Chapter 40 Chapter 40 School starts丨Work starts丨Classes start……
When Quanxingai got off the plane, he happened to meet the media who were broadcasting live. We are still in the control period of the epidemic, and crowds are not allowed to gather at the airport. There were not many people, but it was very lively online, with people all watching the fun.
"Xing Aixi was stranded in Japan for a month and missed the start of the Seoul National University semester. Do you have anything to say?"
"Sarah, who are your companions in Japan?"
"Xing Aixi, look here!"
Wearing a mask and a hat, Quan Xingai walked out slowly. Hearing the reporter's question, she smiled and said, "I've been learning a lot about music during my time in Japan. I've also tried my hand at some creative work and filmed some vlogs. Thank you all for your concern. I'm sorry I missed the start of school, so I'm ready to go back to class."
"Did Xing Aixi go to Japan by herself?"
"I have two good friends in Japan. We live in her beachfront house. Reporter, I guess you haven't seen my video. Go check it out! The house is beautiful and the scenery is great."
"Aren't you traveling with your boyfriend? There's a rumor online about meeting a couple who look a lot like you."
"I already have enough scandals. Don't give me any more 'boyfriends'. Bye!" Jeon Seong-ae flashed her big eyes and clasped her hands together pitifully at the reporters, "I have classes to attend and album preparations to prepare. Otherwise, reporters, you should just ask me about the new album."
"Haha, has Xing Aixi's new album already taken shape so quickly?"
"Oh, it's about a poor female artist who has 108 rumored boyfriends even though she hasn't even been in a relationship yet."
"Ah, everyone says that the current Quanxing Aixi is as flexible as a fish and likes to talk nonsense. It's absolutely true." The reporter's eyes lit up and dimmed, and he spoke speechlessly.
"No, look at my eyes, they say honest man! Ah, I'm here. Thank you all for accompanying me back to China, and thank you to all the fans who watched the live broadcast. Bye then."
After chatting all the way, we finally arrived at the parking lot and met Wu Xianhao. Quan Xingai smiled and said goodbye to the reporters and the live camera before getting in the car.
[Ah, my Xingai, you look so beautiful even with a mask on! ]
It's such a shame we couldn't meet at the airport! But since there weren't many people around, I was chatting with reporters all the way.
[What a clever girl! The reporter asked a lot of tricky questions, but she cleverly dodged them!]
This outfit is so pretty! The CDG silhouette jacket and the layered black and white skirt are both in black and white, but the shoes are contrasting Converse. I want to buy the same style!
[These CONS shoes look great on me. I went straight to the flagship store to place an order.]
My clothing style seems to have changed after my trip to Japan. I can’t put my finger on it, but I feel a lot more fashionable, more trendy, but not rheumatic.
[It feels like that person...]
[I understand you. You were wearing a hat and walking during the live broadcast. I thought GD was there...]
[Don’t mention the seniors, we little noobs are already scared of being scolded QAQ]
[Ahhh, I got excited when talking about the new album, but the next second, my sister started talking nonsense again kkk]
[Baby, you've been a solo baby!? Found another thing we have in common, hahahaha]
[This is outrageous. How can my daughter, a peony, look like a scumbag who has dated 100 men?]
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Back in Seoul, due to the pandemic, some offline activities were suspended, but this did not affect variety shows and TV programs. RD Group was previously a third-rate group, with variety shows only occasionally participated by Yoon Yeon-jin and Park Geum-moon. After their return, everyone's popularity has risen significantly, and invitations to variety shows have also begun to increase.
The teammates' schedules started to get busier and busier, but Quan Xingai felt that she was not suitable for variety shows before she became more famous, because she felt that she would definitely say the wrong thing and could not pretend to be a well-behaved person, so she simply declined many variety show notices.
"Xing Ai, you must be feeling comfortable lying down in Japan this time!" The four members of RD returned to Seoul for a rare occasion, so they simply came out for dinner.
"Jin Wen, you've been working so hard even during the pandemic. You've even appeared on several online variety shows and various radio stations. That's really amazing."
"I have a strong sense of crisis awareness. Even without variety show exposure, the fan-gaining speed is still among the top few in the group. I have to seize the opportunity." Park Jinwen said without hiding anything. Although her popularity has returned to the back position in the group, the base number is not the same as before, so she is open-minded about Star Love. Only when she and the group are good can she be good.
"Jin Wen, because of your hard work, we RD industry have received very good reviews, Miss Kang Sang Mida Park Jin Wen." Kim Eun-mi participated in some singing variety shows and also appeared on King of Masked Singer, but she was just a runner-up and only appeared on two episodes. She also confronted the staff because of her outspokenness, and ended up getting a thankless job and gaining a lot of crickets behind her back.
