Peninsula Cicada Song Diary

Chapter 75 Rumors

Hwang Eunbi and Jung Eunbi were well aware of the feud between their CEO and SM Entertainment; in fact, it was fair to say that their CEO dreamed of taking down SM Entertainment.

To prove that their original ideas were correct.

But it's clear that they can't do it with just one group, and it's foreseeable that they never will.

"I don't care." But Hwang Eun-bi still acted like a brat, throwing a tantrum like a child who has set his sights on a toy and then throws a fit.

Pei Xiyan saw a shadow of someone in her, "So liking someone really does make you become like her."

"Who do you like? You mean Taeyeon sunbaenim?" Hwang Eunbi frowned. "What about Taeyeon sunbaenim?"

"She acted like a scoundrel just like you back then." Pei Xiyan recalled the scenes from the Halloween party.

"That must be because of you," Huang Enfei asserted without hesitation.

"Never mind what I said." Pei Xiyan shrugged, turning to look at Ding Enfei, who was watching the scene unfold. "Do you guys have any food?"

He's been here for a while, and apart from the cookies and snacks served before the meal, there's not a single dish on the table.

"I didn't know when you arrived, so I only ordered it recently. Also, their service is a bit slow. See if there's anything else you'd like to eat." Ding Enfei chuckled and handed him the menu.

Since it was a European-style restaurant, the menu naturally featured Western dishes. After looking at it for a while, Pei Xiyan chose to add a dish that was marked "best!" on the menu: the signature pumpkin sauce steak.

Pei Xiyan summoned the waiter, told him her request, and watched the waiter's departing figure as she estimated her time.

"I should produce a song for you next year... next year," he said.

"Qinjia?" Huang Enfei raised her eyebrows excitedly, opened the recording app on her phone and held it out to him. "Excuse me, could you please say it again?"

"There's no need to be so serious," Pei Xiyan said helplessly.

"Just kidding." Hwang Eunbi grinned, put her phone away, and returned to the previous topic, "Who did you write songs for at JYP? TWICE?"

"Twice just made their comeback... So you wrote 'Yesoryes'?!" Feeling that she had guessed correctly, Jung Eunbi's dark eyes widened.

Then she noticed a hint of pity in Pei Xiyan's gaze as she looked at her, like an adult looking at a foolish child.

She then realized that if it were "Yesoryes," he wouldn't have said he was still working at JYP.

Because the work has already been completed.

"Oh, just tell me directly, why do I have to guess?" After figuring it out, Ding Enfei wrinkled her nose in embarrassment and indignation.

"It's a new girl group." Pei Xiyan smiled.

"What style?" Hwang Eun-bi asked.

"Don't worry, it's teen crush, it's different from yours." Pei Xiyan knew what she was thinking. The market for girl groups is only so big, and they definitely don't want a big company to release a girl group of the same type and steal their market share.

"We're not afraid," Hwang Eun-bi said nonchalantly.

"Are you going to transform your business?" Pei Xiyan understood her underlying meaning.

"Our company has always had a plan," Huang Enfei said, "but we just didn't know when it would take."

"Oh right, you guys already switched to it once before." Pei Xiyan recalled, "The 17 edition of *Fingertip*."

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"You know it, why say it out loud?" Their transformation attempt ultimately ended in failure. Huang Enfei glanced at him, blaming him for bringing up the sore spot.

"But the song is still nice," Pei Xiyan said.

Girl groups usually face a very serious transition at some point, especially for a girl group like GFriend, who became famous for their pure and melancholic girl style. As the members get older, the transition is inevitable.

However, the limitation of girl groups is that they generally only have two styles to choose from—mature or sexy.

The disconnect between a pure and innocent image and these two styles is obvious, so it's easy for a wrong transition to lead to a complete collapse and the loss of all previous efforts, making it even harder to recover.

"And let me tell you, there's a rumor circulating in our company lately." Huang Enfei suddenly lowered her voice, leaning close to Pei Xiyan as if afraid of being overheard, "Big Hit seems to be interested in acquiring us."

Pei Xiyan raised an eyebrow. "Which company does BTS work for?"

This is everyone's impression of Big Hit.

"Yes." Hwang Eun-bi nodded. "Their president and our president have a good relationship. They've been going out golfing together lately. I heard their company is interested in expanding into the girl group business. Compared to training from scratch, the fastest way is definitely to acquire an existing one."

"So they've their eye on you, and you think your president wants you to transform and prove yourself, thereby increasing the company's value for acquisition?" Pei Xiyan guessed what she was thinking.

"Yes." Hwang Eun-bi sighed; that was her opinion.

A girl group with a fixed style will definitely not have as much future value as a girl group that successfully transforms itself.

"You're overthinking it," Pei Xiyan shook her head.

"What's wrong?" Hwang Eun-bi pouted, feeling that her thoughts made a lot of sense.

"How long do you think your transformation will take?"

"One or two years?" Huang Enfei said, "The transformation must be done gradually."

"How long do you think it would take Big Hit to acquire you?" Pei Xiyan asked again.

"One tael..." Before she could finish speaking, Huang Enfei thought about it carefully and realized that the year was unlikely.

After all, when employees hear rumors of a major event like "the company being acquired," it means that the matter is not far from being finalized.

"So, that's why," Pei Xiyan picked up a cookie from the plate and fed it to Ding Enfei, who was bored and counting on her fingers, "it's very likely that they asked you to transform after they were acquired."

"Ugh." Ding Enfei swallowed the cookie in one gulp.

Currently, the members of GFriend are all still very young, and their age can support them maintaining a pure and innocent image for a while. Pei Xiyan believes that Su Chengzhen wouldn't be foolish enough to gamble on a transformation to increase their value. If they succeed, great; if they fail, it will definitely be a bad move.

Hwang Eun-bi thought for a moment, "You're right."

"However..." Pei Xiyan remembered something amusing, a smile of someone who loved watching the drama unfold curling at the corner of her lips, "If your company is acquired by Big Hit, then your president's idea of ​​defeating SM might actually come true."

"That's true." Hwang Eun-bi smiled.

With the revenue from just one group, BTS, Big Hit Entertainment is already proclaiming itself as a potential replacement for YG Entertainment and a member of the "New Big Three" alongside SM and JYP. Choosing to merge Source Music into such a company is certainly better than relying on a single, isolated entity like Source Music in Suzhou.

Music is infinitely stronger than SM.

However, Pei Xiyan still trusts SM Entertainment. As long as Lee Soo-man is still around, SM Entertainment will never collapse.

"Stop talking, let's eat." Noticing the waiter bringing over a plate, Ding Enfei swallowed the cookie in her mouth and reminded him.

She couldn't understand the topic the two were discussing and couldn't get a word in edgewise, so she could only try to make her presence known at times like this.

"Yes." "Yes, unnie."

The two stopped talking at the appropriate time, and the discussion came to an end.

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