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Chapter 275 Treating You to a Drink

EXO’s concert tickets are not only sold externally, but part of the savings is also used as internal gift tickets. In addition to the management personnel of various departments of the company, each member of EXO is allocated some, and let them give to some of their circle or amateurs Friends, it can be regarded as a small benefit.

In addition to free tickets, the concert company on the first day also prepared the best rows of seats in the infield, and specially invited the parents and relatives of all twelve members to be present so that they could see their children and The brothers' first solo concert after their debut, it is also very meaningful to watch them reach a brilliant peak in their careers.

Chi Jingyuan's parents will definitely not be able to come in the United States, and the eldest sister must have gone to work recently and must not be free. As for the second brother Chi Jingxu, he doesn't know if he will come.

According to the narrow personality of the second brother, he should come to watch his younger brother's excitement, but to be honest, Chi Jingyuan didn't really want him to be there, he felt a little awkward performing in front of his relatives.

As for the free tickets given to him by the company, he also kept them. He has a few close relatives, but he didn't bother to take the initiative to give them away.

However, if a friend asks for it, Chi Jingyuan is naturally willing to give it, and it is not a very precious thing. If others are willing to join in, it is to support them and to save face.

"Which day do you want and how many copies do you want?"

After drinking the water, Chi Jingyuan didn't return to his original position to sit, but walked out of the practice room, closed the door and leaned against the wall next to him.

"Of course it will be on the 23rd. The first concert must be the most meaningful and beautiful."

Zhou Ziyu replied without hesitation, then bluntly, his voice became a little softer: "I want one... two... three."

Her tone became weaker and weaker, sounding a little embarrassed.Chi Jingyuan could still hear other voices beside her from the phone, as if someone was directing her.

"Okay...tomorrow, you come to our company at noon tomorrow, and call me when you arrive."

Chi Jingyuan thought for a while, and made an appointment: "You probably don't know how to get to SM Company, right? It's very close to JYP, just a few turns away."

"Of course I know, I went to the gate of your company with my friends and walked around..."

Zhou Ziyu felt that he was underestimated, so he quickly argued that he was already familiar with the nearby road conditions, and then happily responded: "I will go there after school tomorrow, but it may be a little later."

"That's it, bye."

"Goodbye, see you tomorrow."

Before hanging up the phone, Chi Jingyuan heard a female voice screaming, as if saying something like 'that's amazing'.

Then the phone was hung up, Chi Jingyuan looked at the screen and shook his head with a smile, and walked back to the practice room.

…………

During the lunch break, Chi Jingyuan came out from the company's side door wearing a gray sweater suit and sneakers, plus a Geng Gui hat, black-rimmed glasses and a mask camouflage three-piece suit, with a shoulder bag slung across his back.

After going out the door, walked towards the south, turned a few turns and passed through an apartment complex, and arrived at the appointed place.

Walking through an intersection, he saw Zhou Ziyu standing next to the road sign from a long distance away. She was standing there curled up, her head was lowered to look at the ground while rubbing her feet lightly, her black hair was hanging straight and long. The hair covered half of the face, revealing the bridge of the nose and eyebrows, and when the wind blew the long hair fluttered, making the whole face a bit vague.

As if sensing Chi Jingyuan's sight, Zhou Ziyu raised his head and looked over. After seeing his figure, he blinked, and immediately recognized Chi Jingyuan who was wearing a disguise, grinning suddenly, and forced He waved his hand to this side.

Chi Jingyuan also smiled and quickened his pace.

Looking at it from a distance, I have to say that the child's manners are quite good, and there is no one to supervise him. Standing there, his legs are straight, his figure is tall and straight, and there is no such thing as a hunchback. It can be seen that he is used to it very well.

After walking in, Chi Jingyuan glanced up and down. Zhou Ziyu seemed to have just returned from school and hadn't gone to the company to change clothes. At this time, he was wearing a blue school uniform jacket, a pair of white sneakers, and a black shirt on his back. With the small schoolbag and the complete student attire, the short and round face with no makeup looks more immature.

