Chapter 359 I wish you good morning, good afternoon and good night.
Recording, concept photos, MV, personal documentary, everything is proceeding according to the process. Like the previous two albums, the last work of this album "Kwon Jiyong" scheduled to be released on Kwon Jiyong's birthday on August 18 is the production of the physical album.
MOTTE, Mother's Womb, Moment Of Truth, The End...Yein looked at the five letters on the computer picture.
Compared to his two albums "Heartbreak" and "Coup detat", which were more extrovert and uninhibited, this album seems to have a deeper meaning of self-expression.
And she finally heard Kwon Ji-yong's complete expression of the album after the entire album was completed. Just like Dante's "Divine Comedy" is divided into "Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven", this album is also divided into these three parts.
The hell of malicious public opinion, redemption on the dream stage, heaven in love... The three concept pictures in black, red and white symbolizing the three parts are on the other side of the album cover. Ye Eun lies on the table and listens quietly to Kwon Ji Yong and the staff discussing the details.
Because he wanted to see the example pictures, Quan Zhilong stood up, with one hand on Yien's shoulder, almost holding her whole body in his arms while she sat on the sofa, "Enlarge my name in these eyes a little bit."
The direction his hand was pointing was the only pattern on the album cover - his eyes.
The only writing in the eyes is the traditional Chinese characters "权至龙".
The staff adjusted the size of the handwriting until the words merged with his pupils, which surprisingly gave people a captivating feeling.
Quan Zhilong nodded with satisfaction, and the staff breathed a sigh of relief and switched to the next picture - the USB design.
The red USB flash drive looks bright and unique, but Quan Zhilong looked at the picture and suddenly fell into deep thought: "Wait, let's change this tomorrow. I'll give you the plan tomorrow."
Yi-eun glanced at Quan Zhi-yong, who lowered his head to meet her gaze and said with a smile, "Will you accompany me home?"
Although the children bought a big house in Seoul, Han Ji-ran still returns to the quiet and comfortable resort with her husband and Yi-eun's parents from time to time. When she received a call from her son and heard that he was coming to see her, Han Ji-ran was still a little confused.
You actually have time to come to the villa at this time?
Zhilong and Yien have been very busy lately, and the adults were bored staying at home, so they returned to the villa.
Li Zhen was a little surprised to hear that they were coming, but when she thought about the two children coming, she immediately got busy, planning to make a sumptuous dinner for the two children.
When Quan Zhilong and Yien arrived at the villa, they saw parents from both sides setting up a barbecue grill in the yard. Amid the curling smoke, the two fathers were preparing the ingredients, while Li Zhen lowered his head to stuff rice into chicken wings and then handed them to Han Jilan to oil and grill.
Yi-eun paused, turned her head to look at Quan Zhilong, and deliberately said loudly: "Oh my! Whose parents are these? They are all gourmets!"
Hearing her words, the four parents worked even harder. My father's mouth was hooked to the back of his head, and he deliberately said: "Hey, it's just making some simple food. It's still no match for a chef."
Quan Zhilong lowered his head and smiled secretly, thinking that his father was just like him and completely fell for it.
Seeing Jiahu and Zhuli rushing over to the grill and humming to eat meat, Han Jilan smiled and threw a string of meat to them, "Oh my god, our Jiahu Zhuli is back too?"
They actually had their meal before us? Yi En hugged Li Zhen and took the barbecue she fed to her. When she heard the parents asking why they came back, she said coquettishly, "Mo Ya, it's as if we are not going home."
"So you have indeed been living directly in the company during this period." Kwon Da-mi yawned. Her personal brand We11done has been doing well in recent years. Her busy life is fulfilling but also a bit tiring.
After hearing from her parents that the two guys were coming to the villa today, she drove directly back to the villa that her brother bought for her parents.
She glanced at the two of them and asked curiously, "Why did you suddenly come back when you were so busy recently?"
Quan Zhilong bit into the hot barbecue. When he heard his sister's question, he fanned his mouth to lower the temperature: "Hiss... I have something to ask my mom."
Father Quan glanced at him and said in a strange tone: "Just look for your mother instead of me..."
