star of the peninsula

Chapter 1167 Only good things are happening

I do not.

Chen Chen refused without even thinking about it. No matter how much he thought about it, this was not a job he should do. It didn't make sense or logic!
When I get home from get off work, I just stop thinking about it!

……

"By this calculation, the last member to be revealed should be Heo Yoon-jin, after all, it's LE SSERAFIM."

"A six-member girl idol group launched by Source Music under the control of Hybe, including two members of Shorty King."

"Let's be honest, this is LE SSERAFIM."

"If someone jumps out and changes the flow of things back on track and causes them to quit the group, that would be even more likely."

“It’s a bit boring, but it seems like this is how things should develop.”

"..."

The electronic lock rang, and Bae Joo-hyun opened the door and came in wearing a simple white T-shirt.

"You got off work so early today?" Bae Joo Hyun hung up her bag, moved to her boyfriend's side, followed his gaze, and asked, "Have you evolved to the point where you can watch TV without turning it on?"

"I was just thinking about something." Chen Chen hugged his girlfriend into his arms, "What about you? How come you have time to come here? Aren't you filming a TV series?"

"It's already the end of May, I've finished filming." Pei Zhuxuan lay obediently in her boyfriend's arms and blinked her eyes. "My scenes are being filmed intensively and have the highest priority. Isn't this what you arranged?"

"I wouldn't spoil my girlfriend like that on the set." Chen Chen shook his head and smiled bitterly, "It's probably because the production team arranged this for you just to please me."

"I'm not very satisfied with the way this was done, and I still have to accept favors from others. Every day."

"Well, let's leave it at that for now." Chen Chen pinched his girlfriend's face lovingly, "How do you think you acted?"

"Not bad." Bae Joo Hyun struggled to sit up, "I feel like I've hit my comfort zone. Both acting and filming went smoothly."

"Looks like I'll have to watch it carefully when it airs." Chen Chen suddenly thought of their previous discussion, feeling a little proud. "I was right, wasn't I? You are suitable for the role in the comics."

"Then why didn't you find it for me earlier? You made me wait until now!" Bae Joo-hyun deliberately pretended to be dissatisfied.

"Hey, you're trying to put the blame on someone else, right?!" Chen Chen couldn't help but laugh, "But I really didn't think it through before, and I was always stuck in my own thoughts."

"What thinking?"

Bae Joo-hyun was a little curious.

"I always want to pick out the best things from what I already know for you, but I don't think about changing yourself and your environment for the better."

Chen Chen answered honestly, he really thought so.

Chen Chen thought that picking roles that could be used by Bae Joo-hyun from film and television works whose results he already knew and giving them to her was the best way for her to develop in the film and television industry.

In fact, Bae Joo-hyun has already deviated from her original development path. Chen Chen should not always help her within a limited circle. As long as she can be protected, he should allow her to unfold scenes that have never been seen before.

"Ahem." Pei Zhuxuan blushed a little and changed the subject, "What were you thinking about just now?"

"Study LE SSERAFIM, the new girl group from Hybe." Chen Chen curled his lips, "There's too much news recently, I can't help but pay attention to it."

"So what have you figured out?" Bae Joo Hyun got up from his arms and went to the side to get some water to drink. "I saw some news online, and the members that have been revealed are all pretty strong."

"Yeah, it's really strong, but it still lacks a lead singer." Chen Chen joked, "These five people combined may not be able to sing as well as Sheng Wan alone."

"Still talking about Seungwan, have you listened to Seungwan's songs?" Bae Joo-hyun said casually.

"Solo album? I listened to it, it's nice, I love it." Chen Chen responded immediately, "After listening to it, I just felt that SMART was being unkind. They let the members do the promotion themselves for such a good work, and didn't even give them more resources."

"I don't know what the company is thinking about their decision." Bae Joo Hyun returned to the sofa with a cup of water, "The members of LE SSERAFIM haven't been announced yet. Generally speaking, the debut date will be determined after all the members are announced."

"I'm not saying it anymore. We're just short of a lead singer." Chen Chen suddenly thought of something. "I have some gossip about the lead singer. Do you want to hear it?"

"What news?" Pei Zhuxuan suddenly became interested, "Tell me quickly."

"The lead singer of LE SSERAFIM, who has not yet been announced, might be a former trainee at S.H.I.P." Chen Chen said mysteriously.

"You mean I might know him?" Pei Zhuxuan tilted her head, "Did I understand correctly?"

"You may not know him." Chen Chen meant that, but he didn't dare to be too definite. "Let me tell you a name first. It's called Xu Yunzhen. Do you know him?"

