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It's funny, really. YL's agency never intended to put much effort into Yi An's farewell concert. They didn't spend much on promotion or put in much effort.
However, because of the commotion caused by Ruan Zhishi's fans, the farewell concert that no one cared about suddenly became one of the top three trending topics.
The combined efforts of the two fan groups made Yi An's farewell concert tickets sell exceptionally well, saving the company a significant amount of advertising costs.
The Champion issue trended on Weibo from the beginning of the month to the end. The company originally didn't plan to do any public relations work, but with three out of the seven members leaving, they had no choice but to issue a statement to give fans an answer to avoid further trouble.
On July 15, 2012, at Yi An's farewell concert, which was also the last time the Champion members performed together since their debut two and a half years ago.
Outside the Ernan Stadium in H country, countless Champion fans gathered.
Unlike their previous concerts, they were unusually quiet today, knowing it was a grand farewell and that they might never meet again. They cherished these three hours in the venue.
Just like the concert on their debut day, the performance started with three group songs. When their hit song "Live" played, the audience of 10,000 people sang along, enveloping the seven members tightly.
The song, which was originally full of passion and fervor, became tender and affectionate when the camera panned across the audience below the stage, and everyone's eyes welled up with tears.
The last line of the lyrics was no longer "live my life" but "I wish you peace and happiness in every day," sending all the peace and joy to the fans who came to the venue, as well as those who were unable to attend but watched the performance online.
Xu Changjia stared at the person on the stage whom she hadn't seen in a long time. He had lost weight and didn't look as energetic as when she had seen him recently. It seemed that she still had to help him fulfill his wish as soon as possible and let him return to China to develop his career.
The sweat they shed on stage mingled with the tears welling up in the eyes of the audience, as if they had tasted all the joys and sorrows of the past thousand days, and after savoring it all, there was a lingering sweetness.
After all the performances were over, ten minutes were allotted for each member to share their thoughts.
Team leader Chu Tai remained as proper and disciplined as ever. If one didn't look closely and notice his hands trembling as he gripped the microphone, who would know that this composed man also harbored a passionate and tender-hearted soul?
Zheng Ruoqian, who has been trending on Weibo for so long without a positive response, finally has a chance to speak out for himself.
Before he could even begin to speak, the fans in the audience shouted, "Don't cry! We'll always be there for you!"
Countless green light signs were raised, giving him the chance to say "goodbye" with a choked voice.
With tears in his eyes, he gave fans the answer they had been wanting to know for a long time: he was going back to China to develop his career, and the company was giving him the opportunity to open his own studio in China. He would not leave the group, and Champion had always been the brightest light in his heart.
The moment he bowed ninety degrees and walked backstage marked the successful conclusion of his dream-chasing journey in Country H.
For the rest of his life, the era of the Champion's assassins came to an end.
From then on, he was just Zheng Ruoqian, just Zheng Ruoqian, a male singer in the Chinese music scene.
After he left, Yi'an, who was going to serve in the military, came to say a final goodbye to everyone.
Compared to the eerie silence when Ruan Zhishi came on stage earlier, where even when he asked for a photo and shouted slogans, there was only a few scattered voices, the fans were much more enthusiastic towards him.
Xu Changjia's phone rang; it was a message from Jiang Shuyun, who was sitting at the scene.
She was really going to cry her eyes out at the scene. The boy band she had been following for so long was going to disband, and they had to deliver such a cruel blow to her before they parted ways. Her youth was coming to an end like this.
Xu Changjia called her several times, but couldn't find the right words to comfort her. When he saw another WeChat message coming in, he stopped replying.
It was a message from her senior, Wenxuanyi, inviting her to be an intern at a TV station to gain some work experience.
He has worked at the TV station for nearly two years and has successfully transitioned from a junior intern to a full-time employee. He started as an on-camera reporter and has accumulated some experience in performing well in front of the camera and adapting to unexpected situations.
He later rose through the ranks to become an assistant host, helping to host the entire program. Now he can independently host the TV station's legal program, "Xiaofa Time: Essential Life Lessons."
Thanks to Wen Xuanyi's rise to prominence on the television station and his emergence in front of the public, Xu Changjia's lifespan was gradually extended by two months, thanks to his memory being restored day by day.
But she pretended not to know anything and listened as her senior shared his daily life at the TV station over the past year, urging her to come here for an internship so she would have something to do during the summer vacation.
