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Chapter 308 Concert Completed, The Only One (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

"Ah ah ah ah..."

The cheers of nearly 100,000 people crashed against the "skeleton" inside the Bird's Nest like a rising tide, the sound waves making people's eardrums tingle.

Gong Cheng stood at the highest point of the rising stage, his shirt collar open, the hem of which was lifted slightly by the wind. He looked down at the all-black piano at his feet, its lid reflecting the dark sea of ​​stars below, the light particles scattered to the horizon, creating a dreamlike scene.

"..."

With the first half almost over, and most of the performances being on the energetic and upbeat side, the intermission featured the new album's Chinese single, "The Only One," for a touch of emo and a bit of sentimentality...

Most importantly, before today, Gong Cheng never expected that TWICE would appear at his concert, and the female lead who was supposed to appear in the music video was sitting in the stands far away.

Fortunately, the music video for "The Only One" features lyrics in both Chinese and English, as the decision was made to premiere the song at the Bird's Nest stadium in China, given the large number of fans, including many foreign fans who managed to snag tickets.

Whether you're a fan of Peninsular Japan, Japan, or Europe and America, adding English subtitles is perfectly reasonable.

As for Son Chae-young, the little tiger knows some English...

"You little brat, walking right into my trap?"

Gong Cheng adjusted the position of his in-ear monitor and silently snorted to himself.

As he prepared for the performance, the fans below cheered enthusiastically, their starry eyes fixed on the boy sitting at the piano high above...

Soon, while tens of thousands of people were captivated by Gong Cheng's handsome appearance, he rolled up his shirt sleeves, raised his slender fingers as if testing a note, and tapped two single notes on the black and white piano keys...

"Ding-dong!"

After a brief sound check, Gong Cheng placed the silver-white microphone, studded with tiny diamonds, onto its stand. A melancholy expression crossed his face, yet a faint smile played on his lips. His delicate voice rang out as he slightly raised his chin and assumed the standard posture for a piano performance. "And the next song..."

"It's an unreleased single from the new album, The Lovers, called 'The Only One'—which is also the only Chinese single."

"It was written for a very special person. In her eyes, I am her 'only one'."

"..."

In the almost silent atmosphere, nearly 100,000 fans and music lovers were intently watching the boy bathed in moonlight on the big screen, listening to his heartfelt speech, which seemed like a confession.

Meanwhile, in the stands, at the insistence of Son Chaeyoung and the other TWICE members, Chou Tzuyu translated her brother's words into Korean: "In her eyes, I am her 'Only One'..."

"A special person?" Kim Da-hyun was shocked upon hearing this, and a curse-like echo suddenly grew in her mind, "We have a special relationship, a special relationship means a special person..." She panicked and remembered what the big boss had said on the set of "Parasite" that day.

Could it be that this song...? For a moment, it seemed as if two miniature versions of tofu floated into her mind, bickering with each other.

Upon hearing the maknae's translation, Sana Minatozaki's bright eyes gazed at Makoto Miyagi on the platform, a sweet feeling welling up inside her. To this day, she still remembers that beautiful memory: on the day the first snow of 16 arrived, this little cutie told her that she was the most special person to him.

"The most special person?" A strange feeling suddenly arose in Mina's heart.

Cheng-chan had once told her that she was a very special person to him, but at that time, she looked at Gong Cheng smugly and asked, "A safe haven, perhaps?" But the little thief just smiled and didn't say anything...

Lim Nayeon grinned, showing her rabbit teeth – wasn't that describing herself?

Who could be more special to a man than himself?

"..." Only Son Chaeyoung remained silent, biting her lip, her brows furrowed. It was the first snow of 16. Back then, everyone lived in the old dormitory apartment. He said that the first snow should be seen with the most special person, so the two of them sat on the swing on the balcony wrapped in blankets, and she curled up in his arms.

But now, what struck the little tiger's heart the most was not whether it was special or not, but the words "the only one" and the sentence, "In her eyes, I am her only one." For a moment, Son Chae-young couldn't help but stare at the smiling male father on the big screen with aggrieved eyes. How arrogant! How could he be so sure that you are my only one?

Do you know who the most special person is?

"She was there today too..."

Gong Cheng asked his fans softly with a smile in his eyes, but as he sat at the piano, his elegant and noble figure, touched by the moonlight streaming in from outside the dome, faintly exuded loneliness and melancholy...

"Is this guy depressed again?" Kim Da-hyun stared at the screen, noticing the hint of sadness in his handsome eyes. It was unbelievable!

“This song is indeed quite melancholic!” Chou Tzu-yu replied knowingly.

Tofu couldn't understand why the handsome man who was jumping around on stage just now suddenly became melancholy as soon as he sat down at the piano. It felt like he was acting. This is the true value of a veteran actor... the youngest Baeksang Arts Awards Best Actor!

