Peninsula: From Water Injection to Stardom

Chapter 163 Once Again

Instead of going to the hotel first, the group went directly to the large private room they had booked.

Two tables were booked, and everyone was seated in two separate private rooms. TWICE's team members, including their manager, were all seated in the next room.

There's no need to order food, because Jiang Yan had already arranged everything before we arrived.

Nine people sat down on either side of Jiang Yan. The antique-style decor of the private room attracted the attention of Lin Nalian and the others. However, Yu Dingyan, who was sitting next to Jiang Yan, asked, "Oppa, where's Zhennan oppa? Where is he?"

Jiang Yan smiled and said, "He rarely comes back to China, so he went out to have fun. He will come over for dinner tonight."

Upon hearing this, Yoo Jeongyeon said with a slightly apologetic tone, "Myanmar, oppa rarely comes back to China, yet you still have to take the time to entertain us."

"What are you talking about? I said before that I would personally host you when you come to China in the future, and I will definitely keep my word."

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"Hehe, oppa's going to have to spend money again this time, saranghaeyo~"

As Yu Dingyan spoke, she made a cute face and lightly gestured a heart shape with her hands towards Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan smiled nonchalantly, then chatted for a few more minutes with Yu Jung-yeon and Park Ji-hyo, who had come over.

The other members were chatting in twos and threes. Although Mina was chatting with Sana Minatozaki and Momo Hirai in Japanese, her gaze kept drifting unintentionally toward Jiang Yan.

Mina felt a strong urge to join the chat, but she couldn't find a suitable opportunity.

A dozen minutes later, the door to the private room opened, and a waiter pushed a food cart in.

Today's main dish, Peking duck, is served in grand style.

Jiang Yan ordered three portions in total, because as everyone knows, Quanjude's roast duck is quite authentic, but it is expensive and the portion size is not large.

Since there were nine people in the group, he ordered three servings of Twice.

After the roast duck was served, Jiang Yan first demonstrated how to eat it to them.

After the demonstration, I left it to them to do as they pleased.

Lin Na-yeon clumsily picked up the dough wrapper to roll up the duck meat, but accidentally her hand slipped and the whole dough wrapper, along with the scallion strips and cucumber strips inside, scattered all over the table.

"Hey! Unnie, what are you doing! This is such a waste!" Yoo Jeongyeon screamed upon seeing this.

Upon hearing her shout, Lim Nayeon pursed her lips, shrinking back like a child who had made a mistake, feeling utterly ashamed.

"Unnie, you'd better not do it, let me do it."

Yoo Jeongyeon looked quite disgusted and took another piece of dough. She awkwardly rolled one up for Lim Nayeon and handed it to her.

After Lim Nayeon took it, her previously aggrieved expression from being scolded immediately disappeared.

She couldn't wait to take a big bite, and then chewed it vigorously in her mouth.

"Mmm—it's so delicious!"

Before she had even finished swallowing, Lim Nayeon immediately shared her thoughts on the taste, and after saying that, she quickly put the remaining portion into her mouth.

The other members reacted similarly, all showing expressions of satisfaction after tasting it.

Aside from eating it once during the initial demonstration, Jiang Yan didn't participate in the experiment again.

It's not that he doesn't like it, but he's already eaten it more than once in the past few days, and he's gotten a little tired of it.

But Yoo Jeongyeon was unaware of this. When she noticed that Kang Yeon was just watching them eat without doing anything herself, she assumed that he was deliberately letting them have their food. So she said, "Oppa, you should eat too, or everyone will finish it."

Jiang Yan smiled and said, "It's alright, don't worry about me, I'll just eat the other dishes later."

Besides the roast duck, he also ordered several other dishes.

However, his answer only strengthened Yu Dingyan's suspicions.

With a change of heart, she immediately got up and took another piece of dough to roll up the duck meat.

After rolling it up and dipping it in sauce, Yoo Jeongyeon didn't put it in her own mouth. Instead, she held it in one hand and placed it in front of Kang Yeon, saying, "Oppa, this is for you."

Jiang Yan waved her hand in refusal: "I already told you not to worry about me, you eat."

But Yoo Jeongyeon didn't pull her hand back after hearing that. Instead, she practically brought the rolled-up duck meat to his mouth and insisted, "Oppa, eat up, I'm feeding you right here."

With the pancakes wrapped around the roast duck almost within reach, Jiang Yan knew he had no choice but to eat them.

Left with no other choice, he could only reach out and take it, then open his mouth and eat it.

It's definitely not okay for Yu Dingyan to feed me, at least not in this situation.

Because Mina was watching right next to her.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan couldn't help but turn his gaze to Mina, and then he found that Mina was staring at Yu Dingyan expressionlessly.

Perhaps sensing Jiang Yan's gaze, Mina turned her eyes, and the two's eyes met instantly.

Jiang Yan smiled at her, but Mina, unusually, looked away without giving any expression, and then casually chatted with Sana Minatozaki next to her.

It was as if they hadn't seen him at all.

Jiang Yan naturally guessed the reason for Mina's reaction.

What else could it be? The other person must have seen Yoo Jeong-yeon feeding him earlier and is jealous and angry again.

However, having learned from the previous experience at MAMA, Jiang Yan wasn't too worried that the other party would actually ignore him because of it.

I'll just find a chance to coax her later.

After lunch, at Park Ji-hyo's suggestion, the ten of them took a group photo in the private room as a memento.

Afterwards, TWICE and their team got back into the car and went to the hotel to rest. Then at 1 p.m., they set off for Beijing TV.

Jiang Yan, wearing a mask and a work badge, mingled with the rest of the team.

He could have easily gone in openly, but going in disguised felt very different.

Inside the TV station, Jiang Yan stood below the stage in the studio, watching Jiu Tu, who had quickly changed into her performance costume, begin rehearsals.

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The outfits they wore for the performance looked familiar; they were the same ones they wore at the SBS Gayo Daejeon.

JYP's stinginess is still obvious; they wouldn't even prepare a new set of performance clothes for their activities in mainland China.

At least Beijing TV gave him a 100,000 yuan appearance fee.

TWICE performed two songs this time: one was "Say It Again," a competition song from SIXTEEN that was included in their debut album, and the other was the Chinese version of their debut song "Like 0OH-AHH."

That's right, it's the legendary Chinese version of the stage that wasn't officially filmed.

But Jiang Yan's feelings after hearing this were somewhat indescribable.

How should I put it? The level of Chinese lyrics is comparable to the Chinese version of EXO's "Call Me Baby".

It has a strong Google machine translation feel to it.

Moreover, only one of the nine members could speak Chinese, and Chou Tzu-yu even had an accent.

This meant that Jiang Yan could only hear that they were singing in Chinese, but he couldn't understand what they were singing at all.

This fits his stereotype that none of the members of the Old Rabbit team have any foreign language talent.