star of the peninsula

Yuqi’s relationship with the domestic Running Man is quite complicated.

If Chen Chen had not interfered in order to suppress the development of Cube Entertainment, Yuqi would have been on Running Man in China for a year. Even with the impact of the epidemic, it would have taken at least half a year.

Now that Cube Entertainment has been completely conquered, Chen Chen plans to turn this obstacle into a boost, and use the relationship with C headquarters to negotiate with the domestic Running Man team to send Yuqi over again as compensation.

A little late, but better than no compensation.

This is not a difficult thing, because the domestic Running Man production team has been wanting to get a young and beautiful girl from C headquarters as a new member for a long time.

To put it bluntly, the domestic Running Man needs a new large amount of traffic, and hopes to get the Chinese members of Integrate from C headquarters to return to China to inject new vitality into the program.

By seizing the pain point of the production team, it would not be difficult to get Yuqi to continue her Running Man career. At least if Chen Chen went to talk to her in person, he would definitely be able to finish the conversation.

Yuqi’s traffic is qualified, and as long as this basic condition is met, a conversation can be started.

However, changing from Integrate to (G)I-DLE is definitely a downgrade, and the production team will definitely make some new demands on Chen Chen.

It’s not difficult to guess, at least Chen Chen can roughly guess what this new requirement is.

It's nothing more than signing a contract for Integrate to participate in a certain number of issues. The big-name domestic production teams will definitely choose to take both (G)I-DLE and Integrate.

Appearance fee? Are you negotiating money with the top domestic variety shows? If I can’t give you a satisfactory price, all these years of advertising placement will be in vain!
Chen Chen has no objection to Integrate appearing on the domestic Running Man show, which is also a very good thing for their development.

Wait, if the show, Integrate, and (G)I-DLE all made money, who lost money? It can’t be the poor leeks, uh, fans, again? !

Poor fans.

"What happened to Yuqi?"

Bae Joo-hyun naturally couldn't see what Chen Chen was thinking. She just looked at Chen Chen curiously, wondering why he mentioned this name.

"There's a show in China, Huaxia, that wants to invite Yuqi to be a permanent guest. I think she's great so I'm planning to have her go."

Chen Chen put down his chopsticks and replied.

"Yuqi is from Cube Entertainment, why are you worrying about this?" Bae Joo Hyun joked, "Even if Cube Entertainment is completely a member of C headquarters, you are overstepping your authority. President Hong will be unhappy!"

"Of course I know this, but it just happens to be related to China, so it would be better for me to come forward." Chen Chen smiled and waved his hand, "In the end, the money will still go to Cube Entertainment, and Boss Hong will not have any objections."

"I'll give Boss Hong a call." Chen Chen took out his cell phone, "I'll just ask him about the progress of A Pink."

"Okay, go ahead and fight, I'll clean it up."

Bae Joo-hyun picked up the plates on the table and took away the garbage created by her boyfriend.

"Wait, what happened to A Pink seniors?!" Bae Joo Hyun suddenly realized, "Do you have any ideas about them?"

"Why are you so excited?" Chen Chen smiled. "A Pink's tenth anniversary album has been released. You should know what it means. It's normal for Cube Entertainment to want to get their good daughter back."

The release of the tenth anniversary album means that the contracts of these people are about to expire, just ten days or half a month away.

"I just suddenly remembered that you told me before that A Pink is no longer an artist of Cube Entertainment. Now I suddenly heard from you that the two names of Cube Entertainment and A Pink stand together again, which makes me a little excited." Bae Joo Hyun stuck out her tongue and resumed the movement of her hands. "Does Cube Entertainment want to take back A Pink with the help of C headquarters?"

"Hey, how did you know that Cube Entertainment needs the help of C headquarters to get A Pink back? You've become powerful!" Chen Chen praised as if he was coaxing a child.

"Cube Entertainment is not qualified to compete with KakaoM. Even a fool can see this." Bae Joo Hyun rolled her eyes. "The strength of KakaoM idols in this area has been greatly weakened by you. Everyone can see that you will not let go of the idol group easily."

"When these two obvious things are linked together, it is easy to imagine how much difficulty Cube Entertainment will face in getting A Pink back."

"At least I think Cube Entertainment would never be able to do this without the help of C headquarters." Pei Zhuxuan blinked at Chen Chen, "What price did you pay?"

"Kakao Talk has become the technical support for Paopao." Chen Chen replied: "Now KakaoM can call Paopao's data without any obstacles."

"You..." Pei Zhuxuan said carefully, "Does this count as selling out everyone?"

