Chapter 330 Everyone Comes to Join in the Fun

Zhou Yan originally wanted to control the pace and limit the signing time to two hours, but now as more and more people lined up, he had to speed up.

Before coming, Zhang Youan asked Zhou Yan to design a simple signature to improve the efficiency of the signing, but Zhou Yan did not accept his advice and signed in Chinese characters as usual.

The two characters "Zhou Yan" have more strokes, so it is not so fast to sign. Now even if Zhou Yan crams at the last minute, there is no way to speed up.

After signing ten or so, he would look back to see if the line has become shorter, but every time he looked up, the line became longer, giving him a feeling that the wildfire can't be extinguished, and the spring breeze will bring new life.

In the middle, he once wanted to change "Zhou Yan" directly to "Y" to improve efficiency, but signing like this is too unethical, after all, the fans have spent money.

After forty minutes, the queue reached a dynamic balance. The number of people in the queue did not decrease or increase, and remained at about 100.

Seeing this, Zhou Yan breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that there is hope to complete the signing within at least two hours.

As time goes by, the number of people in line will definitely decrease. It is estimated that there will be fewer people in line in a while.

Zhou Yan took a leisurely drink of water. As the number of people in line decreased, he could slow down again.

However, just when Zhou Yan thought he could relax a little, there was a commotion at the door of the record store, and he vaguely heard someone shouting "Nick".

Just when Zhou Yan was confused, Hoylen ran over and said, "The Backstreet Boys are here."

Hoylen's face was full of smiles. He was naturally happy. He was very surprised to invite Zhou Yan to hold a book signing in their store. He didn't expect to attract the Backstreet Boys.

The Backstreet Boys are very popular now, and their records are also very popular in their record store.

People who like the Backstreet Boys are basically young people, and these people are also the main consumers of the record store.

Their record store often holds some small concerts to attract customers and gather popularity.

Usually, their store invites some bands that are not very famous. Only on special days will they invite some famous musicians.

This time Zhou Yan came to hold a book signing event, which was a special day for them.

Sometimes customers would recommend some singers or bands they like, and Backstreet Boys were often named by customers.

Hoylen also tried to invite Backstreet Boys, but now Backstreet Boys' schedule is too full and they can't be invited at all.

Zhou Yan frowned when he heard what Hoylen said. He didn't expect Backstreet Boys to come directly to the record store.

Isn't this making trouble?

Zhou Yan was about to say something, and several members of Backstreet Boys came to Zhou Yan surrounded by fans.

Because of the appearance of Backstreet Boys, the atmosphere at the scene became warm. Most of the customers at the scene, even if they were not fans of Backstreet Boys, had heard of them.

There were even some fans of Zhou Yan at the scene who paid attention to Zhou Yan because of Backstreet Boys. They first listened to Backstreet Boys' "yellow" and then learned about Zhou Yan as a composer.

Several young men were very happy to see Zhou Yan. It was not easy to rush from Las Vegas. The car broke down halfway and it took a long time to repair the car.

Captain Kevin was originally going to wait for Zhou Yan to finish his autograph session at the hotel, but Nick and the others insisted on coming to the autograph session. Kevin had no choice but to talk to Jeff Brown first, and after getting permission, he brought the team members to the autograph session.

Looking at the guys in front of him, Zhou Yan sighed secretly, and it was likely that he would have to work overtime today.

However, Zhou Yan was still very happy to see a few people, and smiled and said, "Is the car repaired?"

"It's repaired." Kevin scratched his head embarrassedly, "Sorry, I made you wait so long."

"It's not your fault, as long as you arrive safely." Zhou Yan looked at Hoylen again and suggested to Kevin, "Or, you can go to the lounge for a while, and I'll find you when I'm done here."

Before Kevin and the others responded, Hoylen rushed to say, "This is your first time here, I'll take you around the store."

Kevin smiled, "It's okay, we can just go around by ourselves."