Just this complexion...

"Has your mother been tricked?"

Walking in front of her, Chi Jingyuan sized her up and looked at her smiling face, and spoke directly without saying hello.

"Ah? Why was my mother cheated?"

Zhou Ziyu, who was still thinking about how to say hello, was a little confused by this question, and opened his mouth slightly.

"Facial mask."

Chi Jingyuan nodded his chin to her and gave her a hint.

"..." Zhou Ziyu took two seconds to react, and his face suddenly became bitter. The joy of seeing Chi Jingyuan disappeared immediately, and he only felt a suffocation erupting from his chest.

"I hate it..."

She hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't hold back, she raised her foot to touch Chi Jingyuan's calf, then stretched out two hands to cover half of her face, only showing her big eyes and frowning to stare at him.

"You said it yourself before. Before I came here, I was quite looking forward to your changes. After a long time..."

Chi Jingyuan looked innocent, and shook his head in disappointment.

"you really……"

Zhou Ziyu was pissed off by his rogue appearance as a victim. He wanted to scold him, but after organizing his language for a long time, he found that there was no suitable word in the vocabulary. I’m not lying, it’s easy to use. And even if the mask is good, the effect can’t be achieved in a day or two.”

She tried her best to explain it, and finally she emphasized one more sentence: "And I'm not dark at all, and my friends around me say that my skin is very good, as long as you say it every day..."

"very good."

Seeing that Zhou Ziyu was aggrieved, Chi Jingyuan stopped teasing her, took out the concert ticket from his shoulder bag and handed it to her, while nodding and echoing, "It's very good, very good."

Seeing Chi Jingyuan's perfunctory look, Zhou Ziyu wrinkled her nose and couldn't help it, and she was getting used to it after being told so many times. After gouging him out, she stopped covering her face and reached out to take it. voted.

It's just that after taking it, her hand still stopped there, and she didn't take it back directly. Looking at her expression, she seemed a little embarrassed to take it for nothing.

"Okay, it's not very valuable."

Seeing her appearance, Chi Jingyuan laughed and waved his hand casually,

"Next time you have time to treat me to dinner as a reward... Just the stinky tofu you mentioned last time."

"it is good!"

Zhou Ziyu glanced at him, responded with a crisp smile, and put the ticket into his schoolbag.

"have you eaten?"

Watching her put the ticket away, Chi Jingyuan glanced around.

He had already eaten before, so he asked politely.

"Eat it at school."

"Come to our place... Let's go and buy you a drink. There is a good store next to it. Our members often buy drinks here."

Chi Jingyuan beckoned, and then walked to a drink shop with a good reputation among EXO.

Zhou Ziyu carried his schoolbag back on his back, and obediently followed behind him while holding the schoolbag straps in both hands. At the same time, he looked at him curiously and asked:
"Do you often come here to buy?"

"I haven't been here much."

"Then how do you drink it?"

"Are you stupid?" Chi Jingyuan looked back at Wu Shixun and glanced at her: "I'll find someone to take her with me..."

"Uh...hehehe." After being glanced at by the other party with eyes like looking at the mentally retarded, Zhou Ziyu grinned at him with some embarrassment, and when he saw the other party shook his head, he turned around and hurried away, and then trotted away. up.

"What to drink?" Standing in front of this drink shop named 'brigde', Chi Jingyuan looked at the dazzling illustrations of drinks on the signboard at the door, and asked Zhou Ziyu beside him.

There just happened to be no one in line at the moment, only one or two sporadic customers.

"I can do anything." Zhou Ziyu looked at the menu for a while, then raised his head and said.

"Then let's make red bean milk tea." Chi Jingyuan nodded, took out the card from his bag and prepared to go to the counter to order, when a weak voice came after he took a step.

"Well, I don't really like eating red beans..." Zhou Ziyu looked at him timidly.

"Then Ziyu xi, what do you mean by 'anything'?" Chi Jingyuan smiled, turned around and looked wonderfully.

