TTIG Chapter 61.1

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Mo Xun didn’t mention the New Year’s Eve finger interlocking.

 

His heart was also in turmoil. After all, liking a guy wasn’t a simple matter—it meant facing many problems: questioning from family, various public opinions. He knew this path wouldn’t be easy.

 

But he believed that as long as he truly liked Yinnian and Yinnian was willing to accept him, other difficulties could be solved somehow.

 

However, they were too young now, and their careers were unstable. If a romance was exposed at this time, it would drag FTM into trouble.

 

He couldn’t disregard the team’s interests and Yinnian’s future by impulsively breaking through that thin barrier.

 

Wait until the timing is more mature, then explain things clearly to Yinnian?

 

Mo Xun simply got up and went to the bathroom, organizing his chaotic emotions while showering.

 

Fang Yinnian quickly controlled his heartbeat, opened his music app, and tried to distract himself by listening to songs.

 

Since Mo Xun said he wasn’t gay, that was easy to handle. Straight men couldn’t easily turn gay. Between him and Mo Xun, there was only pure teammate friendship.

 

That’s… that’s how it is, right?

 

Fang Yinnian drove all the strange thoughts out of his head. Focusing on listening to music, his mood gradually calmed down.

 

Soon it was August 8th, the day of He Yan’s concert.

 

He Yan’s national tour this year would visit ten cities, with Binhai City being the third stop. It was held at Binhai Olympic Sports Center with a three-sided stage and 40,000 open seats.

 

On the day tickets went on sale, they sold out in seconds. This kind of popularity made him undoubtedly a top-tier singer in the Chinese music scene.

 

The five members of FTM also experienced firsthand the grandeur of a top-tier singer’s concert, feeling incredibly excited.

 

The stage design theme was a vampire castle, and He Yan’s styling was also very interesting. His makeup was painted like a little vampire, and when he danced, he was incredibly sexy, causing fans below to scream wildly.

 

He Yan sang several songs in a row, then stood in the center of the stage with a beaming smile and said: “Next, I’m going to give everyone a surprise!”

 

“For this concert, I specially invited several guests to help out. They are my good friends—FTM!”

 

“Everyone give them some applause, please welcome the handsome guys to the stage!”

 

Enthusiastic applause and cheers erupted from below.

 

The light sticks at the venue also lit up in unison—He Yan’s support light sticks, when lit up throughout the venue, looked like countless dancing little flames.

 

FTM brought two songs today.

 

The first was “Blazing,” a song with intense rhythm and handsome choreography that quickly stirred up the enthusiasm of the entire venue.

 

The second was the ballad “Secret Garden,” a very gentle song, with the entire audience softly waving their light sticks to accompany them.

 

Looking at the jumping flames below, the members felt both excited and envious—when would FTM be able to have their own concert?

 

When that time came, would there be an amber-gold ocean representing their support color below the stage?

 

After FTM’s performance ended, there was quite a bit of discussion in the audience.

 

“This idol group’s vocals are pretty good.”

 

“Just finished an intense dance track and immediately followed with a ballad, but they could still maintain stable breathing. It sounded quite good.”

 

“Where did these idols come from? Is Brother Yan close with them?”

 

“FTM from the same company, they should be close. Being invited as concert guests, their private relationship must be good.”

 

“When will this group hold their own concert? I want to go see it!”

 

“They’re a rookie group, probably don’t have the qualifications to hold an independent concert yet? They’ve only released three songs so far.”

 

…

 

Shortly after FTM’s performance ended, fan-taken videos of the concert appeared on Weibo, quickly breaking 100,000 reposts and likes.

 

FTM’s fans excitedly saved the resources.

 

“Ahhh our music group went to Brother Yan’s concert as guests?”

 

“Today’s performance was amazing!”

 

“So handsome, FTM should hold their own concert too!”

 

“Album, album, you’ve been recording for so long, when are you going to serve it up!”

 

Fans excitedly flooded the super topic.

 

The hashtag #He Yan Concert Guest FTM# appeared on the entertainment trending list, sparking considerable discussion.

 

He Yan’s fans were very friendly toward FTM, since they were guests He Yan himself had invited and he had said they were good friends.

 

But some people were jumping mad, coming out with cold sarcasm: “Worthy of being Sheng Yao’s prince group, riding coattails again.”

 

“The company really stops at nothing to promote this boy group.”

 

“Wasn’t it enough to debut riding the coattails of the 10th anniversary family concert? After covering Xie Shiqi’s songs, now they’re clinging to senior He Yan to leech off him?”

 

“All of Sheng Yao Media’s singers have to carry the sedan chair for the prince!”

 

“He Yan is embarrassing enough, can’t get big names as concert guests, can only invite a few rookie idols to help out, heh”

 

“Where did these nobodies come from? They don’t even have the qualifications to hold their own concerts, can only leech off others’ concerts?”

 

“Laughing to death, never seen a boy group that loves to leech this much…”

 

These comments made Fang Yinnian feel very uncomfortable.

 

Being concert guests was something He Yan had proposed on their debut day last year—it wasn’t like they were deliberately trying to ride coattails.

 

He Yan and Mo Xun were friends. Singers with good relationships being each other’s concert guests—wasn’t that very normal?

 

Why were there always so many malicious speculations?

