"Concert?"

"Well, now the company is stuck with this, saying that it will only hold a solo concert for us if all 5 people renew their contracts, and this is what I hesitate about now......"

Cui Xueli thought of the headache, felt that the steak in her mouth had no taste, shook her head and said with some self-deprecation: "It was originally held in January, but it has been delayed until now because of my reasons...... There is no hope of returning, but I know that the other members are actually very interested in holding this concert, and Victoria Oni is willing to give up some domestic trips for this reason......"

Saying that, she laughed twice with some dissatisfaction: "We should have debuted for almost seven years, except for SMtown a few times a year, not a single concert has been held, and when it was about to disband, the company suddenly brought it up, and it was not a tour, hehe......"

“……”

Feeling the hint of longing in Cui Xueli's tone, Chi Jingyuan was silent for a while.

He is very able to appreciate the importance of a solo concert for an idol group, not counting the thing of making money and revenue, the kind of standing on a wide stage, facing a wider audience, the whole audience is your fans, under the gaze of tens of thousands of people, shouting, cheering, you don't need to sing, just standing there is enough to make the crowd burn, this feeling of being supported by countless people, and the stars are the biggest encouragement and reward for an idol.

He may not have so much experience after getting used to the later shows, but Ji Jingyuan still remembers the first concert after their debut, and those fans moved him.

“…… It's a pity to leave the idol profession without holding a concert. Exhaling softly, Chi Jingyuan hesitated for a moment and said with a little feeling.

Cui Xueli nodded immediately when she heard this,

"That's what I thought, that's why I ......"

…………

In the same year, the dinner party of the deceased family became a complaining meeting because of Cui Xueli's bad mood, and after the meal, she did not make any decisions, but seemed to be in a much better mood, not as irritable and anxious as before.

However, Cui Xueli's hesitation and hesitation, and the final state, Chi Jingyuan felt that she should be a little biased towards reaching a renewal with the company in the end, and from Chi Jingyuan's point of view, even if FX renewed the contract, it is estimated that the company will not arrange any activities, she doesn't want to be an idol, and there is no obstacle to the idea of transforming into an actor, the most important thing is not whether to renew the contract, but how to get enough film and television resources from the company for the company to push her.

Until the end, Chi Jingyuan did not clearly advise her on what to do, he felt that this kind of important thing that would affect her career and even her life did not need to be advised by outsiders, and it was better to let Cui Xueli think about it herself.

If people listen to his opinions and don't develop well and regret it, then my friend probably won't be able to do it......

He listened as a trash can throughout the whole process, and only gave a few references until the end of the meal, but at the end he also specifically mentioned "If there are any too harsh requirements, tell me, I will help you communicate with the company......" It was a reassuring pill for Cui Xueli.

Cui Xueli's current problem is the disagreement with the company and the demand for film and television resources, in fact, if Chi Jingyuan really comes forward, the company will definitely make great concessions, but just as a friend, Chi Jingyuan can't always be a nanny for her, everyone's path is their own.

However, if you encounter any critical problems, it is natural to help you as a relative.

In fact, to be honest, Ji Jingyuan and FX have a good relationship with each other, and he really wants to see FX hold their own concert before they disband.

If it does, he'll definitely check it out......

After finishing the dinner with friends, Chi Jingyuan naturally returned to the crew and began to shoot the last period of the drama "Signal".

Now that there are only the last four episodes of "Signal" that have not been broadcast, and only the last two episodes have not been filmed yet, the crew has not much time left to work together.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Chi Jingyuan was absent for a short period of time in the middle, judging from their progress, it should have been completed by now, and the actors in the same crew were okay, some of the staff, field affairs and the like must have some opinions about him in their hearts, but with the help of Chi Jingyuan's friends and members who have not been cut off almost every day, nothing unpleasant happened under the short mouth.

"Wow Jingyuan, your look just now is so amazing, it must be another classic shot after broadcasting."

In the police station built by the crew of "Signal", Kim Hye-so and Ji Jingyuan, who had just finished filming themselves, sat together, each holding coffee in their hands, chatting in a good atmosphere: "You have already filmed several TV series, have you ever considered trying a movie?" There is absolutely no problem with your acting skills and popularity, and I heard that many directors in the circle are also quite optimistic about you......"

