Chapter 248: Xiao Yuan!
Under Zhang Yuanying's playful evasion, Jiang Shu didn't press further, but for many things, once the seed of doubt is planted, it's as good as confirmed.
Just like now.
Jiang Shu could basically confirm that Zhang Yuanying knew about his relationship with Liu Zhimin.
Don't let Zhang Yuanying's young age fool you; she's a full four years younger than Liu Zhimin, but their psychological ages are surprisingly similar.
Although Liu Zhimin is twenty, she still acts like a minor. And Zhang Yuanying… well, she's also a minor, but a very smart one.
Two little girls.
Tsk.
"Small bridges, flowing water, and homes..."
Jiang Shu held his phone, aiming it at Zhang Yuanying sitting by the bridge, mumbling ancient poetry, and steadily pressing the shutter.
After taking several photos, he put down his phone. Seeing this, Zhang Yuanying patted the dust off her skirt and quickly walked over.
Looking at herself in the camera, Zhang Yuanying couldn't help but applaud Jiang Shu, praising, "This composition really has such a great atmosphere!"
"If you had a horse next to you that you were leading, standing on the bridge, it would definitely be a fantastic effect," Jiang Shu said with a smile.
"A horse?" Zhang Yuanying looked up in confusion, envisioning herself leading a horse on a bridge in her mind.
"Withered vines, old trees, evening crows; small bridges, flowing water, and homes; ancient road, west wind, lean horse; the setting sun descends, a heartbroken person at the ends of the earth." Jiang Shu shook his head slightly, smiling as he recited a poem.
"Is this a poem Chairman Jiang wrote himself?" Zhang Yuanying's Chinese vocabulary wasn't extensive enough to perfectly understand every word of Jiang Shu's poem, but it sounded like it had a great feeling?
"Of course, I didn't write it." Jiang Shu chuckled. "This poem was written by Ma Zhiyuan, an ancient Chinese poet from the Yuan Dynasty, called 'Tianjing Sha. Autumn Thoughts.'"
"Oh, I thought Chairman Jiang wrote it," Zhang Yuanying nodded in realization.
"I don't have that kind of cultural literacy," Jiang Shu said candidly. He didn't need to build a perfect persona for himself; if he knew something, he knew it; if he didn't, he didn't.
"I see." Zhang Yuanying nodded. "It's okay, Chairman Jiang is the most talented musician in my heart!"
"Thank you." Jiang Shu smiled and reached out to ruffle Zhang Yuanying's head. "You're getting taller and taller; it's getting hard to reach."
"How about this?" Zhang Yuanying smiled and bent down, artificially lowering her height.
Jiang Shu chuckled.
"This is much more comfortable, just like at the very beginning."
Zhang Yuanying's big eyes happily narrowed.
"I'm always just as Chairman Jiang first saw me!"
When she appeared in the public eye, she was already the artist Yuan Ying.
But in front of Jiang Shu, she always remembered her time as a trainee at YG.
At that time, she wasn't valued and was just a trainee who could be easily traded away. It was Chairman Jiang who discovered her, brought her to DM Entertainment, and gave her immense trust and importance.
Even Chairman Jiang's girlfriend, Karina, wasn't given as much importance as she was in this regard.
From IVE to IZONE, every step she took forward was arranged by Chairman Jiang. Some people dislike a life that's arranged, but she loved this kind of paving the way that aligned with her dreams.
She didn't dislike this kind of life.
"Why are you suddenly getting sentimental?" Jiang Shu rubbed Zhang Yuanying's head hard, saying with a laugh.
"Hehe! Isn't it because the atmosphere is just right?" Zhang Yuanying was also amused by the interruption and laughed.
"Let's continue. We've been here for half an hour and have only walked less than a hundred meters."
If he had come alone, he would have just walked and taken pictures, quickly finishing the tour.
But with a girl by his side, it took much longer—slowly sightseeing, slowly checking in, slowly taking photos.
What he could finish alone in half an hour would take at least an hour with an extra girl.
"Yes!"
The two picked up the pace, walking and taking pictures. With the deliberate increase in speed, they covered much more ground than before.
"Yay? Little ducks!" Zhang Yuanying, who had just posed by the bank, suddenly brightened, turning to look at two leisurely swimming ducks in the river, her face full of surprise.
"These don't seem like ordinary ducks?" Jiang Shu looked at the patterns on the ducks. They didn't resemble common duck breeds, but he couldn't say exactly what they were.
"Take a picture, take a picture!" Zhang Yuanying patted Jiang Shu's arm, excitedly saying.
"Don't you have a phone too?" Jiang Shu said helplessly, but still listened to Zhang Yuanying and picked up his phone, aiming it at the little ducks in the river.
Reminded by Jiang Shu, Zhang Yuanying also remembered that she had her own phone and could take pictures.
She raised her phone and started taking photos.
Tourists on both banks also noticed the pair of little ducks in the river, and a group of people uniformly held up their phones, aiming them at the ducks and taking pictures.
"Is that... Won-young xi of IZONE?" A familiar language suddenly sounded in Won-young xi's ear as she was busily taking pictures of the little ducks.
A sudden Korean sentence in a Chinese context immediately caught the attention of Jiang Shu and Zhang Yuanying.
They both turned their heads at the same time, and what met their eyes was a duo of one man and one woman.
"Oh my! Chairman Jiang is here too?!" The two, who had initially only been looking at Zhang Yuanying, exclaimed upon seeing Jiang Shu beside Zhang Yuanying.
"Are the two of you... on a date?" The woman looked at Jiang Shu and then at Zhang Yuanying, asking uncertainly.
"Hello." Zhang Yuanying sweetly greeted the two. "We're filming a variety show. Perhaps you've seen my 'Yuan Ying's Travel'?"
"Yes, I've seen it!" The woman said excitedly. "So the next episode will be in Suzhou?"
"Yes," Zhang Yuanying replied with a cheerful laugh.
"Then Chairman Jiang is the guest, right?" The woman's eyes lit up as she looked at Jiang Shu. There had been guests in previous episodes, and the results were very good.
The guest for this episode was Jiang Shu, the Chairman of DM Entertainment! He was also known as the chairman with the best relationship with his artists in the industry. Who knows what wonderful chemistry might spark between them?
"Can we take a photo?" The woman asked further.
"Of course," Zhang Yuanying naturally wouldn't refuse.
The man quietly moved closer to his girlfriend, sneaking into the photo with Zhang Yuanying.
"Chairman Jiang... can we take a photo?"
"You can." Jiang Shu also didn't refuse, smiling as he took a photo with the two.
The unusual activity here was naturally noticed by other tourists, but there weren't many Korean tourists today. Other tourists vaguely guessed that Jiang Shu and Zhang Yuanying might be celebrities, but they weren't sure who exactly. They just took a photo from afar and didn't go over to take a group photo like the two who recognized them.