I desperately want to win on the peninsula

"Otherwise, what business is it of ours in the past?" Upon hearing this, EXY couldn't help but glare at Xue'e's back in front of him, his tone becoming sharp.

I thought to myself that we had clearly agreed last night to go back to the company together to practice this morning and meet near the coffee shop.

Now look what's happened, she sees a man and runs off with him, what kind of behavior is that?

"Who is that boy next to Xue'e? He looks familiar. Have I seen him somewhere before?"

Nan Duoyuan looked at Lin Qianqiao curiously. He was wearing a dark blue sports jacket, and his neat, tousled hair was slightly messy in the morning breeze, revealing his full forehead and heroic brow bone. The more he looked at him, the more familiar he seemed to be. He felt like he had seen him somewhere before.

EXY glanced at Nam Da-won and chuckled, "Of course you look familiar. You're Kyo from MONSTAX. You'll see his pictorial at the company entrance later."

"Ah! I finally remember, they're members of MONSTAX. I even paid special attention to them before." Nan Duoyuan punched his palm upon hearing this, and then suddenly realized.

Logically speaking, since they are all trainees from the same company, they should know something about the artists and idols under their company.

However, MONSTAX is more complicated. Only half of the group consists of trainees who were trained by the company. The other half are either recruited or picked up from other companies. Lin Qianqiao is one such example. He debuted after only six months in the company. From participating in the debut battle "NO.MERCY" to his debut, he had no more than three months of public appearances.

As a result, many trainees at Starship were not very familiar with him, only knowing that MONSTAX had a very handsome member, and after seeing him, they all confirmed his good looks.

That's why Nam Da-won felt the face looked familiar but wasn't sure who it was. If EXY hadn't explained, she definitely wouldn't have recognized the member of MONSTA X at first glance. Mainly because she was certain that none of her fellow trainees had that kind of looks...

Just as Nando was stunned, EXY shrugged. "Now you know."

Nando snapped out of her daze, glanced at EXY, and asked with considerable curiosity, "Unnie, how did you two meet?"

She was able to ask this question because Lin Qianqiao was always elusive at the company and rarely showed up.

Like the sparkling sprites, they seem to only appear at specific times, making it difficult to catch them.

This has resulted in many trainees only knowing the name but never having seen the person in person.

"Who else could it be but Zhou Xian? He loves introducing his friends."

Since they were all buddies, EXY felt free to mock them, but Nam Da-won didn't see it that way. She regretted not taking advantage of such a good connection, saying, "Ah... I should have asked Joo Heon oppa too."

"Don't say anything yet, look, aren't these two holding hands?"

EXY suddenly opened her eyes, grabbed Nam Da-won's shoulder, and gestured for her to look. Nam Da-won, who stumbled from being pulled, didn't have time to complain and quickly looked up: "Ah! Let me see... It's not as exaggerated as unnie said, it was just a touch of fingertips."

After she finished speaking, EXY pouted in disappointment, "Tch, is that all you've got? Does she still think she's a high school student?"

"I think it was just an accident, don't overthink it, unnie."

"Come on, if I were Xue'e, I would have dragged her to a side alley long ago."

"Hmm... Zzang! Crispy cartilage!"

Two minutes earlier, Son Joo-yeon, who had just bought breakfast, wanted to greet people cheerfully, but after seeing EXY and Nam Da-won following her in cosplay as the Wolf of the Train, she didn't dare to bother them.

She followed behind the two, frowning and pondering, wondering what was going on with these two unnies... Should she, a minor, stop their evil deeds?

However, if the two girls really commit a crime, they will be sent to the Hongcheng Correctional Institution on Zhongqing Road for education and criticism, and their lives will be ruined.

"Never mind that, Xue'e is alone, let's hurry and catch her!"

"Okay, I'll be in charge of tying up the upper body, and Unnie will be in charge of the interrogation."

"Roger that, deploy!"

Sun Zhouyan watched in utter despair as the two unnies continued their descent into the abyss of sin, while she, a minor girl, was powerless to stop them.

After a moment of silence, she picked up the plastic bag, tore it open, took a bite of the freshly bought hot burrito, and then sipped her Americano with relish before finally revealing a satisfied smile.

Then, she followed along slowly with her short legs, intending to see what was going on.

Just as Sun Zhouyan caught up to watch the play, two Starship trainees, Ren Duorong and Li Xiatian, who were in the same cohort, were standing not far behind her at the entrance of a coffee shop.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know."

"Let's go after them and see!"

"GO, GO, GO!"

The two girls paused in their burritos, exchanged a glance, and instantly reached a consensus, quickly catching up with him.

"Du Rong, Xia Tian! Where are you going?"

Bona, who had just come out of the coffee shop, looked at the two maknaes who had run away with a puzzled expression. They had clearly agreed to wait for them to leave together, so why were her own kids so untrustworthy?

Luda walked out of the coffee shop and followed Bona's gaze, also seeing the two untrustworthy children. She wrinkled her nose and said, "Bona unnie, let's forget about Dayoung and Yeo-hae and go back to the company."

