In the afternoon, in a coffee shop at the mouth of an alley on a street in a certain neighborhood in Tokyo.

Lin Yi, who was still eating at the Shimbashi side before, is now sitting face-to-face with Jessica on the side of Akihabara drinking a drink.

Looking at the two girls downstairs who walked out to play arm in arm, Jessica glanced at Lin Yi who was fiddling with her mobile phone next to her, "Is it really good not to go with you, in fact, you don't have to accompany me." ”

"Don't think too much, I just don't want to go shopping." Lin Yi gave this answer without raising his head.

Jessica, who was scolded for a sentence, not only didn't get angry, but asked back interestingly.

"I've always thought that the reason why men don't like to go shopping with women is because the women around them aren't beautiful enough. So do you also have this idea, if it is Yun'er, you probably won't refuse. ”

"No, I don't treat them equally."

Lin Yi, who took a sip of the drink in the cup, shook his head and held back the belch that he wanted to fight.

Jessica, on the other side, glanced at the glass of Coke lemonade in front of him and sighed a little disgusted.

"Sometimes I really don't know what to say about you, eating sukiyaki is eaten by you as your hot pot shabu, and drinking coffee is drunk by you as KFC Coke."

"The most important thing is to be happy and comfortable, you just have too many ideas, so you will have all kinds of messy emotions."

Lin Yi, who was disliked, turned against Jessica and continued to complain.

After listening to the words this time, Jessica was silent for several minutes, until Lin Yi got up and ran to the toilet to come back, and then slowly spoke, "Lin Yi, if Yun'er also has such thoughts as me, will you help her?" ”

"Contract?"

"Hmm."

"Your question is interesting, but it's fine, if Yuna has all kinds of like you, I will definitely help her. At least it won't make her run around stupidly like you. ”

Lin Yi, who had just sat down and was asked, sighed lightly and gave his answer with a smile.

It's just that after listening to this answer, Jessica was a little unhappy, "What is a sassy operation, I do have a little bad information, but I won't be told by you like this." ”

"Wait, I don't mean what you say, but your personal attitude."

Jessica was stunned, "What's wrong with my attitude?" ”

"Well, selfish."

Lin Yi's undisguised honesty made Jessica stunned on the stool.

After a while, he straightened his waist and looked at Lin Yi opposite with a serious expression, "When you say selfish, are you blaming me for not taking into account the feelings of Yun'er and their members?" But you know, it's not ......."

"Wait a minute."

Before Jessica could explain, Lin Yi interrupted her again and shook her head very seriously.

"The selfishness I am talking about has nothing to do with Yuna, and it has nothing to do with girlhood. After all, they are outsiders to you. There is nothing to say about any person who is not selfish when dealing with outsiders, because interests are the most correct choice. We're all grown-ups, and I'm not so naïve. ”

Now Jessica understands that if according to what Lin Yi said, Lin Yun'er and the others are all outsiders.

Then there is no suspense, the person he said must be Krystal.

"What do you mean...... Krystal？ ”

But this made Jessica even more confused, "What does my behavior have to do with Krystal?" ”

"You don't think that you two sisters are in the same company, and the relationship between popularity and fans can be separated."

"You don't think that if something goes wrong next year, Krystal will be able to stay in the company quietly."

"You don't think that black-hearted guys like Li Xiuman or Kim Young-min don't know what it means to sit together."

Three sentences, sentence after sentence, like a scalpel, dissected some of the topics that Jessica instinctively wanted to dodge, and laid them out clearly in front of her.

"FX is still on the rise, and the company won't give up."

In the face of these words, Jessica's answer was obviously a little lacking in confidence, so Lin Yi's speech in the back was silent again.

"Then why has your company started to push new girl groups, don't tell me you haven't seen those little girls. As Yuna told me, I've already visited you. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Yi slowly picked up his hands from under the table, put them on the table, and gently flicked his drink.

"As a veteran employee, you should know better than me what the problem is. There are so many resources, with newcomers, they will naturally run and divide the weight of others, and your company is not a fool, it is impossible not to know the disadvantages of Bo but not fine. ”

Jessica, who was silent, hadn't thought much about it before, because she had thought about it a long time ago, and even had a few words with Krystal.

Krystal's view is simple: Ernie can do whatever you want, don't think about me, if the company does that, it only means that I am not capable.

Krystal, who seems to be cold and indifferent, has no pride in his heart that is not lost to Jessica at all.

So at this time, Jessica had only one question in mind, and that was why Lin Yi said this.

Is it pure speculation?

Still is......

Jessica, who was full of doubts, simply stopped thinking about it herself, and when she touched a little bit of Lin Yi's character, she immediately opened her mouth to ask this incomprehensible question.

And hearing Jessica ask herself, Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, "It's not all guesses or estimates, so what's the difference between talking big and big, the main thing is that I heard a little bit of news that may be inclined to this aspect." ”

"What is it?"