Kim Hye-so was wearing clothes on her body, crossed Erlang's legs, and sat there with her right leg dangling very casually, looking at Ji Jingyuan and asking in a familiar tone.

"Haha, the seniors are too famous...... I thought about getting in touch with the movie, and I also received some scripts and audition invitations, but I have been busy in the past two years, and I haven't found a suitable script and story. ”

Chi Jingyuan nodded and explained briefly.

With his popularity and acting skills, he has actually received a lot of movie resources in the past two years.

"It's a pity...... I think some of you XO members have already made movies, right? Kim Hye-so replied casually, thought of something and asked.

"Yes, there are already members who have been exposed to movies, and two of them were released last month." Ji Jingyuan was a little surprised that Kim Hye-so paid so much attention to EXO, but he quickly echoed with a smile.

He's talking about Kim Jun-mian and Do Jun-so, the two members who were the first members of EXO to shoot movies, and the movies they starred in, "Glory Days" and "Innocent Love", both of which were released last month, and Do Jun-so still collaborated with Kim So-hyun, Ji Kyung-won's little fan girl.

However, it is not a big-budget film, it is just a small-budget feature film, and the evaluation after its release can only be said to be average, even the popularity of EXO members cannot save the box office of these two films, and the box office of both films is just over 200,000 people.

This box office is actually blessed by EXO's popularity, which shows that the two movies really have no bright spots.

It's a little embarrassing to say it, when the audition invitations for the roles of these two movies were sent to SM at that time, they were actually all looking for Ji Kyung-won, but after he was not interested, SM pushed the other members who wanted to take the actor route over, and finally Kim Jun-mian and Do Jun-so got the roles.

"Wouldn't it be a pity to lag behind the members of your own team?"

"The TV series is also very good...... Chi Jingyuan shrugged his shoulders to show that he was quite satisfied, and then showed a bright smile of his junior, looking at this senior: "If you encounter a good script in the future, try it again." ”

Like Kim Jun-mian and Do Jun-so, other EXO members who want to follow the path of actors are still different from Ji Kyung-won.

If they want to make movies, they can only start testing the waters with this kind of low-budget feature film, or rely on XO's popularity and exposure to play supporting roles such as five men and six men in some big productions.

And Chi Jingyuan doesn't have this need, and now he can actually receive some good roles and books, but first, he is not very interested, and second, he has not met the right one.

At this time, Zhao Zhenxiong, who had nothing to do, walked to the side and sat down, his face was serious, and he didn't seem to be in good spirits.

"Brother, your face is not very good." Chi Jingyuan took the initiative to say hello.

"Don't mention it, the role of Li Caihan is too stressful, and sometimes I can't sleep well at night." Zhao Zhenxiong shook his head and sighed, his face full of exhaustion.

Chi Jingyuan nodded clearly, he knew that what this brother was talking about was not that there was pressure or acting pressure, but that the script behind "Signal" was a bit dark, and he was too deep in it when he performed, and he couldn't accept it.

"By the way, do you have any ideas for the sequel that the producer casually mentioned yesterday?" At this time, Kim Hye-so suddenly mentioned something.

The ratings of "Signal" have risen to 15%, which is already a good result on cable TV, and although the word of mouth has declined slightly recently, the overall evaluation is still very high, and tvN's special project for the 10th anniversary is also a great success.

And because the two roles of Park Hae-young played by Ji Kyung-won and Cho Jin-woong and Lee Jae-han are very outstanding, the two male protagonists have received a lot of praise and fans because of their wonderful performances and character portrayals, and have become the representative and biggest attraction of the drama "Signal".

If you want to make a sequel, this iron triangle must definitely communicate, one less, especially one less of the two male protagonists, it will instantly turn sour.

"My words...... needs to think about it again, this type of TV series is really uncomfortable. Without hesitation, Zhao Zhenxiong waved his hand, looking at his expression, although he said that he was thinking about it, but in his heart, I am afraid that he really wants to act in a sequel.

"I'll watch it again, at least wait until the script comes out......" Ji Jingyuan also laughed, with some prevarication in his tone: "After all, the script of these last few episodes is a bit ......"

