Peninsula: My mentor Kim Tae-yeon

The next day.

Su Xia arrived at the practice room promptly around 8:00 AM, just like yesterday. However, she didn't send a message to Liz today, planning to do so after arriving at the practice room.

however……

"Huh? You're here so early today?" Su Xia said in surprise, looking at Liz stretching in the practice room.

At this time yesterday, Liz was still asleep.

"Time is tight, and I still have many shortcomings. I need to make the most of every minute," Liz said, pressing her thighs down and looking up at Su Xia.

Su Xia nodded.

"What time did you leave yesterday?"

"Around 11 o'clock."

"What time?" Su Xia's voice suddenly rose, looking at Liz in shock. "So you can only rest for a few hours when you get home, right?"

"Four or five hours is enough for me to rest," Liz said with a smile. "I was too lax yesterday."

"That doesn't require... uh... to work so hard and neglect your meals."

"It's okay, I went through the same thing when I was a trainee," Liz said, shaking her head.

"Alright then." Su Xia nodded, not trying to persuade Liz. She was an adult with her own judgment, and shouldn't interfere with other people's decisions.

"Let's begin."

"good!"

As it turned out, Liz's enthusiasm wasn't just a passing fad. In the following days, whenever Su Xia arrived at the company, she would find Liz already there.

Su Xia also learned from her assistant, Xiao Li, about Liz's departure time in the evening. Liz always left around 11 o'clock, sometimes a dozen minutes earlier, sometimes a dozen or half an hour later.

There were a couple of days in the middle when I went to prepare for the tour, but it was only half a day away. When I came back, I was able to get back into the zone quickly.

Despite Liz's learning talent being far inferior to Su Xia's, her vocal skills have made remarkable progress under Su Xia's (Kim Tae-yeon) tutelage, thanks to such intense practice.

The saying "hard work pays off" is truly embodied here.

June 15th arrived as scheduled.

To ensure their best performance, Su Xia and Liz didn't practice today, but instead reviewed the problems they encountered during the past few days of practice.

The seventh floor, in the room dedicated to live streaming.

"Just remember this. You often go into the wrong position. Just remember this sound. When my voice comes, you'll be ready to go in." Su Xia repeated Kim Tae-yeon's instructions from the side.

Liz listened intently. These were all mistakes she had made frequently over the past few days, and with the battlefield looming, these were unacceptable errors.

The seventh floor houses CJ Entertainment's film and television production department and post-production editing room. This is the floor responsible for film and television productions, and it's the first time for both Liz and Su Xia to be here.

What is an idol doing in the film and television sector?

I came here this time because I'm going to do a live stream, and CJ Entertainment's live stream room is only on the seventh floor.

Previously, IVE's live streams were all done in their own practice room, or simply at STARSHIP. Although they often performed at CJ Entertainment when they had events, they spent most of their time at STARSHIP.

While the two were reviewing in front of the live stream, the staff were also busy preparing the equipment.

Thanks to the development of AI, human translation has been eliminated, and the power of algorithms has been unleashed on a large scale. The enterprise-specific ChatGPT can achieve real-time translation with an accuracy of up to 98%, which can translate Su Xia and Liz into another language when they speak Chinese or Korean.

The tasks I was busy with this time were checking the audio equipment and the translation function of ChatGPT.

"That's about it." Su Xia handed the notebook to Liz. "Please repeat the Chinese greetings."

Liz nervously closed her notebook, took a deep breath, and recited the greeting Su Xia had taught her.

Su Xia took this opportunity to correct her accent again.

"Su Xia, Liz, it's 6:30. You can change your clothes and make the final preparations now." The PD's voice interrupted their conversation.

"That's all, remember it well," Su Xia said to Liz.

Liz nodded, grabbed her notebook, and left to change into her stage costume.

Su Xia didn't move, but took off his short-sleeved shirt and put on a light blue striped shirt that Xiao Li handed him, layered over a white shirt. This was his stage outfit, which was refreshing and layered.

"Old Deng," Su Xia called out softly to Kim Tae-yeon.

Kim Tae-yeon, who was curiously observing the enterprise version of ChatGPT, looked over upon hearing the sound.

"What are you doing?"

Su Xia waved to her.

Kim Tae-yeon walked over reluctantly.

"What are you doing?"

"Liz's dancing is pretty good, and her vocal skills have improved a lot, but why do I always feel like something's missing when she performs?" Su Xia expressed her doubts.

She's clearly beautiful, has a good voice, and is a decent dancer, but overall she just seems to be missing something.

This puzzled Su Xia greatly.

"You finally figured it out." Kim Tae-yeon wasn't surprised at all. "I thought you wouldn't find out until you saw Liz on stage."

Why is that?

"He lacks ambition."

"Huh?" Su Xia looked at Kim Tae-yeon in disbelief. "What the hell is ambition?"

"Ambition is also a goal." Kim Tae-yeon shook her head. "The feeling of an artist who has their own goal and goes all out is completely different from that of an artist who has no independent goal and just goes all out with the crowd."

"Liz is not lazy, you could even say she's hardworking, but her goal has always been to keep up with the two top players on the team and try not to hold them back."

"Although she was criticized when she was overweight, her fans didn't have high expectations for her. Any outstanding features she had were considered highlights."

"Now that she has lost weight, and her beauty has amazed everyone, it has greatly increased her popularity, but it has also exposed her lack of stage presence."

"Her typhoon was too deeply influenced by Jang Won-young and Ahn Yoo-jin. It wasn't so obvious when she was separated from them, but it became very obvious once she was together."

"She's like the green leaf for those two people. Even if this green leaf is very special and very beautiful, without its own typhoon, it still feels like something's missing."

"The solution to this problem is ambition. Find your goal and have the ambition to do everything in your power to achieve it and obtain it."

Kim Tae-yeon rattled off a long list of things, and Su Xia, after a moment's thought, summarized them.

"So, the chestnut doesn't see the lion?"

Kim Tae-yeon: "?"

Kim Tae-yeon doesn't know the rascal, so naturally she doesn't understand the "dragon" content hidden in the lion's eyes.

Su Xia understood, but understanding was one thing, putting herself in Liz's shoes...

Ambitious?

He reached out and scratched his head.

With Jang Won-young and Ahn Yu-jin in the team, if you talk to her about ambition, Sakura from LESSERAFIM would fight for it without being reminded. But would Liz, a girl with a softer personality, do that?

I don't think so.