Chapter 182 IU Concert
On the way to the Jamsil concert, Lee Hye-ri called Kim Qixuan back.
"Hello? Did you call me just now? I was taking a shower just now, and Arong Oni answered the call. I asked her what you said, and she just said it was okay. I came back out of curiosity."
Jin Qixuan was startled and said:
"It was Ya Rong who coughed, and Jin Yarong picked it up...?"
"Yes, so what did you say?"
"Borrow money...she won't lend..."
Hearing this, Li Huili instantly imagined the scene just now, and was so amused that she laughed:
"Hahaha... Eh? Wait, why are you borrowing money? "
Jin Qixuan said helplessly: "It was a test of the program!"
"Oh, what about the end? Success or failure?"
"Of course it was a success."
"Who borrowed it from? Oppa, the sword?"
Recalling Li Zhien's words, Jin Qixuan curled up his lips and said, "I won't tell you, I'll give it up. Oh yes, Merry Christmas."
< br>"Ah...Merry Christmas, who are you spending Christmas with? Do you want to come with us to see...Hello? Hello??"
"Dudududu..."
Li Huili looked at the busy signal coming from the mobile phone and cursed, tapping the screen with her finger bones, as if she could hit Jin Qixuan.
“Didi...”
Two car horns interrupted Li Huili's movements. When she saw Liu Junyeol in the car, Li Huili's expression changed and she waved to him with a sweet smile:
"Oppa!"
——
"It was Lee Hye Ri just now. The first person I called to borrow money just called me back to explain why I didn't borrow money."
"Oh? Why?"
Yoo In Na asked curiously.
Jin Qixuan really didn’t expect Yoo In Na to answer the call, so he made a fool of himself:
“She thought I was teasing her.”
“Oh, it turns out you two have a good relationship as stated online. .”
"Well..."
The conversation ended.
Half an hour later, accompanied by Lee Ji-eun’s singing in the car, the two arrived at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul.
The concert started at eight o'clock in the evening, but at five o'clock, the passage inside the venue was already open.
The fans who had formed a long queue here early rushed in.
Although you have to wait for a while to enter the stadium, the feeling of waiting inside the stadium is different from waiting outside the stadium.
The crowd gathered towards the entrance of the passage, and only a few people stood there, watching with envy as a person walked into the passage talking and laughing, and finally disappeared.
These people were not lucky enough to get tickets to the concert, but they really wanted to come, so they wandered outside the venue with a glimmer of hope in order to meet the audience who had issued temporary tickets.
Most of them hold a sign or cardboard with the demand for tickets at a high price written on it, walking around, asking everywhere, displaying it everywhere, and at the same time they have to compete with scalpers.
But the results were meager, votes were hard to come by, and even scalpers had little to gain.
The ticket price for Li Zhien’s concert is between 85,000 and 165,000 (equivalent to approximately RMB 400 to 800).
This may not seem cheap at first glance, but let me give you a comparison:
Tickets for Fenmo's concert are 155,000 to 265,000 won;
Seventeen's concert ticket is 198,000 won.
BTS concert tickets are 165,000 to 220,000 won.
Tickets for aespa’s first concert are 154,000 won.
(The above data are from 2022 and include IU’s concert ticket prices.)
The price of Lee Ji-eun’s concert tickets has not increased in price for eight years, which is the conscience of the industry. To be honest, tickets for a CBA game have never been more expensive.
So there is a reason why she has become famous so far, and this is just the tip of the iceberg of her shining points.
Yoo In Na parked the car in the internal parking lot, and the two followed Squirrel Te, who came to greet her, to the backstage of the concert.
On the way, Jin Qixuan looked at the stadium environment curiously.
It’s shameful to say that as a landmark cultural building on the peninsula, Jin Qixuan has never been here...
Although the 1988 crew shot scenes here, that scene had nothing to do with Jin Qixuan.
The 1986 Asian Games and the 1988 Olympic Games were held here, and Michael Jackson also held a concert here.
Speaking of which, it is really impressive that Li Zhien can hold a concert here.
Today, only a handful of singers have held concerts at the Olympic Main Arena.
The first local singer to hold a concert here was the group H.O.T., and that was all thirteen or four years ago.
As it was the first time in 13 or 14 years for a local singer to hold a concert here, one can imagine the sensation in public opinion.
For this reason, not everyone is a fan of Li Zhien. There are also many people who come just to see a big event and have bragging rights when chatting with friends later.
“Do you know about IU’s 2016 Christmas Jamsil concert? That scene was so spectacular!”
This is also the reason why so many people have been asking for tickets at the door since early in the morning.
After a while, Jin Qixuan and Liu Inna followed Squirrel into the backstage of the concert waiting room.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw Li Zhien sitting in front of the makeup mirror, holding chocolate beans and chatting with the stylist sister.