"Puchi." Han Jilan smiled and raised her eyebrows. She wiped her hands on her apron and was slightly proud. "Hey, why did my son look for me? Let's go now. Don't delay your business."
There's no need to be so anxious. Quan Zhilong looked at the looks in his parents' eyes and couldn't help but smile, "Let's go after dinner."
After eating and drinking, Quan Zhilong explained his purpose.
"Ah, you want me to help write the promotional poster? No way..." Han Jilan looked a little flustered, waving her hands in a daze, "Such an important matter should be done by professionals."
Ye-eun smiled and hooked her arm, "Yeah, we came here specifically to see you, and this album... is called "Kwon Jiyong."
She smiled and pulled out the photo she had prepared long ago, "Here, the womb represents the day when Zhilong came out of my mother's belly. These eyes can see the world through my mother."
Quan Zhilong also curled his lips and pressed his mother's shoulder. He was almost 30 years old and it was not inconsistent to act coquettishly with his mother: "My mother gave me life, this is the beginning of everything."
Han Jilan turned her head and looked into her son's eyes. Her eyes suddenly moistened. "Hey, my words are used for publicity. Is this okay?"
"Of course I can!" Ye-eun said proudly, "No one else is more suitable than my mom!"
Mr. Kwon sat in the corner and sighed, and Jin Hejun patted his shoulder.
There is no way, mother just gives more.
Li Zhen also smiled and looked at the older sister who was a few years older than her, "Oh my, everyone knows that Zhilong is a filial child. What's there to be embarrassed about writing a word, unnie? If Ye Eun asked me to promote it, let alone write a word, I would go directly to help her promote the song."
"It's settled then!" Ye-eun looked at her mother and said sincerely, "Mom, start learning to dance now!"
Han Jilan was amused by the two of them and laughed, pointing at them and said, "Okay, okay, I'll write it."
The handwriting would be typeset by computer and put on the promotional poster later. Although Kwon Ji-yong said, "It's fine as long as it's written by my mom," Han Ji-ran still wrote it carefully many times, and finally chose the one she was most satisfied with and gave it to Kwon Ji-yong.
After finishing the promotional words, Quan Zhilong put the paper away with a smile, and took out a blank piece of paper, "Mom, please write my name again and put it on the USB."
Han Jilan was about to write, but the pen suddenly stopped on the paper. She turned to look at Quan Zhilong: "There is a name of yours that I have kept for a long time. How about you take a look at that one."
Kwon Ji-yong and Ye-eun followed Han Ji-ran to her bedroom and watched Han Ji-ran take out the documents she had treasured for twenty-nine years from the box.
It was a birth certificate, a certificate on which Han Jilan wrote her son's name for the first time in the hospital 29 years ago.
Her hand gently brushed over the words on it, "Kwon Ji-yong Type A August 18, 1988". A document from twenty-nine years ago, no matter how well preserved it was, it bore the marks of time.
Han Jilan looked at the slightly yellowed birth certificate, smiled and looked up at Quan Zhilong: "Son, how about this? I wrote it too."
Quan Zhilong squatted beside his mother, looking at the document that had come before him across time, his eyes slightly moist: "Well, very good, thank you, mom."
The name that his mother wrote for his birth does not belong to the dazzling GD today, but to the Kwon Ji-yong who had not yet struggled in the world of fame and fortune and had not become sophisticated with age.
He took the document from Han Jilan with a smile and whispered, "Quan Zhilong..."
Even though he made this album with the mentality of "making this album as if it were his last, so he had to go back to the very beginning - the womb, and start over", he did not expect that his mother still kept his birth certificate.
He gently hugged his mother, whose hair had turned white, and his eyes were wet: "Thank you, mom."
Han Jilan smiled and patted Quan Zhilong, "Oh Mo, you are still acting like a spoiled child at this age, Yien is watching you, aren't you ashamed?"
When Yi En heard this, her eyes widened: "Mo Ya, why are you embarrassed? Even if I'm old, I'll still act like a spoiled child with you guys!"
"Puchi." The tears in Quan Zhilong's eyes disappeared because of Yien. He helped Han Jilan stand up, "My mother heard it, she won't dislike me."
Han Jilan looked at the two children in front of her, then glanced at the birth certificate in Quan Zhilong's hand, and suddenly held Quan Zhilong's hand with great emotion: "Very good... You are doing very well."