Jessica was led by Lin Yi by the nose again.

"Recently, there was a script for a TV series in the pipeline, and the project was said to be quite ambitious. In addition to being online with many high-end fashion brands alone, it has also sent many people to shoot around the world. While success or failure has nothing to do with these, there is definitely a certain level of plus. ”

The process of a TV series is actually similar to that of a movie, from determining all the scripts, to the establishment of the project, then the preparation of funds, the composition of the team, and so on.

Some take one to two years, while others may take one to two months.

And for the sick social side of Peninsula, which is a fast-paced entertainment, if the former is definitely dead, it is usually only necessary to read the script of the first few episodes, and once it is in sight, the project will be invested immediately.

The team is even simpler, the TV station won the project, and the vast majority of the employees were the employees of the TV station.

The rest of the big hands, that is, directors, special cameramen, etc., will find a cooperation on their own.

If it's just a script for an ordinary screenwriter, or even a director trained in-house, you don't need to work with external personnel.

"And the news I heard is that your company has a tendency to cooperate with this script, but I am a little hesitant to hand the script to the artists below for the time being. You should be familiar with the practice of selling places to make a fortune. ”

After listening to this paragraph, Jessica took a deep look at Lin Yi and asked, "Yun'er, the heroine of the next TV series a few days ago, is this one." ”

Lin Yi smiled slightly and acquiesced.

"At that time, there was a saying within the company that this heroine came for Yun'er."

Thinking of this, Jessica's eyelashes fluttered, and her eyes stared at the deep amber eyes on the other side, "Is that you?" ”

Lin Yi was still silent, just continued to smile.

Now Jessica understood, and her trust in what he had just said deepened, "So when you said that the company hesitated, did you mean a character assigned to Krystal?" ”

"Specify?"

Lin Yi, who just wanted to deny it, thought about it, pursed his lower lips and tongue, and blurred his words, "What do you think?" ”

Seeing that Lin Yi still didn't answer him directly, Jessica thought that he had something unspeakable, and then didn't continue to ask about this topic.

Instead, he changed directions, thought alone, and muttered, "No, there is still a year to go, and the company will not waste this time." ”

After listening to Jessica muttering to herself for a few minutes, Lin Yi gave a knife to the past with a fierce heart.

"Oh, then do you remember Kim Jae-jung? Do you think you and Krystal are as strong as they are in terms of their ability to attract money? ”

Jessica, who was commented on fiercely, suddenly glared at Lin Yi with a little anger.

In this regard, Lin Yi immediately opened his language talent for the gold medal of the 'Green Tea Masters'.

"But in fact, if you think about it carefully, it doesn't seem to be a problem, you all have made about the same amount of money, even if you retire now, with your current popularity, it is not a big deal to occasionally take on business orders, or wait for a few years before re-entering the stage. Just rest for a few years, anyway, there is no shortage of money, and you can also nourish your body. ”

"And Krystal is still young, only 19 years old now, although he has just come of age, he has not made a short debut. Take this opportunity to integrate it well, and then start again, it shouldn't be a waste of her golden period. ”

"Leaving the stage at the age of 20, coming back in the 20s, and the return of ACE seems to be quite a good topic."

Jessica, who was staring at him, couldn't hold back anymore when she heard this, and kicked her foot under the table directly, "Shut up, ok~"

Lin Yi, who was kicked in the calf, shrugged his shoulders, grinned, and quieted down.

On the other side, Jessica, who hadn't thought about it so much, was stimulated by Lin Yi's speech to green tea.

Especially the phrase 'the golden age of the stage'.

It struck the softest corner of Jessica's heart.

Because Jessica is well aware that her golden period has actually come to an end, but Krystal's golden period of career is just beginning.

As for what Lin Yi said would not waste the golden period in a few years, Jessica really wanted to roll her eyes.

Maybe that's the case in the entertainment industry on his side, but not on Peninsula.

In the Peninsula entertainment industry, where the speed of updating in this idol is faster than changing toilet paper, a few years is enough to make an idol completely lose its social aspect.

So she didn't care about this problem before, because she didn't think it would come to this point, after all, Jessica really didn't want to turn around with the company or quit the group.

She just wanted to find a way out of this predicament.

Although the road is a bit wild, it is also a bit miscellaneous.

But as Lin Yi said this, Jessica was somewhat flustered.

She can be very selfish with others because it doesn't matter, she doesn't care.

But that doesn't mean she can be so selfish in her attitude towards Krystal or in her sister's future.

In particular, she watched Krystal persevere in a super practice intensity all the way, in order to stand on the stage at this time.

If that stage is lost, will Krystal really feel indifferent?

Can you really turn a blind eye to it?

I didn't know about this possibility before, but I felt that it was too small or even unlikely, so I didn't dwell too much.

