Chapter 156
The audience clapped in unison. Most of them were unaware of the actual rehearsal that morning. But watching Han Wei's speech on stage, they felt he seemed quite graceful. And as a senior, he even looked after the newcomer, giving him some attention, even though everyone knew NINE STAR was already enjoying plenty of buzz.
The awards ceremony wasn't live-broadcasted, so after a few minutes, Zhou Xiao saw his friends in the group chat, one after another, furious with Han Wei, spamming their messages: "Next year, I'll take the Best Male Singer award for your brother!"
Zhou Xiao looked at his friends in the group who were spamming their screens. His original discomfort caused by Han Wei on the field was instantly dispelled by this.
Turning my gaze towards the artist booth in front of me, I saw NINE STAR, a relatively recent group who had already participated in several shows. They seemed to have adapted somewhat to the domestic entertainment industry, no longer as reserved as they had been at the beginning, and were able to strike up conversations easily with the artists in front and behind them.
Zhou Xiao saw Ji Shao in the audience chatting with Chen Wenbin, who was standing in front of him. Chen Wenbin was an artist from Taiwan, and everyone knew many of his songs. While his songs were popular, he was even more famous as a music composer. It was said that he had written hit songs for many singers before gradually retiring due to a lack of energy in recent years.
Zhou Xiao didn't notice at first that "Asian Trend Music" had also invited him. When he saw the interaction between Ji Shao and the other party off the stage, he sighed that although there were no big-name singers except NINE STAR this session, the lineup was actually very strong.
As if struck by something, Zhou Xiao raised her camera to record the scene. Just then, she suddenly remembered the comments manipulation posted by various fans on the NINE STAR official Weibo account yesterday.
In fact, before attending the awards ceremony, many fans hoped to interact with their seniors and make new friends, not even expecting them to make any connections. Some fans even gathered on Huayao's official Weibo account to propose that NINE STAR be disbanded.
The reason is quite good. Others come to these kinds of events to socialize and make friends, but NINE STAR always acts like elementary school students playing house, sitting in rows together every time they meet offline. This severely limits their socializing!
Of course, looking at tonight's seating arrangements, it's clear that these suggestions were directly ignored by Huayao officials, and the seating arrangements were also made by the organizers. Looking at the offline interactions between Ji Shao and Chen Wenbin, it's clear that location isn't a problem when it comes to offline friendships.
Tonight's awards ceremony was slow. Besides the host's frequent cueing of sponsors, some of the presenters also took up too much time. The fans in the audience had already booed the host during commercials more than once. Zhou Xiao noticed the host, who appeared unfazed during the commercials, but his hands were clutching his trouser legs.
When the Best Arranger Award was presented to Cai Zhen in the audience, Zhou Xiao, who was sitting in his seat, saw Qu Wei, who had been sitting comfortably in the first row, now walking backstage as reminded by the staff.
After waiting for the award until the Most Popular Group Award was presented, Zhou Xiao was surprised to see that it was Qu Wei who presented the award. He wondered if it was just a coincidence. But perhaps when the other person asked him offline who he was a fan of, he already knew he was going to present the award for NINE STAR?
On stage, Qu Wei, wearing a navy blue dress and a perfectly sized Australian white necklace, appeared elegant and graceful. With her usual smile, she greeted the host before opening the cue card she had brought with her, preparing to read out the names of the winning groups, which the audience already knew.
As the cards were being opened, a few high-pitched screams could be heard from the audience. Qu Wei smiled and joked, "The organizers know that I'm older and prefer energetic young people, so they specially arranged for me to present the awards!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the audience erupted in joy. After the atmosphere calmed down a bit, Qu Wei looked at his cue card and loudly congratulated, "Congratulations to NINE STAR for winning the Most Popular Group Award at the 'Asian Trend Music' Awards!"
The young men came on stage one by one, and when they were all standing on the stage in a line, they suddenly found that their seniors were completely blocked by them, so they hurriedly moved to the side to make room.
"I was lucky enough to receive some support from the young fans when I came here, so I thought I'd return the favor and say something nice about you," Qu Wei was invited in by Ji Shao, standing between him and Wu Yanyan. She patted Ji Shao's shoulder with a smile, "But I heard the songs, and 'You' is pretty good. The kids still have room for improvement, so keep up the good work and come up with more great songs!"
