Korean Wave's Otaku Artist 078 Different Fireworks

  At three o'clock in the afternoon, at a grand coffee shop.

  "Ah Jing, you're here!" Yin Xian stood up from his seated position.

  "Oppa, have you arrived yet?" A slightly disheveled Haneul Jeong walked into the coffee shop wearing a pair of frog-shaped glasses.

  "Just arrived, come and sit down." Yoon Hyun opened a chair for Cham Eun-jung and served her to sit down.

  "Oppa, what's wrong with you today?" Xian Enjing's expression stiffened for a moment, seemingly unaccustomed to Yoon Hyun's actions.

  "It's nothing, this is actually Princess and General's first date, I want to make a good impression!"

  "First date... you're right, it does seem like one!"

  "Yes, so let's have some fun today," said Yoon Hyun, his gaze drifting out the window, "in our own way."

  After drinking a cup of coffee and adjusting their state, both of them started... a grand shopping trip.

  Yoon Hyun and Ham Eunjung may not be considered top stars in the classical sense, but their popularity is by no means small. In less than twenty minutes, a large crowd had gathered around them.

  This made Yoon Hyun somewhat annoyed.

  Time goes back to this morning, Yoon Hyun came to MBC.

  "Yin Xian! How did you get here so early?" Zhao PD was a little surprised to see Yin Xian appearing very early at the TV station.

  "Is today the last recording of our program with Enjing?" Yun Xian asked.

  "Uh... yeah. There are some reasons for this..." Zhao PD was taken aback and became somewhat embarrassed.

  "It doesn't matter, I'm not here to pursue this. Was this brought up by ccm during the last recording?"

  "This is not it. It's just that our program team has a rhythm of recording..."

  "It doesn't matter, I said I wasn't here to pursue this. It's not like CCM brought it up, which means Enjing probably still doesn't know that this is the last recording, right?"

  "Does Xi still not know? Can I ask if someone told you that today is the last recording?"

  "I guess so." Yoon Hyun said bluntly.

  Zhao PD is speechless.

  "It's easy to guess. Last time the shooting didn't go very smoothly, and the crew had opinions that I saw with my own eyes. Plus, it seems like Enjing and her company have some new arrangements, so they must also want this show to end as soon as possible. This time the shooting schedule is tight again, so I guess they just want to finish it quickly."

  "Yin Xian... I'm really sorry, originally it was a big favor to ask you to attend, but in the end it turned out like this..." Zhao PD apologized sincerely to Yin Xian.

  "This isn't PD's fault, I can only say that I'm just unlucky!" Yoon Hyun smiled a bit awkwardly. "I have something to ask of the production team."

  "What's wrong?"

  "It's like this, according to the rules, today is the last appointment for this task card, it will be issued as soon as we meet, right?"

  "It should be before the meeting. According to plan, there will be an interview in a small black room. We just didn't expect that you, Yoon Hyun-ji, would get up so early after attending the song festival yesterday."

  "So I'm asking the production team, can you give Enjing the task card at the end of today's recording?"

  "Why?"

  "Let's give her a little romance then. Otherwise our marriage would be too tragic."

  "......Alright, but go record this conversation in the little black room now."

  "This...alright."

  Time went back to the magnificent afternoon.

  "Sorry everyone, do you like us?" MC possessed instantly, Yoon Hyun started to tidy up the order.

  "I like it!"

  "The couple is really great!"

  "So, today is actually our first real date, can everyone please give us a little more space? Please?" Yoon Hyun said with a deep bow to the crowd.

  "Oppa, do we need help from us kimchi girls?" A girl's voice rang out from a short distance away.

  "Today I want to give Your Highness an unforgettable experience, so please!" When Yoon Hyun heard that his fan was there, he immediately became overjoyed.

  "Alright!"

  Then miraculously, the crowd began to disperse.

  "Oppa! You're so amazing!" Ham Eun-jung watched as the crowd began to disperse, and she was completely stunned. "It's like Moses parting the Red Sea."