Son Chaeyoung's eyes were red as she looked at the boy on the screen, his little mouth grinning, his white canine teeth gleaming. But tears, uncontrollably, streamed down her face again. Sniffling, she couldn't help but shift her position slightly in the dimly lit stands, glancing at Mina unnie beside her, and boastfully said, "Unnie, this is a song Oppa wrote for me..."

“…Really?” Mina glanced at her, then couldn’t help but smile. “That’s great…”

Deep down, however, I couldn't help but sneer. Not necessarily...

"I!!"

"you!!"

"It's Tarot!"

"..." Fans roared out their opinions, and a young woman with a tablet even created a scrolling message and held it up to show the boy her answer—〈The Most Special Person—√Tarot〉

The fans were brainwashing themselves into a state of self-hypnosis, because for them, the dazzling boy on stage was their "only one".

"Each of us is a unique person..."

Gong Cheng listened intently to the cheers and screams from the entire audience. Although the shouts and words varied and sounded chaotic, they were also deafening and warmed the hearts of those who heard them.

"The one and only 'The Only One'..."

As he spoke, Gong Cheng straightened up and played the first note. The arrangement of "The Only One" poured out from the speakers all around. The moment the piano keys were gently pressed, it was like a transparent droplet of water falling into a still lake...

The simple melody that began, the echoes produced by the constantly pressed black and white piano keys, the low-pitched notes like a babbling brook, instantly calmed the cheering atmosphere amidst the heat of the night...

Meanwhile, the 360-degree 3D naked-eye LED screen at the top of the stage seemed to have its starry background image suddenly dispelled by the sound of the piano—the music video for "The Only One" began to play, and the warm afternoon sun pierced the screen with its gentle warmth. The height of the stage where Gong Cheng was performing was exactly the same as the LED screen...

With the added 3D naked-eye visual effects of the big screen, the warm sunlight shining obliquely on the screen enveloped his figure sitting in front of the piano like a spotlight. Fans in the stands from all directions screamed when they saw this scene!

"Holy crap! This effect makes it feel like Tarot is right there in the music video on the big screen!"

"It looks like a music room?"

"..."

Son Chaeyoung stared blankly at the music video on the big screen. The afternoon sun slanted in through the blinds, casting patches of light of varying lengths on the floor. A Steinway piano stood in the dusty corner, its black body so shiny it reflected the ceiling light, the metal latches on the edge of the lid polished to a gleaming shine...

Before long, a girl in a black dress was reflected in the glossy black surface of the piano. The dress was an extremely simple style, and in the blurry reflection, the girl's pure and sweet face shone. With the "clack-clack" of her short high heels, she got closer and closer.

A girl suddenly appeared in the frame, sitting gracefully at the piano, her fair arms and slender fingers resting on the black and white keys.

At the same time, Gong Cheng, who was on the high platform, stopped playing his piano, seemingly waiting for the female lead in the music video on the large screen behind him to start playing...

Who is the female lead in Tarot's music video?

"Never seen it before?"

The murmurs from the audience never stopped, and Yoo Jeongyeon asked curiously. Chou Tzuyu pursed her lips and explained seriously, "She's an SM trainee, I think her name is Ning Yizhuo. I remember there were two other SM trainees in the MV, one named Yoo Jimin and the other named Kim Minjung..."

At this point, she was somewhat reluctant, because she kept wondering why her brother didn't ask her to film a music video.
……

The ethereal piano notes rose one after the other, flowing gently like a stream, as if reality and virtuality were intertwined in time and space. Meanwhile, the camera in the music video slowly moved... On the piano lid in front of Ning Yizhuo, there was a stand for composing music, with a white, plain piece of paper with horizontal lines attached.

The left side of the paper still had torn marks, and the page was full of Korean characters, the handwriting was neat but somewhat messy, with verses of lyrics drawn, circled and revised, looking very casual.

The song title, "The Only One," was written at the very top of the page, and below it was an even more hastily written sentence: "Oppa, am I your only one?"

Next came the repeated revisions of the lyrics...

The sound of piano music flowed through the Bird's Nest...

Fans looked up at the split-screen projection of Gong Cheng's face, his expression etched with a sense of devastation. Beneath his red, tousled hair, his sorrowful eyes seemed to hold a deep well of heartbreak. He slightly raised his chin, his hands continuing to play, his mouth slightly open.

"You really understand the definition of 'unique'..."

"It's not as simple as breathing..."

From the perspective of the music video, Ning Yizhuo is also looking at the lyrics on the piano stand, singing softly. The camera flips and focuses on Ning Yizhuo singing softly, her eyes slightly sad, recalling. The scene flashes by and then transitions...

"You really hope you can clarify..."

"How can you explain this if we haven't opened our hearts to each other?"

