"Hehe, it's a girl group you're very familiar with......" Hearing Ji Jingyuan's question, Lee Seung-hwan's smile was very interesting, and he didn't sell Guan Zi and replied directly: "It's Twice."

"Finally, it's the Baeksang Art Awards on the 3rd of next month." Flipping through the memo in his hand, Li Chenghuan glanced at it and looked up: "The relevant things on the company's side have been prepared, and you remember to take the time to choose a few sets of clothes sponsored by the brand...... How about it, do you have the confidence to break through this time and come back with a more important award than last time? ”

"Nope." Chi Jingyuan didn't think much about it, leaned lazily on the back of the sofa, and responded weakly.

This year's 52nd Baeksang Art Awards will be officially held on the 3rd of next month, and the list of nominees for this year's awards has been announced on May 2nd, and the online voting for the popularity award will be opened the next day.

In addition to the popularity award that will always be selected, he also won the nomination for the best actor in the TV drama category with Zhao Zhenxiong, plus Kim Hye-so, who was selected for the best actress, and the three protagonists of "Signal" were all nominated for the most important awards, which can be said to be very outstanding.

It's a pity that Chi Jingyuan is more pessimistic about winning the award, and he also looked at the competitors and referred to the actual situation.

This year's excellent TV dramas on the peninsula have exploded, and there have been many very outstanding works, such as "Please Answer 1988", "Signal", "Six Dragons Flying in the Sky", "Descendants of the Sun", "Dragon Bayi", "Martial God Zhao Zilong" and so on, all of which are popular dramas, resulting in fierce competition for awards in this year's Baeksang TV drama category

Although "Signal" is also very successful, it can be regarded as a pinnacle of Peninsula suspense dramas, but what is more impressive is the script and overall structure of this drama, and although the three protagonists were all selected for Best Actor, the setting of the three protagonists still distracted a lot of attention.

Although Ji Jingyuan is very confident in his performance in "Signal" and has received a lot of praise, if it is fair, he actually feels that Zhao Zhenxiong, who plays Li Caihan, is better and more mature than himself in the play, and several impressive scenes are very infectious.

The chances of winning the internal competition are not very great, and it is even more dangerous after taking it out.

"Don't be so unconfident...... obviously understands the situation, and Lee Seung-hwan also understands the form of the award very well, but he still smiled and snorted: "I've been paying attention to the voting for the popularity award, and yesterday you were ahead of Song Joong Ki in the number of votes, and there is still a popularity award this year." ”

"Don't talk about it, brother."

Speaking of this, Chi Jingyuan smiled helplessly, leaned there and waved his hand: "I've won the popularity award several times, it doesn't matter if I take it or not...... And this year's male and female popularity awards, Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo are all big favorites to win the award, and when the time comes, the double Song CP will come to the stage together and win the popularity award together, how romantic, and the meaning is also very gimmicky, all the audience and even the guests are looking forward to it, it is definitely a breaking point of this Baeksang. ”

Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo fell in love because of the drama, and after the relationship was exposed, it became the focus of attention of countless audiences and passers-by, and became a good story in the film and television industry.

Ji Jingyuan drank the rest of the coffee in one gulp, burped slightly, and then added as if he had come over: "Song Hye Kyo's vote for the popularity award is already far ahead, and on the men's side, Song Joong Ki's votes and I have always been about a little ahead...... But even if I have a slight lead in the number of votes at that time, it is estimated that the program team will definitely give the award to Song Joong Ki in the end...... The two of them are now participating in the show directly and openly sitting together and holding hands, when the time comes to present the awards, one gets up to receive the award, and the other sits there to see how bad it is, even if it is Ellie, it is estimated that she will be a little disappointed by this......"

This year's Baeksang Art Awards has not yet started, and Ji Jingyuan has almost thought of the final ending, and he actually knows the award logic of these award ceremonies very well.

In fact, if it weren't for the warm invitation of the organizer who was selected for Best Actor, and he, as the winner of last year's Newcomer Award, would be the guest of honor for this year's Newcomer Award, he wouldn't have wanted to go very much this time......

"Double Song...... It's really hot. Regarding Ji Jingyuan's analysis, in fact, Lee Seung-hwan also recognized it, and he also nodded a little helplessly: "This time Song Hye Kyo seems to be different from the previous times because of the drama, I heard that the two seem to be getting married......"

"Really?" Hearing such news, Chi Jingyuan, who didn't have much ambition for the award, immediately diverted his attention, leaned over and asked with some gossip curiosity.

Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo have a relationship, he thinks it's quite normal, get married...... Isn't it a little too much.

To this day, he feels that the word marriage is very far away from him.

"I also heard from friends in the circle, I heard that it was the news from Song Hye Kyo's agent......" Lee Seung-hwan also became interested, and told Ji Jingyuan about the gossip he heard.

After talking for a while, it was a little unfinished and ended, Ji Jingyuan was about to say goodbye and leave, and then Lee Seung-hwan remembered that there seemed to be something else to say, and hurriedly reminded him at the end: "By the way, the role of "Ghost" should be decided as soon as possible, and the crew is already urging it, because they seem to be after you audition and the role is determined, you will choose the heroine who will play with you according to your role. ”

Ji Jingyuan stood up and thought briefly for two seconds, then nodded in response;

"I see...... I'll go get busy first, brother. ”

……

"Then we'll go first."

After practicing twice in the practice room in the afternoon and performing on stage for a few days, Byun Baek-hyun, Kim Min-seok, and Kim Jong-dae stood up and said goodbye and left, they have been confirmed to be the three members of EXO's first team, CBX, and there are many team-related meetings to be held recently.

"It's okay in the afternoon, what are you going to do, go out and play or go back to play games?" After the three of them left, the remaining EXO members who had no personal itinerary got together to chat about the meeting, and Wu Shixun looked at Ji Jingyuan, who was operating his mobile phone next to him, and asked.

"I can't play ......" Ji Jingyuan wrote a text message and shook his head after clicking send: "Taeyeon Nuna's side called me to go for something...... Then I had to sort out the songs, and the company got a few songs for me to listen to for myself. ”

"You're really busy."

Exhaled, ignoring the math expert who was weird about yin and yang, Chi Jingyuan took a sip of water, stood up and said hello to the others, and walked out of the practice room with his bag on his back.

In the previous meetings, Ji Kyung-won has been confirmed to be the first solo debut member of EXO, and with Byun Baek-hyun, Kim Min-seok, and Kim Jong-dae also confirmed that they will debut as members of EXO's first squad, the name of the team is in accordance with SM's previous traditions and conventions, and the initials of the three people's stage names CBX are taken as the team name, and it has been confirmed that they will officially debut in October, and before that, they will also warm up for the TV series "Step by Step: Li" in which Bian Boxian participated.

In fact, the company cares more about their own opinions in this aspect of the team, and the selection of candidates was discussed in a meeting within the EXO team at that time, and some people were very interested, such as Byun Baek-hyun and Kim Min-seok, and some people said that it didn't matter, such as Ji Jingyuan and Do Junxiu.

In the end, it was discussed several times, and at the suggestion of the company, the current CBX was finally selected.

According to SM's concept of its combination team, it is generally based on a team leader with a high popularity, and then select suitable members to come in. CBX chose Bian Boxian, a member of the popular upper circle, to lead the team...... Excluding the fault, he is now one of the most popular members of the EXO team.

Although the team will have a lot of activities, more exposure opportunities and even income, it will naturally make many members have ideas and fight, but in fact, the team is not a place for back members to gather and fight for the opportunity to show their faces, even if EXO is very popular, but everything is due to the possibility of failure, so this is a more secure way, like the former Girls' Generation TTS.

At the beginning of the year, the AOA team was a very good negative material, and instead of letting the popular members lead the team, the three most popular members of the team were selected to form a back team, and then disbanded when they debuted, without causing any splash.

……

"How does it feel?"

In the music room, looking at Ji Kyung-won who took off his headphones after listening to the song, Kim Taeyeon next to him stared, sat next to him and asked with some expectation.

In the morning, Chi Jingyuan received a call from this sister, her new album to be released next month is almost ready, I want Chi Jingyuan, a good friend and a very trusted producer, to listen to the quality of this album, give some opinions and references, etc., if you think it's good, praise it and give some confidence, it would be better.

And Ji Kyung-won called Kim Taeyeon after finishing his busy afternoon, and took the staff to the music room to start tasting her new album this time.

Different from the subway song "Rain" at the beginning of the year, this "Why" is Kim Taeyeon's real mini second album, this time Ji Kyung-won did not participate in the creation of the song, but the album is still well-made, and the resources given by the company are also very good, and the title song of the same name "Why" is composed by LDN Noise, a well-known British composer duo.

LDN Noise is a very active and successful foreign composition team in Kpop in the past two years, including SHinee's "View", red velvet's "Dumb Dumb", FX's "4 walls", and even EXO's upcoming title song "monster" composed or arranged by them.

