Peninsula: I, a chaebol! I will never follow hidden rules.

"Ugh!"

It's tough to have to go out and work in the freezing cold, but it's even tougher to have to go out and work during the Lunar New Year, in the freezing cold.

Lin Xinyi is a reporter for CCTV. She is thirty years old this year. Many of her colleagues are on holiday during the Chinese New Year, but she still has to go out to do field interviews on the street today.

The Changdian Temple Fair is located on Liulichang West Street in Xicheng District, Beijing. As one of the most representative traditional temple fairs in Beijing, the Changdian Temple Fair carries a profound historical and cultural heritage, and every Spring Festival, it becomes one of the places with the strongest festive atmosphere in and around Beijing.

Stepping into the Changdian Temple Fair, one is immediately enveloped in a strong and festive atmosphere for the Chinese New Year. High-hanging red lanterns, colorful ribbons fluttering in the wind, and bustling crowds create an atmosphere brimming with joy and peace for the Spring Festival. Here, smiles adorn the faces of adults and children alike, all immersed in this vibrant and festive ambiance.

At that moment, Lin Xinyi felt that she wasn't so miserable anymore, and then she took the camera and started today's street interviews.

Who should we interview first?
Lin Xinyi stood on the street with a microphone in her hand, looking around. Suddenly, a couple wearing matching black coats appeared in her line of sight.

The couple's figures and temperament were outstanding, which immediately caught Lin Xinyi's eye.

"Ah Liang! Keep up!"

"Alright!" The cameraman quickly picked up his equipment and followed.

"Hello, gentlemen. I am Lin Xinyi, a reporter from CCTV. May I ask you for a few words?"

Li Zhixuan and Shen Youna had just bought two candied hawthorns from the candied hawthorn stall when they suddenly heard someone talking to them.

Turning around, Li Zhixuan first looked at the press pass hanging on the other person's chest. After confirming that the other person was a legitimate reporter, he put on his mask properly and nodded, saying, "Okay, go ahead and ask. But let me make it clear first, the part where I wasn't wearing a mask needs to be cut out and can't be broadcast."

Upon hearing this, before Lin Xinyi could speak, the cameraman A Liang behind her smiled and explained, "Don't worry, I haven't turned on the camera yet."

"That's alright." Li Zhixuan nodded, then leaned close to Shen Youna's ear and explained to her.

Shen Youna, who had been completely bewildered, finally understood what had happened and nodded to Li Zhixuan.

"Let's begin, we're ready."

"it is good."

The camera started rolling, and Lin Xinyi got into character: "Hello, are you two locals or tourists visiting Beijing?"

Li Zhixuan wanted to say that he was a local, but his household registration was not actually here.

Feeling helpless, he could only answer truthfully, "We are tourists from South Korea."

"Huh?" Lin Xinyi was taken aback and asked in disbelief, "Are you two from South Korea?"

“Yes.” Li Zhixuan nodded with a smile, but what he was thinking was: This is so damn awkward!
"Your Chinese is so good!"

"Thank you for the compliment."

"You're welcome. How did you two find your trip to Beijing?"

“Great, I really like the atmosphere of celebrating the New Year in Beijing, it has the spirit of the New Year.”

Li Zhixuan answered the questions first, and then translated the reporter's questions for Shen Youna.

After listening, Shen Youna nodded in understanding, and then happily told the reporter, "I like the food in Beijing. Peking duck is delicious, and hot pot is also delicious. But the candied hawthorn is a bit sour."

As she spoke, Shen Youna shook the candied hawthorn in her hand, which only had one bite taken out of it, then covered her cheek with her hand, frowned and grimaced, acting as if her teeth were hurting from the sourness.

Seeing this, Li Zhixuan found it adorable, and then smiled as he translated Shen Youna's words to the reporter. At the end, he even imitated the way Shen Youna's teeth had been hurting from the sourness.

Seeing Li Zhixuan imitate her, Shen Youna raised her hand and slapped his arm, saying coquettishly, "You're so annoying~"

Reporter Lin Xinyi laughed and said, "You and your girlfriend are both so cute."

"Haha!" Li Zhixuan put his arm around Shen Youna's slender waist, then smiled at the reporter and said, "Thank you."

"You're welcome. So, what are your wishes for the new year?"

desire?

After a moment's thought, Li Zhixuan told the reporter, "I hope everyone around me is healthy, has a happy family, and has all their wishes fulfilled."

If everything goes smoothly, then childbirth will definitely be exceptionally easy! Yes! That's right.

Afterwards, Li Zhixuan translated the reporter's question for Shen Youna.

