Chapter 1 Beginning
Lin Xiyan stood on the streets of New York, watching the crowds coming and going, listening to the music played on the screen, and enjoying the rare festive atmosphere.
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Lin Xiyan turned around and a young man in a pullover hoodie was asking for directions to a passing pedestrian, but probably because of his heavy accent, the pedestrian seemed to not understand.
"Korean?" Lin Xiyan asked in Korean.
"Inside." The young man nodded subconsciously and suddenly was stunned.
"Anihasa has it, my name is Kong Dizhe, or I can call me Kong Liu. Are you Korean?"
When the pedestrian saw Kong Liu meet someone who could communicate, he nodded to Lin Xiyan and left directly.
"Chinese, I just heard that you were asking for directions with a little accent that looked like in Korea, so I asked you." Lin Xiyan said to the pedestrian in fluent English and handed it over to him, then turned around and explained to Kong Liu in fluent Korean.
"My name is Lin Xiyan, Kong Liuxi, hello." Lin Xiyan stretched out his hand.
"Hello, Lin Xiyanxi." The two of them shook their hands briefly.
"Where are you going? Let me take a look for you?" Lin Xiyan asked politely.
"Thank you, Lin Xiyanxi," Kong Liu said without hesitation, and looked saved, and handed the note with the address written on it to Lin Xiyan.
Lin Xiyan took the notes and found that the notes were written in Korean. No wonder the pedestrians just now couldn't show them.
When I found that the address was not far from the hotel I was staying in, I suggested that I could take Kong Yoo there.
So, after a brief exchange, the two temporarily became companions.
On the way, the two young men were not idle and had an inexplicable relationship.
Lin Xiyan also learned that Kong Liu is an actor who has just debuted for two years. This time he came to the United States and just finished filming. He came out to relax and took some more shots from abroad.
Kong Liu also envied Lin Xiyan's free and easy life, which was not worried about his livelihood.
After chatting all the way, the rusty that the two of them had first met had long disappeared.
After sending Gong Liu to his destination, he agreed to wait for Gong Liu to take pictures the next day and go to nearby attractions to visit.
"So you are going to rush back to Korea soon?" At 10 o'clock the next morning, Lin Xiyan received a call from Kong Liu while washing up.
On the phone, Kong Yoo said that he had temporarily increased his itinerary and needed to rush back to South Korea immediately. He had to give up his schedule to go to the Statue of Liberty together.
"Yes, Xi Yanxi, I'm so embarrassed." Kong Liu's apologetic voice came from the phone.
"There's nothing to do. Work is important, unlike me who is an unemployed vagrant." Lin Xiyan felt a little regretful. After nearly three years of traveling abroad, it was the first time that a stranger could have such similar ambitions.
"I feel that Xi Yanxi is not like a jobless vagrant," Kong Liu said with a smile. He could feel the temperament of Lin Xi Yan that is different from that of an ordinary person. He was probably a rich young man.
"Although we only met for less than a day, I feel that Kong Yoo-xi and I have a very good personality. I am not very used to your Korean etiquette. Let's relax our communication with each other." Lin Xiyan said with a smile, "You are older than me, so I will call you Gong Yoo-chi."
"Okay, Xiyan." Kong Liu also felt that the conversation between the two was relaxed, and thought Lin Xiyan was a friend worth dating, so he responded.
"Then brother, go and do it first. I'll go to Korea to play with you after visiting the United States." Lin Xiyan looked at the time and judged that Kong Liu should be ready to leave for the airport.
"Okay, when you come to Korea, you must tell me that I will treat you well." Kong Liu laughed.
Lin Xiyan continued his journey after Kong Liu returned to China.
I went to see Niagara Falls, located at the junction of Ontario and New York State, and unfortunately, I can only see the side of the falls in the United States.
I also visited the Rocky Mountains known as the "backbone of America", visited Yellowstone Park, and even took a hike in the Grand Canyon of Colorado.
Time flies, and it is already March. Lin Xiyan, who is on the beach in Hawaii, received an international call from South Korea.