As soon as these words came out, the members on the scene were stunned. Who is Qu Wei? A senior in the circle! Ji Shao was the first to react and greeted the members to thank the senior standing next to him with a smile on his face.
Zhou Xiao, who was in the audience, also recorded the moment when Qu Wei patted Ji Shao on the back as he thanked him. When the members left the stage, Zhou Xiao could still sense the slightly bewildered surprise lingering around them at the sudden praise.
Zhou Xiao felt that the scene just now needed to be shared with her friends. When she relied on the system to ignore the terribly stuck signal on the scene and sent the video she had just taken to the small group, the group immediately exploded.
After Li Mo posted the message, "Sister Xiao, I beg you! Cut it and post it on Weibo immediately. I want to retweet it and brag!", the entire group was flooded with this message. Zhou Xiao had expected everyone to be happy, but she hadn't expected them to be so excited.
After this video was released, it attracted not only the fans of the team but also a considerable number of fans of teammates. The reason for this is that the fan page of "Pangrenxindong" is too famous in the fan circle. If they really erased the watermark and released it with their own account, they would definitely be ridiculed by everyone.
While some fans of the single felt it was wrong for their big fans to take the lead in reposting other people's posts, one big fan of the group later said, "What's wrong with reposting the heart-pounding song? Didn't they see everyone else following suit?" What kind of a thing is that? If they didn't repost, they'd be guilty! Teacher Qu Wei wasn't just praising Ji Shao, he was praising NINE STAR as a whole!
The video Zhou Xiao posted of Qu Wei praising NINE STAR was quickly discovered by Huayao's online commentary staff. Even they had to admit, their colleagues filming the event at the venue hadn't even posted the video yet. He just posted it out of the blue, boasting about how worthy of a fan base that had been "watching" him all the way under their noses!
Inside the venue, Zhou Xiao watched the female host on stage as she concluded the commercial break. Meanwhile, the male host, who had just finished closing the show, was trotting over to the NINE STAR booth, looking for Ji Shao. From her vantage point, she could see him holding a photo and pen, asking Ji Shao to sign it.
Ji Shao readily took the pen and photo, placed them on his lap, and began signing. When he heard the other party ask if he could add his contact information, he immediately took out his phone and prepared to add the other party's messaging app. However, after trying twice, they both found that the signal in the venue was really bad, so Ji Shao took the initiative to leave Yu Di's phone number.
The interaction between the two was also noticed by Chen Wenbin who was sitting in front of Ji Shao, so Zhou Xiao saw more and more people starting to exchange contact information with each other regardless of their seats, directly following the background audio of the host's announcement.
Among the artists in the audience, the area surrounding NINE STAR was undoubtedly the busiest. Because of Ji Shao's introduction to the "You" stage performance, many people approached him to exchange contact information. Fortunately, Qu Wei, noticing how overwhelmed Ji Shao seemed, rescued him from the crowd.
Overall, the "Asian Trend Music" event was a remarkably successful. Originally, the organizers had planned to remove the commute and allow cars to park directly at the entrance. However, with so many fans gathered offline, this move could easily cause a backlash, so they had to hire a temporary group of bodyguards to escort the artists.
Most of the audience and guests in the venue had already left, but NINE STAR was asked by the organizer to leave as the last batch. The reason given by the organizer was that there were too many offline fans and they were worried that something might happen to them at this time.
But Zhou Xiao felt that the organizers were actually worried that once NINE STAR left, most of the fans outside would be gone, and the subsequent media filming would not be good.
Zhou Xiao stayed in her seat, in no rush to leave. Looking down, she saw Ji Shao, sitting in the audience, looking down at his phone, operating something. By this time, due to the dispersal of people, the signal inside the stadium had mostly recovered. While it was still a little laggy, it wasn't completely disconnected.
Off the field, Cheese, actively working on data, was feeling incredibly proud. In particular, in a video posted by Xindong, Qu Wei, one of the people responsible for offline support, expressed her excitement when she mentioned the off-field support. She was particularly excited when she saw Digital syncing the pre-launch trending topics from Huayao's support group in the fan club group.
