Boy group: In order to survive, I have to open business

Yingzhi returned to the dormitory in early June, and the first thing he did was to pack his things.

Xia Xinglang stopped him and said, "Don't you want to live with us?"

Yingzhi stopped what he was doing and said, "If I don't join the work, staying here will be a hindrance."

Che Zaixun and Xia Xinglang teamed up to stop him. Che Zaixun just went to get his guitar because he really wanted to show off his skills in front of Yingzhi: "Do you want to hear me play the guitar?"

Yingzhi sat on the edge of the bed, and Che Zaixun began to play with anticipation. It was a song called Starlight.

The song ended. Cha Jae-hun puffed out his chest proudly: "How was it? Wasn't it good?"

"Several notes were played wrong," Yingzhi, who was proficient at an intermediate level in playing a musical instrument, pointed out which note in which section was played wrong. Che Zaixun was hit hard and turned around to look at the score for a long time.

Xia Xinglang: "No, Yingzhi will also go there tomorrow to shoot the visual trailer for the concert."

Yingzhi: “You don’t need me.”

"Yes!" Xia Xinglang wanted to keep Yingzhi on the stage, "The concert needs you! We are a team."

Yingzhi was silent for a while, and finally agreed: "My skin has deteriorated, don't say I'm ugly."

"Your skin is very good," Xia Xinglang leaned in and looked at Yingzhi's face carefully, thinking that he still couldn't see any pores, "It's not ugly at all, very handsome."

"Only the little wolf can speak."

The visual teaser project that the assistant gave them was based on the concept of the newly released EP "Moon Rise", with the moon as the background and the theme of swans, that is, suits with feather decorations, feathers and glitter.

The gorgeous Moon Palace setting. Yingzhi returned after four months and was not used to putting on makeup. She seemed awkward in front of the camera and didn't know how to express herself. She took the photos over and over again but it didn't get it right.

Yingzhi's attitude also became negative: "Forget it, I'm not going on stage, isn't it deceiving the fans to shoot this?"

The hairdresser was fixing Yingzhi's hair, but Yingzhi avoided it: "No, no."

Kim Seung Hyuk and Seong Wolf exchanged glances, "Young Ji, you said you'd go on stage last and talk to the fans, don't you want to leave a good impression? Visual effects are very important."

Xia Xinglang echoed: "Yes, the visuals should be reflected in the trailer."

Yingzhi was half-coaxed into continuing the filming, wearing a black suit with black feather decorations on his collar, which was the concept of a black swan. Yingzhi kept saying that his skin had gotten worse, but the makeup artist and costume designer said that he was in good shape, as were other teammates including Xia Xinglang.

Yingzhi slightly pulled the black feathers on his collar and turned his head towards the camera. Xia Xinglang was behind the camera and met Yingzhi's gaze. Perhaps it was because the time interval was too long, he was once again moved by Yingzhi's handsome face. This face was magnified more than ten times and appeared on the big screen without any sense of incongruity. It was better to say that this face was born to belong to the screen.

No wonder so many fans are crying. He would cry too if he were in their place.

The filming was quickly finished. After recovering, Yingzhi became easily tired. He took off his coat and pulled on his tie. He met Xia Xinglang's eyes again and pursed his lips: "Why are you looking at me?"

"Very handsome, do you want to make bubbles?"

"Don't send it."

"I'll take a picture of you," Xia Xinglang pointed his phone at him, and Yingzhi stretched out his hand to block the camera, "Don't take a picture."

Xia Xinglang was playing hide-and-seek with him, and Yingzhi couldn't do anything about him, so he turned around and turned away. In the end, Xinglang took a bunch of photos of his back.

It was Yoon Dong-ho's turn to shoot, and he selectively ignored Hwasanin Eiji because he was very disappointed. Especially knowing that this was the last time the seven of them would be on stage together. He didn't know about this until recently. Since the comeback EP in April, or perhaps even earlier, Yoon Dong-ho had put Eiji in the position of a teammate, otherwise he wouldn't have asked him to practice the lyrics in the hospital room.

Xiao Yu and Hong Zhanglin are in a similar situation. They are in low spirits and are able to keep up with their work only because they set high standards for themselves. After spending nearly a year and a half together, they are still far from being good friends, but they are no longer just colleagues.

This is probably what teammates are like. They are a whole, a group, cooperating with each other on stage, close and intimate, sometimes even breathing in sync.

After that, Yingzhi said he wanted to pack up, but Xia Xinglang continued to make excuses, saying that the concert was about to start and if there was anything, they could wait until after the concert.

Time goes back to the day of the concert. Yingzhi was still half-coaxed into wearing the earphones. He heard the sound of electricity from the earphones for the first time in a long time. After changing into his clothes, he felt like waking up from a dream, followed by the routine cheering slogans of every concert.

"Jup1er! Fighting!"

“There’s just something different about having seven people,” Kim Seung-hyuk exclaimed, “There’s strength in numbers.”

Yingzhi immediately spoke up: "I won't continue."

Yin Donghao: "Then you stand by."

Xiao Yu had long hair tied into a high ponytail: "Little Wolf, let's go."

Hong Zhanglin confirmed the in-ear monitoring again. The on-site sound test had already been debugged several times, and the visual trailer should be playing now.

Before Che went to the lifting stage to wait, he slapped Star Wolf's butt hard.

However, Xia Xinglang still had something to say to Yingzhi: "Brother Yingzhi, you said before that you wanted me to stand on the stage, closest to you and look at you. Now the situation is reversed. In fact, I was thinking, why am I looking at Brother Yingzhi instead of Brother Yingzhi looking at me?"

Xia Xinglang: "Now Brother Yingzhi, when the time comes, you have to stand closest to me and watch me carefully."

Kim Seung Hyuk patted him on the back, “Let’s go, little wolf.”

Xia Xinglang looked back at Yingzhi in the black suit. Everyone passed by Yingzhi, and he was the only one left there.

Yingzhi lowered his head and took off his earphones, wondering what he was thinking.

Before the stage went up, Che Zaixun was chatting with Xia Xinglang.

Xia Xinglang asked him, "Why does Brother Xun want to practice guitar?"

Cha Jae-hun: "It's just because he's handsome."

Xia Xinglang: "What else?"

Che Zaixun: "I want to give Xiaolang and Yingzhi a surprise. I want you to say, wow, I am so awesome."

Xia Xinglang cooperated with him: "Wow, that's amazing."

Che Zaixun looked hurt: "It's so fake."

"Brother Zaixun is awesome," Xia Xinglang was good at coaxing people, "Very awesome, Brother Zaixun ranks first in my heart."

Everyone was talking and laughing. Xia Xinglang caught a glimpse of Yingzhi walking towards them, but the stage had already slowly risen. Xia Xinglang looked back and saw Yingzhi's expression, which was a little sad at first, but quickly turned into a comforting smile.

Xia Xinglang took a deep breath and felt a tightness in his chest.

The world suddenly went from quiet to noisy. The backstage and the stage were two completely different worlds and two different atmospheres. Only Yingzhi was left behind in the audience, drowned in the silence.

"Zhang Lin! Xiao Yu! Cheng Xie! Zai Xun! Dong Hao! Xing Lang! JP1!"

Youngji's name did not appear in the cheering words. Everyone decided the cheering words based on the performing members, and Youngji was not on the stage.