Peninsula: It’s just a dream, are you serious?

Chapter 468 I feel like I've been tricked (Bee Moe 36)

Girl's Day's ranking of 19 on the real-time chart was not a flash in the pan; on the contrary, its performance on the digital music charts has shown great staying power.

After one night, the music chart ranking of "Something" not only did not decline, but rose by several places, reaching the tenth position on the real-time chart.

With such results achieved in less than twelve hours, it's entirely possible that they could challenge for the top spot on the real-time and daily charts, or even rank among the top on the weekly charts.

Online, several terms related to "girl's day" are still trending on Naver, and the discussion continues to rise slowly as more people listen to the song.

Anyone with even a little understanding can see that Girl's Day is on the verge of becoming a huge hit.

As long as DreamTea Entertainment's subsequent operations don't fall terribly, then Girl's Day becoming a third-tier girl group is a foregone conclusion.

If subsequent operations and resources can keep up, then becoming a second-tier girl group is not impossible.

"President Li, you're too kind. Okay, let's cooperate again in the future. Goodbye."

Sitting in his director's office, Chen Yan hung up the thank-you call from Lee Jong-suk of Dream Tea Entertainment and put down his phone.

He glanced at the ranking of Girl's Day's "Something" on the Melon live music chart on his computer screen and a smile crept onto his face.

Good results are certainly good, because then those who previously criticized him online will have nothing to attack him with, and his own fame and income will also increase further.

If things continue like this, he might actually be able to buy a large house that can accommodate eight or nine people by March of next year using his producer income.

After imagining the grand house for a moment, Chen Yan composed himself, closed the Melon website, and continued to focus his energy on the new song he was writing for Lee Sunmi.

The arrangement of this song is almost complete, and it should be finished in the next couple of days.

In the midst of the busyness, it was noon.

Chen Yan got up and left the office, called Cui Minhe and the others, and took the elevator to the company cafeteria.

After chatting and finishing our meal, we went to the place where the plates were kept and put them away.

Turning around, I suddenly saw several familiar figures walking not far ahead.

Chen Yan smiled, took a few big strides to walk behind one of the people, and then reached out and put his hand on the girl's head.

Suddenly feeling a touch on her head, Zhou Ziyu was so startled that her body trembled involuntarily, and she quickly turned her head.

Chen Yan's smiling face came into view, and the girl breathed a sigh of relief. Then, she pouted, stomped her foot, and said coquettishly, "Brother~ you tricked me again~"

Chen Yan gently patted Zhou Ziyu's head and said with a smile, "I can't help it, our Ziyu is just too cute, I can't help but tease you."

Upon hearing this, Chou Tzu-yu wrinkled her nose at Chen Yan with a slightly annoyed expression.

This older brother is great in every way, except he loves to tease her. When they first met, she thought he was a mature and steady person.

Once you get to know him, he is indeed mature and steady, but he is also quite cunning and a bad older brother.

However, she didn't dislike it; on the contrary, she felt a sense of familiarity with it. So the girl didn't dodge the older brother's hand and obediently stood there while he rubbed her head.

Even though this older brother became a company director, he still treated them with the same gentleness and kindness as before, which made Chou Tzu-yu very happy.

Seeing this, Chen Yan smiled and rubbed it a few more times before withdrawing his hand at the opportune moment.

The others, including Lim Nayeon, were clearly used to this scene. After Chen Yan withdrew his hand, they walked over to Zhou Ziyu and began to "speak out" for the girl.

“Oppa, you can’t keep bullying Tzuyu, even if you’re a director now.”

"Oh? Then why did I hear Jeongyeon say that Nayeon is the one who usually bullies Tzuyu?"

"Ok?"

Lim Nayeon immediately turned her head, baring her two rabbit teeth at Yoo Jeongyeon with a "fierce" look: "Jeongyeon, you tattled on me, didn't you?"

Yoo Jeongyeon waved her hands frantically: "No, I don't have Nayeon unnie."

Tzuyu's weak voice rang out: "Nayeon unnie does often bully me."

"Oh, Tzuyu, I didn't."

"Hahahaha"

A group of people chatted as they entered the elevator, and the doors slowly opened a few seconds later for the trainee floor.

"We'll be going now, goodbye oppa~"

"See you."

Smiling, Chen Yan bid farewell to Lin Nayeon and the others, but as he watched their retreating figures, a thoughtful expression flashed across his face.

