HPDBC Chapter 1291 Aren't they all the same?
Chapter 1291 Aren't they all the same?
Chapter 1291 Aren't they all the same?
"Oppa, can you come to Nayeon unnie's birthday on the 22nd of this month?"
Seeing the text message from Yoo Jeongyeon startled Ji Kyungwon. He picked up his phone and replied, "Is the 22nd Nayeon's birthday?"
Yoo Jeongyeon replied quickly: "Yeah, Oppa, you don't remember? Haha, please don't let Nayeon unnie know, she'll be really sad... We're planning to have dinner together and then go out to celebrate, Oppa, are you free?"
Seeing the long text message she sent left Chi Jingyuan speechless. To be honest, Chi Jingyuan really didn't know that this month was Lim Nayeon's birthday... Why would he remember that?
Of all the Twice members' birthdays, he only remembers Tzuyu's June 14th and Mina's March 24th. He has no recollection of the others... Although it's hard to say, it includes Jeongyeon.
Seeing the invitation from Yoo Jeongyeon, Ji Kyungwon inexplicably thought of the birthday wishes he received from Lim Nayeon, Yoo Jeongyeon, and many other Twice members earlier this year. In comparison, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
He thought for a moment and replied, "Well, I'm sorry I probably can't make it that day. We're flying to the US next week, and we should be in Los Angeles on the 22nd."
Because he was thinking about what had happened before, Chi Jingyuan's tone naturally carried a hint of apology.
However, Yoo Jeongyeon didn't seem to care, and replied after a short while: "What a pity, it's okay, oppa, maybe next time. But remember to send a text message, oppa!"
After receiving one message, before Chi Kyung-won could even finish reading it, Yoo Jeong-yeon sent another one: "If you're busy, Oppa, how about I buy you a gift for Nayeon unnie?"
Seeing Yoo Jeong-yeon's enthusiastic and thoughtful suggestion, Chi Kyung-won did not agree. He didn't know, so he didn't care. Now that he knew, he certainly wouldn't do something like buying gifts on his behalf.
After thinking for a moment, she replied, "I'll prepare the gift myself."
Although there were initial conflicts with anti-fans, after changing their views and getting to know each other, Ji Kyung-won actually had a pretty good impression of Lim Na-yeon.
Her pleasing appearance is one thing, but her rabbit-toothed personality is also quite endearing. Moreover, after getting to know her, he realized that Lim Nayeon isn't a very calculating person.
Or perhaps she has thoughts but can't hide them; her feelings are often written on her face. Even when she tries to hide them, it's easy for people to see that she's trying to cover them up. Despite being a female idol, she looks like a clueless newbie.
What's most interesting is her ability to join in the fun and her knack for flattery; she can provide emotional value to anyone, which makes her hard to dislike.
"Okay, thank you, Oppa, Nayeon unnie!"
After thanking him, Yu Dingyan didn't send any more messages. Ji Jingyuan, thinking about the message he had just received, pondered for a while and then called his assistant: "Brother, do you still have any Gengar bags left from the GUCCI collaboration?"
"Is that all? Then please order a special edition for me. For the embroidered signature, it should be the initials of Lim Nayeon, yes, Lim Nayeon, the Nayeon from Twice!"
"You can help me remember this, I might forget. After you finish making it, please deliver it to her directly for me. Oh, and put a happy birthday sticker inside. Just make it look nice."
"That's it."
Chi Jingyuan hung up the phone in less than two minutes, it was done.
For birthday gifts, you don't need to give anything too expensive to friends you know but aren't very close to. Luckily, they recently launched a collaboration with GUCCI, so there are readily available gifts, and they're so popular that it's hard to give anything out there.
Although these collaboration items are in high demand outside, and special editions are even rarer, they are all easy for Chi Kyung-won to obtain.
Although he knew that the most popular item was the Eevee paw pad bag, he had already given one to Tzuyu, so of course he couldn't give the same one to Nayeon. That would be too much of a waste; he wasn't stupid.
Moreover, he felt that Gengar really suited the rabbit-toothed look, and the ghost face was almost identical.
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"Look, it's done."
Meanwhile, in Twice's dorm, on Nayeon's bed, Yoo Jeongyeon showed her the text messages they had just exchanged. She tilted her head, raised an eyebrow, and smiled at Nayeon, the curve of her lips carrying a hint of reserved smugness, as if it were all effortless: "I told you to watch me, but you didn't believe me."
