star of the peninsula

The SMART company's plea for mercy was genuine. It was the SMART management that came to ask for a favor from Chen Chen.

If C headquarters can show mercy just by using some crappy marketing accounts in China, then C headquarters is being too thin-skinned and this exchange is not fair.

Of course, the stupid company with the smell of money is always thinking about taking advantage of you, but they really don't dare to take such a big advantage of C headquarters. It is too dangerous.

Of course, Chen Chen's giving of face was not just a simple act of giving face, it could be considered as a move to make up for his misjudgment of the situation.

The current SMART company is in a state of strong "uncle-nephew relationship", and is not at the stage that Chen Chen imagined where Lee Sung-soo has already hooked up with Kakao and is preparing to do big things.

Come to think of it, he has just been in office for more than half a year and has not yet made any achievements or established his own team. Why would he be thinking of colluding with external forces to rebel?
He must have grown strong enough to find out that the old guys above him were selfish and had been sucking blood from the company. He wanted to change the status quo and make changes, but he couldn't do it easily with the people he had, and that's when the big drama happened.

The nephew reported his uncle, and the uncle requested for foreign aid to enter the field. Then the nephew's foreign aid had a fight with the uncle's foreign aid. It was very fun and I enjoyed watching the show.

Therefore, Chen Chen letting aespa go now is giving Lee Sung-soo a chance to develop his own power. He had suppressed him before due to a misjudgment, so now he should give him some face and do him a favor as compensation.

……

"You are so free, can you find a class to attend?"

Chen Chen looked helplessly at his girlfriend beside him. He had never expected her to appear.

"It's not what you mean, you don't let me come to see the opening of the Alin Canteen branch, right?!" Pei Zhuxuan said confidently, "Is it reasonable that Alin Canteen doesn't allow Alin to come!"

"That seems to be true." Chen Chen crossed his arms and bumped into Pei Zhuxuan who was also standing with his arms crossed. "Would you like to say a few words later, Madam Boss?"

"No!" Pei Zhuxuan shrank her head back like a quail. "What am I talking about? Tell me why I have the money to open a store? I definitely can't afford it myself!"

"Idols' income is so poor?" Chen Chen asked in confusion, "You've been in the industry for so long."

"You have idols yourself, so you can tell by looking at other people's accounts." Bae Joo Hyun pouted, "The first contract I signed with SM Entertainment was the one with the lowest commission in the industry. My income may be even lower than you think if I only make money by being an idol."

"But when you say the income is low, it's only lower than those top artists." Bae Joo-hyun added: "It's definitely not as serious as the fans say."

"Hahahaha, so you also know that some fans like to complain about their idols being poor!" Chen Chen couldn't help but burst out laughing. "Artists are still artists after all. If they can appear in the public eye, they generally won't have a miserable life, at least not to the extent that fans need to worry about them."

"Of course, it also depends on the entertainment company they work for." Chen Chen also added, "If they get involved in a bad company, it will be miserable."

"Okay, okay, today is the opening day of the Alin Canteen branch. What do you want to do by talking about idols all the time?" Bae Joo Hyun wanted to change the subject, "Let's talk about something else."

"What can we talk about hiding in the kitchen?" Chen Chen complained, "How embarrassing it is to talk about two big bosses being chased away by fans on the opening day? Speaking of which, your fans are pretty amazing. I just picked a random opening time and didn't leak any information in advance. How did they know that the A-Lin Canteen branch was opened?"

"The fans' intelligence network is scary. Some people can even find out what you ate at night." Bae Joo-hyun also complained, although it didn't quite fit the current situation.

"That's a crime!" Chen Chen was not surprised but emphasized, "This is definitely a crime!"

I'm not surprised because this kind of thing is actually quite common. What fanatical fans can do can never be understood or judged from a normal person's perspective.

"Have you ever encountered that kind of fans in Integrate?" Pei Zhuxuan asked carefully, "The kind of fans who are a little bit abnormal and do things a little strangely."

"You're being very tactful." Chen Chen glanced at his girlfriend and replied, "Not yet."

"Integrate debuted not long before the pandemic hit, and their offline schedule was not yet extensive enough for some fans to easily manage."

