star of the peninsula

"Oops~"

Bae Joo-hyun rushed all the way to the entrance of Department C, but suddenly braked before entering.

"what happened?"

Chen Chen was almost pulled down by her and turned back in a hurry.

"Is it a bad idea for me, a S.M.A. artist who is about to make a comeback, to come to C-Entertainment, which is at its peak?"

Bae Joo-hyun looked up at the sign of C headquarters and felt inexplicably timid.

"Let's go. I never saw you being so polite when we were at the C headquarters before." Chen Chen pulled her forward. "Just think of it as if you're here to have fun or the boss lady is here to inspect the company. It's up to you."

Pei Zhuxuan's mind was empty and she had no idea for the time being. She was just dragged inside by Chen Chen after her temperature was taken.

"Hey, why are you two here?"

Kim Jong Kook took the initiative and greeted the two of them, and happened to bump into them head-on.

"What do you mean we're here? This is my building, why are you here?" Chen Chen glanced at the huge muscles exposed from the man's vest, "Are you going to exercise in the afternoon, sports fanatic?"

"Practice before recording the show, otherwise if you start today's exercise after the show, the amount of training may not meet the standard." Kim Jong Kook said sincerely, "Every set is important, and you must not cheat in exercise."

"Got it, go do your exercise now." Chen Chen looked at him speechlessly, "Thank you so much for having you here. You've saved our C headquarters' sports equipment from being neglected."

"There are still people using the equipment. I often see the kids from Integrate in the gym, and occasionally I see your employees." Kim Jong Kook had a strange expression on his face. "That means you are the only president in the entire company who doesn't exercise."

"I'm busy!"

Chen Chen ran away without giving him any chance to continue speaking.

"..."

"This world is really sick." Chen Chen complained as he walked, "How can someone be so obsessed with fitness?"

"There are people like this. It's just that you can't understand them because you are not from the fitness circle." Pei Zhuxuan had been holding back and didn't say anything. Now she was very aggressive. "They don't expect people like you to understand. Others are already enjoying it."

"It's just Zi Feiyu, it's no big deal." Chen Chen took her to the elevator for management, "Which floor do you want to go to?"

"Which floor is busiest right now?"

Pei Zhuxuan asked.

"It's lively downstairs." Chen Chen pressed the button on the underground floor. "There are many anchors practicing in the big practice room. There might be shows being filmed in other rooms."

"There are too many people. I won't go." Pei Zhuxuan cancelled the floor that Chen Chen pressed and chose the top floor again. "You can go to the office and sit for a while, and then go to the leisure area."

"You wanted to find a lively place outside, but when you got there you chose to refuse. You are such a twisted woman." Chen Chen smiled and shook his head. "But your choice is right. I don't want those anchors to see you."

"why?"

Pei Zhuxuan asked curiously.

"Because anchors have to talk a lot, it's easy to let something slip if you talk too much." Chen Chen explained, "Wouldn't it be bad if you let it slip?"

"That makes sense." Pei Zhuxuan walked out of the elevator and went to the office. "Do you usually interact with the anchors?"

“I will try my best to avoid contact with the anchors.”

Chen Chen pushed the door open and let his girlfriend in gently.

Shirley is not here today.

If Chen Chen can take a rest, then she can naturally take a break after being busy for a while.

"You sit in my seat." Chen Chen arranged Pei Zhuxuan to sit in his seat, and then went to pour water for her. "C headquarters' Executive Cui is not easy to mess with. She is involved in more and more things and has a bad temper. I dare not touch her things easily, so you should not touch them either."

"A lazy person really can't stand up straight in front of someone who works diligently." Bae Joo-hyun stared at the selfie on Sulli's desk for a few seconds, her tone a little complicated, "It's great that Sulli has found something she wants to do."

"But then again." Pei Zhuxuan returned to her fierce attitude, "Why don't you contact the anchors of C headquarters? Aren't they also your employees?"

"There are too many people to contact." Chen Chen said realistically, "I don't want to be biased, so I just don't contact anyone."

"You are amazing." Pei Zhuxuan curled her lips speechlessly, "It means that when there are fewer people, we will get in touch."

"Heh, if there are not enough people, there will be a different result." Chen Chen sneered, "If there are not enough anchors, there is no need for this department to exist."

