The peninsula is like a shadow

Chapter 782: More Rights Than Imagined

The situation is becoming more and more tense. The daily news reports make it seem as if South Korea is about to be destroyed. Li Yan looks out the window and sees girls still walking around the streets in hot pants and T-shirts. As for the credibility of South Korean news, Li Yan can only say that it is better to have it than not, but it is basically the same as nothing.

"As long as the rich people don't leave South Korea, it won't cause panic among the public."

I have to say that what Basong said is the truth. This is a typical method used by the public to judge not only in Korea, but also in an accurate and effective way. There have been many interviews with important figures in the news in the past few days. This should be intentional, so that the public can see that these people are still in Korea and they don’t have to run away.

Whether he runs or not, his news will definitely spread faster than that of ordinary people. Commander Xu didn't tell him what to do, but Li Yan was not worried at all. What's more, he has more than just Commander Xu as a connection. Li Yan believes that a caring person like himself will get help from the middle-aged man.

After all, they used to be the suzerain power. If the warriors from the north really want to come over, they will definitely report in advance.

"What's up today?"

"No."

Basong's answer made Li Yan turn around and look at him. It was really strange that he said no. Basong looked up at Li Yan.
"Really not. Madam didn't tell me what to do, and no one sent me a message to inquire about your whereabouts."

The only people who could send messages to Basong were the women around him, asking about his movements. It had to be said that this was a dangerous move.

Thinking about Min Zhou's gentleness in the past few days, Li Yan couldn't help shaking his head. Men can never avoid the temptation of women when they are alive. He has to admit that in this regard, men seem to be a little greedy. The only difference may be whether they can get it or not.

Liking someone is a judgment that comes from one's own emotions. Whether you like someone or not, sometimes you already have the answer in your heart just by meeting them for the first time.

Who doesn't like young, beautiful and good-looking girls? Li Yan stretched his arms and couldn't help but said,
"I don't know how many levels of hell I will go to after I die. I have committed too many sins now."

"It's okay, I'll stay with you, big brother."

"Why are you accompanying me? Watch me get into the frying pan?"

"Keep me company, our hell in Thailand is even more terrifying."

Hearing Basong's words, Li Yan couldn't help laughing. He was a little confused. Gods are supposed to encourage people to be good, but why would they punish people so cruelly and horribly?

Although fighting violence with violence and punishing evil is a sign of respect for the victims, looking at the punishment methods used by some gods, it is really hard to say that it is not purely for venting anger.

Alas, criminals have no right to object. After all, it is you who violated other people's interests first. But thinking about his own growth process, Li Yan was a little bit unable to explain.

There are fights on the streets, and what they are fighting for is nothing more than a little protection fee. If you injure others and your brother is also injured by the other side, how will the gods deal with it? Most likely, they will pack it up like garbage and throw it into the lowest level of hell.

This is a little bit unfair. It is originally a way of survival for the lowest class. Not every gangster wants such a life, but there is not so much fairness in this world. However, being a little more kind to criminals is a blasphemy to ordinary people who work hard.

Just like Basong, when he was still a child, he was sold to an underground black boxing organization by his biological father. Every bite of food he eats has to be obtained by defeating others. Li Yan shook his head.
"You won't fall that deep. You came to this world to suffer as punishment. You will be a good person in your next life."

"Brother, what kind of good person would I be?"

"Maybe like Lao Jin and Lao Lin, they were born in a wealthy family and achieved success through their own efforts. They will live a smooth life."

"But I think Lao Jin and Lao Lin are not good people either. Madam is a good person."

Li Yan couldn't help but slap Basong. Basong lowered his head and laughed. Li Yan couldn't help laughing too. After hearing what Basong said, Li Yan didn't know how to tell. Maybe only those who live an ordinary life are qualified to be a good person.

Li Yan had a lot of work to do. He hadn't finished yesterday's work, and there was another pile of work today. Li Yan endured his temper and finished some of it. He couldn't help but push the piled up documents with his hand.

"It's endless. My life is consumed by such repetitive work. Basong, can you help me deal with it?"

“This is really not okay.”

The reason why he really couldn't do it was genuine. If the Madam knew that someone dared to handle documents for the eldest brother, it would most likely be a dead end. Even if he was Basong, it wouldn't work. Basong didn't want to be exiled to some place by the Madam to take care of a bunch of things. With the Madam's intelligence, even exile could be described as an enjoyment. Basong immediately shook his head.

"Alas~~ My work is like this. I don't know if it's the same for everyone. I've handled something before, but I just change the numbers and do the same calculations and the same approvals. I'm like a robot."

"Brother, this is the job, everyone is like this, the little sister at the front desk has to smile every day, you don't have to."

