CHAPTER XXIV
"Sure enough, he is the second largest artist on the Peninsula, with an annual income of 55 billion."
Sunny waited for a while in an alleyway outside the Girls' Generation dormitory, and then looked at the white coupe that appeared in front of her, slowly stopping in front of her, she first circled the car twice with her hands on her chest, and then opened the gullwing door, standing in the doorway and smacking her lips.
"I just got my driver's license and drove such a handsome car...... You bought it with a share?" She stepped into the passenger seat, and then reached out to pull the door shut, looking quite skilled, probably not the first time to sit in a car with this kind of door.
is worthy of being a senior who has debuted for eight years, but he is much more knowledgeable and mature than some little children who have never seen the world.
Seeing her fasten her seatbelt, Ji Kyung-won directly stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the address that Taeyeon had just sent him, his hands on the steering wheel and his eyes looking at the road ahead, but he chatted with Sunny casually, "That's not it...... My brother gave it to me."
"Sure enough, it's royalty." Sunny looked back and forth at the car's interior and sighed.
They also bought their own cars when they were girls, and the most expensive of them should be Kim Taeyeon's Mercedes-Benz except for Lin Yuna, but her car is about 200 million, but there is more than one.
Of course, it's not that you can't afford to buy more expensive ones, but if it's not very rare, it's natural to consider that income and consumption levels are equal.
Chi Jingyuan looked very natural, and tilted his head left and right: "That's, otherwise how can I be airborne."
As soon as the word "hehe......" came out, sunny seemed to think of the time when the two first met a few years ago, and he couldn't help but laugh, and couldn't help but turn his head and glance at Chi Jingyuan, who was driving, and the face that I thought was very good-looking when I first met a few years ago is still the same, but there seems to be no obvious change in appearance, but the temperament is much more capable and mature, and the aura exclusive to TOP idols is also very visible.
Chi Jingyuan also turned his head to her and tilted his head, glanced at each other, and both of them laughed, turned around and continued to drive, and was a little happy in his heart.
This kind of intimacy and nostalgia between friends without any ambiguity makes him really enjoy it.
Pretty good.
Kim Tae-yeon's address is a barbecue restaurant in Sindang-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, a little away from the girls' generation dormitory in Gangnam-gu, but fortunately, it was late at this time, and the traffic on the road had decreased a lot, and there was no traffic jam along the way, and it was soon at the destination.
The parking lot is at the door, after Chi Jingyuan parked the car, the two put on camouflage and got out of the car and walked towards the store.
He muttered two sentences in his mouth, and he always felt that the name of this store was a little familiar, as if someone who had been a member of EXO had recommended this store to him, but he forgot whether it was Kim Junmian or Oh Se-hoon.
Business is really good, it's already eleven o'clock, when Chi Jingyuan and the two came in, there were still many diners waiting in line to eat, and the hall on the first floor was also full of people when they came in, and the waiters kept shuttling in it to serve the food, and the sizzling sound of oil and the aroma of barbecue permeated the surroundings, making it difficult not to feel the appetite in it.
"Hello, do you have an appointment?"
"Friends have already arrived, third floor."
Chi Jingyuan said a word to a waiter who took the initiative to greet him, as soon as the words came out, the waitress's expression immediately changed a little when she looked at him, and she looked at Chi Jingyuan and Sunny with some curiosity and exploration in her eyes, and she didn't know if she recognized it, so she quickly came back to her senses and retracted her gaze, and said, "Please follow me." After that, he took the two of them upstairs, and introduced them while walking.
This barbecue restaurant is large in size and has three floors, with the first and second floors being the main halls and private rooms for eating.
Pets are not allowed in the general restaurant, but this store is an exception, there is a special area on the second floor where you can take pets to eat, although you have to call in advance to inquire but overall it is more intimate.
The 3rd floor is the smallest in area, but it is generally not open to the public
What the author said is generally only reserved for debuting artists or celebrities, and it seems that there is only one table of people dining on the 3rd floor at this time, no wonder the waiter immediately felt a lot of strange eyes when he heard that Chi Jingyuan and a few people were going to the third floor, obviously knowing that the two were also artists, but they didn't know if they recognized it.
Just as Ji Jingyuan and Sunny followed the waiter to the second floor and were about to go up to the third floor, a woman's voice stopped him not far away.
"Excuse me......