"Hey..." Zhou Ziyu managed to squeeze out a smile and lowered his neck.

"It's such an ugly smile... What are you drinking?"

"…………Just like you."

"Then let's have lemon tea...a big cup? Half sugar? OK." Chi Jingyuan breathed out, and after confirming, he went to the counter to order. After a while, he walked over with two cups of lemon tea and handed them to Zhou Ziyu had a drink, and the two of them walked away while tying straws.

Walking to the intersection of an alley and stopped, Chi Jingyuan stuffed the straw into the mask and bit it, took two sips comfortably, the sweet and sour taste seemed to dispel some fatigue.

Glancing at Zhou Ziyu next to him, he was about to say goodbye. After a while, EXO will start work in the afternoon, and Zhou Ziyu will definitely go to the company to practice.

At this moment, a man and a woman approached the corner not far from the side. As soon as the man showed his head, he saw Chi Jingyuan. After observing for two seconds, he speeded up and walked over. He patted Chi Jingyuan on the shoulder familiarly. Said: "Jing Yuan?"

"Brother Chanyeol?" Although the other party was also wearing a mask and hat, Chi Jingyuan recognized at a glance that the person who came was his teammate Park Chanyeol, and immediately took out his habits and greeted him with a smile.

Park Chanyeol just disappeared as soon as it was time for a break. I didn't expect to meet him here at this moment. What a coincidence.

"Jingyuan, are you here to buy drinks too?" Park Chanyeol looked at the cup in Chi Jingyuan's hand, and laughed cheerfully, looking in a good mood.

"Inside." Chi Jingyuan nodded.

At this time, the woman next to Park Chanyeol looked at Chi Jingyuan enthusiastically, and greeted Chi Jingyuan with a smile: "Yuan xi, I have always wanted to see you, I am Jin Yajing, Aniha Sai Yo."

Jin Yajing looks to be in her 20s, but the bright makeup on her face is not accurate. She has delicate features and a tall figure. Overall, she looks quite eye-catching, like an urban fashion beauty.

"Nai Niha Sai, nice to meet you." Chi Jingyuan also nodded and saluted, then looked at Park Chanyeol, and asked with his eyes: "Brother, this is..."

"..." Park Chanyeol didn't make a sound, but raised his eyebrows at him with his eyes bent, the meaning was already very clear.

It seems that Jin Yajing is the makeup artist that Wu Sehun said that Park Chanyeol is dating. Although she may be a little older than them, she is really pretty and has a good temperament.

I just didn't expect that Park Chanyeol would come out to make an appointment during his lunch break, which is really enough to hurry up... Of course, Chi Jingyuan himself is not qualified to say that others are just fine.

Chi Jingyuan and Jin Yajing exchanged a few polite greetings, Park Chanyeol saw Zhou Ziyu who didn't know what to say and looked at Chi Jingyuan narrowly, with a strange tone: "This is your Jingyuan... "

The final tone is deliberately elongated, with obvious playful intentions.

"Ani, he is a good friend of mine, and he is currently a trainee."

Zhou Ziyu pursed his lips and smiled a little embarrassedly, Chi Jingyuan shook his head and explained.

"Aniha Sai, I'm Zhou Ziyu." She looked a little nervous, and greeted her with a salute.

"Aniha Sai... a trainee? Is it from our company?"

"No, I'm from JYP."

Hearing that it was Chi Jingyuan's friend, Park Chanyeol and the two of them were also very face-saving, and took the initiative to chat with Zhou Ziyu with a smile, and Jin Yajing kept praising her, which made Zhou Ziyu face Shy words are not easy to say.

This little girl is indeed too young, she is really a little green, and she is also a little cynical.

"Then let's go first..." After chatting for a few words, Park Chanyeol and the two took the initiative to wave goodbye. When they passed by, he even gave Chi Jingyuan a wink and secretly gave him a thumbs up.

Looking at the backs of the two leaving, Chi Jingyuan knew that this brother must have misunderstood something.