However, this album is very different from the previous debut album of "I", especially the style of the title song "Why" is completely different from the once popular "I", abandoning the lyrical songs she is best at.

Ji Kyung-won also participated in the original song selection and gave a lot of opinions, and finally chose "Why" as the title song under Kim Tae-yeon's own decision, gave up repeating the previous path to play the insurance card, took off the label of 'lyrical Tae', stepped out of his comfort zone, and tried more styles and more free music styles.

It's amazing to have this kind of awareness and challenge.

It's just that I was complacent when I chose the song, and now that the album is ready, this sister suddenly became a little nervous, and the explosion of the debut album "I" caused her to actually have a lot of pressure on her grades now.

Chi Jingyuan could see it at a glance.

"Didn't I hear it when I was demo before?" Ji Jingyuan scratched his cheek.

"How can a demo be the same as a finished product? At that time, you didn't even listen to the arrangement! ”

Looking at this sister's round eyes, of course, he was as good as a stream, and said with a serious face: "Tropical House's arrangement style is the most popular in Europe recently, and it has a large audience. Although it is a Tropical House, it does not abuse the electronic sound, I really like the introduction of this guitar, the moment the chorus comes out, it gives a sense of surprise of the change of style, and the sound of Nuna really fits the style of this song, I can't imagine what it would be like if this song was sung by someone else. ”

"Bridge before the last chorus is wonderful, but unfortunately it's a little short."

"The vocal is very tense, and I feel like I've improved a lot compared to before......"

"Taeyeon Nuna's style of your title song this time is very bold, a little biased towards European and American style, but it is very exciting, you can choose the style you want to try and stick to it, compared to Pani's predecessor's "I Just want to Dance", I think your song is really "I Just want to Dance'."

Finally, he nodded forcefully:

"There will definitely be a lot of people who will like it."

Although what he said was very beautiful, at the same time, he actually had a backword in his heart that he didn't say...... That is, it is estimated that there are many people who don't like it.

Like Hwang Mi-young's solo song, Kim Tae-yeon's title song this time is also a bit biased towards European and American style, although for the sake of the market and the audience, some special adjustments have been made in the arrangement and singing, but Ji Jingyuan feels that the audience may still not be as good as expected.

He felt that it should be difficult to surpass "I" in the results, and even the distance might even be a little obvious.

However, there are a lot of staff members around the album, and Kim Taeyeon is also in dire need of confidence, and the album is ready to say that it is useless, of course he will not be annoying to talk like this.

If there are no outsiders in private, he can seriously talk about some shortcomings and regrets.

“qingjia？” Kim Tae-yeon's sister blinked her eyes a few times in a row.

It can be seen that Chi Jingyuan's professional praise blows she is very excited and satisfied, and her eyes are like a hamster.

"Of course......"

"Hmm...... Ahhh......h

After laughing unsatisfactorily, this sister glanced at Chi Jingyuan with a smile, and stretched out her hand to hit him: "What about the other songs......

She knows Chi Jingyuan, and she is also very eye-catching, of course, she can see that this kid may be because there are people around him who have not said everything.

But I also understood it and didn't care.

"Other words......"

After chatting about the album for a while, Kim Taeyeon proudly crossed her legs proudly on the chair, and while drinking the drink that the assistant had just bought, she casually asked, "What is the matter with Jing Won later?" Dinner together in the evening? ”

"I'm going to go to my own music room to sort out the songs and listen to a few songs that the company asked me to pick and choose by the way." Chi Jingyuan didn't hide it either.

"Does Solo choose a song?" Kim Taeyeon became interested when she heard this, and looked at it.

Ji Jingyuan is sure that many people in the company have heard about solo, and she is naturally one of them.

As the first solo member of a TOP group like EXO, of course, it will attract a lot of attention, not to mention the solo member of Ji Jingyuan, who has made great achievements in music and has a popularity gap, even if it is a peer or a staff member in the industry, he can't help but have a lot of anticipation when he knows the news.

"Well, it's been a long time since the company planned to debut, but the progress hasn't been fast, and I can't find a favorite song."

"Your solo album, of course, is a little more demanding." Kim Taeyeon rightfully cocked her right foot.

"......" Chi Jingyuan also agreed with this statement, he looked at the sister in front of him, thought about it for a while, and asked aloud: "Why don't you go and listen to it together?" Just enough to give me a little advice. ”

Hearing this invitation, this sister's eyes lit up.

