HPDBC Chapter 1367 is good!
Chapter 1367 is good!
Chapter 1367 is good!
"The Horizon of the Events?"
Upon hearing the song title, Jung Eun-ji looked puzzled and conflicted: "Why is this name so strange? How are the words 'event' and 'horizon' connected?"
As she spoke, she picked up the sheet music and continued, "The lyrics are also strange. Although they are all beautiful sentences, I can't understand what they mean."
"The Event Horizon, originally titled 'Event Horizon,' is an astronomical term referring to the ring of light surrounding a black hole that is not absorbed by it..."
"This boundary has a cruel characteristic: once you cross it, there is no turning back. Even the fastest light cannot escape it. The past, the future, and causality all end here."
Under Jung Eun-ji's questioning gaze, Ji Kyung-won began to explain, giving a skillful and detailed account of the song title's origin and meaning:
"The words used in the song title and in the song itself can be understood as: a relationship has come to an end, you no longer contact each other, and you can no longer perceive each other, as if you have been sucked into a black hole."
And the various memories you share are like the event horizon surrounding a black hole, also known as the 'event horizon'.
Although you can no longer meet across the event horizon, you know she's still there, and your feelings and memories won't disappear. Accept this ending with equanimity and sincerity, wish each other well, and carry your cherished memories across the event horizon to continue exploring your own universe...
"So the main theme of this song is actually very beautiful and healing."
After giving a lengthy explanation, Ji Jingyuan pursed his lips and looked at Jung Eunji, who tilted her head slightly, as if waiting for praise and admiration.
It's worth noting that he researched a lot of information and put a lot of effort into creating this concept and lyrics. Compared to those baby-friendly K-pop songs, this song's literary and artistic theme and lyrics seem completely out of place, yet they are extremely eye-catching.
"..."
However, the praise that Chi Kyung-won had expected did not come. After listening to his explanation, Jung Eun-ji's eyes seemed to be filled with even more doubt. She looked at him with her mouth slightly open, as if she did not understand at all.
"Did you understand?" Chi Jingyuan asked, unwilling to give up.
"What do you think?" the Busan woman asked in return.
"Ah, it really is..."
Ji Jingyuan was dissatisfied and wanted to launch an attack, but before he could utter the words "country bumpkin," he was stopped by Jung Eunji's murderous glare.
"You spoke a bit too fast, I didn't quite understand, I can only say I understand a little bit."
After glaring at him, Jung Eunji looked at the lyrics in her hand and said seriously, "But it does sound really nice, very stylish, especially your last sentence..."
"Accept it with equanimity and acceptance..." Jung Eun-ji repeated Ji Kyung-won's summary, seemingly very fond of the theme. She excitedly looked at the lyrics again: "It's so cool... I'll study it some more when I get back later. Don't worry, I won't let such a good theme go to waste."
"Whoo~"
Ji Jingyuan pouted slightly and blew a breath. Jung Eunji's sincere praise and the excitement on her face were the best compliments for him. After thinking for a moment, he added:
"However, this is just the initial lyrics. If we start collaborating soon and the song is released next month, which is winter and the end of the year, I plan to make some minor changes to the lyrics and add some lyrics with winter elements, such as 'aurus' and 'planet,' which might make it better."
People on the peninsula have a habit of listening to songs that correspond to the seasons.
"I think it's already very good as it is..."
Jung Eun-ji looked at the sheet music in her hand and said that she had just been indifferent because she didn't quite understand it, but now she seemed to really like the theme and lyrics.
But she only said that, and quickly added, "But you decide what to do... just don't change the essence of the original."
"Don't worry, don't you know my skill level?"
Chi Jingyuan waved his hand confidently, picked up the sheet music and glanced at it, already having an idea and inspiration in mind.
After looking at it for a while, he suddenly remembered something, looked up at Jung Eun-ji who was also looking at the sheet music, and broke the quiet atmosphere: "Oh, right..."
After Jung Eun-ji looked over, he formally asked, "What do you think of this song? Do you want to sing it?"
"..."
Hearing such a stupid question made Jung Eun-ji roll her eyes.
I've been praising this song for ages, why am I wasting my breath talking to you if you're not going to sing it?
Can't you tell how much I love this song?
However, since her good friend had been so considerate in presenting her with such a song that was right to her liking, Jung Eunji was grateful but didn't want to argue with him. She nodded and replied seriously, "Sing it? Of course I'll sing it. You said that even if it's not a very good song, I can't not sing it, let alone such an interesting one."
After saying that, she looked down at the lyrics and clicked her tongue again: "This song is amazing, it's really different from many other K-pop songs."