"In addition, we have always had a lot of staff following us, so there is absolutely no problem with safety. After all, there are many staff members in the idol section of C headquarters, but there is only one real idol group, and everyone is willing to find ways to help."

"The chances of problems on the Internet are higher than in reality, but still much lower than for other people. The main reason is that I don't need to brag to you about the strength of C headquarters in terms of the Internet, right?"

"So our girl doesn't know what those big lovers might experience as bad things." Chen Chen sniffed, "The biggest shock we've received right now is just those perverts we met on Bubble."

Bubble is not expensive, and often offers free subscriptions. In addition, the review process is not particularly strict, so there are many opportunities for some perverts to take advantage of it.

But idols have long been accustomed to this kind of thing, and their high resistance is enough for them to ignore these things.

Do you think idols just use an app that can receive private messages? There are so many social apps on the market, and idols have experienced bad things on almost every platform, so artists are incredibly resistant.

But because of this, most artists’ accounts are managed by staff.

We can't let idols stay in a dirty, messy and high-pressure environment for a long time, right? It's better to let the staff come in. If the current batch of staff can't stand it, the next batch will take over. There is an endless supply of staff.

As for the environment of Bubble Bubble, it is much purer than other platforms, and is among the top students in the class.

"What are you going to do if the girls from Integrate really meet those people offline?" Bae Joo-hyun asked curiously.

"Let the perverts treat it. Is that difficult?" Chen Chen snorted coldly. "It shouldn't be difficult for C headquarters to investigate that person's information, right?"

"It's not difficult." Pei Zhuxuan asked anxiously, "Then what?"

"Then it shouldn't be difficult for Headquarter C to find communities with styles and tastes that are relatively unique compared to mainstream society, right?" Chen Chen asked.

"Oh, I understand." Pei Zhuxuan covered her mouth in horror, "You are so cruel!"

"What's so vicious about that? I'm obviously a kind-hearted person who helps poor people who can't find others like me in society to find a warm family!" Chen Chen joked, "Don't talk nonsense, or I'll sue you for defamation!"

"And when you do this kind of thing more often and get caught and condemned, you will say that it was done by a temporary worker." Pei Zhuxuan is already somewhat familiar with Chen Chen's methods. "Where on earth did you learn this trick from?"

"Let me correct you first. I'm not a temporary worker. I'm a temporary worker with a sense of justice!" Chen Chen first corrected Pei Zhuxuan's mistake, then spread his arms and looked at the ceiling. "All the information comes from the great Internet. It has little to do with a small user like me."

"..."

Bae Joo-hyun was a little speechless, so she turned around and watched the chef cooking for a while.

"I'm hungry. Let's find a place to eat later." Bae Joo-hyun tugged at Chen Chen's clothes.

"What place are we looking for? Just take a bite from each plate!" Chen Chen joked. "Get lost!" Pei Zhuxuan glared at him, "If the customers knew what we did, would this A-Lin Canteen be able to continue operating in the future?!"

"It's hard to say~" Chen Chen exclaimed: "If the guests knew that this was a dish that Irene had eaten, they might be even more enthusiastic!"

"You are a bit perverted!" Bae Joo Hyun changed the subject speechlessly, "But why did you choose to open at this time? Didn't the Blue House just implement a new social distance policy? It's not good for restaurants."

"I just plan to spend some money." Chen Chen replied: "It doesn't matter if I lose more now. At least I can see the benefits later, and it won't be wasted."

"What do you mean by throwing stones at water?"

Bae Joo-hyun could understand some of it, but not completely.

"Pay the tax to the Blue House." Chen Chen pointed at himself, "I am a big taxpayer."

"It does feel like giving the money to the Blue House is like throwing it away." Bae Joo Hyun couldn't help herself. "You can do it yourself. Just keep it in mind."

"Come on, let's not stay here anymore." Chen Chen looked at the time and planned to run away. "Let's go eat something and watch a movie after such a long absence."

……

In fact, the epidemic in South Korea has entered a new round of tense situation. There has been a large-scale infection of more than 10,000 people in the capital area. However, both the Blue House and the people have been exhausted physically and mentally by the epidemic, and there has been a tendency to give up recently.

