Peninsula: From Water Injection to Stardom

It is extremely difficult for a male idol to leave a group, release a solo song, and enter the top ten of the Melon annual chart.

Throughout the annual rankings, only four people have been able to achieve this.

These are Taeyang's "Eyes, Nose, Lips," G-Dragon's "Heartbeaker" and "TOO BAD," ZICO's "Any Song" and "I Am You, You Are Me," and Cho Seung-youn's "Drowning."

Apart from that, no male idol has ever entered the top ten of the annual and non-calendar year rankings after going solo.

Of these songs, Taeyang's "Eyes, Nose, Lips" and GD's "Heartbeaker" are already released tracks, while "TOO BAD" is only two and a half minutes long, which doesn't fit the current market environment.

ZICO's "Any Song" benefited from the mask-wearing environment and the popularity of being the first song released, while Cho Seung-yeon's "Drowning" only made a comeback and returned to the charts two years after its release.

Therefore, Jiang Yan doesn't actually have many choices.

The title track of his first solo album after his comeback was "I Am You, You Are Me".

Although he felt the song was just average when he first listened to it, the fact that it ranked 7th on the Melon annual chart shows that it resonated with South Korean listeners and was very appealing to casual listeners.

There's absolutely no problem with him taking it and using it.

Aside from the collaboration track "All I Wanna Do", the remaining two tracks on this mini-album are "If You Do" and "Lotto".

The album doesn't need to include any hit songs, since in the K-pop scene, apart from die-hard fans, the general public won't intentionally listen to the album tracks.

Unless this track becomes popular due to some event, the public will not specifically search for it to listen to.

Jiang Yan is currently in Cube's studio, holding a sample of his latest mini-album.

This album comes in three versions: Black and White are the standard versions, and there is also a mini version called Sweet.

The OEM factory was quite fast; within two days of sending the design proposal, they had already produced three versions of sample casings.

He took it in his hand and examined it carefully. He couldn't say he was completely satisfied, but it was basically done according to his ideas, so Jiang Yan didn't want to find fault and decided to use this method.

After casually placing the sample aside, he picked up his phone and glanced at the time.

After contacting Sana Minatozaki last night, we agreed to meet at a nearby coffee shop at noon today.

Now, there are still twenty minutes until the agreed time.

With nothing else to do at the moment, Jiang Yan packed up and left the studio, walking downstairs to the meeting place.

After arriving at the coffee shop and standing there for only a minute or two, I saw Minatozaki Sana slowly walking towards me from directly in front of me.

Accompanying her were Hirai Momo and the true protagonist of this meeting, Nai Mina.

Sana Minatozaki stopped in front of him and asked, "Hiko-san, have you been waiting here for a long time?"

Jiang Yan replied with a smile, "I just got here a little while ago too."

After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Hirai Momo, who greeted him with a simple smile.

Then, Jiang Yan's gaze finally settled on Mina.

The other person looked much the same as when we first met; she still had long, straight black hair, but compared to her somewhat disheveled appearance back then, it was obvious that she had dressed up carefully today.

Mina had been standing there, greeting him briefly before falling silent, but when he glanced at her, she smiled slightly back.

After the meeting, the two sides naturally didn't stay outside. Led by Jiang Yan, the four of them went into the coffee shop and found a quiet spot to sit down.

However, since the seats could only be used for pairs of people sitting opposite each other, the three Japanese girls exchanged glances and then Mina and Momo sat on one side, while Sana and Kohiko sat on the other side.

"Order whatever you want, and get me a brown sugar latte while you're at it." Jiang Yan took the menu and handed it to Minatozaki Sana without even looking at it.

After discussing the menu with the other two for a few minutes, the latter also made a decision.

After ordering his coffee, Jiang Yan turned his gaze to Mina sitting across from him and took the initiative to say, "Speaking of which, I met Mina-san just a few days ago. It seems we have quite a connection."

Even though he already knew Mina, Jiang Yan had to act as if he didn't know her name when they last met.

Upon hearing this, Mina nodded in tacit agreement and smiled, saying, "I was quite surprised when I learned from Satan that you needed to speak with me."

"Calling me 'senior' is too formal. Just call me what they call me."

Hi~

Meanwhile, Sana Minatozaki, who was listening to their conversation, interjected with a surprised expression, "Eh? Mitan and Hiko-san have met before? When?"

"On the same day as last time, I went upstairs first, and when I was about to take the elevator downstairs, I ran into Mina-san at the elevator entrance."

Seeing that Sana Minatozaki was unaware of this, Jiang Yan briefly explained what had happened.

"Is that so?! Mitan doesn't seem to have told me about this. Do you know about Momoring?" Sana Minatozaki asked Momo Hirai first.

"Huh?! I don't know." Hirai Momo shook her head blankly, looking completely clueless.

Seeing that Hirai Momo didn't know either, Minatozaki Sana looked at Mina, waiting for her answer.

Mina seemed to have anticipated this, and said softly without changing her expression, "I was planning to say it that day, but after you came up, Satan, you took the initiative to tell me a lot about Senpai and Hikaru-san."

"I saw how enthusiastic you were about it, so I didn't mention it."

After hearing this explanation, Sana Minatozaki felt that something was off, but she couldn't quite put her finger on what the problem was.

However, at this moment, Hirai Momo suddenly seemed to realize something and said, "Oh right, after Satan met Hiko-san that day, he went upstairs and talked to Mitan about a lot of things related to Hiko-san."

"Oh? Sana-san talked about me? You weren't talking badly about me behind my back, were you?"

When Jiang Yan heard that there was an extra chapter after their meeting downstairs that day, he was curious and jokingly chimed in.

"No, it's just that after I ran into Yan-sang that day, I suddenly remembered that Mitan didn't know that there was a tutor among our foreign trainees, so I told her about it."

Sana Minatosaki hurriedly waved her hands and stammered an explanation, avoiding the important point that she had said Jiang Yan was more handsome than Takuya Kimura.

A blush crept onto her cheeks uncontrollably. She secretly regretted interrupting and asking Mina that question; she had dug herself a hole.

And Momo Hirai, really, why did she have to emphasize it again? It makes her feel so awkward now.

"Soga, I'm relieved that he's not saying bad things about me."

Jiang Yan smiled, but didn't intend to delve into it further.

Although he could glean some information from Sana Minatozaki, he was currently focused on the important matter of their meeting today.

"Let me explain why I'm here with Mina-san today. I'd like to invite you to be the female lead in our music video."

After finishing their casual conversation, Jiang Yan turned to look at Mina and revealed his true purpose for the day.