Chapter 177: Release
[Meeting Inside and Outside the Mirror]: Help, ahhhh! Beast ears, beast tails, and paws! Let me touch them!
[-Younger Brother Doggy Xiu Xiu-]: As expected, my Xiu is always a wolf in the stage; he aggressively steals everyone’s gaze every second. In private, he’s a smiling angel.
[Striving to be Jing Xiu’s Mom-Fan]: Thighs and waist are tight, outlining the muscle curves under the form-fitting clothes. Under the pale skin, blood is pulsing. Wild and aggressive, deep and icy eyes coldly stare at the target in sight, piercing through the screen. Hubby, bite me.
[Jing Jing Who Loves Candy]: My Jing is indeed the universally recognized bear-type boyfriend. Gentle, reliable, and you can bury your face in his chest. A total sense of security.
[Samoyed Xiao Xiu Kidnapping Plan]: A top-tier is a top-tier; if it’s a wolf, it must be the alpha.
[Kyoto Nianzhi Jing]: My Jing is a 188 double-door refrigerator. How can he be so exposed! Perk butt and a fluffy tail, I’m going to touch it, ahhhh!
[Pool Water Setting Sheng’s Heart]: I announce that in this video, I have briefly transformed from Sheng Sheng’s “doll-fan” to a “serious-fan.”
[Coaxing My Good Daughter Sheng Sheng to Sleep Every Day]: I swear, during Fashion Week, Sheng Sheng was a soft little girl! Yishang Entertainment, how did you turn my good daughter into a seductive hunting fox!
[Sunset Reflecting Mirror Lake]: How can they film like this? Snow wolf, brown bear, fox, goshawk, python, black panther, divine deer, merman—no matter what your taste is, my Mirror Group has everything.
[E]: So Jianghu Guest and Shackles—one is a martial arts world, and one is a horror game world. Both worlds are our Mirror Group’s grand adventures.
[A Flying Feifei]: They say there’s a flying car here, checking it out.
[Cool Fly Grad Student]: Checking it out +1. The MV special effects are incredible, even cooler than Western blockbusters.
Once the title track Colosseum MV was released, it wasn’t just a carnival for fans. The company’s small-scale promotion of the Maglev 1.0 also attracted a group of people, though not many believed it was real.
Time soon reached eleven in the morning, the time the album went on sale.
It was divided into Version A and B group covers, as well as solo covers for the nine members. The sales period would last until the day before the next album was released.
The album configuration was the usual generous style of Qianyuan Group: CD, photobook (PB), poster, lyric sheet, photocards, Polaroids, postcards, envelope, fridge magnet, acrylic standee, and badge.
What fans looked forward to most were the member MV-themed mystery boxes and the lightstick in the group cover version.
By eight in the evening, it was time for Happy Holidays to air.
As soon as the MV was released today, the Happy Holidays program team specifically released a silhouette of Endless-9’s music promotion stage, as if saying to fans, “Come on~ come on~ Endless-9’s new song debut stage is right here~”
Coincidentally, tonight was also the eve of the finals night live broadcast for another boy group survival show that was copying the trend. Those who loved drama even stirred up trouble on both sides, attracting a large number of netizens.
The online heat continued to rise, and as Gu Wanrong watched, she felt that the Happy Holidays program team must be fanning the flames behind the scenes. Otherwise, the popularity of that survival show, which only “show fans” watched, wasn’t even as high as the Mirror Group’s Chinese New Year holiday live stream. How could it be fighting back and forth in the eyes of passersby now?
This immediately triggered the rebellious spirit of Endless-9’s fans.
They, who were originally happily spending money to buy the album and looked down on survival shows, became active. They promoted their idol’s new album and the upcoming title track stage debut on various platforms.
Naturally, the other boy group survival show was not to be outdone. Fans of the finalists began to frantically spam topics, trying to overshadow Endless-9’s momentum.
But Yishang Entertainment was wealthy and powerful, and they had long since bought pop-up ads on various popular websites across the internet to recommend their artists’ album.
As eight o’clock in the evening approached, the competition between the two sides became increasingly fierce.
Finally, at eight o’clock, Happy Holidays started broadcasting on time. At the same time, that boy group survival show also started its warm-up session on the eve of the finals night. At the beginning of the broadcast, the popularity of both sides was equal.
But bought traffic was ultimately no match for solid fame. Besides Happy Holidays leading far ahead in ratings, the viewing data for that survival show continued to decline.
At this time, a common topic—”Hard to Listen to”—hit the hot search list.
[Chocolate]: It’s really so hard to listen to, as piercing as a screaming chicken.
[One Egg Tart at a Time]: Besides being hard to listen to, there’s nothing else but “hard to listen to.”
[Mercury Pervading]: This flat voice and these muddled pronunciations—it’s so hard to listen to that I thought a foreigner was singing.
[Roaming Golden Fish]: As expected, idols are just hacks. They can’t dance well and their singing is hard to listen to…
These comments were about the new song for the finals night that the survival show had commissioned from well-known composers and lyricists in the circle, following the example of Idol 101. The program team saw that the traffic was being stolen by Happy Holidays, so they wanted to stimulate some heat and decided to release it early.
As it turned out, most of the members of this survival show’s finals group were “ugly children” pushed by capital. The post-production pitch correction wasn’t perfect, the editor hadn’t edited out all the inconsistent dance steps, and a half-finished product was taken out. Lacking strength, they were naturally ridiculed by the public.
But fans are a magical group; when they still love you, all your flaws will be automatically shielded by their eyes.
A certain “big fan” of this survival show was a “smart” one. He signaled his lackeys to throw the “Hard to Listen to” hot search mud at Endless-9. Anyway, they were all talking about idols; passersby wouldn’t care which idol it was.
Normally, the “Hard to Listen to” hot search that went up every now and then wouldn’t make anyone want to click on it. This “smart” one insisted on encouraging his lackeys to confuse the public and push the hot search to the front.
Some people really did click on it, but they looked confused. “Hard to Listen to” was talking about Endless-9?
[Black]: If a stage like the Mirror Group’s knife-group dance and full live singing can be called “hard to listen to,” then I am simply incompatible with this world.
[A Dream in the Garden]: The Mirror Group is the ceiling for domestic entertainment boy groups, okay? Popularity, strength, looks—what aspect is lacking???
[Picking Stars with You]: I have a main favorite group, but after watching the Mirror Group’s song promotion stage tonight, I’ve impulsively ordered the Mirror Group’s first album.
[The Little Prince’s Rose]: The case is solved—the “flops” are throwing mud at our top-tier group!
The Endless-9 fans, holding their “big blades” and preparing to enter the battlefield, looked around in confusion. Why was it different from what they agreed?
When did the “roadside passersby” become our debaters? Something’s a bit off, let’s look again.
Hiss~ An excellent idol and a company that doesn’t hold them back are truly a blessing on my path of chasing stars. My favorite is just this excellent. Everyone, feel free to praise them more; I love to hear it.
This was great; the “flop-until-they-do-anything” survival show received the biggest traffic since its broadcast, but it was just to be mocked and viewed as a big fool.
Gu Wanrong’s Weibo account was also flooded with a large number of fans commenting. Finally, they weren’t urging when to have outside activities, when to release new songs, or when to release MVs.
Instead, they were praising the company’s planning as great, the company managing Endless-9 well, and the boss being generous and willing to spend money on artists.
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