But it doesn't matter.

"Okay, let's go first, get the ticket, I won't reissue it if I lose it."

Turning his head, Chi Jingyuan exhaled and said goodbye to Zhou Ziyu.

"Understood." Zhou Ziyu nodded, glanced at him, and then looked at the ground.

"By the way, I remember you saying that there are a few male trainees who have been courting you? What's the situation now? Why didn't they ask you to grab a ticket for you this time?"

Chi Jingyuan thought of something and asked curiously before leaving.

The life of a trainee is really exciting.

"You still remember... don't say they are really super naive."

"You are a little girl and still say that others are naive... Forget it, let's go."

"Goodbye then."

…………

"say waht"

"say wo wo"

"Absolutely absolutly absolutly."

It has been less than a week since the comeback, and at this time in SM's practice room, a few members of the EXO-K team seriously danced the "dope" stage once.

The members all had their own name tags on them, like Ji Jingyuan had a sign with the Korean word 'Yuan' hanging in front of him at this time, and the other members were the same.

All the procedures were rehearsed according to the formal performance stage, and the company's professional VJ followed the whole process.

This filming is for the production team of the TV station's singing program. The director and VJ of the production team will set up the camera positions according to the video sent, and when recording the song, they will also follow the process in the video.

This is very necessary, because if there is no such thing, the production team of the Dage program will not know how your stage shots are designed, what special arrangements are there, when to shoot C position, when to cut close shots, what At the time, Qi Wu's eyes were darkened.

Then people can only shoot casually according to their own experience and preferences...

Basically, in order to achieve the expected stage camera effect, each group of idols will shoot this video and send it to the TV station when they come back to play songs. EXO has filmed "wolf" and "Roar" before.

And wearing a name tag is to identify people, so that the PD and VJ of the program group can quickly recognize who is who in the video. After all, there are so many groups of idols participating in each episode, and it is normal for some faces not to be recognized.

Although they are people in the industry, in fact, many TV station staff don't have a deep understanding of idols, they only know some popular artists.

During the rehearsal of some large-scale evening parties, the artists will all wear name tags, so that people can know who they are.

However, there are some very famous and popular idols who no longer need to wear name tags to tell others their identities, such as Girls’ Generation.

At the end of last year during the song battle, Chi Jingyuan remembers very clearly that several groups of artists came to the rehearsal together, including their EXO, all of them wore name tags with their names written on them for the director to recognize, only a few younger sisters wore loose private clothes Standing in front of him collapsed, he didn't have anything on him.

Everyone knows them.

After a complete performance on the official stage, several members of the K team were a little tired.

But there is no time to rest now, and they immediately followed the staff to watch the process video just taken.

Although there is only one stage for the prelude, it also plays the role of appearance and head start, and the overall effect is still very important.And this time the stage design members have also watched it, and they are all very satisfied, and they are also looking forward to the effect after the stage broadcast.

To be honest, when the members discussed privately after the comeback plan was completed, a few people really felt that the song "dope" had too few stages, and it seemed a bit buried.

Like Chi Jingyuan, they also like the concept and style of this song.

"The effect is very good. The K team has this version. I will hand it over to mnet later."

After watching it twice and discussing with the company's stage planning teacher, Lee Seung-hwan clapped his hands and explained: "Kids, change your clothes and get ready. We will go to the studio to shoot the VCR right away. They are already waiting there. .”

"Nei, got it."

The few people who had just drank saliva quickly responded, took off the name tags, changed their clothes, went downstairs, got in the nanny car, and rushed to the shooting location.

As soon as Chi Jingyuan arrived at the studio, he saw an acquaintance.

"Senior Aniha Sai..." As soon as I entered, I met Jiang Seulqi who had been waiting for a long time. After seeing them, she quickly got up and bowed with a smile. Every move was very standard.

Apart from Ji Kyungwon and Oh Sehun, the other members of EXO basically know Jiang Seulgi, a trainee who has been practicing for almost seven years, but some of them are not very familiar.

