Chapter 64 N1NE’s summer ended before it even began.
April 1, 2025.
@N1NE official Weibo:
We regret to inform all fans who love N1NE that their contract will expire this month. Currently, the companies are discussing the renewal of the contract. Thank you for your continued support.
【Comment area】
@水工水隹:?
@Summer Never Ends: ????????
@只顾淮岚: Who allowed you to play this joke on April Fools' Day???
@岚亭集序: I'll give you fifty bucks to delete this post. @N1NE官方微博@景明传媒 Don't refuse a toast and then drink a forfeit.
- Forum·Did EN1N disband today?
[HOT·Some connections, a few words and then disband]
【1L·Owner】
The contract was only signed for half a year, and it is really going to expire from the date of debut.
【2L】
Why was it only signed for half a year? Wasn’t it originally agreed to be a one-year activity period?
【9L·Owner】
Before the talent show began, each company thought they would make money, but they didn't expect to make so much. They signed a six-month contract to test the waters first, and now they are not satisfied with the various revenue shares agreed upon at the time.
The money earned has to be divided equally and Jingming has to take a cut. You would rather take the person back and make the money yourself. I can only say that you are the first unlucky experimental subject. Jingming should learn a lesson in the next talent show.
【24L·Owner】
Oh yeah, when the first album was released, the company started to make a fuss, saying that the resources were not distributed evenly. Jingming didn't coordinate, and I suspect that they didn't plan to renew the contract from then on.
【51L·Owner】
How did it get to the question of whether they are a royal family or not... I don't think we should blame the royal family for being too royal. Even if all resources are divided equally, there will still be dissatisfaction. Fans are not fools.
Capitalists all want to make more money for themselves, and there is nothing they can do about it.
【127L·Owner】
Renewal of the contract is definitely impossible. Releasing this announcement in advance is purely to give fans some buffer time. You can't just say "Hello, Sister Jiu! N1NE is disbanding!" right away, right?
We started discussing contract renewal in March, but there has been no result so far. Instead of hoping that the capitalists will suddenly change their minds in the next few days, it is better to hope that a powerful rich woman will come along and redeem all the investors from the original company. Of course, this is also a fantasy moment.
【172L·Owner】
The good news is that there is still a mini album to be released... but now it looks like it will become a disbandment album, which is a bit hellish.
【242L·Owner】
If the discussion turns out well, there might be a farewell concert. I don’t know either, and I’m still waiting for news.
【579L·Owner】
My brothers strongly requested to hold a disbandment concert. We will probably disband after the tour in May. I won’t say the rest.
【642L】
We are the people... team spirit...
【661L】
Can they regroup and name themselves EN1N? They regrouped today. I cried and then I laughed.
【680L】
I've been crying since I woke up in the morning and saw the news. I'm really devastated. I've never been a fan with such a genuine feeling. Although I sometimes call them nicknames, I really love them. I feel like I will never like any other group as much as I like N1NE.
【713L】
In fact, I think that a short-lived success like this is better than a messy ending. At least the memories of it are beautiful.
April 4th.
@N1NE official Weibo:
We regret to inform all fans who love N1NE that N1NE has confirmed that he will not renew his contract.
This month they will release their final disbandment album "Four Seasons", and tickets for their disbandment concert in May are now available. [link]
Jiang Huai opened Weibo, and after reposting the disbandment Weibo as required by the company, he called on fans not to bring personal light sticks to the concert. He couldn't help but sigh.
[Why, there's only one and a half months left before we disband, and you're sad now?] The system asked.
[The word sad sounds like youth pain literature,] Jiang Huai laughed, [How should I put it...]
[I feel a little reluctant.] He said.
819 quietly listened to Jiang Huai talking slowly, rarely interrupting: [I always feel that time has passed too quickly. Although we are so familiar with each other that we have known each other for several years, it feels like we just met yesterday. It's quite contradictory. ]
[Sometimes I feel like this dormitory is like home. Even if I am working alone, there is always someone lying or sitting on the sofa when I come home. I feel at ease when I open the door and see them.]
[This contradiction is actually very normal,] 819 said calmly and rationally, [Human emotions are often made up of these seemingly contradictory feelings.]
It quickly jumped up again: [But speaking of home...your brother is still waiting for you at home! Have you forgotten about your brother who has been working quietly? ]
Jiang Huai was silent for a moment, and after two or three minutes he replied: [Indeed.]
When he looked up again, he could no longer see the depression he had just felt. Jiang Huai smiled: [Any place where I am waiting for you is of course home.]
On April 20, N1NE's disbandment album "Four Seasons" was released.
As the name suggests, there are four songs in the album, "Winter", the title song "Spring", "Endless Summer" and "One Leaf Tells Autumn".
During this time, the nine members of N1NE were busy preparing for their disbandment concert.
Since there was no original plan to go on tour, Jingming only made a simple draft.
Before the first disbanding concert on Labor Day, the nine members and staff worked overtime intensively for more than half a month, rushing to complete all the preparations. They only had a good rest for one day before continuing the non-stop tour.
