Chapter 535 If Line: If I Hadn't Left Korea 3
Chapter 535 If Line: If I Hadn't Left Korea 3
To be honest, being a trainee is really hard, not just in terms of training. It's more about the treatment at the bottom and the rules of seniors and juniors that need to be followed.
What one has to go through is not just hard work and sweat, but also countless unspeakable grievances, and the fear of not knowing when one can make their debut.
Because they are friends, the two of them don't really want Xu Yisong to go through such hardships. Especially Quan Zhilong, who became a trainee at the age of eight and has been training for nearly ten years.
The signing of the contract was Xu Yisong's own decision. Once she made the decision, her family also agreed with her idea.
After learning that Xu Yisong wanted to become an artist in the future, her family did not support her, but they did not object either. In their opinion, Xu Yisong could do whatever she wanted in the future as long as she liked it.
But in the same way, if Xu Yisong really makes up his mind, his family will give him some support, but they won't help him with everything. Since it is a dream that he has decided to pursue, he must be determined to make it happen on his own.
Because it was her own decision, Xu Yisong had a clear idea of what she would experience in the future. She was not afraid of hardship, and...
Facing her friends' concerned eyes, Xu Yisong picked up a piece of food for the two and said, "Don't worry, you all call me Miss, and Miss will not let herself suffer."
In fact, Xu Yisong could have made his debut directly, but why didn’t he do so?
This is a good question.
The reason is very simple - because they failed to reach an agreement.
If they want to promote new artists, SM still hopes that Heo Yi-sung will debut as a group. She doesn't have to train with other trainees as a trainee. The company will select suitable and outstanding trainees as her teammates, and also promises to make her the absolute center and C position of the group.
But Xu Yisong was unwilling to do so. She didn't want to debut with others. She knew very well that she was not suitable to be a member of a girl group, both in terms of her personality and style.
In this environment where being a group is definitely more advantageous than being a soloist, being a group certainly has countless advantages, but it is also accompanied by unpredictable risks and pressures.
The company says nice things about her being the center, but if she really becomes the center, she will enjoy the treatment of the center, but she will also need to shoulder the responsibilities of the team.
The reason why the company gave Xu Yisong such generous treatment when signing the contract was not only because of her family background, but more importantly, it saw her potential and her creative talent.
If Xu Yisong really debuts with the group, she may be the center, but she will also become the cheerleader for the entire group.
Moreover, when there are too many people, many unstable factors are likely to appear. In particular, if there is one or more problems, the group will be in trouble.
Xu Yisong became an artist in order to become a singer, but she did not enter this circle in order to become an artist. She did not really want this identity that would suffer the most and receive the most criticism.
However, SM also has its own insistence and concerns. One reason is that solo is indeed not as popular as group. Secondly, there are very few artists in the entire Korean entertainment industry who debuted as solo artists from the beginning, and the number within SM can be counted on one hand.
Although Xu Yisong's contract with SM has brought visible benefits to SM since the moment he joined the company, their ultimate goal in signing him in is still for Xu Yisong as an artist to bring benefits to the company and maximize the benefits, rather than just bringing someone back to worship him.
If they just want an investment, they might as well cooperate directly with the capital behind Xu Yisong. Why bother signing another person?
Therefore, the two parties who failed to reach an agreement took a step back. Xu Yisong did not ask to debut directly, and the company did not force her to join the group.
However, the company played a trick here. They only said that they would not force Xu Yisong to debut with the new girl group right now, but they also did not say that they agreed to her solo.
If the lawyers could not see through this trick, it would be a waste of the high annual legal fees paid to the Li family. Therefore, when signing the contract, Xu Yisong's side proposed to adjust Xu Yisong's contract status, changing the original simple singer to a multi-faceted development.
In this way, even if Xu Yisong and the company fail to reach an agreement and cannot debut as a singer as an individual, he can still debut in other identities, such as an actor.
Xu Yisong’s special training during this holiday is actually the basic artist training to prepare for her debut, which includes acting training which accounts for almost half of the training.
"So you will debut as an actor first?!" If she hadn't said it herself now, Kwon Ji-yong would never have thought that Xu Yisong would become an actor.
