Volume 5 2013 Chapter 970: Change always comes from within
Choi Jin-ri was very satisfied with the outcome of the evening meeting.
Yi Haoyan is still the boy who is gentle and considerate to her.
Even though he has a girlfriend now, he is still a special person.
However, this unexpected discovery made Zhenli feel comforted but also gave him a sense of crisis.
The girl realized that the special state she had been enjoying was actually unsustainable.
This is possible now because Quan Enfei doesn't know what's going on between the two of them. She doesn't know that she has confessed to Yi Haoyan, and she thinks it's just an ordinary relationship between a senior and a junior. If she knew, would she still be able to enjoy this treatment?
impossible.
No matter how self-deceiving the excuses and reasons for escape are, they cannot deny the reality. Even if you indulge in the current state, you know that this is just an unstable illusion.
Even if the boy's concern is real, compared with his real girlfriend, Choi Jin-ri is just an existence that cannot be expressed and cannot be seen in the light.
This feeling is unbearable, at least not for long.
Choi Jin-ri has always maintained considerable restraint in her emotions.
She liked Yi Haoyan, and she knew that he had a girlfriend. In order not to cause trouble to her lover, even after she confessed her feelings and no longer hid her feelings, she continued to suppress her emotions and did not put any pressure on Yi Haoyan.
Zhenli never thought about fighting for anything, and felt that there was nothing wrong in just getting closer little by little in a confused manner.
But what happened today poured a bucket of cold water on Snowball and completely woke her up.
The happiness we have now is just rootless water, like duckweed, it has no foundation and can disappear at any time.
After all, Choi Jinri is just Yi Haoyan's senior and good friend, nothing more.
He can now help himself again and again.
But these all have prerequisites.
I have to keep it a secret from my girlfriend.
All along, the interactions between the two were very casual, and Zhenli never thought about the need to avoid anything.
When she was in the mood, she would call Yi Haoyan in the middle of the night to wake him up. The girl felt that she was the one who was treated specially, and felt a little proud of it.
But now I realize that those feelings she had were only because she had never encountered a real challenge.
Like today, just in front of Kwon Eun-fei, I had to shrink back and hide even when making a phone call.
Haha, so that’s how it is~
It's a bit humiliating~
On the way back, Choi Jin-ri stared at the bustling scene outside the car window with an expressionless face.
The flashy lights of the entire city were reflected on her still childish face through the car window, and were fleeting like a shooting star, just like the innocence and simplicity that the girl once possessed but was being abandoned because of the cruel reality.
This can't go on.
For Zhenli, who has lacked care since childhood, the warmth that Yi Haoyan brings her is the most precious gift in the world, just like the life-saving plank that one holds on to when drowning, it is an existence that cannot be given up.
She tried her best to catch it.
Therefore, for the sake of this relationship, Zhenli was willing to compromise, willing to take the initiative to confess without putting any pressure on the other party, and even willing to be a little unrestrained and pull the boy's clothes and stick with him so shamelessly.
In order to have all this, other truths don't matter.
But now it seems that if I want to preserve the happiness that I cherish most, there will be no future if I don’t make progress now. I have to do something.
However, there was nothing good about the truth for Yi Haoyan.
This guy has a strong sense of morals, high self-esteem, thin skin, and a kind heart. You can only approach him patiently little by little. If you force him too hard, he may run away, and then all your efforts will be wasted.
So, I can only start with another person.
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When Choi Jin-ri started to think about how to find her own happiness.
Others are also working hard to live the life they want.
Some succeeded, some didn't.
Throughout the second half of the year, the female idol market began to show some new characteristics.
Female solos began to explode.
The first to be affected is IU, a singer who blossomed alone in the heyday of girl groups and walked a unique and flowery path.
On September 11, IU released her third Japanese single "Monday Afternoon".
On October 8, the third full-length album "Modern Times" was released. All 13 songs in the album ranked 1st to 13th on the music chart, and achieved "Perfect All-kill" on ichart's weekly chart. The title song "Red Dance Shoes" won the first place in all music programs in the second week of its return.
On October 30, she appeared in the variety show "Hidden Singer 2" and won 88 votes out of 100 votes.
On November 20, IU appeared on the weekly idol. She also starred in a TV series again, co-starring with Jang Keun Suk in the romantic love drama "Pretty Man", playing the heroine Kim Pyong-joong who has a unique sense of fashion.
