Peninsula: The Deepest Affection in Jiangnan

The way you're saying that makes you sound like the crown prince of YG.

YG can only have one heir, and that is Seung-chick!

The title "Crown Prince" is so unlucky that Shen Yu would never consider it.

"Then let's talk about the next thing." Xu Youqing didn't have a good impression of the starship either.

"Is there anything else?"

"Otherwise, why would I be working overtime!" Xu Youqing was starting to have very little affection for Shen Yu anymore.

"Let me start with some small things. For example, MBC, Mnet, KBS, and even SBS have all sent out invitations for the new year, asking if you're interested in promoting your music at their stations."

"..." Shen Yu really had no interest whatsoever.

Recording a song takes half the night, and I can't get a proper sleep during the day either. I just have to grit my teeth and bear it, which is a bit too embarrassing.

And the trophies and honors from music show performances...

If they don't pay Shen Yu, why would he go and promote someone else's music show for free?

He's not a member of a boy band, so he doesn't need to shine on stage.

"Alright, I knew you weren't interested. Looks like you don't want to go on variety shows or anything like that either." Xu Youqing flipped to the back of the documents. "I'll turn down these kinds of offers for you from now on..."

"There's no need to completely refuse." Shen Yu remembered that he still had to breastfeed his child.

"Anyway, let's put off the current ones for now and talk about it later."

"Snapped!"

Xu Youqing pulled out a document and slammed it onto Shen Yu's desk.

This means the matter is not over yet.

"Um?"

"Although your relationship with MBC is just so-so, the person who made the invitation came through MBC, so your relationship with this person is not so ordinary."

Shen Yu looked curiously at the person with whom he had a special relationship and the invitation in Xu Youqing's mouth.

"Forehead……"

Upon seeing the familiar name, he was too embarrassed to admit that he had no connection with the person.

But there's nothing special about it!

"You admit it? I really didn't know when you started hooking up with a JYP member. I thought it was strange a few times before, but I didn't expect it to be true?"

Xu Youqing asked with a gossipy look, "How far have things progressed between you and her? What about Yaxuan? What's going on with Yaxuan?"

What the hell?! Is Shen Yu the kind of person who would lay a hand on a young girl?!

"Nuna, have you been watching 'Empresses in the Palace' lately?"

"The Legend of Zhen Huan? That famous Chinese TV series? I haven't seen it yet. How come it's related to that TV series?"

"Noona, want to gossip about me too?"

"I'm just being prepared. What if you really have some kind of relationship with that person, and I accidentally offend them? What if you make things difficult for me later!"

"How could I dare?"

"If you'd even go after trainees, what wouldn't you dare to do?"

Shen Yu was speechless.

She always felt that Xu Youqing had developed a strange prejudice against her at some point.

"Nuna, prejudice in people's hearts is a mountain!"

"Yeah, I always feel like the longer I spend with you, the more my worldview is challenged! Forget about a big mountain, even Mount Baekdu wouldn't be surprising."

……

After ending the bickering that deepened his emotional bond with Xu Youqing, Shen Yu felt that if he had a system, this Nuna's favorability towards him would definitely have increased by more than 10 points.

The MBC files contain information that Shen Yu needs to keep confidential.

To get to the point, let's put it simply, directly, bluntly, and without beating around the bush:

Choi Ji-soo participated in a music program on MBC.

Mystery Music Show: The Masked Singer

She wanted to sing Shen Yu's songs and also inquired whether Shen Yu could be her guest singer or arranger.

"Since you're not planning to talk to Starship next Monday, I'll help you communicate with JYPE. Go talk to Choi Jisoo tomorrow."

"..."

"Nuna, I have something to do next Monday."

"Hmm? What's wrong?"

……

on Monday.

Seoul Bus Terminal.

Lee Won-hee got off the bus with a blank expression.

On the way, the warm air inside the bus was very soothing, and she drifted off to sleep without realizing it.

When she woke up again, she had traveled from the distant Changwon to the big city of Seoul.

"Phew, I wonder where my uncle is waiting for me." He took out his phone and realized that no one had contacted him.

*

Lee Won-hee had told her mother about her plans to visit Seoul, intending to bring her brother along, but her brother had already made plans with his classmates to go to Busan together in the next couple of days.

Lee Won-hee didn't want her vacation to be wasted like this; staying in Changwon or going to nearby Busan were not what she wanted.

With her father's willingness to sponsor her and even asking his friend to buy her a ticket to the Seoul Music Awards on the 19th, Lee Won-hee's desire to go to Seoul became even stronger.

Towards the end, the mother was still considering whether she should accompany her daughter on the trip herself. The grandmother in Busan said that they still had relatives in Seoul.

Only then did Li Yuanxi learn that her maternal grandmother had a younger sister whose marriage was quite complicated, a matter that was considered adult gossip.

Finally, her grandmother gave Lee Won-hee a contact number and told her to remember to call him "uncle," as he was in the entertainment industry and was said to be doing well in Seoul.

Her grandmother didn't know the specifics of the matter, and the inside story among the elders was something her mother knew, but she didn't.

And so she was put on the bus to Seoul. Lee Won-hee was quite looking forward to seeing her "three inches".

"He's seven years older than me, but he was very handsome in his younger days!"

He was indeed handsome. When Lee Won-hee saw the photo his grandmother sent him on his phone, he was speechless at how handsome he was.

One of the photos is clearly taken when he was a child, at most a boy under 10 years old, sitting in front of a piano.

"Grandma, don't you have any photos of your current uncle?"

"..."

Perhaps my grandmother isn't very good at typing, because she hasn't been able to reply to KakaoTalk messages since.

When Yuanxi boarded the bus, her mother put a box of Changyuan persimmons in her backpack—a beautifully packaged gift that she wouldn't normally buy, but which contained only two persimmons.

Tell Yuanxi to give this to her uncle after they meet, and then to be a good girl and come back safe and healthy.

Actually, when we were at home, my dad mentioned that his older brother's daughter was currently studying at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, but the relationship was rather complicated.

My uncle's daughter has been studying at top art schools in Seoul since she was a child. She is currently studying piano at Ewha Womans University and will choose to go abroad or become a music lecturer after graduation.

They are not the same kind of people as the Li family in Changwon.

And most importantly.

My cousin is quite famous now. She appeared in the show "Love Catcher: Bali" which aired at the end of last year and is now pursuing a career as an online influencer. The show just ended a few days ago, and my cousin successfully became the winning couple with a handsome young man...

Okay, the topic of couples made Lee Won-hee blush and her heart race, so she secretly stayed up late these past two days to finish watching "Love Catcher: Bali".

Sometimes I even projected myself onto the show, imagining what it would be like if I were the one on it...

It was because she planned to go to Seoul that she realized that the seemingly distant entertainment industry was actually quite close to her life.

For girls who don't have much pocket money, the most common thing to do is to go out with friends after school to eat exotic stir-fried rice cakes. The closest thing they can do to the entertainment industry is to go to the chain photo booths in the shopping street and take interesting four-panel photos of their lives.

Now that I'm planning a trip to Seoul, I realize that the entertainment industry doesn't seem as far away as it is from Changwon to Seoul.

Hello! Are you alone?

Li Yuanxi stood in the corner of the bus station. Although she was not tall and her whole body was small, she was actually quite noticeable.

She had two braids braided by her mother, wore a long black down jacket, and had a round face that gave her a very youthful appearance.