Her temples have begun to turn white due to the passing of time. However, seeing the happy children in front of her and hearing her daughter's laughter outside the door, Han Jilan smiled gently, raised her hand to hold the hands of the two children and put them together: "When you were young, I told you that you must run in the big apple of the music world and must not be eroded by the rotten parts inside. Now you are thirty, and since you have already run out, you should slow down."
I have been running forward persistently for more than 20 years and have now reached a certain height. On the premise of being able to protect myself, I should learn to slow down and slowly start to enjoy the life that belongs to "Kwon Ji-yong" and "Lee Ye-eun".
Quan Zhilong smiled and held his mother's and Yien's hands in his palms, his eyes gentle: "Yes, don't worry, mom."
Ye-eun also smiled brightly: "He is thirty, and I am not even thirty yet!"
"Puchi..." Han Jilan looked at her son who "fiercely" held Yien in his arms and said, "Che, according to the Chinese age, I am only 28," and couldn't help but shook her head helplessly.
These two children have been playing and fighting together and walking hand in hand for so many years. They are so mature and steady in front of outsiders, but why can they never "grow up" in front of each other?
The birth information on the birth certificate was printed on the album USB. When Quan Zhilong received the finished product, he carefully scraped the red paint on the USB. After confirming that the paint would fade with use, he nodded with satisfaction.
Ye-eun had already placed a USB with the red paint scraped off next to the red USB in Kwon Ji-yong's hand, and said in a funny tone: "Hello, little Kwon Ji-yong, who was born with blood all over his body. This is Kwon Ji-yong, who has wiped off the blood and is ready to start over."
Quan Zhilong put the red USB in his hand against the silver USB in Ye Eun's hand, and said gently: "Hello, don't be afraid of facing the world's amusement park, because in three years, a little girl with the same blood will be born in China. Then, you can play in this world for another three years, and she will come to play with you."
The two smiled at each other, and Ye-eun tilted her head as she smiled, "Have fun with your solo comeback."
On August 18, 2017, with overwhelming publicity, Kwon Ji-yong's solo album "Kwon Jiyong" was officially released. YG released the subsequent promotion schedule and also officially announced the schedule for Kwon Ji-yong's personal "MOTTE" solo concert.
Fans on that day had no time to celebrate Kwon Ji-Dragon’s birthday. Instead, just like his previous two solos, they spent almost the entire day immersed in Kwon Ji-Dragon’s new song.
The self-confusion in the intro, the role-swapping and violent crushing of the abuser and the abused in the Hell chapter, the loneliness that is still felt from time to time after standing on the dream stage in the Purgatory chapter, the lightness and dreaminess of being loved by everyone and being freed from constraints in the Heaven chapter, and the road to rebirth full of religion and sacredness in the outro.
After listening to the song, the fans were so excited that they almost lost themselves.
This is an album in which each song has a different style, yet each song has Quan Zhilong's personal characteristics.
It turns out that only his solo album is the real "Kwon Jiyong".
When Ye-eun saw that Kwon Ji-yong's album sales broke the record, she also heard from friends at several TV stations that because Kwon Ji-yong's album was released in USB format, several TV stations were struggling with how to calculate the sales points this time.
Yee-in laughed when she saw the messages they sent. Don’t worry about how to calculate it. Just calculate it the way you would normally for an album.
Is USB not an album?
Even if YG wins by relying on music, especially since Kwon Ji-yong always gets full marks for music, the four-digit sales points are calculated as zero, so the possibility of getting first place will still drop significantly.
With an expressionless face, she looked up the contact information of several senior executives of the TV station and sent messages to them one by one.
The friendship accumulated from going public to getting married has begun to fade due to the passage of time and changes in leadership. It's time to reconnect.
"Exclusive authorization for GD's personal documentary, exclusive authorization for his wedding documentary, authorization for the finale of GD's personal concert..." Ye-eun muttered quietly about the resources that the two of them could use.
CL heard her voice and calmly held her chin up and said, "Authorization for the 2NE1 10th anniversary documentary."
Ye-eun said "eh", because this was Kwon Ji-yong's business after all, and she had never thought of asking 2NE1 to help, but she didn't expect CL to bring it up.