"Okay, let's go back." Bona's fair face flushed slightly, clearly a little embarrassed.

Then, the two of them carried their Americano and burritos toward the starship.

As for why Starship trainees eat wraps for breakfast, it's mainly because the only coffee shop nearby opens early and offers simple coffee breakfast sets at reasonable prices.

Most office workers near Nonhyeon-dong would choose to deal with this.

When Park Soo-bin returned to the Starship's female practice room, he witnessed a strange scene: it seemed that all the friends there were blaming each other.

For example, Xue'e was the most vulnerable one. She was pinned to a corner by EXY and Duoyuan and dared not move, her face flushed red.

The three youngest members, Li Xiatian, Ren Duorong, and Sun Zhouyan, are doing something daring enough to attack the most dignified EXY right in front of them. Do they really think that the three of them combined can withstand EXY unnie's serious punch? You could say they're incredibly bold.

Fortunately, Bona and Luda joined in the mediation, criticizing the three little ones while protecting Seol-ah, which helped to balance things out.

However, this deafening practice room is really noisy.

Park Soo-bin covered his ears, watching helplessly as the girls in front of him danced wildly.

……

After parting ways with Xue'e at the company, Lin Qianqiao went to the MONSTAX practice room to take a dance class, as dancing is currently his weak point.

Logically speaking, he had dance training experience since childhood, such as ballroom dancing, jazz, or cha-cha... because his family had training in posture when he was young, and his school environment required social dances, so he had such a learning content, so he has a foundation in dance.

However, the dance styles performed by the boy band idols from Peninsula are hip-hop, popping, locking, and wild styles, which he happens to not know.

On the contrary, he knows many dance styles trained by girl groups, such as Sistar's sexy Jazz dance style, which he can basically learn in no time.

After all, he wasn't an idol trained through the traditional system of Peninsula Entertainment; his skills were all skewed, so he could only practice more.

Another possibility is that the uproar on the trending topics may have offended someone, who is now practically seething with jealousy.

Lin Qianqiao sat cross-legged on the practice room floor, looking at Zhou Xian, who was eager to try, in surprise: "What?! You want to battle me?"

Zhou Xian responded with fighting spirit: "That's right! The next round of SMTM is a 1v1 battle, which is a good opportunity for us to practice." After saying that, he turned to look at LM next to him and added sarcastically: "If I'm scared, I'll find someone else."

This commotion drew the attention of the other members, but after the trio waved to indicate that nothing was wrong, everyone still looked at each other in confusion.

"You're something else!" Lin Qianqiao couldn't help but laugh, giving Zhou Xian a thumbs up. "You've got a death wish, aren't you?"

"It's alright, it's still uncertain who will win or lose, let's just say whether you're coming or not," Zhou Xian said with a shrug and a nonchalant tone.

"Practicing alone is boring, how about some betting?" Seeing Zhou Xian's arrogant appearance, Lin Qianqiao felt that he should teach him a lesson and took the initiative to raise the stakes.

"It doesn't matter, I'm going to win, do whatever you want." Zhou Xian was overjoyed when he heard that there was a chance, he had wanted to teach this arrogant maknae a lesson last night.

Unexpectedly, he finally seized the opportunity, but even so, he still had that nonchalant look on his face.

"Okay." Lin Qianqiao stood up, walked towards the other members, clapped his hands, and said, "Zhou Xian and I have some personal grudges to settle. Everyone, please make way. Choi Sanghamida."

"Yes, yes, it's a personal grudge," Zhou Xian quickly chimed in, smiling broadly. He cupped his hands in greeting and said, "The fight will be over soon, please make room for us."

"Zhou Xian, what are you and Qian Qiao up to?" Captain Shownu could tell from the expression on Zhou Xian's face that the two of them hadn't had a fight.

They're probably up to something again, especially that brat Zhou Xian, he's the most troublesome one.

"There's nothing there, we're just discussing battle techniques and need a little space," Zhou Xian explained with a gesture. "Don't worry, bro, it'll be done soon."

"Yes." Lin Qianqiao nodded. "Zhou Xian will be washing everyone's socks for a week."

"When did I say that?" Zhou Xian immediately became anxious. He didn't want to wash the members' smelly socks, so he quickly retorted.

"That's the stake," Lin Qianqiao said confidently.

"Fine, fine, I agree." Zhou Xian gritted his teeth.

Upon hearing this good news, Shownu immediately stood up, patted Lin Qianqiao on the shoulder, and shouted, "Fighting!"

"Will you win, Kyo?" Lee Minhyuk patted his arm and asked solemnly.

"We will win." Lin Qianqiao nodded slightly.

"Fighting!" The other members laughed and stood up to cheer for Lin Qianqiao.

"lm, don't go, stay and be the referee."

Ren Changjun, who was halfway there, stopped in his tracks upon hearing this, his face lighting up with delight. He loved watching a good show.

Ideally, it would be a scene like in Fight Club, where he would promise not to discuss anything about it and would keep his mouth shut.