"President nim, the cafe has been decorated according to the drawings you sent." The other end of the phone was a store manager who Lin Xiyan commissioned a headhunting company to find for his cafe.
Through the Pacific Ocean, Lin Xiyan had never even used video calls, so he entrusted the large amount of decoration to the store manager, which was fully managed by the store manager.
The new store manager was really surprised when he received the renovation budget at first. She never thought that a coffee shop could cost such a price.
However, when I saw the finished product in the store, I couldn't help but sigh at the advanced design concept, bringing such a stunning finished product, and I also felt that it was worth the money at this time.
"Okay, I understand. I'll go to Korea in a few days." Lin Xiyan replied in a relaxed voice. He was enjoying the Hawaiian sunshine and was lazy.
"Okay, president nim." A respectful female voice came from the other end of the phone. She also bowed and responded, "Please wait until you book the flight ticket and send me the flight number, I will come and pick you up."
"Ok." Lin Xiyan hung up the phone, took out a sun hat from the bottom of the lounge chair and covered it on his face. The sunlight had slowly moved to the top of his head, and it became even more dazzling.
On March 18, 2004, Gimpo International Airport.
Lin Xiyan, who was pushing a suitcase, finally set foot on the land of South Korea.
"So handsome, really elegant."
Since boarding the plane and even on the way out of the airport, Lin Xiyan's ears came from time to time.
As if he had thought of something interesting, Lin Xiyan suddenly shook his head and laughed slightly.
The extremely excellent eyebrow arch among Asians, the right eyebrow spacing, thick eyelashes with eyeliner, real star-eyed eyebrows, perfect Eastern-style narrow nose, and the perfect curve of the lips and the pure natural shining big white teeth make people feel rippling.
"Dafa, so handsome!" A half-baked Korean sentence came to my ears.
Lin Xiyan thought of Kong Liu who asked for directions in stumbled English in the United States. Why did he meet someone who was not fluent in Korean when he arrived in South Korea? Did he get something wrong?
Turning his head, I saw a 14-15-year-old girl holding her cell phone towards her.
The girl didn't expect Lin Xiyan to suddenly turn her head and try to put away her phone in a hurry, but the more anxious the more she is, the more messy the phone is. The phone slides directly from her hands, probably unable to avoid the fate of being crushed to pieces.
Lin Xiyan took a step forward and pinched his phone before it barely landed on the ground.
"Mianne, I shouldn't have taken pictures of you secretly." The girl's face turned red in anxiousness, and the Korean language in her mouth became even more scattered.
"Although it's not the first time I've been photographed secretly, why do you seem to be bullied by me in this situation?" The eyes of the passengers around me flashed over the two of them, and the meaning they conveyed was very obvious.
Lin Xiyan looked at the girl and felt the gaze of the passengers around him, feeling a little funny.
"Take it, don't be so rough next time." Lin Xiyan heard that the girl was not proficient in Korean, so she simply switched to English.
"Thank you." The girl raised her head and showed a sweet smile. Her eyebrows and eyes became like crescent moons because of their smile, which looked very beautiful.
"Goodbye then."
Seeing the girl calm down, Lin Xiyan was about to leave, turned around and walked towards the exit.
After a few simple words of communication just now, the girl felt that Lin Xiyan should not be such a serious person. She tilted her head and thought for a few seconds, then pushed her suitcase and followed Lin Xiyan.
"Hello, my name is Huang Meiying, and my English name is tiffany. Can you get to know him?"
It turns out that the girl's name is Huang Meiying.
Surprised by the girl's initiative and by the girl's own, Lin Xiyan stopped.
"Hello, Huang Meiyingxi, my name is Lin Xiyan, Chinese." Lin Xiyan also briefly introduced himself.
"Don't be so formal, just call me tiffany. I grew up in the United States and I haven't adapted to Korea's habits yet." tiffany shook his hand.
"Okay, tiffany." Lin Xiyan followed suit, and he was not used to it.
"Xiyan Oppa, can I call you that? Why are you doing business in Korea?" Tiffany, who relaxed, returned to her refreshing style in the United States. She looked at Lin Xiyan in formal outfit and asked curiously.
