Peninsula: From Water Injection to Stardom

In the end, Jiang Yan did not stop Jin Xuexuan from taking out the trash for him.

However, after going downstairs, he didn't let the other person go alone, but accompanied them.

After that, the two went to a Western restaurant and booked a private room for dinner.

After eating, we went shopping in the afternoon along Garosu-gil in Sinsa-dong.

After shopping until three or four in the afternoon, Jiang Yan finally dropped Jin Xuexuan off near her dormitory.

After they parted ways, he returned to his apartment.

The next morning, Jiang Yan didn't go to CUBE, but instead went to the beauty salon she was working with to choose her hairstyle for the upcoming music show stage.

He spent the whole morning there, trying out several hairstyles with the stylist, and finally decided to get a perm using the leaf pattern that would later become popular with his former teammate Kim Taehyung.

This hairstyle is not suitable for male celebrities with low looks.

But it wasn't a problem for Jiang Yan. He handled it with ease, and with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, his overall demeanor was that of a mature bad boy.

After finalizing his hairstyle, he left the salon and took a taxi to CUBE.

Starting in the afternoon, he will use CUBE's practice room to practice the choreography for the comeback title track.

This time, the backup dancers will not be using trainees anymore; instead, a well-known professional dance team from South Korea has been specially hired.

However, he only signed a six-month contract with this team. If he feels that the cooperation is satisfactory after six months, he will consider signing a two- or three-year long-term contract with them.

For the next period of time, he spent his days rehearsing choreography with the dance troupe and occasionally did a live stream at night.

In the past few days, his previously signed endorsement deal with Diet Coke has also started to land him online TV channels and offline advertising.

However, Jiang Yan is not optimistic about how much popularity this endorsement will bring him.

After all, in China, Pepsi has the largest consumer base, followed by Coca-Cola.

Diet Coke, as a sub-brand of Coca-Cola, actually doesn't have a large customer base.

Even Diet Coke doesn't have an official Weibo account.

However, according to Du Hua, if his sales growth is good during his endorsement of Diet Coke, then he might be able to negotiate an endorsement deal with Sprite after his contract expires.

But Jiang Yan didn't take those words seriously.

Once brand awareness increases, why bother with sales growth data? Brands will come knocking on his door.

That said, Du Hua hasn't contacted him much lately, but she did call him yesterday.

The reason for contacting him was to ask if he wanted to participate in the MBC Idol Star Athletics Championships.

UNIQ participated in the Lunar New Year special this year, and the Mid-Autumn Festival special will be recorded soon.

Yuehua Entertainment currently has one spot available for a single participant, and if Jiang Yan is willing to go, that spot will be given to him.

It has to be said that this is the treatment reserved for Yuehua Entertainment's top male artist. Even though Yuehua doesn't have many resources in South Korea, as long as there are any, they are all given priority to him now.

However, after considering it for a while, Jiang Yan ultimately decided not to go.

Although he knew he could meet many female idols by attending this matchmaking event, he was more resistant to the intense and restrictive recording schedule.

Furthermore, according to a later interview with Jeon Ji-yoon of 4MINUTE.

When boy groups and girl groups sit together, the boy group members may appear to be chatting amongst themselves, but in reality, they are each covering for each other while chatting with the girl group member they fancy next to them.

The same applies to girl groups.

But Jiang Yan didn't have any teammates to cover for him, so how could he secretly exchange contact information with the female idol in front of the big camera?

He can't do ventriloquism either.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Jiang Yan felt even more strongly that there was no need to go.

Moreover, although the Idol Star Athletics Championships provided him with some exposure, it didn't significantly boost his career anymore.

This was an opportunity for him, but for him, it was more of a physical burden caused by the long recording time.

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After declining to participate in the recording of the Idol Star Athletics Championships, Kang Yeon went to the JYP building again two days later.

But this trip wasn't for any new collaborations; it was for after-sales service.

JYP has already established a third headquarters specifically for TWICE, and yesterday Park Jin-young sent him a message, asking him to come to the office tomorrow to communicate with the third headquarters' A&R department.

The competition song he wrote for "SIXTEEN" is planned to be included in TWICE's debut album by the third division's A&R team.

Some of the people in the previous version are no longer with TWICE, so naturally, the tracks included in that version also need to be re-recorded.

The third division invited him over to discuss the schedule for the re-recording and to ask him to provide choreography ideas for the song.

After all, Jiang Yan is the creator of this song, so he definitely knows best how to choreograph it.

Of course, JYP will provide additional compensation for this after-sales service, because the original contract only covered the "SIXTEEN" contract.

They negotiated for over an hour in the office, and the final agreement was that Jiang Yan would dedicate a day in early September to record for TWICE.

As for choreography, he only needs to communicate with the dance teachers at the third campus online to discuss choreography ideas; he doesn't need to go to the practice room himself.

After leaving the office, Jiang Yan, thinking that since he was already there, did not go straight back to CUBE, but took the elevator to TWICE's practice room on the basement floor for a surprise "inspection".

A few minutes later, Jiang Yan arrived at the door of the practice room with the name TWICE written on it.

The door was tightly closed, but he didn't hear any music coming from inside, which meant that the people inside weren't practicing dancing at this time.

He then put his hand on the doorknob and turned it, before gently pushing the door open.

The door was half open, and what came into Jiang Yan's view was the three members of the Sakura Line sitting in a corner.

The three of them stood close together, with Mina in the center and Sana Minatozaki and Momo Hirai sitting on either side. Both of them were focused on the phone that Mina was holding horizontally.

However, although Jiang Yan's movements were very light, they still sensed the movement and looked up at the door at the same time.

"Eh?! Yan-san, what brings you here?!"

The first to speak was Sana Minatozaki. Upon seeing Jiang Yan, she immediately flashed her signature Shiba Inu smile and stood up to greet him.

"I was called here by Brother Zhenying today to discuss some things. After we finished, I came down to check on everyone else."

As Jiang Yan explained, he also glanced around the practice room and found that apart from Minatozaki Sana and the other two, Yu Jeongyeon and the others were not there.

"The others were called over by their departments, as were the three of us, but we came back a little earlier," Minatozaki Sana explained.

"I understand, but what were you three looking at so intently just now?" Jiang Yan was actually a little curious about what the three of them had been looking at so intently.

At this moment, Mina and Momo also came over. After hearing Jiang Yan's question, Mina said softly, "We're watching the otaku dance that's been popular on NicoNico lately."

"Otaku dance? Can I see it?" Jiang Yan was quite interested in the otaku dance they were talking about.

"OK."

Mina nodded and handed him her phone after unlocking it.