"Hey, having a good relationship with the TV station is not only beneficial to GD Oppa and you," CL hooked her arm around Ye Eun's shoulders and winked at her, "I'm not stupid. YG has avoided risks by not taking sides, but it also has fewer resources. Having a good relationship with the TV station is also good for us."
Dara also laughed. She had made a lot of money from her investments over the years, and even made it into the top ten highest-earning female artists in South Korea. "If we want to do something fun for the tenth anniversary, won't we also have to rely on TV promotion?"
Ye-eun couldn't help but laugh. Some artists aren't famous enough and need to work hard to find resources; but with 2NE1's current popularity, it's the TV stations that have to work hard to get them to appear on TV.
Knowing that the members just wanted to help, Ye Eun accepted the kindness, and finally got the TV stations to calculate the sales points normally before Kwon Ji-yong officially promoted the song.
And Kwon Ji-yong's performance on the music stage and in the concert once again made everyone deeply appreciate his innate stage charm.
On December 8, 2017, Kpop’s largest solo world tour G-DRAGON 2017 CONCERT: ACT III, MOTTE came to an end.
The five-month tour that started in August mobilized a total of 650,000 people, once again breaking the record for a solo world tour in Korea. This concert started in Seoul and traveled through 29 cities in four states, finally ending in Taipei.
Ye-en, who had compressed all her work into December, also came to Taipei.
Ye-eun, who had been a guest in the first show, had no plans to appear in the finale, so she was able to appear backstage leisurely.
As this was the final concert, all the staff were on high alert. When they saw Ye-eun coming backstage, they just smiled, greeted her and continued with their work.
Ye-eun, who was already familiar with the backstage of the concert, did not go directly to the lounge where Kwon Ji-yong was for the first time. Instead, she looked at the team members who had worked with Kwon Ji-yong for many years.
Lighting technician, stage controller, costume designer, hairstylist...
Nearly two hundred staff members served only for one person's concert.
And this concert is to serve the tens of thousands of fans who passionately love Kwon Ji-yong.
The five-month concert was finally coming to an end. Quan Zhilong lowered his head to adjust his headphones, knowing that this concert would be his last for the next two years or even longer. He breathed a sigh of relief but also felt extremely empty.
Only those who have received the extremely passionate love from fans will understand this complicated feeling.
Kwon Ji-yong, wearing a stage costume and exquisite makeup, lowered his head and thought, hoping that he would see his fans again in the near future.
He smiled and looked up, just in time to meet Ye-eun's gaze who had arrived at the door. Quan Zhilong pretended to be angry: "Ah, didn't you say you didn't have work today? It's too much for you to arrive on time even though you don't have work, right?"
Yi-eun looked at Quan Zhilong, her eyes full of smiles: "Why are you in such a hurry? I'm not going to play."
Quan Zhilong curled his lips, but when he heard the countdown in the headset, he could only raise his hand and tap her forehead as he passed by her: "I'll settle the score with you after my concert."
As he walked to the front of the stage, he was still checking his costume, makeup, headset and every little detail. Hearing his voice getting smaller and smaller as it got farther and farther away from her, Ye Eun shook her head helplessly. This man, even after holding countless concerts, would still obsess over every little detail.
It is because of this that he has brought his fans perfect performance after perfect performance.
Thinking of how many "god-level" stages he had performed during the five-month tour, Ye-eun couldn't help but smile. G-Dragon was shining on the stage, and he was completing his last concert before joining the army.
When Quan Zhilong appeared sitting sideways on the pyramid throne, the screams from the audience were as enthusiastic as in every concert. Quan Zhilong was wearing a black and white fur coat and looked at the audience fiercely: "What's up, Taipei!"
The crown light was waved to leave an afterimage, and the screams almost penetrated the earphones. Quan Zhilong curled the corners of his mouth slightly, leaned slightly on the armrest of the throne, looked up at the microphone with a warm look in his eyes, and even more enthusiastic was the cheers of the fans below the stage.
From Heartbreak, Crooked, Crayon to Young Boys, Black, Who You...although almost all the fans present were native Chinese speakers, they still sang along to every song. Kwon Ji-yong couldn't help laughing during the talking session.