"Because the music and arrangement are geared towards Jpop style."
Chi Jingyuan nodded, a hint of smugness in his voice: "Then it's settled, oh wait..."
Before he could finish speaking, he changed his mind and looked at Jung Eun-ji with a strange gaze: "Do you want to... talk to your company about this?"
This woman only received the news yesterday and came today. She was just auditioning and didn't bring her manager. But if we're really going to work together, we'll need to let her agency know.
...Jung Eun-ji is not like Ji Kyung-won, who can make decisions on his own.
"Hey, what kind of look is that? Don't look down on me!"
Sensing Ji Jingyuan's meaning, Jung Eunji instantly became agitated. She put down the sheet music and shouted indignantly, "I'm practically a pillar of our company now, okay? I can make the decisions on this matter myself!"
After saying that, she took out her phone from her bag and stormed out, leaving behind the words, "Wait!"
Clearly, this woman was on the phone with her agency.
Chi Jingyuan smiled as he watched her leave, then took out his phone and called his manager, An Chengyuan, to discuss the song collaboration and inquire about the scheduling of the subway song.
SM artists have to queue up to participate in the subway song project. Many of them finish their songs a long time in advance and wait in line for their songs to be released.
About ten minutes later, just as Chi Jingyuan finished discussing with An Chengyuan and hung up the phone, Jung Eunji returned, pretending to be a big sister and tossing her phone aside: "It's all settled... I told the company I'd do a feature on a friend's new song, and they kept asking me who I was with. I just said you, and they immediately stopped talking."
When Chi Jingyuan heard this, she almost burst out laughing... How dare she put on such an older sister attitude?
"That's fine... Let's divide the parts first, so you can practice directly when you get back."
However, he didn't say much. Instead, he picked up the sheet music and started dividing the parts: "The first verse, from the line 'remembering us that day,' all the way to the chorus..."
"However, the second verse begins here."
"Let's sing the last chorus together."
Jung Eunji quickly took out a pen, listened carefully to Ji Kyung-won's words, marked them on the sheet music, and underlined her own lyrics. After glancing at them, she asked hesitantly, "Isn't my part a bit too much? Isn't it supposed to be a feature? If this is any more, it'll be almost like a chorus."
"It doesn't matter, both male and female voices have great flavor in this song."
Chi Jingyuan, however, thought it was a good idea: "When this song was first written, I thought it was more suitable for girls, but after I sang a demo myself, I found it to be quite good as well."
After saying that, he glanced at the lyrics allocation and quickly made a decision: "Let's divide it like this... If we don't count the chorus and harmonies in the final chorus, your singing part isn't actually that much."
Seeing this, Jung Eun-ji didn't say anything more and nodded in agreement.
"I just asked my manager about the song's release schedule, and the company has allowed us to skip the deadline and release the song next month. Since the subway songs are always released on Fridays, the 22nd or 29th of next month would be good dates."
Ji Kyung-won also talked about the song release arrangements... If he wanted to release a song, SM immediately agreed and said he could jump the queue at any time. Other artists who had been waiting in line for a long time would definitely be extremely envious of this kind of treatment.
However, Ji Kyung-won's subway line project was arranged by his company a long time ago, so it can't be entirely considered as cutting in line.
“But after the script reading meeting that day, I’ll be joining the crew. I’ll be very busy from the beginning of next month until the end of the year. Didn’t you also take on a new role and join the crew?”
As he spoke, Ji Kyung-won glanced at Jung Eun-ji, and after receiving her nod of confirmation, continued, "So we won't be free for a while, so we need to speed up the production of this song and finish it as quickly as possible in the next few days."
"I'm all set. I'll go back and start practicing in a bit, and we can record tomorrow."
Upon hearing this, Jung Eun-ji confidently gave an OK sign.
"Then we'll practice today, record tomorrow, and if the location scouting goes smoothly the day after, we'll shoot the music video directly." Chi Jingyuan laughed as well.
"Let me show you SM speed~"
Jung Eunji gave him a disdainful look, then smiled as well.
"Isn't that Chi Jingyuan's speed?"
…………
After agreeing on a recording time for tomorrow, Jung Eun-ji took the sheet music and left to practice, while Ji Kyung-won was already very familiar with the music and didn't need to practice. However, he needed to come up with ideas for the music video shoot.
He had just tidied up the music room and hadn't even started working when his phone rang. He picked it up and saw it was Chou Tzu-yu calling.
"Hello~"
Chi Jingyuan, holding the phone, sat down in front of the computer and lazily asked, "What?"
"You're awake~"
Hearing Chi Jingyuan's voice, Zhou Ziyu seemed a little happy, and her usual cheeky tone became much more lively: "I was worried that you were still sleeping."
