"It's 2014. Girls' Generation's contract expires this year, right?"

"Yes, the company has been discussing contract renewal with them since last year."

"Are there a few people who are hesitant?"

"How do you know?"

"Is it possible that one of them wants to start a side business, but the company doesn't agree?"

"You also know this?"

"hehe..."

Time: January 1, 2014, Location: Stanford University, Auditorium

The crowd was filled with darkness, and the middle-aged man on the stage was explaining something to the students below in high spirits.

On the big screen next to the middle-aged man, you can clearly see a group of videos playing slowly, including men and women. They are all doing the same thing - performing.

The English is spoken with a strong South Korean accent. Look at the red banner hanging above the auditorium. The most eye-catching thing is the English characters "K-POP".

"When I came here last time, I introduced to you that our company was preparing to prepare a large-scale boy band at that time, with 7 members from South Korea and 5 members from China. (Later one of them quit, that person

It’s Song Bingyang)

It is a team that plans to form a team with the same team name. And they are in South Korea and China. Members of South Korea are active in South Korea, and members of China are active in China. The two teams sing the same song in both countries.

They will debut in two countries at the same time and carry out activities at the same time. The two teams combined will have one member. They will debut in China and South Korea in May.

This time I am here to meet you again, and I also bring you good news worth looking forward to.

We plan to launch a girl group in August this summer. This is another girl group after the launch of F() in 2009. At present, this plan has just been put on the agenda. How many members will there be? What will they do?

The route style is still being planned, and the selection of the new girl group will start after I return to China, so please look forward to it."

The middle-aged man who was giving a speech on the stage was much older than three years ago, but his eyes still shone with wisdom. Among the crowd, there was a man who looked similar to the middle-aged man.

A somewhat similar boy was holding the phone and whispering something.

"Father will be very happy if he knows that you have retired from the army."

"Really?"

"Why don't you come over here?"

"No, I'm with my mother."

Upon hearing this, the two fell into silence at the same time, which seemed out of place in the auditorium where applause appeared from time to time.

After about a minute of silence, the man slowly said, "If you have anything you want me to convey to my father, just ask."

"Well, it's nothing, but please help me tell my father that I will return to China after I officially retire."

"Really? Haven't you always rejected the entertainment industry?"

"Before, now..."

Outside Stanford University, on a hillside in the distance, a tough man in military uniform looked in the direction of the school and hung up the phone.

In front of him, there was an incense table with a bowl of steaming rice, a bowl of broth, a stack of mugwort cakes, and a yellowed photo.

The person who just talked to him on the phone is named Li Xiankui, and he is his brother.

The person giving a lecture at Stanford University at this time was his father, and this was his second invitation.

In the eyes of South Koreans, there are probably few people who don't know him. Privately, everyone calls him "The Tyrant". He single-handedly created the largest star-making factory in South Korea. Fans call him a fool. Privately, he is affectionate.

Call that person "Uncle Man".

In Li Xianzhe's impression, his father was a very serious person, and because the outside world called him a "tyrant", there was a lot of dirty information about his father. However, the credibility of this kind of stuff was not high.

Artists who started their career in the company will always say "Thank you to the family in the company, thank you to Teacher Lee Soo Man" in many public occasions. It can be seen that they respect their fathers, but of course, there is also a little fear.

Even though President Jin is now in charge of the company, when this company is mentioned, the first person who is mentioned and thought of is still his father.

Ahem, that's a bit far.

But in fact, at home, Li Xianzhe's father is like many traditional men, but he loves his brothers and their mother very much. Unfortunately, this kind of life left them in 2001.

That year, his mother was diagnosed with small bowel cancer and began surgery in January 2001. Unlike the fragmented memory fragments in his mind... his mother died on September 0, 2014, but earlier than expected.

for a whole year.

Sitting cross-legged on the grass, Li Xianzhe looked at the happy family in the yellowed photo, and always felt that his mood was very complicated.

God took away his mother, and under the stimulation of that grief, he sent him those messy memories. In the past, this thing tortured him to the point of splitting his personality.

After Li Xianzhe was born, unlike his elder brother Li Xiankui who was sent to the United States by his father to study, he was sent to China by his father to live alone, not to mention that he developed an authentic Beijing accent.

But in middle school, he went to the United States and studied with his brother Li Xiankui at Westlake High School, the most famous high school in California, known as the "Little Ivy" and "California Harvard".

Although the two brothers were well protected by their father and were not disturbed by the outside world, and the media never exposed the photos of the two brothers. But perhaps it was the unique Eastern concept of "the son inherits the father's legacy" that drove him to treat the two brothers.

People have great expectations.

As long as they can learn finance, business management, film and television music creation, real estate investment planning, etc., Li Xiuman "forces" the two brothers to accept these. Fortunately, one of them can join the company to help him manage the company in the future.

Daily operations to carry forward the glory of the family.

Every day life was spent in this full schedule of studies. Until 2001, the two brothers’ mother, Jin Eun-jin, was diagnosed with a terminal illness, which caused the relationship between the father and son to change overnight.

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Although his father lost his job in the company during that time and stayed in the hospital all night, due to the lack of communication between father and son, and as his mother's health became worse and worse, Lee Hyun-cheol chose the path that South Korean men fear most -

He served in the military, but not in South Korea, but in the United States.

"In 2014, according to what my brother said, I am afraid that after my father returns to the company, he will probably start the selection of new girl group members, ah~~ It should be said that before that, their candidate names for the group did not include Red Velet.

, forget it, as long as it’s not lavender and White Fo (white fox).”

After kowtowing three times to the middle-aged woman in the photo, Li Xianzhe stood up, dusted himself off and muttered, "Fourth generation girl group, I'm really looking forward to meeting you for the first time."

Two months ago, Li Xianzhe officially retired from a certain American army. Due to his good performance, he was awarded the "Medal of Honor" by his army and was recorded in history. (The Medal of Honor is the highest honor awarded to American soldiers in the military.

As of 2005, the Medal of Honor has been awarded a total of 460 times, 615 of which were awarded posthumously. 19 people have been awarded two Medals of Honor, of which 14 people have received this honor twice, and 5 people have received it once.

He was also awarded the Army and Navy Medals of Honor.

The only female recipient of the Medal of Honor, Mary Hawke, was an Army surgeon during the Civil War. Her medal, along with that of other noncombatant recipients, was revoked in 1917 and was not re-recognized until 1977 during President Carter's term.

Eligibility to receive the Medal of Honor is not limited to U.S. citizens. 61 Canadians who have served in the U.S. military have received this honor, most of them during the U.S. Civil War. The last award was in 2001, and the protagonist received it while serving.)

During this period, Li Xianzhe's application for early graduation was also approved by his university, Stanford University.

Compared with the countless talented students at Stanford University, Lee Hyun-cheol, who obtained a master's degree while serving in the military, is not special. However, if such an example is placed in South Korea, it is destined to be difficult not to be noticed.

One day in March, Lee Hyun-cheol, still wearing a military uniform, got on a plane from San Francisco International Airport in California to his hometown.
Chapter completed!