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Chapter 839 Excessive
"Our love is like playing with fire~"

The melody of Blackpink's new song "Playing with Fire", which has been very popular these days, sounded in the room. Ji Jingyuan looked like he was enjoying it very much, swaying to the melody. It was unclear whether he was doing a cover dance or warming up his body. When it came to the climax of the chorus, he even sang along.

Ji Jingyuan didn't pay much attention to Blackpink before, so he didn't listen to this song right after it was released. Instead, he tried listening to it the next day when he was browsing the music charts and saw that "Playing with Fire" was ranked very well. Unexpectedly, he liked it quite a lot.

Later, he even went to watch the MV... From his objective point of view, both Kim Ji-soo and Kim Jennie look pretty good in it.

It is indeed the peak season of Kpop music. Ji Kyung-won quite likes the recent songs, including Blackpink's "Playing with Fire", Taeyeon's "11:11", and their own "Really Really"

Well... "TT" counts too.

Zheng Endi, who was standing next to him, looked at Ji Jingyuan with some contempt, but her body swayed along with the music obediently. During the second chorus, she even opened her mouth and sang along with him.

Obviously, she was also familiar with this song.

After listening to two songs to warm up, the temperature rose with the help of air conditioning. Chi Jingyuan stretched and sat comfortably on the sofa.

"The newcomers nowadays are really amazing..."

Jung Eun-ji is obviously well aware of Blackpink's recent achievements, and she couldn't help but sigh in admiration when faced with the aggressive new girl group from her junior generation.

"The two single albums they released after their debut are indeed of very high quality." Chi Jingyuan nodded in approval: "YG is still good at music... and Big Bang is about to enlist in the military, so YG is obviously preparing to focus on Blackpink."

"Is it ready over there?"

"It will be soon. We will be notified." Chi Jingyuan looked at the time and picked up the music score from the side: "Let's check it first."

The recording of "Stay with Me" was not done here, but in a professional recording studio owned by the company's top management. At this time, the PD sent by the "Goblin" crew was setting up the photographic equipment there with his men.

This is part of the promotional plan for "Goblin". The entire process of recording this OST will be filmed, and later the behind-the-scenes footage and some cuts from the "Goblin" drama will be edited together as the MV for "stay with me", which will be released simultaneously with the TV series broadcast on December 12.

At this time, everyone over there was still busy, so Chi Jingyuan and the others were waiting here and making some preparations.

As he was speaking, his phone suddenly rang. Seeing that it was his agent An Chengyuan calling, Chi Jingyuan answered the call directly.

"What's wrong, brother?"

"Is it Inkigayo on the 13th? Have you communicated with JYP?

"okay, I get it."

After saying a few words quickly, he hung up the phone. Facing the puzzled look from Jung Eun-ji, Chi Jingyuan explained, "We recently received several invitations to perform on the subway song. Now the company has confirmed that we will set up a performance stage."

"Really really? When?"

"Inkigayo, number 13." Chi Jingyuan said casually and lowered his head to look at the music score.

Although "really really" became very popular right after its release, due to the fact that it is a subway song, it has not had a live stage until now. The fact that the MV and choreography are so cool but there has not been a single live performance has already made countless fans dissatisfied.

Of course, several TV stations’ music programs have noticed this popularity and sent out many performance invitations last week. After careful consideration, SM chose SBS’s “Inkigayo” to perform.

One stage is enough for now. After all, it is just a subway song, and it is a collaboration between four people. Twice is extremely busy now, and Chi Jingyuan himself has a lot of things to do and it is not easy to coordinate time... There will definitely be a few special stages for the rest by the end of the year.

"Inkigayo on the 13th?" Hearing this date, Jung Eun-ji blinked: "What a coincidence? I want to go that day too!"

Hearing this, Chi Jingyuan looked over strangely: "Didn't you guys, Apink, finish your promotions a long time ago? Are you making a comeback?"

"Oh, it's not Apink." Jung Eun-ji shook her head. "It's a special project that SBS has recently launched called 'Music Crush'. Each group will find idols from several girl groups to collaborate on a song."

"I collaborated with Ben Xi and Twice's Ji Hyo on a song. We have two weeks of performances on Inkigayo, and the 13th is the last one."

"What's your name? Has the audio been sent?"

“It’s called ‘The Reason Why I Became Beautiful’ and it was released two days ago.”

"Oh……"

Chi Jingyuan paused for a moment and nodded slightly.

He was very tactful and didn't ask how the song performed.

It's been a few days since the song was released, and he's been topping the charts these days, but I haven't heard of this song at all, which is enough to explain something...