  Yoon Hyun bowed deeply to the few figures who were apparently helping the crew tidy up the scene, before turning to Ham Eunjung and saying, "Now, let's continue enjoying our lives!"

  And so, in a miraculous way, on a winter afternoon, two superstars, on the grand pedestrian street, had a real date.

  Taking silly photos together, eating stir-fried rice cakes together, sitting in a cafe and staring blankly together.

  Laughing heartily for a roadside person, quarreling over whether a headgear looks good or not, getting annoyed after spending an hour selecting one piece of clothing, and racking one's brains over what to eat for dinner.

  Just like two real lovers, hand in hand, walking down the street so sweetly.

  At last, night began to fall, and although the two had been snacking on various treats along the way, their stomachs told them it was time to prepare dinner.

  "What's for dinner?" asked Hyan Jeong, fiddling with the ring Yoon Hyun gave her on her left hand's ring finger. This action was actually meant to be seen by Yoon Hyun.

  Yoon Hyun seemed to have not noticed it himself. He was a bit absent-minded.

  "I know a great place. After dinner, we can also go ice-skating." Yoon Hyun smiled and said: "Last time you taught me how to ski, this time it's my turn to teach you how to skate!"

  "Oh! I know that place!"

  "So you want to go?"

  "Good, good!" Xian Enjing responded very positively.

  After driving for more than an hour, the two finally arrived at this outdoor ice rink on the south mountain.

  Dinner is actually very simple.

  "Do you know why I chose this place for dinner?" Yoon Hyun asked seemingly calmly.

  "Because we can see the New Year's fireworks from here." Xian'en Jing smiled.

  "Let's take a look together on the ice rink for a while!"

  "I'm really curious, how come there's no one else here today." Xian Jing looked around and was a bit puzzled that the not-so-small restaurant only had the two of them. "This time isn't even considered off-season, after all."

  "Today there will be only two of us here." Yoon Hyun smiled slightly.

  "Did you book this place?" Xian En Jing was stunned for a moment, she wouldn't believe that the production team would have such a big budget.

  "Yes. So our first date won't be disturbed by others." Yoon Hyun smiled warmly.

  Suddenly, a certain atmosphere began to spread between the happy couple.

  Even if I eat slowly, by the time I finish drinking the last mouthful of water, it's only around 10 o'clock.

  "Let's go ice-skating for fun!" Yoon Hyun suggested.

  Xian En was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly numbly.

  Yoon Hyun thought Ham Eunjung couldn't ice skate.

  But in fact...

  "General, keep your half-squatting posture, or else I won't be able to pull you!"

  ……

  Yoon Hyun was very embarrassed after getting on the ice and then did three consecutive falls...

  Then Xian Jing started teaching Yun Hyun ice-skating with a stomach-aching laugh.

  Time passes more quickly when you're doing something than when you're just sitting around the dinner table.

  A reminder from the service staff soon came, and it was almost 12 o'clock.

  Then, a task card was handed over in front of the two people.

  "What task? Is it to bobo when setting off fireworks?" Yoon Hyun-min knew what it was, but still smiled and joked.

  Xian En's gentle and shy face suddenly froze with a smile as she took over the task card, opened it, and looked at it.

  "What's wrong?" Yoon Hyun said carefully.

  "To: Yun Xian, En Jing couple: Your hypothetical marriage will officially end on December 31st, 2009 at 24:00. Please enjoy your last date to the fullest." Han Enjing's voice was slightly low as she read out these words.

  Yoon Hyeon also fell silent, gazing out at the city of Seoul in the distance. The bright lights of Gwanghwamun Gate shone clearly here as well.

  "Sorry, oppa," said Hyeon-jeong.

  "There's nothing to apologize for. Let's watch the fireworks together, part ways happily, and when we meet again, we won't be a general and a princess anymore, just Yoon Hyun and Ham Eunjung. Isn't that the same?" Yoon Hyun said with a smile.

  Xian Enjing nodded slightly and also shifted her gaze towards Guanghua Gate in the distance.

  As the first bell rang, 2009 bid farewell and 2010 officially arrived. The fireworks also came as scheduled.

