Peninsula: From Water Injection to Stardom

After the encore performance, Jiang Yan and Yu Dingyan left the stage together and walked back to the backstage dressing room.

Yoo Jeong-yeon was still clutching the trophy tightly, as if afraid someone would snatch it away.

"What are you doing? Nobody's going to take this trophy from you," Jiang Yan said, looking at her with a mix of amusement and exasperation.

"Oppa, this is my first ever!" Yoo Jeongyeon's voice was still a little excited.

Having been a trainee for five years, Yoo Jeong-yeon has already received many things that idols might never experience in their entire lives, even before her debut. It's not easy for her to calm down.

"Alright, then you can keep taking it." Jiang Yan understood her feelings and let her be happy.

If I remember correctly, TWICE will have over a hundred number one spots in the future. Once Jeongyeon gets more of them, she won't feel it anymore.

"By the way, oppa, aren't you going to take this?"

Only then did Yu Dingyan realize that ever since she received the trophy and held it in her hand, Jiang Yan had never shown any intention of taking it.

"No need, you can take this trophy back and keep it safe."

Jiang Yan shook his head; he already had a THESHOW trophy at home.

He doesn't need to keep a second one of the same model; he might as well give it to Yu Dingyan.

The same applies to other trophies; he will only keep one at home, and the duplicates will probably be stored in a warehouse.

"Qinjia?! Oppa, you really don't want it?"

"I already have one of the same ones, so duplicate trophies mean nothing to me."

"..."

Seeing that Jiang Yan wasn't joking, Yu Dingyan accepted the trophy with a clear conscience.

After tidying up briefly in the lounge, the two left the TV room and got back into their van.

After receiving the award, it was time to go back.

In the car, Yoo Jeong-yeon, holding the trophy in her arms, was furiously replying to messages on her phone.

After the other person got into the car and sat down, they basically didn't stop replying to messages.

Jiang Yan sat to the side, turned his head and stared at her for a while before slowly asking, "Is everyone congratulating you?"

Upon hearing this, Yoo Jeongyeon smiled at him and said, "Yeah, Nayeon unnie and Jihyo mina both sent me messages to congratulate me, and they even said they wanted me to touch their trophies."

"Then be careful when you let them touch you, especially that 'pabo' Lim Nayeon, she's so clumsy, don't break the trophy."

"Oppa~ Nayeon unnie isn't as bad as you say, she's just clumsy with her hands."

Yoo Jeongyeon found Jiang Yan's words amusing, but after laughing, she quickly spoke up to defend Lim Nayeon.

Upon hearing her say this, Jiang Yan grinned mischievously and said, "You're right. I'll tell her later that Dingyan said she's clumsy."

Yu Jung-yeon didn't expect Jiang Yan to try and turn the tables on her, and said in a coquettish tone, "Hey, oppa, how could you do this!"

Jiang Yan laughed and said, "Don't get excited, I was just joking."

He certainly wouldn't actually say it; he was just teasing the other person.

Yu Dingyan knew that Jiang Yan was just teasing her, so she hummed twice and turned back to her phone to continue replying to messages.

Jiang Yan had received some congratulatory messages, but he didn't read them and planned to talk about them when he got home.

A dozen minutes later, the van arrived at the JYP training building again.

After seeing the familiar building through the car window, Yu Dingyan unbuckled her seatbelt and prepared to get out of the car.

Before getting out of the car, she looked at Jiang Yan and smiled, "Oppa, I'll keep this trophy safe~"

Jiang Yan nodded and suggested, "Why don't you send it home when you have time? It's inconvenient to keep it in the dorm all the time."

"Okay, I'll call my mom tonight and tell her."

"See you the day after tomorrow, bye-bye."

"Um, the day after tomorrow—oppa, what did you say?"

Yoo Jeong-yeon originally intended to reply with "See you the day after tomorrow" to echo Jiang Yan's words, but she immediately realized that something was wrong.

What does "see you the day after tomorrow" mean? Does it mean that oppa is coming to JYP's place the day after tomorrow?

"You didn't know?" Jiang Yan asked, a hint of curiosity in her eyes at Yu Dingyan's clueless expression.

"Oppa, what should I know..." Yoo Jeongyeon said blankly.

"JYP bought one of my songs as your competition song. I'll be coming over the day after tomorrow to oversee the recording. Didn't Jinyoung hyung tell you this?"

Yesterday, Park Jin-young called to tell him that the complete demo he had sent had been accepted.

The two parties agreed that three days later, Jiang Yan would come to JYP to record the song.

This is normal. As the lyricist, composer, arranger, and producer of this song, Jiang Yan is responsible for the singer's recording.

But upon hearing this, Yoo Jeongyeon exclaimed in surprise, "Huh?! So the song 'Truth' that was assigned to our Minor team was written by oppa?!"

Upon hearing her say that, Jiang Yan immediately shook his head and said, "That song isn't mine."

Now he finally understood where the problem lay. It turned out that it wasn't that Park Jin-young hadn't told Yoo Jeong-yeon, but rather that he hadn't told anyone.

Because if you tell one of them, the rest will definitely find out too.

"It seems oppa's song has been assigned to the Major team." Yoo Jeongyeon sounded a little regretful, but didn't think too much about it.

After all, her duet with Jiang Yan had just won first place, so she could accept not being able to collaborate on the competition piece.

"It's okay, there will be other opportunities in the future," Jiang Yan comforted him.

"Um... oppa, I'll be going now. See you the day after tomorrow."

"Go."

After watching Yu Dingyan get out of the car and walk into the building, Jiang Yan also asked the driver to take him back to his apartment.

……

The next day, Jiang Yan stayed in Cube Studio as usual, working on the remaining unfinished non-single track for the album.

According to the schedule, he can finish this last song today, and once all the songs on the album are produced, he can contact the record company to design the album packaging.

However, just as Jiang Yan was concentrating on mixing the recorded vocals, the phone on the table suddenly rang.

He stopped and glanced at the caller ID; it was Jiang Zhennan calling.

After the call connected, before Jiang Yan could speak, the person on the other end said, "Your former teammates have caused quite a stir."

"What's that noise?"

"It's a bit complicated to explain, just look at the current trending topics and you'll understand."

"Okay, I'll take a look now."

After exchanging a few words and hanging up the phone, Jiang Yan opened Naver.

The hashtag #BTSDope's YouTube MV surpasses 5 million views# reached third place on the trending search list.

When Jiang Yan saw it, he knew that this must be the reason why Jiang Zhennan called him.

To be honest, he was a little surprised.

What was unexpected was not that BTS achieved this number of YouTube views, but rather the fact that the song "unexpectedly" became popular on YouTube a month or two earlier than he knew.

The reason for this earlier is obvious.

Someone got anxious.

Perhaps because of him, Bang Si-hyuk started his "YouTube journey to the US" earlier.

However, Jiang Yan, who now knows the situation, does not feel any pressure because of it.

YouTube in the US? He can do that too.

Moreover, Jiang Yan had originally planned to do this some time ago, and since Fang Shihe did it ahead of schedule, he could do it ahead of schedule as well.

……