Peninsula: I, a chaebol! I will never follow hidden rules.

Chapter 280 Extra (Please ignore)

It is said that if you take a walk after a meal, you will live to be ninety-nine.

Of course, it is limited to walking and no strenuous exercise.

It was midday, the sun blazing, and the heat was at its peak. Therefore, there were few people in the hospital garden. There was only the chirping of birds, the fragrance of flowers, the buzzing of cicadas, and his beloved by his side. In this environment, Li Zhixuan felt at ease and comfortable.

The beauty next to him was walking with him and was in a daze.

If you get distracted while walking, it's easy to trip over something.

So, after seeing Pei Zhuxuan distracted, Li Zhixuan immediately asked: "What's wrong? Are you worried about something?"

Pei Zhuxuan came back to her senses and looked at Li Zhixuan with a hint of apology in her eyes: "I was wondering whether I should tell you the truth."

Hearing this, Li Zhixuan asked in confusion: "What's the matter? Are you using me to scare Lee Soo Man?"

"You know everything?"
Seeing her stunned look, Li Zhixuan was amused. "Isn't this obvious? My people arrested you, and you were terrified for a whole day and night. If you weren't seeking refuge, how dare you come and be friends with me?"

Was it so obvious? My thoughts had been seen through long ago?
Suddenly, Pei Zhuxuan, who originally thought she was quite smart, blushed instantly. She immediately stopped and bowed to Li Zhixuan and apologized: "I'm sorry, my motives for being friends with you are not pure."

Li Zhixuan reached out and helped her up, saying with a smile, "It's okay. Anyway, the reason I agreed to be friends with you isn't necessarily pure."

???

Pei Zhuxuan looked up at Li Zhixuan's eyes, her face still red, but with a hint of shyness in her eyes. She asked tentatively: "Are you...confessing something?"

"Not as frank as you." Li Zhixuan smiled slightly, turned around and continued walking, saying: "Actually, I don't like being calculated by others, but if my people hadn't arrested you by mistake, you wouldn't have to calculate like this, so I don't blame you.

Also, since you've confessed to me, let me confess something to you. Have you heard of the Li Group?

"Are you from the Lee Group?" Pei Zhuxuan, who followed, was shocked and subconsciously stopped.

Seeing this, Li Zhixuan pulled her to sit on a bench by the roadside, then nodded with a smile.

"I heard someone say that the predecessor of the Li Group seemed to be... a society?"

Bae Joo-hyun asked this question with some hesitation, because she really couldn't connect the dots between the sunny and handsome face in front of her and the underworld.

"Club? Haha!"

Li Zhixuan was amused by this euphemistic name and nodded, "Yes, a gang. Also called a gang or a violent organization, commonly known as the underworld. Now you understand why Lee Soo-man was afraid of me, right? Do you regret being friends with me?"

Regret?
Bae Joo-hyun thought about it carefully and didn't feel any regret, but she was indeed a little nervous.

After a moment's hesitation, Pei Zhuxuan turned her head to look into Li Zhixuan's eyes and asked, "We are friends now, right?"

Li Zhixuan nodded: "Of course."

"Then I'll ask you a question, and you have to answer me truthfully."

"Just ask."

"What's the worst thing you've ever done?"

This question really stumped Li Zhixuan. He could even call his attack self-defense, so how could he have done anything bad?

So, after thinking it over carefully, he could only shake his head and say, "No, I'm a graduate student in the law department of Seoul University. I know the law and understand it. How could I do something bad? I'm doing legal business."

Gangster? Graduate student at Seoul National University's law school?
How could these two identities appear in one person? Is this a play on contrast?

Pei Zhuxuan was really surprised again and again. She stared at Li Zhixuan's eyes for a long time. After confirming that Li Zhixuan was not joking with her, she accepted this fact. Then she asked another question in her mind: "What is the worst thing you have done to a girl?"

Hearing this question, the smile on Li Zhixuan's face disappeared instantly, replaced by a somewhat heavy expression, and asked: "I dare to speak, do you dare to listen?"

Seeing this, Pei Zhuxuan felt her heart tighten, and then nodded vigorously: "Dare."

"Oh! Well, I'll tell you then."

Li Zhixuan sighed and looked up at the flowers not far away, his face full of regret. "One summer, I was in a bad mood and went to the Han River to relax. Not long after I stayed there, I met a girl. She was so beautiful, and she took the initiative to talk to me. The most important thing is that I had a little drink at the time, so I couldn't help myself and I..."