What he said was that the reputation of "Signal" has declined a little now, and when it was launched, because of the novel setting, tight rhythm, and wonderful performance, "Signal" was unanimously recognized, and the evaluation and reputation have also gone all the way.

But now in the last two or three episodes, I don't know if Kim Won-seok is going to drag out the gathering, or the screenwriter Kim Eun-hee can't make it up, these episodes use a lot of flashbacks to increase the duration, and the rhythm has become a lot slower, and there are a lot of bugs because of the uncontrollable setting of shuttle.

Of course, this is not a bad ending, "Signal" is still a very brilliant suspense drama, but the later script is indeed a little weaker than the beginning.

"It's ...... too" Kim Hye-so smiled when she heard this, and nodded noncommittally.

"It's almost finished...... Zhao Zhenxiong suddenly sighed at this time.

"It's almost, the director said it won't take more than a week......"

……

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Ji Jingyuan left the crew and went to JYP in the nanny car.

gave twice more than a day to rest, and today is the day of the agreed recording, and he also specially adjusted it with the crew, arranged some scenes at other times, and freed up the afternoon and evening time a little.

As a producer, Ji Jingyuan feels that he has done his best.

And he has also adjusted his mentality, which will make him more patient.

But if Rabbit Gas is still in that state today, he is probably really going to get angry.

"Jingyuan, you haven't eaten much at noon, do you want to eat something if you still have some time?"

The car stopped at the red light, and Park Jae-hyun, who was driving, looked back and suggested.

"Forget it, I just had a snack, and I'm not very hungry." Chi Jingyuan looked at the time, thought about it for a while, and then shook his head: "Go straight over, start early and end early." ”

"Good ......"

Park Jae-hyun answered and started the car, this is Ji Jingyuan's phone suddenly rang, and I saw that it was Lee Seung-hwan calling,

Put through.

"What's wrong with brother?" Chi Jingyuan leaned back in his chair and asked, there must be something wrong with this brother's call.

"Jingyuan, you don't have time to come to filming in the past two days, today's production meeting is over, and I have some things to communicate with you."; Lee Seung-hwan didn't say hello either, and went straight to the point on the phone.

"Well, how do you say that?"

"After several discussions, the company decided to make some changes to our XO regular three series plan."

"Modification?" Chi Jingyuan, who was originally looking out the window and admiring a large advertising poster of his own on the outer wall of the commercial plaza, cheered up.

"Yes, mainly in terms of title songs, the company still feels that the four title songs-level songs in the first album of the regular third album are a bit of a waste of resources, and it is easy to scatter the heat and attention if they are released together, so it was decided to advance one of the original double main songs "Fire" as the first song of the regular three albums, and carry out a song for about a week to warm up for the follow-up official return......"

Then let "Missing" replace the title song of "Fire" and become a double title song with "Monster". The content of this album is too much dance music, and the style is a bit too strong, although it may be favored by some fans in Europe and the United States, but the response in terms of local music sources is not expected to be very good, the company is very optimistic about the song "Missing", and feels that it is a bit of a waste when the songs are included......

Lee Seung-hwan explained in detail the decision at the production meeting on the phone, and finally asked tentatively: "What suggestions do you have from Jingyuan?" ”

As one of the producers of the three episodes, Chi Jingyuan should also attend the meeting, but he doesn't have any special ideas, the crew was absent for a long time before the second ball, and his filming work was very tight, so he simply disappeared.

"Well, nothing."

Ji Jingyuan first thought carefully about what Li Chenghuan said, and after pondering for a while, he did not object: "The level of the song "Fire" is very high, it is absolutely no problem to be a precursor, and it is not bad to have a pre-warm-up, which can really help a lot for the subsequent return." “

"Okay, then it's confirmed, I'll communicate with the planning department right away." Lee Seung-hwan immediately responded, his voice sounding a little happy, and then he asked again: "By the way, is the choreography of "Fire" over there still not finished?" ”

"The first version is basically almost, and the rest will be changed later."