Listening to her husband's delicate and gentle singing voice, the tears that Son Chae-young had just held back began to flow again. The lyrics that flashed in the music video were all written in Korean, which he could understand, and the familiar paper—if she remembered correctly, that diary was in their bedside table.

Because the cover of that diary was of Doraemon, and there was a line drawing of Doraemon's head in the bottom right corner of every page.

So, after Oppa took her back to her dorm that day, she went back to their little room together? And then, she wrote this song?

She didn't know if her analysis was reasonable, but her intuition told her that this must be the case.

"I truly love you—every word I utter is precious."

"Drifting in the eyes..." A delicate and gentle voice slowly sang the lyrics. When Gong Cheng looked up, his eyelashes were still covered with the shards of spotlight light. His gaze went over the piano lid and straight to the opposite stands.

There, the sea of ​​stars rose and fell gently to the melody, and silver glow sticks formed a flowing river, spreading from the first floor to the second and third floors. As the waves of light surged, even the outlines of the seats were blurred into hazy spots of light...

TWICE sat in that sea of ​​light, but amidst the dense crowd and the flowing "sea of ​​stars," his gaze swept over countless upturned faces. His heartbroken eyes saw only the interplay of light and shadow. He couldn't see Son Chaeyoung, nor could he see Lim Nayeon, Minatozaki Sana, Mina, Chou Tzuyu, Hirai Momo...

"Ahhh! The way my husband looked at me...it made me..." A fan in the front row suddenly covered her mouth, her eyes red, "My heart is broken..."

Your wavering~ fueled my wandering and hardship~

"Awake in death... I realize you were clever behind my back..."

To the accompaniment of a melancholic melody, in the music video on the big screen, Gong Cheng, who has yet to appear, has his composed black, tousled hair reflecting the sunlight. His handsome and warm face is supported by one hand as he glances sideways at the camphor tree outside the window. Wearing a white shirt and brown school trousers, he exudes youthful charm...

In the classrooms around him, it seemed to be recess time. Ning Yizhuo, wearing a women's white shirt with the school emblem printed on the chest and a brown pleated skirt, stood with her back to the camera, writing something on the blackboard.

Liu Zhimin was wearing the same school uniform, except that the short shirt revealed her fair belly. Long Mi was incredibly sexy, with a pleated skirt tied around her waist with a trendy black studded belt. She had an oval face and wore smoky makeup. She sat next to Gong Cheng—his deskmate.

Her maturity, incongruous with her age, was striking. She first glanced at Ning Yizhuo, who stood in front of the podium with her back to her, then mischievously leaned close to Gong Cheng's ear and whispered, "Saranghae~"

During the interlude, the phrase "Saranghae" from the music video resonated particularly loudly at the Bird's Nest stadium.

"Saranghae~" The simple and straightforward lyrics echoed from speakers all around. Unlike the other characters who played students, Yoo Jimin grinned with her white teeth and wore glossy lipstick, looking charming and sexy.

Even the many Chinese people present could understand the meaning of the simple and straightforward Korean phrase "Saranghae".

"Holy crap! She's a mistress!"

"Judging from how she was peeking at the girl on the stage earlier, she must know that the character my brother played in the MV and that girl are a couple! It's blatant seduction!"

Son Chaeyoung was also a little breathless, and involuntarily put herself into Ning Yizhuo's role, while the girl next to her, Mina, seemed to be the trainee named Yoo Jimin.

She clenched her teeth and stared at the screen.

In the music video, when Gong Cheng hears this bold confession, he turns around, smiles brightly, and softly replies, "Saranghae~" The sunlight just happens to fall on his gentle smiling eyes, the dappled light on his eyelashes as radiant as his smile...

"My hair!"

Many fans in the audience who initially wanted to blurt out "scumbag" couldn't help but say, "This is the real guy..." after seeing his incredibly natural and handsome "scumbag" face.

"This is what a husband should be like..."

"Sisters, don't get too involved, it's just the storyline of a music video..."

"Honey, can you please cheat on me? Waaaaah!"

Son Chaeyoung suddenly felt breathless, with words she wanted to say stuck in her throat. She recalled that night in the car, Gong Cheng's evasive gaze, and their evasive conversation after making love. She didn't want to point out their fear of losing each other, but the Oppa on stage was also afraid of losing her...

However, neither of them could come up with a better solution. In the days that followed, they both pretended not to understand, until their relationship began to improve after returning from Jeju Island…

"..." Thinking of this, Son Chae-young wiped away her tears with a mix of grievance and helplessness. Looking at Gong Cheng, she couldn't help but want to ask him, "Is this considered a confession?" Saddened, she glanced at Mina with grief and indignation...

"Always has clear insight at crucial moments~"

"Your wavering~ contributed to my wandering and hardship..."