"Do you think I'm a pig? That I can sleep until the afternoon?" Chi Jingyuan retorted directly, but as soon as he finished speaking, he couldn't help but open his mouth and yawn deeply.
"Hehe, see, you've been exposed!"
Upon hearing the noise, Chou Tzu-yu giggled like a puppy, then explained in a serious tone, "Because you were very drunk yesterday, people like that need to sleep for a long time."
As she spoke, her tone changed, and she asked tentatively with some curiosity, "By the way, why did you drink so much yesterday?"
"Happy~" Chi Jingyuan smacked his lips.
For some reason, I was very motivated when I was talking to Jung Eunji about work, but now that I hear Tzuyu's voice, I feel sleepy.
"So happy? I've never seen you drunk before~"
"Who told you I was drunk? I wasn't drunk, I was just asleep."
"Hahaha, you're lying!"
Zhou Ziyu didn't believe Chi Jingyuan at all, and instead couldn't help but giggle: "I saw you in the video, head down, leaning against the wall without moving, like this, like this, haha..."
She was clearly imitating Chi Jingyuan's actions from last night. Although he couldn't hear it over the phone, the scene seemed to appear easily in Chi Jingyuan's mind.
"..."
But it was still a little embarrassing that the lie was exposed so easily. He paused for a moment, then stubbornly said, "You've got it wrong."
"Then I must have misread it! Ah, I misread it! I misread it!"
But Chou Tzu-yu didn't hesitate at all. Instead, she went along with his wishes and, after making a few pretentious remarks, asked in a soft, cheerful voice, "So, after drinking it, are you feeling a little better now?"
"It was getting a little better~"
Hearing Zhou Ziyu's lively tone and sensing the energy of this dark-skinned girl, Ji Jingyuan couldn't help but laugh, but his voice was deliberately a little low.
"Ok?"
"But seeing you makes me feel bad~"
"Tch, I don't believe it."
Such childish words no longer bother Chou Tzu-yu at all; instead, they sound like a mood booster to her. She said with certainty, "Your mood must have improved a little after seeing me."
"So narcissistic?" Chi Jingyuan said with a disdainful tone, but a smile quietly crept onto his lips.
However, the next second, Chou Tzu-yu came through the phone in a pretentious tone, mimicking a baby voice, making her voice flat and soft, and deliberately dragging out the last syllable: "Because seeing Tzu-yu makes me feel better, Tzu-yu, Chou Tzu-yu."
"Ugh~"
Hearing that voice, Chi Jingyuan got goosebumps and trembled. He was now genuinely disgusted: "Who taught you that?"
"Hahahaha~" Zhou Ziyu seemed to know that her voice sounded artificial, and she couldn't help but burst into laughter as soon as she finished speaking. Her voice was transmitted through the microphone to Chi Jingyuan and seemed to make the surrounding air jump a little.
I must say, talking to her on the phone for a while really made me feel a lot more relaxed.
"Come to think of it, I've never even had a drink with you before~"
After laughing, she suddenly fell silent. A few seconds later, Chou Tzu-yu suddenly spoke again, seemingly just mentioning it casually.
But Chi Jingyuan immediately recognized her voice: "I'll take you with me next time."
"Good~"
…………
Now that the collaboration on this subway song was finalized, Ji Kyung-won put all his effort into it. After parting ways with Jung Eun-ji, he communicated with his company about the specifics of the recording and music video.
...Due to time constraints, and since it's just a subway song, Ji Kyung-won doesn't plan to make the music video too complicated. He mainly plans to shoot outdoor night scenes that match the style and vibe of the song.
Although time was tight, both Ji Kyung-won and Jung Eun-ji were very focused and had solid work abilities.
The rehearsal period was actually very short, but perhaps because they were so familiar with each other and had worked together before, Ji Kyung-won and Jung Eun-ji had excellent chemistry when singing. In some parts, they even seemed to have a telepathic connection, so the recording went very smoothly.
Although it wasn't as fast as Ji Kyung-won had boasted, the recording of "Horizon of Events" was completed on the afternoon of the third day.
To be honest, this song is actually quite difficult to sing and requires a high level of singing skills. It's only because Ji Kyung-won and Jung Eun-ji are both idols known for their singing abilities that it's so hard to imagine any other idol doing it.
Ji Kyung-won had been focusing his energy on this for the past few days. The night after the recording was completed, the filming location for the music video was finalized, and filming finally began.
"The view and scenery here are really nice..."
Standing on the rooftop of a six-story building in the JB district, looking out at the distant night view, Chi Jingyuan muttered to himself.