Ji Jingyuan looked back and found that it was a young woman of about thirty generations, slightly chubby, with a delicate face and a professional outfit that looked quite mature, and she was looking at Chi Jingyuan with some surprise at this time: "Maybe...... Is it Ji Jingyuan who starred in "Unborn"?"
Although she used the sentence structure of temptation and questioning, Yue was very sure, and obviously should have recognized it.
「……」
Looking at the young lady in front of him, who might be a fan of his own or a fan of the drama "Unborn", Chi Jingyuan thought for a while, did not deny it, nodded and returned: "Inside, I am Chi Jingyuan, Anihassai."
He took the initiative to put down the mask, saluted slightly and said hello with a smile.
Seeing Chi Jingyuan who was close at hand, whether it was the fan Nuna in front of him or the waiter in front of him, his eyes lit up, and he looked at Chi Jingyuan's face a little greedily.
"I'm so lucky, when I came out to call back, I accidentally glanced at it and thought it was you...... The hair color that sticks out mainly from the hat is really striking, and I was completely lucky for this meal today."
Although this Nuna smiled happily, she was not as crazy and helpless as ordinary student fans when they saw Ji Jingyuan, she was very organized while admiring the other party's pleasing eyes.
"Hehe, I'm lucky too."
Chi Jingyuan smiled and said modestly.
The other party is obviously an older, more mature and rational fan, neither asking for a group photo nor asking for an autograph, so that Chi Jingyuan is quite relaxed, and he couldn't help but chat a few words, no deliberate alienation, no too close, the scale is very good.
"Mi Anei, I'm so happy that I forgot the time all of a sudden, Jing Yuan Xi is coming to eat with friends." Fan Nuna suddenly remembered that he had been delayed a lot, and his eyes swept over Sunny next to him, but he had no interest in talking, and apologized a little embarrassed: "Then I won't disturb Jing Yuanxi, Fighting, I will support you."
"Consanmida."
After thanking each other, the other party didn't bother at all and took the initiative to leave, Ji Jingyuan and Sunny looked at each other and pouted, and went upstairs to the third floor without stopping.
The area on the third floor is much smaller, and there are several boxes of different sizes, and under the leadership of the waiter, Ji Jingyuan and the two walked directly to the one on the left, and before they entered the door, they heard the familiar voice of Taeyeon's sister inside.
"Watching a movie? What movies did you watch, did you have any good movies lately?"
"I heard that "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" is very good, but it seems to be released in January, and it is not released...... and "Twenty", which will be released soon, played by Kim Woo-bin and Lee Jun-ho, should also be okay...... Jingyuan is here!"
As soon as Ji Jingyuan and the two walked into the box, it was lively all of a sudden, and he recognized the people inside with a sweep of his eyes, Kim Taeyeon, Hwang Mi-young and Kim Hee-cheol.
Just these three people feel a little little, and he thinks that Jin Qifan is also there.
"Jingyuan, come on!"
"Hey, the two busy people of ULI are finally here, let my brothers and sisters wait like this." As soon as Kim Hee-cheol saw the two people coming in, he immediately stood up, walked over with a smile and jokingly and patted Ji Jingyuan's shoulder, and then opened his hands to Sunny as if he wanted to hug him, and Sunny, who had taken off his mask, walked past him without looking, and sat in the seat next to Hwang Mi-young in complete disregard.
Chi Jingyuan couldn't help but laugh in his heart and said, Jin Xiche didn't care either, he smiled and first signaled to the waiter that he could serve the food, and then closed the door and pulled Chi Jingyuan to the opposite position of the three sisters.
"Ah, didn't you say it would end at ten o'clock? It's all ten
It's past a little past, do you really care about my birthday?" Kim Taeyeon began to be happy when she saw the two of them, and then quickly put her hands on her chest in a pretended gesture and looked at the two of them complaining angrily.
As the protagonist of this meal, Kim Taeyeon, who is a year older, is dressed very beautifully today, her long black hair is slightly curled, hanging from the sides of her neck to her chest, and her upper body looks delicate with a white fluffy snowflake jacket lined with a base shirt of the same color.
Just looking at the dress, I thought she had just recorded a certain show, delicate with this dignified grace, very successful.
After all, it's ***.
"Of course I don't, Jingyuan doesn't know."
Sunny seemed to be afraid that Kim Taeyeon would not be angry, so he replied as a matter of course, and then took the chopsticks and began to observe the side dishes on the table, and the lazy look seemed to be deliberately made to annoy her, which made Ji Jingyuan amused for a while.