He hadn't forgotten about Twice.

However, according to Kim Tae-yeon and Im Yoon-ah, TWICE officially debuted as a group in 2015, after many twists and turns.

JYP Entertainment actually has plans to launch a new girl group, and they've already reached the stage of forming a pre-debut group, with Nayeon being one of the members.

However, Chen Yan also learned from Kim Tae-yeon and Lim Yoon-ah that JYP's girl group plan would be temporarily suspended next year due to the impact of the Sewol ferry disaster.

Almost six months after the project was terminated, JYP launched a variety show called "Sixteen" to select the nine members of TWICE who would eventually form the group.

Chen Yan is now thinking about whether it's possible to get TWICE to debut earlier.

Currently, all nine members of Twice are trainees at the company, so there's no need to worry about finding members.

The only things to consider are whether they are talented enough to debut and whether the timing of their debut is appropriate.

However, there's no rush. We can talk to Park Jin-young later. Right now, let's focus on finishing Lee Sunmi's solo album.

Sitting at his desk, Chen Yan pulled himself together, picked up his phone, chatted with Kim Tae-yeon and the others who were taking a break during the trip, and then focused his energy back on the unfinished song.

After an unknown amount of time, a phone rang suddenly, pulling Chen Yan's thoughts back from the song.

He picked up the phone, glanced at the caller ID, and answered the call.

"Hey, Jinyoung."

"Xiao Yan, come to my office. I have something I want to talk to you about."

"Okay, here we come."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Yan immediately got up, left the office, and took the elevator to the president's office on the top floor.

“Brother Zhenying”.

"Come, sit down."

Chen Yan sat down opposite Park Jin-young, but noticed that the man's expression seemed a little strange.

He asked, "What's wrong, Brother Zhenying?"

"You take a look at this first."

Park Jin-young turned the computer screen towards him, gesturing for him to look at the content.

Chen Yan turned his gaze to the screen and was stunned after seeing the contents.

The computer screen displays the specific content of a term on Naver's trending list.

Is Chen Yan actually affiliated with JYP Entertainment?

Coming to his senses, Chen Yan continued reading the details below.

A moment later, after reading the contents, his gaze fell on Park Jin-young's somewhat subtle expression, and he couldn't help but laugh.

He now understood why Park Jin-young had that expression.

The content of this entry is roughly as follows.

Because Chen Yan's song for Girl's Day achieved excellent music chart results, some netizens suddenly came up with the idea of ​​listing the music chart results of all of Chen Yan's released works.

And guess what? This list actually revealed a key point to netizens.

That is, out of the six songs Chen Yan has released so far, the songs he wrote for JYP's groups 2AM and 2PM have the lowest digital music sales among the six songs.

The third to last one is also Bae Suzy's OST, "Don't Forget Me".

The number one song is naturally Girls' Generation's "I Got a Boy", the second is "Peach" which is a collaboration with Lee Ji-eun, and the third is "Baby Don't Cry", which is written for EXO.

Although "Something," written for Girl's Day, has only been released for less than a day and doesn't yet have a precise music chart result, it's already gaining momentum.

On Melon's real-time charts, which were updated just over half an hour ago, "Something" has risen from 10th to 7th place.

Based on this momentum, it's definitely not a problem for the final music chart results to surpass those two songs from 2am and 2pm.

So, netizens started to create some funny content.

They say that Chen Yanhao's works are all for outside companies, and the ones left for JYP are all of lower quality.

Including the OST he wrote for Bae Suzy and Lee Sunmi's unreleased solo album, Chen Yan has only written four songs for JYP artists at most.

But looking outside, Chen Yan has already written four songs for just SM Entertainment.

Not to mention the two songs written for Girl's Day and Apink.

In conclusion, netizens concluded that Chen Yan prefers to write songs for external companies rather than JYP.

This led netizens to raise another question: Is Chen Yan actually a member of JYP Entertainment? Why is he unwilling to write good songs for his own company?
Then, as more and more netizens joined the discussion, the hashtag "[Is Chen Yan actually a member of JYP?]" eventually climbed to fifth place on Naver's trending list.

Chen Yan had just finished reading the content and glanced at the comments. Most of them were joking remarks; this trending topic was purely for fun and netizens to discuss.

He found it quite amusing after reading it himself, and then, upon turning his head and noticing the subtle expression on Park Jin-young's face, he couldn't help but laugh.