"What does it have to do with me?!" Chen Chen frowned in grievance. "I got better technical support for Paopao and it's my fault?! Who knew Kakao Talk was so shameless that it actually leaked data to KakaoM? It's so abominable!"

"If any of the management companies of Bubble members feel unhappy or angry, they can just go to Kakao Talk to ask for an explanation!"

"I will support it!" Chen Chen was indignant. "C Headquarters sneers at this kind of behavior and looks down on it!"

Yes, C headquarters just found a better technical support for Bubble. It is not wrong. It is Kakao Talk's fault for failing to protect the data and leaking it to KakaoM!

As for those who feel that their rights have been violated and whether anyone can make Kakao Talk pay the price, this is not Chen Chen’s business.

In other words, someone has taken his anger out on headquarters C and intends to make Chen Chen pay the price. Chen Chen also welcomes everyone to attack him.

"Bah! Power!" Pei Zhuxuan looked at Chen Chen with disdain, "Damn bad guy!"

……

Bae Joo-hyun went to wash the dishes while Chen Chen called Boss Hong.

Boss Hong had no opinion at all about Yuqi's affairs, and even almost smiled crookedly. No one would dislike this kind of high-paying job that can expand the influence in the Chinese region.

I like the Chinese region and I also like the high pay, in one word, it’s awesome.

"The contract will be signed at the end of the month." Hong Seung-sung talked about A Pink. "Play M has already talked to us. Now we are just waiting for everyone's contract to expire."

"Sun Na Eun, don't you have any ideas?" Chen Chen asked.

"Did Na Eun tell you something she had hidden and didn't tell me?" Hong Seung Sung was confused. "Or do you think Na Eun would have some ideas?"

"I'm just saying this casually." Chen Chen said casually, "Na Eun has the idea of ​​developing into an actress. Everyone can see this. I would have found it strange if I hadn't talked about this with Cube Entertainment."

"Oh, of course we talked about this, but we only mentioned it once or twice. Everyone felt that there was nothing to talk about." Hong Seung-sung replied with a smile: "Cube Entertainment is backed by C headquarters, so there will be no shortage of actor resources. Na Eun also felt that there was nothing to talk about."

"That's good." Chen Chen hummed, "Let's get started. Headquarters C is quite busy this month. You can arrange the promotion yourself."

"..."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Chen felt relieved and started to sit there and think about the problem.

"What are you thinking about?" Bae Joo-hyun sat next to Chen Chen with a fragrant breeze.

"I'm wondering why I want to get A Pink." Chen Chen replied: "It was me who instigated Cube Entertainment to get A Pink back, and I also contributed to it, but I still don't understand why I contributed to it."

"You like A Pink."

Bae Joo-hyun made a simple guess.

"It's true that I have a good impression of her. It's hard for anyone not to have a good impression of A Pink, right?" Chen Chen shook his head. "But if you ask me whether I like her or not, I definitely can't say I like her."

"Maybe one of their characteristics touched you." Pei Zhuxuan didn't intend to let Chen Chen figure it out completely. "In fact, there is no need to investigate these things so clearly. You are controlling these artists just like ordinary people playing with slightly more expensive pets. It may be that the physical movements are caused by momentary likes and dislikes."

"The first part is normal, but the second part is not serious!" Chen Chen laughed and scolded: "Too much, who do you think I am! No matter what, I will not treat a living artist as a pet, let alone manipulate him casually!"

"Oh, you are speaking with conscience. I give you a thumbs up!" Pei Zhuxuan gave Chen Chen a thumbs up. "I will reward you with many honors at the Baeksang Arts Awards this time, or in other words, a kiss of love."

"It's hard to say this year, maybe next year. Today I choose the kiss of love." Chen Chen kissed her on the mouth, "Next year, Baeksang C headquarters will make a big effort to blow everyone's eyes again in the past two years!"

"Is the script in your hand so good?" Pei Zhuxuan wiped her mouth, "It makes you so confident!"

"It has little to do with the script I have now." Chen Chen mentioned a name that he hadn't seen for a long time. "Squid Game, it will start airing in a few months."

Chen Chen didn't understand why "Squid Game" was so popular, but he believed that the TV series would still be popular in his hands.

It would be a waste if he didn’t take the free achievement. Chen Chen should just lie down and enjoy it.

"Ah, I haven't heard this name for a long time." Pei Zhuxuan was dazed for a moment, and smiled: "But every time you mentioned this TV series, your confident look is still vivid in my mind, and they are all overlapping."