"Looks like you know Nuna has a good taste."

Put the coffee on the table, jump on the ground with both feet, and wave your big hand vigorously:

"Let's go!"

……

"Your music room is really good, it's much better than the ones that are shared by the company."

Neither of them brought an assistant, took the elevator down the first floor, walked through the corridor and walked into Ji Kyung-won's dedicated music room, Kim Tae-yeon sat on the small sofa that Ji Kyung-won pulled out for him in front of the computer and looked around, opening his mouth in amazement.

After moving the company building, the company naturally prepared a new personal music room for Chi Jingyuan, compared with the one in the old building, it has made all-round progress, the area alone is almost doubled, and the various equipment and equipment placed in the middle are the latest top products, which exude the smell of money when you look at it.

The decoration is even more exquisite and high-end, and the building's consistent decoration style, the pale yellow walls with the ground look very comfortable, and the computer desk, a few Pokémon dolls standing on the coffee table, and the place where the mural should have been hung on the wall is occupied by a very careful Doraemon oil portrait to occupy the decoration is to highlight the strong personal style of Chi Jingyuan.

Kim Taeyeon who watched it was a little envious.

"The royal family, if the treatment is not good, what is the royal family?"

Ji Jingyuan responded with a smile, went to the refrigerator next to him and got a glass of iced Americano and a glass of orange juice, walked over and handed the coffee to Kim Taeyeon, and then sat down in front of the computer next to him.

He had always felt that the title of royalty was an appreciation...... And he's actually quite satisfied with the music room.

"When I came out, I had to pick out the songs that solo might include, and I also had a stage song that I wanted to use in the concert...... Now there are many candidates, some of which I wrote myself, and some of which were prepared for me by the company, which one do you listen to first? ”

Chi Jingyuan turned on the computer and asked while skillfully operating.

"Of course I'll listen to you first!" Kim Taeyeon did not hesitate, did not hesitate at all.

She has heard the songs in the company's music library many times, most of them are very ordinary songs, nothing new, and many of them are demos that have not been arranged, and the listening experience is very average.

Of course, the songs prepared by the company for each group and each person are different, and Chi Jingyuan is here...... Although Kim Taeyeon doesn't really want to say it, presumably the songs prepared by the company should be of good quality, but no matter what, she is still most interested in the songs written by Ji Kyung-won herself.

"My own...... I don't have a lot of songs written by myself, I don't feel anything lately, I picked out a few ......" Chi Jingyuan nodded and operated the mouse: "These two songs are the highest degree of completion, and the arrangements have been done, you listen to this "Music Box" first, this is a song I like very much, it is an alternative song for the solo album, and the demo is still sung by myself. ”

"Hurry!" Kim Taeyeon wore headphones and urged expectantly.

Chi Jingyuan tuned out the song, and just as he was about to click play, the mobile phone next to him suddenly rang.

He paused, stopped what he was doing, picked up his phone and looked at it.

"What's wrong?" Kim Taeyeon took off her headphones and looked over.

"Hmm......" Ji Jingyuan swiped the screen up and down, shaking his head: "Zhu Hyun and they are now fine after their practice, send a text message to ask me what I am doing." ”

"Tut, it's still 'Joo-hyun', it's so intimate, aren't you young? Why isn't it called Nuna? Kim Taeyeon's voice was very disgusted, and this sister's focus was a little different from ordinary people.

Ji Jingyuan shrugged his shoulders and did not reply.

Usually when he gets along in private, he doesn't call it 'Joohyun', and he thinks it's a little weird, but he doesn't hesitate to show his intimacy in front of other people.

"Irene should be in the company, so why don't you call her over and listen to her?" Kim Taeyeon quickly came up with a good idea, and after seeing that Ji Kyung-won didn't react, she asked with some suspicion, "You won't worry about people leaking your audio source, right?" ”

After hearing this, Ji Jingyuan stopped the action of replying in his hand, and didn't hold back the weirdness in his heart, turned his head and glanced at Kim Taeyeon with strange eyes.

I'm willing to let you come, do you still worry about your daughter?

And...... Do you still need to say it?

"Ah, what do you look at?"

was a little unhappy with Chi Jingyuan's eyes, and the sister who instantly understood the meaning was a little fried.

“……”

Just comprehend the meaning, Chi Jingyuan didn't reply, he quickly knocked on the screen a few times and sent it out, and only after seeing the reply that came over in an instant did he say:

"She'll be right away."

(End of chapter)