like "Roar" and "Boy with Luv" will only appear every few years in the entire Kpop.

A little weaker is a little weaker, Chi Jingyuan thinks it has no effect.

Today's EXO has long passed the period when the song can't be played.

At this time, they can really do it casually, no matter what song they post, it will be popular, and if the debut song "MAMA" that was extremely disliked at that time is released now, not to mention that it can take more than a dozen people, at least it can sweep the song world for a while.

Even now, "MAMA", a song that received a very poor review at the time, has been regarded by fans as the "greatest debut song", and if you ask listeners for 12 years to look at today's evaluation, he will have the illusion that it is not a song.

And in fact, the quality of the songs in the three albums this time is already very high, and there are several of them at the level of the title song alone, especially the two songs "monster" and "missing", Chi Jingyuan feels that the quality is very high, not to mention that other small companies will be more eye-catching after watching this kind of song resource, and even other groups within SM themselves are very greedy for EXO's treatment.

Anyway, he is still looking forward to this return...... It must be much better than Twice's "Cheer Up".

……

It was another two-day filming schedule, and on the afternoon of the 4th, Ji Jingyuan took a half-day off and left the crew and returned to the company.

However, this time it's not the old building in Cheongdam-dong, since yesterday, the office space of most of SM's employees, as well as the place where all the artists of its debut artist work, have officially moved to the new building in Samseong-dong, and Ji Jingyuan is going to take a look at the new building today, as well as the environment of their new EXO practice room, and by the way, I will participate in the final production meeting of the three series.

The location of the new SM building is very good, and the traffic is also very convenient in Gangnam District, after exiting from the 6th exit of the Sancheng subway, turn left is the SM COEX that they often carry out some activities, and then walk for ten minutes to the new building SM communication, and coincidentally the new building and the old building are actually very close, and it will not take more than ten minutes to walk.

The three main event venues are all close to each other, and they are all in Gangnam-gu, where every inch of land is valuable, and SM's wealth is undoubtedly revealed.

After Chi Jingyuan came down from the parking lot, he looked up at the new building, and he didn't count how many floors there were for a while, but the decoration of the external wall looked very good, the whole body was still the same as the old building, and the bottom two floors were still floor-to-ceiling windows made of tempered glass, and some decorations and figures inside could be vaguely seen.

"On the first floor is the café and restaurant, which is currently only available for in-house employees and entertainers." The assistant who was waiting for him at the door welcomed Chi Jingyuan in, and when he saw him looking to the side, he also introduced him very enthusiastically: "However, the company has plans to open the restaurant on the first floor to the public in the future, and at the same time, the basement will be opened as a gift shop, which will also be open to tourists and fans in the future, but the first floor is the internal area."

"Isn't that easy to be squatted by fans?" Chi Jingyuan looked at the interior decoration and asked casually.

"Artists and staff will have special passages, and they are not the same door as tourists." The assistant replied, and then said with a smile: "But for a star like Jingyuan, who is too popular and has too many fans, it is indeed possible that there will be a little more squatting meals." ”

Not in a hurry to go up, Chi Jingyuan smiled and walked around with his assistant.

The décor is stylish and exquisite, the bright and warm colors of the walls are very comfortable to look at, and the bright lighting will line the entire floor comfortably and dazzlingly.

There are also various SM artists' merchandise, pictorials, wallpapers, and other things that represent the culture of entertainment companies in many places, and Ji Jingyuan also saw his own merchandise dolls and large posters hanging on the wall with him and EXO.

When I passed by the bathroom, I went in to take a look, and even the bathroom was decorated with marble and gold edges, full of strong ins style.

No matter where it is, the decoration, lighting, lining, and even the atmosphere, the new building has opened up several grades of the old building, and changing from the old building to the office here is like EXO changing from the cramped dormitory of the trainees to their super-large apartment of hundreds of square meters, which is a kind of spiritual sublimation.

Finally said goodbye to the blue sky and white clouds practice room where the air conditioner broke down from time to time.

After walking around Chi Jingyuan, he couldn't help but feel comfortable, and with a sense of relief, he followed the assistant into the elevator.

Although the decoration of this building is good, it doesn't actually make Chi Jingyuan feel amazing or anything, after all, he has seen too many good places, not to mention anything else, this place is worse than his home, I don't know how much.

But in any case, it is really nice to be able to improve the working environment and say goodbye to the old building where the elevators often creak and squeak.

"Our XO practice room is on the fifth floor, and the other artist practice rooms are also concentrated on the fifth and sixth floors."

"The area of the practice room for each group of artists is also different, and we should be the largest one...... In addition to the dedicated practice room, there is also a large open practice room dedicated to external work such as filming......"

In the assistant's introduction, the elevator stopped on the fifth floor, and after Ji Jingyuan walked out, he looked to the left under the guidance of the assistant, and saw the door of the practice room with the white EXO name plate on a black background from a long distance.

However, when he got closer, he saw that the door was not closed, and there was a sound of laughter and slapping inside.

Ji Jingyuan walked to the door and was just about to go in, as if he heard his footsteps, a figure leaned out from inside, saw him at a glance, and then his eyes lit up and he laughed.

Female dear!