Chapter 312: Stars Surrounding the Earth

"Zhou Yi: Gentle and Easygoing"

"No Need to Overly Focus on My Private Life, Just Listen to the Music"

"The UK is Average, the US is Just So-So — Zhou Yi's Music Industry Strategy"

"Riding the Divas, Pressing the Kings: Zhou Yi's Happy Journey in America"

"Zhou Yi: I Have Never Touched Money, I Have No Interest in Money"

"Is the Music Association About to Welcome the Addition of a Pop King?"

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On the morning of the 26th, whether it was entertainment news online or offline entertainment newspapers and periodicals, the front-page headlines were all reserved for the statements Zhou Yi made at the press conference.

Old fans were already laughing wildly upon waking up and seeing the titles, while new fans obviously still felt somewhat at a loss —

"Isn't he a modest gentleman, gentle and easygoing? How come all these are such statements?"

"You came to the wrong place. Zhou Yi being like this is already considered restrained. You can go to the Sina special topic to see the reposted interviews of him in the US; that is the fully unleashed version of letting himself go."

"If you want to see a true modest gentleman, gentle and easygoing, go find Wang Lihong; his public image has always been this. Zhou Yi has never marketed his personality; he has always been as real as possible."

For the newbies, Zhou Yi's fan base is very enthusiastic about popularizing knowledge.

In this era where celebrity personas are generally uniform, the sense of authenticity Zhou Yi displays amidst laughter and anger is one of the important components constituting the cohesion among fans.

Zhou Yi's fan support club doesn't have those messy rules either; some large official fan support clubs can even receive fan benefits sent by Warner — no money, given for free.

The only "bad" thing is that Warner will not give away "Star" concert tickets for Zhou Yi, which makes some fans who just joined the fandom but missed buying tickets feel a bit uncomfortable —

When other singers hold concerts, there is basically a certain number of complimentary tickets released by the record company through various activities; even Sun Yanzi, one of the Warner twins, and the current undisputed Virgin Records number one, Li Yijie, are no exception.

Only Zhou Yi has not even a single complimentary ticket; now even the added student tickets and floor tickets have been scalped to one thousand yuan each, and the good seats in the inner field have directly broken through ten thousand, which is just fucking ridiculous!

"Zhou Yi's concert made me realize that there are actually so many rich people in this world."

"This popularity is too explosive."

"I heard there are still several small groups in the Imperial Capital specifically sweeping up tickets; even at ten thousand yuan a ticket, they buy them without blinking."

As the first concert of Zhou Yi's singing career, the Imperial Capital venue of the "Star" concert can be said to have become the focus of everyone's attention since Zhou Yi returned from the US; Warner officially announced the attendance number for Zhou Yi's concert tonight —

Sixty-three thousand people.

As a venue with sixty-four thousand seats, the Workers' Stadium was truly pushed to the limit by Warner this time. Except for the positions that really could not be sold, the rest were all stuffed full, directly breaking Zhang Huimei's record of over sixty thousand people set at the Workers' Stadium in 1998.

Even this was still in short supply.

Fans who bought stand and inner field tickets early, before the ticket prices started to take off, began showing off online; some even directly achieved "overnight wealth" by selling tickets —

The front row inner field seats, originally priced at 3000, were sold directly for ten thousand; one ticket meant a blood profit of seven thousand, truly a huge profit.

"F*** your mother! You scalper! May your whole family ascend to heaven!"

As a new fan of Zhou Yi, Luo Jianjun, although his family had a little bit of small money, after all, his father was one of the legendary coal bosses, this did not stop him from sending beautiful blessings to this group of scalpers in his mouth.

Then, holding his nose, he called his old mother at home and asked for a little bit of money.

He, who originally only listened to "niche" English songs to highlight his unique taste, was actually not that crazy about Zhou Yi; although he had bought Zhou Yi's Chinese albums, that was purely just to listen to the music.

However, since Zhou Yi's English album was released, Luo Jianjun, whose eyes were blinded by Zhou Yi topping the Western music charts, decisively joined Zhou Yi's fan army; to pick up girls, he even went all out and bought two front-row tickets for Zhou Yi's concert.

It hurt as much as it hurt, but thinking of the admiring eyes of that young and pretty junior female student towards him, Luo Jianjun, who is already a junior this year and preparing to take over the family business next year, felt very satisfied in his heart: after struggling for three years, he felt he had finally found true love!

7 PM on the 26th, Workers' Stadium.

When Luo Jianjun got his wish and held the junior female student's tender little hand, sitting in the front row, he unexpectedly found that the stars coming to tonight's concert... seemed a bit too many?