On December 20, the group released their revised third album "Modern Times - Epilogue", which included two additional songs, "See You Friday" and "Pastel Crayons". Their original song "See You Friday" took first place on all the daily charts of ichart, achieving a "Perfect All-kill" and remained at the top of the US Billboard K-pop chart for two consecutive weeks.
Basically, IU has now become a female idol who can be ranked alongside Girls' Generation.
In addition to her, other female solos also achieved good results.
On November 26, Sistar's Hyolyn released her first full-length album "Love and Hate" and officially made her solo debut. The debut song broke the Melon chart once and won first place on four music programs.
In the group, Hyolyn is the one who needs the least worry. Her singing skills are so strong that it is a foregone conclusion that she will go the route of a female singer. The results of this solo also speak for themselves.
Kim HyunA, who is also performing solo, is still going strong.
Strictly speaking, this cannot be considered a solo, after all, it is a boy-girl group. However, the concept of trouble maker subverts the traditional concept of a group and can be considered an alternative solo.
On October 28, Trouble Maker released their second mini album "Chemistry ", and the title song "No Tomorrow" immediately swept major music charts in South Korea.
On November 7, he won first place for the first time on the MBC music program "SHOW CHAMPION".
On November 10, they achieved the triple crown of Music Bank, Music Core, and Inkigayo.
Trouble Maker once again attracted a lot of attention with his unique style and large-scale stage performance.
Hong Seung-sung is indeed quite capable.
Of course, in addition to these solos that have developed well, Girls' Generation, the ceiling of South Korean girl groups, has continued to perform as steadily as ever.
On November 3, Girls' Generation won the Best MV of the Year Award at the first YouTube Music Festival with their song "I Got A Boy", becoming the only Asian singer to win the award.
On November 13, Girls' Generation held their first fan meeting after their debut in Japan at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo.
On December 5, Time magazine announced the top ten songs of 2013, and Girls' Generation's fourth album title song "I Got A Boy" ranked fifth.
The changing of times is a natural law, and Girls' Generation is one of the rare groups that has escaped this law. Since the formation of the South Korean idol industry, it has been extremely rare to see such a popular and long-lasting girl group.
Most of them will gradually move towards the end of their careers over time.
For example, T-ara.
In 2013, in order to avoid the boycott trend that broke out in South Korea, the group turned to Japan for development. For a whole year, T-ara mainly performed in Japan.
On March 20, 2013, the Japanese single album "Bunny Style" was released.
On April 10, the first sub-group T-ara N4 was officially announced, consisting of Ham Eun-jung, Park Hyo-min, Park Ji-yeon, and Lee Ya-lin.
On June 26, another sub-group T-ara QBS was announced, consisting of Lee Joo-ri, Jeon Bo-ram, and Park So-yeon. They officially started activities in Japan and released their first Japanese single "Like the Wind (風のように)".
On July 10, the two sub-groups released their second original Japanese song "Target" together.
On the 11th, Lee Yalin announced her withdrawal from the group and went solo. Afterwards, the agency stated that Danee would replace Lee Yalin to join the N4 sub-group, but would not join T-ara. At the same time, the agency also announced that the group would not introduce new members.
On the 14th, Lee Joo-ri replaced Park So-yeon as the group's fifth captain.
On August 1, the single album "BIKINI" was released, and Davichi and Skull were invited to perform together.
On the 7th, the group released their second Japanese full album "Treasure Box", which included 13 singles from each member, including "Target" and "Bunny Style", and ranked first on the Oricon Daily Songs chart.
On the 10th, the Hong Kong concert was held at the Arena in the Hong Kong AsiaWorld-Expo.
On October 10, the group released their eighth mini album "Again", which includes six songs including the title song "Number 9".
A lot has happened to T-ara this year.
Sub-teams, member changes, withdrawals and additions, new songs released, they are never idle.
But the grades kept declining.
T-ara's Japan plan did not go as smoothly as expected. After the Japanese agency EMI was acquired last year, the strategic focus shifted, which had a great impact on the group's development in the Japanese market. In addition, the fluctuations in relations between the two countries also affected the entertainment industry.
South Korea's performance has also been declining.
In this situation, even someone like Park Ji-yeon who refuses to admit defeat has to admit that T-ara is really at its wits' end.
It’s not to say that T-ara’s performance is very bleak nowadays. In fact, their sales and music sources are better than many new groups that are developing well.
What is scary is this irreversible downward trend.
No matter what they do, the group's performance is declining, and it is a state of being gradually abandoned by the market.
T-ara has only been debuted for 4 years now, and it is time for them to reach their peak and achieve great results.
This reality is simply despairing.
