Although Ji Jingyuan said that he was optimistic, to be honest, if he really collided with TWICE...... In fact, he is not so optimistic.

Zheng Endi's solo songs this time are really good, especially the title song "Hope Sky" in which she participated in the lyrics and composition is also of high quality, especially the eternal family affection for her father is very infectious under the interpretation of her voice and singing skills.

Because of the high quality of the songs, the music source score Chi Jingyuan thinks it should be very good, but in terms of market reaction, including popularity, singing, etc., this kind of soothing lyric congenital does not have any advantages, especially if it is sung by idols, and Red Velvet has a great say in this.

As for TWICE, although Ji Jingyuan was not very optimistic about their return at the beginning, first, after feeling it himself, he clearly realized that the average strength of the nine people of TWICE except for a few people was really a little green, and second, he didn't think the song "cheer up" was so good at first.

But after so many days of contact with Twice, and at the same time, with their efforts, they have completed "Cheer Up" little by little, and his current thinking has changed a lot from the beginning.

It's not because of how much Zhou Ziyu's strength has improved, nor because of how well he has made this song...... Of course, there may be some reasons for this...... It's because he found that the girl group twice is really suitable for the transformation of this return, which is very suitable for the song "cheer up", including cuteness, innocence, and vitality.

And after changing the new look, I feel even better, several members are very eye-catching, and there is a feeling of being at home in this style.

To put it bluntly, the idol group still looks at people, shows themselves through music, dance, variety shows, character design and other aspects, and finally achieves the purpose of attracting fans, music is very important, but the charm of people is also very important.

In the eyes of Chi Jingyuan, the group twice actually has a very high level of members in all aspects, and this level is not only the strength of singing and dancing, but also the appearance, figure, personality, topicality, memory points, etc.

To put it bluntly, they are charming, easy to attract fans, and fans can support them harder, which is really important for idols...... Chi Jingyuan himself has a great say in this.

In fact, it can be seen from the sales that one or two,Twice's debut album "THE STORY BEGINS" has sold 60,000 copies this month, which is a very good result for a new girl group, the title song of this album "Like OOH-AHH" The response was actually average when it was first released, and although the second time after the hard work and activities led to a counterattack of the sound source, but overall it can't be regarded as a very popular song.

And Gfirend, which has now become the first girl group of the new generation, sold only 40,000 copies at the beginning of the year when the title song "Time Goes By" exploded.

It's just from this aspect that although TWICE is a newcomer, there are already a considerable number of fans who are willing to spend money for them and buy albums in the few months since their debut.

Of course, the sales data is only one aspect, this data will be affected by the operating company and sales channels, and the music source performance of "Time Goes By" has crushed twice I don't know where it went.

After a few months of getting along and feeling, Ji Jingyuan has changed his initial opinion, he now thinks that the results of twice's return this time should be not bad, Xiaohuo should be no problem, the music source results are not easy to predict, but at least in terms of singing, it is difficult for Zheng Endi to please them.

However, in the face of the deceased, of course, it is necessary to take a firm stand to support the deceased, and to be honest, in comparison, Ji Jingyuan actually prefers Zheng Endi's "Hope Sky......

After chatting with Jung Eun-di for a while, they had dinner together in the evening, and then Ji Jingyuan said goodbye and returned to the company, and after the MV of "Fire" was filmed, they were going to shoot the MV of "Monster" in succession, and they have been preparing for the past two days.

……

twice filmed the MV for a day from morning to night, and didn't sleep long at night, and got up early the next morning, but today's MV shooting was scheduled for the afternoon and evening, and in the morning they will continue to shoot their group show "Elegant Private Life".

"I blushed when I saw it just now, and I was still thinking about how there could be such a thing, kissing in front of others."

"I kind of want to fall in love......

At this time, several members sat halfway around a wooden long table, and were whispering something excitedly, just now the program team set up a hidden camera link, so that they took turns to take the elevator one after another when they went upstairs, and at the same time arranged for a couple to kiss in front of them in the elevator as if no one was around, and then filmed each member's reaction.