"Damn it, I completely forgot my birthday, and I even remembered his..."
However, after reading the text message, Lim Nayeon's first reaction was to pout and mutter complaints, giving off a feeling that her efforts were wasted.
After muttering to herself for a while, she frowned and said, "But I didn't plan on having any birthday party... What if he actually comes?"
"Then just have a birthday party, it's no big deal."
Yoo Jeongyeon said nonchalantly, "Just make plans with some friends. You're so popular, getting a few people together is easy. You mentioned Jisoo asked you out yesterday, right?"
After saying that, she waved her hand confidently: "Don't worry, Jingyuan oppa definitely won't come. Did you forget what they said in the group last month? They're going to America this month to release an album?"
"Oh? Really? I forgot."
Lim Nayeon's eyes widened, even showing a hint of admiration: "How did you know he wouldn't come but would still send a gift?"
"You've known him for so long, don't you understand? That's just how Kyungwon oppa is. He's absolutely fine with his friends, and he's very generous... as long as he remembers."
With a casual shrug, Yoo Jeongyeon said knowingly, "He'll definitely give you a gift as long as he knows it's your birthday, whether he comes or not... And with the recent GUCCI collaboration being so popular, these kinds of things are perfect as gifts, so there's a high probability he'll give you something like that."
"What if he doesn't send a joint gift, but sends something else?"
Nayeon unconsciously grinned, revealing her rabbit teeth, seemingly expectant, but then suddenly looked a little worried, blinking as she looked at her best friend beside her.
"That doesn't matter~"
But Yoo Jeongyeon shook her head nonchalantly, glancing at the flat, faded Benjira body pillow that Lim Nayeon was holding tightly in her arms, her chest pressed against it, and drawled out, "Anyway, for you..."
"Isn't it all the same whatever he gives me?"
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In EXO's practice room, Ji Kyung-won was wearing half an earphone, listening to music while overhearing the conversation of the members next to him. Kim Jong-in and Park Chan-yeol were talking about a group called LOONA, and it seemed that some of the members were quite good-looking.
However, Ji Jingyuan had never heard of this girl group, and he didn't know if they were too obscure or what.
"...What are you listening to?" At this moment, Wu Sehun came over with a few bottles of mineral water, handed one to Ji Jingyuan, sat down next to him, and asked curiously as he looked at Ji Jingyuan wearing headphones.
"When the Wind Blows," Ji Kyung-won replied casually.
"What?"
"Yoona's new song? Haven't you heard it?"
Chi Jingyuan frowned and looked over, giving him an expression that said, "You don't even know that I have nothing to say to you?"
He was listening to Yoona's new song, her latest solo track, which was released just a few days ago and is also the 23rd subway track of SM STATION Season 2 this year: "When The Wind Blows".
Yoona's music career is really going better and better. She has released a solo song for two consecutive years, and it's even available in both Chinese and Korean... Ji Kyung-won can't do that.
He had just seen the news that the online viewership of "God of War Zhao Yun," which his senior star starred in last year in mainland China, had exceeded 100 billion, which was absolutely astonishing.
My God, what does 10 billion clicks mean? It's equivalent to every person on the Korean Peninsula watching it 20 times. What incredible power that is!
In addition to this year's "The King in Love"...
She truly deserves to be called the ACE of Girls' Generation, achieving success in both film and music.
"I've heard of it, but I've never heard of it before..."
Seeing Ji Kyung-won's expression, Wu Sehun curiously borrowed an earphone from him and put it on, asking with great interest, "Is it good? Let me listen..."
Just thirty seconds later, his expression turned somewhat strange. He took off his headphones and looked at Chi Jingyuan: "This song... are you listening to it on repeat?"
"..."
Chi Jingyuan was silent for a few seconds. When the song was almost over, he took off his headphones and shook his head with a serious expression: "Ani... this is my first time listening to it too."
The two exchanged a glance, instantly feeling a sense of absurd amusement, and burst into laughter in perfect unison.
Wu Sehun watched as Ji Kyung-won wrote a serious comment under the song, laughing incessantly while inwardly cursing:
That jerk is so despicable.
They weren't given much time to rest; the backup dancers arrived soon after, and they started practicing again.
The new album, which is now ready for release in Europe and America, is almost ready. Ami's schedule has also been arranged and booked. All members of EXO will officially fly to the United States on the 16th to start their activities.
Both the company and EXO themselves have been looking forward to this expansion into overseas markets for a long time and are making preparations with utmost readiness.
