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"Tsk tsk, they are all complaining about you."

Sun Shengwan looked very energetic today, leaning on the table next to him with his big golden hair, chattering: "They are all saying that you are really amazing to be nominated for Best Actor for two consecutive years, and it doesn't matter whether you win the Popularity Award or not."

"Yeah."

Chi Jingyuan didn't know whether he heard what she said, and responded without raising his head.

The winner of the Popularity Award in the film category yesterday, Do Kyungsoo, who was sitting opposite, also interrupted after hearing it: "Indeed, the nomination for Best Actor is also quite valuable. If there are no special circumstances, anyone can win the Popularity Award."

"Yeah." After reciting it for a long time with emotion, Sun Shengwan finally realized that Chi Jingyuan didn't seem to listen seriously. She slapped him angrily: "I've been talking for a long time, why don't you react at all!"

"Ah..." After being physically attacked, Chi Jingyuan couldn't raise his head, and glanced at his enthusiastic friend: "You are not really You must be disappointed that I didn't get the award. Didn't you expect it before? Yesterday, it was because there was a camera shooting, and the expression was for the organizers and fans to see. "

"And..." Chi Jingyuan glanced at the colorful phone in Sun Shengwan's hand, and his eyes were somewhat helpless: "And I have already seen the comments that you read that were pushed to the top and received the most likes."

"Humph!" Feeling that his enthusiasm was extinguished by a handful of cold water, Sun Shengwan snorted angrily, but Jiang Seulgi next to him chuckled, thinking that the conversation between the two people in front of him was very interesting.

In terms of understanding Ji Jingyuan, Sun Shengwan is not as good as Bae Joo-hyun. As a legitimate female parent, she didn't mean to come up to comfort him, as if she knew that Ji Jingyuan didn't care much about it. She just sat next to him, holding the latest Ipad that Ji Jingyuan gave her when he came back from the Amei event last time, and was playing happily, while listening to the movement here with her ears perked up.

Although she actually sent a text message the first time last night...

While talking, Chi Jingyuan thought of something, stretched out his hand to pull the shoulder bag next to him, unzipped it and took out two packs of walnut snacks from it.

It was the brand that became popular because of his live broadcast before. The manufacturer sent the company snacks to thank him and it is estimated that they will not be eaten up until next year.

"!"

Sun Shengwan, who was originally depressed, saw Chi Jingyuan's actions and the snacks he took out, and his eyes lit up. Naturally, he thought it was a gift from his friends to apologize to him. He just forced a smile and was about to take it, but he saw Chi Jingyuan knocking on the table with his fingers, and then gently throwing it to Bae Joo-hyun. Bae Joo-hyun also put down the tablet in tacit understanding, clapped his hands cutely like a sea dog, smiled, and directly caught the snacks in the air.

"Tsk." The smile that just forced out froze on his face for a second and then quickly disappeared. When Sun Shengwan, who felt that he was being fooled, was about to say something, he found that Bae Joo-hyun and Jiang Seul-ki had gathered together to tear open the package and start tasting.

She rolled her eyes at Chi Jingyuan, then turned her head and narrowed her eyes. A sincere smile appeared on her face again. She quickly came to Bae Joo-hyun, put her arms around the captain's neck, and shouted in a boyish voice: "Ouni, I want to eat too!"

"Ha..." Bae Joo-hyun, who was hugged by the neck, smiled happily with her eyes curved. She took the initiative to feed a walnut kernel to her mouth, and Sun Shengwan swallowed it directly with a roar. Several people gathered together with a smile, eating snacks and talking.

Finally left.

Chi Jingyuan suddenly felt a lot quieter.

But after sitting for a while, Li Chenghuan came over with big strides: "We were notified that the rehearsal will be in half an hour, you guys get ready..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he found that in the unified area of ​​SM in this large lounge, except for several assistants and a group of dancers, there were few EXO members. He immediately frowned: "Where are the others?"

"Go out to play." Chi Jingyuan looked back and shrugged as a matter of course.

Kim Jong-in and Taemin, the good friends, went somewhere. Park Chanyeol, Oh Se-hun, and Byun Baek-hyun probably went to visit some girl group. Interestingly, Kim Jong-dae went somewhere. Just now, Chi Jingyuan saw him answering a phone call and left.

There are always many guests performing at the Dream Concert. There are dozens of groups of artists who are familiar with each other. It is normal to chat together.

Lee Seung-hwan sighed and waved to the assistants next to him: "Go find them quickly and call to notify them."

After debuting for four or five years, and as the new pillar of the company, EXO members have been struggling in the circle and matured so much. They are no longer the young and obedient children who listened to their managers when they first debuted and stayed in the lounge every time they participated in activities. Everyone's thoughts and behaviors have actually become much wilder.