"Kangsangmida Jinwen, the captain is very satisfied with you." Quan Xingai said while hugging Park Jinwen.
"Xing Ai, your exposure wouldn't be that high if you didn't appear on variety shows. Are you planning to develop your acting career in the future?" Yan Zhen asked curiously.
"Well... not necessarily. For now, I think acting should be quite interesting, so I'll give it a try." Quan Xingai feels that the idol career is just a job to go to get off work. She doesn't have much feelings about love, dreams, etc., so acting is a new career that she is interested in trying.
"That's good too. Let's all work harder to make RIOT DOLLS better." Yoon Yeon-jin smiled and nodded, shaking hands with Jeon Star-ai.
"Classes start tomorrow?" Kim Eun-mi asked curiously. "Seoul National University classes should be very strict, right? Unlike when I was just messing around at online university."
"So the team's exposure depends on the three beauties. As your captain, I'll probably have to pretend to be a good student in school for a while." Quan Xingai clasped his hands together and looked complaining.
Yin Yanzhen smiled and answered happily, "Captain-nim, just be a top student. We know you don't like variety shows or participating in programs, but we are here for you."
Quan Xingai chuckled, didn't answer, and continued the dinner happily.
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Before going to class, Quan Xingai bought herself a new car, a coupe, which was not expensive. Then she happily started her college journey in the new car.
After starting classes, she didn't forget her Instagram, YouTube and short video accounts. She never forgot to shoot a vlog with a different theme every week. Sometimes it was about visiting stores, sometimes it was about dancing, and sometimes it was about singing guitar covers, so her fans weren't particularly few.
What's more, after school started, there were Reuters photos of her going to school and attending classes everywhere. The phenomenon did not improve until a week after she started classes, and the Reuters photos were greatly reduced.
Jeon Seong-ae's major is the Department of Drama and Arts at Seoul National University. Her classmates are all second-generation stars and chaebols. The major does not train traditional actors. The courses in her freshman and sophomore years are mainly theoretical courses on the history of Chinese and Western drama and art appreciation, while the practical training focuses on basic performance training in voice, stage, shape and expression.
In the third year, students will join the directing course, start to participate in practical stage play adaptation, and finally complete the annual performance stage.
There are only 20 freshmen in the same department as Quan Xingai, including Xingai herself, and all the students in the department are only about 100. The teaching is completely elite and small-class. It was only after Quan Xingai started attending classes that she realized that everyone around her was either rich or noble, and an idol with no background like her was completely an outlier.
Her classmates were not very friendly to her, and her teachers were nice, but not very enthusiastic. The freshman courses were mainly theoretical, and the drama history and appreciation classes were large classes taken together with other humanities departments. At such times, the artist Quan Xingai would become the focus of the classroom.
Fortunately, she is very insensitive, or maybe it is her own free and easy personality, Xingai does not care about the slightly tinted eyes in the department. She went to Seoul National University to fulfill the original owner's wish. She will not join a dance troupe after graduation, nor will she choose to be a director, choreographer, or screenwriter. She is just a singer.
As the saying goes, "When there is no desire, there is strength." After discovering that Quan Xingai had no reaction, those bored rich second-generation classmates who secretly wanted to be isolated gradually began to calm down. With the arrival of spring, Quan Xingai's life began to stabilize and get back on track.
There are classes every day from Monday to Friday, but it is not tiring. Jeon Xingai will read the script while attending get out of class. After class, she will occasionally go to the gym to write songs and think about various arrangements and rhythms while exercising to better enhance her physical strength, and then go to the company's production studio to start writing songs; on weekends, she will occasionally have dinner with the Sweet Home crew to discuss the script and plot, and sometimes she will also ask Cha Eun-woo, whom she hasn't seen for a long time, to go out for a drink.
The Department of Drama and Arts at Seoul National University offers a comprehensive curriculum, and Jeon Seong-ae and other students would accompany their teachers to theaters to see plays and dance productions. Perhaps it was the inherent aura of elegance inherent in such elegant venues that Jeon Seong-ae encountered a handsome man wearing a mask, with slightly curly hair, about the same height as Song Chang, each time she went with her classmates and teachers. The first time, he was chatting with a theater teacher; the second time, he was playing violin in the orchestra.
Quan Xingai was educated and influenced by orthodox classical music from her mother when she was a child. She could immediately tell that the other person hadn't played the violin for several years. Apparently, he also realized this. When no one was paying attention, he lowered his head and scratched it, feeling a little embarrassed.
