"morning."
"Good morning." Ji Yan yawned deeply. He had been working non-stop for the past few days and felt severely sleep-deprived every day.
The others were in a similar situation to him, with dark circles under their eyes and looking dejected and listless. However, their state was not entirely due to work. It was mainly because after finishing their work each day, they would meet up to play a game and chat for a while, and the time would just disappear.
When they're not busy with work, Yi and the others aren't very interested in playing games, but once they have a lot of work to do, they have to play a game no matter what.
"So sleepy." Fang Yu collapsed onto the sofa. "Why do people have to work to live?"
"Today's a bit easy, just one interview." Lu Wei patted his butt, and Fang Yu jumped up from the sofa. "Okay."
The album "At 23" will be officially released today. Before the release, "Wing" has a full schedule of promotions. After the album is released, Ji Yan will have to join the "Youthful Love Poems" drama crew to film, so his workload will be reduced. Ye Ying has made arrangements for everyone.
Ji Yan also brought the script with him on his way to the interview.
Just like his experience during the audition, "Young Love Poems" is indeed a film with a rich inner world. The thick script contains very limited dialogue, and it is mostly about how the characters' emotions fluctuate.
Ji Yan felt that the reason he felt tired every day was partly due to the album promotion, but the real culprit was the large number of scripts he had to write.
How did he know what Gu Shan was thinking?
Now that he had decided to take on the role, Ji Yan naturally had to study it carefully. He had read the script several times, and whenever he had free time, he would communicate with Qin Zhen. In order to better understand the character, he even read Qin Zhen's screenwriting works and Zhu Shuguang's directorial works twice.
In a sense, Zhu Shuguang's older works are easier to understand. After all, he is a director who has won popular awards, and his style is indeed more artistic, but not so obscure as to be difficult to understand. Qin Zhen's screenwriting works are a bit scary, almost all of them are in the stream-of-consciousness style.
Fortunately, Qin Zhen himself wasn't so stream-of-consciousness when communicating. He conveyed his creative ideas to Ji Yan without reservation, including Gu Shan's mentality and his environment. Ji Yan could only patiently try to understand.
In any case, this character is indeed a bit difficult to understand.
...
"Ji Yan, here." Lu Wei handed him a paper bag. "Don't look at anything this early in the morning. Let your brain rest."
The paper bag contained fragrant steamed buns and two shumai. Soon, the car was filled with the aroma of meat.
"Here's a piece of chewing gum." Ji Yan took the chewing gum from Lu Wei, and Xie Mingxuan handed him a bottle of water.
The interview started early and ended quickly. By the time the group came out of the TV station building, the digital album of "At 23" was already on sale on the "Liuge" platform. However, many fans still chose to wait in line for the physical album to be released as soon as possible.
This was the case when "Mist" was released last year. At first, no one knew how good the album would be. Even fans of "Wings" would often choose digital albums, and physical albums were almost ignored.
After "Mist" became a hit, many fans bought the album to collect, and the physical album was always in high demand. Unfortunately, DW Entertainment misjudged the album's sales situation, and the number of copies released was not sufficient to begin with.
Therefore, DW Entertainment believes it has made ample preparations this time.
However, just minutes after the release of "At 23," the hashtags related to the new album on Weibo showed "???"
"???"
"I can't believe it! With my 20 years of single-life speed, I couldn't even snag a single copy of this album. @DW Entertainment @ AntNet, this is an album, not a concert ticket. Couldn't you have released a few more copies?"
"This damn system, it just keeps spinning and spinning. When it finally finished spinning and I was about to pay, the purchase quantity was...0. Are you kidding me?"
"I haven't offended any of you, let me pay now!"
"Is this what it feels like to have money but not be able to spend it?"
Fans simply couldn't believe it. They had set their alarms for the release of "Wings'" album, and here it was—
It's gone!
"My album is so big!"
Fans have been eagerly anticipating the album "At 23" for several days. Since the release of the title track "Falling in Love with You", fans have been quietly counting down the days and have done a great deal of preparation.
Everything is ready, just waiting for the album to be released.
...
Fans who couldn't get their hands on the album were frantically tagging @DW Entertainment, while those who did manage to snag one were cheering with joy!
"The cover is gorgeous. I was really looking forward to it when I saw that the photographer was Jiang Ya. The cover of the June issue of Alex is so beautiful. It's a pity that the magazine didn't come with a poster."
"I bought one physical copy and one digital copy. This time, the physical copy came with a free poster!"
"Is there anyone who hasn't listened to the songs yet? Wings' new album is pretty good!"
The title track of the new album is "Falling in Love with You," and the second single is "Future." Ji Yan's "Leap" and Lu Wei's "Flying Fish" are the third and fourth tracks on the playlist, respectively. Fans love every song that starts with "Future."
“Now I understand why the album is called ‘At 23’. Xie Mingxuan, the eldest member of Wings, is 23 years old this year. The album title is their real age. The song ‘Falling in Love with You’ is about being 17 years old, and ‘Future’ is their vision of their future. Each song represents an age.”