The choreography of "Fire" is done by Chi Jingyuan with the dance teacher, and the progress is the slowest of the several songs on the album, and the dances of the other songs have already begun to be practiced, but this one has not been completely completed.

But the good thing is that it's pretty much there.

"That's okay, let's start preparing in the next two days, and we have to make this first line first......

"Okay, I got it, brother......"

After exchanging two sentences at the end, Ji Jingyuan hung up the phone, just got the new news, and before he could think for a while, the car had already arrived at the door of JYP.

Park Jae-hyun went to park, Ji Jingyuan sat up the elevator on the first floor alone with a shoulder bag, and naturally began to think about the changes made in the regular third series this time.

The company's changes also make sense, there are a lot of excellent songs, and it is indeed easy to cause a waste of resources when mixed in the included songs, and some passers-by only listen to the title song when they see the artist returning, no matter how good the quality of the included songs is, but people don't listen to them.

It's good to come to a precursor song for promotion, and then mention "Missing", a song that Chi Jingyuan likes very much, as one of the double main hits.

But......

The scheduled return time of EXO's regular third album is in June, and some adjustments will be made to the specific schedule, while the first song is generally released half a month to a month in advance, that is, it will be released in May.

I didn't react when I called before, but now he suddenly remembered that if I'm not mistaken, it seems that TWICE is also going to return to the song at the end of April and May......

Isn't that going to collide together?

Such a coincidence.

It's just that, judging from EXO's popularity, as well as last year's results and return reactions, all the singers and groups who released songs and returned at the same time as them, except for bigbang, almost all of the others were ruthlessly run over by them, and they sometimes didn't even know who they crushed.

Including Girls' Generation, it's not bad, "Boy with Luv", which ended singing for more than a month, can snatch several of them without singing, and dominate the women's group war, not to mention others.

Now I'm meeting twice again......

🤔 How much did the album sell last year?

Chi Jingyuan recalled the production process of "Cheer Up", and suddenly felt a slight compassion in his heart.

Even if "Fire" is a dance song with a strong style, the sound source is not expected to be very good...... But as far as he knew, the level of Zhou Ziyu's people, plus such a cute song that he didn't have much confidence in......

How to fight with them.

TWICE is really suitable for the new style of "cheer up", several members digest it very well, and Ji Jingyuan who watches it sometimes shines and thinks it is cute, and if it is placed in a time when the competition is not fierce, it should be able to get a good result.

Tsk, blame the unlucky.

It's a pity.

Thinking in his heart, Ji Jingyuan walked out of the elevator after arriving at the predetermined floor, and he was already familiar with the JYP building.

After walking a few steps, he turned a corner, raised his head, and suddenly saw the back of a familiar girl in the corridor in front of him, and his pace slowed down a little.

He could see that this person was Lin Nalian, and among the nine people twice, her back was quite recognizable.

Lin Nalian was alone, she walked very slowly, lowered her head, twisted her hands in front of her, and her head was still crooked from time to time, and she didn't know what she was doing.

Chi Jingyuan didn't shy away from it after looking at it twice, he walked straight ahead, and caught up with Lin Nalian, who was swaying like a turtle in a few steps, and glanced at it from the side and back, before finally knowing what she was doing.

She was holding a pack of what appeared to be potato chips in her hand and was unpacking the bag.

This kind of packaging bag will be preset at one end, as long as you find the opening and tear it open

It's just that such a simple thing seems to have become difficult in her hands at this time, she twisted hard at one end of the bag for a long time and couldn't tear it, seeing that her hand couldn't tear it open, she even went directly to her mouth, tilted her head and bit on the bag with her rabbit teeth to tear, making a stinging noise, and wrinkled the bag into a big ball.

But it still hasn't opened.

Her attention seemed to be all on the bag of potato chips, and she didn't even hear the footsteps behind her, and she didn't feel that Chi Jingyuan, who had walked behind her, ready to overtake.

“……”

Chi Jingyuan looked at Lin Nalian who was gritting her teeth and getting angry at the bag of potato chips speechlessly, opened her mouth, hesitated several times, and finally couldn't help it when she saw that she was about to bite the 'opening' that she had torn for a long time, but in fact it didn't exist at all, and said with a strange expression:

"You're taking it the other way around."