Quan Xingai couldn't help but burst out laughing. The handsome guy in the mask was startled. Seeing a beautiful girl looking at him with a smile on her face, he felt even more embarrassed. Even through the mask, one could tell that his whole face was completely red.
This is just a small episode in Quan Xingai's busy life. Overall, she has a rare regular schedule during this period. Of course, this is only a regular appearance. In fact, Quan Xingai is only serious about reading scripts and writing songs. As for going to school and fitness, those are activities she can slack off on.
"Xing'aixi, I've been observing you here for two weeks. Last week you were filming something and exercising quite seriously, but this week you've been completely idle?" Quan Xing'ai was sitting in the corner of the gym, playing with her phone carefully, when a familiar bass voice sounded.
Jeon Seong-ae looked up with a handsome and authoritative face, "Senior Joo Hyuk, you are also in this gym."
"Yes, we have the same gym time. I have seen you five or six times, but you haven't seen me once?" Li Zhuhe smiled like a gentleman, but his eyes showed understanding as if he was saying, "Explain yourself and see how you make it up."
"Ah, no wonder I feel that this gym seems so pleasant and the effects are so good. It turns out it's because of senior Zhu He. Looking at your figure, you can tell that the environment here is really good." Quan Xingai smiled and didn't care about Li Zhu He's teasing.
"I heard that you have been with Zhilong for a whole month?" He sat down next to Quan Xingai and asked with a slightly curious expression.
"Senior, aren't you Brother Zhilong's best friend? Why are you asking me this?" Quan Xingai showed her dimples and didn't get to the point.
"I've been curious about what happened between you two since the Nike party on New Year's Day. You know, you give me a very familiar feeling. You are obviously a junior, but you have a magical temperament. Is this what it means to be a social cow?" Although Li Zhuhe looks like a cool and handsome guy, you will find out that he is actually a gossiphead once you get to know him.
"What temperament? Nuna's temperament? Senior, if you want to call me Nuna, I won't mind." Quan Xingai, who couldn't help but want to play some jokes when meeting acquaintances, was very relaxed.
"Now I understand what it's like when Zhilong said he can't do anything about you. Sometimes I really want to hit you. How do you survive in the circle? Will you really not get beaten if you talk to your seniors like this?" Li Zhuhe sighed helplessly after hearing Quan Xingai's blunt joke.
"That's because I feel that you, my senior, are very approachable and I feel like I'm very familiar with you, so I said that. To people I don't know well, I would put on this face and then play dumb and say 'Huh? I don't understand what you're saying.'" Quan Xingai smiled silly, making people think that she was completely stupid and innocent, letting down their guard. "See, now you don't want to bother with me anymore, right?"
Li Zhuhe was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. "Pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger, then let's talk casually and cordially. I can hear that you are not used to this kind of honorifics."
"Huh, that's great. Oppa likes fitness so much, how did you become best friends with Zhilong?" Quan Xingai asked in surprise. When she knew Quan Zhilong before, he didn't like going to the gym or exercising. Now that he has been discharged from the army and his muscles have faded, fitness is almost useless.
"You asked me first. What about you and Ji-yong? The two of you? Really not?" Li Zhuhe saw the girl's familiarity and remembered that Jeon Seong-ae and Kwon Ji-yong had been together in Japan for over a month, and yet there was really no further development? They were still standing still? He was more curious about these two than Jeon Seong-ae's curiosity.
"Ah, wait a minute, Oppa, I have to take a call." It was Song Jiang calling. Quan Xingai picked up the phone, "What's wrong?"
"When will you come out? Do you want me to pick you up?"
"I'm coming. I'm at the gym. Wait for me for another hour. I'm driving. You don't have to pick me up." Quan Xingai looked at the time, thought for a while, and spoke.
Li Zhuhe raised his eyebrows. It was Song Chang calling. From the tone of their voices, they seemed very familiar with each other. He remembered that he had met her and Song Chang having dinner together before. Could it be that she was dating someone else?
"Do you have a date?" Seeing Quan Xingai hang up the phone, Li Zhuhe asked with a smile, with a look of "I love gossip" in his eyes.
"Would you like to drink together?" Quan Xingai asked casually.
"It's not nice to disturb your date." Li Zhuhe hinted on behalf of her best friend.
Hearing the gossipy tone of this guy, Quan Xingai also smiled and said, "Maybe, then Brother Zhu He, do you want to come? Judging from your expression, you really look like you want to gossip."
Li Zhuhe touched his chin and felt an animal instinct. "Come on, Xingai invited me, so I won't refuse."
Just to see what's going on for Zhilong: is Quan Xingai dating Song Cangxi or Zhilong? Or neither? Interesting, really interesting.
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