Chapter 242: Holy Crap! Yuan Shen?!
“Comic convention?” Zhang Yuanying’s eyes widened, but she quickly reacted.
“That’s right! A comic convention!”
A comic convention allows for cosplay, making it impossible for her identity as a foreigner to be discovered, and even her celebrity status would be concealed.
IZONE was still very popular. In the few hours since she landed, Zhang Yuanying had been recognized, but not to the extent of being a household name like in Korea.
Zhang Yuanying immediately became excited.
She also loved watching anime. She never had the time, nor dared, to attend such events in Korea, fearing being recognized.
But now she was in China!
Not many people recognized her to begin with (due to the large population, it was dispersed), and with a cosplay disguise, it would be even harder for anyone to recognize her.
“President Oppa, where did you see it?” Zhang Yuanying asked curiously.
“Here.” Jiang Shu pointed to the side, and Zhang Yuanying followed his finger.
A huge poster came into view.
Name: Sprite “Cool Summer” Anime Exhibition
Address: Suzhou International Expo Center
Time: 2020.5.12 ~ 2020.5.15
“Daebak! I didn’t even notice!” Zhang Yuanying exclaimed in surprise.
“Let’s go upstairs and put our things down first,” Jiang Shu said, patting his business suitcase.
“Oh, okay.”
After putting their luggage in the room, Jiang Shu and Zhang Yuanying went downstairs again.
“Where are we going next?” Zhang Yuanying had left her sunglasses and dome hat in the room. The sun was about to set, so those accessories were useless.
“Let’s find a costume rental shop for the comic convention. Since we’re attending to complete the task, we might as well participate fully,” Jiang Shu said with a smile.
“Then who should we cosplay as?” Zhang Yuanying asked eagerly.
“We’ll see when we get to the store.”
With that, Jiang Shu took out his phone and searched for the nearest cosplay costume rental shop.
“Okay, just two subway stops. Let’s go!” Jiang Shu said, snapping his fingers while looking at Gaode Maps.
“Gogogo!” Zhang Yuanying also immediately became excited, bouncing twice in place.
The two followed the navigation to the subway station. As Suzhou’s landmark, the Oriental Gate, its subway station was never short of people.
However, even with many people, not everyone would pay attention to what the person next to them looked like.
“Can you scan your phones to enter directly?” Jiang Shu asked, pointing to the security check counter.
“What is subway QR code scanning? Isn’t it buying tickets?” Zhang Yuanying asked, looking at Jiang Shu blankly.
“You’ve been traveling in China for so long, haven’t you taken the subway?” Jiang Shu was also bewildered.
“Chinese taxis are so cheap, of course I take taxis,” Zhang Yuanying said righteously.
Taxis? Cheap?
Oh.
Korean taxis start at 50 RMB, so never mind.
Compared to that, domestic taxis are indeed cheap.
“Come, come, let me teach you.” Jiang Shu pulled Zhang Yuanying’s wrist to the ticket machine. “Do you recognize Chinese characters?”
“Yes.”
“Okay, we are at the Oriental Gate station now, click this…”
Jiang Shu taught Zhang Yuanying how to buy a ticket hand in hand.
Soon, a card was ejected from the bottom of the machine.
“President Oppa, how do you know the ticket-buying process?” Zhang Yuanying held the subway card, playing with it curiously, and asked Jiang Shu.
“I’m not some immortal who doesn’t eat human food. It’s normal for me to know such common sense things,” Jiang Shu said with a smile.
“I can buy tickets too, I’ve taken the subway before!” Zhang Yuanying pouted, “Before my debut, I always took the subway.”
“But you don’t know how convenient the Chinese subway system is,” Jiang Shu said with a smile, opening Alipay in front of Zhang Yuanying and the camera, and then demonstrated how to get an electronic subway card for the two of them.
“With this card, I can take the subway directly,” Jiang Shu said, shaking his phone.
“That convenient?” Zhang Yuanying raised an eyebrow. “Can you get one for me?”
“I’m not sure how foreigners get this,” Jiang Shu said, shrugging his shoulders.
“Oh.” Zhang Yuanying responded regretfully, “Then let’s go and get on the train.”
“Okay.”
Just as the two were about to leave.
“Um…” The photographer’s voice rang out.
The two turned to look at him.
“Could you buy a ticket for me?”
“….” x2.
They forgot about him.
After buying a subway ticket for the photographer as well, the three passed through security and successfully arrived at the platform.
The combination of Jiang Shu and Zhang Yuanying was still quite eye-catching; to be precise, Zhang Yuanying was particularly eye-catching.
Her tall height of 1.7 meters and excellent body management gave people a sense of a great beauty even without seeing her full face, not to mention Zhang Yuanying was not wearing a mask. When passersby saw Zhang Yuanying’s full face, they were inevitably amazed.
To be able to earn the title of divine beauty in the idol world, where beauties are everywhere, was simply overwhelming in reality.
A beauty rated six or seven out of ten can have a strong visual impact in reality, let alone an idol with a divine beauty like Zhang Yuanying, who is at least an eight.
Ten out of ten?
That score is reserved only for the white moonlight in everyone’s heart.
Many men, upon seeing Zhang Yuanying’s stunning appearance, felt a momentary urge to approach, but their gaze, upon touching Jiang Shu beside Zhang Yuanying, was like being doused with cold water.
Jiang Shu’s appearance was also quite outstanding among men, but his looks were secondary; more important was his aura.
Some people, even if they do nothing, still give off a sense of unapproachable distance. This distance can be a coldness that keeps people a thousand miles away, or it can be the authority cultivated from being in a high position for a long time.
Jiang Shu merely stood there, yet he made many men who had ideas about Zhang Yuanying extinguish their thoughts of striking up a conversation.
This big brother… is a bit intimidating.
Some girls, however, looking at Zhang Yuanying’s profile, felt a sense of familiarity and stared at Zhang Yuanying, trying to recall.
“Holy crap! Yuan Shen?!”
A gasp echoed particularly harshly on the noisy platform.
Many people turned to look at the source of the sound. A girl, holding her best friend’s wrist, looked in one direction with a shocked expression.
The onlookers followed her gaze.
Some passersby who were still wondering why Zhang Yuanying looked so familiar immediately remembered when they heard this.
Isn’t this IZONE’s Zhang Yuanying?!
It is well known that K-pop is a niche culture in China, but no matter how niche, a considerable portion of young people have been exposed to Korean Wave, especially during the period when “Gee” swept across Asia, and the members of IZONE gained even more popularity.
And Zhang Yuanying and Liu Zhimin, these two representative figures of Korean girl groups, even if not fans, there are definitely not a few people who are familiar with their faces.
Suzhou is an international city; even if it’s not as international as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, it is still a proper international city, and a considerable number of young people have been exposed to foreign cultures.
So…
Zhang Yuanying was still in a daze when Jiang Shu reached out and pulled her closer.