She didn't want to agree at first, but Wen Xuechang brought up his parents again, earnestly explaining that if it weren't for his mother's support and guidance, he wouldn't be the Wen Xuechang who is a well-known host today.
He rattled off a whole bunch of things, and if he kept going, I felt like I was going to get drowned in his saliva.
Hsu Chang-Chia is also the most susceptible to being coaxed by others. Before the host could continue recounting their past relationship, she agreed.
However, she could only go to the TV station to report a week later. She didn't explicitly say that she had some personal matters to take care of, but only that the school project would take some more time to complete.
With only a few days left before Zheng Ruoqian's return to China, she sent him her first self-composed lyrics, under the guidance of her vocal coach, as a gift for his return.
Zheng Ruoqian's new single "Second Embrace" was released on major music platforms on August 2, 2012. On the same day, he returned to China with great honor and started a new life.
I have embraced endless darkness, but I still want to light up all my wishes.
The deepest part of the ocean is a ray of light given by the long night.
Only after the ropes binding us were untied could we touch hope.
......
Jiang Shuyun hummed Zheng Ruoqian's new song and made a video call to Xu Changjia. She felt extremely melancholy and didn't know why she just felt very sad.
"You know what? When I woke up this morning and opened the window, the sunlight outside was so bright. I turned on my phone and played the song I recorded at the last concert that day. I was thinking about that grand farewell, and I felt empty inside, like a piece of me was missing."
"I went outside to buy breakfast and experienced the most ordinary life. Everything was so beautiful, but a surge of sadness rose from my heart and spread throughout my body, making my hands and feet cold."
"This song, 'The Second Embrace,' was like a timely rain, bringing me comfort and turning into a warm current, warming everyone who likes Champion and that vampire who stabs the mysterious demon."
Xu Changjia, carrying a bag, was walking from the school to her small apartment. In her opinion, only fellow Champion fans could understand Jiang Shuyun's joys and sorrows these past few days.
The two of them had more contact in the past month than they had in the entire previous year when they went to concerts together. He would send her WeChat messages saying that so-and-so had left the group, that the group I was following had a bad ending, or he would report to her on the latest developments of so-and-so and where they had gone.
When "The Second Embrace" was released quietly in the early hours of the morning, it caused a sensation.
She was still awake at that time and sent Xu Changjia a series of WeChat messages expressing her shock.
The next day, she rushed to school to handle some matters and only had time to check her twentieth or thirtieth WeChat message when she returned. Before she could reply to them one by one, Jiang Shuyun's video call popped up.
He hummed the song to her and then shared his profound understanding of the lyrics.
She couldn't help but tease her, "But I saw that the lyricist for this song is Qi Yi Wu, not Zheng Ruoqian."
Jiang Shuyun didn't care about any of that. Her heart was filled with heartache for the idol she was following. "You have no idea. I saw that the popularity of this song and the topic of 'Champion member Zheng Ruoqian returning to China' on Weibo's trending topics all climbed from the early hours of the morning to the top three and stayed there. The popularity is still getting higher and higher."
She clicked in to take a look, and it was indeed the case. It seemed that Sister Mei and Assistant Wen were very helpful, and YL's agency had also released her. She guessed that she had successfully landed by now.
She suddenly remembered something and casually asked, "Hey, why aren't you picking him up from the airport?"
Jiang Shuyun really wanted to, but she didn't know the flight number. She heard that fans had been waiting at the airport since early this morning to pick her up, but nothing came of it all day.
She glanced at the photo of the plane ticket Zheng Ruoqian had sent her half an hour earlier and smiled slightly. "Didn't you add your idol on WeChat? If you're too scared to ask him, you can ask me. You'll be landing in two hours, so it's perfect for you to go to the airport now."
"I'm so grateful, I'll head out now!"
The video call hadn't ended yet, and I could still vaguely hear her asking from a distance which exit she came out from, and what her idol's plans were now that she was back.
Xu Changjia didn't know much either. He would need to ask Sister Mei to help him arrange for a few capable people to go to the studio to help him, but it depended on whether he was willing and his wishes had to be respected, so he didn't reveal too much.
I chatted with Jiang Shuyun for a bit more, then hung up the phone because I had to go to the TV station that afternoon to familiarize myself with her work and get to know her.
Wearing headphones, she listened attentively to her own song for the first time. The gentle breeze blowing through the taxi window felt like it was embracing her.
She got out of the car in front of the South Shore TV station building, looked up into the distance, and reached out to catch a falling golden leaf, as if catching the weight of their new life.
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