Peninsula: My mentor Kim Tae-yeon

"Liyuan Opera? I'd rather listen to Huangmei Opera." Su Xia muttered to himself. He knew the person's name was definitely not Liyuan Opera, but the misheard pronunciation was just too similar.

"I really don't know which two characters are in Lee Sang-hyeok's 'Lee' and 'Won-hee'."

Despite Kim Tae-yeon's fluent Chinese, she is actually semi-literate, only able to speak but not read.

She recognizes some common Chinese characters, but she doesn't know how to pronounce the less common ones.

"It's kind of cute," Su Xia commented.

"Let me tell you something you don't know."

"Cuter than when you debuted."

"What?!"

"Have you even seen me back then? How dare you judge me like this! Damn it! Speak up! Answer me!"

"Look at me!"

Su Xia ignored the incessant chatter of Kim Tae-yeon and leisurely started searching for ILLIT on her computer.

"Oh, it's Lee Won-hee. Her name is quite complicated." Su Xia looked at the promotional photo. "She doesn't look as good as in the music video. I should have been Hybe's stylist."

"You're about the same, aren't you?" Kim Tae-yeon recalled Hybe's stylist, "Their styling skills are so weird and unpredictable, if you went there, you'd probably only manage something like this."

"You underestimate me a bit."

"You?" Kim Tae-yeon looked at Su Xia with disdain. "Is there a single piece of clothing in your closet that's even remotely fashionable?"

"You know nothing! That's called being mature!"

"Heh." Kim Tae-yeon rolled her eyes. Executive jackets, executive coats, suits—these were indeed mature, so mature they were practically timeless.

Just as Su Xia and Kim Tae-yeon were bickering while working, Li Yuan received the message that Su Xia had updated her video.

Li Yuan was living a very happy and carefree life during this period.

With the production of Su Xia's debut work "why", she rebounded directly from rock bottom, and now has more than 40,000 fans, and has initially established the foundation to support herself by relying on her account.

Unfortunately, Su Xia updates her videos too slowly. It's been a week and there's still no news. Li Yuan can only edit more of Kim Tae-yeon's previous performances. Although the traffic isn't as high as Su Xia's episode of "Why," it can still get tens or hundreds of thousands of views.

Now, as soon as Su Xia updates her video, Li Yuan sees it immediately.

"Gee?!" Li Yuan's eyes lit up. She had thought Su Xia would cover Kim Tae-yeon's solo song first before making a move on Girls' Generation.

I didn't expect the second song to be like this?

Upon opening the video, the first thing you see is the makeup and styling that corresponds to Girls' Generation's classic denim jeans stage look from "Gee".

The outfit for that music show performance was a white shirt, blue jeans, and white high heels, while Su Xia's outfit for this video was a white T-shirt, blue jeans, and white sneakers.

It's almost like a male version of the original, and with the excellent video of "why" preceding it, Li Yuan's cover of Su Xia is more of an expectation than a question of his ability.

As Tiffany's opening remarks played in the video, Li Yuan's eyes widened immediately.

That voice was a man's voice; it was Su Xia's voice!

Is he going to sing a whole song?

Immediately afterwards, Su Xia's voice continued throughout the entire song "Gee," but the dance scene was different from what Li Yuan remembered.

"No, it's not that it's different, it's that it's different from the center position!" Li Yuan quickly paused the video and opened the stage of "Gee" on another iPad.

After repeated comparisons, she finally confirmed one thing.

Although Su Xia did not perform any specific moves, he consistently performed Kim Tae-yeon's dance routines.

"Comparison video!" Li Yuan's eyes lit up, and she immediately had a new idea.

Su Xia already has a large enough fan base. Less than half an hour after it was posted, the number of likes has exceeded 20,000. It would be too low-quality to repost this video now, and people who have seen it before will not watch it a second time.

Instead, why not edit a comparison video? That way, viewers can see more clearly just how similar Su Xia and Kim Tae-yeon's dances are!

As for the fact that the singing was also very similar, Li Yuan overlooked that.

Many viewers and music bloggers strongly suspect that Su Xia used AI voice-changing. Li Yuan doesn't know much about music and can't verify or debunk it from a professional perspective, so she might as well focus on dance.

Let's get started!

More than an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and Li Yuan became increasingly alarmed as she cut the paper.

Looking at the comparison video in disbelief, Li Yuan was starting to wonder if it was an AI face swap, since the two people were not a man and a woman, and their height and figures were also very different.

How come the movements are exactly the same, down to the smallest details?!

Li Yuan's gaze fell on Su Xia's musical note ID.

Attorney Su Xia (who studied under Taeyeon)

Could this person really have been personally taught by Taeyeon?

No, no, that's not right.

How is that possible!

Li Yuan was amused by her own thoughts. Kim Tae-yeon had just finished a concert in Taipei and had a tour in a couple of days. How could she possibly be teaching a Chinese person to dance?

This is just as absurd as Jay Chou squatting next to his friend every day, teaching him "I can only~".

Absolutely impossible!

Shaking his head to banish the absurd idea, he checked the video one last time to make sure it was working properly...

release!

……

At 11:30, Su Xia stretched and shouted in a strong voice:

"get off work!!!"

With his "war cry," the intern lawyers who had been slacking off all stood up, as if some kind of program had been activated. They said "goodbye" and "see you later" to each other and dashed out, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Su Xia and Kim Tae-yeon remained calmly seated (or standing) in place, already used to this.

Take out your phone.

"Let me see what we should have for lunch today."

"Let's have some barbecue, it's been so long since I've seen you eat it," Kim Tae-yeon said, licking her lips with anticipation.

She may not be able to eat it, but she can at least see it.

"Let's eat tonight, why have barbecue in the middle of the day?" Su Xia refused, "I'll prepare it."

Halfway through his sentence, the note alerted him that the blogger he followed, "Li Yuan Talks K-pop," had updated.

"After Gold, Silver, and Bronze Taeyeons, Iron Taeyeon!!!"

Su Xia: "?"

Looking blankly at Kim Tae-yeon, Kim Tae-yeon awkwardly looked away.

Kim Tae-yeon: "(￢_￢)"

"What does 'gold, silver, bronze' mean for Taeyeon?" Su Xia asked, posing a profound question.

"Well, watch the video first, and I'll explain it to you later."

Upon hearing this, Su Xia clicked on the video with some doubt, and then saw a comparison between Kim Tae-yeon's classic stage performance of Girls' Generation's "Gee" on May 17, 2013, and her own cover of "Gee," which Li Yuan had carefully edited together.

On the left is Kim Tae-yeon from 13, and on the right is a cover of Su Xia's performance.

No need for further explanation; the eyes have already provided the answer.

The near-perfect replication of the dance by both performers perfectly exemplifies what an ultimate cover looks like!

"Tsk, you know what, just watching me dance and you dance doesn't have the same visual impact as watching them edited together."

The contrast is immediately noticeable; you don't even need anyone to say how similar it is, you can tell right away.