The anchor is already one level lower than other entertainment industry projects. If there is a problem with the quantity, it will really disappear from the C headquarters.

"Oh, by the way, is your broadcasting career over?" Pei Zhuxuan suddenly thought of something, "I remember you were a broadcaster for a while!"

"Let's do it for fun?" Chen Chen was a little tempted. "I have the account and various tools to start the broadcast. Let's play with the barrage together?"

"You can do it yourself." Pei Zhuxuan retracted her head as expected, "I want to go somewhere else to take a look."

"Okay, where are we going?" Chen Chen stood up helplessly, "Together."

"Go see your assistant, my senior!" Pei Zhuxuan asked excitedly: "Is she here for work today?"

"I don't know, but she should be at work. I saw her sign in." Chen Chen was a little surprised. "You have changed your personality. You can actually take the initiative to talk to your seniors."

"Because I didn't get to greet him properly before." Bae Joo Hyun replied, "Now that I think about it, it's a pity."

"Then go ahead." Chen Chen sat back down, "If I go there, it will affect the normal communication between you and your seniors."

"Okay, I'll leave right away."

After simply tidying up her image, Bae Joo-hyun walked out with a breath held high.

Then, after a few seconds, it turned back.

"What's wrong?" Chen Chen thought that Pei Zhuxuan had not made up her mind completely, and joked: "Is the communication so smooth? A single look can express thousands of words?"

"There's no one in the assistant's room." Bae Joo-hyun replied.

Chen Chen was stunned and put down the script he had just picked up.

"Oh, we caught a person who was not working for us. I'm going to go see what's going on."

"Maybe he went out for something urgent. He doesn't have to be at his workstation all the time." Pei Zhuxuan came over curiously, "What script are you reading? Is it good?" "Most of the time it's good. It feels good to read it when I have nothing to do." Chen Chen took out another book from the side, "Do you want to read one? Just read any one and two hours will pass."

"I won't read it." Pei Zhuxuan just stared at the thick stack of scripts next to Chen Chen, "Do you have to read every one of these?"

“I never finish reading them all, but I do read every script.”

Chen Chen took the script back and answered slowly.

He read every one of them because he was afraid of missing out on the scripts that Chen Chen remembered. He never finished reading them because there was no need. He was just making selections, not choosing a good story.

Chen Chen knew very well that he had no ability to distinguish good stories from bad ones, because he felt that every story read well.

Come to think of it, there is no bad script. They are all the best parts extracted from an already wonderful story.

But it is precisely because Chen Chen thinks every script is good that he realizes that he has no ability to choose scripts. That is not in line with reality. In reality, the quality of scripts should be divided into different levels.

"Let's get out of here." Chen Chen threw away the script and stood up abruptly. "If I continue to stay in the office, I will start to get into work mode. This is not right!"

"Then just work." Pei Zhuxuan held her chin and tilted her head slightly, "I like you working too."

"I know you like it, but I'm not used to people staring at me when I'm working." Chen Chen stretched out his hand and covered his girlfriend's face completely. "What I do is a little dark, and being stared at by you with such bright eyes will damage my conscience."

"You're still doing things in a shady way?" Pei Zhuxuan shook her head and shook off his hand. "Haven't you done a good job?!"

"That's because this circle is too shady, and it makes a good person like me who is not particularly good seem great and glorious." Chen Chen smacked his lips, "Guess who I would first target if I get into work mode?"

"If you want me to give a serious answer, I will say I don't know, but you let me guess." Pei Zhuxuan snorted, "I don't need to guess to know it's Stupid Company! This is how confident I am in you!"

"Smart!" Chen Chen gave her a thumbs up, "It's SMART."

“In fact, it should be said that it belongs to KEYEAST, but S.H.I.E. happens to be the largest shareholder, so we had to turn it to S.H.I.E.” Chen Chen added: “I even said that your teacher Lee Soo Man’s abnormal behavior made me think that this was an opportunity to cut into S.H.I.E. to achieve my own goals.”

"What happened to KEYEAST?" Bae Joo-hyun asked curiously.

"Nothing, I just suddenly realized that I needed an actor agency." Chen Chen held Pei Zhuxuan's cute face full of curiosity and kissed her, "If there was such a company, "The Penthouse" would not have made me so embarrassed, right?!"