The members who were walking in front nodded in return, and Chi Jingyuan and Wu Shixun who came behind looked at her with some surprises: "Seul Qi, are you here to shoot our concert VCR?"

"Neither." Seeing them, Jiang Seqi smiled innocently.

They need to shoot a lot of VCRs for this concert, and Jiang Seulqi participated in one of them, but the shooting time is very short, only about 5 seconds.

But still the same sentence, any opportunity to show your face before debut is very important and precious to trainees.

Except for the royal family who have no shortage of resources at all.

After that, the members went to make up and change their clothes in batches, and Ji Jingyuan, who was at the back of the line, took Jiang Seulqi and sat on the stool next to him and chatted. Oh Sehun and Do Kyungsoo sat beside him in the same row. Join in the fun together.

"........."

"There are more than a dozen people in the candidate group, and the evaluation will be conducted once a week. After a while, some people will be eliminated, and there may be new people coming in."

"The teachers are very strict, and they will be severely punished after making mistakes, but these are secondary, and it really doesn't matter compared to being eliminated and unable to make a debut, like me, I have been scolded many times. "

"I have to practice for more than ten hours every day, from morning to night, even in the early morning, no one is willing to leave, for fear that if I make slow progress, I will be eliminated."

"But everyone really doesn't care about these things, and now I have no other ideas other than working hard to make my debut..."

Jiang Seulqi and Chi Jingyuan kept pouring bitter water, telling about some things after joining SM's new girl group project recently, it can be seen that she has really worked hard, her skin is a little dry, and her complexion is normal, obviously recently Not very well rested.

But she is really full of energy. Even though her face is tired, her eyes are shining brightly, and her whole body is full of motivation, as if nothing can stop her from continuing to work hard.

Even though he was complaining, he didn't bring any complaints. On the contrary, there was obvious expectation and longing in his tone.

Sitting next to him, Chi Jingyuan chimed in from time to time.

He felt that the vigor in his relatives could influence people very much.

"It's really hard. We were in the same way when we were in the debut group. We practiced hard every day for fear of being eliminated."

Oh Sehun sighed with emotion, the scene before his eyes flashed, it seemed to return to the time when EXO debuted more than two years ago, they were exactly the same as Jiang Seulgi now.

"Yeah, at that time I was all stuck in the practice room, and it was better to compare who left later." Do Kyungsoo also added: "I couldn't sleep every day at that time, and when I went to bed, I looked at the board on my upper bunk. You have to be in a daze for a long time, and you can't even imagine what your expression will be if you are eliminated."

Entertainment companies like to use this method of elimination when they select their debut groups. First, they recruit a group of people to form a reserve group. Qualified to debut.

From Girls' Generation, to EXO, to this year's new girl group, it has always been this routine.

This method can stimulate the potential of the trainees to the greatest extent, allowing them to practice hard to improve their strength to reach the standard of debut, and at the same time, the sense of fear generated under such high pressure is easier to be managed by the company.

But also really cruel.

Chi Jingyuan was a bit out of touch with this topic, and as an airborne soldier, he was really not suitable to discuss this issue.

After listening to it for a while, and after the memories of the few people subsided a bit, he said with concern: "How are Seungwan and Zhuxuanxi doing recently?"

"Shengwan has been really angry lately. She was selected for her singing skills. Her dancing skills have always been a bit of a hindrance. Recently, she was severely trained by the teacher a few times. After crying a few times secretly, she is now almost living in practice. in the room."

Jiang Seqi shook her head, feeling a little distressed about her relative, she pursed her lips and then talked about Pei Zhuxuan:
"The same goes for Joohyun O'Neil. Her appearance evaluation is the best, but she is only average in the evaluation of other strengths, and she is the oldest of all the races in the reserve group. She has always been under great pressure. Frequent insomnia."

Images of Jiang Seulqi and the others' efforts seemed to appear in his mind, Chi Jingyuan was silent for a while, and sighed slowly:

"Debut..."

(End of this chapter)