Peninsula: Starting with a silly childhood friend!

Although Park Jin-young didn't explicitly state it, Liu Baiyuan understood his meaning from his question, so he smiled and said:

"President-nim, I don't recall ever saying I was Korean, did I?"

Liu Baiyuan's words startled Park Jin-young, who looked Liu Baiyuan up and down again. Without further ado, Park Jin-young spoke directly:

"Actually, I am Chinese."

No wonder...

Park Jin-young felt as if he had found an answer, as if many of Liu Baiyuan's actions had been confirmed.

At that moment, Liu Baiyuan also took out his phone and handed it to Park Jin-young.

Park Jin-young took the phone and glanced at it with a puzzled look. But that one glance made his pupils dilate instantly. After looking at it for a few seconds, he handed the phone back to Liu Baiyuan and smiled, saying:

"So you're his son."

Liu Baiyuan took back his phone and, looking at Park Jin-young's expression, asked curiously, "Does the president know my father?"

Park Jin-young nodded and said:

"A few years ago, I attended a cocktail party. At that time, your father had not yet reached the level he is today, so we met briefly and chatted for a bit."

Upon hearing this, Liu Baiyuan nodded. No wonder his father seemed so "open" about his coming to JYP, and even asked him to come and talk to Park Jin-young about it.

So the two of them had met before...

Many people may only know Park Jin-young as the owner and major shareholder of JYP Entertainment, thus overlooking his original family background.

In fact, Park Jin-young's family background is not bad. When he was young, his father moved to the United States for two years due to his work assignment. At that time, this was not an experience that ordinary families could have.

Therefore, it is not surprising that he had met Liu's father.

Having confirmed Liu Baiyuan's identity and knowing that he wasn't joking, Park Jin-young took a deep breath and made a decision.

"Since this is your father's wish, then I won't say anything more."

Liu Baiyuan nodded, knowing that this matter was over, and now it was time to find out the results of his "interview"...

Park Jin-young certainly wouldn't forget this matter either; shares are shares, and he certainly wouldn't forget Liu Baiyuan either.

"If you can really acquire a certain number of shares, then the position of director of the company will actually clear all the obstacles for you. The company's senior management won't say much. After all, as long as you don't break the rules or affect their profits, they won't meddle."

Hearing Park Jin-young's words, Liu Baiyuan was completely relieved. This meant that everything was almost certain. So he picked up his iced Americano and took another sip.

"Given your family background, you should be able to choose any of China's top universities, right? Why did you decide to study on the peninsula?"

After finishing their business, Park Jin-young didn't mind learning more about his "junior brother," and Liu Baiyuan, upon hearing this, didn't hide anything and spoke frankly about it.

"My parents felt that since I had the ability, it would be better for me to pursue further studies abroad. Yonsei University's business school is a well-known international institution, so I came to Yonsei."

It must be said that Liu Baiyuan's explanation was very reasonable, but Park Jin-young grasped another key point.

"Wait, you're saying you actually studied business at Yonsei University?"

"Well, the teacher only taught me when I had free time."

Liu Baiyuan's words were undoubtedly another heavy blow to Park Jin-young. Such strength was only a "side job," which made him feel like he had struck gold.

Unlike the gradually relaxing atmosphere in the conference room, a completely different scene unfolded on the two floors below, in the artist practice area...

In a small practice room, nine girls stood together dancing in front of a mirror. Next to the floor-to-ceiling glass mirror sat a woman, who was clearly their dance teacher.

After the dance ended, the dance teacher nodded and said to them:

"Let's take a short break, and continue in ten minutes."

After saying that, she got up and walked outside. Judging from her hurried footsteps, it seemed she was in a rush to use the restroom...

However, no one in the practice room was paying attention to her at this moment. The hard-won break time made all nine of them sit on the floor. One of them, a girl with slightly large front teeth who looked like a rabbit, said with a worried expression:

"Do I really have to sing this? I might as well sing 'CHEER UP'..."

As the saying goes, some are happy while others are sad, and this seems to be proving that right. At this moment, another short-haired, rather dashing-looking girl sitting next to her laughed without any attempt to hide her feelings:

"Haha, that's great! Unnie, you have almost a minute of screen time. Other groups would be envious!"

The rabbit girl rolled her eyes at her, clearly not wanting to acknowledge her. This younger sister's daily offenses against her older sister had become a regular occurrence.

The main problem is that if this were a normal one-minute segment, it would be fine, but the key issue is that the entire minute is spent shouting, "I'm gonna be a star!" What kind of segment is that!

They were talking about songs on one side, but on the other side, they were talking about something else entirely.

"Sana unnie, what are you looking at?"

A tall girl with slightly dark skin asked the older sister who was staring blankly at the ceiling. If Liu Baiyuan were here, he would definitely recognize the girl lying on the ground in a daze as the girl he had bumped into at the dessert shop not long ago.

The person next to her called her Sana, so her identity was self-evident. In fact, the identities of all nine members were confirmed. Yes, they were the girl group that Liu Baiyuan and Park Jin-young had just been talking about upstairs: TWICE.

"Nothing, just thinking about that 'pervert' I just ran into."

"Pervert? What's perverted?"

No sooner had she finished speaking than another girl moved over to Sana Minatozaki's other side, but this girl was clearly more...feminine!

Her slightly wavy brown hair, cascading down her neck, gave her somewhat youthful face a touch of mature elegance.

"Momo~"

Sana Minatozaki looked at her fellow countrywoman beside her and snuggled into her arms in a coquettish manner. Momo Hirai looked at her like this and then turned her gaze to the slightly dark-skinned maknae, Tzuyu, her eyes full of inquiry.

After receiving the signal from Hirai Momo's eyes, Chou Tzu-yu didn't hide anything and spoke to her in a serious tone:

"When I went out to buy coffee with Sana unnie, we ran into a guy who seemed to be staring at Sana unnie's chest."

At this point, Chou Tzu-yu pursed her lips, clearly feeling wronged and frightened on behalf of her older sister. Even Hirai Momo, who was listening nearby, couldn't help but show a hint of anger, frowning as she said:

"How can there be such a person, staring at a girl's chest in public?"

The moment Hirai Momo finished speaking, Mina, who had been sitting silently to the side with her eyes fixed on Hirai Momo, suddenly felt offended.

Huh? Did Momo just yell at me?