However, due to the immense popularity of Japan, even when people go to the United States, they often have to fly back and forth between Japan and Japan. In comparison, the peninsula, which was originally the home base, seems to have been somewhat neglected.
...After all, when it comes to making money, whether it's Japan or Europe and America, the market is much larger than that of the Korean Peninsula.
"Jingyuan..."
After finishing practice and having a schedule meeting, Chi Jingyuan was about to leave when his manager, An Chengyuan, stopped him. An Chengyuan pulled Chi Jingyuan aside and, without beating around the bush, asked directly, "The company asked me to ask you if you have any free time to release a subway song?"
"what?"
Hearing his manager mention this suddenly caught Chi Jingyuan off guard, but he wasn't too surprised.
Last year's subway song project was quite successful, so naturally it's being launched again this year. Judging from SM's intentions, it seems they want to turn this into a large-scale, exclusive project that happens every year.
However, according to Ji Kyung-won's understanding and what he has heard, this project was quite popular last year and produced several hit songs, such as Kim Tae-yeon's "Rain", EXO's "Dancing King", and "Really Really" which he collaborated on with Yoo Jeong-yeon and Kang Seul-gi.
The last song, in particular, was a huge hit for a time.
Compared to last year, this year's subway project has a significantly smaller scale. Although quite a few songs have been released, including by Red Velvet, BoA, and EXO's Baekhyun and Minseok, there aren't many songs that have high popularity or widespread appeal.
For example, Yoona's solo song, that damn Oh Sehun, a junior in the same company, has never even heard of it.
Even so, the subway theme song is still a highly sought-after resource for many artists from companies that don't have many gigs, and they have to queue up to get on it... However, SM Entertainment didn't say anything and just took the initiative to arrange it for Ji Kyung-won, probably because they wanted him to come and give the subway project, which was a bit of a flop in the second season of this year, a boost.
"Do you have any of your own songs? If not, the company can provide some; you can choose whatever you like." Ahn Seung-won immediately offered a level of treatment that would make other SM artists green with envy.
"As for songs, yes, there are."
Chi Jingyuan thought about his music library; he had indeed added quite a few songs this year: "I just don't know if I'll have the time, or when I'll need them?"
"The end of the year or the beginning of next year is fine," An Chengyuan said with a smile. "It depends on your schedule. The company told me they can let you skip the line."
"This is not good, let's forget about it."
Chi Jingyuan smiled silently and waved his hand to decline. After a few seconds of contemplation, he nodded slightly: "Well... then I'll go back and take a look."
Chi Kyung-won didn't mind; releasing a subway theme song wouldn't take much effort. He hadn't released a song on Peninsula Music in a long time, and besides, the nature of this collaboration was quite interesting.
"Okay, let me know if you have any ideas."
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Although he agreed to the company's arrangements, Chi Jingyuan didn't take the subway song too seriously; he had more important things to do.
After finishing up there, he left the company and went directly to the agreed-upon coffee shop in his van... He had arranged to meet writer Cui Lan there yesterday.
When I pushed open the door, Cui Lan was already sitting by the window waiting. She was still dressed simply, her quiet temperament unchanged, but her face was noticeably more haggard, with faint dark circles under her eyes, as if she had been staying up for several nights. Strangely...
She was unusually excited, and her eyes lit up the moment she saw Chi Jingyuan, her smile revealing undisguised excitement.
"Did Writer Cui just come from the film set?"
Upon meeting, Chi Kyung-won greeted him with a smile and exchanged pleasantries: "I heard that 'The Grim Reaper' has already started filming?"
"Yes, filming started last week."
Cui Lan picked up her coffee and took a sip, her fingertips unconsciously rubbing the rim of the cup twice.
"You've worked hard, writing two scripts at the same time... Is it alright?"
"Don't worry, it won't happen." Cui Lan smiled and shook her head firmly, appearing completely unconcerned.
Chi Jingyuan, however, smiled without saying a word.
He'd never believe that. Writing two scripts at the same time definitely has an impact, since scripts require inspiration and energy.
However, as long as the progress and quality of "Mouse" are guaranteed, he doesn't care about anything else.
Judging from Cui Lan's incredibly energetic state, coupled with the script's completion status received yesterday, it's likely that she's already poured all her creative passion into their project.
"Jingyuan-xi."
Cui Lan suddenly leaned forward, placed her hands on her chin, and stared intently at him:
Have you read the script?