Shin Yuna nodded, then looked at the camera and said seriously in Korean, "My wish is to make a fortune!"

After Li Zhixuan translated, the reporter understood and nodded with a smile, saying, "Haha! It's a very simple wish. I wish that both of your wishes will come true. Finally, please say a few words of blessing to the viewers in front of the television."

Upon hearing this, Li Zhixuan nodded, then turned and whispered something in Shen Youna's ear.

Then, Li Zhixuan clasped his hands in a fist and bow to the camera, and Shen Youna quickly followed suit. The two of them then smiled and said in unison to the camera in Chinese, "Happy Chinese New Year! Wishing you prosperity!"

The scene shifts to the Li family mansion in Seongnam City, where Jessica Jung is sitting on the sofa watching an interview with Lee Chi-heon and Shin Yoo-na on a tablet. She frowns and says, "Why are they on Chinese TV?"

Beside her, Lim Yoona scrolled through Weibo on her phone and laughed, "It's not just on TV, they're both trending in China. Now many Chinese people suspect he's Chinese pretending to be South Korean because his Chinese is so fluent, without any accent. Haha!"

Yoona found the whole thing quite amusing, but Jessica Jung looked furious: "He abandoned his wife and kids and took his little girl to China for the Lunar New Year. That guy is something else!"

Getting angrier and angrier, she threw the tablet aside, wanting to avoid seeing it and getting upset.

Seeing this, Bae Joo-hyun quickly explained for Lee Chi-hyun, "How long has he been guarding us every day? Can't he even take a couple of days off?"

Krystal Jung chimed in, "Yes, he likes Chinese culture, so let him enjoy it for a couple of days during the Lunar New Year."

"But why did he only take Shen Youna? Why not us?"

Yoona said, "Because you and Irene are both pregnant, especially you, Jessica unnie, would he dare to take you around everywhere?"

That makes sense, but Jessica Jung was still fuming: "Anyway, I'm not happy!"

"Then you can give him a good beating when he gets back."

Jessica Jung nodded: "Of course! I definitely won't let him get away with this!"

Meanwhile, on the other side, Li Zhixuan was also a little worried.

Street interviews are common, especially during the Lunar New Year. But he never expected that his seemingly unremarkable interview with Shin Yuna would go viral!
Interview with a South Korean couple

An ordinary topic somehow topped the Weibo trending list for over an hour and remained there for a whole day.

[What a classy couple! The guy's Chinese is amazing, is he an international student?]

[This girl is so cute, and she's a foodie too!]

[She loves roast duck and hot pot, and she's still so slim? I'm so envious.]

[Not only is she a foodie, but she's also a money-grubber. May she make a fortune! Haha!]

Is trending on social media a good thing? Definitely not. The internet is so advanced! A South Korean couple became a sensation on Chinese social media, and the news quickly spread to South Korea the very next day.

Originally, South Korean netizens just treated this as ordinary news.

However, some sharp-eyed netizens quickly noticed that the boy wearing the mask looked familiar!

Is he Li Zhixuan?

Soon, netizens found the zombie dance that the "Train to Busan" crew recorded to celebrate the film's viewership exceeding 10 million, and then compared Li Zhixuan in the dance with the boy in the interview.

Then, netizens noticed that although the men in the interviews looked more handsome and had better charisma, their eyes, eyebrows, and ears all looked exactly the same! Wearing masks was useless!

It's Li Zhixuan!
Award-winning screenwriter Li Zhixuan has a girlfriend?!
This news immediately went viral in South Korea!
Because of the success of each of his works, Li Zhixuan already had many fans. After he appeared in the zombie dance, he gained a large number of fans who admired his looks, had girlfriends, and were mothers.

Now that he's suddenly been revealed to have a girlfriend, his fans are devastated.

【Oppa Chihyun, please clarify this, okay? She's not your girlfriend, right?】

[Li Zhixuan! Are you out of your mind?! Park Hyomin, Park Jiyeon, Jung Soo-jung, Im Yoon-ah, Bae Joo-hyun, and all the other celebrities you've worked with are beautiful! Why did you choose a non-celebrity girlfriend?]

【Oppa Chihyun! Don't date a girlfriend!】

At this point, Li Zhixuan knew he was doomed. Not that he was doomed, but that Shen Youna was doomed.

She hasn't even debuted yet, and her relationship has already been exposed. How can she possibly debut?

Just then, someone on the South Korean internet exposed it again.

I work for JTBC. I saw Lee Chi-heon's girlfriend at the finale of "Hi! Girl," but it seems she withdrew from the competition on the first day due to illness.