Drunk?!
Pei Zhuxuan's heart skipped a beat, and she asked hurriedly, "What happened?"

"I...in public..."

in public?!!

Pei Zhuxuan stood up in an instant, covering her mouth with her hands, looking panicked: "You are not..."

Li Zhixuan sat on the bench with a look of regret on his face, covering his face and saying, "Yes, it's just as you thought. I threw her to the ground in public, and then..."

At this point, Li Zhixuan suddenly looked up at Pei Zhuxuan speechlessly: "And then she bit me. It's been three days, and the bite hasn't healed yet! Faced with this situation, that woman actually had the nerve to say she only bit me lightly! It's too much!"

Isn’t this what happened when I first met him?!

After being stunned for two full seconds, Pei Zhuxuan finally realized that she had been fooled. She was so angry at this little thing that she stomped her feet!
"Li Zhixuan!!!"ヾ(`)
Seeing that she was about to lose her temper, Li Zhixuan quickly stood up and hid aside: "What are you doing? Do you still want to bite me?"

"You almost scared me to death! I'm asking you a question seriously, can you please be more serious?!"

Faced with the questioning, Li Zhixuan helplessly threw up his hands: "I'm already very serious. Why would I do bad things? Why must I bully women? Are people who join the underworld necessarily bad people? If this country's social security system was a little better, I would probably be busy selling houses and writing code right now, instead of being on guard against being killed all day."

After hearing these words, two words came to Bae Joo-hyun's mind: prejudice.

After realizing her mistake, Bae Joo-hyun bowed to Li Zhixuan with an apologetic look on her face: "I'm sorry, I misunderstood you."

"It's normal. It's okay."

Is this normal? Yeah, he must be misunderstood a lot, right?
Pei Zhuxuan suddenly felt sorry for Li Zhixuan, then walked up to him, looked up at him guiltily and asked, "We are still friends, right?"

"It's up to you."

Look at me? After a moment's hesitation, Pei Zhuxuan reached out and took Li Zhixuan's hand: "Good friends."

"Yeah, good friend."

"ah!!!"

"A good friend is not a boyfriend. It's wrong for you to take advantage of me like this."

"Then let me down quickly."

"I've been lying in bed for almost three days and I'm almost exhausted. Your 80 or 90 kilograms are just the right weight to help me with my rehabilitation training."

"what?"

……

At noon, everyone went to have lunch, but Girls' Generation's captain Kim Taeyeon made an excuse to lose weight and did not go with her teammates, and then went to the company's rooftop alone.

It was a sunny day today, and the sun was very bright. So after the captain arrived at the rooftop, he hid in the shade behind the water tower. He first took two tissues and put them on the ground, then sat on them and sighed: "Ah~"

Captain, how did she become captain? Because she's the oldest of the nine? Of course not. It's because she's quite capable, old enough, a quiet personality, ambitious but not ostentatious, and able to withstand pressure. That's why the fool made her the captain.

But the problem is, she debuted after only three years as a trainee, and was one of the least experienced members of the entire group.

South Korea is a society with strict hierarchies and a strong emphasis on seniority. Would a junior leader command the troops? Why would the more experienced leaders obey her?
Taeyeon needed help, so who did it? Jessica Jung. Jessica, the second-oldest member of the group and the most experienced, had been a trainee for seven years at the time.

Jessica Jung was a senior at the time and had a bad temper. She was the big sister among all the trainees in the company and no one dared to disobey her.

Of course, Jessica Jung's initiative to help Taeyeon was largely for the good of the entire group. Everyone is in the same team, and if the team is doing well, it will naturally benefit her personally.

But even so, Kim Taeyeon is very grateful to Jessica Jung in her heart.

Later, Girls' Generation also experienced a low point, but with everyone's mutual support and joint efforts, they came through it, and then became popular and famous, becoming South Korea's "national girl group" and even a national business card.

During this period, in addition to their careers, the relationship between Kim Taeyeon and Jessica Jung also became better and better, and fans captured many famous scenes of them showing their affection. In this way, the two of them became the most popular CP in the South Korean entertainment industry - Taeyeon-Si CP.

But one of them is the leader and the other is the invisible leader, and they are both talented lead singers. If they were to get along, after their contracts with Girls' Generation and the company expired, wouldn't they be able to unite all the members to fight against the company and put pressure on the company to demand better treatment?
If the negotiations fail, they will easily take the entire group away from Shamou. This kind of thing has happened before.

