“I really like this song,” Ning Wei suddenly said after finishing playing.
"What a coincidence, I like it too."
Ji Yan put the guitars away and listened to Ning Wei gently introduce the advantages and disadvantages of each guitar. She explained in great detail. In fact, Ji Yan was not an expert in this area, but for some reason, he always had the patience to listen to her continue.
"Which one do you like?" Ning Wei asked him.
Ji Yan shook his head: "Every single one is great, but I'm too inexperienced right now, so I don't need such expensive guitars yet."
Ning Wei: "..."
Fortunately, he didn't mention that he wanted to give the guitar to the other person.
...
Although it was cold, browsing the music store made you forget the passage of time. The two of them walked around the store inside and out. Ji Yan was most familiar with guitars, but Ning Wei was familiar with most of them, so he introduced them all to Ji Yan.
This should have been a very tedious and boring process, but Ji Yan didn't feel that way at all. When the two of them came out of the music store, it was already past 12 o'clock, and the temperature was much higher than when they left in the morning.
A gust of wind blew, and Ji Yan felt hungry.
"Brother Ning, do you want hot pot?"
"……eat."
Actually, Ning Wei doesn't usually eat hot pot much. He doesn't have any particular requirements for food; as long as he can eat it, he's fine. But looking at Ji Yan's happy expression, Ning Wei couldn't think of a way to refuse.
The two quietly arrived at a nearby hot pot restaurant. As soon as they sat down, the aroma of chili peppers wafted over them. Ji Yan told Ning Wei with a smile, "Several of us from our group come here to eat hot pot together, but our manager doesn't allow us to eat too much, so we all come secretly without telling her."
—Although they are often caught.
First, put the tripe into the pot.
"We can eat now!" Ji Yan reminded him, "Brother Ning, don't you come here for hot pot often?"
Ning Wei nodded.
"I can tell," Ji Yan said with a smile. "Eating hot pot is indeed not good for the throat, so I can only try it occasionally."
The hot pot was steaming, and the spiciness made everyone's faces turn red. Ji Yan was panting and chugging a drink. Ning Wei across from him wasn't much better off, his cheeks were also flushed. However, he could handle spice better than Ji Yan had imagined. Even though he was burning up from the spiciness, he was still focused on studying the tripe.
Ji Yan felt that Ning Wei and his friends had completely different personalities.
If it were just a few of them eating hot pot, they'd probably fight over the last piece of meat.
The two ate slowly, chatting about their recent songwriting experiences. Ji Yan had many questions, and he generally found it difficult to use professional terminology to describe the difficulties he encountered in the songwriting process, but Ning Wei listened patiently without getting annoyed at all.
...
Chen Xiaoge is a fangirl who has recently been watching the variety show "Super Idol". She is not an omnivore, but she has a strong preference for talent shows. She has been watching since the "Idol Generation" era. At that time, she liked Xie Mingxuan and became a fan of the entire Wings group. Now she is a fan of the entire Wings group.
Among singers, her favorite color is "blue".
In summary, she prefers idols and singers who can create their own songs. She likes "Wings" and "Blue," but she also likes the works of "Wings" and "Blue."
If she were to categorize other fangirls like her, Chen Xiaoge would say she belongs to the rational type.
She would never spend money on idols who are all looks or who release a worthless album. They wouldn't even try to make money off her. Not to mention idols who just go on dates, slack off, and don't know what they're doing all day... She would run away at lightning speed.
Of course, Chen Xiaoge also understands the difficulties of idol survival, so she occasionally supports those idols who, although they are not famous, work hard to release songs. After all, not everyone can be like "Yi". She has followed idols from "Idol Century" to "Super Idol" and has seen too many changes in the fate of idols.
Some people become famous overnight, while others flop quickly after the show ends, and some even disappear from the audience's sight altogether.
Chen Xiaoge initially disliked Ji Yan, who was basically useless except for dragging down the Wings group. However, because Xie Mingxuan was in "Wings", Chen Xiaoge persisted. But she almost stopped being a fan if it weren't for the hard work of Xie Mingxuan, Lu Wei and Fang Yu.
But she never expected that Ji Yan would have a day of comeback - from "The Voice of China" to the first album "Mist" and then to the first album "At 23", as well as the classic stage performance of Ji Yan and Ning Wei at the New Year's Eve concert, Chen Xiaoge finds it hard to connect the current Ji Yan with the Ji Yan of the "Idol Century" era.
She absolutely loves Ji Yan and Ning Wei's collaborations, "Leap" and "Reverse Time," so even while eating hot pot, she couldn't help but recommend them to her friends.
The stage is the real deal!
The tension between the two on stage was simply unbeatable!
Chen Xiaoge watched the video, her gaze occasionally drifting to the left before returning to the screen, then drifting again—
Her gaze froze for a moment.
These two people seem... no!
That's me!
She doesn't really want to go out in winter. If it weren't for her friends dragging her along during winter break, she wouldn't even bother going to a hot pot restaurant.
But now...
She witnessed her product dating?!