Zhou Yan didn't have time to take care of them at this moment. Just by delaying this moment, the line became longer. He nodded to Kevin, and then hurried to continue signing autographs for the fans.

After about ten minutes, there was another commotion at the door.

Zhou Yan frowned and looked up at the door, but there were many people in the store at this time, and he couldn't see what was happening at the door from his position.

Just when he was confused, he saw Mariah Carey being surrounded by people.

The moment he saw Maria, Zhou Yan's mouth twitched. One Backstreet Boy was not enough, Maria also came to join in the fun.

Is she so idle? The key is that there have been rumors about the two of them outside these two days. Isn't she coming here at this critical moment to give materials to reporters?

After Maria entered the store, the commotion she caused was much greater than that of the Backstreet Boys. Almost everyone in the store knew her.

After looking at Zhou Yan from a distance, Maria showed a bright smile on her face, and then walked towards Zhou Yan quickly.

When she arrived in front of Zhou Yan, she smoothed her hair and asked Zhou Yan with a smile, "Where should I go to buy the album?"

"Buy an album?"

"Isn't this a book signing? Of course I have to buy the album."

"You..."

Just as Zhou Yan opened his mouth, Huo Yilun beside him handed him a copy of "Raining Bells" attentively, "Here, Miss Kelly."

"Thank you." Maria took the album, and then smiled and said to the people in line, "Everyone, do you mind if I cut in line?"

The fans waved their hands.

"Of course I don't mind."

"Please go ahead."

With the consent of the fans, Maria turned around and handed the album to Zhou Yan, "Then please sign it for me."

When she handed the album to Zhou Yan, the reporters beside him pressed the shutter frantically.

These reporters were lucky today. They originally came only for Zhou Yan, but they didn't expect to take pictures of the Backstreet Boys and Maria.

They knew that the rumors about Zhou Yan and Maria were not true, but they also knew that the news about these two people must be hot recently.

It has to be said that Maria is a bit "rebellious". The reporters suspected that Maria came here just because of the recent scandal. She wanted to use this to show that she didn't care what others said.

Looking at the "Rain Bells" handed over by Maria, Zhou Yan took it helplessly, signing and saying in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "I thought you were busy with new songs during this period."

Hearing this, Maria pouted, "Don't you welcome me?"

Although she didn't deliberately increase the decibel, she didn't deliberately lower her voice like Zhou Yan, so her words were heard by the reporters and the fans in front.

"Of course you are welcome." Zhou Yan pulled the corner of his mouth. He found that Maria was really not easy to mess with.

It's better to sign her autograph quickly and send her away.

After signing his name quickly, Zhou Yan handed the album back to Maria, but Maria was not satisfied, "Can't I have a little privilege to let you write some blessings on it? At least write my name, can you spell my name? M-A..."

"I can spell it." Zhou Yan quickly stopped her from spelling her name.

Then Zhou Yan wrote the title of the new song "Someone Like You" and her name "Mariah Carey" in Chinese characters on the album cover.

Seeing that they were all Chinese characters, Maria asked curiously: "What is written here?"

"The title of the new song and your name."

"Is it so troublesome to write our names in Chinese? I wanted to learn it, but now it seems that I will definitely not be able to learn it."

Zhou Yan handed her the album and urged, "Hurry up, there are still many people waiting behind."

Just a while ago, Zhou Yan sped up and relieved the pressure of queuing a little. Now, because of Maria's delay, the line has become very long.

Maria took the album with a smile, "Come on."

Then she didn't leave, but walked around the store, and Huo Yilan ran over to accompany her.

Zhou Yan didn't have time to care about her. Now he was thinking about speeding up the progress and getting off work on time.

Even if he couldn't get off work on time, he couldn't work overtime for too long.

...

After signing for another half an hour, Zhou Yan rubbed his eyes and looked up at the line. He found desperately that after his half an hour of hard work, the number of people not only did not decrease, but increased.

