Ji Yushi spent 40 minutes listening to all the songs on the album "Mist".
Although his younger brother works in the entertainment industry, Ji Yushi doesn't usually pay attention to what's going on in the industry. He only found out about Ji Ruan's new album after being reminded by his assistant, as one of the assistant's daily tasks is to report on Ji Ruan's activities in the entertainment industry.
"Where's Ji Yan?" Ji Yushi asked casually.
"You mean Ji Yan from the boy band 'Wings'?"
Under his assistant's questioning gaze, Ji Yushi suddenly realized that he had not told the assistant that Ji Yan was his younger brother. When Ji Yan was first recognized by the Ji family, in order to reduce the possible impact on Ji Ruan, the Ji brothers did not make a big fuss. As Ji Yan's reputation on the Internet became worse and worse, Ji Yushi believed even more that it was a good thing not to reveal Ji Yan's identity.
“Yes.” Ji Yushi nodded slightly. “Remember to keep an eye out for Ji Yan’s affairs in the future, including calls from DW Entertainment and Ji Yan himself.”
He added, "Ji Yan is also my younger brother."
"Yes, Mr. Ji."
After saying this, Ji Yushi breathed a sigh of relief as if he had accomplished a great task. Admitting to others that Ji Yan was his younger brother was much easier than he had imagined.
In fact, before this, Ji Yan had made many calls to Ji Yushi for help. Several times, his assistant answered the phone. When the assistant questioned him, Ji Yushi only replied coldly, "Don't worry about him." After that, he remembered... Ji Yan never called again.
And what about Ji Ruan?
Even when Ji Yushi is in a meeting, his assistant will accurately repeat all his requirements and arrange things perfectly without Ji Yushi having to give any instructions.
The assistant was as efficient as ever. In less than half an hour, Ji Yushi learned that Ji Yan's group had also released a new album. The assistant even told him, without any emotion or bias, about the time conflict between Ji Ruan and "Yi" on the new album, and how "Yi" made a comeback despite being at a disadvantage.
"Wings" had announced their album release date well in advance, but Ruanruan just happened to interrupt the day before "Wings" were to release their album.
How many times has this happened?
Once the seed of doubt is planted, it will grow and multiply endlessly. Is this just a coincidence?
He could pretend not to know, but reason told Ji Yu that this was no coincidence.
"Mist" is indeed a good album, easy to listen to and moving. Ji Yushi himself doesn't understand music, but he has two younger brothers in his family who are involved in music, no... it should be three.
After opening the album, in the lyric booklet, Ji Yan co-wrote two songs, "Is It Black or White" and "Silent Confession". Ji Yu listened to the latter several times. He found it hard to believe that Ji Yan wrote the song. But thinking about it carefully, he had also seen Ji Yan on two episodes of "The Voice of China". Ji Yan like that... could definitely write a song like "Silent Confession".
Was Ji Yan hiding his true abilities?
Thinking about this question, Ji Yushi couldn't help but ask himself: Had he ever cared about Ji Yan? Did he know what talents Ji Yan possessed?
No, he believed from the beginning that Ji Yan entered the entertainment industry with malicious intent, to cause trouble for Ji Ruan.
But as it turns out, Ji Ruan was not as harmless as he had imagined, and Ji Yan... was even more outstanding than he had imagined.
Ji Yushi wanted to call Ji Yan to congratulate him, but Ji Yan had already blocked his number. The only connection between the two was the payment text message that would be sent from time to time. Every time Ji Yushi saw it, he wanted to smash his phone.
Ji Yushi called Ji Xuekong. Before he could even speak, Ji Xuekong seemed to already know what he was going to say: "Brother, I've listened to both albums."
What are the feelings?
"..." Ji Xuekong paused for a moment before saying, "Ji Yan's is better."
"I received another text message." Ji Yushi sighed. "You've released a classical album, right? How much money do you think he'll make from this album?"
Will the Ji family's "debt" be paid off soon?
"Brother, I can't say for sure."
"What should we do?"
Ji Xuekong remained silent; the receiver was silent except for the sound of their breathing. After a long while, Ji Yushi hung up and instructed his assistant to cut off the Ji family funds that Ji Ruan could access.
...
Ji Yan had no idea about Ji Yushi's dilemma. To be honest, if Ji Yushi weren't his creditor, he would have forgotten about him completely long ago.
The original owner had expectations for family affection, but he didn't.
Ji Yan was very open-minded. Even if you raise a cat or dog for more than ten years, you can't just abandon it. How much more so a living person? He was not wrong, and neither were the Ji brothers. They were just not suitable to get along as brothers. It was more appropriate for them to be strangers.
His focus remains on the album "Mist".
After several days of positive word-of-mouth, sales of "Mist" have skyrocketed, and it has now firmly secured the number one spot on the weekly and monthly album sales charts on the "Liuge" platform.
On its first day of release, the digital album sold only 939 copies.
But by the next day, the number had increased a hundredfold, with more than 100,000 copies sold. But this was just the beginning. On the second day, the third day, and so on, the sales of "The Mist" easily exceeded 1 million copies, and now the total sales have reached more than 5 million copies.
