59 Signing

However, before the live variety show, Stray still has two jobs to complete.

Fortunately, the event venues are all in the capital, so they can go back and forth on the same day, which won’t take up too much of their stage rehearsal time. One is a music festival on a certain platform on the eve of the Chinese New Year, and the other is the first signing session for the first album.

One thousand tickets for the signing event were randomly placed in the first batch of 80,000 albums sold. There are two dates for signing events on them, one before the New Year and one after the New Year, with 500 tickets each. This is only the first batch of signing tickets. When the second and third batches are shipped, there will also be an equal number of free tickets. There will be about four signings in total. If the fourth batch can be pre-sold, then one more will be added.

The admission tickets are strongly bound to the information logged in when the album was purchased, so whether you can get a signing ticket depends entirely on your own ability. Even if scalpers grab the tickets and resell them on behalf of others, they will not be able to enter. At most, fans who have drawn tickets can exchange them if the time is not right, and they have to apply to Yuanxin’s customer service.

Of course, although the chance is not high, it is possible that some European fans may draw multiple tickets, which means the duration is directly extended to signing two or three books at the same time. In theory, the more you buy, the greater the chance, which can also be regarded as a small means to promote sales.

Sure enough, after the first batch of albums were released, fans began posting their unboxing videos on public platforms and going crazy for the tickets. The pre-sale sales of the first album increased sharply again. Now it has entered the third batch of pre-sales, and it has been slaughtering all major charts.

As human beings, after seeing other people's success, they always have a bit of a gambler mentality.

The signing that Yuan Xiao had Stary practice for several months since their debut finally came in handy one day. She rented a small theater in the capital and placed a long table on the stage to arrange the first signing session. A total of 500 people lined up to enter the theater and interacted with Stary's five friends on the stage one by one. They could only sign one album and not other posters or other products. The time in front of each person had to be controlled within 30 seconds. If it exceeded, a staff member would remind them.

It’s not that Yuan Xiao was harsh. Even with such a tight schedule, it took several hours to sign 500 people. For Stary, this was the first tough battle after his debut.

Yuan Xiao specifically instructed that they must pause every hour to let them adjust for a while, touch up their makeup and drink water. This is because a book signing is not as simple as meeting offline and signing names. So many people have come from far away, and perhaps there is only a chance and fate to say a few words. Every idol should meet in the best spirit.

As for how to respond, the five of them were trained in advance, mainly on how to deal with possible malicious words. As for normal fan interactions and compliments, as long as they are sincere and 100% genuine, it will be fine.

In order to boost sales, most of the fan clubs and group fan clubs have issued tickets ranging from a few to more than a dozen. Only these autograph tickets have been reported to the company and can be re-entered. Each company has issued a lottery announcement, and the lottery will be drawn again according to the number of album purchases, offline event participation, and super topic level card qualifications, which can be regarded as an additional guarantee for the rich fans.

After verifying the admission ticket, there will be a security check to prevent offline anti-entry people from bringing in dangerous items. It is a bit like a subway entrance. Sharp objects cannot be brought in, and liquids must be drunk before being brought into the venue. Gifts for Stary can be labeled and placed here, and the staff will check and hand them over to each of them.

During the first half of the first game, the fan with the most tickets took out three tickets, which means she could bring three albums for signing. She got one thousand out of eighty thousand. The hit rate of this European emperor was so high that there were countless zeros after the decimal point. The moment she took them out, she caused a commotion in the team.

I have to say that the gap between people is sometimes too big.

Most of the fans who came to see their idols were dressed up. There were quite a few who wore wedding dresses, and the rest were mostly wearing blue. The girl at the head of the line was wearing a blue-purple long dress. Just by looking at the color, you could tell that she must be a fan of Su Chen.

Ten people will be allowed into the main venue of the signing event at a time. They will walk in front of five people before leaving. After entering, they can record or take photos. As the entry time gets closer, Ye Xinyi in the line becomes more and more nervous.

On her phone was a draft of what she wanted to say to each member of Stary, which she held tightly in her hand. Ye Xinyi was just an ordinary office worker, who had just graduated last year and found a white-collar job. Her usual hobby was chasing stars. Like many people here, she only knew Stary through the broadcast of the "I Love You" program.

She really liked the atmosphere between the five members and other trainees, and she cried so hard that her eyes were swollen on the debut day. The group was more Su Chen and Yu Le-oriented, and the others liked it too. Of course, she supported the album as soon as possible, but due to her limited financial conditions, she only supported one physical ticket and one digital ticket. So when the tickets for the autograph session were issued, Ye Xinyi couldn't even believe her eyes.

She took leave early and got up very early today. She put on the dress she had chosen for a long time and made an appointment to put on makeup to ensure that she could stand in front of her idol beautifully.

But when she actually entered the venue and saw the five of them, she was still overwhelmed by insecurity.

Their faces are so small, and even when they are sitting you can tell that their bodies are in perfect proportion. The muscle lines wrapped by their clothes are just right, not looking too strong nor too thin. The whole person seems to be glowing delicately, and you can smell a faint and comfortable scent of grass when you get close to them.

Ye Xinyi knew that she was just an ordinary girl, but compared with them, the gap was like the gap between heaven and earth, firefly and bright moon, which still made her feel empty inside.

After Pei Zijin signed the last person, he said a few words to her with a smile, and watched her go to the next person, Jin Zeyu. However, he did not receive the next person's album in his hand. He could not help but turn his head and gave Ye Xinyi a questioning look: "?"