 

Fang Yinnian casually clicked on an account that cursed FTM as “nobodies who shouldn’t get involved,” and found “Tao Yizhou Super Topic Big Fan” written under the name.

 

Then he clicked on a “I’m a passerby” avatar and found that the person hadn’t deleted their Weibo cleanly—last month they had posted “Ahhh my Zhouzou husband is the most handsome.”

 

Fang Yinnian was stunned and asked Mo Xun quietly: “We’re guests at Brother Yan’s concert, and so many of Tao Yizhou’s fans are coming out to curse at us.”

 

Mo Xun smiled and said: “Tao Yizhou’s fans can’t stand any singers from Sheng Yao Media. They think the company is using the money Tao Yizhou earns to support other people, doesn’t value Tao Yizhou, and only lets other artists leech off their brother. Their brother is the biggest victim in the world.”

 

Fang Yinnian: “…”

 

Such childish thinking.

 

Tao Yizhou had the best resources in all of Sheng Yao, holding over a dozen endorsements, even more than He Yan.

 

Fang Yinnian sighed: “I really don’t understand his fans. Why do they like attacking others so much?”

 

Mo Xun said: “Fans raised through victim mentality and toxic competition, their brains aren’t very clear. Don’t pay attention to them, we just need to stay far away and not get involved.”

 

Fang Yinnian nodded. Maybe because He Yan and Tao Yizhou were mortal enemies, them being guests at He Yan’s concert was equivalent to standing on the opposite side from Tao Yizhou.

 

He didn’t pay attention to these inexplicable mockeries anymore.

 

Let them mock. FTM indeed didn’t have the qualifications to hold concerts now—they only had three original songs, and even with the album out, only ten songs.

 

A proper concert needed about 3 hours and at least 30 songs. If original songs weren’t enough, they could of course do covers, but covering too many other people’s works wasn’t a good thing.

 

Fang Yinnian still hoped FTM could have enough works and accumulate enough popularity to properly hold a concert of their own.

 

Not just one concert—he also wanted to do a national tour.

 

They wanted to become the strongest boy group in Chinese music, singing their songs throughout the country.

 

Just wait and see, that day would come! Then they could also invite Brother Yan as their guest.

 

Thinking of this, Fang Yinnian opened his app to continue working on songwriting. His recent seaside vacation had given him quite a bit of inspiration. He’d record it first, then get some guidance from Teacher Yu when he returned.

 

On August 10th, the five members of FTM returned to Jiangzhou. The following week was promotional poster and material shooting, keeping the five constantly busy. After finishing the promotional posters, they immediately flew to Yun City.

 

That’s right, they were back to grind the “Music Billboard” dungeon again.

 

As the only new song promotion platform in domestic entertainment, “Music Billboard” had maintained high popularity since its May debut.

 

FTM had won the weekly championship in the fourth week of May. After they withdrew, netizens frantically encouraged other boy groups to also come out and show what they’ve got.

 

Xingmang Entertainment’s two boy groups remained unmoved—their route wasn’t the music track, and they focused more on filming variety shows to solidify their fanbase.

 

The Sonic boy group had never come either. As a survival show limited group, the members focused more on individual futures and didn’t like group activities.

 

So the only ones who dared to come to the music promotion stage were still FTM.

 

Netizens openly mocked: “Other idol boy groups really don’t have anyone who can fight!”

 

August 18th happened to be Saturday, and “Music Billboard” released this episode’s contestant list.

 

FTM “Sunny Coast”

 

Zuo Qing “Rainy Day”

 

Ouyang Xi “Thoughts”

 

Qi Zheng “If I Love You”

 

Lin Luhua “Season When the Wind Rises”

 

Netizens immediately got excited.

 

“Holy crap, the music group is back?!”

 

“Coming to promote new songs, they must be releasing a new album!”

 

“They won a weekly championship in May, then disappeared for two months. Wonder what kind of stage this comeback will be”

 

“Looking forward to it~”

 

“Five-person team weekly dungeon, let’s go!”

 

“The little idols are back again?”

 

“They’re not going to sing for several weeks in a row again, persistently grinding dungeons until they get the weekly championship, right?”

 

“Hahaha stubborn music group, won’t give up until they get the weekly championship!”

 

This group really had thick skin.

 

Back when the entire internet was mocking them, they didn’t back down, continuing to perform and improve on the Music Billboard stage until they won the championship before leaving.

 

After two months of settling, what kind of surprise would they bring everyone this time?

 

Not only were FTM’s fans excitedly waiting to be fed, but passerby audiences who liked watching music promotion shows were also looking forward to it.

 

August 18th at noon.

 

Exactly one year since FTM’s formation, they chose to release their first album on this special day.

 

FTM Official Studio: “Happy first birthday to FTM! The first commemorative album ‘Forever FTM’ will go online simultaneously across all platforms tonight at 8:18 PM ”

 

“Digital album priced at 21 yuan, including 7 new songs and 3 included singles, tracklist as follows—

 

‘Sunny Coast’

 

‘Night Scene’

 

‘Prayer Under the Moonlight’

 

‘Love Contract’

 

‘Where Dreams Begin’

 

‘Don’t Cry’

 

‘Happy Dialogue’

 

‘For the Music’

 

‘Secret Garden’

 

‘Blazing'”

 

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