Finally, he thoughtfully closed the door.

Looking at the two people poised to go in the practice room, Ren Changjun felt a surge of excitement.

......

Inside a conference room, several company executives and staff members in charge of MONSTAX are having a meeting, with the main person in charge reporting to President Kim Dae-shih.

"Monstax's total album sales reached 5x... exceeding our expectations and demonstrating their commercial potential. Another point is that member Kyo has shown excellent fan-attracting ability in this debut; the data from various forums and search engines is very good. He possesses extremely strong individual talent, and we have to admire President Kim's foresight!"

The person in charge, while reading the script aloud with a straight back, subtly flattered Jin Shidai. After finishing, he glanced at Jin Shidai's expression, and seeing the satisfied look on his face, the person in charge swayed with delight, his back involuntarily straightening even more. Jin Shidai, who had observed everything, didn't care about his subordinate's obsequious behavior; he was only happy about Monstax's achievements.

This is his current important project. Besides Kwill, his trusted confidant who has always been by his side, they are another asset he can hold in his hands.

The better Sistar performed under Seo Hyun-joo's management, the more pressure Kim Shidai felt as both the president and her husband, and he felt somewhat overwhelmed.

My boyfriend was sent to Japan for an event, and we only see each other a few times a year. His return seems far off, and we've practically given up on him.

Currently, Monstax is the only way for them to prove themselves; there is no other way.

Another point is that the better Monstax's performance, the more secure Jin Shidai's position as the main person in charge will be.

Therefore, Monstax's performance is not even worthy of being listed among the three major entertainment companies, and whether he can make a comeback is still unknown.

This is also related to the fact that the three major companies have deep pockets and abundant resources for publicity, giving them the qualifications and confidence to abandon this project.

But this is already quite remarkable for a small company or Starship; this achievement is worthy of being called a top seller.

It's worth noting that Starship's best-selling album is "Boyfriend," but it only sold 30,000 copies. That's already their best-selling album, which is their limit.

Monstax broke the sales ceiling of Starship's albums right after their debut, and their future looks promising. One can imagine how much profit they will bring to the company in the future.

Other senior executives at the company are very satisfied with the debut results of their new boy group, Monstax, which has shown excellent potential despite controlled costs and minimal investment.

So the atmosphere of this small meeting was quite good. There was no sense of urgency, and when the topic came up, the department heads would smile and clap to show their satisfaction.

After listening to the report, Jin Shidai tapped his fingertips on the table and nodded in satisfaction. "What other schedules does Monstax have up his sleeve recently?"

"As for Monstax, there is still Jooheon and Inui's SMTM. We gained a lot after the first episode aired. Member Kyo received a lot of attention in the first episode. The production team also gave him related tags and edited his scenes, which means they have high hopes for him."

The person in charge said with a smile, "Zhou Xian's performance is not outstanding at the moment, it's rather ordinary. We can take this opportunity to give him some resources to promote him and continue to boost the popularity of these two members. This will be very beneficial for their subsequent fan voting activities."

"Hmm... I understand." Jin Shidai frowned and thought for a moment, then stopped tapping the table and turned to the person in charge, saying, "Let's leave it at that for now."

"What about Kyo?" Jin Shidai thought about the commercial offers he had received recently. "I remember there were quite a few clients who were interested in him."

"Regarding Kyo, we've recently received some cases from small and medium-sized GG companies. Their brand quality and reputation are good, and their quotes are in line with their current popularity, making it a fairly substantial income." The rosy-cheeked manager seemed very satisfied with Lin Qianqiao, answering Jin Shidai's question with an appreciative tone.

"Okay, regarding GG's schedule, you should communicate with Monstax's main manager, Lee Yong-jin, and have him arrange a timetable."

Listening to GG's presentation, Jin Shidai's face lit up with pride, his eyes behind his glasses narrowing into slits with laughter. He then calmly instructed the person in charge on the next steps:

"Pay close attention to brand-related issues, and don't let them affect Kyo's future commercial value, thus causing more harm than good."

"Understood." The person in charge nodded in agreement: "I will carefully screen candidates. Everyone has witnessed Kyo's personal business acumen, and his commercial value will soon be apparent."

This statement was met with nods of agreement from many people in the meeting. Sometimes they wondered how Lin Qianqiao ended up at Starship.

With his god-like looks, he could easily debut as an artist in any of the three major entertainment companies. It's hard to understand why he chose to debut with Starship Entertainment. Could it be the charisma of the Golden Age?

Some of the managers in the conference room glanced at Jin Shidai and saw that he still had his usual smiling face.

It doesn't seem to be anything special.

"Well, if there's nothing else, the meeting is adjourned! As for the matter of Monstax's return, I will discuss it with Director Xu and then we'll talk about it further!"

After clapping his hands to announce the end of the meeting, Jin Shidai stood up and left.

"Yes, thank you for your hard work, President Kim!"

After Kim left, the various department heads finished tidying up the documents on their desks and gradually dispersed, bringing the meeting to a brief end.

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