She had never mentioned before that she had any thoughts about acting.
Xu Yisong was startled by his suddenly raised voice: "Speak a little more quietly, it's just a possibility." It's still uncertain what will happen in the end.
However, Xu Yisong feels that the possibility of him debuting as an actor first is definitely greater than that of debuting as a solo singer.
Speaking of this, Xu Yisong remembered something else: "You guys will have a day off next weekend, right?"
Dong Young-bae looked through their class schedule and nodded, "There is one day off."
"Are you going to perform again?" Although Xu Yisong has not made her debut and has not even signed with a company before, she would perform on some public stages or parks every once in a while.
Xu Yisong turned around, rummaged in his bag for a while, took out two beautiful flyers and handed them over: "Yes, there is a music festival at Hongda this weekend, and this may be the last time I perform like this." After signing with the company, he can no longer perform as he pleases like this.
In the future, her name and all the songs she writes will be tied to the company. At least during the contract period, she will no longer be able to perform her own works as freely as before.
Normally she couldn't go to the music festival this weekend, but this was decided before signing the contract and she reported it to the company, this was the only time.
Quan Zhilong took the two flyers together and promised with a smile: "We will definitely go to your performance."
He still remembers the first time Xu Yisong tried such a performance. It was in a park one afternoon. He was her first audience and the first listener of the first song she wrote.
Therefore, as it is the last performance, there is no way he would be absent.
Today is a working day, and Quan Zhilong and his classmates only got half a day off, as they still have to go to class in the evening.
As they didn't have much time, they just had dinner together and didn't go anywhere else to play.
When it was time to say goodbye, Xu Yisong took out a big bag from the bulging backpack he had just brought with him.
Dong Yongpei watched with his own eyes as Xu Yisong's chubby backpack became shriveled because of the things taken out, and said helplessly: "When you came, I wanted to ask you what was in your bag. The bag is so bulging that you can't even tell what it is."
"Snacks?" Quan Zhilong opened the bag she handed over. There were all kinds of things in it. He flipped through it and found that they were all snacks.
"Yeah. Didn't you say you'd be hungry after training at night?" Xu Yisong had heard them complain on the phone before that they would train until very late at night, but they couldn't go out casually after training because the shops were closed at that time. Anyway, it sounded miserable, so Xu Yisong brought a lot of food today.
This big bag is all for the two of them.
Quan Zhilong weighed it and found it quite heavy. He patted Xu Yisong's head with some emotion and said, "Ayigu, it's so heavy. It's too hard for our Yisong to carry it here personally. Bring less next time. It will weigh him down and he won't grow taller."
The originally nice words sounded awkward. Xu Yisong slapped the hand on his head away in anger and said, "You wish, there won't be a next time. Also, if you don't grow taller, I can't grow taller either."
"You're wrong, you're wrong. We will all grow taller." The curse of not growing taller is too evil.
I don’t know why, maybe all boys of this age are like this, or maybe it’s just because he is too familiar with the person in front of him, but every time he talks to Xu Yisong, Quan Zhilong can’t help but say a few rude words.
While the two were bickering, Dong Yongpei, who had taken the bag away from the battlefield, unexpectedly found something else in the bag. His eyes and tone changed: "Wow~"
They both turned their heads at the same time and saw that he was holding a pink envelope in his hand.
Dong Yongpei was shocked when he first found this in the bag. After reading the words on it, he realized that it was given to Xu Yisong by someone else.
Quan Zhilong's eyes fell on the pink letter in Dong Yongpei's hand, and his eyes gradually changed from confusion to shock. After several seconds, he turned his head to look at Xu Yisong and warned him seriously: "You can't fall in love too early now!"
"Ah! I'm not in a premature love relationship!" She felt a little embarrassed that the love letter someone else gave her was now in her friend's hand, and her ears felt hot.
She avoided Quan Zhilong's sight, then covered her ears and took two steps back to take the letter from Dong Yongpei and put it in her bag: "That was given to me by someone else."
She received several such letters today and put them all together in her bag. Perhaps because the snack bag was not tied, one of them accidentally fell in.
It was so embarrassing that the love confession letter was almost sent to friends.
I should have known that I shouldn't have put them together in a big bag for convenience.