Time flew by while she was working on the data, until a number of artists showed up at the door. Worried about missing out on Ji Shao, Cheese finally stopped her blogging rotation, and just then she saw a bunch of messages from a certain blogger.
She had always thought it was a pop-up advertisement on a certain blog, so she ignored it. When she swiped down the status bar of her phone to clear the background, she found that the message just now showed that your special follower "Warm-hearted and good-looking boy" followed "@陈文彬V", "@曲维V", "@主頁于迪V" "..."
At this moment, Cheese outside the market only had a line of big words floating in front of his eyes - Big Profit!
Meanwhile, the reactions from fans of several other groups were similar. No one expected that a simple award, without even a specific fan vote, would allow them to meet so many artists tonight. This also made everyone pay more attention to any group or individual awards in the future.
Fans also gathered some insights during this time. NINE STAR has participated in numerous galas since their debut, but their previous appearances haven't been as successful as their participation in "Asian Trend Music." They also figured out that NINE STAR was often accompanied by actors during these appearances.
Actors and boy bands have different paths, and aside from some actors who were featured in talent shows during the Star 101 competition, there's been virtually no interaction between actors and NINE STAR members. Therefore, NINE STAR members who haven't yet ventured into acting are clearly better suited to the singer world.
Before the excitement of tonight has passed, the heads of the fan clubs in the NINE STAR docking group received the latest notice from Huayao - the official announcement of the cooperation with XS will be made at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
There was a brief silence in the docking group when they saw this message. Then, led by one of the docking agents, the other eight companies responded in a chain reaction. The only one who didn't respond was the number representing Ji Shao's fans. She paused for a moment as she read the message from the docking agent.
XS Perfume partnered with Ji Shao during the Star 101 competition, and while there hasn't been any further news since the competition, aside from the photoshoot, fans sincerely prefer a short-term partnership between Ji Shao and XS rather than a multi-year endorsement model, as rumored on the forums.
Although the group went to XS for a photoshoot last time, Ji Shao fans tacitly avoided discussing whether there would be any endorsement issues. After all, whether it was just a promotion was uncertain, but this time the connection was notified in the group, and the final answer was already very clear.
Not long after Huayao’s connection was announced in the group, the news was quickly posted on the forum.
——【Forum】——[October 20 evening]
【Topic】It is confirmed that Ji Shao’s personal information will be changed to group information
[Main Post] Last time, when all members went to XS headquarters to take photos, the author felt that it was already stable. This time, according to the screenshots released by various fan clubs, Huayao contacted the official announcement of the cooperation tomorrow.
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The picture is the notification that Huayao sent to the group.
1L
It's so cruel, but smart people should have gotten it a long time ago.
16L
Will Ji Shao go from being a personal best friend to a group best friend... Just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle. I don't think he would slap other members, right?
54L
I'm dying of laughter at 16L, I don't think so, but I'm really concerned about what the other Tiaosi sisters think. One second it's heaven, the next it's hell. Just now it was so cheerful, but now it's not going to be an offline battle with other families, right?
93L
Don't worry, Huayao is very smart! It was released almost an hour after the Asian Music show ended!
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Zhou Xiao finally had time to check her phone on her way back to the Huashang Times Hotel. Upon entering the chat group, she saw her friends' messages were filled with worry. After scrolling through hundreds of messages, she finally learned that Huayao had announced a collaboration with NINE STAR for the next day.
The accounts of several fan club members have been severely criticized by some extreme fans. The fan club is still thinking about how to organize a short essay to comfort the fans. In fact, everyone's emotions have become a little upset because of this notice.
Zhou Xiao thought for a moment and typed in the group chat, "Perhaps you can be more proactive. Ji Shao has been upgraded to the brand spokesperson for XS Perfume."
Others in the group:???
Zhou Xiao sent the photos from his album to the group chat. He saw that the members' faces and clothes were blurred on the group poster. However, the poster still had two lines of eye-catching golden text:
The blank space on the right is marked with - [XS Fragrance Ambassador: NINE STAR]
Next to Ji Shao, who is censored in the middle, is the note: [XS Perfume Brand Spokesperson: Ji Shao]
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