May 25th, the day of the last disbanding concert.
Since the morning, a long queue has formed outside the venue to distribute free items.
Perhaps because they saw that the group was about to be disbanded, the group fans stood up for a rare moment. Facing the big screen in the concert venue was a group photo of the nine members of N1NE, and the rest were cheers from fans of each group.
Nine people paid out of their own pockets to support nine concerts, giving away N1NE's first group-agent cosmetics gift box. With a total of over 100,000 people mobilized, it was a huge sum of money.
Since the first concert of the tour, Weibo has been filled with the wailing of fans, and now it has finally come to the very end. The venue is packed with 20,000 people, and there are still many fans without tickets waiting outside, preparing to listen to the concert from across the venue.
Several people backstage were in a depressed mood; even the usually cheerful Ruan Qiao couldn't muster up any energy.
Captain Wei Xiuyuan clapped his hands and said, "Cheer up, everyone. This is the last game, let's end it well."
Jiang Huai hummed, nodded, and asked seriously: "What are we going to eat tonight?"
"Haidilao, Haidilao!" Si Xi helped him liven up the atmosphere. "If we disband, we won't be able to take advantage of Jianyuan and Ruanqiao's college student discounts. Hurry up and enjoy the 31% discount!"
As the show time approached, the nine people walked out of the backstage and into the passage where they could hear the cheers and screams of the fans outside.
The sound was like waves, echoing in the huge venue and then merging with the next wave of cheers and screams. Even though I had heard it many times, it still made my heart surge.
The nine people looked at each other and then walked towards the stage with determination.
It starts with "Let's Go Now!" and ends with "Ephemera".
N1NE released more than 20 songs during their short activity period of less than a year, which was as short as a mayfly. Add to that the performance songs during the audition and the small group songs they urgently rehearsed for the disbanding concert, and the three-hour duration was filled up.
Fans shouted "Encore, Encore" and the nine members returned to the stage, this time performing their final disbandment album.
The last song of the encore was "Endless Summer", the soft melody gently brushed through the hearts of everyone present like a breeze.
The number 9-shaped cheering sticks in the fans' hands swayed gently with the music, just like the twinkling stars in the summer night.
Jiang Huai walked on the stage, swaying to the rhythm and waving to the audience.
His eyes had already become wet, he wiped away the tears with his sleeve, tried to calm down and open his eyes wide, wanting to see the last part of N1NE more clearly.
"Oh, Endless Summer, our story will be treasured forever—"
The fans’ chorus had already drowned out the singing of the people on the stage, and the big screen began to play every bit of N1NE’s past six months.
Laughter, tears, challenges and touching moments are all limited memories that will only happen once.
As the song came to an end, the nine members walked to the front of the stage, held hands and bowed deeply to the fans below the stage.
The cheers and applause from the fans are like the tide, lasting forever, but there still has to be a moment when it ends.
N1NE’s summer ended before it even began.
After the concert was over and the cleaning was done, it was already early morning. The nine of us took our last group photo under the big screen opposite the venue. Nine different faces were smiling in the middle of the night, similar to and yet different from the ones on the screen behind us.
They drank some wine, which was a rare occasion, while eating at Haidilao.
Ruan Qiao drank only half a bottle of beer and then started talking nonsense. He shouted to Yu Lan, "I don't want to leave you. I want to sleep in the same bunk bed with you for the rest of my life." Then he said to Jian Yuan, "I want to drop out of school, repeat the college entrance examination and be your junior." Lin Yuanbai, who was standing next to him, hit him hard on the head.
Yu Lan drank a lot, but his eyes were clear, but his cheeks were slightly red. He had just dealt with Ruan Qiao when Si Xi grabbed his arm and asked, "So why did you refuse my invitation to be gay?"
Jian Yuan asked in bewilderment what this meant. Jiang Huai held Si Xi's forehead and pulled him off Yu Lan. He turned to Jian Yuan and explained, "Did he come to you to sell homosexuality on the day of the second evaluation?"
Si Xi let go of Yu Lan and turned around to pull Jiang Huai. Jiang Huai was busy fighting with the mad prince while telling the story: "He first approached Yu Lan, but Yu Lan said she wouldn't sell it. Then he approached me, but I didn't sell it either. I guess he approached you third time."
Jian Yuan looked calm, he just took advantage of the situation to pull Si Xi's face twice, and said in a fragile manner, "Master, you have hurt me so much!"
Jiang Huai deeply suspected that Jian Yuan was also drunk, and he found evidence - when he asked Jian Yuan if he was a little drunk, the other party insisted that he was sober, and it was clear that he was drunk but didn't know it.
Sheng Mingzhi had been listening quietly at the side, and suddenly asked, "Why don't you think he came to see me?"
Shan Tonghe beside him asked in confusion: "No, how come you were also infected by them?"
Captain Wei Xiuyuan made the final conclusion: "Maybe it's the team's characteristic."
Lin Yuanbai listened for a long time but didn't get the answer: "So why did Yu Lan reject Si Xi?"
