Peninsula: From Water Injection to Stardom

The conflict that day spread from South Korean online forums to China.

However, it definitely didn't trend on Weibo in China. The size of the fan base on both sides wasn't large enough to cause a major argument on Weibo's trending topics; it was just a fight within the entertainment industry.

So, did Jiang Yan's pre-arranged plan succeed?

A little, but not much.

After all, BTS is still just a struggling group that's barely started to gain traction.

CUBE sent him some data: starting from the early morning when he became a trending topic on Korean websites, the number of new members on his official fan cafe increased by more than 2 in just one morning.

And if this trend continues, his official fan cafe will have over 10,000 members by tomorrow.

In other words, he hadn't even started doing anything, yet the Korean women had already spent over 3 million Korean won on him, which is about 150 million Chinese yuan.

Jiang Yan couldn't help but sigh, "This really is a world that judges people by their looks."

Fortunately, he was the beneficiary.

Unfortunately, most Korean women's love doesn't last more than a few years; it can only be used as an initial gift.

However, after receiving this feedback data, Du Hua made a special call to Jiang Yan to chat for a few minutes, her words filled with barely suppressed joy.

After all, the more Jiang Yan improves, the more it proves that she has a discerning eye.

Then, time flew by and it was April 20th. As planned, Cube released the official pre-order link for Jiang Yan's first mini-album.

Meanwhile, various album purchasing platforms targeting the Chinese market also launched online purchasing channels on the same day, making it convenient for Chinese fans to place orders.

On the second day of the pre-sale, Jiang Yan had already received the first day's results from CUBE.

The total number of pre-sales on the first day was 5246.

To be honest, this data was actually beyond his expectations.

It wasn't that he felt it was too little; rather, it was more than he had expected.

It is well known that South Korean fans almost always buy albums directly from physical stores and do not order online.

In other words, all of these 5,000+ albums were contributed by Chinese fans and were exported entirely from China.

Jiang Yan had originally considered leaving the group and disappearing for more than half a year, by which time most of her former Chinese fans should have left.

Starting from scratch to gain followers is not an easy task; he expected that getting two or three thousand followers at the beginning would be quite good.

But it seems that not all of his old fans in China have left.

Jiang Yan calculated that once the album was officially released, including the sales share in South Korea, it wouldn't be a problem for his mini-album to achieve a total initial sales volume of 10,000 to 20,000 copies.

This achievement is already a lifetime's worth for most obscure boy and girl groups.

However, this seemingly impressive result was naturally not enough in the eyes of Jiang Yan, who had witnessed the massive sales volume of millions in the future.

He felt that this sales volume was still rather meager.

And since the sales figures on the pre-sale platform are publicly available and can be seen by anyone, it is only natural that some ARMYs who were paying attention to Jiang Yan's situation came to mock him as soon as they saw the results on the first day.

"That's hilarious, only a little over five thousand tickets sold on the first day?"

"I knew it! He's nothing without the group. Now his true colors are showing!"

"To be honest, I was quite angry a couple of days ago, but now that I see these sales figures, my anger has suddenly subsided. Why bother arguing with such a washed-up celebrity?"

"Don't be like that. Five thousand tickets are still money. These are all tickets that the fans worked hard to collect."

"Who knows how many of these 5,000+ photos were contributed by longtime fans? I guess most of them were just out of pity for him."

"Summary: Leaving the group = disappearing without a trace."

"..."

To the eager ARMYs who jumped out to mock him, Jiang Yan's solo defeat was clearly a foregone conclusion.

They have no choice but to relentlessly hunt them down online.

As a skilled surfer, Jiang Yan had seen many such comments, but he only found them somewhat amusing.

Using BTS's last comeback's 100,000-sale-value loan to criticize him fits his stereotypical view of cute idols.

But he really likes opening champagne? Just wait and see.

He has plenty of methods and means to boost sales.

But not now. He's only just debuted as a solo artist. If he were to suddenly boost sales so high all at once, even a fool could see there was something wrong.

This requires a gradual approach, leaving traces step by step to achieve a "sales comeback" and create a more reasonable process.

This process is for both the fans and the rivals to see.

Jiang Yan had already laid the groundwork, for example, the mini version among the three versions of this album was a step that would be needed to reach the required number of cancellations later.

When the right opportunity arises, we will begin to exert our strength.

……

Generally, if a new group is about to debut, the company will arrange a showcase to promote it to the outside world.

However, Jiang Yan debuted as a solo artist, so this process did not apply to her.

However, he also has another plan: he will start his first live stream on Vlive at 11:00 AM on the 27th.

The live stream lasted for a total of one hour, and the main content was to interact with fans and at the end, watch the music video for the title track, which would be released at midnight the next day, together with the fans.

For their first live stream, CUBE arranged a small office, where Jiang Yan himself was setting up the room with the staff.

Jiang Zhennan, the manager, was also there, and he was currently inflating a balloon with an air pump.

After a few people worked for more than half an hour to get it done, the staff left first, leaving the two brothers to sit in the room and rest for a while.

Jiang Yan sat in his seat with his phone in hand. He first chatted with his girlfriend, Jin Xuexuan, for a while, and then started playing mobile games.

A few minutes later, Jiang Zhennan, sitting next to Jiang Yan, looked at the message he had just received on his phone and nudged Jiang Yan with his elbow, saying, "Hey, Wang Jiaer told me that he has a club event tonight and asked if I want to come."

"Then go ahead, but don't come back too late," Jiang Yan replied, engrossed in her phone without looking up.

Because they are both Chinese, and Jiang Zhennan is also Jiang Yan's older brother, Jiang Zhennan and Wang Jiaer have been spending time together recently.

Are you going this time?

"I'm not going. I've already told him."

It wasn't just Jiang Zhennan who received the message; Jiang Yan also just received a message from Wang Jiaer.

"What's up? You're meeting your girlfriend tonight?"

"No, it's just that it's not convenient for me to go right now."

"Oh, I almost forgot you can't be photographed going to places like that now."

Jiang Yan didn't need to explain further; as a trained and qualified agent, Jiang Zhennan naturally understood what he meant.

They're officially debuting in a few days, so if they get photographed going to a club, things could get really bad.