"Ani, I was a little delayed when I went back to change my clothes just now." Ji Jingyuan explained briefly, and changed the topic with a smile: "Nuna, what were you talking about just now? Do you want to watch a movie?"
Glancing at Sunny unhappily, Kim Taeyeon made a lazy look, after all, she wasn't really angry, she quickly smiled and nodded, "Just now Pani proposed to go to the movies together when I was free, and I said I wanted to watch horror movies."
"yi~" Huang Meiying frowned and fanned the wind with her hand, as if she was dispelling some strange smell: "If you want to watch a horror movie, you have to go yourself, I just checked the recent movies on the peninsula, the themes are quite boring, I want to watch Hollywood blockbusters."
"Cut, if outsiders hear this, you'll be dead." Taeyeon pursed her lips and reminded, then looked at Ji Kyung-won, "Kyung-won, do you want to find a chance to go to the movies together in the past two days?"
"......" Ji Jingyuan raised his eyes and thought about his recent itinerary, and shrugged his shoulders: "Of course it's okay if you have time, but Nuna, I've been busy lately...... And I just watched it yesterday, and the most recent movies are not as interesting as mine?"
"What do you want to see?" The eyes of several people next to him all glanced at him.
"I'm more interested in a cartoon that has just been released on the neon side, and has not yet been introduced on the peninsula side, "Dorai Amon: Nobita's Cosmic Heroes".
Feeling the eyes of several people, Chi Jingyuan gave them up with great interest, and Amway was very confident: "I read the trailer introduction, it must be very good, this time the theater version is mainly about ......"
"yi~~cartoon ......"
"Hahaha Jingyuan, your hobby is really a bit contrasting, it's so interesting." When I heard that it was a cartoon, the sisters were a little disgusted, but Jin Xiche patted him on the shoulder with laughter, not interested in his Amway, but felt very interesting about his preference.
Chi Jingyuan knew that they were not interested at all as soon as he saw the expressions of several people, and his enthusiasm went down in an instant, shaking his head and sighing in his heart.
No vision at all.
It's the same with EXO's group of people, before Chi Jingyuan took the initiative to go to watch a released animation together, but this was ignored without anyone responding, and several people turned their heads directly to watch a suspense film that had just been released.
Chi Jingyuan was a little helpless, and he didn't know when a relative would appear in his circle of friends who was somewhat similar to his hobbies.
At this time, there was a knock on the door of the box, Huang Meiying answered and the door was pushed open, and several waiters walked in with carts, ready the oven and all the dishes, and politely withdrew and closed the door after asking if they needed help with the barbecue.
"Ah, I can finally eat, I'm starving." Huang Meiying swept around the fresh and bright dishes, stretched her waist and clapped her hands with satisfaction.
"Wait a minute, sing the song first!" Jin Xicheol saw that Huang Meiying looked like she was about to stretch out her chopsticks, so she quickly interrupted her and took a cake that had been prepared a long time ago and had all the candles inserted from the side
came out, took out a lighter and lit the candle, and then gestured to Chi Jingyuan with his eyes.
Ji Kyung-won took the cake knowingly, stood up and held the cake in front of Kim Taeyeon, and several people next to him also applauded and sang a song together, looking at Sunny, who was very bad with Taeyeon just now, he also smiled and clapped his hands happily.
"Birthday Rough Kahamida~"
"Birthday Rough Kahamida~"
The singing of several people soon overflowed the entire box, Kim Taeyeon smiled very happily, her eyes stayed on everyone's faces for a second, and the cheerful emotions were a little uncontrollable and directly let out a burst of "HOHO" laughter, and then quickly reached out to cover her mouth, and the whole person who laughed lowered her head and shook a few times.
"I'm going to blow it!"
After waiting for a few seconds, Kim Taeyeon raised her head again and made an announcement, and then sacrificed the lung capacity of the lead singer, puffed up her cheeks and blew violently, directly blowing out all the candles in an instant, and at the same time, several friends next to her also cheered, and the scene became very lively and warm for a while.
In fact, no one likes to eat the cake, but it plays a symbolic role, and after the candle was blown, Chi Jingyuan put it aside and clapped his hands with a few people.
"Let's eat first, and talk while we eat." The protagonist Kim Taeyeon gave an order with a wave of his hand, and several people put on the small aprons sent by the hotel and started moving.