She suddenly woke up from her dream, suppressed her frustration, and quickly opened the album in her hand and handed it to Pei Zijin, but she said nothing.

Pei Zijin quickly used a gold pen to write his signature on the album page, then looked up and asked the girl in front of him: "What's your name? Do you have anything to say to me?"

His eyes were so bright, and when he looked up at her, his smile was shallow and gentle, like the boundless blue lake under the Tianshan Mountains. Ye Xinyi was speechless for a moment, she just felt that he was really, really good.

It's just that she herself is too small and ordinary.

She completely forgot about the draft she had prepared in advance. Her mind was blank, and she instinctively followed Pei Zijin's words and spoke her mind: "My name is Xinyi... But it doesn't matter. You won't remember me."

"You are important." said the young idol in front of him.

This sentence aroused small suppressed screams from the people in the queue behind, but Pei Zijin did not look at them at this moment. Instead, he looked deeply at the girl in front of him: "Then can you let me look at you more? Tell me something about you, I want to remember you."

He asked: "Xinyi, where are you from?"

He asked: "Xinyi, what are your hobbies?"

He asked, "Xinyi, what's your favorite song? It doesn't have to be from the album."

Thirty seconds passed in a flash. At the end of the book signing, Pei Zijin waved at her and said, "Xinyi, you are very, very important. To me, it is because of you that we exist."

"See you next time, okay?"

Then it was Jin Zeyu, and then Yan Fan, Su Chen, and Yu Le. Each of them listened carefully to every word she said and looked at her. Only her. In these thirty seconds, it was as if there were only two of them left in the world. The pleasant voices called her name one after another, and made an appointment with her to meet again.

As Ye Xinyi walked out of the venue as if she was walking on clouds, there was only one thought recurring in her mind:

It's over, she will love Stary for the rest of her life.

Ye Xinyi herself didn't expect that after she posted the video of the signing event online, it would be quickly taken over by marketing accounts and even became a hot search: #Stary 吉他的戀人我是#. There was a lot of howling in the hot search square, and the little Stars who couldn't get tickets burst into tears. Many fans of other groups couldn't help but sigh that the food was so delicious. There were even fans who had been there who lamented that the withdrawal reaction was too unbearable while feeling Versailles.

Later, more videos from fans’ perspectives were released, with one fan asking Jin Zeyu, “Brother, what perfume are you wearing today? It smells so good, I want to buy it too.”

The man, whose hair had grown a little longer but was still cool, chuckled and said a niche English sign. He then reached out and held the hand of the girl in front of him, letting her rub her wrist against his: "I'll give you some."

One fan was so excited that she burst into tears in front of Yan Fan. Yan Fan did not try to dissuade her by saying that crying would make her look ugly. Instead, she patiently listened to all her sobbing and intermittent confessions. Then she asked the staff for tissues and asked her, "Can I wipe your tears?"

There are also fans who deliberately say cheesy love words to Su Chen in front of him, "You know you are good in every way, but you have one shortcoming, do you know what it is?"

He guessed the answer, his ears turned red with shyness, his eyes curved into crescents, but he still spoke up despite his shyness, satisfying all the fans' requests: "I want to make you short."

There were also fans who deliberately teased Yu Le in front of him, saying, "Call me sister."

The happy puppy stared at the camera with sparkling wet eyes without the slightest embarrassment, and shouted with a smile: "Sister, sister, will you always like me, sister?"

For a while, it seemed as if the entire short video platform was completely occupied by similar autographing videos. Even if the star-chasing girls were not worried, they couldn't help but secretly watch Stary's autographing videos. They tagged their own idols to learn from them and begged Yuanxin to release a tutorial to please fans.

The face-to-face signing can best reflect the bond between fans and idols. Many people put themselves in their shoes and couldn't help but get into Stary while browsing. They directly started to review the entire season of "I Have No Hope", grabbing albums while regretting missing out on so many limited edition peripherals.

This kind of 10,000 percent emotional value is so perfect that it is hard to imagine that this is something that can only be seen in the domestic entertainment industry. After the first signing session, no matter whether one got a ticket or not, everyone could not help but buy multiple physical albums, which brought the already slightly declining sales curve up again.

And this month Stary's hot search is not the only one. The music festival before the New Year was Stary's first red carpet after his debut. The entire idol department of Yuan Xin attached great importance to this event, because the red carpet will inevitably be related to the team's future fashion resources. Yuan Xiao followed from the fitting to the red carpet. The only part she couldn't do was stepping on the red carpet, so she could only give instructions on various situations in advance.

Originally, the organizer wanted to give the Best Newcomer Award. After all, based on this summer's results, no other group except Stary deserved the Best Newcomer Award this year. However, given Stary's horrific performance sweeping all major charts during this period, and the temporary addition of a new musician, two sets of acceptance speeches had to be prepared.

Yuan Xiao was also invited to attend this event, but she walked with the bosses. Yuan Xiao wore a well-cut aqua green long skirt and a thick plush coat on her upper body, which was warm and made her look bright and attractive. Against the backdrop of a group of bosses from various entertainment companies, she looked like a female star. Even the reporters at the scene couldn't help but take a few more photos of these people who they had no interest in before.

Yuan Xiao was walking on the red carpet under the constant flashes of light, and thought, ah, it's still fun to be a boss. If I want to walk the red carpet with a cold face, I can have a cold face. If I want to wear something thicker, I can wear something thicker. If I don't want to make any expression, people won't make blind assumptions about me.

It’s great to be a boss, I’ll do it again next time.