Only Zhou Ziyu sat next to him and looked extremely calm, and at the same time looked at the sisters next to him with some curiosity.

She was too slow just now, and she wanted to exercise by the way, so she took the initiative to apply to go up the stairs.

This is the first time they have filmed a group variety after changing their looks, and everyone looks at each other with a rather novel feeling.

The filming crew next to it was full of cameras and radio devices outside, and PD came up to explain to a few people before the shooting continued.

"Now, it's time to get to know the ideal type of TWICE!"

"Let's have an ideal World Cup for film and television drama roles!"

"Wow, it's the first time I've done this, it's pretty fresh."

"Curious!" It may be that the filming has just started and has not yet entered the state, and the reaction given by several members after hearing this topic feels a little perfunctory, only Lin Nalian, who is most interested in the TV series, suddenly has a spirit, and shakes the bangs that were specially combed today in front of her forehead, looking very much looking forward to it.

Each of them was holding a sign with A on the front and red on the background and B on the reverse to show their choice.

"The first group, A "Dream high" Yu Ze played by Jin Kook VS B "Dream high" Kim so-hyun played Song Sen Dong."

As soon as the program team came up, they joined the selfishness and chose "Dream high", the two protagonists in the TV series that JYP participated in filming.

Seeing the presence of Tamasawa, a senior from the same company's 2PM, the members of TWICE immediately knew how to choose.

"1,2,3......" As Park Ji-hyo counted down, all the members stood in front of them, and at a glance, the "A" showed the spirit of JYP and the respect that the members of TWICE had for their predecessors.

There are only two busy ones, Sun Caiying and Zhou Ziyu, and the blue 'B' in their hands is extremely abrupt.

Seeing that her sisters were looking at her with strange eyes, Zhou Ziyu hurriedly explained sincerely in a somewhat stumbling Korean: "I actually like Ze to play Oba very much...... But when I watched this TV series, I preferred the role of Song Sendong. ”

Sun Caiying sat next to her and nodded incessantly, looking like I thought the same way.

"Sure enough, it's busy......" Park Zhixiao looked at the two of them and sighed, she felt that these two people were honest and a little cute.

However, with the completion of the first group, the TWCIE members who seemed to be lacking in spirit just now are also interested, as a young girl, of course, they are still very interested in handsome senior actors, and this ideal World Cup feels quite interesting.

"Alright, next group!"

"A "Inheritors" Ji Kyung-won played Kim Si VS B "The Inheritors" Kim Woo-bin played Choi Young-do."

Seeing this duel on the screen, especially a familiar face and name appearing in it, several members' eyes lit up, and they couldn't help but smile.

"Ah, it's hard to choose!" When Sun Caiying saw these two people, she snorted and began to complain: "Both of them are my style, it's super hard to choose!" ”

Lin Nalian glanced at her in surprise: "Is it difficult to choose?" ”

She thought it was a good choice.

And Zhou Ziyu next to him didn't speak, staring at the photos in the monitor with big eyes and blinking, the program team chose a very famous still when Chi Jingyuan played Jin Si, half tilted his head with a smile and tilted his head gently, with a very textured suit and tie, it looked extremely extravagant.

I don't know why, although the clothes and hairstyles are completely different, Zhou Ziyu inexplicably remembered the moment when he sat in the co-pilot position in Chi Jingyuan's car last year, and suddenly saw his smoky gray hair and side face.

“1，2，3……”

Park Zhixiao counted down, everyone stood up the cardboard, and the eight red 'A' instantly filled the screen, and only the blue 'B' in Lin Nalian's hand was extremely abrupt at a glance.

