Peninsula: My mentor Kim Tae-yeon

Kim Tae-yeon shook her head with a chuckle, and just as she was about to say something, her expression changed, and she looked behind Su Xia.

"Someone is coming."

Upon hearing this, Su Xia turned around.

A young woman with ordinary clothes and a pretty face walked towards Su Xia, wearing a name tag.

"Attorney Su!"

When she was still five meters away from Su Xia, the woman jogged over and called out in surprise as she reached her.

"Hello." Su Xia nodded politely.

"Attorney Su, I've been following you since your first video! My name is Li Yuan, and I'm the owner of the 'Li Yuan Talks Kpop Marketing' account." The woman, or rather Li Yuan, introduced herself excitedly, not forgetting to take out her phone to show Su Xia her account.

"It's you!" Su Xia exclaimed in surprise. "You've been a huge help in helping me gain so many followers!"

"No, no," Li Yuan waved her hands repeatedly. "Even without me, you would have become famous. I just rode on your coattails."

"No, your comparison videos have really helped me reach a higher level." Su Xia was genuinely grateful to Li Yuan.

Even if he could become famous without Li Yuan, he wouldn't have become famous so quickly.

Well, success depends a lot on chance and serendipity. If something goes wrong in a certain part, you won't be able to succeed.

There is no doubt that Li Yuan's marketing account provided considerable help to his path to fame.

"Then... can we add each other on WeChat?" Li Yuan asked expectantly.

"Of course," Su Xia readily agreed.

"Let me scan you." Li Yuan cheerfully took out a scanner. "Su Lu, how did you learn to dance? You look so much like Taeyeon!"

"I learned it from Kim Tae-yeon," Su Xia said casually while fiddling with the notes.

"Your talent is amazing; you can imitate videos so well." Li Yuan clearly misunderstood, but Su Xia didn't explain.

How do you explain this?

I told Li Yuan that Kim Tae-yeon was standing right next to me.

"Alright, I'm going up for the match now," Su Xia said, putting away her phone.

"I'm going to the studio too, wanna come together?" Li Yuan said happily, putting away her phone.

"Huh? You're participating too?"

"No, I'm one of the self-media people invited here to do some promotion. This is my name tag." Li Yuan held up the name tag around her neck to Su Xia so he could take a look.

The sign reads "Invited Guest - Li Yuan Talks K-pop".

"I see." Su Xia nodded. "Then let's go together."

……

There's not much to say about the first day of the competition. With Kim Tae-yeon and Su Xia's carefully prepared "Why 2.0", we easily made it to tomorrow's final round.

Most of the contestants are K-pop enthusiasts with dance skills, but compared to Su Xia, Kim Tae-yeon's protégé, their K-pop dances are less entertaining.

Moreover, this competition is all about entertainment value. Su Xia's typhoon and stage presence were both honed by Kim Tae-yeon according to the highest K-pop standards, so the entertainment value goes without saying.

The final match on the second day was the real highlight.

Each contestant prepared a song for the finals before arriving, and Su Xia also prepared a performance for the finals. She notified Su Li as soon as she was confirmed to advance to the finals.

Their original plan was to wait until Su Xia was confirmed to have advanced to the finals before Su Li brought the dancers over. However, after Su Xia advanced to the finals, she contacted Su Li and found that they had already arrived.

The finals on May 4th will also be held in a television studio, but the difference is that today it will be broadcast live on Yinpu.

Although Su Xia did not post the news of participating in the Kpop Carnival dance cover competition on his Fuyin and Bilibili accounts, it was posted online yesterday after he was recognized.

As one of the most sought-after cover artists right now, Su Xia's participation in the competition has brought a lot of attention to the Kpop Carnival Dance Cover Contest.

The first contestant of the Kpop Carnival Dance Cover Competition Grand Finale performed on site.

Television studio.

The casting director looked at the chief director with a smug expression.

"Brother Liu, I told you inviting Su Xia was the right thing to do, didn't I?"

The director nodded in approval, a broad smile on his face as he watched the number of viewers in the live stream surpass four thousand.

"Not bad, not bad, the traffic has increased four times compared to our expectations."

Yes, four times.

Their original plan was to consider it a success if the final live broadcast had a thousand viewers.

There's no way around it; the more you do market research, the more disheartening it becomes. K-pop really isn't very appealing. If there are artists, it's okay, but if there aren't, nobody wants to watch it.

Without the participation of celebrity fans, the number of people could not be large.

They expect to have around a thousand people, and that includes those who came to join the fun but couldn't get in from outside.

But now?

Four thousand people were watching the live stream!

This data has far exceeded expectations. Inviting Su Xia here was truly a brilliant move!

"Director Liu, Director Sun, it seems this event was a great success," a man in a suit with a classic dewy complexion and a slight accent chimed in.

"Director Jin, your cultural institute should really thank contestant Su Xia this time." The casting director was generous with his help to Su Xia, who had given him a lot of face.

"Of course." Director Jin smiled slightly. "The court is already discussing how to reward Attorney Su."

"Director Jin will inform Su Xia of this good news after the competition."

"certainly."

The three smiled slightly, each with their own agenda.

Director Kim of the Korea Creative Content Agency, who was in charge of the event, looked towards the live stream. In the 4,000-person live stream, the comments were scrolling by, all asking when Su Xia and Tie Tae-yeon would appear.

[Su Xia xi...]

[Perhaps we could delve deeper. If the entertainment industry is off-limits, then cultivating a local K-pop enthusiast—this kind of skirting-the-edge behavior is surely permissible, right?]

This K-pop carnival, a collaboration with CD TV, is an experiment by the Cultural Affairs Bureau to explore new markets given the current ban on artists.

Su Xia's appearance offered a completely new method that could be tried.

Director Jin's gaze was deep as he looked at Su Xia and Tie Taiyan's nicknames in the live stream, and many thoughts came to mind.

Of the four finalists, Su Xia, being the only blogger with over a million followers across the entire internet, was naturally placed last to appear.

After the performances of the first three contestants concluded, the judges, composed of professors from the Beijing Dance Academy, gave them scores of 8.9, 9.1, and 8.8 respectively.

As the final contestant, Su Xia also took to the stage with her eight backup dancers.

But unlike the other contestants' performances, after Su Xia stood in the center of the stage, his backup dancers stood in front of and behind him, forming a whole row.