lcionline Chapter 82 First Meeting with Miyeon
Chapter 82 First Meeting with Miyeon
Kim Jisoo ran away from home.
She lives with "Chao Mi-yan," a trainee friend of the company mentioned by Kim Soo-ho.
Pronounced "Chao Mei Yan".
Her real name is Cao Weijuan.
But she is usually called Zhao Meiyan.
Let's call her Zhao Meiyan then.
Zhao Meiyan is from Incheon and has no relatives in Seoul.
Logically speaking, she should be living in YG's trainee dormitory.
Although it's not free, it's still very cheap.
However, she was eliminated.
She was eliminated in the final audition to determine the debut group for YG's new girl group.
After leaving YG, will you return to Incheon?
She is not reconciled.
So he rented an apartment in Seoul and started looking for a new place to live.
That is, other entertainment companies.
They came from the three major entertainment companies, and although they were eliminated, they were still one foot in the debut group.
Zhao Meiyan is quite confident in both her singing skills and her looks.
We can't give up on our dreams yet.
She never expected that her first roommate would be Kim Jisoo.
To reiterate, YG has dormitories for trainees, but they are not free.
Kim Ji-soo, on the other hand, had all her living expenses cut off.
I can't even afford to live in a dormitory.
Yesterday, I asked Ji-soo for the address, and Lee Jung-il came here according to the address.
The house is located in an old commercial and residential building in Gangdong-gu, Seoul.
It's a 15-minute walk from the subway station.
Downstairs is a fried chicken shop and a laundry room.
Half of the motion-activated lights in the hallway were broken, and the walls were covered with little GG stickers.
The elevator was the old-fashioned kind, with doors that had to be opened manually, and it made a sickening metallic scraping sound when it was running.
It's a bit better than Kowloon Village, but only slightly better.
When Kim Jisoo opened the door, she was wearing an oversized hoodie with sleeves that covered her fingertips, and her hair was casually tied in a high ponytail.
She looked a little thinner than she did at the funeral, but she seemed to be in good spirits, and her eyes lit up the moment she saw Li Zhengyi.
Then they quickly suppressed that little bit of light.
Put on a nonchalant "take it or leave it" expression.
"Oppa, you're late. We agreed on 10:30, and it's almost 11 now."
"I waited fifteen minutes for the subway transfer. This place is way too remote. Next time I move, I'll choose one closer to the city center."
Li Zheng handed her a bag of fruit he was carrying.
I bought the apples and oranges at a fruit shop on the way.
Kim Jisoo took the bag, looked at the contents, said nothing, and turned to lead him into the room.
The house is small, with two bedrooms and a living room.
The living room was so small that it could only fit a folding dining table and two chairs.
There was a potted green ivy on the windowsill, and several handwritten notes were pasted on the wall.
The words written on it are things like "Get up early", "Practice your voice", and "Don't eat late-night snacks".
A girl was standing in the living room, tiptoeing to reach something on top of the cabinet.
She was wearing a white T-shirt and sweatpants, with a pair of rabbit-head cotton slippers on her feet.
Hearing the door open, she turned around and almost fell off her chair.
"Ah~ Hello!"
She jumped off the chair, hurriedly tidied her hair, and then bowed to Li Zhengyi.
Ninety degrees.
The very standard kind.
"You must be Jisoo unnie's oppa, right? My name is Cho Miyeon. I'm Jisoo's friend, and also a trainee... um... actually, a former trainee. Anyway, nice to meet you."
The voice is loud and clear; the singer must be quite good.
Li Zheng looked at her first impression.
This girl is quite pretty.
She's not the kind of stunningly beautiful that makes you feel breathtaking at first glance, like Bae Joo-hyun.
It's not the kind of approachable and refined beauty like Kim Ji-soo's.
It's a very proper kind of beauty, like the textbook definition of a beautiful woman.
Especially that nose.
A standard box-shaped nose.
Which doctor performed the surgery? It was perfect.
It can't be the original one, can it?
But you can't look at it closely.
Why?
This girl has a natural, innocent silliness when she laughs.