Moreover, a question suddenly arose in his mind.

Are there any pretty ones among these three?

No wonder he has never heard of the song, the title of the song doesn’t make sense.

"You really have enough cooperative resources."

Chi Jingyuan curled his lips and asked maliciously, "I haven't seen the other members of Apink, such as Chu Longxi and Xia Rong, go out for activities... Only you are hanging out outside every day. Aren't you members jealous of you? Have you banded together to bully you or something?"

This year, in addition to her personal solo, Jung Eun-ji has a lot of resources. In addition to this and the OST of Goblin, there is also a song that she featured for MC Mong some time ago that is on the charts.

"Go to hell!"

Obviously very dissatisfied with this speculation, Jung Eun-ji rolled her eyes and said: "If there is any bullying, it should be all the other members of EXO who unite to bully you."

Compared to other members of Apink, her personal development prospects are indeed broader, and she has much more resources than other members... However, the members of Apink have a very good relationship with each other, and they are one of the rare girl groups with relatively harmonious internal structure, so there are not so many trivial matters.

Besides... none of Xiba's collaborations are popular, each one is worse than the other, why are you jealous?

"Tsk, I care about you!"

Chi Jingyuan shook his head in a sly manner, and when he saw the unfriendly look from the other party, he immediately shrank back and changed the subject:
"Okay, hurry up and practice, we'll be recording soon."

…………

Although Jung Eun-ji has a lot of shortcomings in Ji Kyung-won's eyes, her singing skills are considered to be very outstanding among female idols. When Ji Kyung-won chose to work with her, in addition to their good relationship, he also considered this important reason.

Moreover, she obviously attached great importance to this OST. Her singing skills and emotional investment showed that she had practiced it many times in private.

Chi Jingyuan was not much behind, the two of them coordinated well with the harmonies, and after recording several times, Chi Jingyuan, as the producer, felt that it was almost done, and the progress was surprisingly fast.

Because the recording went so smoothly, the PD of the MV felt that it was not enough, so he asked the two of them to stand in front of the microphone and pretend to sing a few more times.

After finishing "stay with me", Jung Eun-ji left first, and Ji Kyung-won finished recording another OST "beautiful" alone.

Together with the post-production that had already been arranged, the OST work he had received for "Goblin" was finally completed.

The next step is to wait for the TV series to be officially broadcast and see the audience’s response and comments.

……

After completing the recording work in the morning, Chi Jingyuan did not leave the company. After having lunch, he returned to EXO's practice room.

It is November now and there is not much time left until the major award ceremonies at the end of the year. EXO has to start preparing for the stage performances at the next few award ceremonies.

Large-scale award ceremonies like MMA and MAMA attract a lot of attention and gaze every year. In addition to the awards, what interests the audience most is the stage, which is a very important exposure opportunity for every idol.

As for EXO, although they have no shortage of exposure nowadays, they are currently the TOP group and also the boy band with the highest probability of winning. Their performances will definitely be an important part of the award ceremony. The quality of the stage, the visual effects and the level of care will definitely be expected and scrutinized by all fans and the public. If they are not careful, it will easily affect their reputation and evaluation. Therefore, it is a very important task that requires very careful preparation.

At this time, all the EXO members gathered in the practice room, but the agents and teachers have not arrived yet. They are discussing another matter.

"These two people... Tsk tsk, is this considered an intra-company romance?"

"I'm not interested in Min, can you expose Suzy?"

Chi Jingyuan was looking at the news on his phone and could hear the discussions of several members nearby.

The news was just revealed by the media while they were having dinner. It was reported that Min, a member of the girl group MISS A, and G.Soul, who is also under JYP, are in a relationship. After seeing this, they started discussing it.

Normally, when idols reveal their love affairs, fans will either be outraged and scold them, or passers-by will just bless them and watch the show. However, Chi Jingyuan looked at the comments online for a while, and the most popular comments were these two:
'Who is Min?'

'Who is G.Soul?'

The most people were actually asking where these two people came from...

Chi Jingyuan certainly knew these two people. As a member of Miss A, Min should be relatively well-known. However, compared to Bae Suzy, as another local member, she has no presence, even worse than the two members from Xia Country.

As for G.Soul, he is the solo singer launched by JYP at the beginning of last year. There were all kinds of warm-up before his debut. Everyone from the boss to the artists came out to promote him. A lot of press releases saying "trainee for more than ten years" and "genius" were released, making people think that another monster newcomer like Rain had arrived.

