Peninsula: From Water Injection to Stardom

Chapter 123 The Only Stain on the Girl Group's Rise to the Top

December 1st, the day before MAMA begins.

Tomorrow is the awards ceremony, but before that, there's a red carpet event today.

The red carpet event lasted nearly two hours and took place around the venue.

Putting everything else aside, in terms of setting up the red carpet venue, Neiyu has won.

Ment made this segment a bit shabby, and it even had a prank-like feel to it.

Who would want to add a singing and dancing performance to their red carpet appearance?

Even if this performance was only for a new group of relatively unknown artists, it was still somewhat funny.

Jiang Yan was still sitting in the back seat of a business vehicle near the entrance to the red carpet, waiting to make his appearance.

He was drafted later this time, appearing before Park Jin-young.

He wore the same coat that Valentino custom-made for him to wear on the red carpet today.

She wore a navy blue inner lining, paired with matching black trousers and black ankle boots.

The accessories on the coat were jewelry previously sponsored by Tiffany.

As a brand ambassador, he naturally brings along his collaborating brands to the red carpet event.

Jiang Yan yawned listlessly, looking as if he hadn't slept well.

And Yu Jungyeon, who was sitting next to him, saw his situation and immediately and mercilessly complained, "Oppa..."

"You're really something, playing games with Mina until so late last night, you're crazy!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yan laughed and said, "I just got a little carried away playing, and besides, Mina was clearly even more engrossed in it than I was."

"But Mina doesn't have to walk the red carpet today."

"Well, I arrived on time anyway. I'll just go back and catch up on some sleep after I walk the red carpet."

TWICE, as rookies who debuted less than two months ago, were unable to attend today's red carpet event.

The reason Yu Dingyan was here was because Jiang Yan was allowed to bring a female companion to walk the red carpet.

He could have chosen from all the members of TWICE, but considering that Jeongyeon wasn't included in the collaboration stage, he had her attend the red carpet event with him to get some screen time.

Yoo Jeongyeon wore a red carpet outfit carefully styled for her by JYP's stylist today: a gray high-waisted casual blazer on top, paired with a black leather pencil skirt and black knee-high boots.

The outfit, both sophisticated and sexy, accentuates her overall aura, giving her a sweet, cool, and slightly mature vibe.

JYP's stylists are quite good; Yoo Jeongyeon and Kang Yeon-pang look quite well-matched in this outfit.

After waiting for another ten minutes or so, finally, after the previous Korean star whom Jiang Yan didn't recognize finished walking the red carpet, it was finally his turn to appear.

The van slowly drove to the entrance of the red carpet and stopped. Jiang Yan opened the door and stepped out.

Then, he turned and reached out to help Yoo Jeong-yeon out of the car. The two then walked side by side on the red carpet, smiling and greeting the media and fans who were present.

She walked all the way to the indoor stage and stopped next to the red carpet host, Moon Jun-hee.

There wasn't much to say about the interviews; each person just said one sentence and that was it.

After everyone greeted each other with "Kamsangmida," Kang Yeon led Yoo Jeongyeon off the stage and left.

After leaving, the red carpet event for today came to an end.

The two returned to the van. After sitting down, Yu Dingyan breathed a sigh of relief and patted her chest, saying with lingering fear, "Wow, my heart was beating so fast. I was so nervous I almost couldn't speak."

Jiang Yan smiled and said, "You'll get used to it after walking around more. It's nothing."

"Oppa, have you participated many times before? You look so relaxed."

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Yu Dingyan was speechless for a moment after hearing this.

Even though she was familiar with Jiang Yan's way of chatting, hearing his Versailles-like remarks again still made her want to pinch him as always.

The MAMA awards ceremony was about to begin the following afternoon.

When Jiang Yan arrived at the backstage dressing room today, he immediately changed into his uniform. After changing, he went to the GOT7 dressing room next door and chatted for a while.