Chen Xiaoge carefully tilted her ear in that direction and finally heard two indistinct sentences. Well, dating was something that could never happen between these two straight people who didn't even work. Discussing creative work in a hot pot restaurant was like her and her friends discussing the advanced mathematics course she had failed not long ago—it was too unappetizing.
...
Ji Yan and Ning Wei were still discussing when a young woman ran over from the next table. She was holding up her phone and spoke softly at first, but after a moment, she mustered up her courage and asked, "Could we... take a picture together?"
Ji Yan is fine with it; he generally doesn't refuse fans' requests. However, he respects Ning Wei's wishes and won't answer for her.
Ning Wei nodded slightly.
The girl held up her phone, and the three faces appeared together on the small screen. The girl smiled brightly, and Ji Yan also smiled. Ning Wei's lips were tightly closed, but a second before the filming started, he also tried to curve the corners of his mouth, although it was not visible in the shot.
"Can I post the photos on Weibo?" the girl asked.
"Yes, you can after eating hot pot."
Ning Wei nodded slightly.
...
Chen Xiaoge posted the photos on Weibo after she got home. She and her friends finished eating the hot pot first, but she waited until Ji Yan and Ning Wei left the restaurant before going home, otherwise Ji Yan and Ning Wei would have been trapped in the restaurant.
While posting on Weibo, Chen Xiaoge specifically tagged Ji Yan and Ning Wei: "Super lucky bump into each other at a hot pot restaurant."
Chen Xiaoge has a few hundred followers on Weibo. Although she is a fan of celebrities, she only occasionally acts as a fan of good looks or comments on newly purchased songs. She is not the kind of fan who does data analysis or fights against negative publicity.
On the contrary, she was also named by an anti-black website for objectively reviewing an idol's album, and was accused of being a hater of that idol.
Chen Xiaoge: "..."
She doesn't really understand the current idol ecosystem. When she first created her Weibo account, she just laughed and joked all the time. Gradually, her celebrity-related Weibo posts started getting a bunch of copied comments like "born idol," "elegant and graceful," "radiant," and "number one idol," which were like zombie accounts. Normal comments were almost nowhere to be seen.
Then came the fan club, the anti-blacklisting site, and the dedicated photo editing team.
These were all beyond Chen Xiaoge's comprehension.
Her Weibo post didn't attract much attention at first. Although she tagged Ji Yan and Ning Wei, the two people in the picture looked quite plain, without makeup, and their styling was very ordinary. They didn't look like celebrities at all.
However, Chen Xiaoge had been a fan of celebrities before, and several of her friends were fans of the Wings group. Not long after the picture was posted, the other party responded: "Ji Yan and Ning Wei?"
Chen Xiaoge replied with an "Mm".
Next, her Weibo post was forwarded by several fans. While forwarding it, they also tagged other friends and even added the tags "Ji Yan" and "Ning Wei". Soon, the post received over a hundred likes.
Chen Xiaoge felt that she had witnessed the birth of a trending Weibo post.
What does it feel like to get over 10,000 likes?
No, she clearly underestimated the power of Ji Yan and Ning Wei's fans, because soon, the number of likes not only exceeded 10,000, but in just a few hours, the number of likes was soaring to 100,000.
"Let's go for hot pot!!"
"Teacher Ning and Teacher Ji actually keep in touch privately! The product I was following actually worked!!"
"Teacher Ji's performance was fairly successful, and Da Ning did work very hard, but all I saw was him blushing!!"
"So cute! Ahhhhhh, I'm going to listen to 'Leap' and 'Reverse Time' ten times right now!!"
"Seriously, I've been following the Color Group for 8 years, and this is the first time I've seen Da Ning having dinner with people in the industry. We never see any everyday photos of this guy!"
"So much! What I'm curious about is, just how much does Teacher Ji like hot pot? Teacher Ji was photographed a total of 6 times in the second half of the year, and 5 of those times were when she was eating hot pot."
"For Teacher Ji, being an idol is a side job, eating hot pot is his main job."
For the fans of "blue", seeing Ning Wei and Ji Yan sing together at the New Year's Eve concert was already surprising enough. They never expected that Ning Wei would actually have dinner with Ji Yan.
Ning Wei in the group photo seems no different from usual, but if you look closely, you'll notice that his ears are a little red, and although his lips are pursed, his eyes show joy and relaxation.
This is a side of Ning Wei that she rarely shows.
They always thought that Ning Wei was the kind of celebrity who didn't have any friends in the industry, and that her circle of friends was limited to the other two members of "Blue".
Ning Wei had previously retweeted Weibo posts related to Ji Yan and followed him, but the "blue" fans were worried that Ji Yan was using Ning Wei to promote himself. Even though the two had collaborated on two songs, "Leap" and "Reverse Time," the fans' opinions remained unchanged.
After all... the difference in status is a real thing.
The entertainment industry is never short of similar negative examples.
But now, photos taken by Chen Xiaoge by chance have made fans realize that Ning Wei was very happy when she was with Ji Yan.
Ning Wei is not the kind of person who is good at expressing his emotions, so even the slightest changes in him can be noticed by his fans—when he appears in the same scene as Ji Yan, whether on stage or in private, Ning Wei is happier than usual.
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