So for the sake of his own interests, it is impossible for Sha Mao to let their relationship continue to be good.

First, the company explicitly told them to stop showing affection and to maintain distance in public, refraining from any interactions. To this end, shamo even deliberately created couples like Yoon-seo (Im Yoona and Jessica Jung), Tae-yoon (Kim Taeyeon and Im Yoona), and Tiffany (Kim Taeyeon and Hwang Mi-young (Tiffany, Tiffany)) to break up the Tae-seo couple.

Then, Shamo selected three members from Girls' Generation to form a small team. Kim Taeyeon was selected, but Jessica Jung, who was also the lead singer, was not selected.

Isn't this just looking for trouble? The problem isn't the lack of wealth, but the inequality.

They have been eating, living and working together for so many years, so conflicts are inevitable. After all, even a person's teeth and tongue can "fight" sometimes, let alone two living people.

Coupled with the company's deliberate obstruction, the relationship between the two gradually became distant. However, although the relationship was distant, it did not reach the point of ignoring each other or even never seeing each other again.

It wasn't until last year when Jessica Jung launched her own fashion brand that their conflict finally broke out!

Jessica Jung had been thinking about launching her own fashion brand for a while, but it had only been in the planning stages. Two years ago, while on a two-day trip to Hong Kong Island to attend a concert, she met a young investor named Quan Ningyi, introduced by a teammate.

Kim Taeyeon has also met Quan Ningyi. Although this person is humorous, young and promising, she always feels that he has a bad face. It's not just that he is ugly, the key is that he doesn't look like a good person.

But he is willing to cooperate with Jessica Jung and help her launch her personal fashion brand.

After a period of interaction, Jessica Jung felt that this person was quite reliable, and then her plan to create her own fashion brand finally began to be implemented.

Last year, the nine-member Girls' Generation group's contract with Stupid expired. After some discussion, all members decided to renew their contracts.

Jessica Jung reached a cooperation and profit-sharing agreement with her team and Shamo regarding the launch of her fashion brand.

When she launched her own brand, she also used her own influence and that of Girls' Generation to advertise her own brand, which was equivalent to utilizing the resources of her team and agency. This certainly couldn't be used in vain, and she must get a share of the profits.

Then in August last year, Jessica Jung's fashion brand was officially launched.

Everything was settled, and the brand was officially launched. It should have been a win-win situation for everyone. But a person's energy is limited. Her personal brand had just launched, and there were a lot of messy things to do. Meanwhile, Girls' Generation had a lot of group activities that required her to participate.

In this situation, she is too busy to do everything. If she had to choose, she would definitely prefer to focus on her personal fashion brand.

So she talked to the company about this matter. The company expressed strong opposition, and there were also voices of disagreement within Girls' Generation. For this reason, Kim Taeyeon, as the captain, also talked to Jessica Jung, hoping that she could put the interests of the team first.

Jessica Jung is a person with a bad temper, or rather, she is a donkey that goes with the flow.

Now something has happened, and I want to discuss it with you. We can discuss it and come to a conclusion through negotiation. That's fine.

But when I come to discuss something with you and you don't intend to discuss it and directly oppose it, then let's not discuss it. Your objection is useless to me. Do whatever you want!
What do you mean by the team's interests? Aren't they just your interests? Who cares about my interests? Since everyone is just looking out for themselves, there's nothing to discuss.

Then, the conflict broke out. Immediately afterwards, Sha Mao called together the eight of Kim Taeyeon and informed them that the company had decided to kick Jessica out of Girls' Generation, but this could not ignore their attitudes, so they asked them to vote on whether Jessica should stay or go.

Honestly, they all found it a little hard to believe. Had things really gotten this far? But the company asked them to vote, and they couldn't object. So, they voted.

The final result was 3 to 5, and Jessica Jung was expelled from the group.

Later, whenever she thought about this incident, Kim Taeyeon felt extremely regretful. If she had voted against it, would Jessica have left the group?

Now, Girls' Generation is about to release a new full-length album, the first full-length album by the eight-member group.

Without that guy, Girls' Generation is still Girls' Generation. But without that guy, Girls' Generation is no longer Girls' Generation.

Kim Taeyeon felt so regretful, so uncomfortable, and wanted to cry.

But her tears were still welling up in her eyes when she heard someone coming.

(End of this chapter)