[Li Zhixuan is a top screenwriter at Xingji Entertainment, and "Hi! Girl" is a co-production between Xingji Entertainment and JTBC. Li Zhixuan is clearly using this opportunity to promote his girlfriend!]

[Haha! Good riddance for withdrawing from the competition due to illness! He deserved it!]

Nepotism is rampant everywhere; opportunities for ordinary people are being stolen!

I hereby declare that I, on behalf of myself, boycott Li Zhixuan and his girlfriend.

[Li Zhixuan! I'm warning you! Don't let your girlfriend debut and make money, otherwise you and your girlfriend will both gain another hater!]

【+1】

【+2】

【+3】

Faced with this situation, Shin Yuna was dumbfounded.

Isn't this cyberbullying? This is cyberbullying, right? Just because I'm Li Zhixuan's girlfriend, I can't debut?
Most importantly, she discovered that she had even dragged Li Zhixuan into being cyberbullied.

No! His public identity is a screenwriter. Screenwriters aren't idols, so why can't they date? Why can't a screenwriter's girlfriend participate in talent shows? I'm not using connections; can't I compete based on my abilities?

Shin Yuna's mental state collapsed.

What about Li Zhixuan?
Shen Youna wiped away her tears, left the bedroom and went to the living room, where she saw Li Zhixuan cooking in the kitchen.

"Oppa, you're still in the mood to cook?" Shin Yuna was almost laughing in exasperation.

Li Zhixuan turned around: "Aren't you tired of eating out every day? Why don't you cook something yourself? Tonight we're having a whole shrimp feast. Fried shrimp, garlic lobster, spiced crayfish, shrimp ball and winter melon soup, how about that?"

"I'm not in the mood to eat!"

"I'm speechless!" Shen Youna sat down on the sofa angrily, and then started wiping away tears with a pitiful expression.

Seeing this, Li Zhixuan quickly turned off the stove, then wiped his hands, took off his apron and threw it aside before coming to Shen Youna's side, hugging her in his arms and coaxing her softly, "Eat up, food is the most important thing for people. Unless something terrible happens, you have to eat."

Shen Youna looked at Li Zhixuan, sobbing, "They're cursing you so fiercely online, how can you still have the appetite to eat?"

Li Zhixuan wiped away the little girl's tears and nodded, saying, "Not only am I in the mood to eat, but I'm also in the mood to cook for you later."

"Ugh~" Shin Yuna couldn't help but punch the scumbag when he brought that up at this time.

The scumbag grabbed Shin Yoo-na's wrist and kissed her delicate, smooth hand, saying softly, "Okay, it's nothing. 'What's Wrong with Secretary Kim' is airing in a few days. Believe me or not, it'll definitely be number one in the ratings."

Shin Yuna frowned: "You mean this matter has no impact on you?"

"Anyway, it won't have a big impact."

"what about me?"

"It will definitely have an impact on you, but you don't need to worry."

"why?"

"Smack!" Li Zhixuan kissed the little girl first, then explained, "First, you have the ability. Second, you have me."

Upon hearing this, Shen Youna's heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason; she felt a surge of joy and excitement.

Is this what it feels like to have a loved one you can rely on?

Immediately afterwards, she heard Li Zhixuan explain: "Your strength is there. Even if you are temporarily boycotted and cannot debut in Hi! Girl or Xingji Entertainment, I can still arrange for you to debut in 'Idiot,' 'Waiji,' or 'Soy Sauce Bottle.'"

Even if you're boycotted by the entire nation and can't debut, you can stay by my side, or become Yoona's assistant. You can still become a big shot in the entertainment industry someday. So what do you have to worry about? This little thing that happened today won't ruin your future."

Hearing these words, Shen Youna quickly felt at ease.

Things don't seem to be as bad as they seem.

But then, her face flushed slightly, she said to Li Zhixuan, "There's one more thing."

"what?"

"Um... my parents know about us. How should I explain it to them?"

"That's even simpler. After we get back to Seoul, I'll go to your house with you and explain it to your parents in person, right?"

Upon hearing that Li Zhixuan was willing to go home with her to meet her parents, Shen Youna's gloom completely dissipated. She then nodded with a smile through her tears and said, "Okay, I'll tell them the good news in a bit."

Seeing her smile, Li Zhixuan smiled too, and said indulgently, "Now you're in the mood to eat, right?"

"No! Let's cook first!"

As she spoke, Shen Youna tackled Li Zhixuan onto the sofa...

(End of this chapter)