Different from the straight black hair that Jin Qixuan had seen for two months, as a concept look for the new album, she changed to short pear hair.
To put it simply, she has changed from the cute girl-next-door style to a mature style. Coupled with the red dress she wore for the performance, she is very feminine.
“Onie!!!”
As soon as he saw Yoo In Na, Lee Ji Eun put down the chocolate box and jumped over in three steps and then two steps.
The two of them put their hands on top of each other, interlocked their fingers, swayed in the air, and simultaneously made the coquettish sounds that women make when they see their besties.
“Zhien, you are beautiful again!
"Hey, Ernie, you've lost weight!"
......
Jin Qixuan didn't regard himself as an outsider either.
After saying hello to the members of Li Zhien's team, he sat on the sofa, crossed his legs, put his chin with one hand, raised the corners of his mouth, and watched with interest the two women twisting into a twisted posture.
The two women chatted for nearly three minutes before temporarily letting go of each other.
Then, Li Zhien stepped on her high heels and walked towards Jin Qixuan, stretched out her palm to him and asked:
"Where's my Christmas gift?"
Jin Qixuan thought the first words she said to him would be "here it comes" or "long time no see".
But I never expected that this would be her first sentence.
As for Christmas gifts, they are usually given by male and female friends or those who are in an ambiguous relationship. After all, Christmas is a romantic holiday.
So, Li Zhien’s approach of asking for gifts is somewhat embarrassing.
Jin Qixuan looked at Li Zhien's smiling face and her white and tender hand in front of her body. His mind suddenly twitched, and he held it up by mistake.
Li Zhien was stunned by Jin Qixuan's sudden initiative.
Usually when Li Zhien flirts, Jin Qixuan shrinks back, not knowing what he is afraid of.
So much so that later on Li Zhien would stop at it. He would definitely tease her twice, but not too much.
Jin Qixuan's abnormal behavior this time made Li Zhien feel very surprised. Could it be that he was shocked by my new look and couldn't control it anymore?
"Why, because you didn't prepare a gift, do you want to give yourself to me?"
"No, I'm new to feeling the pulse. Your hands are a little cold, are you suffering from kidney deficiency?"
I knew it!
It happens every time!
Li Zhien slapped Jin Qixuan's palm away angrily, clenched his fist and threatened:
"If you keep talking nonsense, your glasses will be crooked!"
"Good medicine is bitter in the mouth and good for the disease, and good advice is bad for the ears and good for action. If you don't cough..."
The scene of Li Zhien punching Jin Qixuan made Yoo Inna look stupid. , is this still the steady and introverted Li Zhien she knows?
And when she saw that everyone around her was doing their own thing as if they couldn't see it, she became even more confused.
"Hunt xi." Liu Inna pointed at the two of them and asked Hunter.
Hunter's eyes moved from the camera to the direction of Yoo In Na's finger, and he asked doubtfully: "What's wrong?"
"Ji Eun, she...?"
"Oh, they both do it every time That’s it, if we can’t meet each other for more than three sentences, Zhi En will definitely explode.”
"Ah..."
What made Yoo In Na even more confused was that after Li Zhien finished hammering Jin Qixuan, the two of them were sitting on the sofa talking as if nothing had happened.
So, do young people today all communicate in this way? Let’s have a fight first when we meet?
Am I too old to keep up with the times?
While Yoo In Na was thinking about it, Han Te was called over by Li Zhien.
"Hunter Oppa, do you want to learn photography?"
Hunter saw the answer in Li Zhien's eyes, glanced at the camera in his hand, and said sincerely:
"I'm very busy and don't have time to study."
Seeing Hunter's reluctant eyes, It’s strange that Jin Qixuan can believe it. Hunter has been tinkering with the camera since he entered the room!
"Look, just because he took a bad picture of me, IUTV hasn't updated it for three months!"
Then, Li Zhien reached out and took the camera from Hunter's hand, handed it to Jin Qixuan, and smiled sweetly:
“So, IUTV will trouble you~”
"Okay..."
Jin Qixuan turned on the camera, adjusted the settings, and asked:
"Are you still transforming?"
"Of course~"
As he said that, Li Zhien stood up and waited for Jin Qixuan's instructions.
"Prepare, 1.2.3!"
After the sound fell, Li Zhien spun around in a circle, added sound effects to his lips, and smiled sweetly and waved to the camera.
Should I say it, the red skirt is flying as she spins. This scene is indeed beautiful.
“Long time no see, how about my bangs?”
As she said that, Li Zhien shook her head cutely, showing off her airy bangs.
To be honest, the way she shook her head was so cute that it made the corners of Jin Qixuan's mouth curl up unconsciously.
