Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 223 The Pyramid Was Not Built in a Day

At eight o'clock the next morning, Shen Juan had just closed his eyes when he was woken up by the alarm clock set by Ishihara Satomi.

He drowsily reached for the phone next to his pillow, checked the time, and discovered that there were only two hours left until the alarm he had set for ten o'clock, so he lost all desire to sleep.

There's no way, it's different when you have good energy.

Although when she first came here, because the original owner often practiced dancing and singing all night long, the pressure of participating in the competition was too great, which caused her biological clock to be disrupted and she was physically and mentally exhausted, and slightly weak.

But after all, the foundation is here.

Static talent is really different from ordinary people.

Therefore, as long as he is properly conditioned and has sufficient experience in court confrontation and targeted training, it is really hard for him not to become the "strongest man in East Asia" as described by the Japanese media.

Anyway, last night, Satomi Ishihara personally put the situation into practice and confirmed the meaning of the saying "There are only wrong names, but no wrong nicknames."

A strong and energetic young body is indeed much better than those old men in their forties or fifties.

So much so that she was still curled up in Shen Juan's arms, looking at him with fascination and chatting with him.

"How long will Shen Juanjun stay in Neon?"

"We have to go to the United States in a few days."

The VMA will be held in New York on the 20th, US time.

After Shen Juan attended the award ceremony, he had to stay in New York to complete the recording of the theme song for the movie "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse".

During the past month on the crew, he has found time to complete the lyrics and composition as well as the arrangement outline for the Japanese EP and the movie theme song.

After communicating with Universal, they acted quickly and immediately found a professional production team to be responsible for the subsequent process steps.

Shen Juan currently has a very high priority within Republic Records and can be considered a top artist in the first echelon.

Anyway, when other first-line singers release songs, they will specifically ask someone to inquire whether he will release a song in the short term.

After all, although Shen Juan still has a certain gap with them in terms of natural popularity and basic base, his streaming data and sales explosiveness are still too exaggerated.

To put it simply, they are confident that they can defeat Shen Juan through a RBI decision in the match, but Shen Juan has an exaggerated ability to hit hard, and anyone who gets hit by him will feel uncomfortable.

No one wants to compete with such an opponent.

Because he might break the list and keep the top spot.

"After returning from the United States, I will probably stay here for a few days to complete the subsequent recording and MV shooting."

Although Shen Juan does not plan to participate in the MV shooting as the protagonist, his face still has to be shown, otherwise Alovers will have no motivation to increase the streaming data for the new song MV.

"I see. But when it comes to MVs, Shen Juan-jun always looks for very young and beautiful actresses~"

Shen Juan discussed this with Ishihara Satomi last night, so she also knew which actors would participate in Shen Juan's MV.

"It's okay. The company helped me find it. I don't even know your new actors." Shen Juan cleared himself of all charges.

"Who do you know? I'm actually quite curious about what you Chinese think of our Japanese entertainment industry?"

"Just Aragaki Yui, Nagasawa Masami, Toda Erika, and of course you." Shen Juan only answered the first half of the question and selectively ignored the second half.

Because he feels that if he speaks out his true thoughts, for example, most Japanese entertainment stars look very abstract and have strange aesthetics, it might not be very polite.

After all, every country has its own aesthetic preferences. What they think is beautiful may be considered ugly by others, and what they think is ugly may be considered beautiful by others.

Therefore, if you want to become an international superstar, if you want to become a global top star, you must be careful in what you say and do in this regard.

I don't want to be like my eldest brother and say that I am half Chinese (including but not limited to South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, the United States, Anhui, Shandong and Yantai), but at the very least I should be able to respect the aesthetics and culture of other countries, and not take the initiative to attack or ridicule others unless they provoke or offend me.

Ishihara Satomi stared into Shen Juan's eyes seriously: "So how do you think I compare to them?"

"How can they compare with you?" Shen Juan gave her a satisfactory response without even thinking.

Unlike men, when many women ask such nonsensical questions, what they really care about is the man’s attitude, not the truth of the matter.

Ishihara Satomi smiled very sweetly, "Shen Juanjun, you are so handsome, so sweet-mouthed, and have such a good figure. You must have charmed a lot of girls!"

She has been in the entertainment industry for so many years and has seen the private conduct of many well-known male stars.

Most of them can only choose one between satisfactory appearance and being able to provide emotional value.

It is rare to find someone like Shen Juan who possesses both qualities and can achieve both to the extreme. He can be called the best of the best.

Although it is unclear what her reputation is in the Chinese entertainment industry, if she were in the Japanese entertainment industry where relationships between men and women are relatively open, she would definitely become the object of crazy pursuit.

Shen Juan had long been accustomed to it, so naturally he wasn't too proud or arrogant, so he continued along with her words: "It's fine, and what about you? Are you charmed by me, Mr. Ishihara?"

"I'm already like this, am I not fascinated by you?" Ishihara Satomi pouted her lips and said with some dissatisfaction: "I have satisfied all those weird and shameful requests you made last night!" "Arigato Mi Yangyang-san!"

"What do you mean?" Ishihara Satomi was puzzled.