The scene shifts to Kim Min-jung, who sits behind Gong Cheng and Yoo Jimin. She has short black hair, wears black-rimmed glasses, and has a pretty face that makes her look like a top student. However, her puppy-dog eyes are secretly glancing at Gong Cheng, who sits in front of her on the left...

After hearing Gong Cheng say "Saranghae" to Liu Zhimin, the classmate sitting in front of him... Kim Minjun subconsciously clenched his pencil, his knuckles instantly turning white, and the green veins on the back of his fair hand suddenly became clear, rising and falling gently with his rapid heartbeat.

The camera slowly pans down to the notebook under her arm. On that page, marked with small black dots from a pencil tip, lies her unspoken secret—a sketch repeatedly erased with a 2B pencil, depicting Gong Cheng's profile.

"Holy crap? A guy with a crush?"

"Aren't we just buddies, in a love quadrangle?"

"My brother has the talent to be a director and screenwriter. This looks like a really good campus romance MV..."

The graphite spread in varying shades of gray on the paper, making Gong Cheng's handsome brow bone appear even more defined. His features were intermittently highlighted in the shadows, and the line of his nose extended down from the brow peak, as hard as a mountain ridge. His thin lips were slightly downturned, carrying his usual aloofness. But upon closer inspection, one could find traces of pencil repeatedly rubbing at the corners of his mouth in the portrait, as if he wanted to secretly add a hint of a smile, but ultimately dared not...

"What a damn sycophant..."

"No, you know what, the three girls in this music video are actually quite pretty. Which K-pop company are they from...?"

"Looks like a trainee, right?"

Next to the sketch, there was a simple drawing with the words "[Nampo High School's School Heartthrob]" written on it, along with several sentences written in Korean, like a practice confession text...

"Miyako, I've actually liked you for a long time..."

"Will you go out with me?"

But above this passage, there was a big X, and below it, new words were written...

"Gong Cheng oppa, I know you're dating Ning Yizhuo, but I can wait for you. We've been classmates since junior high, and actually, we were classmates even earlier, in kindergarten. But you didn't recognize me. But it's okay..."

"I'll wait for you. Be my boyfriend, and I'll cherish you..."

"..."

Fans at the scene, upon seeing these comments, chuckled and said, "Although this character is a bit of a simp, it's not hard to understand if the person she's simping is Oppa~" She then smiled and shrugged at her companion, "If it were me, I might simp even more!"

"Aigoo, but the content in the MV is so realistic. Oppa's teachers and students when he was studying in Yeongdeungpo all said online that he was popular almost since he was a child. Now, on Yonsei University's campus forum, the most handsome campus heartthrob in history is still Oppa..."

"..."

"Damn... this isn't just melodramatic anymore?!"

"Isn't this too narcissistic?" Yoo Jeong-yeon stared at the scene in the MV with her mouth agape. As an artist under JYP, she knew very well that this melodramatic plot was definitely the idea of ​​her good friend Hagi Sung. If it's melodramatic, fine, but why did he have to put some kind of school heartthrob on it?
Aigoo...

"He is quite arrogant..." Lim Nayeon and Minatozaki Sana smiled awkwardly; their male parents could indeed be a bit pretentious sometimes...

Upon hearing this, Chou Tzu-yu became displeased and tried to defend her good brother, saying, "You've all wronged him. He said that most of the details in this music video were come from those three trainees. He was just bored at the time and thought, 'If it's melodramatic, so be it,' so he filmed it..."

"That 'school heartthrob' title was added by that trainee herself. They're all fans of the boy, and I don't think it's wrong..."

Yoo Jeongyeon and Park Jihyo automatically ignored the words of this maknae who dotes on her hyung...

"Those things I wanted to say but didn't say..."

Sometimes I doubt it... but I'm just a fool.

After Gong Cheng finished singing the verses, the emotions and tone of the chorus suddenly broke down, full of tension. The stubbornness and tenacity hidden in the gentle singing, mixed with the sad melody, suddenly gained weight, as if striking the heartstrings of all the fans in the audience...

Then, in the music video, the scene changes, and "ring ring ring~"

As if the bell had rung to signal the end of get out of class, Kim Minjung's clever gesture came to the fore. She tugged at her brown school uniform skirt and stood in the corridor outside the classroom, where rows of student lockers were lined up, and students were taking out their belongings. A locker with Ning Yizhuo's name on it was right next to her, and the two girls stood side by side.

"Ning Yizhuo, have you and Gong Cheng broken up?"

"No~" Ning Yizhuo explained with a sweet smile when she heard this.

Kim Minjung opened his mouth, feigning confusion, and said in a surprised tone, "But...but I saw with my own eyes that Gong Cheng and Liu Zhimin are dating...they were even confessing their feelings to each other in the last class..."

As she spoke, she mimicked their tone, "Saranghae~"

Completely ignoring Ning Yizhuo's stiff and trembling fair face, and the tears welling up in her eyes...