"Chi, has A been promoted......" Lin Nalian looked left and right, the confident smile on her face dissipated into surprise, and she looked left and right: "Didn't anyone choose B?" Don't know the famous lines? ”

Maybe she felt that her choice was a little too conspicuous, or maybe she really felt that B was right, she waved her right hand and made a gesture, trying to explain to the members: "Cui Yingdao is really handsome...... And there is also a very famous line 'Why is this so, people want to protect you', haven't you heard it? Super poke the tears! ”

She was about to cry when she said this line, but unfortunately the person next to her didn't react at all, Najing Nan glanced at her and licked her lips gently, and directly turned her head and looked at the monitor again.

"Okay, okay, no matter what, Jin Si has been promoted!" Park Ji-hyo waved his hand to end Lin Nalian's explanation and went straight to the next group of opponents.

Lin Nalian's eyes swept around with a little disgust, especially Zhou Ziyu and the three neon members, she felt that these people probably hadn't watched the show, and they couldn't understand the charm of the role, so they simply chose which one was handsome.

"A "School 2015" Nam Joo Hyuk played by Han Yi'an VS B "School 2015" Lu Xingcai played Kong Taeguang."

"Wow, this one is super hard to choose!"

"I love both of them!"

Several local members immediately became excited, compared to some distant chaebols, this kind of campus emotional drama is closer to their lives,

"Hmm...... Can anyone elaborate on that? Zhou Ziyu also felt very interesting about this game at this time, but she hadn't watched this "School 2015", and pointed to the screen to ask her sister next to her for help.

"Han Yi'an, he is a very kind type, kind and a little sullen, completely close to the past, completely deafening, it is the kind of ...... that is silent and does not speak."

Hearing someone ask about this, Lin Nalian immediately forgot about the small dissatisfaction just now, and immediately introduced it to the busy.

While summarizing accurately, she stretched out the index finger of her right hand and shook it to make a gesture, with wisdom in her eyes, and the rabbit teeth reflected the light, looking like a professor who was only knowledgeable in her lectures, and looked extremely confident.

There are no TV series she hasn't watched.

"Don't speak? Ani oh ......" When Zhou Ziyu heard this, he waved his hand with some disgust.

Lin Nalian didn't care, and then said: "Kong Taiguang, it's a little tsundere......"

"What do you mean by tsundere?" Zhou Ziyu didn't understand this Korean word very well.

Sun Caiying next to her explained to her very understandingly: "It's just that I take care of you very much, but I pretend not to take care of you...... Or sometimes they have helped you a lot, taking care of you and caring for you, but they still have to slap you a few times and make you uncomfortable......"

"Forehead ......"

Hearing this explanation, Zhou Ziyu suddenly froze, and a figure reflexively appeared in her mind, pursing her lips and looking at the stills of Kong Taiguang in the monitor, but her eyes were full of other people's shadows.

'Would you like to find a house where you can go up and look at the stars?' ’

'Something that elementary school students will have. ’

'How much do you score in math?' ’

Some of the previous memories involuntarily flooded in his mind, thinking about the feeling that he couldn't breathe after listening to it, Zhou Ziyu couldn't help but complain in his heart.

People of this character...... It's really annoying.

Just thinking in her heart, after Park Zhixiao counted down, she used a very fast speed and did not hesitate to directly hold up the side of the sign 'B', and at the same time, she didn't know what she remembered, and her mouth grinned.

"Do you choose B for mina, too? Why? ”

Park Zhixiao looked around, and finally looked at Mingjing Nan next to him, and was a little curious to give Mingjing Nan, who had never spoken much, a burden.

"Because, I belong to a more cautious and cautious character, according to what Nalianoni said just now, if you (interact) with the kind of person who doesn't take the initiative to speak, it is estimated that the two of them will not do anything."

Mingjing Nan seemed to be a little serious, pouted, frowned lightly and didn't explain, after finishing speaking, she raised her eyes and shook a little, as if she was imagining something, and then she was a little embarrassed to block half of her face with the sign in her hand and whispered with a smile: "Actually, I like the kind of person who can guide me." ”

"Oh ......" Several members next to him immediately coaxed, and then looked at Nan Mingjing's slightly reddened face and became more and more presumptuous.

