wavenovel Chapter 958 All Next Month
Chapter 958 All Next Month
Chapter 958 All Next Month
"What's going on with you guys? Why are you happening one after another?"
In a coffee shop near the company, Kim Taeyeon was sitting on a small sofa in the lounge area, browsing the news on her phone. Seeing all the buzz online about the exposure of Park Chanyeol's relationship, she couldn't help but shudder in her heart and asked with some concern.
In addition to showcasing the production process of his solo album, some of his private life and hobbies, and revealing a little about the interior of his home, Chi Jingyuan's personal variety show also has a segment where he invites some of his relatives and friends to appear on stage, have a cup of coffee, have a meal, chat, and ask a few questions during the interview.
Kim Taeyeon is the first to participate in the recording as a friend in the circle. Ji Jingyuan has a wide network of contacts. Many people will also travel to participate in the filming. In addition to other friends from outside, Wu Sehun and even other members of EXO will show up.
At this time, the staff over there were still setting up the venue and setting up cameras, while two people who hadn't seen each other for a while sat here chatting on their phones.
This sister looks good, with chestnut hair tied into a bun at the back of her head, and a sweater and jeans, which is also a casual outfit at home. She crossed her short legs and swayed them. I don’t know what kind of abusive message she saw. She frowned and stood up, looking at Chi Jingyuan next to her: "I was surprised when Kai was exposed. With XO’s current status in the company, it stands to reason that the company should block all negative news."
"Alas, we blocked other people's way." Chi Jingyuan, who was typing quickly on his phone, looked up at Kim Taeyeon, then lowered his head and said while typing: "The company has made too much money from us in the past few years, leaving other boy bands with little room for survival and advancement, and we have angered the public."
Kim Taeyeon glanced at her phone, looking very indignant: "I saw a lot of people mentioning our names. Why did they think of us right away when Ah Xi did something like this? ... Could it be that they are really the same as us back then?"
"If you can't compete head-on, then use some dirty tricks... Not only Chanyeol, there will probably be one or two more people who will be exposed later... Maybe Baekhyun will come back for a second time."
"But I just had a chat with the director of the publicity department... He said that the negative impact caused by Kai's exposure exceeded the company's expectations, and the collapse chain reaction caused by the continuous exposure of Girls' Generation members before was still fresh in people's memory, so the company increased its public relations efforts, trying to make it appear that even if the media reported the relationship news, they would not provide substantial evidence and the company would not admit it..."
However, Chi Jingyuan paused and told the news he just learned: "And soon the company will announce that we will mainly go overseas for activities this year. By then, it should be a little quieter... It's still a little different from the seniors of Girls' Generation."
Girls' Generation was continuously exposed at that time because of some contract renewal factors, while EXO was purely because they were too popular and arrogant. After losing the mainland market, they have stayed in the peninsula and did not participate in many activities after their debut in Japan, blocking the way of too many people.
But if they pull away on their own, some jealous people won't really offend SM.
"Is that so... But Jingyuan, you shouldn't be exposed, right..."
Upon hearing this, Kim Taeyeon nodded in understanding, and then suddenly remembered something. Her eyes flashed with a strange color, and she asked with some concern and some inexplicable expectation.
But when she looked over, she found Chi Jingyuan lowering his head to text again, not paying attention to her conversation at all. She immediately got angry and raised her voice to ask, "Hey, who are you texting with so attentively? It's not another girlfriend, is it?"
"what?"
Chi Jingyuan raised his head with an innocent look, his eyes full of speechlessness: "What do you mean by 'which girlfriend'? How many girlfriends do I have?"
It would be fine if he was really chatting with his girlfriend, but he was texting with...Lin Nayeon. Isn't this unfair?
This girl suddenly sent him a message a few days ago asking him if he wanted to watch Twice's first concert, saying that she could prepare some internal tickets for him. Ji Jingyuan wondered why Lin Nayeon was suddenly so enthusiastic. Although he appreciated her kindness, he thought that they were not that familiar with each other, and he had so many tickets that he couldn't use them all, so he politely declined.
Unexpectedly, Lin Nayeon didn't care, but this topic seemed to open a door. In the next two or three days, she would chat with him from time to time, asking about his experience in concert preparations, how to relieve tension and so on... I really don't know how she had so much time to accurately find Ji Jingyuan's free time in the morning, noon and evening with the time difference of more than ten hours between LA and Seoul.