"Wow! A secret admirer + a tengu + a snitch..."

"Holy crap, there's something even more outrageous!"

"But I don't think there's anything wrong with pursuing someone you like! That person is Tarot! What do you stinky boys know!"

……

The TWICE members were completely speechless. It was so ridiculous. As for Son Chaeyoung, who was initially moved and had mixed feelings, she couldn't help but laugh and cry when she saw this ridiculous MV.

"But if it's true love, there won't be any calculations."

Love is not jealous, not arrogant, and not self-demanding.

"Regardless of your response~ Never-ending~"

On the big screen, Gong Cheng's eyes flashed, filled with a melancholy yet sparkling with countless stars...

"Holy crap, the design of this lyric bridge is absolutely brilliant!"

"..."

As the singers from the Chinese entertainment industry in the audience were giving their comments, the roar of the music arrangement grew even louder, like a tidal wave, while scenes flashed rapidly across the 360-degree LED screen in the music video…

Ning Yizhuo saw Gong Cheng and Liu Zhimin embracing in the sunlight at a corner of the campus...

On their way home from school that night, Gong Cheng held Ning Yizhuo's hand again, disguising his actions well, and softly called out "Saranghae~".

Her soothing voice sent many fans into a frenzy, shouting "Saranghae!" in response... Until, under the cover of night, Ning Yizhuo raised her head, her eyes brimming with tears, and asked tremblingly, "Oppa, am I your only one?"

"..." Under the moonlight, Gong Cheng, with a youthful air about him, nodded with a wandering gaze.

"Oppa, do you really understand the definition of 'unique'?" Ning Yizhu smiled bitterly upon hearing this answer, and tears welled up in her eyes, beginning to slide down her cheeks.

Then, the screen went black, with only the soft scratching of brushstrokes remaining...

Immediately afterwards, the music video returned to the opening scene: in the music room, Ning Yizhuo sat at the piano, looking at the lyrics of "The Only One," playing the piano, her white teeth slightly parted, tears streaming down her face...

"Holy crap! How did such a cliché plot even come together?"

"So, the song 'The Only One' was actually written by Tarot from a girl's perspective? That's why the music video used such a melodramatic style?"

……

"You know~ I really love you~"

"No one can compare!"

Your eyes didn't seem certain.

In an instant, Ning Yizhuo in the MV played the piano and sang the lyrics with a choked voice, while on the high platform, Gong Cheng's red hair was blown wildly by the night wind, but his heartbroken and sad eyes under his brows were like a layer of fog that could not be cleared, as dim as stars that had been dampened by a rainstorm...

"Always has clear insight at crucial moments~"

"Awake in death, I realize you've been cheating on me..."

The male and female harmonies, alternating between virtual and real worlds, sent chills down the spines of the nearly 100,000 people in the audience. A pervasive sense of sorrow quickly swept through the crowd.

Son Chaeyoung pulled down the brim of her baseball cap, not daring to look at the boy on stage, because "Ning Yizhuo" in the MV was herself. The melodramatic storyline that the members and fans were talking about was actually true. And now, having seen it all, she, who knew a little about composing...

I also realized that Oppa wrote the song "The Only One" from his own perspective.

Tears fell silently onto the back of her hand, blurring her vision. All the grievances and resentments she had felt earlier dissipated. She had always wondered, and had even asked, if it was because she had obtained things too easily that she no longer knew how to cherish them.
But now, the little tiger could hear the honesty in his voice; it was clear he wanted to give himself an explanation. Just like before, neither of them had figured out how to face this relationship…

Suddenly, a pair of delicate white hands gripped her wrists, startling her into a panic. Son Chaeyoung lifted the brim of her hat, glanced at her friend Kim Da-hyun's reassuring smile, and in the dim light, she burst into a mix of laughter and tears. You little traitor…

Why are you out here now?
Kim Da-hyun smiled gently and put her arm around her shoulder, feeling a little embarrassed. After all, the big boss had already told her about his unpleasantness with Chae-young recently, and the little tiger had also discovered her fickle nature. Yet, she had been jumping around like a clown, thinking that the little tiger knew nothing...

"Actually, Oppa really cares about you..."

After thinking for a moment, Doufu leaned over and whispered a good word for Daddy. From what she observed, Daddy really liked every one of his wives, but if you like so many wives, people will overlook these others...

Just like always, she would ask the handsome man, "Of all the wives, who do you like the most?" He would say, "I like them all!" Tofu would ask, "You can only say one!" "You don't understand! Every woman has a special meaning. Like Chaeyoung, we've known each other for a long time, we get along well, and we're happy together. I like being with her, and besides, she was there for me before I became famous..."

"traitor!"

Sun Caiying sniffed and glanced at her traitorous friend.

