Peninsula: I can steal the luck of disgraced celebrities

2010 12 Month 30 Day.

In his New Year's State of the Nation Address, Lee Myung-bak said, "Unification is not far off; we must prepare for next year."

When the news was broadcast on TV, Lin Zhixun was warming up in the rehearsal room, while Ham Eunjung was counting beats and practicing her dance.

When Lin Chih-hsun heard those words, he twisted his back.

"What's wrong?"

Ham Eun-jung saw Lim Ji-hoon clutching his waist in pain and walked over to ask him with concern.

"It's nothing," Lin Zhixun said, leaning against the wall with a troubled expression. "I can't listen to jokes during the next event, or I might twist my ankle."

Ham Eun-jung looked around. "Where's that joke playing? I don't see it."

"That's a joke only smart people can hear."

Upon hearing this, Ham Eun-jung knew that Lim Ji-hoon was teasing her again, so she punched him twice.

I almost knocked him to the ground.

"Do you think I've never seen 'The Emperor's New Clothes'?"

"Be gentle... I'm injured right now."

"Serves you right," Ham Eun-jung laughed.

After spending more than a month together, the two had developed a very harmonious relationship and often made some not-too-excessive jokes.

"Shiho, do you have any plans for tomorrow night?"

"Tomorrow night," Lin Zhixun thought for a moment, "No, what's wrong?"

"Then come with me to release sky lanterns into the Han River tomorrow night, and afterwards we'll go to Chongheung Temple to listen to the bells!"

Upon hearing this, Ham Eun-jung's eyes lit up, and she immediately spoke.

"I've been filming at the Incheon Arts Center for almost two months, and I haven't even had a chance to explore the area yet."

Lin Zhixun found this strange.

"Is tomorrow some special day? And for something like this, it's not really appropriate for you to go find a girl and have me, a guy, accompany you."

You know, the first day I offered to treat you to dinner, you refused, saying you were afraid of rumors.

Upon hearing this, Ham Eun-jung looked at Lim Ji-hoon with the eyes of someone looking at an alien.

"Tomorrow night is New Year's Eve."

"Oh—it's New Year's Eve," Lin Zhixun feigned sudden realization, then immediately changed his expression, "Is New Year's Eve special?"

"Of course it's special!"

So, Ham Eun-jung explained to Lim Ji-hoon, this fake Korean, the importance of New Year's Eve to Koreans.

On New Year's Eve, Koreans gather with family and friends to eat "New Year's Eve dumplings" and visit temples to pray for blessings.

Nowadays, young people spend New Year's Eve more often attending New Year's Eve concerts or releasing sky lanterns by the river to pray for blessings.

Forgive Lin Zhixun for not understanding, the original owner was raised by his grandmother from a young age and didn't have many relatives or friends.

I really don't remember any of these things.

After explaining, Ham Eun-jung picked up a mineral water bottle and took a sip.

Because I drank a little too quickly, a drop of water dripped from my lips, down my neck, and into my sports bra.

"How is it?"

After finishing her water, Ham Eun-jung asked.

"Can."

Since I don't have any plans for tomorrow, it wouldn't be bad to go out and have some fun with Ham Eun-jung. I can also experience the New Year's Eve atmosphere in Korea.

Lin Zhixun asked, "But you still haven't answered me. Why don't you go find the girls?"

Upon hearing this, Ham Eun-jung sighed.

"You have no idea, Suzy has been staying home more and more lately."

"She goes straight back to the dorm after filming every time; she never goes when I ask her to go out."

"I invited her out for New Year's Eve this time too, but she immediately refused, saying she had something to do."

"I suspect Suzy is secretly dating someone behind JYP Entertainment's back!"

"Every day when she gets home, she just talks to her boyfriend on the phone!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhixun touched his face somewhat awkwardly.

Why is Suzy, the goddess of otaku, becoming more and more of a homebody? He seems to bear some responsibility.

A few weeks ago, he tried to catch another version of Pokémon from Pokémon Black and White.

So he bought a 3DS game console and a Pokémon White cartridge and gave them to Suzy.

This way he can catch some Pokémon that can only be caught in "White".

Unexpectedly, he raised a complete bastard!

Every day after get off work, the two of them would play games together in their dormitory through that hole.

All I can say is that your girlfriend is extremely wicked!

After accepting Ham Eun-jung's invitation, Lim Ji-hoon returned to his dormitory.

Upon entering, before Lin Zhixun even turned on the lights, he noticed that the Girls' Generation poster on the wall had been pushed open a crack.

A ray of warm yellow light leaked in from the opening, accompanied by familiar 8-bit electronic sound effects.

Suzy is already fighting.

"You're back."

Her voice came from the cave entrance, without her raising her head.

"I'm back."

Lin Zhixun suddenly felt that the conversation was like that of an old married couple who had been living together for many years.

He took off his coat, hung it up, sat cross-legged in front of the hole in the wall, and picked up his 3DS.

On the screen, Suzy's character is frantically encountering monsters in the grass, and three Pokémon in her party are already on the verge of death.

"Why did you let the fire pig die again?"

"Its own defense is weak," Suzy said confidently.

Lin Zhixun glanced at the screen.

Coolwater Monkey is a pure Water-type Pokémon.

Fire fights water, no wonder the fire pig dies.

"You're also a master of reverse attributes?"

"What do you mean?" Suzy looked up at Lim Ji-hoon.

"Type advantage, the opponent is a Water-type, you need to use a Grass-type Pokémon."

"Oh, I see." Suzy smiled, revealing her cute bunny teeth.

She placed the 3DS on her lap, stood up to stretch her stiff neck, and sat back down opposite him.

"Senior," she paused before speaking, "are you free tomorrow night?"

Lin Zhixun was staring at his 3DS screen when a flashing Candle Spirit appeared.

Holy crap! Time to dodge!

It's worth noting that the probability of a road flash is approximately one in eight thousand.

"Tomorrow night?" Lin Zhixun answered subconsciously.

As he responded, Suzy continued speaking:

"Yes. I bought rice cakes. We can make some rice cake soup tomorrow, and then we can make some dumplings."

Suzy hesitated for a moment, then said, "We can spend New Year's Eve in your room."

"Okay, sure." Lin Zhixun's fingers didn't stop pressing the directional keys, and he didn't hear what Suzy was saying.

He slowly whittled down the Flash Candle Spirit's health to half.

Lin Zhixun was still staring at the screen—red blood, paralysis status, advanced ball.

"Gotcha!"

He turned the 3DS around to show Suzy, holding a sparkling candle spirit, his expression even more smug than when he got the lead role in Dream High.

"The first flashy one in Black and White! I'm going to make it the league champion!"

Suzy turned her head and looked at the flashing candle spirit on his screen by the bedside lamp.

"The flash looked pretty good. It's settled then about tomorrow night."

She stood up, rubbed her neck, and pushed the Girls' Generation poster back into place.

Lin Zhixun saved the game, rummaged through the items in his backpack for a while, and was about to wash up and go to bed.

Then he sat on the edge of the bed, and as he took off one sock while the other was still hanging on his toes, he suddenly froze.

The full version of that sentence started replaying in my mind.

Rice cake soup, dumplings, room, New Year's Eve.

There was also an invitation from Ham Eun-jung to ring the temple bell and release sky lanterns.

Lin Zhixun gave a wry smile.

"The most urgent task right now is to learn how to use Shadow Clone Technique."