Facing Chinese fans, he naturally interacted with everyone in his native Chinese: "Are you happy today?"
"happy!"
Kwon Ji-yong smiled even brighter than his fans. He pressed down the red hat on his head, adjusted the long strap behind his hat when he put on his tie-dyed red jacket, and listened to the fans below the stage chanting "I love you" in a mixture of Chinese, English and Korean. The curve of his mouth widened even more.
“MOTTE, Moment of Truth The End, this time it’s really The End.” As soon as he finished speaking, some fans already had tears in their eyes.
Quan Zhilong smiled and looked at his fans seriously: "This is my second world tour. In fact, this album is a very personal project. It is actually very difficult for me to complete it because it tells the story of myself instead of G-Dragon."
The voices from the audience came into Quan Zhilong's ears. He took off his headphones and listened carefully. After hearing "I love you", he also responded with "I love you" in a clear and loud voice.
However, it was this sentence that made the fans who were originally listening attentively start shouting "I love you" in various languages.
Quan Zhilong's talking session was interrupted, but he just smiled and listened to everyone's screams, and then spoke sincerely: "I feel that everyone has given me a lot of love, even since I was six years old, everyone..."
When hearing “six years old”, a fan in the audience smiled and said, “Ye-eun!”
Kwon Ji-yong wanted to thank the fans and all the team members but couldn't help but laughed while covering his face. "Yes, it's because of her and everyone that I can come this far."
The fans in the audience continued to listen with good-natured smiles.
"Really, without you all, I wouldn't be standing here." Quan Zhilong held the microphone and looked at everyone under the stage with a sincere smile, "But when I occasionally feel that I am an ordinary person..."
"You are superstar!" A fan in the audience suddenly shouted, and Quan Zhilong couldn't help but smile proudly, tilting his head and biting his lower lip, saying as a matter of course, "Yes, I am."
This proud look was exactly like Ye-eun's, and some of the audience members couldn't help but smile and wave the crown lights in their hands.
Quan Zhilong on the stage seemed to be amused by himself, and suddenly shrank his shoulders shyly, "You know, if you stay with someone for a long time, you will be contagious."
Everyone's laughter was getting louder and louder, and Quan Zhilong couldn't help but curl his lips, "I used to think that although I was a star on the outside, I was just an ordinary person on the inside. But after so many years of being 'brainwashed', I have begun to think that I am a superstar on the outside, and a star on the inside, right?"
The laughter reached Yien who was watching from the side stage. She smiled and shook her head. Why did everyone say that she was good at "brainwashing"?
Kwon Ji-yong didn't notice that Ye-eun was standing at the dark side of the stage. He looked forward and saw bright smiling faces under the bright crown lights. "At first, I also doubted whether everyone loved G-Dragon or Kwon Ji-yong, but later everyone knew that someone kept whispering in my ear, 'I like both of you', right?"
“Ye-eun!!!”
Thinking of their last public scene on "Infinite Challenge", the fans in the audience shouted Ye Eun's name without hesitation, but Quan Zhilong tilted his head in a playful manner: "Mo ya, I'm talking about all the VIPs!"
I was actually fooled by GD!
Everyone laughed so hard, and Quan Zhilong also smiled gently: "So, after saying so much, I really want to thank everyone for giving me so much love."
He took a step toward the microphone and bowed deeply, 90 degrees, to his fans.
Ten seconds later, he stood up again. "The last song is "Untitled". I hope everyone can find their own paradise in love."
Soft and sad music came, and Quan Zhilong, wearing a red and white tie-dyed jacket, stood on the elevator, holding the microphone and singing quietly. When the song ended, he walked to the door with the elevator, and waved to everyone with a smile amid everyone's reluctant screams.
"If I never see you again," Kwon Ji-yong said with a smile the last line from "The Truman Show", which was also the last line of his concert.
The door in front of him opened, and the pure white door was covered with childish little flowers. Quan Zhilong smiled and looked behind the door, where she was, raising her hands and looking up at him with a smile.
Quan Zhilong fell towards the door amid everyone's screams, and his last words spread throughout the concert venue, "Good morning, good afternoon, and good night."
(End of the text)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