"I don't know them." Pei Zhuxuan looked at Chen Chen with a half-smile, "I was a trainee ten years ago. The girls nowadays are all very young. Don't think I know everyone."

"Yeah, it's normal that I don't know her." Chen Chen smiled and leaned back on the sofa. "It was Dong Tian from Integrate who told me some inside information. When Xu Yunzhen was a trainee at SMART, I lived in the same room with her. Recently, Xu Yunzhen said that she is going to debut."

"There is such inside information?" Bae Joo Hyun laughed along, "It seems that the kids who debuted now all have some feelings inside and out."

"I don't know if it's true or not. After all, LE SERAFIM hasn't announced Heo Yun-jin yet." Chen Chen pulled it back a little, "What if her name doesn't appear in the end? Wouldn't everything we say here become a joke?"

"If it's really Heo Yoon-jin, does that mean they can fill in the missing lead vocalist?" Bae Joo-hyun asked curiously, "What do you think of Le SSERAFIM filling in this gap?"

"He's a strong enemy." Chen Chen gave a fair assessment, "After all, he has the bonus of Hybe."

"Do you think it's possible to catch up with Integrate?" asked Bae Joo-hyun.

"It's hard to say." Chen Chen pursed his lips, "It's not that there is no such opportunity."

"..."

Pei Zhuxuan rolled her eyes at him and said nothing.

"What do you mean?" Chen Chen's defense was broken for a moment, "Are you dissatisfied with me or do you think what I said is wrong?!"

"I just think you're a little shameless." Bae Joo Hyun snorted. "Even if the members are comparable in quality, does Hybe have the ability to give the new group the title of epidemic prevention ambassador? Are they capable of doing something as luxurious as putting a splash screen ad on an app like C-cell that is used by so many people across the country at the same time during this special period?"

"These two points alone are enough for Integrate to suppress all new girl groups, not to mention that they actually have a part of the Chinese market, which is something that is difficult for the entire South Korea to do!"

"And in my personal opinion, it's hard for the members to compete with Integrate." Bae Joo Hyun lowered her voice a little, "It's not that the members there are bad, but I know that success depends on luck, and it's too difficult to have another Wonyoung in the next few years."

Chen Chen licked his lips and did not comment on her words.

They were all absolutely right. Chen Chen strongly agreed with every point and couldn't find any fault with them.

Seventeen-year-old Zhang Yuanying, this word feels like an adjective that can be pulled out on its own.

She is extremely strong, and the environment she is in now is specially created by Chen Chen. Her achievements will only be higher and more terrifying. Even Chen Chen cannot see where her end will be.

Can the current LE SSERAFIM come up with such a character? It's difficult. Even if Bang Si Hyuk scratched all his hair off, he might not be able to come up with a solution.

"You're right, I was worrying for nothing." Chen Chen told the truth, "But LE SSERAFIM's opponent has never been Integrate but C headquarters' new girl group LIGHTSUM. My worry is for LIGHTSUM."

"Uh"

Pei Zhuxuan was a little confused about the words.

She was not familiar with LIGHTSUM and could not bring herself to speak on this issue.

"There's no point in worrying. Why not think about what to eat tonight?" Pei Zhuxuan changed the subject abruptly, "The girls have their own process to go through, and you have your own stomach to fill."

"Ha, that's right." Chen Chen didn't let her words fall to the ground, "What do you want to eat?"

"It's too hot, I don't want to eat anything." Bae Joo-hyun replied.

"..."

For a moment, Chen Chen really wanted to beat her up.

"Hey, don't look at me like that. I'll lose my appetite when the weather is hot." Pei Zhuxuan said coquettishly, "I'll give you some new news to compensate you, okay?"

"What's new?"

Chen Chen became interested.

"It seems that the SM Super M women's version that I told you about a few months ago is about to be launched." Bae Joo Hyun brought the inside story of SM, "Some staff have already sought the opinions of Seulgi and others. I didn't ask about the specific communication."

"Oh, thank you, this is very important!"

Chen Chen's eyes suddenly opened wide, and he finally found a suitable opportunity to throw out the "Step Back" in his hand, and at the same time he could also spy on the internal situation of Sham.

"Actually, I'm curious." Pei Zhuxuan rubbed against her boyfriend, "Why are you staring at this kind of information?"

"I mainly want to talk to the new person in charge of SM Entertainment." Chen Chen replied with a smile, "I can't be doing this just to sell songs, right? That's just an excuse."

"You want to talk to the two CEOs, Lee Sung-soo and Tak Yong-jun?" Bae Joo-hyun was a little worried. "But I feel that the person in charge of SMART is still President Kim Young-min, and the most powerful person is Chairman Lee Soo-man. If you approach these two, will it damage the original relationship?"