He has no way to deal with this.

However, occasionally being disobedient and liking to play with female idols are actually trivial matters. It is normal. As long as they don't appear in the legal news like YG, he and the company can accept it.

After giving the order, he looked at Jin Junmyeon who was sitting there, fulfilling his captain's duties, nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand and asked him to come over, and then began to explain in a very intimate voice: "..."

Chi Jingyuan glanced at him, but he was embarrassed to tell Li Chenghuan that this brother had just returned from outside.

"...As I told you before, the company has already discussed with the organizer and will release the preview of the two title songs of our third album directly on the big screen after our first stage "Fire" "Junmyeon, are you ready for the introduction I'm going to say next?"

The voices from the side came. Li Chenghuan and Jin Junmyeon were talking about one of the most critical things for them tonight, even more important than the stage.

The regular third album will be officially released on the 9th, and the trailers for the two title songs of the album, "Miss You" and "Monster", have also been cut and made. They were originally preparatory to be uploaded to YouTube tomorrow, but for the sake of In order to promote the effect and gimmick, after the discussion between SM Company and the organizer, the trailer was released for the first time one day in advance, and it was placed directly on the EXO stage as the final performance.

Although there are many artists participating in the Dream Concert, it has traditionally been reserved for fans of SM artists over the past few years. Today, more than half of the audience may be fans of EXO. During the breaks on the stage, they saw the preview of the return of their idols. film, one can imagine the huge response it will generate, and how surprised Ai Li will be at the scene.

It is EXO that can put its trailer in such a large concert for the first time.

"Fans must be very excited after the trailer is released, but you can just introduce it a little bit, don't say too much, and still maintain some suspense..."

"Don't worry, brother, I know." Jin Junmian made an OK gesture easily. These tasks were all small cases for him.

A few people chatted for a while, and the EXO members who had gone out also came back quickly after being notified. When they saw Li Chenghuan looking at them angrily, they were not afraid. They smiled and said hello and came over. It was very natural and innocent. The seams came in.

After everyone arrived, Li Chenghuan checked the time: "Let's go, get ready for rehearsal."

A group of people behind him immediately stood up and followed sparsely behind.

When I walked out of the lounge and into the corridor, I saw a group of backup dancers in white skirts coming towards me. Because the corridor was not very wide, the two groups of people were clearly arranged to the left and right, passing by each other.

I originally thought there were only a few people, but the backup dancer in the white dress next to me hadn't finished walking for a long time. Only after he got out of the backstage did Chi Jingyuan look back with a different look: "Which group of backup dancers are they from? Why are they better than us?" many?"

Because there is a stage for "Fire" today, the company has also sent all 40 of their backup dancers, so their place in the lounge seems a bit crowded. Originally, Chi Jingyuan thought that they had enough backup dancers and the pomp was enough. Now that I'm older, I didn't expect to meet a group with more people than them.

According to his estimate, there were fifty or sixty female backup dancers who passed by just now.

"I.O.I." I originally thought that no one knew, but Kim Junmyeon answered directly: "The backup dancer on the "pick me" stage."

"Brother, you know so well." Chi Jingyuan looked at him in surprise.

Jin Junmian also looked over in surprise when he heard this:

"Because I just went to chat with them..."

…

The 2016 Dream Concert officially begins at 6 p.m., with the opening stage performance by the girl group Wanna B. At the same time, multiple TV stations, V Live, and Xia Guo’s Mango TV will broadcast live on all platforms at the same time.

SM really put a lot of thought into releasing the trailer on such an occasion.

There are many artists present today. There are twenty-eight groups of rap singers from male and female groups, including many popular groups, including male groups EXO, BTOB, VIXX, female groups red velvet, loveliz, Gfriend, and some pool scenes. It’s a combination that Yuan hasn’t seen very often, or hasn’t encountered in a long time.

Like Tara, Chi Jingyuan has not met them in activities in the peninsula for a while. Because of the poor reputation in the peninsula, Tara has turned to the mainland of Xia for development a few years ago.

I heard that it is developing very well there. It is very popular and has held many concerts. Some time ago, "M!" "Countdown" held a platter concert in the Mainland, and they specially invited Tara to increase their popularity.

However, Chi Jingyuan is not very familiar with the members of Tara. They only have a greeting relationship. That is to say, Park Jiyeon met and had dinner once before under the introduction of Lee Ji-eun and has contact information.

There are also many acquaintances from other groups, but Twice, who has become popular recently, did not come today, and none of the JYP artists came.

When the show just starts at six o'clock and it's not dark yet, we can't use the support sticks and lights that are necessary for the stage to enhance the atmosphere and support, so it's actually not a very good time to perform.