Unlike idol groups whose albums are only bought by fans, the album "Mist" has received quite good reviews, with consistently high scores from music critics. On the new song charts, almost every song from "Mist" made it into the top 30.
For a new group, this is quite an achievement.
"Is It Black or White" has become the most covered song on short video websites recently. In addition to "Is It Black or White", Xie Mingxuan's "Three Primary Colors" and Ji Yan's "Silent Confession" have been added to many fans' playlists and have also become popular songs recently.
"I've listened to 'Silent Confession' many times. The song makes me feel that there are many things that cannot be expressed in words. But if you like someone, you can't hide your feelings. You always want to do something to make that person realize it, to let them see it, even if you can't say it out loud."
"I never expected Ji Yan to write this song."
"+1, when I first heard this song, I just thought it was great, so I looked back and saw that it was written and composed by Ji Yan! I was completely stunned."
"He's handsome, can write songs, and sings well, so what was Ji Yan doing participating in 'Idol Century' in the first place?"
The sales of the album "Mist" also greatly boosted the popularity of "Wings". The footage of Xie Mingxuan and Ji Yan participating in "Idol Century" was dug up again. In the past, when netizens saw Ji Yan's performance in "Idol Century", they would only think it was cringeworthy. But now, netizens completely regard him as a comedian back then.
Aside from having the exact same face, Ji Yan from the "Idol Generation" era and Ji Yan now... don't look like the same person at all.
The members of "Wings" have been having a blast lately, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they're walking with a swagger. Although they're still practicing the dance for their new song, "Mist," the album has songs with stationary vocals and a dance track with a fast tempo and a lot of rap. This song is the most challenging for Ji Yan because he really can't rap, and it took him several times longer to practice it than the other songs.
But in any case, increased album sales are always a good thing, because it means they can have another album.
This was the goal they worked so hard to achieve in creating "The Mist," and now they've finally achieved it.
“I’m still wondering if Ning Wei really likes our album?” Lu Wei said with emotion. “I didn’t expect him to give it a thumbs up.”
“I think…” Ji Yan paused, his tone inscrutable.
The others stared at him: "What do you think?"
"He probably likes me more."
As soon as Ji Yan finished speaking, Fang Yu threw a pillow at him: "Stop being so narcissistic."
“Maybe he likes me?” Lu Wei stroked her chin. “After all, I’m the lead singer.”
"It's me, isn't it?"
"By the way, has Sister Ying's physical album been sent out yet?"
"They were sent; the 'blue' side gave us dozens."
The album "Mist" was able to turn around in sales largely due to Ning Wei's endorsement. Her taste in music is recognized throughout the music industry, and for "Wings," being on good terms with Ning Wei is very beneficial to the group's development.
However, Ning Wei was not someone who could be easily bribed, and the only way they could think of to communicate with her was by giving her an album.
"Wings" didn't release many physical albums, but due to the excellent sales of their digital albums, the sales of physical albums were also boosted. Currently, the stock on online platforms has sold out, and the next batch will be printed.
Whether Ning Wei actually liked the album "Mist" was uncertain to the others. After all, Ning Wei was a very mysterious figure in the public eye, and what she liked and what she usually did were things she wouldn't disclose to the public.
...
However, what Ji Yan and the others didn't know was that the "blue" studio already had a whole row of... "Mist" albums.
When Duan Yiran and Du Jian received the album from Ye Ying, they didn't want to complain anymore. Fortunately, DW Entertainment provided a signed copy of the album, with the names of Ji Yan and the other three written on the cover.
Ning Wei took all the albums as a matter of course.
Duan Yiran: "...Master Ning, do you even remember that you have teammates?"
“He doesn’t remember.” Du Jian shrugged. “The album ‘Mist’ is indeed of good quality. I really like the song ‘Silent Confession’ written by Ji Yan.”
Duan Yiran also liked it very much. In the afternoon, he and Du Jian had already played the song together once. To be precise, it was not a very mature song. The technique was not very refined, and the arrangement was not very original. However, the song was enough to show Ji Yan's talent in music.
Some singers are classically trained, familiar with all the popular trends at home and abroad, and know all the different music genres like the back of their hand, but they can't write a song that is widely sung. But some singers can move their fans even with the simplest notes.
In Duan Yiran's opinion, Ji Yan belongs to the latter category.
His only speechless feeling was that Ning Wei seemed to like Ji Yan too much.
Duan Yiran looked in Ning Wei's direction. The latter was holding a piece of paper, her gaze focused, and her expression was extremely serious.
"What is he doing?" Duan Yiran couldn't help but ask.
"Read the letter." Du Jian blinked. "Ji Yan replied to his fans."
Ning Wei naturally didn't reveal his identity when he wrote the letter, and Duan Yiran always thought that his letter would be lost without a trace.
"You replied?"
Du Jian nodded.
"You really replied?"
How many times do you want me to repeat myself?
Duan Yiran: "..."
Ha, an old fogey has really run into another old fogey. This world is hopeless.
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