Chapter 704 Return

"Nice, that's great!"

"...Very good, it's this look, a little sharper, a little colder!"

"This light is wrong!"

In the studio where GUCCI shoots advertisements, the director's shouts and the sounds of shutter clicks and flashes kept coming, and everyone was busy working.

Director Solve Sandbo, who shoots commercials and posters, is a standard Italian, but he also speaks very good English, so there was no language barrier during filming.

Chi Jingyuan had read some information about him before, and after listening to some anecdotes told by Park Jae-hyun, he thought the director was gay... According to him, this is very common in the fashion industry...

It was a little awkward at first, but after meeting him, I found that Sandbo was a very manly-looking man, a very neatly groomed bald man with a stubble. Although he dressed rather aggressively, his speech and style were gentle and approachable. Feeling good afterwards.

After working together for a few days to shoot commercials, Chi Jingyuan feels that compared to the local photographers working with him on the peninsula, there is actually no big difference from a technical perspective, but Sandbo is better at capturing the look of characters and lighting. When it comes to the use of background, many clothes may seem featureless, but after matching with the background, light, and a series of operations, the finished product will have a very elegant and high-end texture.

It may have something to do with Chi Jingyuan, who is a model, but he is indeed a very powerful and thoughtful fashion photographer.

Moreover, the team here from top to bottom is obviously more elite than the one on the peninsula, and they work very efficiently.

There are five product lines of advertisements that need to be shot in the past few days, but the most important thing is fashion. GUCCI provides all the latest fashions of the season for him to shoot, and as a spokesperson, he will also enjoy high treatment after returning to the peninsula, as long as If there is demand, Peninsula GUCCI and even the Italian headquarters will provide him with current or even super-season fashions and dresses as quickly as possible.

But to be honest... after replacing Michele as the design director, GUCCI's overall style has undergone a great change towards a younger look. The colors used in fashion in the past year are very bright and bold, and you can see it from the wardrobe at a glance It's all colorful, including the installation. Overall, it doesn't really fit Chi Jingyuan's aesthetics...

But, that's fashion.

However, other glasses and accessories are very good. Compared with ordinary accessories, they do have a unique sense of design and preciousness of top luxury goods. In addition to letting Park Jae-hyun spend money to buy some, Chi Jingyuan also used his own spokesperson I asked for some of the latest styles of glasses and jewelry, planning to take them back as small gifts to my father or other friends.

"OK. Very nice. Let's take a rest for now and get ready to go to the next studio."

After changing dozens of sets of clothes, glasses, handbags and even rings and accessories, after shooting for several hours, it finally came to a short break. Even Chi Jingyuan, who was already familiar with shooting commercials, was already a little tired and numb. In the dressing room After changing clothes and coming out, he took the drink from Park Jae-hyun's hand and took a few sips, breathing a long sigh of relief.

"The work schedule of fashion professionals here in Italy is really tight." Park Jae-hyun glanced at the staff who were swarming around and starting to pack their things, as if they were spinning clockwork, and sighed in a low voice: "And the atmosphere is actually great. Quite serious...I thought they were quite relaxed in this fashion category.”

"I heard they are very competitive." Chi Jingyuan put down the water glass and licked the corners of his mouth happily.

"By the way, your phone..." Thinking of something, Park Jae-hyun handed Chi Jingyuan's phone over: "It vibrated a few times just now. Take a look."

"Um."

Chi Jingyuan nodded and took the phone. He opened it and found that there were several unread text messages in his inbox, all of which were sent while working.

"You said you had an overseas trip, why haven't you come back for so long? What happened?" This was sent by Zhou Ziyu.

Chi Jingyuan just casually told her that he had an overseas trip and was going out for a few days, but he didn't say what he was going to do. The girl didn't pay attention to it for the first two days, but now she didn't know what she saw, but she was a little confused. Worried, I took the initiative to ask him.

In addition to Zhou Ziyu, some other friends also sent several text messages asking questions. It seems that Chi Jingyuan, who has been away from team activities for nearly a week, has become a topic of discussion.

"I went to audition again yesterday, and I felt pretty good...but I still haven't confirmed it yet, but today "Wandering Attachment" premiered."

This was sent by Bae Suzy, very straightforwardly talking about the progress of the competition for the heroine of "Goblin".

Hmm...it also has some hints.

"(Selfie) This is my new look today, what do you think kkkk?" This is my father, Bae Joo Hyun. Her tone and words are much more natural in comparison. With the beautiful selfie, she has a sense of humor at first glance. The passionate taste of a kiss.