Looking at the camera, the corners of Jin Qixuan’s mouth rose, and Li Zhien smiled proudly in his heart.
After recording for a while, the staff informed Li Zhien that he was ready to go on stage. Jin Qixuan also followed Yoo Inna to the auditorium to wait for the start.
With ten minutes left before eight o'clock in the evening, the open audience seats in the venue were already full.
Looking around, there are densely packed people and the whole place is filled with a sea of fluorescent yellow.
At this moment, a dazzling spotlight suddenly lit up on the stage, like a shooting star piercing the night sky, illuminating the entire stage.
The panicked colorful beams of light shot towards the stage from all directions, forming a colorful tunnel of light, like a door to another world.
As the rhythm quickens, the lights change into various shapes and colors, jumping, spinning and interlacing like lightning.
From soft pink to dazzling purple-blue, from warm orange to neon green, the stage turned into a huge and gorgeous universe in an instant.
The lights dance like fairies, shuttling over the stage, projecting flowing patterns and gorgeous light and shadow.
With the arrival of the cool electronic music climax, the lights also reached their peak.
Thousands of lights danced gracefully on the stage, creating countless gorgeous light and shadow effects. The rainbow-colored beams of light danced interlacedly, like elves dancing, activating the atmosphere of the scene for Li Zhien, who was about to appear on the stage.
Soon, the cool and colorful light show ended, and the stage fell into darkness again.
But the atmosphere at the scene was indeed extremely active, and the shouts were getting louder and louder, because they knew that Li Zhien was about to take the stage!
It was one minute before eight o'clock, and the three huge screens behind the stage simultaneously displayed the numbers [60], and then [59].
This is the start of the one minute countdown.
The entire audience counted down the seconds together, and the sound became louder and louder:
"Fifty-nine!"
"Fifty-eight!"
……
……
“Three!”
“Two!”
"One!"
After reading the last second, the audience cheered loudly.
With the cheers, three giant screens suddenly flashed, reflecting Li Zhien's looming silhouette.
The rhythm of the music gradually rises, followed by extremely strong drum beats, like a surging heartbeat, shocking the soul.
The lights lit up instantly and gathered into a dazzling beam of light, illuminating the entire stage, revealing Li Zhien standing in the shadows.
“I’mtwentyfour”
"I am a riddle question"
"Is it okay to be lawless even on your head?"
The opening song is "24" adapted from "23" by Lee Ji-eun.
Her clean and ethereal voice is like the sound of nature, traveling through the air and hitting the hearts of every listener. Her singing surges like a tide, igniting the atmosphere of the scene.
As the saying goes, once a person exceeds ten thousand, there are no boundaries.
The number of people exceeds 50,000, which is ridiculous.
After the song was sung, the audience's shouts could not stop for a long time.
Li Zhien listened on the stage for nearly two minutes before smiling and saying:
"Good evening, everyone, I am IU!"
"Ahhhh!!!"
The fans responded to their love for Li Zhien with the craziest screams.
"It is a great honor for me to hold a concert here. Thank you very much for your support. Without you, there would be no IU. Thank you everyone."
After speaking, Li Zhien bowed deeply to the audience.
“Ahhhh!!!”
The fans in the audience cheered wildly. Not only Li Zhien, they also felt very honored.
To a certain extent, fans are more delighted that their idol has achieved something than the artist himself.
If an actor breaks a box office record, a singer's album sales break a record, any important award he or she wins, or any breakthrough achievement he or she achieves, fans will be excited and tout it.
As expected of my favorite artist, keep up the good work! ! !
This feeling of pride is easy to understand, just like when an athlete wins a gold medal in the Olympics, it makes the entire nation proud.
"Then in the next time, I want to sing for two hours? Three hours? Or...a whole night?"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..." ”
Hearing this, the fans screamed, and the atmosphere at the scene could no longer be described as enthusiastic. It was about to explode.
Jin Qixuan went to see Li Zhien's concert with 20,000 people. The scene was enough to shock him at that time, let alone the 50,000 people!
The security personnel and police on duty were suddenly under great pressure, fearing that Li Zhien would say something to cheer up the atmosphere, and they would really be unable to hold back.
Fortunately, Li Zhien didn't. After saying this, the official performance of tonight's concert began.
As Li Zhien sang, the excited fans gradually calmed down and followed the melody of the song, gently shaking the light sticks in their hands.
Of course, not everyone is calm.
For example, Yoo In Na next to Jin Qixuan lost her usual dignified and gentle look, as if she had been pumped with adrenaline, and her face turned red from screaming loudly.
Looking at this, Jin Qixuan was afraid that this sister would not be able to catch her breath due to excitement and would lose her breath...
(End of this chapter)