As a result, his debut was a flop, and we haven’t heard much about him since Chi Jingyuan… The time when he was most famous was before his debut.

I didn’t expect that these two JYP artists would have an in-company romance.

However, the exposure of the relationship, which is the biggest thing for idols other than leaving the group, did not attract much attention. After the news came out, there was no stir for an hour or two and it was not even on the hot searches. Thinking back to the grand occasion on the first day of 2014, the contrast is really sad and emotional.

As idols, there is a huge difference between being popular and not being popular.

“The heat doesn’t seem to be very high.”

Chi Jingyuan scrolled through the messages for a while and said casually.

"Don't think it's hot enough? Why don't you expose your relationship and give it a try?"

Wu Se-hun, who was standing next to him, immediately laughed strangely when he heard it, and came over in a mean way, lowering his voice to offer advice: "'EXO.Yuan and Twice.Mina are in a passionate relationship' Once this news headline comes out, it will definitely be so popular that you will be satisfied. Not to mention D agency, I think Naver will even have a system crash."

“Oh my god…” he said, looking upward with his mouth open: “I’m suddenly looking forward to that scene.”

"Don't say that..."

Chi Jingyuan did not say anything sarcastic as Wu Shixun expected. Instead, he blinked and said with an interested look: "I have really thought about this."

"what?"

Wu Se-hun was a little dumbfounded by what he said, and he quickly came over and asked impatiently, "Are you serious?"

As the pillar of EXO and the third male lead of the group, if Ji Kyung-won were to reveal his relationship, it would have an unimaginable impact on the entire group, SM company and even Kpop.

"I just thought about it, but it's certainly not possible now."

Chi Jingyuan looked at him with contempt and curled his lips.

After reading so many news reports about relationships being exposed, seeing couples openly displaying their affection in public, and seeing couples breaking up at the speed of light within half a month of being exposed, Chi Jingyuan had actually imagined several times what it would be like if his own relationship was exposed, and fantasized about how the outside world would react at that time.

I also considered whether or not to leak some information out at that time.

But definitely not now. The impact of this kind of thing on him may not be as great as imagined, but as the female party, Mina can probably just quit the group directly.

"Ah……"

Wu Sehun gritted his teeth and screamed in surprise after it was a false alarm.

Just when he was about to say something, the door of the practice room was pushed open, and manager An Chengyuan walked in with several familiar choreographers and a teacher in charge of stage effects.

The manager clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention. Ji Jingyuan and Wu Sehun stopped talking and stood up with the other members and gathered around.

An Chengyuan didn't say much. After saying hello, he got straight to the point: "...There are three major award ceremonies recently, namely AAA on the 16th, MMA on the 19th, and MAMA on the 2nd of next month."

"As for AAA, the company has sent people to watch the live performance. Because it is the first time and it is not very mature yet, the venue, equipment and lighting are all limited, so all artists including us will not have a special stage, just a normal performance. The songs we performed at AAA are "Monster" and "LOTTO"

As he said that, he looked at Chi Jingyuan and asked, "By the way, Jingyuan, are you sure you can come over in the second half?"

"should be no problem."

After thinking about it, Chi Jingyuan nodded: "As long as there is no serious traffic jam."

Because graduation is approaching, he has to go back to school every few days recently. On the day of AAA on the 16th, he has something else to do at school, so he will be here a little later.

"That's fine. If you really can't make it in time, we can only perform on a stage with eight people." An Chengyuan nodded, and without forcing it, he thoughtfully gave a plan B.

"AAA doesn't count. The other two stages need to be treated very carefully. The song performances and stage design companies have also been arranged."

Back to the topic, An Chengyuan continued: "First is MMA. Our XO stage is scheduled before the last three awards ceremony. It is also the last stage performance of the whole show. Including the opening and closing performances, it will take a total of ten minutes."

"This stage is divided into three stages. The second stage is Kai and Sehun's solo dance. The third stage ends with the song "Monster". This is a normal performance. The focus is on the first stage."

"This stage will be a medley. Our nine members will be divided into 2223 groups. Each group will bring four dancers to perform four main songs from the first regular album "XOXO" in 13 to the second regular album "EXO-L" in 15. The tracks are "Roar", "Addicted", "Call Me Baby" and "Boy with Luv". Each song will have a -second verse and chorus excerpt."

"Now let's talk about the groups. Kai and Xiumin are in the first group. You are Roaring.

"The second group is DO and Suho."

"..."

"…Finally, it's Kyungwon, you, Chanyeol, and Baekhyun, the three of you will perform "Boy with Luv" together."

(End of this chapter)