star of the peninsula

"You guys should prepare yourself. Your comeback is already on the agenda. You need to put more effort into stage practice."

"But before your comeback, you have a group variety show to shoot. In the next two days, look at the photos of the artists and recognize their faces to avoid any bad situations."

After finishing today's practice, Chen Chen lay on the floor of the practice room without caring about his image, and told the girls that he was going to return.

"Character quiz?"

Yuanying, who was not far away, rolled over, propped up his head with his arms and asked.

When Chen Chen stood, she stood; when Chen Chen sat, she sat; now that Chen Chen was lying down, she naturally lay down with him.

Apart from anything else, after practicing, he just lay down on the spot and died exactly like Chen.

"Well, PD Luo is preparing the script for you. Once it's ready, we'll finish filming at the C headquarters building." Chen Chen sat up and glanced at the girls. "Luo Ye-seok's scripts usually include a question-and-answer session. If you don't perform well in this session, I'll be criticized."

"But the range of questions in the character quiz is too wide. No matter how hard we try, we can't remember them all."

Zhang Yuanying was somewhat dissatisfied; she felt it was too difficult.

"Who told you to write them down? Just answer the questions that need to be answered correctly." Chen Chen smiled and gave a few examples, "Like idol seniors, people who have made important contributions to the Korean entertainment industry, famous South Korean athletes, and world-famous or South Korean anime characters."

"Well, I'd better ask PD Luo for a few original questions. If he doesn't give them to me, I'll look for the 'real questions' summarized by netizens."

"The scope of questions in this character quiz is really too broad. It's very annoying!"

When Chen Chen first started thinking about it, he almost laughed at himself, so he simply started preparing for the exam.

Don't memorize the knowledge points one by one, but directly practice past exam questions. This way you may get better test scores.

"Apart from these, is there anything else I should pay attention to?"

The girls slowly gathered around and Choi Ye-na asked.

"That's all, for now." Chen Chen replied, "As long as this group variety show is here, I won't let you participate in variety shows outside of C headquarters. After all, it's still very dangerous out there."

"We can go to C headquarters' own variety shows, including radio stations, if we want to. There's nothing to worry about here."

"Well, if you think about it this way," Chen Chen touched his chin, and he looked quite relaxed. "Your comeback this time is relatively easy, so just enjoy the stage."

"Oppa, when will you return?"

Wang Yiren asked aloud, and after getting to know this girl, she found that she was quite talkative.

"I'm not coming back, I'm just going to play with Brother Zhenying." Chen Chen lay down again and played, "I've been hanging out in the practice room lately just because I like the feeling of sweating and getting my body and brain moving."

"Let's make a comeback. We've practiced so much, won't Oppa feel like it's a loss if we don't make a comeback?"

Jin Minyan tried to instigate Chen Chen to do something, but this method of provocation was somewhat too childish.

"No." Chen Chen was unmoved, and even had his hands free to knock Jin Minxuan on the head, "Minxuan, Oppa is no longer someone who can return at will!"

"But JYP senior can do it." Jin Minhee pouted in grievance, "Isn't he also the president of an entertainment company? If he can do it, then Oppa can do it too."

"That's because everyone knows how much JYP loves the stage." Chen Chen said calmly: "Do you think I love the stage? Do you think I love the stage?"

"..."

These two questions immediately made the practice room quiet.

No one knows Chen Chen's inner thoughts, so no one can give an answer to whether he loves the stage. As for the second question, everyone knows the answer here.

No one would think that Chen Chen loves the stage because they can’t feel it.

If he loves the stage, he would have had many opportunities and time to appear on the stage, but he didn't. Chen Chen chose to spend his time developing the company, exploring business opportunities, and even resting and entertaining himself.

If the stage is ranked so low in priority in life, then don't talk about passion for it, no one will believe it.

"I can't come back. If I come back, everyone will speculate whether I have any purpose next." Chen Chen laughed self-deprecatingly, "It's better not to let everyone waste their energy. It's not easy now."

"..."

Then the practice room fell into silence again.

"Oh, I have to go now. Yuanying, help me stand up. My waist is a little stiff from lying down."

After checking the time, Chen Chen reached out his hand and asked Xiao Yuan to help him up.

"You guys continue to practice. I'll let you know when the specific return time is confirmed." Chen Chen stretched his waist, turned around and waved his hand to leave, "I'm going out."

"Goodbye Oppa."

……

The girl group’s online concert has ended, and Chen Chen has to hand over the concert data to the Tik Tok platform.

Originally, President Chen didn't need to do this, but Hong Shengcheng said he wanted to talk to Chen Chen about something, so he simply went there in person.

"This is the concert data." Chen Chen handed over the information. "The financial return you want has been listed separately, so it can be calculated very conveniently."

"OK, thanks."

Hong Shengcheng did not check it immediately, but quietly put the information aside and concentrated on making tea.

He was obviously keeping something on his mind and was thinking about how to bring it up to Chen Chen.

Chen Chen had no worries. He even had the leisure to observe the interesting physical phenomenon of the tea lid being lifted up when the hot water was boiling.

"Please taste it."

Hong Shengcheng prepared the tea and solemnly served it to Chen Chen.

"Let's talk about the matter first." Chen Chen put the cup of tea on the table, "If you don't explain the matter clearly, I dare not drink this cup of tea."

"As for Cube Entertainment, it's just a small matter." Hong Shengcheng tried to explain in a relaxed tone, "iHQ is going to take action against me."

"What reasons do they use to attack you?" Chen Chen asked.

"The major mistake in the world tour decision has caused great financial difficulties for the company and affected the interests of shareholders." Hong Shengcheng replied: "iHQ is actively contacting all shareholders and trying to hold a shareholders' meeting to help Cube Entertainment replace a top leader who can save the company."

"I see. It's just a simple routine operation." Chen Chen tilted his head slightly. "President Hong, can you tell me how to deal with it?"

"I don't have any tricks." Hong Shengcheng coughed awkwardly, "My hidden trick is you."

"Well, I do have the qualifications to be your hidden means." Chen Chen took a sip of tea slowly, "But what price are you willing to pay?"

...(End of chapter)