"But what does this have to do with SMART?" Bae Joo Hyun asked puzzledly, "If you want KEYEAST, just start with KEYEAST."

"Do you really not know or are you pretending not to know?" Chen Chen blinked, thinking that the problem seemed a bit serious, "Shamao is the largest shareholder of KEYEAST!"

"I really don't know." Bae Joo Hyun shook her head innocently, "Why should I, an idol, know all that?"

"That's right, why would an idol like you need to know all that?" Chen Chen was suddenly surrounded by a sense of powerlessness. "It's so natural for you to act dumb, my baby."

"Hey, you can expose me." Pei Zhuxuan said coquettishly: "I play dumb and you expose me. This is how the game is played!"

"Okay, I'll expose you next time." Chen Chen smiled indulgently, "Let's go somewhere else now. You haven't seen the vitality you want to see yet."

"Are we going to watch Integrate?" Pei Zhuxuan's eyes lit up instantly, "Right, right, it must be like this!"

"When it comes to vitality, these young children will surprise everyone." Chen Chen smiled, "It would be nice for you to go and chat with them. Anyway, the mental age difference between you is not that big."

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm much older than them." Pei Zhuxuan rubbed her face, her eyes sparkling, "Let's go, let's go!"

……

……

The chat process was very pleasant.

The girls from Integrate were very close to Chen Chen, and Bae Joo-hyun naturally enjoyed this closeness as well.

In addition, as Chen Chen said, his girlfriend's mental age is indeed very suitable for communicating with this group of children, and even their noisy personalities are exactly the same.

“It feels like I’ve returned to the days just after my debut.”

On the way home, Bae Joo-hyun made the comment while stepping on the shadow of the setting sun.

"What do you mean?" Chen Chen didn't understand immediately, "Your debut is very different from theirs."

"I'm not talking about idols, I just have a little bit of déjà vu." Bae Joo Hyun sighed, "It's like I'm back to the time when I was taking care of our maknae."

"Ye Li is not much older than these girls, so it's normal when you think about it." Chen Chen took her hand and said, "Oh, by the way, what has Ye Li been doing recently?"

"Hone her acting skills. The company may arrange for her to be an actress in the future." Pei Zhuxuan said happily: "I think it's great, because she loves acting, and this is a reasonable opportunity for her to perform!"

"..."

"What's wrong? Why didn't you respond?" Pei Zhuxuan looked at Chen Chen in confusion. "Is this topic difficult to answer? Why do you look so unhappy?"

"It's not a question of whether it's difficult to accept." Chen Chen's throat twitched twice with difficulty, and he said bitterly: "I just suddenly thought of you, and the idea of ​​having you become an actor has been abandoned by me."

"this is not your fault."

Bae Joo-hyun stretched out her arms to wrap around her boyfriend's waist. If she was tall enough, she would probably want to hook her arms around Chen Chen's shoulders.

"I chose to spend my time on things that make me happier." Bae Joo Hyun said, "Being with you makes me happier than being an actor on the set, so actor Bae Joo Hyun should have disappeared."

"No, that's not the problem. The problem is that I actually forgot about it. I only remembered it when I heard that Yeli wanted to be an actress." Chen Chen grimaced in pain, "Suddenly I felt like I owed you something. My heart felt empty."

"This is love. Love means you always feel indebted." Pei Zhuxuan patted Chen Chen's back carelessly, "Learn more from me! I can't give you any help in your career, but don't I still stay by your side like nothing happened?!"

"Oh, that makes sense!" Chen Chen calmed down and raised his voice, "Then let's keep owing each other!"

"You can't keep doing this." Pei Zhuxuan suddenly lost all her momentum and said awkwardly, "I still have to make up for it occasionally. If I ever want to get over my acting addiction, please take care of me."

"?"

A question mark slowly appeared above Chen Chen's head. Are your standards for women so flexible?

"Alright, alright! I'm playing a joke to make you feel less depressed, but it's made you confused. So you should just stay depressed!" Bae Joo Hyun pouted, "Listen to me!"

"I love you!"

OK, that’s right, it’s still the Bae Joo-hyun who urges people to confess their love.

...(End of chapter)