With Tofu's comfort, Little Tiger felt much better. The pent-up frustration seemed to vanish the moment he heard the song. Mina unnie? She didn't care much. If she couldn't handle her herself, she would find another way and let her boyfriend deal with her!
"hey-hey……"

Kim Da-hyun scratched her head awkwardly...

"I know~"

"Love is essentially the same—it's just that there are too many people crowding together."

The song, filled with broken emotions, and Gong Cheng's eyes, brimming with starlight, were projected onto the big screen. The blurred sorrow and flickering light reflected off the retina, and his magnified features were displayed horizontally within the 360-degree LED screen...

Is it crowded?

Knowing all about Makoto's messy affairs, Mina tilted her head and gently gazed at the sad face on the stage. Just thinking about Makoto's female relatives and his illness gave her a headache and made her sad...

"You don't want to prove... prove that I'm your only one..."

"Prove that I'm your only one~~"

As the last line of the lyrics fades, the arrangement of "The Only One" comes to an end...

The entire audience breathed softly at that moment, as if afraid to disturb Gong Cheng's broken, deeply affectionate eyes on the big screen...

pain!It hurts so much!
Many fans were immersed in the song's sorrowful atmosphere. They realized that the most painful thing was not the desperate cries, but simply gazing calmly into the distance, letting all the sadness overflow from their eyes, like a rising tide, slowly engulfing the hearts of nearly 100,000 people...

"Ding~!"

The last piano note faded away...

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!"

"TTTTTarot!"

The entire stadium erupted in heart-wrenching cheers: "Grand Court! Celestial Melody!"

"Miahneah..."

As the song ended, Gong Cheng stood up, picked up the microphone, and suddenly looked tenderly into a certain direction, smiling bitterly. But then, as the fans wondered, he slowly turned around, his tall figure facing away from the TWICE audience...

Addressing the fans in all directions, she said, "I'm sorry, I sang such a sad song..."

"It's okay, brother! It sounds so good!"

"Awesome! Tarot!"

"Kenchana..." Son Chaeyoung had just wiped away her tears, grinned, and quietly opened her mouth to respond...

……

After a brief two-minute interaction, Gong Cheng pulled himself out of the emotions of "The Only One"!

He did feel guilty about certain people and certain things...

But right now, the somber atmosphere in the venue needed a lively song to liven things up. Gong Cheng slowly walked down the stairs, smoothed the stray hairs from his forehead, and chuckled as he called out, "Next song, 'Lost Lamb'..."

He laughed heartily, then walked to the center stage. The extended passageway that had been raised slowly descended. He took a sip of water, took off his shirt, revealing his broad shoulders and narrow waist, his abdominal muscles glistening with sweat, which then slid down to his trousers...

Beneath her flamboyant red hair, a carefree smile played on her lips as she bit her lip. "Everyone can sing along with the lyrics~"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

"So sexy! That body, oh my god!"

Many of the women present experienced an immediate climax, squeezing their legs together and soaring upwards! Roar!

"..."

As the intro to "Lost Lamb" begins, a rough and distorted guitar roar comes from all directions, like a raging wind that suddenly tears open the somber atmosphere in the venue...

"Let bygones be bygones."

"The past is gone~~~"

The strings were swept across heavily, as if instantly igniting an unsettling atmosphere, and the song's music video and lyrics flashed on the LED screen...

Immediately following, the rhythmic drumbeats eagerly joined in, the drumsticks striking the drumheads powerfully. Gong Cheng took the white baseball cap handed to him by a staff member, put it backwards on his forehead, picked up the microphone, looked at the camera in front of him, and began to rap with a light laugh.

"With a backpack on my back, I plan to just wander around aimlessly."

"Wearing this stinking carcass—you'll recognize my face—waiting for your enemies to settle scores!!!"

He strolled around casually, while the director, carrying the camera, backed away. Gong Cheng moved his body, making some characteristic hip-hop moves, raising his arm and shaking it, "It's like a nightmare~ I've never woken up~"

"I'm searching for beautiful scenery, a message in a bottle like a needle in a haystack!"

In the music video on the big screen, the grayish visual texture evokes the face and figure of Gong Cheng at age 20. The music video for the song "Lost Lamb" was also filmed in 16 when he had just joined JYP, but plans changed, and both the music video and the song were shelved...

"Is this a 20-year-old oppa?"

"..." A murmur of discussion arose from the scene. The boy on the screen, with his camouflage cargo pants, white T-shirt covered in graffiti, and flamboyant black hair, was definitely a YG style!

"Hey~ that girl is still waiting for me at home~!"

"It's my fault, I wasn't strong enough!"

Gong Cheng's unrestrained figure moved through every corner of the four-sided stage, ensuring that fans on any side could see him. In the music video, there was a flash of Son Chae-young lying in a rented room, with her equally strong personality in her outfit, a rebellious little tiger, holding a guitar, and a photo of her and Gong Cheng next to her...

