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

At the signing event, this kid Song Jueming really showed up, and he copied his outfit, a baseball cap with sunglasses and a mask. The security personnel and bodyguards kept looking at him because he looked like a criminal suspect.

In order to make up for the cancellation of the mini EP signing event for their comeback in April, they prepared special gifts. In addition to support peripherals and cards, there are also T-shirts with Q-version prints and animal dolls of the members.

During this offline signing event, Xia Xinglang didn't notice Song Jueming's presence at first. It was Kim Seung-hyuk who was sitting next to him and kept poking him, asking him to look over there.

Xia Xinglang saw that there were boys: "It's not surprising that we have male fans."

Kim Seung-hyeok didn't dare to say it directly, so he just gave him a look and let him figure it out.

Xia Xinglang: "Male fans are rare, don't scare them away."

Kim Seung-hyeok looked at him speechlessly. Xia Xinglang drew a heart with him from a distance. In order to avoid the heart, Kim Seung-hyeok leaned back.

Xia Xinglang was still wondering if it was really that exaggerated, but then the hooded man came over under the guidance of the staff, and his voice gave him away completely as soon as he opened his mouth: "Please sign here!"

Kim Seung Hyuk tried to maintain a smile on his face and asked knowingly, "Okay, what else do you want me to write? Do you want me to write your name?"

Song Jueming (hooded mask version): "Please write, dear Lance."

Kim Seung Hyuk deliberately dragged out the conversation: "How do you write the word Lance?"

Song Jueming: "Use English, Lance will do."

Kim Seung Hyuk signed with a pen. Although he had a smile on his face, he gritted his teeth and said, "OK! Dear brother Lance!"

Song Jueming moved to his side, took off his sunglasses and winked at him. Xia Xinglang had expected this, so there was no surprise on his face: "Dear Lance, how do you want me to write it?"

Song Jueming: "Say you like me."

Xia Xinglang confessed with his energetic side, making a heart shape with his hands in front of his chest: "I like you!"

Kim Seung Hyuk: “…”

Song Jueming asked, "How much do you like me?"

Xia Xinglang responded to every request: "I like it very much."

Song Jueming: "Does the autograph signing have to go to that extent?"

Xia Xinglang: "I will do my best to achieve what the fans want me to do."

Song Jueming didn't understand: "If a fanatical fan comes up with a knife and wants that you..."

"That's why we have bodyguards," Xia Xinglang said, "Mr. Knight, you must be careful about your eyes recently and remember to take care of your colored contact lenses."

Song Jueming was confused and uncertain: "...Who are you and how do you know?"

The staff member came out with a shield and said, "Sorry, time is up."

Xia Xinglang waved at him: "Bye! Lance, I hope to see you next time!"

Of course, Song Jueming did not come a second time after that.

Kim Seung-hyuk is trying hard to communicate with the company, but TUBE is in a mess now. The stock price of the listed company has plummeted, falling tenfold from last year. The National Foundation took advantage of the situation and purchased 19% of the shares and successfully entered the board of directors.

The National Foundation is a non-governmental organization that was originally established to fight against entertainment capital. Since the finances of entertainment companies are a mystery, the public wants to monitor the flow of funds and can only use capital to deal with capital. It is said that several other entertainment companies are behind the scenes, and several of them have injected capital into the foundation, and they want to bring down T Company in the name of the foundation.

The current director of T Company, Fang, is suspected of corruption. Fang opened a company in Hong Kong two years ago to be responsible for T Company's cooperative outsourcing.

From T company's annual financial report data, we can see that the company's market value and profit do not match the company's size. With such a large scale, its revenue should be geometric multiples of other companies. However, it is just on par with the revenue of three traditional entertainment companies. So who pockets all this extra money?