Chi Jingyuan browsed through it, and when he was about to reply, he suddenly saw an unread message below. He clicked it and saw that it was from Park Souna.

Park Soo Na is one of his biggest fans. She squatted beside Chi Jingyuan in front of the company before he debuted. She is considered to be one of the earliest fans of Chi Jingyuan.

I heard that she closed her small milk tea shop and became a professional fan soon after she became a fan of Ji Jingyuan. Now she runs a fan site of Ji Jingyuan and is very famous among his fans.

Idols and some big fans are very close to each other. They may have contact information with each other and even convey some more secret inside information from time to time.

But the same is true for Ji Jingyuan. He also has a few familiar big fans. These fans know him very well. Some of them know that he has a good family background and lives in a well-known luxury villa area in Yongsan District. Some even know that he is in a relationship with someone like Park Soo-na...

But compared with other members of EXO, he doesn't contact fans very often. Big fans also know his personality very well and rarely disturb him.

Chi Jingyuan clicked quickly and saw the text message:

"Have you read the recent news, Oppa? You have been absent from activities for a week, but SM has not made any announcement. Now there are a lot of discussions outside, and the fans are starting to panic... Do you want to explain?"

At the request of the brand, Chi Jingyuan's signing and shooting of advertisements in Italy have been kept secret. Apart from EXO, few people even knew about it in SM. Bae Joo-hyun was told by Chi Jingyuan because of their close relationship. Faced with Chi Jingyuan's sudden absence from activities, the big fans who were usually well-informed were now completely in the dark.

Now, they took the initiative to ask

"Is the news of my absence from activities very hot on the Peninsula?"

Seeing what she said, Chi Jingyuan, who had not paid much attention to the news on the Peninsula in the past few days, took out his mobile phone and clicked on several web pages on the Peninsula, and asked Park Jae-hyun curiously.

Before the other party answered, he casually clicked on a well-known Kppop forum and immediately saw a shocking post title:

"Inside news, the reason why Chi Jingyuan missed EXO group activities for no reason is because he accompanied his girlfriend to the United States to give birth to a child."

Below, the whistleblower used the taste of an SM insider to describe the very mysterious reason why Chi Jingyuan missed the activities, and also described in detail the shock and helplessness of SM after knowing it. It was vivid and real.

The Aili who swarmed in the reply had already scolded him to the ground, and because it was too outrageous, even the black fans didn't believe this revelation very much, just reading it for fun.

Chi Jingyuan resisted the strong feeling of speechlessness and continued to read on, finally knowing why he received so many inquiring text messages from friends.

A scan of Kpop shows that there are not many people discussing songs. Instead, a considerable number of people are discussing the reasons for his absence from activities. There are all kinds of speculations, such as illness, injuries from conflicts and fights, rejection of unspoken rules, and even recovery period of plastic surgery...

Not to mention, compared with the other speculations, the market for the theory of recovery period of plastic surgery is really large. Many people left messages to express their belief and think that this speculation is very reasonable. For a while, many black fans jumped out with all kinds of weirdness, as if dancing and carnival.

After watching for a few minutes, Chi Jingyuan was exhausted and even a little hurt...

Others are okay, such as illness, conflicts and injuries are reasonable speculations, and he even thinks of going to the United States to give birth to a child, but... plastic surgery?

Although it seems to be a reasonable speculation, he feels awkward no matter how he looks at it. Chi Jingyuan, who has always not cared about the comments of black fans, actually feels like he has been attacked.

Ah!

This is the worst time he has been attacked.

"What's wrong?" Park Jae-hyun asked strangely, as if he felt that Chi Jingyuan's emotions were a little volatile.

"Nothing..."

Gnawing his teeth, Chi Jingyuan touched his face, then shook his head to calm himself down.

For the timeliness and popularity of the news, the cooperation with GUCCI must be kept confidential, and his schedule in Italy cannot be made public. SM doesn't know what reason to find. It's no wonder that there are all kinds of strange speculations outside after he quits the team activities for so long, and fans are also a little worried.

"Hurry up and shoot... These remarks will naturally disappear after you go back."

Muttering to himself, Chi Jingyuan closed the forum and prepared to reply to these text messages.

It's morning in Italy now, and it should be early morning to midnight in Seoul. They should not be asleep yet, right?

………………

I stayed in Italy for a total of 11 days, shot all the advertisements, and finished all the work. After seeing the shooting effect of the advertisement, the brand side made several suggestions and made modifications, and expressed satisfaction with the final product. Next, they will begin to make all necessary preparations and foreshadowing for the official release in September.