"No one should forgive me~ What else can I say but shrug my shoulders?"

Son Chaeyoung gazed at herself in the music video with mixed feelings. She participated in the music video for the song "Lost Lamb" because Oppa had just joined JYP in 16 and was preparing his first album, which mainly featured hip-hop tracks.

Then PDnim arranged for himself, whose personality was more compatible with Oppa's, to make a cameo appearance in the music video. I didn't expect it to be the third year already.

Time flies...

My elderly grandmother asked me if I was abroad.

"Please don't let her worry~ She sleeps with that gossipy old woman every night, why is she hiding from her~"

On the big screen, Gong Cheng hooked two fingers around the brim of his hat and twirled it halfway to straighten it. But as he rapped, his expression became sharper and more unrestrained and flamboyant.

"What does it mean to have backbone? I don't know~"

“nononononono~·~~”

“Come together!!”

He pointed to the lyrics displayed on the LED screen in mid-air and shouted...

Fragments of memory at night drift like the wind.

"I reached out to grab it, but it was all gone."

Nearly 100,000 fans waved their light sticks and sang along loudly to the hook lyrics, while fans in the inner section stood up and stood on tiptoe...

"The past is gone..." Gong Cheng walked towards the extended passage, the necklace around his neck swaying with his movements, and the earring beside his delicate brows gleamed under the spotlight.

"I've been wandering all this way~ My life is like a traveling singer!"

"This kind of life is melancholic~ How did I end up on this path~" His voice was low and calm, like a deep bass cannon, as Gong Cheng pointed to himself. "Before I went to sleep, I asked myself, should I continue? And when I wake up, should I still follow the rules~"

"I don't want to lose my freedom~ I don't want to be held captive by the system~ I just want to hum my classic songs~"

Arms raised and waving in the air nodded in time with the drumbeats, instantly spreading a wave of heat throughout the venue. In a flash, all the spotlights in the stadium went out...

Black and white lights shone on the stage, while the sea of ​​people all around were shrouded in darkness, with only the undulating "silver sea of ​​stars" waving around the venue...

Gong Cheng gripped the microphone with both hands, closed his eyes, and his voice suddenly softened, "Oh~ Mom~ I won't let you down~"

"Oh, Mom, I'm just trying my luck in another city."

"Thinking of your face makes my eyes close, it's morning... I'm afraid my enemies will come looking for me..." Gong Cheng opened his eyes, his vision filled with a sea of ​​stars like a wave of people, "Don't worry too much, I'll weather the storms~ waves, waves, waves~"

"...Fragments of memory from the night are like the wind..."

As the hook began, Gong Cheng handed the microphone to the front row, and the sound of the chorus resounded throughout the Bird's Nest...

Taking a break, slacking off...

……

After "Lost Lamb," Gong Cheng performed two more songs, "Yes or No" and "...". Then, as he walked onto the rising platform, it was Wang Jiaer's turn to perform. He sang his single "Papillon," released last year, which was quite popular in China...

This also prompted many fans to sing along on the spot.

After Deng Ziqi's performance, Gong Cheng and JJ Lin went on stage together to sing "Guo," a song they had recently collaborated on. This collaboration was finalized three months prior when Gong Cheng invited JJ Lin to be a guest performer…

“Tarot and I are very good friends and get along very well, especially in music… so we collaborated on this song, ‘Passing By,’ and I hope everyone will like it…” JJ Lin said with a smile.

Then... a gentle prelude began...

"A crossroads from which there is no return~oh~oh~"

"..."

I'm thinking of someone~oh~oh~

……

At 10:19 p.m., Gong Cheng, drenched in sweat, picked up his guitar, glanced at the time on the big screen, and realized that the agreed departure time was 10:30 p.m. The Bird's Nest would close at 11 p.m. at the latest, and the fans would also need time to leave.

The concert was supposed to be ending soon, and the curtain was about to fall.

The deafening shouts of nearly 100,000 people for an encore echoed throughout the Bird's Nest stadium...

"Encore! Encore!"

"Encore~"

"The last song, 'Fish Boy'..." Gong Cheng held his guitar, wearing a clean white T-shirt with a V-neck that looked more like a polo shirt, paired with LV jeans with the cuffs rolled up, revealing the LV logo and pattern printed on the inside, and a pair of Louis Vuitton sneakers.

"..."

Is your world very close to Mercury?

The simple yet captivating guitar accompaniment, like a gentle sea breeze, quietly brushed against the heart. Gong Cheng sat on the edge of the square stage, holding his guitar, his legs casually dangling below the stage. His Mandarin suddenly switched to Hokkien.
"Look at the little fish over there~ swimming around~ swimming around~"

"After thinking it over and over... after thinking it over and over..."