Looking at Basong unhappily, Li Yan buried his head in processing documents again. Lao Lin was obviously in a bad mood recently. Many documents that he could handle were sent to him. What a joke this old man was.

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"How could we have an invitation? Come on, I've lost my underwear since I came back from Coachella."

As soon as Yunzhen finished speaking, Enfei patted her and asked, "Can you please speak properly?" Is this an expression a woman can use?

Minjoo was looking through the evening entertainment news. NMIXX participated in many school anniversary performances. Minjoo looked at Seol-yoon and Kyu-jin on the stage. After watching for a while, he couldn't help but say,

"How does Xue Yun manage to be both pure and charming?"

Eunbi didn't answer. Yunjin tilted her head to look at the pad in Minju's hand.

"She's a natural. Even though she was made to scream by her oppa, she can still maintain such a pure look. I'm really jealous."

Eunbi sighed, Yunzhen is hopeless, ever since Seolyun slapped her, Yunzhen seems to never miss any opportunity to belittle Seolyun, a typical strong person who talks bad about people behind their backs.

Min Joo looked up at Yun Jin, Yun Jin looked at her and continued,

"This is natural. Look at you. Oppa was right there with you a few days ago. Now, you look more charming except that you walk with your legs apart. Nothing else has changed. Your eyes are still the same as before, pure and timid."

Min Zhou coughed. She also wanted to hit Yun Zhen twice, but she knew that she couldn't beat Yun Zhen.

"Minjoo, you are different from unnie. Unnie's natural breasts are exposed every day. It doesn't matter how innocent her eyes are. Especially after participating in the water-sprinkling festival, her personality is set. You can still maintain your previous personality. As long as you don't say it, no one will notice. On the contrary, they will think you are becoming more and more feminine."

Min Zhou looked up at Eun Fei, who rolled her eyes and said, "Whatever, Yun Zhen can say whatever she wants." Min Zhou looked at Yun Zhen again.

"Does Oppa usually have strange requests? I mean, will he call and ask for something out of the blue?"

Eun-bi shook her head and wanted to tell Min-joo that there was no such thing, but before she could finish her words, Yun-jin's voice came over again.
"He will first send you a very normal message, asking if you are busy. If you are or you don't reply, Oppa will not send you any more messages. If you are in a good mood and have time, he may come over. Oppa is very busy, so you don't have to worry about him interfering with your schedule. Instead of worrying about this now, you might as well worry about Oppa not contacting you. He has so many women."

Min Zhou nodded, saying that was good, and then asked,
"Will Oppa help find the itinerary?"

Just as Yunzhen was about to speak, Eunbi covered her mouth and said, "If there is a drama you like, Oppa can help you sponsor the crew. That's about it at most. Oppa won't take the initiative to provide itineraries, but if you want to do any itinerary, you can tell us in the group and someone will help you."

"Are you talking about Bae Joo Hyun, senior?"

Eunbi didn't answer, but Minju knew from her expression that this was probably the case.
"So, Yunzhen is very envious of Seolyun. Senior Bae Joo-hyun should be too lazy to deal with these issues. Those connections should be handed over to Seolyun. DELIGHT Pharmaceuticals has many partners, so it is easy to find an endorsement or other schedule. Seolyun recently mentioned in the group that she is an ambassador for the promotion of public welfare activities with the Chungcheong Province Health and Safety Administration."

"Official nature?"

Eunbi nodded, and Minjoo looked at Yunjin who was still covered with her mouth when she tried to speak.

"Ouni, who is the publicity ambassador?"

“Hye Won.”

Hearing this name, Min Zhou's eyes flickered and he nodded. Eun Bi looked at Min Zhou's response.
"The seniors in the group don't want these activities. Instead, they think it's troublesome. But these opportunities are still very important for people like us. They increase exposure and they all have positive images. The ones who participated the most before were Seol-Yoon and Kyu-Jin, as well as ISA from styaC. Later, Ichi-Ye and Yun-Jin also participated."

"Yiye and I are both gone now. Xueyun would rather keep Huiyuan busy and have no time to sleep than give me sleep. Huiyuan's own company obviously takes good care of her. It's really abominable."

Yunzhen still broke free from Eunbi's hand and said something angrily. Minzhou nodded. After Yunzhen said this, Minzhou noticed that there were indeed a lot of pictures of Huiyuan exposed recently.

"You should get used to it first, Oppa. You can't just walk around with your legs apart to attend events. After all, you and Hye Won are both actors, which is more noble than us idols. Seol Yun will arrange suitable activities for you. Of course, if you don't want it, she won't force you."

Min Zhou sighed and really wanted to beat Yun Zhen. But she didn't expect that Xue Yun Zhen had such great power.

