After the "Blue" concert ended, Weibo was filled with fans praising the concert's effects—this is the norm for every "Blue" concert.
Of course, many fans also mentioned going to the "Blue" concert with "Wings".
"Wings just had their concert yesterday, right? They actually traveled all the way from city to see Colors live today. That's true love."
"Haha, I have to bring out my treasured 10-second eye contact video. Please watch Ning Wei's eyes and dimples carefully."
"This concert is really... you'll regret it for life if you don't go. Da Ning's expressions are so adorable. Actually, I've seen several of Color Band's concerts, but this one... I feel like Da Ning has become more lively."
"We beg Wings Band to hold a concert in H City. You all came all this way to see a concert, how can it not be appropriate for them to hold one?"
The interaction between "Wings" and "Blue" has naturally resurfaced, and many fans are looking forward to their next collaboration—not just being each other's concert guests, but ideally, they would collaborate on a song together, or even on a television stage.
Ji Yan and Ning Wei didn't meet up this time, but after the concert, they went backstage to take a look. As expected, although the stage effect presented by "blue" was almost perfect, the backstage was indeed a mess, with nowhere to even step.
Ji Yan and Ning Wei talked for a while, then left in a car with Xie Mingxuan and the others.
The concerts for both groups will continue next week.
The Wings' tour lasted until mid-April, with a long duration, many shows, and high attendance. To some extent, this tour solidified Wings' position as a top-tier artist. As singers, album sales and concert data determine their position in the music industry. In the current slump of the music industry as a whole, Wings' achievements in less than 10 years since their debut are quite remarkable.
Now, "Wings" is no longer just a representative of the new generation. The group has been around for a long time, has released several albums, and has no shortcomings in terms of data.
However, for the members, the most important thing after the concert is to have a good rest, not to travel, not to go anywhere, and to be a complete homebody.
"I'm so tired!"
"I'm exhausted. Promise me you won't start a tour again for at least two years, okay?"
"I'm going to start indulging in all sorts of eating and drinking, three hot pot meals a week!"
The exhaustion of the tour lies in the fact that they have fixed tasks to do every week, like a mission with a deadline every week, and the duration of this mission is much longer than they imagined. The members of "Wings" are used to a relaxed life, and even when writing songs, they can freely control their time. Concerts are completely different.
Of course, the tour's success exceeded the members' expectations.
Whether it's the enthusiasm of the fans or their state after each concert—for singers, the concert venue is the most direct communication with their fans, and the applause and cheers of the fans are the source of their motivation.
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For the next ten days or so, the group of friends all adopted a lazy lifestyle, eating and sleeping, or wasting time watching cartoons. They would only reluctantly get out of bed for work that they absolutely had to do—except when they were eating hot pot.
In the past two years, many popular hot pot restaurants have opened in City A. "Yi" and his friends visited five of them in two weeks. One of them was so delicious that they went there a second time. After eating there, they started getting sores from the heat.
I've also gained a little weight.
Among them, Fang Yu's face was the roundest, but he insisted that he was just tired and that it had nothing to do with eating hot pot.
The group reviewed their schedules. Their main task was to release a new album. Apart from that, they only had a few commercial shoots to do. The busiest person was Ji Yan, who had to attend this year's Changkong Awards ceremony and promote his new film "Black Curtain".
Although the May Day holiday season has not yet begun, the promotion of new summer films has already been put on the agenda.
Ji Yan sighed, lay down in a starfish position, and quietly studied the script that Ye Ying had selected.
There were two suspense dramas, but Ji Yan turned them down immediately. Although the scripts were very interesting and completely different in style from "The Vanished Murderer," Ji Yan didn't want to choose a work of the same genre for the time being.
There's also an ancient costume fantasy blockbuster, which is also something Ji Yan wouldn't consider. Although the main storyline of this script is a touching love story between gods, he feels that it would be too difficult to carry the plot for at least 100 minutes with just this main storyline, and it would make the whole script seem very empty.
But the investors of this kind of film are really willing to spend money. Ji Yan glanced at the list of potential invitees, which included both currently popular leading men and several long-standing top actors. If Ji Yan agreed to participate, the production company would give him an amazing salary.
In response, Ji Yan said, "Money is no object."
Xi Ming: "..."
The two happened to be discussing the script, and Xi Ming was among those invited. However, like Ji Yan, neither of them cared too much about the amount of the pay, but the script had to meet their requirements.
When Xi Ming heard Ji Yan's declaration that he was not short of money, he couldn't help but feel a little envious. In fact, being a celebrity is definitely a high-paying profession, provided that they don't think of themselves as investment geniuses. Most of them don't have that kind of talent, and they can live a very comfortable life with their film and television fees and endorsement income.
