Chapter 199 Three Years Older
After aespa’s stage performance ended, the group came backstage.
“Chairman Jiang! Yuan Ying Ouni! Bae Joo-hyun Ouni!” Kim Minjeong and the other two greeted Jiang Shu and the two others with a bow.
Liu Zhimin glanced at the camera and said with a chuckle,
“You’re here.”
“That was great, Ouni,” Zhang Yuanying said with a grin, “You’re half as good as I am.”
Liu Zhimin rolled her eyes speechlessly. How could she have the nerve to say she was half as good as her?
“Oh, has Ouma not gone to Zhangjiajie yet?” Liu Zhimin ignored Zhang Yuanying and asked Bae Joo-hyun.
“In two days,” Bae Joo-hyun said with a smile.
“I wanted to go too, but unfortunately, my schedule is too packed,” Zhang Yuanying said regretfully.
“There will be opportunities in the future,” Bae Joo-hyun said, patting Zhang Yuanying.
“Do you have any plans later?” Jiang Shu asked the girls.
“Yes,” Liu Zhimin replied, “Why?”
“Your mother wants to invite your members to dinner. If you have plans, then let’s do it another day,” Jiang Shu said with a smile.
Bae Joo-hyun looked up at Jiang Shu in surprise. She didn't think she had said that, had she?
Is Chairman Jiang trying to give her more screen time?
“Oh, that’s a shame,” Liu Zhimin shrugged, “Let’s keep it in mind and invite us later.”
“Okay,” Bae Joo-hyun nodded with a smile.
“It seems Ouni won’t make it for Chinese food later,” Zhang Yuanying said, shaking her head.
“Hehe,” Liu Zhimin glanced at Zhang Yuanying, her tone ambiguous.
The group chatted for a while longer before leaving. aespa had to rush to their next schedule and didn’t have time to chat with them there.
After watching aespa’s debut stage, the three returned to the car.
“Xiao Liu has also debuted. Another wish has been fulfilled,” Jiang Shu sighed.
“Dad, when are Ouma and Seulgi Ouni’s sub-unit debuting?” Zhang Yuanying, sitting in the middle of the back seat, rested her hands on the backrests of the driver and passenger seats, craning her neck to look at Jiang Shu and ask.
Hearing Zhang Yuanying call Bae Joo-hyun “Ouma” while calling Kang Seul-gi “Ouni” made Bae Joo-hyun’s expression falter slightly.
“End of next month.” Jiang Shu turned on the air conditioning. The weather in October was still a bit warm, and without the cool air, the three of them would sweat in the car.
“Go, Ouma! If I have time, I’ll be there!” Zhang Yuanying said with a cheerful smile.
“Alright,” Bae Joo-hyun replied with a smile, “I’ll give you some surprises then too.”
The internet was full of doubts about her abilities, and Bae Joo-hyun had seen them. As her practice deepened, she became more and more proficient and gradually gained confidence in her own abilities.
This could be considered her accumulating strength for a big burst, right?
Looking at Bae Joo-hyun, who had a smile on her face, Jiang Shu smiled slightly in his heart.
It seemed that after the Qilin Bond effect took hold, it not only objectively improved Bae Joo-hyun’s strength but also significantly boosted her self-confidence.
People with strength naturally have ample confidence; there’s no doubt about that.
“Surprises? I love surprises the most.” Zhang Yuanying immediately became excited, pulling out her phone from her pocket. “I’m going to write it down in my memo so I don’t forget.”
“You need a memo at only fifteen.”
“A bad memory is better than a good pen,” Zhang Yuanying said casually.
Jiang Shu looked at Zhang Yuanying with a strange expression.
“Who taught you that proverb?”
“My grandpa.” Zhang Yuanying paused after speaking. “My biological grandpa.”
Bae Joo-hyun couldn’t help but laugh. She knew Zhang Yuanying was referring to her own grandpa and not Jiang Shu’s father, but it still sounded very amusing.