After having another meal with Pizzari, Ji Jingyuan also said goodbye to GUCCI and boarded the plane to Seoul with his team.

This was the first time he had left the group for such a long time when the group was in the comeback activity period. Not to mention the outside world's discussion, he actually felt that it was a bit too much.

"Ah..."

After walking down the boarding ladder, Ji Jingyuan stretched out as if relieved when he stood on the ground again. The more than thirteen-hour flight was really a torture for him.

"What do you say now? What arrangements have been made by the company?"

Putting on the mask and hat, Ji Jingyuan looked at Park Jae-hyun who was carrying a bag next to him and asked.

The agent had obviously contacted the company. While pulling the suitcase forward, he said fluently: "It has been arranged there. Go back to the dormitory to put your things and take a rest. Then go to the company for a meeting and hand over the work of GUCCI. The rest of the schedule will be discussed later."

"Let's go..."

Nodding, Chi Jingyuan followed the team out with a somewhat soft step...The news of his return to Seoul was not disclosed. At the same time, fortunately, there seemed to be no popular boy and girl groups entering and leaving the airport today, and there were not many reporters and fans squatting at this time.

Otherwise, the heat generated after his disappearance in the past few days would probably not have been so smooth to go out...

The company was not in a hurry, and knew that he was very tired after flying back, so they gave him enough rest time. After Chi Jingyuan returned to the dormitory, there was no one else. He took a shower and slept for a while before returning to the company.

...

Sitting in the high-level meeting room in high spirits, it was not the agreed time yet and no one had arrived. Bored, Chi Jingyuan simply took out his mobile phone and directly checked the news to see if there was any interesting news in the Peninsula music industry recently.

First of all, the company's new generation boy group, NCT 127 finally officially debuted on July 7. Unlike the NCT U with sub-groups and limited group nature in the past few months, NCT 127 is a serious new generation large boy group of SM company.

I heard that the momentum is pretty good. As soon as the debut album was released, it won the iTunes comprehensive album chart in Asia and South America. It can only be said that it is worthy of being a newcomer debuting in a big company like SM. The popularity it brings is higher than many first-line groups...

But it is still far from the level of EXO.

And just like when EXO debuted, it was angrily abused by SJ and Shinee fans, saying that it was the ugliest and most money-losing boy group, and when Red Velvet debuted, it was attacked by FX and Girls' Generation fans, saying that it was a four-color parrot and disbanded quickly.

Inheriting the excellent tradition of SM that newcomers will be attacked by fans of seniors when they debut, the Ailis are very unhappy with this new group that obviously wants to steal resources from the Oppas and replace their own Oppas. Recently, they have been madly attacking this new boy group on the Internet, with all kinds of dirty words and appearance attacks everywhere. With the huge size of Aili now, it has brought great pressure to this little brother of EXO in the company.

Chi Jingyuan didn't know what to say about this.

I can only say... the good habits of the company cannot be broken. Every group has come this way. Just get used to it.

At the same time, EXO's third album activities lasted for a month and officially stopped the day before yesterday. This time, the title song "Monster" swept most of the music industry in this month. Whether it is sales or sound source results, it has completely broken down. During their comeback period, basically no group can compete with them in the song promotion. Whether it is the former sound source Dawu Sister or Kim Taeyeon who returned with a new album, none of them are opponents.

This kind of coercive momentum is proudly nicknamed the "big devil" of Kpop by fans.

As of the day before yesterday, "Monster" has won nine first places on all three major TV stations in the past month of promotion. The rest depends on whether "Music Bank" can win more.

After EXO ended its activities, the trend of the Korean music industry is now Gfriend - after they soared to the sky with "Time Passes" at the beginning of the year, they released the group's first regular album on the 11th. The title song "You and Me" is of excellent quality and immediately became the new favorite of the music industry after it was released.

I don't know if the agency specially selected this time, just waiting until EXO finished its activities to release the song, and there are no strong opponents recently, so it directly blocked most of the heat and attention

Previously, relying on the two big hits "Time Passes" and "Cheer Up", Gfriend and Twice have obviously formed a competitive trend in the track of the new generation's first girl group, and the overall situation is considered to be equal.

And judging from the momentum of this comeback, Gfriend is one step ahead of Twice.

The reason why Chi Jingyuan paid more attention to Gfriend's comeback this time was because the name of their regular album this time was eye-catching and very impressive:

It was called "LOL".

