Chapter 405: The Hodgepodge Version of Girls' Generation
Xue Yun calmed down slightly, then pushed open the practice room door again.
This time, Kim Tae-yeon happened to turn around with her phone raised, and saw Xue Yun entering the moment she pushed the door open.
"Taeyeon Senior!" Xue Yun respectfully bowed and greeted Kim Tae-yeon.
Not to mention that she rarely returned to DM Entertainment, even if she did frequently, the relationship between seniors and juniors wasn't necessarily good.
She and Kim Tae-yeon weren't actually close.
"Xue Yun xi." Kim Tae-yeon also nodded in return, "This will be our practice room from now on, take a look."
"Yes."
Silence...
Neither of them was particularly good at socializing, and coupled with their unfamiliarity, the scene fell silent for a while.
They each did their own thing, until two or three minutes later...
Loud noises came from outside the door, and Kim Tae-yeon and Xue Yun, who were each sitting on a sofa, simultaneously looked up towards the practice room door.
"Huh? The lights are on, have some members arrived already?"
"Maybe it's President nim."
"No way?"
The sound of conversation drifted in. Before the two could distinguish who was coming, the door was pushed open, and Shin Youzhen and Shin Yuna, ITZY's 'Double Shin' duo, came into view.
Xue Yun and Kim Tae-yeon stood up the moment they saw them. ITZY were seniors to both of them, even though Kim Tae-yeon was almost a full cycle older than the Double Shins.
"Youzhen Senior, Yuna Senior." They greeted Shin Youzhen and Shin Yuna.
"Hello."
Shin Youzhen and Shin Yuna returned the greeting with smiles.
"Taeyeon Ouni, Xue Yun, you two came so early?" Shin Yuna asked excitedly.
"Taeyeon Senior came first, I was second." Xue Yun replied to Shin Yuna with her signature Type-C smile on her lips.
"It's a bit exciting to be in a girl group for the first time." Kim Tae-yeon said with a smile. With the arrival of the Double Shins, she relaxed a lot as more people arrived.
And compared to NMIXX, who were nowhere to be seen, she had interacted with the Double Shins many more times.
"Wow! So many people already?"
At this moment, a voice came from outside the door. The four who were chatting simultaneously turned around, and then saw Sun Shengwan standing at the door looking at them.
"Why don't you go in?" Bae Joo-hyun's slightly helpless voice came from behind Sun Shengwan.
"Oh, oh." Sun Shengwan quickly moved aside, and the figures of Bae Joo-hyun and Kang Seul-gi also came into view.
"Irene Senior! Wendy Senior! Seulgi Senior!" The four quickly bowed and greeted these three great seniors.
Aside from Liu Yuan, these three from Red Velvet were the highest-ranking seniors in their temporary group. In fact, many of them had even taken vocal lessons from Sun Shengwan, making them her legitimate students.
"Hello." Bae Joo-hyun and the other two returned the greetings one by one.
"One, two, three, four." Sun Shengwan counted the number of people, "Karina Senior and Yuan Ying Senior haven't arrived yet."
"There's still thirteen minutes until the notified time, it's still early." Bae Joo-hyun said, looking at her phone.
"That's true." Sun Shengwan nodded, then looked at the others with a cheerful smile, "From now on, we're teammates, please take care of me."
Judging by the company's emphasis, although it was a temporary group formed by members drawn from various groups, it probably wouldn't disband in a short time, and the nine of them would likely spend a lot of time together in the future.
The few of them didn't dare to be presumptuous. For many of them, Sun Shengwan was of their teachers' generation, and even if not a teacher, she was still a senior. "Please take care of me" was just something to hear.
"Irene Ouni, do you know what our debut song is?" Shin Yuna reached out and grabbed Bae Joo-hyun's arm, asking intimately.
The relationship between ITZY and Red Velvet was very good. As DM Entertainment's first three girl groups, after the disbandment of the former IVE, these two groups had the most contact.
"I'm not sure." Bae Joo-hyun shook her head, "I haven't been to President nim's side recently."
Sun Shengwan looked at Bae Joo-hyun with amusement. Originally, her own leader would still struggle a bit, but now that more people were saying it, she had become numb.
She had already calmly accepted the widely assumed setting that Bae Joo-hyun and Jiang Shu had an unusual relationship.
There was no other way but to accept it. If someone kept nagging you about it every day, you either explode or accept it.
And Bae Joo-hyun was the latter.
"So many people?" A surprised voice came. Turning around, they saw Liu Zhimin standing at the door with her mouth agape.
"Karina Senior!" xN.
As DM Entertainment's highest-ranking artist, Liu Zhimin's arrival immediately brought greetings from all seven people.
"You all came so early?" Liu Zhimin walked over, asking in surprise.
"What if President nim arrived and we weren't here, wouldn't that be terrible?" Sun Shengwan said jokingly.
"He wouldn't get angry over something like that."
"But it's still not appropriate."
"Where's Yuan Ying, didn't she come with you?" Sun Shengwan changed the subject and asked.
"No, hasn't she just had a comeback? She has a lot of schedules. She should be on her way back now."
Everyone nodded.
It hadn't been half a month since IVE's reorganized comeback, and it was the peak of their schedule. Especially as the core of IVE, Zhang Yuanying's schedule was probably even more packed than Ahn Yujin's.
"Only Yuan Ying and President nim are left." Liu Zhimin said, looking at everyone present.
"Everyone, don't stand. Let's sit and wait." Bae Joo-hyun, seeing that everyone was standing, stepped forward and called out.
Everyone had no objection and sat down one after another.
It was quiet when there were only Kim Tae-yeon and Xue Yun, the two 'I' people, but with Sun Shengwan and Shin Yuna, the two atmosphere activators, it didn't fall into the previous silence again.
As the time approached 3:30, Zhang Yuanying also arrived in a hurry.
She was still wearing her stage outfit that she hadn't had time to change out of.
"Did you go to a music show?" Liu Zhimin asked in surprise, looking at the white uniform Zhang Yuanying was wearing.
"It was a commercial performance. I rushed over as soon as it ended." Zhang Yuanying plopped down next to Liu Zhimin, "Do you have any water?"
"Here, Yuan Ying Senior!" Xue Yun, who was sitting on the sofa by the table, immediately grabbed a bottle of water, stood up, and handed it to Zhang Yuanying.
"Thank you." Zhang Yuanying took the water and drank it down gulp by gulp.
"Don't get water poisoning." Liu Zhimin commented, watching this scene.
Zhang Yuanying ignored her and continued to chug water. It was clear that she was really thirsty.
"Everyone's here, then."
Jiang Shu's gentle voice drifted over. Everyone, as if by conditioned reflex, stood up in unison with a whoosh.
Zhang Yuanying was half a beat slow in drinking water, but she still caught up, placing the half-empty mineral water bottle aside.
"President nim!" x9.
Even Liu Zhimin respectfully greeted Jiang Shu at this moment.
Jiang Shu looked at the line of beautiful women standing before him, and a strange feeling arose in his heart.
First, there was the heretical version of IVE, and now there was the Pinduoduo-style hodgepodge Girls' Generation.
However...
The strength of the latter version was much higher than the former.