However, because the ticket price is extremely low, less than 20,000 won, the average ticket price is equivalent to 100 RMB, which allows fans, middle school students and students to come to the scene very easily without any financial pressure and see the idols that they usually cannot see. The atmosphere at Dream Concert has always been the best among all concerts.

Even though it started early and the girl group performing was not a popular group, the sweet cheers could still be heard in the background.

As the sky gradually darkened, the atmosphere became even more heated after the stage lights and cheering sticks were all lit up. Almost every artist group on stage would cause many audiences to sing along as long as they were familiar with the songs that the audience would sing.

The venue, Seoul World Cup Stadium, is a large venue that can accommodate nearly 70,000 people. Although only three sides of the stands were opened for the concert, there were 40,000 to 50,000 spectators who came to the scene. It didn't need everyone to speak. Only a few tens of thousands of people opened their mouths, and the sound gathered was enough to pierce the clouds and split the rocks.

Although more than half of the audience present today were Aili, waving EXO's silver Aili sticks, at this time, EXO-Ls were not stingy in cheering for other groups. There was not much competition and anti at this time. What was needed was an atmosphere and excitement.

For example, when Red Velvet appeared, even though Bae Joo-hyun, who used to be hated by Aili and only seduced their Yuan oppa, was there, the cheering was still very loud. The two songs "dumb dumb" and "ice cream cake" were sung almost from beginning to end, and even Bae Joo-hyun's rap part in the middle was not missed, and her voice was completely covered from beginning to end.

Chi Jingyuan heard it clearly in the backstage, and he even felt that the rap sung by the fans was better than the girl's singing, and the power was obviously much stronger...

In this kind of compilation concert, artists usually perform the title song of their most recent comeback, but the interesting thing is that Red Velvet did not sing the most recent title song "July 7th" even though they had just returned a few months ago, but performed two songs from last year.

Obviously, the people in SM also understand it very well.

What impressed Chi Jingyuan the most was Gfriend's stage. They were obviously very attentive in their stage preparation. They ingeniously mixed the three songs of the campus trilogy after their debut, "Glass Beads", "Today We Start" and "Time Passes", into one song by changing the key.

The part and action of the last second were still from "Glass Beads", and the movement of the next second became "Time Passes".

As an idol, Chi Jingyuan knew very well that it was very easy for the performers to confuse and make mistakes when the stage songs were mixed together. It was very difficult. The six members of Gfriend performed so skillfully without any mistakes. Obviously, they practiced a lot for this.

A girl group from a small company, whose debut performance was average and was ridiculed by many people, could become one of the candidates for the first girl group of the new generation a year later. If it weren't for Twice's sudden rise last month, this "one of" could be removed. It was really amazing.

Until the four-hour concert came to an end, when EXO appeared on the stage, the whole venue's Aili cheered. The music hadn't started yet, but the atmosphere had reached the climax of the night.

"Ahhh..."

Chi Jingyuan, who had just walked up and was still looking for his position and preparing to squat down to pose for the opening, was instantly startled by the sound. Under the slightly dazzling lights, he half-squinted his eyes and looked at the crowded audience in front of him.

The scene of tens of thousands of spectators gathered together was really spectacular, and the silver light flashing and waving everywhere made everyone feel very excited.

Although it was a compilation concert, the organizer also reserved seats for fans of many popular groups, but according to convention, such occasions are usually reserved by Aili. Looking from a distance, on the second-floor stands, even if the names of many groups were written on the beams in front, such as VIXX, BTOB, and lovelyz, it showed where their fans should sit.

But looking over now, almost all the audience sitting in the middle of those places were waving their love sticks. At a glance, the entire middle and more than two-thirds of the right side of the venue were a sea of ​​silver.

It was really exciting.

With the fire in their hearts, many EXO members stood in place. As the music sounded, Chi Jingyuan swallowed his saliva and started the show directly.

"Burning..."

He found the problem after singing the first sentence. The headset was too far away and the sound was a little low. He quickly held the microphone with his hand to bring it closer to his mouth.

Just the next second, under the neat chorus of tens of thousands of people in the audience, the overwhelming "Fire" directly shook his eardrums and completely covered the sound of EXO and the speakers.

Well, it doesn't matter whether he holds the microphone or not, or whether their voices are loud or not.

When Red Velvet was performing, the fans sang along throughout the performance. When their idol came out, they burst out with all their enthusiasm. They didn't miss a word of "Fire" from the beginning, and the same was true for the difficult rap. .

And Chi Jingyuan still felt that the fans' rap chorus sounded much better than their own...

The other members also discovered this soon. Even with microphones, their voices were completely covered by the audience's chorus. At this time, it seemed that they were no longer the protagonists and singers. They just needed to be backup dancers.