Yes, silly.
She stood next to the chair, unsure of what to do with her hands. First, she put them behind her back, then felt that was inappropriate. She moved them to the front, then felt that was too formal. Finally, she simply crossed her arms in front of her chest, striking a pose that said, "I am very mature."
The whole process took about five seconds, and it all happened in Li Zheng's eyes.
In short, he doesn't seem very smart.
But you can also tell she's a gentle girl.
Perhaps it's gentleness.
Who knows?
"Hello. Lee Jung-il. Ji-soo's..."
"Childhood sweethearts".
Kim Jisoo answered first, as if afraid he would say something like "just ordinary friends".
Li Zhengyi did not refute.
According to the dictionary definition, Jisoo really is his childhood sweetheart.
He nodded slightly, acknowledging it.
Zhao Meiyan bowed again, then turned to look at Kim Jisoo, her eyes sparkling with the gossipy light of "Is this the oppa you always talk about?"
Kim Jisoo glared at her fiercely, and Zhao Meiyan immediately withdrew her gossipy gaze, replacing it with an expression that said, "I don't know anything, I'm just an innocent roommate."
But the expression only lasted for less than three seconds before it broke down.
Because she noticed that the items on the cabinet hadn't been taken down yet, she hurriedly went to move the chairs.
"Miyeon is from Incheon and was a trainee in Seoul. She recently left YG and started renting an apartment. I had nowhere to go after moving out, so she asked me to live with her."
Jisoo's words were quite tactful.
What does it mean to "recently left YG"?
It's as if Cho Mi-yeon looked down on YG and took the initiative to terminate her contract.
Lee Jung-il vaguely remembered the situation regarding YG's next girl group.
BLACKPINK, that should be the name.
There were four members, but I forgot their specific names.
Anyway, there's a Thai person, a blonde, a catfish, and a Jisoo.
Since Zhao Meiyan is neither Thai, nor blonde, nor a catfish, she was definitely eliminated.
Of course, he wouldn't be so low-EQ as to expose it.
As she spoke, Kim Ji-soo brought out two glasses of water from the kitchen and placed them on the folding dining table.
"Rent and living expenses are split equally. It's quite a good deal, and more comfortable than living in a dormitory."
Li Zhengyi sat down in the chair and looked around the small living room.
Although the room was simple, it was very clean and the things were arranged neatly.
The potted green ivy on the windowsill had just been watered; water droplets still clung to its leaves.
On the coffee table were several music theory textbooks and a notebook with frayed edges.
"It's alright here. Cleaner than your cousin's house."
"My cousin's house is a pigsty."
Kim Jisoo didn't hold back in commenting on Kim Soo-ho's lifestyle habits.
Zhao Meiyan finally took the things off the cabinet.
It's a bag of coffee beans.
She carried the coffee beans to the kitchen, and after taking a couple of steps, she peeked out again to ask Li Zhengyi.
"Hey sir, want some coffee? I make it by hand, it's better than the ones from convenience stores."
"No, thank you."
"Oh well."
Zhao Meiyan quickly withdrew.
Lee Jung-il noticed that she was pretending to be busy in the kitchen, but in reality she was just moving coffee beans from left to right and then from right to left, while eavesdropping on their conversation.
Li Zhengyi felt that this girl might not be very good at pretending.
His acting skills are probably on par with Lee Woo-bin's.
His initial assessment of Zhao Meiyan was: she is simple-minded and seems like a good person.
"What did your parents say?"
He turned back and asked Kim Ji-soo.
"What else can I say? They stopped my credit cards, stopped my allowance, and said that as long as I cut off all ties with you, they'd let me go home and everything would be back to normal."
She pursed her lips slightly.
"I said no. Then I hung up the phone. I haven't been in contact with them since."
She said this in a very soft tone.
But Lee Jung-il knew that Kim Ji-soo had always had a good relationship with her parents.
Although her father wasn't very supportive of her becoming a trainee, he didn't forcibly stop her, and he was quite generous with her living expenses.
The reason things have turned out this way is ultimately because of him.