Peninsula: From Water Injection to Stardom

Chapter 104 The First Luxury Brand Title

"One of the winners is—Jiang Yan, a chubby 1-meter tall man!"

With Park Ji-yeon's announcement, the winner of this week's THESHOW was officially revealed.

As expected, Jiang Yan still won by an overwhelming margin.

This is his eleventh place since his return.

Among them, M! Countdown had 2, Music Bank had 2, Music Core had 2, Inkigayo had 2, The Show had 2, and The Champion had 1.

If he gets through this week smoothly, he will achieve an accomplishment—three consecutive wins on all three major networks plus M! Countdown.

However, after achieving this, Jiang Yan will face the mandatory graduation mechanism of the music show stage.

M! Countdown and Inkigayo had already established the Triple Crown system at this time. After winning first place three times, the winner would automatically graduate and be permanently removed from the rankings.

Music Central and Music Bank do not have this restriction. However, smaller networks like The Show and The Champions have a triple crown system.

In other words, starting next week, Jiang Yan can only get one more number one spot on the two smaller channels, and after that, only Music Core and Music Bank will remain as candidates for number one.

After receiving the trophy from Park Ji-yeon, Kang Yeon casually gave a few words of acceptance speech.

Behind him, all the members of TWICE were applauding him. Hirai Momo and Chou Tzuyu, because they were standing closest to Jiang Yan, were naturally also captured in the close-up shots.

After the MC finished speaking, he gave his usual closing remarks, followed by an encore.

Holding the trophy, Jiang Yan performed an encore to the accompaniment of music. After finishing his song, the broadcast was interrupted. Jiang Yan waved goodbye to the fans who were still with him in the audience before walking off the stage and returning backstage.

After returning to the lounge and tidying up briefly, he went to knock on TWICE's door.

TWICE had already discussed it with their manager, and as expected, the manager readily agreed.

This is also because the person who hosted the dinner was Jiang Yan, whom everyone is familiar with.

After chatting in the lounge for a while, the group finally decided to have Japanese food.

After making the decision and choosing a place to eat, both groups got into their respective vans and set off.

Upon arrival at their destination, due to the large number of people, they had to split into two groups: TWICE and Kang Yeon sat in one private room, while their manager and assistant sat at another table.

"Order whatever you like." After handing the menu to Yu Dingyan, Jiang Yan took out her phone and checked social media for a while.

Yoo Jeongyeon took the menu and huddled together with the other members, chattering as they flipped through it.

Just as they were ordering food, the door to the private room opened, and Jiang Zhennan walked in with a hurried step. He leaned down and whispered in her ear, "It's work-related. Let's go outside to talk."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yan immediately got up and walked out of the private room with Jiang Zhennan.

The two stopped in a secluded corner outside. Jiang Zhennan said excitedly, "The company just sent me a message. Tiffany sent an email confirming their collaboration with you and they're planning to give you a 'close friend' title."

"Tsk, just a close friend." After hearing this, Jiang Yan felt a little regretful that Tiffany hadn't directly made him their brand ambassador.

"That's good enough. Tiffany is going to give you a cover, but they're probably still talking about it. But it'll definitely be at least a top-tier magazine," Jiang Zhennan speculated.

Jiang Yan also agreed with Jiang Zhennan's speculation.

Yuehua Entertainment already bought him a cover for a second-tier magazine last time. As a luxury brand, Tiffany would never give him another second-tier magazine cover.

When will the contract be signed?

"Let's wait until the company finishes negotiating the terms, which should be in the next day or two."

"Okay, is there anything else?"

"That's all. Let's go back and eat."

After finishing their conversation, the two returned to the store.

As Jiang Yan entered the private room, Yu Dingyan saw him return and immediately said, "Oppa, we've almost finished ordering. What would you like to order?"

"Okay, let me take a look."

Jiang Yan took the menu, glanced at it, and casually ordered some grilled items.

Then he called the waiter over and asked him to start serving the dishes.

While waiting, Jiang Yan continued to play on his phone.

However, he was only pretending to be playing on his phone. In reality, he was chatting with Mina, who was a few feet away, on Kakao.

This may sound absurd, but it is true.

Because Mina doesn't want her other teammates to know that she's dating Jiang Yan, she deliberately keeps her distance unless they meet in private.

Jiang Yan did ask for the reason, and the other party's reason was: the relationship between TWICE members is not harmonious enough at the moment, and it is not appropriate to go public.

In response, Mina specifically pointed out the discord among the members.

For example, Yoo Jeong-yeon, Lim Na-yeon, and Park Ji-hyo have a slight aversion to Kim Da-hyun because of "Siteen".

Although she usually concealed it well, the observant Mina still noticed.

Jiang Yan wasn't particularly surprised when she said that.

This incident was also recorded in his previous life's study of rabbits.

TWICE was originally pieced together from three projects and went through a sixteen-stage debut process, so it's quite normal for the members to have some mutual dislikes in the early stages.

It's already quite remarkable that a group can maintain a decent and peaceful relationship as colleagues; don't expect them to be truly close.

He was texting and chatting with Mina when a familiar musical intro suddenly came from the phone of Sana Minatozaki, who was sitting to his left.

Although it only played for a few seconds before stopping, Jiang Yan still recognized it as his song.

He quickly turned his head and saw that Sana Minatozaki was plugging in her earphones and putting them into her ears.

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"Sana, what are you listening to?"

"Yan-san, I'm listening to a song by a really popular new VOCALOID artist on NicoNico."

"A very popular new VOCALOID?"

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"Yes, this Vocaloid only released one song and it already reached 1 million plays, that's amazing."

As she spoke, Sana Minatozaki pointed her phone screen at Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan looked over and saw that the paused animated music video was actually the video he had previously submitted to NicoNico.

In other words, the popular newcomer VOCAL0ID that Sana Minatozaki mentioned is actually his account.

Jiang Yan was somewhat surprised. After submitting his video to NicoNico, he saw the dismal view count a week later and then simply abandoned the account, never logging in again.

Sana Minatosaki then spoke up again, saying, "This song is quite nice, but it's a pity that VOCAL0ID only released the video and not the audio. I wanted to download it to my phone to listen to it."

Jiang Yan calmly withdrew his gaze and replied, "Is that so? If you like it, I'll send you the audio later."

"?!"

Sana Minatozaki was stunned when she heard this.

After a moment, her brain seemed to have processed the meaning of Jiang Yan's words, and she said in disbelief, "You're not going to say that this VOCALOID is you?!"

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Jiang Yan calmly nodded and said, "That's right, didn't you notice that this UP's name is my stage name?"

Upon hearing this, Minatozaki Sana quickly exited the full-screen mode to confirm, and the ID was indeed YAN.