Peninsula: My mentor Kim Tae-yeon

The next day was Thursday.

I had just returned home from my workout and hadn't even had a chance to catch my breath when Su Li called.

"Hey, Brother Li."

"Hey buddy! We're famous!" Su Li's excited voice immediately came through the receiver.

"What went viral?" Su Xia was taken aback at first, but then realized what it meant. "The video I posted yesterday?"

"Yes! I'll hang up now, hurry up and check it on the music player!"

After saying that, Su Li hung up the phone before Su Xia could reply.

"What about the iPad?" Su Xia asked Kim Tae-yeon. The account on his phone wasn't the one for posting his work; the account on the iPad was.

"It's charging in the living room."

Su Xia walked over quickly and saw the red 99+ in the upper right corner of the music app as soon as she unlocked it.

"I thought it would take a while to convert into traffic," Kim Tae-yeon said, leaning closer with surprise.

Su Xia didn't reply. After opening the music player, she immediately started watching her own video.

It has received over 10 likes, over 0.6 comments, over 3 favorites, and over 5 shares.

Above the video, comments kept floating by, and Su Xia opened the comment section.

[The legal profession lost a dispensable intern lawyer, while the cover art world gained a male version of Kim Tae-yeon.]

[It's really exciting! I saw Kim Tae-yeon join the music channel!]

[No matter who you are, don't get off him!!!]

Did Taeyeon secretly go to Thailand to get a prosthetic leg?

[Wow, boys can look this good dancing to girl group songs! (Excited.JPG)]

[I really want to know which teacher Su Lu learned to dance from, she looks so much like Taeyeon!!!]

[Li Yuan says, "Gather all the K-pop fans!"]

Su Xia's gaze was fixed on this comment. She clicked on the blue tag that automatically appeared in the comment "Li Yuan talks about K-pop".

"Hey, I haven't finished reading it yet." Kim Tae-yeon was happily looking at the comments section when Su Xia interrupted her, and she couldn't see it anymore.

But then she saw a blogger named "Li Yuan Talks Kpop" with only 2+ followers, but the first video was a close-up of Su Xia's face.

Su Xia clicked on it.

It has received over 8.5 likes, over 0.1 comments, over 0.7 favorites, and over 0.3 shares.

The data is significantly lower than that of Su Xia, the main subject, but it's still a very good video score for a blogger with 20,000 followers.

"Oh my god! What do you mean Kim Tae-yeon has joined the Music Notes app?"

They started with classic marketing slogans, leaving Su Xia completely bewildered.

"His watch, his body language, his clever little touches—ignoring his gender, he's a spitting image of Taeyeon!"

"Attorney Su Xia, a newcomer to the legal profession, has created a visual effect that even dance bloggers with millions of followers would find difficult to replicate."

"It really proves the saying that the one who defeats you may not be a powerful peer, but rather an extraterrestrial demon from another realm."

"The legal profession has lost a dispensable intern lawyer, while the cover art world has gained a male version of Kim Tae-yeon!"

"???"

Several question marks appeared on Su Xia's forehead.

"What do you mean 'dispensable'?! I've studied law for years, how can I be dispensable, you bastard!"

"You mean a salary that's barely enough to support yourself after paying rent? I think you're really dispensable," Kim Tae-yeon chuckled, adding fuel to the fire.

"What do you know! Lawyers become more sought after with age, and I'm just at the stage of accumulating experience and finally unleashing my potential!" Su Xia couldn't help but argue.

"I agree with that, but the question is, how did you manage to become a veteran?" Kim Tae-yeon blinked and asked a serious question.

Su Xia: "..."

Yes, that's right. Everyone knows that lawyers become more sought after as they get older, but that also raises the question: how do you smoothly navigate the period before you get old?

This is the biggest dilemma facing every new lawyer who is just starting out and has no connections or background.

"So, what they said wasn't wrong, Su Lu is dispensable~"

puff!

An invisible blade pierced Su Xia's heart.

Oh oh oh!

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and open the comments, I want to see the comments," Kim Tae-yeon urged.

Su Xia blankly exited Li Yuan's page and started browsing the comments section of her only video.

Thanks to Kim Tae-yeon's popularity accumulated over seventeen years since her debut (as of 2024), 90% of the accounts leaving comments in the comment section have profile pictures that indicate their fandom, including both male and female groups. Kim Tae-yeon even saw an account with Byun Baek-hyun's profile picture leaving a comment saying "Oppa is so handsome".

Time will wash everything away, including the once "fight to the death" rivalry between Goda and Alice.

"How did it suddenly become so popular?" Su Xia looked at the number of followers that kept soaring with each refresh. It had now reached 40,000 followers. Was this normal?

Su Xia felt a sense of unreality. Although it wasn't as exaggerated as some accounts gaining millions of followers overnight, this was K-pop.

Although K-pop gives people a very mainstream feeling, it is actually still a niche culture. It's just that China has a large population base, so even if there are only a few K-pop fans, it's still a very large number, giving people the impression that it's very mainstream.

Kim Tae-yeon told Su Xia this: their original ultimate goal was only one million followers, and their short-term goal was to reach 10,000 followers.

This video went viral, which is... strange.

Kim Tae-yeon noticed Su Xia's somewhat absent-minded expression and understood after a moment's thought.

"Doesn't it feel unreal?" Kim Tae-yeon said with a smile.

Hearing the voice, Su Xia snapped out of her daze and nodded.

"It feels...too fast."

"Such things are rare, but they do happen. EXID had already failed, and the members had all found jobs and were preparing to leave the stage. Who knew that member Hani's fancam would suddenly become a hit in K-pop, and the group was brought back from the brink of disbandment."

"Brave Girls' early release, 'Rollin,' made no splash, and the group was on the verge of disbanding. The members even had to take on part-time jobs. But after a charity performance, the stage became a hit on YouTube, and the song made a comeback and topped the charts. The group was urgently recalled to promote their music, finally achieving a long-awaited breakthrough."

"Such examples are all real. Sudden popularity is a gift from fate, but whether you can seize this gift, whether it's just a one-time surge in popularity or an opportunity to reach greater heights, depends on yourself."

"What should I do?" Su Xia asked, looking at Kim Tae-yeon in front of her.

"Improve yourself and put in more effort to seize this unexpected opportunity."

"Remember your current predicament; it will become your greatest motivation to move forward."

Hearing Kim Tae-yeon's words, Su Xia paused for a moment, then suddenly laughed.

"I'm starting to think you'll be a great teacher."

Kim Tae-yeon was taken aback when she heard Su Xia's words, but then she laughed.

"So you won't call me 'teacher' then?"

Su Xia has never formally addressed anyone as "teacher" even once.

No.