"The original relationship?" Chen Chen smacked his lips and sneered, "Whether it was before or now, my relationship with SMART has never been good. It has always been a simple business relationship. And after what happened to you, this relationship has become even worse. We have returned to the level of unfamiliar colleagues."

"So I can contact whoever I want without any worries."

"Oh, let me ask you something." Chen Chen thought of something, "Who came up with the idea of ​​this female version of Super M?"

"I don't know." Pei Zhuxuan shook her head, "I can't get access to such high-level things."

"It doesn't matter. I'll know tomorrow. Let's keep it a secret for another day." Chen Chen patted her butt. "Are you sure you don't want to eat? Don't be so hungry that you can't sleep at night. I won't care about you then."

"If I'm hungry, I'll find something to eat by myself. Don't worry about it." Pei Zhuxuan rolled her eyes at him, "Go make what you want to eat. I'll go to the bedroom to see if you have any clothes to wash."

……

“GFriend was abandoned.”

In the middle of the night emo time, Bae Joo-hyun quietly lay on Chen Chen's chest and talked about his girlfriend.

"Yeah." Chen Chen nodded and said, "If everyone didn't realize the truth when they first heard the news of the disbandment, now after a week of fermentation, everyone who should understand knows what happened."

"Why did Source Music abandon them? They are not bad." Pei Zhuxuan frowned, "The ability to make money is not bad, the commercial value is not bad, the popularity and reputation are also very good, why?!"

"There are many possibilities." Chen Chen patted his girlfriend's back gently, "Source Music has a better alternative, a new girl group."

"They dislike them for not making enough money. Of course, my girlfriend makes a lot for a small company, but Source Music is already part of Hybe, so they have reason to dislike them."

"Or it could be a decision made at the company's strategic level." Chen Chen himself did not understand why Source Music did this. "There is only one purpose for renewing the contract, which is to make money. There are many possibilities for not renewing the contract or even disbanding."

“Is it possible that we will be abandoned by the company?”

Bae Joo-hyun asked the question that she really wanted to ask. When people are emo, they always think about themselves from other places.

"Do you want to hear the truth or something nicer?"

Chen Chen scratched her waist.

Twisting her body like a slippery loach, Bae Joo Hyun straightened her upper body and said seriously: "I want to hear the unpleasant truth."

"You added this unpleasant request yourself. It has nothing to do with me." Chen Chen made a disclaimer and then pressed the slippery mermaid down again. "From a purely realistic perspective, no."

"But if the abandonment you mean is the kind of treatment given to the later function groups, it is possible." Chen Chen added.

"Tell me everything. I want to hear it."

Bae Joo-hyun made a new request.

"There's nothing much to say." Chen Chen lowered his eyes to look at Bae Joo Hyun's long eyelashes scraping against his chest. "Shinhwa, HOT, TVXQ, aren't these all things you've seen before? In terms of ruthlessness, SMART is definitely one of the best. It's definitely capable of abandoning a group."

"It's just that at that time, SMART was in a period of desperate struggle, and the strategy was that if you are not ruthless, you can't stand firm, so they were particularly ruthless. It is completely different from the current situation."

"Don't even mention now. It's different from when we were in the Function Group. When we were in the Function Group, SM Entertainment had already completely stabilized. We had to look for opportunities in a stable and positive direction. Otherwise, do you think that Lee Soo Man, who has already succeeded, would be so kind as to allow us to leave the group and everything that comes after?"

"Do you know what is the absolutely stable and improving direction?" Chen Chen asked himself and answered, "It is the Chinese market where Song Qian is."

"Disbanding or openly abandoning the group will directly affect EXO's pace of making money in the Chinese market. Otherwise, when Sulli leaves the group, the group will come to an end!"

"Pay attention. Ever since China imposed restrictions on Korean entertainment, has the Function Group almost become a mere formality?"

"Oh no, I made a fortune at the end before I started." Chen Chen laughed contemptuously, "It's always a big joke for a fool to talk about favors."

"Then why do you still say you can't do it?" Pei Zhuxuan bit her boyfriend's chest in dissatisfaction, "Are you teasing me?"

"No, because abandoning you would affect our reputation, so at most we would just leave you alone and let you take care of yourself in your old age." Chen Chen replied: "If I weren't there, this would most likely be your future."

"Yes, thanks to you."

Of course Bae Joo-hyun understood why, as such things never needed to be stated explicitly.

"So lucky." Pei Zhuxuan climbed up and kissed Chen Chen on the mouth. The warm smile that slowly emerged on her delicate face illuminated the entire room. "It seems that only good things have happened to me since I met you."

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Happy New Year, Happy New Year!
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