"It's nothing, but I don't really like to use the word 'fascinated' to describe our relationship."

"why?"

"Because in my opinion, I may be like a glass of water to you. Only when you feel thirsty will I be as valuable as gold." Shen Juan reached out and gently stroked her hair, and expressed his sensory views of her from a personal perspective, "But you are not thirsty most of the time, so similarly, I am bland in your eyes most of the time."

"Don't say that~" Ishihara Satomi curled her lips with mixed feelings. She knew very well what Shen Juan was hinting at, but both of them tacitly did not point it out. After all, they were in a one-night stand relationship.

After a moment of silence, Shen Juan asked, "Do you know what my most profound impression of the city of Tokyo is?"

Ishihara Satomi thought for a moment, then mentioned several landmark buildings and representative industries in a row, but Shen Juan didn't nod. In the end, she could only smile helplessly and said, "It can't be the sex industry and those small movies, right?"

Shen Juan also smiled and shook his head, "It's actually an American movie from more than ten years ago, called Lost in Translation."

Ishihara Satomi looked at him seriously, waiting for what to say next.

"In fact, I didn't understand this movie when I first watched it, but when I was really working hard for that illusory goal alone in a foreign country, my ears were filled with strange languages, my mouth tasted strange, and I lived a boring life of going from dormitory to practice room to cafeteria every day, and I couldn't find anyone to confide these feelings to, I gradually understood the melancholy and loneliness in this movie."

Ishihara Satomi was stunned. She had also seen this movie, but she couldn't understand Shen Juan's feelings.

It must have been very difficult to leave your hometown at a young age and go to South Korea to fight for your dreams.

So... maybe it was the maternal instinct that was overflowing, she opened her arms and hugged Shen Juan tightly, then raised her head and kissed Shen Juan who understood what she meant and lowered his head.

Although the shooting mode of Japanese dramas is to shoot and broadcast at the same time, and she also has the shooting task of "Kaolin no Hana" during the day, for her, the most urgent task is to comfort the boy in front of her who is so beautiful that it makes her heart break.

After enjoying a crackling breakfast, Shen Juan, who had emptied his magazine and was granted administrative leave, and Ishihara Satomi, who had eaten and drunk her fill, parted ways at the hotel and started today's work.

On the way to the TV station, Shen Juan leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes to rest. The assistant, as usual, explained to him what she had seen and heard while surfing the Internet over the past two days:
Currently, most of the discussion topics in the entertainment section of Japanese online forums are related to Alex Shen Juan.

Although the episode of "Human Observation" that Shen Juan participated in recording yesterday has not been broadcast yet, with the leak of Reuters photos and the company team's marketing promotion, many people have already paid attention to and got to know Shen Juan in advance, and have developed an interest and desire to get to know him more deeply.

The pyramids were not built in a day.

To move from the second-tier to the first-tier in overseas markets, you have to go through these small events, accumulating little by little.

In addition, there is also news about him in the Korean entertainment industry.

In order to take advantage of the popularity of "Alex Fever", Kim Jennie and Kim Jisoo both posted the photo of their chance encounter with Shen Juan in the coffee shop yesterday on their personal Instagram accounts which they opened in June this year.

The top stars from China and South Korea broke the dimensional barrier and appeared in the same frame, which naturally led to various hot searches and heated discussions on the Internet.

Le Hua and YG are both making efforts in secret.

Shen Juan went to the Korean website and took a quick look.

Except for a small number of South Korean Wolf Warriors who hate him extremely, the vast majority of comments are positive and friendly.

After all, the entire K-pop community has a high passion and ideal for traveling to the United States.

JYP boss Park Jin-young has had a dream of going to the US since he was a child, which gradually developed into a dream-disease.

As a successful example of an East Asian artist entering the United States in the era of streaming media, Shen Juan has naturally been jointly studied and analyzed by many entertainment companies in an attempt to find out the secret of his success.

Under the influence of this general environment, it is easy for many South Korean fans who have always admired strong people to develop a liking for Shen Juan, or simply become his fans.

Whenever he has nothing to do, he would use Shen Juan's face or Shen Juan's achievements to torture those idols he dislikes.

So perhaps it can be said that at least half of Shen Juan’s popularity and fame in South Korea is due to the notoriety he gained from the infighting within the South Korean fan circle.

He is the absolute devil who is only heard but not seen, and whose name is enough to silence the fan circle and stop babies from crying.

He then exited the forum and opened Kakao.

There are quite a lot of unread messages.

But most of them come from the same person:
Jennie.

Although Shen Juan was a little speechless and felt that this sister was a little too clingy, he still responded seriously.

After all, I don't hate him, right?

But the same old saying goes, Shen Juan prefers to chat with Kim Ji-soo rather than Kim Jennie who has a catfish-like appearance.

then
Kim Ji-soo looked at the words "Let's have dinner together in Seoul when you are free" on the phone screen, then looked at Kim Jennie who was holding her phone and laughing inexplicably beside her, and she felt an indescribable joy in her heart.

Then she raised her lips slightly, touched the screen with her slender white fingers, and typed a reply: [OK! ^^]

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