"I don't talk much in the group, but I know that the group has a lot of activities. The marketing, public relations and advertising departments will send the list of artists they need to Bae Joo-hyun, and now it should be sent to Seol-yoon."

Eunbi's tone was somewhat helpless. She really couldn't understand why the group would do this. Did they take idols too seriously? Or maybe senior Bae Joo-hyun believed that idols could take on this responsibility.

However, Eunbi also knows that Seol-yoon is different from everyone else. Sometimes when deciding on something in the group, she is decisive and resolute, an attitude she definitely cannot have, like when an endorsement is assigned to Hye-won. If Yun-jin comes to discuss it with her, she will definitely consider it, but Seol-yoon simply answers no.

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Li Yan likes to eat with Huiyuan or Guizhen because they have the most correct attitude when eating. Even if they don’t eat a lot, watching them eat non-stop will make the food more tempting.

"Oppa, this bamboo shoot is delicious and has a fresh and fragrant flavor."

"Eat it. I didn't expect there would be something like this today. Basong, where did this come from?"

"It's from Hwarang."

Hearing Basong's answer, Li Yan couldn't help but smile. Hwarang was much better than Okada in this regard. Wherever the fleet went, he would bring back some delicious food and drinks.

Although the things were not valuable and there were not much of them, this performance made the little cat at home very satisfied. Thinking about the little cat at home holding strawberries in both hands, Li Yan could only say that Hwarang was thoughtful.

Carrying a box of things with you is not a problem for a ship. This is what Hwarang did. He sent some things to homes or companies every few days, simply to satisfy his appetite, and his name appeared frequently in his ears.

"It seems that this guy has no intention of returning the fleet to Okada."

Li Yan sighed. To be honest, he would rather Okada be in charge of the fleet. However, now that he has such a big family and a huge business, there are many things that cannot be done the way he wants.

Hui Yuan seemed not to have heard the conversation between Li Yan and Basong. He picked up another thin bamboo shoot and looked at it.

"Oppa, aren't bamboo shoots usually very thick?"

Li Yan looked at the bamboo shoots that were as thick as fingers and shook his head.

"I don't understand either. Maybe it has a special name. We didn't have this where I grew up. This is really delicious."

Li Yan was telling the truth. Not to mention these thin bamboo shoots, even large bamboo shoots were rarely eaten in his hometown. Restaurants might have this dish, but Li Yan had never eaten it.

It is said that people in the south are very delicate in their food. These thin bamboo shoots taste really good. I wonder if this is what bamboo tastes like to pandas.

"Oppa, is Fubao really not coming back?"

Li Yan frowned and looked at Hui Yuan. What's the matter? I just thought of the panda and you mentioned Fu Bao? Hui Yuan looked at Li Yan and said again,
"Oppa, are you okay?"

"Pandas are national treasures, what does that have to do with me? I think you look like Fu Bao, so why don't I put makeup on you and put you in a cage as a Fu Bao on display."

"If you can't, then you can't. Why are you so anxious, Oppa? You're such a fool. I really like Fubao."

"It's useless even if you like it. If you want to see it, just take a plane and go. South Korea is a lousy place that doesn't deserve to have pandas."

Huiyuan snorted and said loudly,

"Who said we can't raise them? Fubao loves to eat bamboo from Hadong County, South Gyeongsang Province."

Good guy, you even got to the specific place where the bamboo comes from. You really like Fubao. But it’s useless to like it. If you don’t want to give it to me, I won’t give it to you. Li Yan pinched Huiyuan’s face and said, “You’re so angry. I won’t give it to you.”

Huiyuan had no schedule in the afternoon, so she simply took a nap in the small lounge in Li Yan's office. In the evening, Li Yan was going to Minzhou to continue to open up Minzhou's mind. Eunbi expressed her dissatisfaction several times for always being asked to help.

I won’t bother Concubine Eun tonight. Huiyuan has been busy these days and hasn’t had enough rest, so this is a good opportunity to help her recover her complexion.

"Since when do I have work in the afternoon?"

Li Yan worked hard for a while and suddenly realized something was wrong. Didn’t he just stroll around in the afternoon and drink coffee with Xue Yunguizhen often in the past?

"Vice President Lin is currently on a visit."

Basong reminded Li Yan, which made Li Yan a little crazy. What kind of visit was it? It was just going home to see his grandson and express his dissatisfaction with himself and Lao Jin.

Old Jin is really something. Why is he showing off to Old Lin for no reason? It is impossible for him to take another share from the fleet and give it to Old Lin.

After thinking it over and over again, Li Yan decided to give up as well. He didn't believe that Lao Lin would just watch the group's affairs pile up without anyone taking care of them.

(End of this chapter)