“Then it seems I’m not your biological dad,” Jiang Shu also said with a laugh.
“Of course not!” Zhang Yuanying chuckled, “You’re Chairman Dad!”
From Chairman Oppa to Chairman Dad, he had certainly gained a significant seniority.
“Do you know any other proverbs?” Bae Joo-hyun asked curiously.
“Hmm…” Zhang Yuanying tilted her head and thought for a while. “Oh, right!”
Zhang Yuanying snapped her fingers.
“A woman three years older brings a golden brick!”
“What does that mean?” Bae Joo-hyun asked, puzzled, while Jiang Shu’s expression on the other side became strange.
“If the wife is three years older than the husband, it’s like marrying a golden brick into the family. That’s probably what it means,” Zhang Yuanying said uncertainly.
“That’s what it means,” Jiang Shu confirmed her statement, then looked at Bae Joo-hyun, “For example… you are three years older than me.”
Bae Joo-hyun was stunned. She was born in '91, and Chairman Jiang was the same age as…
It really is true?
Zhang Yuanying was also stunned.
She knew Jiang Shu was born in '94 and that Bae Joo-hyun was older than Jiang Shu, but she didn’t expect it to be exactly three years older.
“Oh, Ouma is the golden brick of our family!” Zhang Yuanying immediately said with a laugh.
“No, your mother is more precious than a golden brick in my eyes,” Jiang Shu said with a smile.
Bae Joo-hyun’s eyes flickered, and she couldn’t help but look at Jiang Shu.
Jiang Shu was also looking at her, their eyes meeting.
Zhang Yuanying pouted speechlessly.
“I’m still here!”
The budding ambiguous atmosphere was dispelled by her single sentence before it could even spread.
Jiang Shu and Bae Joo-hyun simultaneously withdrew their gazes.
“There are other phrases after ‘a woman three years older brings a golden brick’,” Jiang Shu smiled and changed the subject.
“There are others?” Zhang Yuanying’s attention was indeed drawn. “What else?”
“A woman five years older, like an old mother.”
“Don’t say it yet, let me guess!” Zhang Yuanying raised her hand to answer first.
“Okay,” Jiang Shu nodded with a smile.
“If the girl is five years older, it’s like marrying a mother?” Zhang Yuanying speculated.
“Smart.” Jiang Shu snapped his fingers and gave Zhang Yuanying a thumbs-up. “Wuli Xiao Yuan is so smart.”
Zhang Yuanying immediately clapped her hands happily.
“I am Zhang Yuanying!”
“Yuan Shen!” Jiang Shu couldn’t help but exclaim when he saw Zhang Yuanying’s proud little expression.
“Yuan Shen?” Zhang Yuanying looked at Jiang Shu in confusion.
“Yes, Yuan Shen,” Jiang Shu nodded.
Zhang Yuanying repeated it twice, and the more she said it, the more natural it sounded, and her eyes lit up.
“I am a god! Yuan Shen!”
Bae Joo-hyun looked at the excited Zhang Yuanying again, then at Jiang Shu.
She always felt that Chairman Jiang was very good at finding Xiao Yuan’s excitement points.
But…
A nickname like Yuan Shen was too embarrassing.
She looked at Zhang Yuanying.
Well, she was at that chuunibyou age where she didn’t know what shame was.
It was the most chuunibyou fifteen-year-old.
“Dad, you should give Ouma a nickname too,” Zhang Yuanying said, not forgetting to include Bae Joo-hyun in her excitement.
Thank you very much.
Bae Joo-hyun looked at Jiang Shu with a pleading look. Please don’t give her some kind of “god” nickname.
It’s too embarrassing!
Hearing Zhang Yuanying’s words, Jiang Shu suddenly realized that Bae Joo-hyun’s most widely known special designation seemed to have not yet appeared?
And it seemed just right for this nickname to come from him?
Thinking of this, Jiang Shu smiled.
“Then…”
“Pei Jie.”