"So do you like your boyfriend's confidence?"

Chen Chen teased.

"So-so." Pei Zhuxuan's initial evaluation was a bit disappointing, but the subsequent supplementary explanation completely saved her, "I can't understand where your confidence comes from. Just looking at you makes me feel that I am far away from you, but your confident and sunny look is really beautiful. The final result of adding the two together can only be so-so."

"Is this a compliment?" Chen Chen didn't react immediately, "Or are you giving me advice?"

"You're acting like a spoiled brat!" Bae Joo Hyun said angrily, "When a girlfriend says she feels her boyfriend is too far away from her, doesn't that mean she wants to be hugged and pampered? How can you understand that?!"

"..."

Chen Chen was speechless. He was indeed slow to react this time.

But Bae Joo-hyun is not difficult to coax at all. She can be completely satisfied by just holding her in your arms and saying a few nice words.

"Hey, do you know what people think of the work you made for Rose?"

Bae Joo-hyun smiled and talked about other topics.

In late March, BLACKPINK's Park Chae-young made her solo debut, using the work that Chen Chen had previously left on Waiji.

"I don't know." Chen Chen shook his head. "I only know that Chaeyoung made her solo debut, but I haven't heard about my comments. I guess those comments are neither sharp nor interesting enough."

"Actually, I think it's quite interesting." Bae Joo Hyun giggled. "There are many people on the Internet pretending to be profound and giving old-fashioned comments, saying that you can hear your immaturity in that song and it reminds everyone of your immature self."

"Ah?" Chen Chen felt a little toothache, "Does everyone remember me when I was young?"

"Yes, even many people expressed their nostalgia!" Bae Joo-hyun added excitedly.

"Miss?!" Chen Chen felt his teeth ache even more, and his cheeks were about to twitch. "When I was a young artist, I was not a good person. I was always against everyone and never did good things. How can I miss this? Is it because the filter of time is too thick for me?!"

"People, when it comes to time and memories, will always beautify themselves." Bae Joo Hyun rarely saw through it so clearly. "You are so powerful now, so naturally people can't say bad things about you, so they can only add a filter to make you look good."

"That makes sense!" Chen Chen agreed. "I hope Waiji can get Lisa to make a solo debut soon. I don't want to be missed again after a while."

"Will that person listen to you?" Pei Zhuxuan couldn't help but want to laugh, "It's like there's a river between you two and you've never interacted with each other!"

"Don't talk nonsense. I just haven't interacted with him personally. There are still many people among netizens." Chen Chen sneered, "Every time Waiji makes some scary negative news, everyone will praise me for running away quickly and keeping myself clean."

"..."

Bae Joo-hyun didn't want to talk about this topic and passed it by in silence.

"Ah, I remember why I wished for A Pink!"

Chen Chen suddenly had an idea in the silence.

"What do you mean?" Pei Zhuxuan became excited, "What do you think?!"

"Maybe it's their beauty." Chen Chen said with a smile: "I am attracted by their beauty as an idol group."

"Isn't that a bit too general?" Pei Zhuxuan frowned her beautiful eyebrows, "The scope of beauty is a bit too wide."

"It's a feeling, the feeling that the idol group A Pink gives me." Chen Chen gestured with his hands and described it seriously, "For me, when I think of A Pink, my first reaction is not some messy thing but a warm and interesting idol group. This feeling is very important to me, and I really want to get it!"

Talking about an idol group and only wanting to get their own beauty, this feeling is so precious, and it makes Chen Chen, who has been receiving all kinds of negative information in the Korean entertainment industry, feel warm.

The pursuit of warmth can be seen as a human instinct. No wonder Chen Chen has used his body and brain but still hasn't figured it out.

"I understand what you said." Bae Joo Hyun nodded, "Maybe I don't know them well enough, or maybe time has filtered them. The temperament of the senior group A Pink is indeed attractive."

"An idol group without the smell of commercial money, without sharp aggression, and without the mess that makes you feel uncomfortable may be what you yearn for in your heart."

"In terms of idols, you have been calculating and planning so many things for Integrate, and have achieved amazing commercial success. But it is tiring to always focus on commercialization. It is normal to seek comfort, warmth, and less commercial results in this section."

"But even though you're such a big boss, you can still show such sentimentality." Pei Zhuxuan teased: "I say Chen Chen, you are actually very soft-hearted, right?"

"Maybe, maybe not." Chen Chen no longer intended to figure it out. "It doesn't matter which answer it is. I think it's enough to be satisfied."

...(End of chapter)