"Dance up and go crazy"

In the second half of the song, Chi Jingyuan walked to the C position in the center of the stage. He raised his hands and led the dance team. Nine people stepped on the floor continuously with full strength. At the same time, fireworks shot up next to the stage. The enthusiasm of the scene and the light of the fireworks interacted with each other. Against the background, it directly illuminates the dark night sky.

After the backup dancers came on stage, everyone's voices rang again, and the neat and shocking sound continued from the beginning to the end.

"Burn everything~~Bow wow wow~~"

"Forgive you."

As tens of thousands of people in the audience shouted 'Bow wow wow' and 'I'm sorry' in unison, the deafening cheers barely subsided a little. After the performance of "Fire" ended, forty backup dancers hunched over from both sides. After exiting the stage quickly, the nine members of EXO walked to the center of the stage and stood in a row panting. Just as the audience looked at their idols and shouted excitedly, the originally bright lights on the stage and the big screen at the back But suddenly it became dark.

The cheers suddenly dropped, and before everyone could figure out what was going on, the big screen suddenly lit up again. Countless fans took a closer look, only to find that there was someone they had never seen before. VCR.

Crisp drum beats and smooth piano sounds sounded, and an aerial view of Seoul at night appeared on the screen. The camera quickly advanced from front to back under the colorful night sky. Several members of EXO appeared in it one after another, and some were standing in front of the sidewalk. Waiting for the red light, some are running quickly in the lane, while others are standing on the bridge and looking quietly into the distance.

Along with the pleasant melody, everyone felt a sense of loneliness under the blurred background.

As the camera progressed, it gradually turned into daytime, and the perspective also reached a room with the curtains drawn. The warm sunlight of the rising sun gently shined through the curtains and gaps, reflecting on the face of the only figure in the room. side.

Chi Jingyuan, half of his body was bathed in sunshine, standing in front of a piano, gently fiddling with the keys with his hands. At the same time, a clear and gentle aria sounded in the background:

"Missing you~~Missing you~~"

Before the sentence was finished, the screen turned black, and an oval appeared in the middle, rotating and spreading, forming an EXO logo.

At the bottom, the names of the nine members appeared in white letters on a black background. At the same time, the LOGO disappeared and turned into two rows of large artistic fonts:

"EXO"

"Missing you"

She was still a little confused just now, but at this time, all the viewers and fans could see that the VCR was playing the trailer of EXO's new album. Putting aside the novelty of the ordinary audience, all the Allies were enthusiastically excited.

"Is this a trailer for the return of the Obamas?"

"The melody and part just sounded so good!"

Some fans were discussing enthusiastically, while others were cheering heartily, extremely satisfied with this surprise.

But before giving them much time to recall what they had just seen on the VCR, the screen went black again.

Some eerie and eerie electronic music melody sounded, and a large close-up portrait of Chi Jingyuan appeared on the screen.

Different from his style in previous photos and portraits, his style on the screen is particularly strong now, with thickened eye makeup that he rarely tried before, just the right eye shadow, dark eyebrows, cold gaze, and... There is a dark red scratch extending from the cheek to the bridge of the nose.

He tilted his head and lowered his head slightly, and could only see half of his face clearly, while the rest was completely covered in shadows. The shadows were deep and dark, like silent blank spaces. .

"Ahhhh..."

Screams that were far louder than before sounded from all directions at the same time, containing strong excitement and enthusiasm. When they came together, they wanted to overturn the stage.

When all the elements are combined, the entire portrait exudes a dark style. The cold temperament and handsome face bring a trembling and strong impact to all the fans at the scene, even if many people in the background are watching the live broadcast on the monitor. At this moment, Aidou couldn't help but scream in surprise.

Immediately afterwards, under the repeated electronic melody, portraits of the nine members of EXO appeared one after another. Everyone looked at the camera from different angles, but the same dark-style color palette, eye shadow, As well as the iconic war-damaged makeup, some even wore delicate lip rings to highlight this atmosphere.

As the drumbeat and melody got faster and faster, the speed of photo conversion also became faster and faster, and the portraits of nine people kept changing and flickering, until the final rhythm reached a peak a few seconds later, and suddenly a glass broke. The sound came, the photo suddenly disappeared, the screen suddenly turned black, and the same font and introduction as before appeared:

"EXO"

"Monster"

At the same time, a powerful, high-pitched voice that seemed like a shout appeared in the background, and was deliberately lowered by the tuning, making it appear more distant and deep.

Familiar people and fans can instantly recognize Chi Jingyuan’s voice:

"You can call me monster!"

I have to go out of town today. If I come back early tomorrow, there will be an update. If I come back late, it will probably be delayed.