Next, several groups of duels, including "Kill Me Heal Me", "Please Answer 1988", "Descendants of the Sun", "Signal" The main characters of several groups of popular dramas all appeared in the candidates for the TWICE Ideal World Cup, each group of choices appeared, as long as someone has not seen it, Lin Nalian will take the initiative to stand up and enthusiastically help her introduce, and she can summarize the character of each character very incisively.

is still the same sentence, there is no drama she hasn't watched.

If she hadn't even seen it......

After several rounds of selection, it entered the final round, Kim Si played by Ji Kyung-won in "The Inheritors" VS Yoo Si-jin played by Song Joong Ki in "Descendants of the Sun".

Although the descendants of the sun are very popular now, Ji Jingyuan himself has some very loyal fans among twice, so the competition is still very fierce, but just when the members looked left and right and were ready to choose, PD suddenly stopped the recording, and then the agent came up and explained to them.

"Although these two characters are very good and handsome, Jing Yuan Xi's main job is the same as you, idols can often meet, and if you choose him in the end, it may cause some misunderstandings, so ......"

What the agent and PD say, of course the members do what they do, and they also know the things of the fans of the men's and women's groups, and in the end, under the deliberate manipulation, Kim Si was second, and Yoo Si-jin became the champion of the first ideal World Cup twice.

Just the thoughts in the heart are naturally not enough for outsiders.

…………

"Thank you to Mr. Li Xiuman, thank SM Company, thank you to the staff who have always helped us, thank you to all the EXO-L who like us, and thank you to the fans in the mainland who have always supported us......"

Today is April 9th, and the EXO group followed the company's staff to the mainland of Xia to participate in the 16th Music Billboard Awards Gala. SM still attaches great importance to these ceremonies and activities in the mainland, just this music billboard, EXO has participated in the third time in the four years since its debut, and even the debut stage of EXO-M was arranged at this party.

They were standing on the stage of the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center at this time, and Ji Jingyuan, who was in charge of Chinese, was giving an acceptance speech for the 'Most Popular Overseas Group of the Year'.

Chi Jingyuan looked at the audience with a lot of EXO banners and supportive words, as well as Ellistick mainland fans, laughed happily, and finally said in Chinese:

"It's really a great honor to receive this award, and we will continue to work hard to become a better EXO......"

Immediately after that, it was stage time, and the organizers obviously regarded EXO as one of the heavyweight guests who attracted fans and topics tonight, giving them nearly 17 minutes of performance time for three and a half songs, thanks to a little chat session in the middle for a break, otherwise they might not be able to stick to it, too tired.

Because of the setting of the Chinese and Korean boy groups, almost all the title songs and albums of EXO from their debut will be dedicated to a Chinese version, and when Xia Guo performs, the natural performance is also the Chinese version, but Ji Jingyuan feels that the company does not do very carefully to fill in the Chinese lyrics for some songs, and some songs are okay with other members, and people like him who are proficient in Chinese will feel very embarrassed and awkward when performing.

"My love grows every day...... Hemp! ”

Roll call "call me baby", what to fill in for the rhyme.

When EXO received the award and performed, several people in the third row of the artist seat below stood to listen and watch the whole time, showing great respect and politeness.

They are coming along, and they are about to officially debut today, SM's new generation of boy groups after EXO, the first debut squad in NCT, NCT U.

NCT is the abbreviation of "Neo Culture Technology", and it is an idol group that Lee so-man has had for a long time and finally has an open vision this year.

There are a lot of members under the entire NCT and there will be several squads at the same time, and the NCT U, which debuted today, is one of them, and the characteristic is that the members are not fixed, and each return will change according to the style adaptation.