The other person had just enthusiastically offered her the tickets, and Chi Jingyuan had just declined her offer, so it was not appropriate for her to just pretend to be dead and hide. She simply replied to a few messages whenever she had time.
Just now, Lin Nayeon heard him say that he had returned to Seoul, and now she was in a hurry, asking him about Park Chanyeol in a roundabout way...
"No more, no more."
Seeing that Kim Taeyeon was getting angry, Chi Jingyuan locked his phone and ended the chat unilaterally. He showed her the black screen to prove his innocence, and continued to reply to Kim Taeyeon's question: "I don't think they will expose me. Official media and magazines probably won't say anything about me. The company just needs to deny some of the so-called revelations on the Internet..."
"As for what's next... But I can't say it's okay. The negative impact is still huge... But it's already happened, so what else can we do?"
Seeing Chi Jingyuan say this, Jin Taeyeon stopped asking questions, nodded and looked down at her phone, then she didn't know what she saw, and suddenly began to think divergently, "But speaking of it, what does it feel like to have your relationship exposed? I haven't really tried it..."
There was such anticipation in her eyes that Chi Jingyuan thought he had seen it wrong.
"Then why don't you just call D agency and say you are Kim Taeyeon and want to expose your relationship?" Chi Jingyuan felt that this sister was out of her mind, and sneered and said unceremoniously: "If you are single now... just make up a story."
"Just make one up? With whom?" Kim Taeyeon looked over immediately, blinking and pretending to be very beautiful.
"Uh……"
Being stared at by a pair of sparkling eyes, Chi Jingyuan immediately understood what this sister meant. His expression changed and his body involuntarily leaned back a little.
But this half-step back deeply hurt Kim Taeyeon. The silent disdain made her immediately explode: "Hey, what's with that expression on your face? Are you kidding me?"
Just trying to test it out, you actually have this expression when you make a joke. Are you kidding me? She is Kim Taeyeon. I don't know how many people want to be exposed with her. What are you trying to do with this disgusted and unwilling action?
"It's not what you think, Noona..." Chi Jingyuan immediately realized that his reflexive action seemed a bit aggressive, and immediately explained seriously: "It's mainly because we are too familiar with each other, and fans all know that we are good friends... By the way, Noona, isn't your ideal type Kang Dongyuan? I think he's pretty good."
Kim Taeyeon didn't listen to his nonsense at all. She sneered and stared at Chi Jingyuan with murderous intent and asked coldly: "If we are not suitable...then are you willing to let you and Yoona be exposed?"
"Okay!" Chi Jingyuan's eyes lit up, and his back, which had just been leaning back, straightened instantly.
The next second, a short leg kicked over from the air:
"West..."
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"By the way, Noona, how is your album preparation going? When will it be released?"
Of course, jokes were just jokes. After a quarrel, Chi Jingyuan thought of something and started talking about serious matters.
Kim Taeyeon's solo debut in 15 was amazing, and she could be called a one-person group. Her subsequent development was also smooth sailing. Today, when Girls' Generation has significantly reduced its activities, the number of her fans has even surpassed that of the group, and she has directly taken over the banner of Girls' Generation.
...SM then allowed many members of Girls' Generation to release solo albums one after another. In addition to the conditions promised during the contract renewal, it was probably because they were confused by Kim Taeyeon's solo achievements and overestimated the Girls' Generation brand, thinking that all members could achieve her results.
Unfortunately, almost all the others failed. Even Huang Miying, who didn’t fail too badly, still performed far behind Kim Taeyeon… Now SM understands the saying that even among the same Girls’ Generation, there are still differences.
Although Kim Taeyeon's mini album 2 received some decline in performance last year and received polarized reviews, the benefits were very good. SM did not reduce its resource investment and directly started planning a regular album for this sister after the two mini albums, and she had been in the process of intensive preparations before that.
The weight and significance of a regular album, as well as the resources invested in it, are much greater than those of a mini album.
Chi Jingyuan didn't ask too much because he was busy filming and his own album recently...but I heard that it's almost ready.
"There are still some things to be finalized, but the main work has been completed. You don't know how tired I was recently. I came up with a lot of ideas for this album myself..."
When talking about her regular album, Kim Taeyeon immediately became interested. Her eyes lit up and she began to talk about what happened recently: "You have been filming for a while, and I couldn't find you for reference... But "Goblin" is so popular, even my mom likes it very much..."