  "How beautiful!" Yoon Hyun said, looking at the fireworks and Hyeon-jeong's smiling face reflected in the light of the fireworks.

  He himself didn't know whether he was talking about fireworks or a person.

  After more than ten minutes, the fireworks display came to an end.

  "Yoon Hyun oppa, it's time to go home." Ham Eunjung's expression made Yoon Hyun somewhat incomprehensible.

  "Well, let's go in then. And there's one more gift, it's from the general to the princess."

  "Really? Anything else?"

  "Also."

  "But it's not until 12 o'clock..."

  "When did the general and princess ever listen to others' commands?"

  Xian Enjing smiled, and a kind of heartfelt joy could be seen in her smile.

  The two of them came back to the restaurant where they had just dined. The spot where the dinner table was set up had been replaced with a piano.

  "Did you write a song?" Xian Enjing saw the piano and understood.

  "I actually guessed it was the last date when I received today's notice." Yoon Hyun adjusted his emotions, "So I wanted to give you a romantic date all day today, but it seems like I didn't do very well, sorry." As he said this, Yoon Hyun bowed and waved his hand to stop Ham Eunjung from saying something, this was the long speech he had prepared himself, if he got interrupted, he really didn't know if he could continue with the emotions.

  "The general and the princess had only known each other for two months, the general had many things he wanted to take the princess to do, and also wanted to get to know the princess better. He even had a song already written that he hadn't had the chance to sing to her yet. But time was like this, the princess had to leave, so in the end the general could only give the princess one last song. Because it was today... or rather, yesterday at dawn when I received the news, so I wrote it in a hurry and didn't prepare any orchestral accompaniment."

  Then Yin Xian sat in front of the piano, opened the music score on it: "Princess, do you still remember the bet we made last time when we went out together to find a place to stay?"

  "Do you remember? Are you going to use it now?" Xian En's expression became even more complicated.

  "Alright, General, your last wish is: after Her Highness the Princess finishes listening to this song, you will leave, okay?"

  "Alright, General." Xian Enjing didn't know when her eyes had turned red.

  "And don't cry." Yoon Hyun took a deep breath and his fingers fell onto the piano keys.

  The sound of the guqin rang out.

  "Not even a little bit of defense"

  No worries at all

  You just show up like this

  In my world

  Bring me surprise and excitement beyond control

  Although the sheet music unfolded, Yoon Hyun closed his eyes. As he sang, a smile appeared on his face, as if he had recalled that somewhat absurd encounter outside the MBC TV elevator. Hyeon Seung looked at Yoon Hyun's expression and also knew what he was thinking of, and smiled faintly too. The way they met that time was really quite interesting.

  "But you're doing just that"

  Silently disappeared without me noticing

  No news from my world

  All that's left is memories

  Yin Xian's smile on his face disappeared.

  "You exist deeply in my mind"

  "In My Dreams, In My Heart, In My Song"

  The vice sang out, almost instantly, and Xian Jing's tears flowed down suddenly.

  "Do you still remember when we"

  Shoulder to shoulder walking together

  That bustling alley entrance

  Although you and I are strangers passing by

  But they still felt each other

  A glance from him, a heartbeat from me

  An unexpected joy

  It's like a dream come true by fate

  Yin Xian's singing voice was slowly fermenting, and the entire room was faintly echoing with a hint of nostalgic sadness.

  "You exist deeply in my mind"

  "In My Dreams, In My Heart, In My Song"

  The refrain echoes again, as if it's a kind of confession to oneself, or perhaps a uncertain affirmation.

  "What a vast world it is, yet we met"

  Is it fate or is it heaven's will?

  Two sentences of unknown complaints or gratitude were sung out in a shouting manner, with a shocking power that moves people.

  "You exist deeply in my mind"

  In my dreams, in my heart, in my song

  In the sound of the zither, in the sound of the song, everything has come to an end.

  Wiping away tears, Xian'en smiled and left quietly as promised.

  Yin Xian kept his eyes closed.