The tens of thousands of Chinese fans in the audience were pleasantly surprised the moment they heard Gong Cheng speak in Hokkien. Many of the fans from Fujian screamed!
"The people of Fujian are overjoyed, speaking the Minnan dialect!"

"Hujian?"

As the song progresses, Hokkien and Mandarin intertwine, with lyrics like "Flowers sway in the wind~ swaying~" expressing a straightforward yet heartfelt sentiment, revealing Gong Cheng's surging longing without reservation... The clever rhymes flow naturally through the melody, making the transmission of emotion more rhythmic and infectious...

As the melody rises and falls, the emotions intensify. Gong Cheng's warm smile is reflected in the spotlight as he strums the guitar strings, playing simple Mandarin lyrics, "Mmmmmm~ I need you~ I need you~ I need you to be with me~"

"I want you so much~ I want you~ I want you to be with me..."

The song was rather quiet, but the fans in the audience listened attentively and intently. It didn't have fancy lyrics or complicated arrangements, but it contained genuine emotions...

The flowers swayed in the wind, swaying back and forth.

I've been thinking about you so much... so much...

As the concert neared its end, most of the venue lights dimmed, leaving only a spotlight in the center of the stage, like a gentle cocoon enveloping Gong Cheng, who was holding his guitar. There were no dazzling music video scenes, no fancy stage effects; his voice simply flowed out softly, with a touch of unadorned huskiness, like an evening breeze rustling through a wheat field…

With his lowered eyelids lifted, he looked up and suddenly the entire dark stadium lit up with twinkling lights—silver cheering sticks formed a flowing river, handwritten light boards spelled out his name in mid-air, and people held up their phone flashlights, raising the light in their palms high...

Gong Cheng tilted his head and smiled, patted the guitar strings, and softly sang, "I hope the moonlight will bring you back to my side~~"

"Oh~~"

In an instant, the big screen switched to the TWICE stands, showing Nayeon waving her support sign, grinning and greeting everyone. Then, the camera flashed past Sana Minatozaki's bright eyes, Mina's gentle smile, Tzuyu's shy little face, Chaeyoung's squinting eyes, Dahyun's professional smile, and Momo Hirai's intelligent...

The TWICE members flashed by...

The LED screen flashed images of fans excitedly singing along, some innocent, some mature. The next second, the screen was filled with countless fans' faces, without any carefully edited shots or deliberately posed poses, just their most authentic selves...

Nearly 100,000 people joined in the chorus, humming along to this song with Lang Lang's catchy lyrics.
"I need you, I need you~ I need you to be with me..."

"I want you so much~ I want you~ I want you to be with me..."

……

Meanwhile, the exterior of the Bird's Nest building was being bathed in the deepening twilight.

The crisscrossing steel frame resembles a steel spiderweb woven by giants, with the diagonal main trusses and longitudinal secondary structures interlocking and interlocking, exuding a wild tension. When the LED light strips on the external steel frame suddenly light up one after another, winding along the truss into a flowing river of light, it seems to echo the silvery-white starry sea shining through the interior. From a distance, the entire Bird's Nest looks like a heart wrapped in a steel cocoon, with a cold and hard skeleton on the outside, but the warmth of nearly 100,000 people beating inside...

[Cash Flow] The first day of the concert at the Bird's Nest stadium is coming to an end...

"Holy crap, look! The Bird's Nest!"

"The lights are moving...!"

As tens of thousands of Akana fans gathered outside gasped in amazement, the LED light strips on the exterior of the Bird's Nest gradually and irregularly changed color. On the side facing the square and street, the warm yellow light suddenly turned silvery white, and on the crisscrossing steel frame, using steel as paper and neon as ink, the light strips slowly meandered out a giant face of "Tarot" laughing...

The silvery light softened the contours of his eyebrows and eyes, which were slightly curved. The lines of his nose extended along the slanted steel truss, and his handsome features gradually emerged. The upturned corners of his mouth seemed to be looking down at the sea of ​​people below who were cheering for him, or perhaps responding to the songs that had not yet faded from the stadium.

"Tarot?!!"

"Damn it, take a picture quickly!"

That's amazing!

Fans screamed and pulled out their phones, pointing them at the exterior of the Bird's Nest! There was another surprise! The audience inside the stadium hadn't even left yet! They'd spotted it first, and were overjoyed…

And just as many flashes were going off.

To the left of "Tarot's" face, another section of the light strip transformed into an intense Kleinle blue, outlining a vertically formatted line of text that struck everyone's eyes—"There will be a time when we meet again."

The flashes slowed down; the simple, understated words seemed to bid farewell, announcing the end of the night…

"Waaaaah~ My brother, I'm crying so hard..."

"He loves his fans so much, sob sob..."

"Waaaaah, Pigeon is great in every way, except he never sleeps with fans! It's a pity I've remained chaste for Pigeon for 19 years, waaaaah..."

(End of this chapter)