They chatted until staff came to inform them to proceed to the VIP seating area, at which point Jiang Yan set off and entered through the backstage passage.

Upon arriving at the guest seating area, Jiang Yan was seated next to JYP artists.

Sitting to his left is Park Jin-young, to his right are Yoo Jeong-yeon and all the members of TWICE, and in front of him is EXO.

Not long after we sat down, the awards ceremony officially began.

Jiang Yan didn't recognize the band that performed at the beginning, nor had he heard of their name.

But when the camera cut to him, he still pretended to be listening attentively, but in reality, his mind was elsewhere, thinking about what to eat for dinner.

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After this band's performance ended, the next singer to perform was someone they knew very well.

Kim Tae-yeon, sporting a braided hairstyle, descended from the sky while seated on a luxurious chair, eliciting enthusiastic screams from the entire audience.

This performance was truly ethereal; it must be said that Kim Tae-yeon was at the peak of her popularity and beauty at this time.

After her solo performance, the awards ceremony officially began, with PSY taking the stage first to take charge of the event.

After giving his opening remarks in fairly fluent English, he immediately proceeded to present two newcomer awards.

That is, the Male Newcomer Award and the Female Newcomer Award.

One was given to IKON, and the other to TWICE.

In fact, TWICE's lead in the Best New Female Artist award this year was not overwhelming. GFRIND was also very popular, and there was a lot of friction between the two fan groups when they discussed online who should win the MAMA Best New Female Artist award.

Within the Chinese K-pop community, the two fan groups have been fighting all the way from roadside bars to the music streaming platform YinYueTai.

Even now, there might be real-time arguments in the live chat room of iQiyi's MAMA broadcast.

Unfortunately, GFRIND wasn't from one of the Big Three universities, so while it seemed like he had a chance, he actually had none.

When the MC announced TWICE's award, Kang Yeon, who was sitting to the side, naturally stood up and applauded them.

Each of the nine members of the group wore a joyful smile. After Yu Dingyan stood up, she and Jiang Yan excitedly clapped their hands together.

After they finished their acceptance speeches, the next thing to happen was a collaboration performance by GOT7 and BTS.

Jiang Yan was certain that the cameraman responsible for filming the guest seats was South Korean, otherwise he wouldn't have kept filming in his direction during BTS's performance.

The other party clearly wanted to capture his reaction to watching his former teammates perform, but unfortunately Jiang Yan remained calm.

He flashed a friendly smile at the camera and generously clapped a few times.

Perhaps knowing that they couldn't get any more footage from Jiang Yan, the camera finally stopped filming Jiang Yan during the second half of the performance and started filming the members of BIGBANG and EXO instead.

After the collaborative stage performance, a few minor awards and some performances were given out.

Half an hour later, it was finally time for the awards ceremony for Best Female Singer and Best Male Singer.

This year's Best Female Singer award is also a battle of the titans, with Kim Tae-yeon, IU, BoA, Kim Hyun-ah, and Ailee all vying for the title.

As for who will win, there's really no suspense.

IU had already fallen out with MAMA because of the "Ink Award" incident, so this award should naturally be given to Kim Tae-yeon.

As Kim Tae-yeon took the stage, the director suddenly switched the camera to Kang Yeon.

This immediately triggered some cheers from the audience.

The director's cut was clearly meant to stir things up. Most of the audience members who came to the event were K-pop fans, so everyone knew what the intention was.

The story of Jiang Yan's shutout victory over Kim Tae-yeon is still a hot topic in the industry, and it gets brought up every now and then.

Whenever Sone posts about Kim Tae-yeon's solo performance online, Girls' Generation's rivals immediately chime in with a casual remark, "How did someone so amazing manage to get shut out by Kang Yeon?"

Then SONEs could only helplessly break through the defense and started to stubbornly refute Girls' Generation's achievements by pointing fingers and making irrelevant arguments.

It can be said that Jiang Yan's existence has become the only blemish on the impressive achievements of Girls' Generation in the eyes of SONEs.

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