“What’s the name of the album?”
"My Voice"
"Well, it's a bit earthy."
"I've actually been hesitating, thinking it's a bit too popular...why don't you help me come up with one? I can still change it now."
"Never mind, it's good."
"Tsk...By the way, you haven't heard the songs in my album yet, right? Do you want to listen to them?"
Seeing that there seemed to be some time for the preparations on the scene, Kim Taeyeon's eyes lit up as she thought of something. She took out her cell phone and waved it at Chi Jingyuan, inviting him with some anticipation. After seeing Chi Jingyuan raise his eyebrows, she immediately took out her headphones happily and plugged them in, then took the initiative to hand him one.
Chi Jingyuan didn't hesitate to take it and put it on.
The title song of Kim Taeyeon's regular album is called "Fine", which is an Alternative Pop style song
The entire album contains a total of 13 songs, but due to time constraints, Chi Jingyuan did not listen to all of them. Except for the title song, he only listened to the first part of the others, and cut them off after feeling the quality and level.
"How is it?" After listening to it in general terms and seeing Chi Jingyuan take off his headphones, Kim Taeyeon moved her butt a little closer and immediately waited for his evaluation with great anticipation.
She had great faith in Chi Jingyuan's vision, and her confidence would be greatly reassured if she had his affirmation.
"Hmm... the quality of the songs included is very high. The company must have spent a lot of effort to collect songs for you. Some of the songs are in the style of Kenzie Noona..."
"The title song 'Fine' is not a standard brainwash song, but it suits your style and voice quite well. The arrangement and singing are both very good..."
Although Kim Taeyeon really wanted to ask, Chi Jingyuan did not say what he really thought, but instead made some comments from an encouraging perspective.
He felt that the title song didn't sound very amazing, and the opening part after the chorus was a little too much, it might be better if it was lowered a little bit...
But what he said now was all nonsense, it would only cause trouble. Because according to the progress Kim Taeyeon just mentioned, even if she wanted to accept his advice, the album was almost finished and could not be changed.
"You mean it's not bad?" However, Kim Taeyeon is also a smart person. Of course she could tell that he was holding back, but she still asked with great interest.
"The quality is very high." Chi Jingyuan nodded, paused for a moment, then changed the subject and clicked his tongue: "In addition to the title song... I have a good feeling about one of the included songs. It seems to be called... "Wandering in the Time of Memory"."
He looked at the song title again before reading it out: "I think I've heard this song before. Is it a cover? How did you choose this song to cover? It really suits you. You have such a good eye?"
He felt really good when listening to this song. Both the melody and the singing were very good, and it was very suitable for Kim Taeyeon's voice. When she sang it, there was a very ethereal yet warm atmosphere.
Compared to the title song... Chi Jingyuan actually likes this one more.
Chi Jingyuan originally thought that his compliments would make Kim Taeyeon show off, but he didn't expect that this girl would glare at him and look at him with dissatisfaction: "Hey, I sang this song at the concert last year, and the fans' response was very good, so I added it to the album. The live cover video was quite popular at the time... How come you didn't know anything about it?"
She looked hurt, covered her forehead and fell back on the chair, "Chi Jingyuan, you don't care about Nuna at all... You are busy dating and picking up little girls."
"Noona~"
Chi Jingyuan immediately waved his hand and spoke. Just when Jin Taeyeon thought he was going to comfort and explain something, Chi Jingyuan shrugged and said as a matter of course: "Even if you know, don't say it out loud. It hurts feelings~"
"Ashi, you are really...bye after I leave!"
Seeing that Kim Taeyeon was hurt and was about to leave, Chi Jingyuan immediately pulled her back with a smile and immediately changed the subject: "Are you sure when the song will be released?"
It was just a joke, so Kim Taeyeon certainly didn't take it seriously. She sat down again and said with a pout, "...it's on the 28th of next month."
"Why is it always February?" Chi Jingyuan felt helpless when he heard the time.
Red Velvet is returning in February, Twice is returning in February, Taeyeon is returning in February... so is he.
How come all of this has to happen until next month?
"By the way, your solo is also next month, right?" Hearing him say that, Kim Taeyeon suddenly remembered and immediately asked worriedly, "Are you sure about the date? We won't run into each other, right?"
"It was only confirmed during the meeting before I came here."
Chi Jingyuan pursed his lips and leaned back:
"May 2th."