He quickly called the staff and asked, "How many people are in line now?"

The store didn't count in advance. When they heard Zhou Yan's question, the staff hurried to count.

After a while, the staff ran over, "There are still more than 300 people."

"How many?"

"More than 300." The staff repeated.

"How many have you signed?"

"There should be more than 400."

Hearing that he had only signed more than 400 in an hour and a half, and there were still more than 300 people in line, Zhou Yan felt a headache.

Today, each person can only sign two albums, and the people who signed before basically all had two albums, which means that in this hour and a half, he only signed more than 200 people.

Now, if he wants to sign more than 300 people, it will take at least an hour and a half, and this is when the queue is no longer getting longer.

Under normal circumstances, in order to control the time during the signing, the number of sales is controlled, but today they did not expect so many people to come, and they did not set the number in advance.

Zhou Yan did not set the number, and Huo Yilun naturally would not set the number either. Of course, he hopes to sell as many as possible.

Sighing, Zhou Yan said to the staff, "Stop selling, and don't let people who come later queue up."

The staff could not make the decision, so they could only tell Zhou Yan, "I'll ask Huo Yilun."

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "Tell Huo Yilun to end the signing early, so that I can still have some time to perform two shows on the spot."

...

When Jessica and Hardison arrived at record surplus, it was already 4:20.

Seeing the long line in front, Hardison breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, we made it."

Jessica also laughed, "Yeah, we made it."

Zhou Yan's autograph session was not publicized much, and neither of them knew about it in advance.

If they hadn't happened to go to the Hollywood video store today and heard the boss tell them about it, they would have missed Zhou Yan's autograph session at their doorstep.

Fortunately, it was close, and it didn't take them long to get here from the video store.

The two of them selected four Zhou Yan's albums from the shelves in the front row, and then ran to the cashier to pay the bill excitedly, but the cashier's words were like a bucket of cold water poured over their heads.

"Sorry, the signing queue is over."

"Ah?" Hardison widened his eyes, "Isn't it still in the queue?"

"Yes, but there are only so many people in the queue, and the queue ended twenty minutes ago." The cashier explained.

"Can I..."

Hardison wanted to fight for it, but as soon as he opened his mouth, the cashier seemed to know what he wanted to say, "Sorry, no."

"Okay."

Hardison lowered his head. They missed it after all. He said to Jessica with apology, "I'm sorry, I should pay more attention to his news."

Jessica was also disappointed, but she didn't blame Hardison.

"It's okay, I don't blame you. There was too little publicity for this signing event."

"Yeah, too little." Hardison sighed, and then looked at the queue, "With so little publicity, why are there so many people coming?"

"Maybe we just happened to not know."

Since the queue was over, they didn't need to buy albums, because they had all the albums sold here, and buying the same one would be a waste of money.

But just as they turned around and prepared to put the albums back on the shelf, the cashier said, "Although the queue for the signing is over, you can still buy an album. As long as you buy an album, you can get a seat."

"Get a seat?" Hardison asked puzzled.

"Well, after the signing is over, Y will perform on the spot."

"Can you listen to it only if you buy the album?"

"You can listen to it even if you don't buy the album, but if you buy the album, you can get a seat."

Hearing that there was a performance to listen to, Hardison immediately said, "Let's buy two."

"Okay."

...

When Zhou Yan finished signing all the albums, it was already half past six.

He originally thought that the people behind him would be able to sign in two hours at most, but it took him nearly two and a half hours. This was mainly because his hands were sore and his signing speed slowed down a lot.

He had just stretched himself when Huo Yilan asked with a smile, "Mr. Y, do you want to take a break before starting the performance? You must be very tired after signing for such a long time."

He sounded like he was concerned about Zhou Yan, but in fact he was reminding Zhou Yan not to forget the performance.

Zhou Yan was of course aware of Huo Yilan's thoughts, and he did not point it out. He just smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll get ready and start in five minutes." (End of this chapter)