However, many celebrities do not have this concept; they think they are investment gods.
Xi Ming is willing to invest, but he is cautious: "I often failed math when I was in school, so I went to study acting. With my brain, I can't even do basic math, so what can I invest in?"
But Xi Ming also reminded Ji Yan to be wary of such scripts: "This is not a typical movie setup."
This script only deserves a 5 out of 10, but the film's cast and crew are top-notch. Plus, the investors have a great reputation, so Xi Ming thinks it's best to avoid this script.
Ji Yan has a script for a youth film, but he really doesn't have the nerve to play a male high school student. By his age, he graduated from high school ten years ago, and it's hard for him to muster the courage to play a young man.
He also has a sports film and a science fiction film scripts on hand, both of which are of good quality and have promising casts. Ji Yan is torn between the two scripts.
Science fiction is a subject that interests him. The popularity of "Alien Invasion" has boosted the industry's enthusiasm for making science fiction films. There are indeed more good scripts than in previous years. With more quantity, there will be more high-quality films. Of course, the frequency of bad films will also increase significantly.
As for sports films, they tell the story of ordinary track and field teenagers stepping onto the international stage. The script is actually very simple, without any melodramatic plots or messy interpersonal relationships, but this type of film itself has exciting and tearful moments.
Ji Yan hesitated for a few days before finally choosing the sports movie. However, the science fiction film company later sent him a message saying that the filming schedules of the two movies did not conflict, and the latter would start filming a few months later.
Ji Yan accepted them all.
"Teacher Ji, are you a workaholic?" Fang Yu teased him. "Your painful life is about to begin."
"I'm not that passionate about my job," Ji Yan said after a moment's thought. "But what else can I do if I don't work?"
The next second, a bag of potato chips was slammed in front of him: "Are you trying to kill a person to eat?"
"What kind of Versailles speech is this? It makes even my chicken feet taste bad."
Ji Yan tore open the potato chips and chewed them happily: "I have a good appetite, don't worry."
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After the start of the new Changkong Awards ceremony, Ji Yan, last year's Best Actor winner, was in charge of presenting this year's Best Actress award. This year's Best Actress award went to actress Zhu Xuan. Among the nominees was You Kesi, who had worked with Ji Yan on "Young Love Poems". You Kesi's performance in a disaster film garnered numerous accolades in the industry, but unfortunately, she still lost to Zhu Xuan in the award competition.
This year's Best Actor award went to veteran actor Lan Tang, who is 80 years old this year, making him the oldest Best Actor winner in the history of the Chang Kong Awards.
Last year's Best Actor was the youngest in history, while this year's is the oldest. The choice of the judges for the Chang Kong Awards is truly unpredictable. When Ji Yan and Lan Tang took a photo together, movie fans not only marveled at Ji Yan's youth but also felt that the film industry has a promising future.
Backstage at the awards ceremony, Ji Yan also ran into Ji Xuekong, who had composed music for an art film called "Opera World" this year. Although it didn't win an award, the film received good reviews, and Ji Xuekong's talent in composing music was recognized.
Although he had reservations about this person, Ji Yan also admitted that Ji Xuekong did have some talent in the field of music.
Just as Ji Xuekong was about to greet Ji Yan, Ji Yan was stopped by several well-known actors in the industry. The group chatted about recent events in the film industry and some interesting stories about the directors. When he was with the group of actors, Ji Yan was calm and composed, as if he had completely blended into the environment.
Ji Xuekong had never seen Ji Yan in such a mature and composed state. This was clearly a battlefield that belonged only to him. He could even vaguely see the shadow of Ji Wei in Ji Yan.
Ji Xuekong stood there, but Ji Yan's gaze didn't drift towards him even once. After a moment, Ji Xuekong could only leave silently.
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With the Chang Kong Awards ceremony over and the summer movie season fast approaching, several blockbuster films scheduled for release this summer have begun their fierce competition. Although the release dates of these films are not entirely the same, the competition between them remains even though there is a one-week interval between their releases.
Since the start of the promotion, the focus of the publicity for "The Curtain" has been on Ji Yan and Xi Ming.
At the end of May, the film released its first trailer. In just over a minute of footage, Xi Ming and Ji Yan didn't have many lines, but the tense atmosphere between the characters was fully conveyed.
The tension between the two is also a point of interest for movie fans.
"Is he a villain? Is he a villain? Is he a villain? I feel like Teacher Ji is playing a villain again this time, and a particularly twisted one at that. I'll bet on it and watch it after it's released."
"Looking forward to the new film! I feel like I can see a lot of details from the trailer. Teacher Ji's performance is great. His scenes with Xi Ming are very stable, and he doesn't seem to be suppressed at all."
"Looking forward to Professor Ji's new film, especially 'The Curtain'!"
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