In the two days after the dinner, Jiang Huai watched his teammates move out of the dormitory one by one.
Although they have parted ways to some extent, the small group of nine people still makes noises every day.
Having learned from the experience of the proxy photography downstairs last time, Yu Lan took a taxi back to Chu Yuanqing first this time.
Jiang Huai returned the dormitory key to Jing Ming alone, and got a new single apartment key from Sang Hong.
Sang Hong said that they could take a break for the next half month. Jiang Huai indeed hadn't had a good rest for a while. After nodding in agreement, he returned to the familiar Chu Yuanqing Apartment.
In fact, he could already afford to buy a house after the group disbanded, but he just didn't think there was any need to live alone.
What's more, Chu Yuanqing's apartment is indeed more lively, after all, there are people living there all year round.
On the first day of his vacation, Jiang Huai went out for a stroll in the market. After decorating the apartment, which was once described as a "model house decoration" in the live broadcast, from the living room to the bedroom, it now looks like a real home.
[You should buy the upstairs and connect it to make a duplex.] The system commented, [Otherwise, if you have more and more vests in the future, what will you do if this house can no longer accommodate them?]
Jiang Huai fully interprets what Grandet is: [When I make a vest, I will write it in the background, so I don’t have to spend my own money. 】
[…I don’t know why you don’t spend the money you earn. You can’t build yourself a crystal coffin.] The system was speechless about his behavior of taking advantage of others, and asked, [What will happen to Yu Lan next?]
In fact, as soon as the news of N1NE's disbandment came out, many companies came to contact Yu Lan, but most of them still wanted to go for the boy group idol route.
Jiang Huai and 819 looked at several contracts together and felt that at least six out of ten were attempts to trick Yu Lan into going to their company to tow a plane with new teammates she didn't know.
But the same thing applies - he worked hard to build up from nothing to his debut, and gradually grew into the vest he is today, so how could he let others suck his blood?
[Three days ago, Sang Hong asked me if Yu Lan had found a new team, and if I had any idea to sign Jing Ming.] Jiang Huai touched his wrist bones twice, thinking, [Signing Jing Ming is definitely not an option... The company has so many resources, and if I were to suck their blood, I would be putting the cart before the horse, not to mention that our fans would definitely fight. I don't want to be forced to purify CP fans like this.]
[And at least 60% of the CP fans will be converted into Yu Lan’s fans.] 819 rolled his eyes and pointed, [I told you at the time that there was no need to let Yu Lan debut. She should have run away after sucking blood from the talent show to the last round. But you said you felt sorry for Yu Lan’s fans. Now it’s even more difficult.]
Jiang Huai sighed silently: [There should be more companies coming to us in the next few days, let's wait a little longer. ]
Unfortunately, after waiting for a week, there was no better option.
[Go back and be a model.] Jiang Huai finally said helplessly, [Bernardo happens to have fashion resources as well, which are not related to Elysium and me. It should be enough for Yu Lan to shoot print magazines, etc.?]
[I'll take some time to record some cover songs and dances on his account to review his idol's job. I guess I'll have to contact Jingming about the stage, I think he should be able to borrow it.] Although the old boss doesn't know how to adapt, he is still very humane. [If there are other jobs that come to him, we'll see the specific situation.]
[If you have money, you have resources. You will definitely have enough money.] 819 said, [But this fashion resource...]
It gritted its teeth: [Let me come to work and open a personal studio for him, right? ]
[The greatest system in the world, the immortal pinnacle in the history of artificial intelligence, the genius 819! ] Jiang Huai pretended to be pitiful and pleaded, [Please. ]
[Alas, since you are begging me so much...] 819 was so happy that he was overjoyed. Only the cold mechanical voice still maintained some pride and reserve. The tone of his voice seemed to be very reluctant. [It's not impossible.]
Three days later, Yu Lan's fans began to celebrate the establishment of her new personal studio. Louis Bernard, a mysterious French tycoon with an unknown background, quietly gained another fortune.
[What would fans think if they found out that Yu Lan Studio was Bernard's asset?] 819 asked suddenly, [That would be a mess.]
[Don't be such a pessimist.] Jiang Huai held his forehead, [If nothing else, I can just say that Bernard loves Yu Lan because he loves her so much. He decided to help Yu Lan for my sake. That's pretty reasonable... right?]
[You must be feeling guilty about this.] 819 hit the nail on the head, [But it doesn’t matter, after all, you are his muse! His inspiration!]
[There is no need to read this suddenly...]
Vacation time is always happy and short, passing away like a sweet dream.
Jiang Huai didn't get to enjoy a few more days of vacation. After arranging all the miscellaneous tasks for the opening of Yu Lan's personal studio, 819 freed up his hands to manage Elysium.
Elysium was progressing very quickly, and with the 819 contractor urging them to start work, Jiang Huai arranged new work for himself almost non-stop.
On June 7, fans who had just been silent for a few days saw new news about Jiang Huai.
@Elysium Paradise:
Global brand spokesperson @江淮 will attend the brand flash event next Sunday.
Flash event reservation direct link [link]
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