It wasn't until Lin Yi put the 'facts' in front of her that Jessica felt a little bit of reality, and was silent again.

And today is also the most silent Jessica has been in recent days.

After a long time, he raised his eyes, looked at Lin Yi's face, which was getting closer and closer to the standard three-court five-eye ratio, and raised his eyebrows slightly before speaking.

"Lin Yi, what the hell are you doing. Don't tell me that you're a photographer, I haven't seen a photographer who can kick a big company's housekeeping actor into the barracks, let alone a photographer who can determine the heroine. ”

"But I'm really a photographer."

A photographer who is a little bit open and a little bit reborn.

"It's really, it's exactly the same as Yuna's answer."

It is estimated that she is mentally prepared not to get an answer, so after listening to it, Jessica immediately pulled out Lin Yuner's answer as a comparison, and Lin Yi couldn't help laughing when she heard it.

Jessica then picked up her phone and excused herself from her seat and sat down in the empty seat in the corner next to the toilet.

Then he flipped through the address book and looked at a certain number in it, pondered for a moment, and finally dialed it.

Two seconds later, the person on the other end of the line answered, "Hey, Ernie. ”

"Well, Xiujing, what are you doing?" Jessica whispered to the person she was calling.

Seoul, in a meeting room in an office building.

Krystal, who was sitting on the couch looking at some scripts on the coffee table in front of him, muttered, "I'm reading some scripts, isn't the recent comeback over, and some music festivals are gradually decreasing, so I'm starting to pick scripts." ”

Unexpectedly, Jessica showed a slightly surprised expression, and then took the opportunity to ask the reason for the call.

"Ah, that's right. The company hasn't decided to give you a script, can you still have a choice? ”

"In the morning, OPPA said that he wanted to give me a role, but it seemed that something went wrong later, and he needed to go for an interview again. I'm reading that script right now, I like it a lot, chaebol, hahaha, I think it's quite suitable for me. But there's more, I'm watching. ”

As Krystal answered, Jessica also pointed to Lin Yi's somewhat vague information just now.

However, she didn't know the inside story, but she made up a series of internal struggles in the company.

For example, Krystal (actually Yuna, but the company wants to consider Krystal), but because of himself (Lin Yi), Krystal lost this opportunity (Yuna was confirmed).

As for the interview that Krystal just said, she didn't believe it at all, it was just a face-saving process to let everyone know.

It can be said that the smart Jessica was once again pitted by her own brain supply, and her cleverness was mistaken by her cleverness, and this sentence was nailed to her head again like a label today.

However, this also has some of Lin Yi's comical operations, such as the internal role in the front, such as the ambiguity in the back, such as some information differences that he knew in advance that Krystal would participate in this TV series.

Then he guided Jessica astray step by step, and after Krystal's just right answer, he completed this super big closed loop.

But this is not Lin Yi's purpose, his purpose has always been very clear.

From the moment he talked about Krystal, he was going to open up Jessica's empathy.

If this were someone else, it would be estimated that Lin Yi would have turned around and run away, because there was no possibility.

But pulling Krystal to open up Jessica's empathy is kind of interesting.

And in this situation, Lin Yi has already laid the foundation with Jessica from the last time he ate.

Why would Lim Yuna consider choosing a studio to renew her contract?

The reason is very simple, for the sake of combination, for the stability of popularity, and for the future development of the company not to be stumped by the company.

Why do I recommend Jessica, I also hope that you can have such thoughts.

At this point, Lin Yi stopped the follow-up advance.

Because the first time it just needed a foreshadowing, it needed to guide Jessica's idea bias.

In the following days, there were occasional text messages to communicate, or to solve doubts, and the two of them also talked a lot about this topic.

In that late-night exchange, Lin Yi also did not mention Krystal.

Instead, in order to deepen the foreshadowing, I chose to continue to advance Jessica's prediction of the consequences, so that she could think more about the consequences, hoping that she would think of Krystal.

But what Lin Yi didn't expect was that this sister was really brave, and she actually ran to Neon to contact Denis.

So when he knew about this situation in the morning, Lin Yi scolded in his heart.

But as he figured out Jessica's idea in the morning, he felt it was time to move on to the next step, and that's what Krystal had just mentioned.

Without him, it is to borrow the situation of Jessica's biological sister to emotionally kidnap and morally kidnap this iceberg princess.

Sister Krystal, isn't Jessica sister controlled?

Elsa has a younger sister, Anna.

So this is the kidnapping plan that Lin Yi said to Lin Yun'er before.

Although it needs to be at the right time, place and people, like this time.

But once it's done, it's still quite impactful for Jessica.

Like now.

Jessica could clearly hear the liking in her tone as she listened to Krystal on the other end of the phone talking about the script in her hand.

So, compromise or no compromise?

It's up to you.

(End of chapter)