After hearing Xu Yisong's explanation, Quan Zhilong breathed a sigh of relief but at the same time felt a little uncomfortable.
But he didn't have time to think about why.
He was serious about reminding Xu Yisong. Xu Yisong had just signed a contract with the agency, and she was still young, so she couldn't fall in love at this age.
No matter if he succeeds or not, once it is dug up after his debut, it will all be his dark history.
Thinking of this, he was still a little worried, and earnestly warned: "Can't we know in the next few years? You are still young now, there is no need to rush this, and you just signed the contract..."
Xu Yisong: “…” Has Quan Zhilong ever been so long-winded before?
"Are you listening to me?" Kwon Ji-yong noticed that Xu Yisong was distracted and became a little angry.
Xu Yisong, who had originally thought that he was being nagging and had subconsciously cleared his mind, came back to his senses. Just then, he met Quan Zhilong's gloomy gaze and immediately raised his hand, almost swearing on the spot, "I'm listening, I'm listening. I promise that I will never fall in love too early, and I won't fall in love for the next ten years!"
Quan Zhilong is a little scary when he doesn't smile. QAQ, like the head teacher. Xu Yisong muttered quietly in his heart.
Quan Zhilong: “…” We don’t have to stop talking for ten years.
But it's good that she has such determination.
Quan Zhilong nodded with satisfaction.
Just when he was about to say something else, a voice suddenly appeared beside them: "Puppy love? Who's in a premature love?"
"Brother?" Xu Yisong heard the voice and looked over to see Li Jingwen standing next to their table, staring at them with a frown.
Xu Yisong explained again helplessly: "There is no premature love! No one has it!"
When they saw Li Jingwen, Quan Zhilong and Dong Yongbae stood up and greeted him: "Jingwen brother."
When they went out to play with Xu Yisong before, Li Jingwen would pick them up most of the time, and as an older brother, Li Jingwen would often treat them to dinner, so they all knew Li Jingwen.
Not only did we know each other, but we also became very familiar with each other after spending several years together.
Because they are good friends of his sister, Li Jingwen also takes care of Kwon Ji-ryong and Dong Young-bae as his younger brothers.
Li Jingwen nodded and put his arm around the two men's shoulders and patted them. Then his eyes fell on his sister's open backpack, which contained several pink letters. As someone who had experienced this, he understood it at a glance.
He smiled softly: "It seems that our Yisong is quite popular, but Zhilong said that you are still young and don't fall in love too early."
"Brother!" Xu Yisong was getting angry.
"Okay, okay, I won't say anything more." Li Jingwen used one hand to control his sister who was about to get angry and scratch him, while he zipped up Xu Yisong's bag and carried it on one shoulder.
Then he turned to look at the two boys standing next to him and said, "Let's go. I'll take you back together."
He came here after receiving a message from his sister asking him to pick her up after dinner.
It was not the first time that the three children had dinner together. Almost every time, as the older brother, he would work hard to drive them home one by one.
This place is still quite far from YG, and neither of them refused.
Li Jingwen first sent the two boys to the company, and then took his sister home.
The car stopped on the roadside not far from Quan Zhilong's company.
After getting off the car, Kwon Ji-ryong and Dong Young-bae did not leave, but watched Li Jingwen's car drive away before turning back to the company.
There is also training in the evening.
On the way back, Dong Young-bae suddenly said, "Actually, there's nothing wrong with falling in love too early."
"What?" Quan Zhilong didn't hear clearly at first, but after he reacted, he frowned and looked at Dong Yongpei: "You..."
Dong Young-bae noticed the change in Kwon Ji-yong's mood and wanted to laugh, but he remained calm and continued, "That's right. There are many trainees in our company who are in love. It doesn't really matter."
If you are in a relationship before your debut, people will definitely pay attention to it. Even if you debut, by the time you are discovered, you may have broken up a long time ago.
Quan Zhilong stopped there, not knowing what he was thinking, frowned for a few seconds and then sighed: "That won't work either..."
Dong Yongpei didn't care about him. He curled his lips, left the man behind and walked forward.
He was just afraid that the first person to regret would not be Xu Yisong, and that would be fun.
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