After laughing for a while, Chen Yan noticed that the guy's face was getting darker and darker, so he quickly stopped laughing and said:

“Brother Zhenying, I didn’t intentionally give the company a poor-quality work.”

Park Jin-young rolled her eyes at him: "I know."

When it comes to music chart performance, song quality is only the foundation; there are many other influencing factors. Poor chart performance does not necessarily mean a bad song.

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"Xiao Yan, you really haven't written enough songs for the company's artists."

"Forehead"

Chen Yan smiled helplessly: "Brother Zhenying, when I joined the company, miss A's comeback album was already finished. The company didn't have that many comeback plans."

"That's true. How's Sunmi's solo album coming along?"

"The song should be written in the next couple of days. We've had two meetings this month, and the costumes and styling are pretty much finalized. All that's left are some minor adjustments."

Park Jin-young nodded, then thought for a moment: "It's been more than half a year since miss A's last comeback, we can start planning their next comeback."

"And Xiaoyan, you don't have to be so rigid in your thinking. It doesn't have to be a group. If there's a suitable song, you can form a limited-time group or something, like Kim HyunA's Trouble Maker."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yan nodded thoughtfully: "Okay, I understand, Brother Zhenying."

"Ah."

Park Jin-young responded, glanced at him, and then said:

“I remember Suzy has been quite free lately, Xiaoyan, you could consider writing a single for her or something.”

Chen Yan immediately frowned: "Brother Zhenying, Xiuzhi's popularity is already very high. If we give her another single, then..."

He didn't say the rest.

But Park Jin-young knew what he meant and sighed softly.

"I know this will exacerbate the inequality in popularity and resources within the group, but this is something that cannot be changed simply by adjusting the company's operations."

Chen Yan understood the implication in his words.

To put it simply, it's beyond saving, so let's just leave it at that.

"Okay, I see."

"Ah."

Park Jin-young quickly adjusted his mindset, smiled, and suddenly thought of something.

"Actually, Xiaoyan, you could consider forming a limited-time group with Suzy or something. You sing quite well, and I saw that the public's reaction to your interaction online last night was pretty good."

Chen Yan looked speechless: "Brother Zhenying, I really have no interest in debuting as an artist."

"I didn't say I wanted you to debut. I just said that if you have any inspiration, you can write a song and sing it together. Just release the audio, and you don't even need to go on music shows."

"Okay, I'll go back and think about it."

If that's the case, then it's not necessarily a bad thing.

Park Jin-young smiled and nodded: "Yes, you are now a director and shareholder of the company, so it will be good for you if the company does well."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "The planning for miss A's comeback album and the title track will also be handled by you, Xiaoyan."

"it is good."

Chen Yan nodded in agreement subconsciously, but quickly realized, "Wait a minute, Zhenying, I've been doing all the work by myself, what about you?"

Park Jin-young blinked and said matter-of-factly, "Of course I'm going to prepare my own comeback album. I'm an artist too."

Holy crap, that makes perfect sense.

I almost forgot that this guy is also an artist; running a company is just his side job.

Chen Yan couldn't help but twitch his lips.

He reasonably suspected that Park Jin-young had already planned to push all these things onto him before he even arrived.

Tsk, looks like I've been tricked.

However, Chen Yan did not refuse. He did need to achieve enough results to establish himself in the company and in the public eye.

After chatting with Park Jin-young for a while, Chen Yan got up and left his office.

Back in my office, I glanced at the time in the lower right corner of my computer screen; there were still a dozen minutes until it was time to leave work.

He thought for a moment, then turned off the computer, got up, and left the office.

He's already a company director, so leaving a few minutes early is perfectly reasonable, isn't it?

I drove home and simply made myself some noodles for dinner.

After finishing his meal, Chen Yan sat on the sofa in the living room, petting the dog and resting for a while. After glancing at the time, he got up and left home.

"Ding"

The elevator doors slowly opened on the recording studio floor, and Chen Yan stepped out of the elevator, walking effortlessly to the door of Lee Ji-eun's private recording studio.

Enter the password to open the door, push it open and go inside. There, a petite figure is already sitting in front of the recording console.

Hearing the noise, the girl turned her head and met Chen Yan's eyes as he entered.

Chen Yan smiled and was about to greet him.

But he saw that Lee Ji-eun just glanced at him calmly, then turned her head back without saying hello.

The smile froze on Chen Yan's face, and he blinked.

what happened?
(End of this chapter)