Expand hospital beds, limit gatherings of more than five people, close all shops before 9 p.m., strengthen management of collective facilities, and that's it. This is the response policy for this round of viral pandemic.

It looks good, but in reality it's almost nothing.

In addition, the management has not been implemented at all, and they dare not implement it. If it is implemented, the lives of many people may have no hope.

It’s nice to go to the movies after having a full meal, watch some bad movies to help digestion, and then walk home hand in hand under the moonlight.

"In fact, it's better to keep me busy." Pei Zhuxuan complained a little, "I have nothing to do when I'm free and I can't go out to play. It's a bit torturous."

"Would you like to go film a TV series? That would keep you busy." Chen Chen directly offered a rather luxurious option, "I'll help you read the script and choose a role."

"That won't work." Pei Zhuxuan rolled her eyes and made a high request. "I just want to find something to do, not to make myself very busy."

"Choose a supporting role that doesn't have that many scenes to play with." Chen Chen couldn't help laughing, "Maybe in the future you will be called the queen of supporting roles."

"It's difficult." Bae Joo Hyun was very negative, "My acting skills are not good, they are far behind."

"Hey, was someone hit you before?" Chen Chen pulled her into his arms, "I remember the roles you played received quite good responses."

"It's not the outsiders who discouraged me, but I myself found that I'm still far from it." Bae Joo Hyun broke free from her boyfriend's arms and said, "The expression management of idols is not even a child's play in front of other people's real acting skills. Although it can fool the audience outside the circle, it can't fool the people in the circle and can't fool myself."

"So that's what happened." Chen Chen touched his chin, "I understand."

"What do you understand?" Pei Zhuxuan looked at Chen Chen, "Do you understand that I still need a lot of study and practice?"

"I understand that you are a very picky person about roles." Chen Chen smiled and gave a completely different answer, "The role you find must be a perfect match for your personality."

"You are worthy of saying that. If your resources were so limited, you wouldn't dare to have such thoughts." Bae Joo-hyun complained.

"Who told you to find a boyfriend with abundant resources?" Chen Chen spread his hands with a hint of pride. "People with limited resources have their own way of playing. We happen to have abundant resources, so you can't say that we made a mistake. Just enjoy yourself."

"So what kind of role do you think is suitable for me?" Pei Zhuxuan suddenly gave her boyfriend a test, "I found the direction in an instant, but do you have a specific answer?"

"Yes." Chen Chen answered without hesitation, "You are suitable for the role adapted from the comics."

"Compared to real scripts, the character settings and personalities in comics are always more exaggerated, and the plot settings also have a lot of exaggeration."

"You have an eccentric personality. You can be quiet or noisy at any time. If you were to play a comic character, it would be a good match."

"For example, in the movie 'The Sound of Your Heart' played by Kwang Soo, I think you can also play the role played by Jung So Min." Chen Chen can even give a specific goal, "Your face is too pretty, and sometimes it is inevitable that it will distract people from the show."

"Are you saying I'm unstable?"

Bae Joo-hyun suddenly asked this question for some reason.

"Don't make a fuss." Chen Chen hurriedly comforted him, "You are not particularly stable if you are still emotionally unstable. It's just that your interest affects your activities."

"You're right. My performance is really different when I'm in the mood and when I'm not." Bae Joo Hyun looked up at the moon. "But everyone is like this. I'm no exception."

"Of course, there are no exceptions to this. It's not like there are people with emotional disorders everywhere." Chen Chen was still thinking about what happened just now. "How about it, do you want me to find a role for you?"

"No!" Pei Zhuxuan pouted, "I just complained, why did you go to the trouble of finding a role for me? How dare I complain in the future?"

"..."

Chen Chen was speechless at that point.

"I went home to watch The Penthouse." Bae Joo Hyun was much happier, "The plot is getting crazier and crazier, it looks so happy."

"By the way, has the ratings improved?" Bae Joo-hyun was also concerned about this.

"It's only been a few days, it won't grow so quickly." Chen Chen replied, "But everyone is very confident. SBS TV is also very optimistic about "The Penthouse" and is quietly asking if there will be a second season."

"Then," Pei Zhuxuan also asked, "Will there be?"

"Yes." Chen Chen gave an affirmative answer, "There is also one in the third part."

...(End of chapter)