diymy Chapter 4: I'm just a producer, what do I know about songs?
Chapter 4: I'm just a producer, what do I know about songs?
"Aren't we eating crabs?" Bae Joo-hyun's words stunned Lee Won.
Is this woman an idol or a fortune teller? How does she know everything?
Oh, I understand!
No wonder Sister Qian disappeared after a few words; she was waiting for him here.
"Did Sister Qian tell you that?" Li Yuan replied helplessly.
Bae Joo-hyun was sitting on a chair at the rehearsal venue when she saw the message. She couldn't help but show a slight anger, her brows furrowing together.
"Hey, how could you call Victoria unnie 'Sister Victoria'!" She typed rapidly, her knuckles pounding so hard they almost shattered the screen. "You should call her Auntie!"
"Oh dear, wouldn't that make me look old? She wouldn't like it anyway," Li Yuan replied nonchalantly, picking up a small wooden bracelet from a roadside stall, examining it briefly, and then putting it back.
In terms of seniority, Song Qian is indeed of the same generation as Li Yuan's mother, so calling her "aunt" doesn't seem excessive.
But Li Yuan always called her "Sister Qian," and Song Qian never objected.
Although the two are relatives, they had virtually no contact before Lee Won went to South Korea.
If it weren't for his mother casually mentioning during his trip to SM Entertainment that "you have a relative who works as a bean in Korea," he would never have known that the Victoria he saw on screen was actually his aunt.
"These are the rules, you can't break them." Seeing that she couldn't persuade him, Bae Joohyun simply opened her collection of emojis, carefully selected a picture of Kang Seulgi pouting, and sent it out. "You can't call her that in front of unnie."
"Sister Pei, you've always wanted me to call Sister Qian 'Auntie,' but you yourself call her 'Unnie.' Are you trying to take advantage of me?" Li Yuan replied while picking and choosing items at the stall.
Those friends who are about to debut should be given some decent debut gifts; as for the trainees, it would be more appropriate to give them something practical...
Before I knew it, I was carrying quite a few bags and packages.
"Won't this make it difficult to get through customs?"
My phone vibrated again.
"So, is Xiaoyuan coming to watch our rehearsal? Seungwan has been talking about you for a long time." Bae Joo-hyun's message came again.
"No, please don't!" When Li Yuan saw the words "Seungwan," his hand trembled, and he almost dropped everything he was holding. "Please don't tell Wenwen. I just want to watch your performance in peace. If she finds out, I won't have any peace."
"Hey, you're so much younger than Seungwan, and you're not even called unnie, you're called Wenwen instead!" Bae Joo-hyun really couldn't do anything about him.
They're clearly friends, but they insist on calling them by their nicknames just like the fans.
Sun Shengwan's gentleness was acceptable, but during the initial period when they first got to know each other, Li Yuan actually called her "cabbage," which made her feel extremely uncomfortable.
"No matter what, don't tell her," Li Yuan reminded her again, still worried.
"Why? Your song 'Bad Boy' is in this performance, don't you want to see it?" Bae Joo-hyun looked up at Kang Seul-gi, who was walking towards her, her fingers never stopping. "And you can give us some feedback too."
"I'm just a producer, what do I know about 'Bad Boy'?" Lee Won didn't want to face Son Seung-wan and the mischievous Kim Ye-rin.
In his view, the greatest freedom is to go home after watching the performance.
"If you don't understand, do you think we do?"
Bae Joo-hyun looked at Kang Seul-gi, who was already hugging her and resting her head on her shoulder, and gently flicked her forehead: "How are you? Have you rested enough?"
Red Velvet only had a few minutes of rest between rehearsals, and even during that short break, Kang Seulgi still came to bother her.
"No, I see you've been playing on your phone the whole time, you seem so engrossed." Kang Seulgi looked at her phone screen, which showed her Kakao chat interface. "I thought you were watching videos."
"No, I'm chatting with Xiaoyuan." Bae Joo-hyun didn't hide anything from Kang Seul-gi.
In Li Yuan's words, she's just a silly little bear who only knows how to eat; what kind of cunning could she possibly have?
"Xiao Yuan?" Kang Seulgi's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing this. "Xiao Yuan is going to Korea? How long will she be gone?"
To this day, Kang Seulgi still misses the food Lee Won cooked. Later, she traveled all over Korea but could never find that taste she loved so much again.
Only here can you taste some of the flavor of Li Yuan's cooking.
"No, he's in Taipei," Bae Joo-hyun replied to Lee Won.
"Huh? I remember Xiao Yuan is from Beijing, what is she doing in Taiwan?" Kang Seulgi didn't react for a moment.
"Of course he's here to see our performance." Bae Joo-hyun rolled her eyes at her. "I'm having him come to watch our rehearsal."
"Oh, I knew it!" Kang Seulgi slapped her forehead. "Right, let Xiaoyuan come and see our rehearsal! I still have a lot of questions to ask him!"
"What do you want to ask about?" Bae Joo-hyun asked, looking at Kang Seul-gi who was drooling. "You're the best among us. I think you just want to eat, right?"
"Aigoo, unnie~" Kang Seulgi immediately started using her aegyo (cute/charming) technique when she realized she had been exposed.
In this life, isn't the ultimate goal just "eating" and "sleeping"?
She, Kang Seulgi, was just pursuing that half of a complete life, what's wrong with that?
"Oh dear, I've already said it, but Xiaoyuan doesn't seem to want to come." Bae Joo-hyun helplessly showed her the chat history.
Bae Joo-hyun has invited him three times already, and each time Lee Won's answer is "No".
"Huh?" Kang Seulgi glanced through the chat history and then exclaimed in realization, "Oh, because of Seungwan..."
It's common knowledge that Lee Won and Son Seung-wan are at odds, and it's unclear how Wen-wen, who has always been called an angel, was offended by Lee Won.
Those who don't know the inside story think that the root of the conflict is Li Yuan's song "Butterflies," but they know that the two of them had been bickering as soon as they met before that.
That song was more of a pretext for them to make fun of.
However, their bickering was just a playful squabble between friends, so Bae Joo-hyun didn't bother with it.
"How about we don't tell Seungwan yet, and trick Xiaoyuan into coming here first?" Kang Seulgi started offering bad ideas.
"Do you think Xiaoyuan is as stupid as you? He came here to watch our performance, how could Seungwan not notice him?" Bae Joo-hyun pointed to the sparsely populated area. "Here, let alone one more person, even one more thing would probably be seen."
"That's true." Kang Seulgi nodded blankly. "Then what should we do?"
"There's nothing we can do. Xiaoyuan doesn't want to come, and no one can force him." Bae Joo-hyun sighed, put away her phone, and said, "Just focus on rehearsals. We'll hang out with him again tomorrow."
"What are you saying? What kind of game are you playing?"
Just as the two had completely given up on inviting Li Yuan and were about to turn around and walk back to the stage, a familiar female voice suddenly came from behind them.
Before they could react, someone pounced on them from behind, stretching out their arms and firmly wrapping their arms around their shoulders.
The force was so strong it almost knocked both of them over.
"Oh no, Son Seungwan!" Bae Joo-hyun exclaimed, patting her small chest in surprise. "Come on, go!"
Standing behind them was a girl whose eyes curved into two crescent moons when she smiled—Sun Seungwan. At that moment, she was grinning mischievously and had her arms around the shoulders of her two older sisters, revealing a row of neat white teeth.
"So what are you guys talking about?"