"The song 'Future' made me cry. In my heart, Fang Yu is actually the comedian of the Wings Troupe."
—The result was that the song "Future" was more sincere and warmer than anyone imagined. The lyrics describe the little things that the members do together, as well as their vision and expectations for the future.
"Whether it's ten years or twenty years, the Wings Group will always be together!"
...
The overwhelming success of the new album far exceeded DW Entertainment's expectations. DW Entertainment printed the album "At 23" based on the sales data of "Misty". Of course, the initial release volume was conservative, since digital albums are all the rage now and the physical album market has shrunk by more than half.
The consequence of insufficient reserves was that the company's official Weibo account was flooded with messages from fans requesting a reprint all day long.
Even the comment sections of "Yi" and the others' Weibo accounts couldn't escape it. Ji Yan and the others didn't even dare to use their main accounts to post gossip anymore, because Weibo shows the account's online time. If they were caught by fans, the fans would definitely keep an eye on them.
With the help of fans, the album "At 23" sold almost as fast as Qi Zhao's new album in less than a week after its release. However, the fans' enthusiasm for buying the album was mainly concentrated on the first day of its release, and the album's sales declined in the following days.
However, the album's quality remains highly regarded. As music critic "Blind Guest" put it, "The second album showcases 'Wings' musical creativity. 'Falling in Love with You' is about the innocent romance of youth, and 'Future' is about the friendship between boys. It's because they've supported each other all the way to this point that their understanding of these songs is deeper than anyone else's." "This album is also a burst of 'Wings' creativity. What surprised me most were Xie Mingxuan and Fang Yu. Their compositions on this album surpass the level of 'Mist.' The song 'Future' showed me Fang Yu's potential and demonstrated that as long as singers create with genuine emotion, even without much innovation, they can still move people."
Ji Yan's "Leap" and Lu Wei's "Flying Fish" were also reviewed by "Blind Guest". Perhaps because there was too much to write about in the album "At 23", "Blind Guest" specially made the review into a column and published it over several days.
...
For Ji Yan and his group, the successful release of "At 23" relieved them of a heavy burden. "At 23" did not encounter any interference from Ji Ruan, the song was released smoothly, and the fans' reviews were better than they had expected.
For them, this is undoubtedly the most satisfying thing.
Next, Ji Yan can focus on filming "Youthful Love Poems".
With only a few days left before joining the production team, Ji Yan still needs to participate in part of the promotion for the album "At 23," and he also needs to review the script repeatedly, so he doesn't feel completely relaxed.
Because what he's going to film next isn't just a character who appears for a few minutes, and whose lines aren't limited to eight sentences; he wants to film a complete story.
This was probably a completely different experience from filming "I, Nameless".
Ji Yan is actually under a lot of pressure.
That day, he didn't receive any work text messages from Ye Ying on his phone. He pushed open the door to his room and found that no one else seemed to be awake, not even Xie Mingxuan, who was usually the first to get up.
Generally speaking, if "Wings" has work, their manager Ye Ying will send a message to notify the members. Even if someone occasionally oversleeps, the others will help wake them up.
There are probably no plans for today. Although this has rarely happened since June, Ye Ying doesn't intend to exhaust them.
Ji Yan decided to take a nap, but as soon as he opened the door, he heard a "bang" behind him. Ji Yan turned around and saw Xie Mingxuan, Fang Yu and Lu Wei standing behind him in a row - "Happy birthday, Teacher Ji!"
"Are you trying to scare me to death?" After a long pause, Ji Yan blinked. "Is today my birthday?"
Fang Yu nudged Lu Wei: "I won, transfer the money to me."
"I understand," Lu Wei said helplessly. "I'll transfer it right away."
Ji Yan: "What are you two doing?"
“I made a bet with Wei Ge, saying that you would definitely forget your own birthday, but Wei Ge disagreed.”
"How much? The bet."
"10 yuan."
Ji Yan held out his hand: "Give me half."
Lu Wei & Fang Yu: "..."
"Teacher Ji, that's going too far."
Xie Mingxuan placed the cake on the table, and Lu Wei and Fang Yu helped light the candles: "How about we go out for a nice lunch, like crayfish?"
"Agreed."
Ji Yan also received a congratulatory text message from Ji Qing on his phone, and the other party also transferred a huge red envelope to him.
"Xiao Yan, in the new year, remember to eat well, keep a good mood, and continue to grow strong and healthy."
Ji Yan felt that his brother was indeed a primary school teacher; he spoke as if he were a primary school student.
Before Ji Yan could put down his phone, he received another text message: "Your bank card ending in xx has received a transfer of 6.66 million yuan. Note: Happy Birthday."
Ji Yan's face immediately fell.
"What's wrong? Who sent the text message?" Fang Yu asked.
"Creditor, I haven't paid off my old debts yet, and you've tricked me into incurring new ones."
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