Peninsula: From Water Injection to Stardom

Chapter 102 once: Shall we fight Jiang Yan?

On October 23, a winner of an award from Music Bank was live-streamed.

MCs Park Bo-gum and Bae Joo-hyun were reading their announcements to the camera as they prepared to reveal the winner.

This week's winner is—Jiang Yan! (Choose one kilo!)

With 9215 points versus 8382 points, "LOVESCENARIO" still took first place.

After the camera cut back to the center of the stage, and the two MCs finished their closing remarks, Park Bo-gum handed one of the trophies to Yoo Jeong-yeon, who was standing to the side waiting.

The latter accepted the trophy with a respectful half-bow, and then the television camera focused on Yoo Jeong-yeon holding the trophy.

As the encore music started, Yoo Jeongyeon held the trophy in both hands and waved it at the camera. At the same time, the members who were originally standing elsewhere walked over with smiles and gathered behind Yoo Jeongyeon.

If viewers who clicked in at this time were watching this scene, they would all think that Twice had won first place.

Shortly after the Music Bank broadcast ended, the topic of TWICE accepting the award in place of Kang Yeon appeared on Korean online forums.

"When the camera switched to them, I was really taken aback. I thought this new group had won first place, lol."

"I didn't expect that neither Jiang Yan nor Kim Tae-yeon would be here today. I guess that's a kind of unspoken agreement."

Why did JYP's rookie girl group accept the award for Kang Yeon? What's their relationship?

"I heard that the member who helped accept the award is Jiang Yan's friend."

"Is her name Yoo Jeongyeon? When I first learned about TWICE, I felt that this member looked familiar, and then I realized that she was from AII before."

The one who went on stage with Kang Yeon when WannaDo won first place.

"The two are friends, and it seems that people were discussing it at the time."

"So, can someone explain why Jiang Yan didn't come to the event?"

"She must have had other more important commitments; Taeyeon wasn't there either."

"————"

Regarding the issue of collecting on behalf of others, some new Feli members had some reservations, but after understanding the situation through explanations from veteran members, they calmed down.

As long as there's no ambiguous relationship with this girl group, it's fine.

Meanwhile, the Onces were not so calm.

That evening, after TWICE started a VIive live stream from their dorm, countless fans flooded the screen with all sorts of questions.

After seeing the dense barrage of comments in the live stream, the nine people were clearly prepared, and their expressions were quite calm.

Park Jihyo sat at the front, holding a cushion in her arms. She grinned as she saw the rapidly scrolling comments.

She glanced sideways at Lim Nayeon sitting next to her, who was leaning over to look at the screen, muttering, "Wow, once!"

"You're so active today!"

Son Chaeyoung squeezed in from behind, rested her chin on Lim Na-lian's shoulder, and muttered to herself while watching the live stream, "How did Jeongyeon unnie and Kang Yeon sunbaenim meet? — Unnie, do you want to answer Once's question?"

After hearing Son Chaeyoung read out the question from the back row, Yoo Jeongyeon leaned over and smiled at the live stream camera, saying, "Yo, Kang Yeon oppa used to be a trainee at JYP too. We joined at the same time."

After she finished speaking, the live stream chat started scrolling rapidly.

[Was Kang Yeon a trainee at JYP Entertainment before?!]

[Wow! This is the first time I've heard about this!]

[Wow, there's this connection! I thought he was always a trainee at BigHit!]

【Does that mean Nayeon already knew her seniors a long time ago?!】

[You were a trainee at JYP Entertainment but didn't debut with them? Why?]

Yu Dingyan's answer sparked a host of new questions.

Faced with the overwhelming barrage of comments, Yoo Jeong-yeon didn't intend to answer them one by one, but only chose the questions that were easy to answer.

For example, one comment asked, "Is Jiang Yan's trophy still with them?"

Upon seeing this, Yoo Jeongyeon said, "The trophy? We brought it back. We'll return it to oppa when he gets back from China."

After answering, she seemed to remember something and turned to the other members, asking, "Where did oppa put his trophy?"

On the way back, because the other members also wanted to touch the trophy, Yoo Jeongyeon gave it to them.

Mina sat in the back and pondered for a moment before whispering, "It seems that Momoring took it back to her room."

Of the three bedrooms at TWAS, only Yoo Jeong-yeon and Hirai Momo have a double room, leaving some empty space for other things.

Hirai Momo nodded and said, "Yes, I've already put it away."

Knowing that the trophy had been placed, Yoo Jeong-yeon turned back to watch the live stream with peace of mind.

Then she saw some comments on the screen telling them to take out the trophy and take a look.

Nayeon then interacted with fans, saying, "Oh my, some fans want to see the trophy, but this isn't our trophy, so we won't take it out."

Park Jihyo chimed in, "That's right, let's show everyone the trophy after we have our own place."

Sana Minatozaki squeezed to the front and said with a sweet smile, "Once, let's work hard together. Maybe next week we can beat Kang Yan oppa and get first place!"

However, after she finished speaking, the live stream was silent for a few seconds before a barrage of comments exploded.

【Sana, do you know what you're saying?!】

【kkkkkk Our Sana is so outspoken】

It's not that we don't want to work hard, it's just that our competitors are in another dimension ππ

Even Taeyeon couldn't do it—it's too much to ask of us!

LOVESCENARIO is still ranked number one on the daily charts —

The fans all said at this point that this was too difficult.

Sone couldn't even beat them, and now they want us to fight Jiang Yan? Do you think we can win?

Sana Minatozaki, of course, noticed the reactions in the live stream. After watching for a while, she chuckled and said, "Hahaha, once!"

Don't feel pressured, we'll take it slow.

At this moment, Kim Da-hyun clasped her hands together and waved them at the camera, saying, "Actually, we check the music charts every day. Seeing how hard ONCEs are working to help us boost our chart rankings, we are really touched."

Tzuyu nodded gently from behind and said slowly in Korean, "Thank you so much, Once. I love you all."

Nayeon also smiled and said, "We will work even harder to get first place as soon as possible."

The atmosphere in the live stream suddenly warmed up as the group talked, and Park Jihyo, who was sitting in front and focused on watching the comments, suggested, "Jeongyeon unnie, why don't you sing that song you collaborated on with oppa? I think some fans want to hear you sing it."

Son Chaeyoung chimed in, "We want to hear it too! Unnie hasn't sung anything special for us before, has she?!"

Sana Minatozaki confirmed, "There's definitely no alias."

Seeing the other members urging her on, Yoo Jeongyeon readily agreed, "Sure, but do we want to sing the whole song?"

"It's okay, I'll sing oppa's part." Lim Nayeon offered to help her.

"Then I'll start playing the backing track." Park Jihyo picked up her phone, waited a moment, and then started playing the backing track.

Then, a version of "AIII Wanna Do" by TwoYeon, a duo, started playing in the live stream.

Bad news: I didn't get to attend Misamo's autograph session.