"Isn't that Fan Bingbin?"

"And Zhou Xun, Lu Yi, Ren Quan?? Is that chubby one Han Hong who sings 'That Sea'?"

"Wait! Is that Wang Fei?! Is the one sitting with Na Ying Wang Fei?! Zheng Xiuwen and Zhang Huimei are here too?"

Putting aside singers like Wang Feng under Warner who haven't grown to be known by everyone yet, the rest that Luo Jianjun could recognize at a glance were all top-tier big stars, making him unable to help but exclaim in surprise —

Other people's concert front rows are all fans; how did it change at Zhou Yi's? A bunch of stars in the front row?

"It's Zhou Jielun! It's Zhou Jielun!"

The junior female student, obviously a fan of both Zhous, was completely uninterested in those old ladies coming to support, but instead became extremely excited after seeing a curly-haired figure wearing a black baseball cap not far away.

You have to know that Zhou Jielun is currently in the album promotion period; he can actually spare time to come and support? It looks like the relationship between the two is indeed very good.

"And Li Yijie, Zhang Shaohan? Is that the currently popular Hong Kong Twins over there?"

One by one, they are big busy people rarely seen in daily life; many are even in the middle of album release promotion periods, yet tonight they all appeared at Zhou Yi's concert.

Except for the old divas under Warner who might have been arranged to come and support because they are from the same company, the others are basically artists who have a good relationship with Zhou Yi. The only problem is —

"Why can't I see Sun Yanzi?"

The junior female student, who had been enthusiastically looking around at the stars, immediately looked a bit disappointed on her face: "Could it be that she really flew to Malaysia to prepare for the concert?"

Sun Yanzi has another concert to hold in Malaysia in early August, so when the outside world was guessing the guests this time, there were also rumors that Sun Yanzi might not appear.

Backstage.

Compared to the last time, this time it was Sun Yanzi's turn to hold up the camera and take crazy photos of Zhou Yi —

"OK everyone, look at the lens together, all eyes align with me here!"

Grinning and laughing, Sun Yanzi adjusted the lens; after wandering around backstage for a bit, she specifically came to act as the photographer; after confirming the position, she immediately called out: "Are you ready? I'm coming, I'm coming!"

"One, two, three, cheese!"

Specifically pulling a wide shot to capture all the staff working hard in the backstage dressing room, Sun Yanzi, after setting the shutter time, slid over in one swift step towards where Zhou Yi was, smoothly sat on the "skateboard," and glided directly to Zhou Yi's feet; during the glide, she immediately turned her head towards the lens, held up a peace sign, and playfully winked.

Thud!

"Oops!"

After the shutter sound, the skateboard happened to hit the leg of Zhou Yi's stool; Sun Yanzi, who lost her balance without noticing, almost fell on her butt; after stumbling a few steps, she finally barely regained control of her body.

Zhou Yi, having finished drawing his eyebrows with the help of the makeup artist, looked at Sun Yanzi who almost paid him a grand bow and teased: "Are you trying to pay me an early New Year's greeting?"

"Mistakes are inevitable."

Sun Yanzi lifted her chin: "With skateboards, the speed is always uncontrollable."

"You have so many excuses."

"You talk too much. Go on stage already."

Sun Yanzi, whose skin clearly wasn't thick enough yet, blinked, guiltily turned her head away to avoid looking at him, and instead walked over to the camera, starting to fiddle with the expensive device she could never bring herself to buy.

Zhou Yi, dressed in a sequined outfit, smiled: "Alright, let's go."

The man waving his hand walked onto the Star Avenue as music already blared from the stage; Sun Yanzi, who should have kept her head down, happened to look up and see the man's back walking against the light. After a moment of stunned silence, the corners of her mouth rose sincerely, then she instinctively raised the camera in her hand and pressed the shutter—

"Click~"

On the stage, the intro to the opening song "Reverse the Earth" had already begun to play, and the atmosphere at the Workers' Stadium was instantly driven to its peak—

The scattered lights constantly converged on a single point as the man, anticipated by millions since the promotion began, slowly rose to the exact center of the stage under the gaze of the stars in the audience.

The celebrities, seated in an arrangement forming almost a semi-circle, were like satellites, unconsciously looking up at the Earth located at the very center of the stage!

"Bowowo, let me see your hands, fight gravity and reverse the Earth together~"

"Bowowo, now is not the time for nonsense; the fittest survive, or else please leave this rhythm!"

Zhou Yi, raising his right hand high, opened his mouth and exploded with sound; the crowd of over sixty thousand instantly erupted into a chorus of screams!

Resounding to the clouds!

PS: A bit late, no big deal ()

(End of this chapter)