Peninsula: From Water Injection to Stardom

Chapter 135 Fast forward to the legendary endurance running team

December 11, backstage dressing room of KBS music program "Music Bank".

Jiang Yan sat inside early in the morning, and this time he wasn't alone; Lee Ji-eun's team was also on the other side of the room.

The two had already changed into their stage outfits. Since it was winter, Jiang Yan was wearing a black and gray overcoat.

Lee Ji-eun was wearing a pink knitted cardigan, and her hair was specially highlighted with a few strands of silver-white, but it was probably just a one-time hair dye.

There was still some time before it was their turn to record the stage performance, so Jiang Yan was currently reading comics on his phone.

He was reading Korean comics.

Although he actually prefers Japanese anime, it's nice to change things up sometimes when he gets tired of them.

Lee Ji-eun was still talking to her manager, and Jiang Yan vaguely heard that it was about work, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

A few minutes later, Jiang Zhennan walked in from outside, carrying a bag of coffee in his hand, followed by two staff members, each carrying a bag of coffee in their hands.

After entering, Jiang Zhennan skillfully distributed the coffees to the members of the two teams, and finally left one cup on the coffee table in front of Jiang Yan.

After putting them away, he sat down next to Jiang Yan and said, "Hey, a friend got me a few tickets to the competition."

Jiang Yan picked up his coffee, took a sip, and asked, "What competition?"

"Of course it's the League of Legends tournament! The LCK Spring Split opening match next month, are you going to watch it? There's an S..."

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"What number?"

"I checked for you on January 13th, and you don't have any scheduled activities that day."

After listening, Jiang Yan thought about it for a moment. He had only ever watched LPL matches offline before, but he had never actually experienced watching LCK matches offline. It wouldn't hurt to take a look.

"Then let's see how many tickets you have?"

"Six tickets. Besides the two of us, we can call four more people."

"Give me two, and you can decide what to do with the other two."

"Let me guess, the person you're calling is in TwCIE, right?"

"You know the answer already. And who are you planning to call?"

"Let's talk about Xu Minghao. I don't know if Jackson is free. If he's not, let's call Wen Junhui."

Jiang Zhennan and Xu Minghao have become very close friends and often call each other out to play together.

As for Jiang Yan, he naturally planned to invite Mina, but he hadn't decided who the other person would be yet.

He was definitely going to call out to Yoo Jeongyeon, but considering that Mina had said she was jealous at the hotel last time, he decided not to call out to Yoo Jeongyeon for the time being, since he was present.

But if he doesn't invite Yoo Jeong-yeon, he'll need to bring another member from TWICE to help cover for him, though he hasn't decided on that person yet.

But actually, there aren't many choices; it's probably just a choice between two other Japanese girls and Chou Tzu-yu.

Lim Nayeon is also an option; if he invites her, she'll probably agree, but most likely she'll only come out of politeness and not really want to, so it's better not to invite her at all.

While the two were chatting, Lee Ji-eun, who seemed to have finished discussing work with her manager, got up and walked over to them, asking, "What are you two talking about?"

Because Jiang Yan and the others were using encrypted Chinese in their conversation, even though they didn't lower their voices, no one present could understand what they were saying.

"We were talking about watching a game competition together next month. IUi can come along if she's interested," Jiang Yan said simply.

"Haha, I'm not really interested in that kind of thing. But if it's your concert, I'll definitely go," Lee Ji-eun said with a smile.

Upon hearing her answer, Jiang Yan immediately thought of something else and said, "What a coincidence, I happen to have an FC event in South Korea at the end of the month."

"Qinjia?! Then I'll go no matter what."

Without much hesitation, Lee Ji-eun readily agreed.

Jiang Yan was a little surprised that the other party agreed so readily, but she also said that she would give her a few more tickets to the inner field so that she could bring her friends or family members.

After saying all that, Lee Ji-eun turned the topic back to the collaboration song: "Based on the current listening situation, we have a good chance of winning first place next week."

Jiang Yan nodded in agreement: "If nothing unexpected happens, we'll definitely get it, but the chances of getting it from Music Bank are slim."

Lee Ji-eun nodded in agreement when she heard him say that.

Everyone knows this perfectly well. After all, this collaboration song doesn't have a physical album, so there's no physical sales score. Naturally, it's difficult to get number one on Music Bank, where sales score has a very high weighting.

During this period, Music Bank was jokingly referred to by netizens as "Sales Bank," as it was the music show where groups or artists who dominated in sales were most likely to win first place.

However, on other music shows, with the current digital sales of the collaboration track, it would be easy to get first place.

After the release of the music video and audio yesterday, "GANADARA" immediately topped the real-time charts within an hour, garnering over 300,000 listens in the first hour. By midnight the following day, it had already entered the top 15 of the daily charts.

The trends in both audio streaming and downloads are excellent.

Currently, "GANADARA" has been firmly stuck at number 5 on the daily chart for four or five hours.

As for EXO's "Sing For You," which was released on the same day, it was ranked second on all the real-time charts that day, thanks to Kang Yeon's new song.

On Korean online forums, many EXO-Ls are trying to find excuses, saying that EXO's loss in the music charts this time wasn't due to Kang Yeon, but because IU, a music chart powerhouse, featured in the song, which is why they didn't win.

Without IU, Kang Yeon would never have been able to sweep the real-time charts on major music streaming websites that day.

EXO-Ls are also selectively lying through their teeth, directly ignoring the fact that Jiang Yan is also a source of confusion regarding the music charts.

In their view, EXO can lose to IU, a senior artist, in terms of music charts, but they absolutely cannot admit to losing to Kang Yeon, who is also a third-generation artist.

After all, EXO has not yet been able to snatch the baton from BIGBANG as the top group, so how could they say they are inferior to other artists of the same generation?

Right now, EXO-Ls are already gearing up and focusing on voting for music shows. They want to defeat Kang Yeon in the music show and win first place to wash away their temporary setback on the music charts.

Furthermore, if they win this time, they can directly say that even if Kang Yeon and IU are combined, they are no match for EXO, and EXO is already qualified to be the top group.

The word "reaching the top" has become a mental obsession for EXO-Ls over the past two years.

Jiang Yan had actually seen some of EXO-Ls' top-ranking statements on social media this morning.

But knowing what was to come, he thought about the events EX0 would experience later, such as the "fatherhood scandal," the "sex scandal," the "new runaway," and the Chinese fans raising funds for the South Korean army. Looking at EXO members who were still fantasizing at this moment, he was already mourning for them.

Instead of wishing to reach the summit, he suggested that they fast forward to becoming members of the legendary endurance running team.

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