In addition, it was a bit regrettable that Kim Taeyeon, who released her second mini album at the end of June, did not meet expectations this time. It was somewhat similar to Chi Jingyuan's original opinion. A considerable number of fans who came from "I" could not accept the style of this album, which made the evaluation of this comeback, especially the title song, somewhat polarized.

Of course, it did not meet expectations compared with herself and last year's "I". If compared horizontally, Kim Taeyeon's performance is still the top among all female solos, except for IU, she is completely out of the league.

These disturbing news did not make Chi Jingyuan linger for too long. He soon saw the most important news: Third Brother Lay's new TV series "Old Nine Gates" was officially broadcast!

After seeing this news, he nodded expectantly, put down his phone with satisfaction and started a meeting.

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This meeting was mainly about docking the work of GUCCI and briefly describing the experience in Italy during this period. Now this groundbreaking cooperation makes everyone very happy, and it has become a watch. Gong conference.

The atmosphere was good for more than an hour. After Chi Jingyuan smiled and talked to several familiar room managers and agents for a while, he followed his manager Li Chenghuan to his office.

"Hey Yigu, Jingyuan is finally back."

When Li Chenghuan saw Chi Jingyuan, his eyes narrowed in laughter. He took the initiative to pick up a cup of coffee and handed it to him. He even patted his shoulder intimately and sat down on the sofa next to him: "I went for a trip. Italy, how do you feel about it?”

"It's not bad, I just visited it two days ago, and then I was busy shooting commercials." Chi Jingyuan took the coffee, thanked him, and briefly told...

"You don't even know that there has been a lot of discussion with fans outside in the past few days since you left. Because it needs to be kept secret, the company doesn't know how to explain it..."

Li Chenghuan sighed. It was obvious that he had been troubled by various speculations from the outside world during this period, but he quickly laughed again: "But it's okay to come back. As long as we start public activities again, those speculations will soon pass."

"We have already arranged your schedule. Since you have just come back, let's take a good rest first. In the evening, we will go back to the team to practice with the children. Tomorrow we will start shooting the MV for the re-released album's title song...the set at the venue. I have reserved it for you for a long time. Are you already familiar with the process and progress of the MV?”

"Well, I've seen it before."

Seeing Chi Jingyuan nodding, Lee Seung-hwan smiled and continued: "Because the return period of the third album is over, there are not many team activities these days. Recently, we are mainly preparing for concerts, including your third tour and SM Town .

Then there is your personal schedule. "Weekly Idol" is going to record the fifth anniversary special. They want to invite all the artists who have served as MCs to come back and shoot the special. Because you were the substitute for several episodes last year, and they have already sent it to you. Invited several times.

But because you are in Italy and we don’t know the specific time, we rejected them all. They had no choice but to ask someone else to take your place... I heard that the recording has not officially started yet. If you are interested, we You can also communicate with the program team. "

""Weekly Idol"?" Chi Jingyuan heard the name and read it again.

"Well, the program team is really optimistic about you... I heard that this fifth anniversary special has invited several groups to shoot together. It is a quite big project. They also invited the EXO group... But you also know that the company has great expectations for EXO setting, so I refused." Li Chenghuan added with a smile.

"..." After thinking for a few seconds, Chi Jingyuan shook his head: "I've already found a good person, let's forget it."

"Okay...I guess you're too lazy to go."

With a confident smile, Li Chenghuan nodded, his expression became a little excited, and he let it slip mysteriously: "Then there is good news... Jingyuan, you have another endorsement?"

"New endorsement? Which brand?"

Chi Jingyuan was not very excited after hearing this. This is true for anyone who carries dozens of endorsements and advertisements. This kind of thing is too common for him. If it is not a very high-end brand, it will basically not be too much. excited.

"you guess!"

Li Chenghuan was still pretending, but Chi Jingyuan immediately frowned and glanced at him speechlessly: "Brother, why have you become so childish?"

"Haha..." He smiled coquettishly. Li Chenghuan stopped playing. He stood up and took out a file from the cabinet. He said happily: "It's Mercedes-Benz! It's the brand of the car you usually drive - Mercedes-Benz." Des Benz has decided to choose you as the spokesperson for the Peninsula, and the contract will be officially signed soon. "

"Mercedes attaches great importance to the endorsement of this new model. In order to promote the effect, the brand asked us to release an advertising song... The company has agreed to this project and is ready to leave this project to you. If it is suitable If so, this commercial song can also be released together with your planned 'subway song' this year...haven't you still not decided what song to choose as the subway song?"