The company is very interesting about NCT U's arrangement, and it also arranged the stage of its official debut on the music billboard, and one of the songs performed at the same time also made Chinese lyrics, which has an inexplicable similarity with EXO-M, which also debuted here four years ago

Maybe I got the sweetness from EXO, and I have a feeling that I want my juniors to copy it. And it can be seen that SM Company, or Li Xiuman, attaches great importance to this super-large and infinitely expanded men's project that has just started, and even Li Xiuman himself arrived at the scene, and brought An Qixuan.

At this time, EXO was already sitting down after the performance, Ji Jingyuan looked at the boys of NCT U who were performing on the stage, and suddenly had some feelings in his heart, inexplicably recalled some things when they first debuted EXO, and remembered that they heard the people of Team M come back and complain, saying that they were still squeezed out when they debuted on the music billboard, and some seniors in the mainland music industry looked down on them......

It's been so long before I know it, and today, even the next generation of boy groups have debuted.

Seeing the debut stage of SM's next-generation boy group, and looking at the familiar members of Lee Tae-yong, who were very energetic but dancing with youth, that moment suddenly made Ji Jingyuan have a sense of substance of 'it turns out that he is also old' and 'he has become a big senior', this feeling has occasionally occurred before, but it has never been as clear as today.

"What does Jingyuan think the children are doing today?"

At this time, Li Xiuman, who was sitting next to him, came over, snorted at the stage, and asked with a smile.

Chi Jingyuan looked at Li Xiuman's voice just falling, but at this time, he happened to accidentally fall on the stage, and Ten, who made a mistake, laughed lightly, but said appreciatively: "It's good, it's very energetic." ”

He didn't say the opposite, but he really felt so.

In fact, he has no prejudice against NCT, which is about to debut one after another, although the debut of the new boy group will inevitably cause some problems in the company's resource allocation, but EXO is not returning once or twice, one or two songs can be shaken so easily, they are now the real pillars of SM, a group plus Chi Jingyuan, accounting for a large part of the company's annual revenue.

And even if he grabbed resources, he couldn't grab Chi Jingyuan's head, so he was quite natural.

At the same time, the people under SM don't say anything else, the politeness is really enough, NCT this group of people Chi Jingyuan has seen many times in the company, no matter what happens in private, in the face of him, a senior who is famous in the company, everyone shows great respect, the kind of politeness that makes you feel that he really admires and reveres you or makes people feel good.

There are several members who he has been familiar with many times, such as Lee Tae-yong, who once starred in the MV of red velvet, and he is almost every time SM Town, and he will come to say hello every time.

Although NCT debuted, it's just that now the local boy group market on the peninsula has been almost divided, and EXO is like a mountain pressing on it to occupy the largest share, and many boy groups are out of breath, and I don't know what these junior groups will develop into.

Looking at NCT U performing on the stage, Ji Jingyuan's thoughts slowly drifted to other places and remembered something else.

It's a bit of a pity, Luhan didn't come today, originally Chi Jingyuan thought that he could see this former member who had a good relationship today, I heard that the response to this brother's solo album released last year was good, and he liked it a lot with a "Medal" in it...... It's just that I feel that this brother's strength seems to have regressed a little.

When the grievances were cleaned up by time and only some dust remained, in fact, he sometimes missed the previous twelve people, and on Chi Jingyuan's birthday in May last year, this brother also gave a thumbs up to a birthday bib sent by domestic fans for Chi Jingyuan.

Pity.

After the mainland party, the EXO group returned to Seoul the next day, and continued to work the progress of their regular three albums.

Just after eating at noon, Ji Jingyuan and Wu Shixun returned to the company, chatting in the practice room, and several people were fiercely discussing who should be the C position in the end of "PRODUCE 101", Jin Shizheng and Quan Zhaomi, and who was the C thief, his mobile phone suddenly rang, and he picked it up casually and saw that it was Sun Shengwan calling.

Chi Jingyuan answered casually, his tone was familiar and relaxed, and he asked directly without saying hello,

"What's wrong?"

“……”

"Sick?"

(End of chapter)