"Would you like some wine?"
"Forget it, I'm here by car."
"I didn't ...... to drive Okay, forget it."
After a short exchange, as the youngest of the friends here, Chi Jingyuan naturally took the initiative to pick up the tongs and scissors and start to barbecue and cut meat, serving several sisters.
Although it should generally be operated by a waiter, after all, several people are artists, and what they say in chat is very private, and it is very inappropriate for outsiders to be present, so they can only be done by Jingyuan in the busy pool.
He didn't think it was anything, although Wu Shixun did it most of the time when he had a dinner party and ate barbecue Europe, he occasionally saw that Wu Shixun would help when he was too busy, after all, it was one of the busy jobs.
"The more I think about it, the more unhappy I get."
After chatting a few words, she wrapped a barbecue and ate it in her mouth, she didn't swallow it yet, and when she was still chewing, Kim Taeyeon frowned when she remembered something, just now she was very fickle because she was full of joy because of blowing candles, and looked at Ji Jingyuan with sharp eyes: "You didn't go last time I called you out to play in Xia Guo, this time I called you to watch a movie and didn't go, and today that junior is not here, who are you performing for?"
"I didn't say I wouldn't go......" Chi Jingyuan blinked innocently, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a few excited people next to him.
「jinjia? Did Jingyuan get involved with the company's juniors?"
"Which junior, which junior?"
Sunny, who was eating a piece of barbecue that Ji Kyung-won had just handed over, was stunned, and joined the gossip with Kim Hee-cheol in surprise, looking at Kim Taeyeon with interest.
Huang Meiying was there last time, so she wasn't curious, eating barbecue and smiling at the excitement.
Everyone here is a very close relative, and there is no need to worry about who will say it, Kim Taeyeon first exchanged a look with Ji Kyung-won, and while turning the meat over the grate with chopsticks, he pouted: "It's the captain of the redvelvet, Irene, Bae Joo-hyun, the famous female trainee before."
"Really? Isn't Redvelvet just debuting? Have you been in half a year?" Sunny's eyes widened, glancing back and forth as if he had misheard.
「Irene? She and Jing Yuan?" Jin Xiche was also a little surprised.
"The last time the gold record ended in the background, I felt that there was something wrong with these two, and it is not very clear whether they are dating, but it is definitely not an ordinary relationship."
Kim Taeyeon wrapped a barbecue, looked at Ji Jingyuan before lifting it up and feeding it to his mouth, and said very firmly: "At that time, the two of them were talking and laughing at each other, and that intimacy was definitely not an ordinary friend, and her eyes were ...... when we called Jingyuan out later."
Recalling that scene at that time, Kim Taeyeon also imitated Bae Joo-hyun's expression and eyes vividly, and Hwang Mi-young, who was watching next to her, laughed and clapped as an atmosphere group, while Ji Kyung-won sighed and shook his head.
I just debuted a few years ago, and when I first met this sister, I took the initiative to come to the lounge to ask him for contact information, at that time she obviously came with a purpose, Chi Jingyuan saw it very clearly, but the purpose is to be a serious person or a junior who soaked in small fresh meat, he doesn't know, after exchanging contact information, sometimes this sister will also send some photos or messages beyond ordinary friends.
However, with the passage of time, the mode of getting along between the two has also gradually changed after finding that they are closer to each other, and the previous ambiguity has slowly disappeared, leaving only friends and even a purer friendship between sisters and brothers, and at the same time, it feels much more sincere than before.
may be thinking of the fact that he took the initiative a few years ago but suffered a tragic defeat, which made Kim Taeyeon a little angry, and when he mentioned Bae Joo-hyun, who was obviously a little ambiguous with Ji Kyung-won, he somehow had a bad tone.
However, she quickly adjusted, and added after eating the barbecue in her mouth: "Speaking of which, I saw that kid just now, redvelvet was recording a live broadcast promo before his return in the afternoon, and the company asked me to make a cameo appearance, and a few children even gave me birthday cakes."
"Really, you and Irene?" Sunny looked at Chi Jingyuan and raised an eyebrow very curiously, and several other people also turned their eyes to it.
"Not in a relationship." Ji Jingyuan didn't hide the privacy either, he paused in the middle of speaking, and felt that the few people next to him seemed to be a little disappointed because they didn't hear the gossip they wanted to hear and the answers, so he laughed and added: "Other words, a little bit......