Chapter 42 Opposition
To hell with the concerns!
If someone at twenty-seven can gamble their future to chase a dream, how can I, with my cheat, be afraid of not making her popular?
Isn't it just that she's a bit older? Couldn't he find a way to solve that?
Damn it, let's do it!
After making his decision, Jiang Shu also relaxed.
He would think a lot before making a decision, but once he made up his mind, he wouldn't waste time thinking about whether or not to make that decision.
"Where's my food? Bae… uh, what's your name?" Jiang Shu almost blurted it out.
Every time he saw a familiar face, he forgot to ask for their name. He knew it, but he couldn't just blurt it out.
"Bae Joo-hyun, Chairman Jiang can just call me by my name." Bae Joo-hyun didn't notice Jiang Shu's unusual behavior and replied.
"I'll go get the Chairman's food." With that, Bae Joo-hyun got up and left.
Jiang Shu watched her back, feeling her steps were much livelier.
Bae Joo-hyun was indeed very happy.
She was truly worried that the hope that had risen would again be filled with disappointment.
As happy as she was when she saw the business card Jiang Shu handed her, she was just as anxious when he was silent.
She did have the determination to go to Seoul, but what she feared was that she had the determination, but the boss didn't.
But thankfully, Jiang Shu still agreed.
"Chairman Jiang is a good person!" Bae Joo-hyun couldn't help but exclaim.
She was also very aware of her own situation. At her age, trying to become a trainee, even a company on the verge of bankruptcy wouldn't take her.
It was clearly a losing proposition.
But Jiang Shu still took her in. Although she didn't know what Jiang Shu was thinking, at least it was the first step.
Would something go wrong?
After all, this was completely unreasonable by all accounts.
Bae Joo-hyun wasn't sure, but she wanted to take a gamble.
Thinking this, Bae Joo-hyun arrived at the back kitchen.
"What were you doing? I called you for ages and got no response. It's only because the customer at table 37 has a good temper and didn't rush the food!"
As soon as she came in, Bae Joo-hyun's father, seeing her, spoke.
"Dad, I was chatting with the customer at table 37." Bae Joo-hyun hesitated for a moment, choosing not to tell her parents about this during the busiest time.
"You're chatting when it's so busy." Bae Joo-hyun's father looked helplessly at his eldest daughter. "If you ask me, you should hurry up and find me a son-in-law, then he can help me with some work."
Bae Joo-hyun's mouth twitched.
At twenty-seven, she was also facing a very serious problem: her parents urging her to get married.
The family restaurant was very busy, and her parents had long been dissatisfied with her being just one "nuclear-powered donkey." Since she was twenty-four, they had been constantly urging her to find a husband so they could have two "nuclear-powered donkeys."
It really was...
"I'm going to serve the food!" Bae Joo-hyun had long been immune to the marriage urging. She picked up the tray and ran off.
"This child!" Bae Joo-hyun's father sighed in dissatisfaction but still re-entered his mode of stir-frying four woks at once.
Bae Joo-hyun served Jiang Shu's food and then got busy. Jiang Shu ate his meal while watching Bae Joo-hyun serving dishes everywhere.
You know what, you really know what.
If he hadn't specifically asked, just by looking at Bae Joo-hyun's nimble movements, she really gave off the feeling of a virtuous wife and loving mother.
If he had seen her at this moment, he probably would have felt a chill.
She was a bit short, but compared to Xiao Yuan, who hadn't fully grown, Bae Joo-hyun was like a fully bloomed peony, at the most beautiful moment of her life. Even if her figure wasn't great, society still looked at faces after all.
That face truly smoothed out all other flaws, screaming invincibility.
Xiao Liu, on the other hand, was just right. She was good-looking, quite impressive, and also quite tall.
Tsk, still Liu Zhimin!
Jiang Shu put down his chopsticks and picked up a napkin to wipe his mouth.
His filter for Liu Zhimin was like his filter for Sun Shengwan in Red Velvet, except the latter was pure liking, and the former was... uh... cough cough cough.
No, no, can't think too much, if he thinks too much, he won't be able to hold back.
"Have you finished eating?" Bae Joo-hyun saw Jiang Shu put down his chopsticks and immediately walked over.
"Mm." Jiang Shu nodded. "You stay busy. Contact me when you're done. I'll go check into the hotel first."
"Okay." Bae Joo-hyun nodded. She still had to tell her parents about this later.
"Which hotel here is good?"
"There's Daegu Hotel in the city center. You can go check it out," Bae Joo-hyun said.
Jiang Shu made an OK gesture and left.
Bae Joo-hyun watched Jiang Shu leave and then got busy again.
It wasn't until past two in the afternoon that the lunch rush finally ended. The remaining scattered tables could be handled entirely by the staff.
The family restaurant also had a head chef, but when it was particularly busy, Bae Joo-hyun's father would also step in to help.
Calling her parents, who were tired and aching, to the upstairs lounge, Bae Joo-hyun uttered a sentence that instantly invigorated the two elders.
"I want to be a trainee."
Bae Joo-hyun's father's back no longer hurt, and Bae Joo-hyun's mother's head no longer felt dizzy.
The two looked at their daughter as if she were an idiot. Bae Joo-hyun's mother even reached out and touched Bae Joo-hyun's forehead.
"She's not even feverish."
"Mom!" Bae Joo-hyun looked at her mother exasperatedly, then recounted her conversation with Jiang Shu from earlier to her parents.
"No!" Bae Joo-hyun's father immediately expressed strong opposition after Bae Joo-hyun finished speaking.
"How old are you? And he said he'd debut you? Do you actually believe such words?"
"I also think it's not very reliable. Although he is indeed the Chairman of this DM Entertainment, he might just be... well, he might not really intend to debut you," Bae Joo-hyun's mother said from the side.
Everyone knew what the unspoken words were.
Bae Joo-hyun was truly beautiful. Debuting was hopeless, but as a lover, she was more than enough.
"I don't think he would," Bae Joo-hyun said with an uncertain tone.
"How do you know he wouldn't? You just met for the first time," Bae Joo-hyun's father said, displeased.
To him, this was simply absurd.
If Bae Joo-hyun were seventeen, he wouldn't be particularly worried, as seventeen-year-olds could debut.
But his daughter was already twenty-seven!
When his wife was twenty-seven, Bae Joo-hyun was already old enough to run errands. And now you want Bae Joo-hyun to debut?
Bae Joo-hyun was a bit helpless. She didn't know how to convince her parents.
"In short, you can't go. This must be a scam!" Bae Joo-hyun's father made the final decision.
Bae Joo-hyun opened her mouth, but seeing her parents' worried expressions, the words on the tip of her tongue stopped.
It seemed she truly had no fate with the stage.
Looking at her dejected daughter, Bae Joo-hyun's mother felt a pang of heartache, but she still agreed with Bae Joo-hyun's father's words.
This matter was too strange, and she found it hard to trust what the DM Entertainment Chairman said.
"You should think about it carefully. How could such a good thing fall into your lap?" Bae Joo-hyun's father left after dropping that sentence.
Bae Joo-hyun's mother patted Bae Joo-hyun's shoulder and also left, leaving the space to Bae Joo-hyun alone.