"It's a bit serious, it's more for fun." Lin Xiyan pushed the suitcase and continued forward, "Where are you? Why are you here alone in Korea and your family?"
"I am a new trainee who joined SM and came to report." Tiffany said happily.
"Trainer?" Lin Xiyan hadn't paid much attention to the entertainment industry and didn't understand what it meant.
"Hey? It's similar to a student, but I'll be on stage to perform shows in the future." Tiffany didn't expect that Lin Xiyan's lack of knowledge in the entertainment industry and explained it in a simple way.
"I understand if you say that, just be a star!" Lin Xiyan thought of Kong Liu, "There is a reason I came to Korea to see a friend. According to him, he is an actor, but I have not watched his show yet."
"Not that, then you have to become famous to be considered a star!" Tiffany was embarrassed.
Finally, I reached the exit and saw a woman in a professional dress holding a sign with her name written on it. She was about to walk over there, but stopped again.
"Tiffany, are you someone here to pick you up? Do you need to send it to you?"
"How can you be so embarrassed!" Tiffany was a little moved. Although he could speak some Korean, Korea was unfamiliar to her and felt a little uneasy.
"It's okay, didn't you say that the company is in Seoul? I'm going there too, so I should go along the way." Lin Xiyan saw the girl's hesitation, "Don't worry, I'm a good person and I won't do anything to you."
When Tiffany heard Lin Xiyan praise him as a good person, he laughed, "Then give Xiyan Oppa a chance to be a flower protector!"
So Lin Xiyan took Tiffany's suitcase and walked towards the girl in professional clothes.
"Park Min-kyung xi?" Lin Xiyan asked.
Looking at the handsome face in front of him and calling out his name directly, Park Min-kyung suddenly had a little brain breakdown.
"Inside, it's me. Are you the president of Lin Xiyan nim?" After a brief moment of being stunned, Park Min-kyung immediately came to his senses and confirmed Lin Xiyan's identity, but there was still a little blush on his face.
"Dafa, Xiyan Oppa, are you the president?" Tiffany was a little shocked.
"Inside, I'm just running a small coffee. If you have time, I can have a coffee and I'll treat you." Lin Xiyan waved his hand, then turned his head to Park Min-kyung and said, "Min-kyung xi, do you know where SM Entertainment Company is? Please send this child I just met to the place."
"No trouble, it's quite close to our store. Just listen to your arrangements from President Nim." Park Min-kyung bowed slightly, wanting to take the suitcase from Lin Xiyan's hand.
Lin Xiyan slightly retreated the box, "I'd better do the box myself, ladies still need some privileges."
Tiffany was a little unhappy when she heard Lin Xiyan call her a child, "Xiyan Oppa, you are not very old, why should you say to me as a child!"
"I was born in January 1980. You should be only 14 or 15 years old!" Lin Xiyan said while putting his suitcase into the trunk of the car.
Tiffany and Park Min-kyung were a little surprised to hear that Lin Xiyan was born in 1980 and could not tell at all.
Tiffany even said, "Agassi!!!"
???Lin Xiyan looked helpless.
After getting on the bus, Tiffany was a little tired from taking the plane for a long time and was a little sleepy along the way. Lin Xiyan learned about the situation of the new store from Park Min-kyung.
An hour later, looking at the dilapidated building in front of me, if it weren't for the two big SM words hanging on the exterior wall, Lin Xiyan would have doubted whether Park Min-kyung had opened the wrong place.
Seeing the doubts in Lin Xiyan's eyes, Park Min-kyung explained: "Although I don't know why, this is indeed SM Entertainment."
"Xiyan Oppa, thank you for sending me over. Let's see you next time." Tiffany saw the destination of this trip and excitedly pulled her suitcase to the other side, then stood at the door and said goodbye to Lin Xiyan.
"Okay, see you next time." After Lin Xiyan confirmed that the place was correct, she returned to the car with Park Min-kyung, preparing to go to the renovated store to check it out, and then plan the opening time.
Chapter completed!