Starting from the incident of director corruption, Director Fang was forced to resign. Now a new director needs to be elected, but his labels JESS, QUINN, KIN (Jess, Quinn, King) and other sub-labels have all erupted in turmoil. Many people say that they only recognize the former director. Now that Director Fang has stepped down, the contract will naturally be terminated.

These labels collectively announced their departure, the old and new power structures were embroiled in a struggle, many plans were shelved, and everyone in the company was overwhelmed, so they naturally had no time to care about matters such as contract renewal.

Among the more than ten brands of the original T company, the three playing cards J, Q and K are widely known. J stands for Guard, Q stands for Queen, and K stands for King. The first letters refer to the three most well-known brands of TUBE. Everyone thinks that the most famous one must be K's Golden King, but in fact, the most famous one is Q's Quinn, which is the Queen card.

Why the Queen?

Lan Zhihe, a former popular member of the popular boy band ARMY, serves as Quinn's producer and honorary director. He is a musician with a strong personality. His well-known idols are at the forefront of the industry in terms of visual packaging and music production, combining innovation and popularity. New is not necessarily good, but people want new.

Jin Chengxie always sighed after each phone call, and Xia Xinglang was tactful enough not to ask any more questions.

Since they didn't get the first place for this comeback, some people on the internet were pessimistic about them, saying that they would soon disband and their popularity was gradually declining, with only one substitute. They also made up stories about who in the team was slacking off and lip syncing, and their fans started a fight again.

Kim Seung-hyuk's birthday will be in August, although it is not his real birthday. Perhaps only Xia Xinglang knows his real birthday.

The birthday party was live broadcast and everyone was still interacting with fans. After the live broadcast, Kim Seung-hyuk smiled and excitedly told Xia Xinglang that the seven of them might continue to form a team.

Xia Xinglang couldn't help but laugh: "Seung Hyeop is really the captain."

Jin Chengxie raised an eyebrow and looked at him: "Am I not the captain?"

Xia Xinglang: "Yes, Chengxie has always been the best captain."

After spending so much time together, Xia Xinglang discovered that as long as he said nice things to Jin Chengxie and praised him more, Chengxie would become happy and essentially be like a child.

Kim Seung Hyuk: "The company said that we can renew the contract. Yoon Dongho and I were trainees under the company before, not under any label. The contract renewal will be in the name of the company, not the label."

Xia Xinglang always thinks about another possibility. If JP1 continues to develop in the same way as in the previous life, then it will definitely go downhill. The company sees no hope and naturally will not renew the contract. Can they bring hope to the company now?

The two-week promotion period ended, and no one was selected, all were substitutes. After the autograph session, the company gradually stopped arranging variety show announcements for them, and the group variety show planning became perfunctory. These few episodes were either in the dormitory or in the company.

Kim Seung Hyuk called the producer that night and made it clear that all members could renew their contracts: "I convinced the company. The seven of us can renew our contracts together, for five or seven years..."

Xia Xinglang listened silently at the side. He guessed a possibility, but it seemed too cruel to say it out loud.

The producer's voice could not be heard clearly. Xia Xinglang saw Jin Chengxie's eyes dimmed and said, "Really? I know. Yeah."

On the rooftop.

Jin Chengxie hung up the phone, but Xia Xinglang was still looking at his profile.

"The company means they don't want to renew the contract with us," Kim Seung Hyuk said with a forced smile, "They said they'll be launching a new talent show in the near future, also called something like Planets. What the hell, so this is how being replaced works..."

Xia Xinglang knew that he was very sad, especially after working so hard, so he comforted Jin Chengxie for a long time, saying that it was okay.

Kim Seung-hyeok's eyes were red, but he didn't shed tears. Maybe since the five minutes on the rooftop last year when he said he wanted to be a good captain, his tear switch was turned off.

"Brother Chengxie," Xia Xinglang said, "At this time, we need to rely on everyone and overcome the difficulties together. Don't think that you can do everything by yourself."

Hong Zhanglin and Yin Donghao pushed open the door and everyone was behind it.