Chapter 28: Yin En Hui

  Time flies, and before we know it, February has arrived. The Spring Festival came and went, and Zhang Chengyuan's father, Zhang Donghu, returned to the country for a few days before hastily leaving again. It is unknown whether this busyness is due to livelihood pressures or a habit formed over the years.

  With the new semester starting next month, Zhang Chengyuan rushed to take some advertisements and planned to earn more hard-earned money so that he wouldn't have time to go out and make money after school started. The reason he didn't have time was because he was a senior this year.

  Third year of high school, what a magical phrase, just hearing it makes some people shudder. All Koreans who have experienced the terrifying third year of high school can never forget it, and thinking back to the experience of being on the verge of collapse while preparing for the college entrance exam, no one wants to go through it again. Although Jang Sung-won hasn't gone through this yet, thinking about how his seniors from two years ago were drowsy every day and desperately studying also makes him feel a little sympathetic.

  After becoming a high school student, Zhang Chengyuan was afraid that he would no longer be able to take leave as easily as last year, because the teachers would not allow it. In the eyes of Jiu Lao High School teachers, Zhang Chengyuan is the school's ace and has the potential to score high and get into one of Korea's top three universities - Hankuk University, Korea University or Yonsei University - and bring honor to his school. They will not allow Zhang Chengyuan to be distracted and affect his studies in any way.

  One day in mid-February, at an indoor ice rink in Yangcheon-gu, Gangseo-gu, Seoul, Jang Seong-won was gliding smoothly on his skates. He would suddenly speed up, then brake sharply, moving forward and backward with ease, turning lightly, and occasionally jumping into the air to spin around before landing steadily. His body stretched out and his movements were beautiful, giving off an impression of being more agile than a squirrel and more lithe than a cheetah. Seeing him move like this, no one would ever think that just a week ago, he was a complete beginner who didn't even know how to put on skates.

  A week ago, on the second day after the three-day Spring Festival holiday, a representative of a newly established clothing company suddenly found Park Byung-ryul and asked Jang Sung-won to be the spokesperson for their school uniform brand CleverS, and fully entrusted Park Byung-ryul's advertising agency to shoot an advertisement.

  After inquiring, Park Byung-ryul found out that the reason they chose Jang Sung-won was that the company's president happened to see Jang Sung-won play the role of Bo Hu in the TV series "Famous Doctor Heo Jun" and was deeply moved. They thought Jang Sung-won had a sunny and handsome image, and at the age of 17 or 18, he was very suitable to be the spokesperson for the school uniform brand that the company had just established. After inquiring about Jang Sung-won's information, they felt that he had unlimited potential, not only his popularity and fame were on the rise, but also because he had just debuted, his endorsement fee was much lower than those of well-known celebrities who had been famous for a long time, it could be said that "the price is very cheap", making him the first choice for small and medium-sized enterprises' brand spokesperson.

  To express the company's sincerity and to persuade Park Hyeong-ryeol and Jang Seong-won to accept this assignment, the clothing company's representative decided to entrust Logosfilm Advertising Agency with the filming of this advertisement after reviewing their previous works, and all expenses were also increased by 20% above market prices.

  Park Byung-ryul and Jang Sung-won looked at the clothing samples sent by the company, considering that although CleverS school uniform brand was unknown, it might not increase Jang Sung-won's popularity, but the appearance and quality of the clothes were very good, even compared to Korea's three major school uniform brands Elite, Smart, Ivyclub, there was no big difference. Plus, the endorsement fee and production cost made them very satisfied, so they readily agreed without playing "repeated negotiations to raise prices" business tricks.

  Because the clothing company had already prepared the advertising creative, Logosfilm Advertising Agency quickly prepared for several days and immediately started production, striving to shoot high-quality advertisements at the fastest speed.

  The school uniform advertisement must have a male model and a female model to represent male students and female students. The male model has already been chosen as Zhang Chengyuan, so there is still a need for a female model. However, Logosfilm Advertising Agency currently does not have an outstanding female model, so the clothing company can only go to other companies to select one.

  According to the advertisement script, the male model needs to have some ice skating skills. However, Zhang Chengyuan is basically an old antique who has never been in contact with ice skating, a sport deeply loved and pursued by young Koreans, let alone dancing on the ice. Therefore, during the preparation of the advertisement, Zhang Chengyuan devoted himself wholeheartedly to learning ice skating, which affected his current career path. With his excellent physical quality and super strong learning ability, within five days, he grew from a complete beginner who knew nothing to a small expert who could perform many fancy movements. Of course, high-difficulty movements like spinning three and a half times in the air were absolutely impossible for him.

  On the day of filming, Park Byung-ryul and Jang Sung-won arrived at the filming location ahead of schedule with the production team. The female model for the commercial had not yet arrived, so Jang Sung-won began to warm up on the ice first, taking the opportunity to practice some figure skating skills he had just learned. After about 10 minutes, a beautiful and lovely young girl in her teens, with a tall and sturdy physique, also arrived at the filming location under the protection of several staff members.

  At Park Byung-ryul's call, Jang Sung-won stopped practicing and quickly slid to the edge of the rink, took a look at the newcomer, and guessed that this girl who just arrived should be the female model he was going to collaborate with.

  According to Park Byung-ryul, this female model has a remarkable background. She is Yoon Eun-hye, the youngest member of the currently popular girl group BabyVox. At present, she is not yet 16 years old, one and a half years younger than Jang Sung-yoon. She joined BabyVox halfway through last year and officially debuted as a singer in August. It seems that she will debut later than Jang Sung-yoon by several months.

  But before that, Yoon Eun-hye had already taken many magazine covers and various advertisements as a model. It's hard to say who is the senior of whom, and at this time, Jang Sung-won's popularity and reputation compared to Yoon Eun-hye still have a big gap, so Park Hyung-ryul early on warned Jang Sung-won not to be arrogant and not to put on airs in front of Yoon Eun-hye.

  Having been in the entertainment industry for over half a year, there aren't many female artists who have collaborated with Zhang Chengyuan, but there are still quite a few. However, none of them have ever been as young as Yoon Eun-hye, which gave Zhang Chengyuan some special expectations: perhaps today's shoot would be interesting, at least he wouldn't be overshadowed by older sisters.

  At this time, Zhang Chengyuan took a closer look at Yoon Eun-hye and found that although she was not a stunning beauty, she looked quite good, with a great figure, unlike the frail body of most female artists. Her big eyes, baby fat on her face, and round appearance made her look very cute, which was exactly Zhang Chengyuan's type. He had a good impression of her at first glance.

  At this time, Yoon Eun-hye greeted the director and others, then followed her agent to come over and exchange greetings with Jang Sung-won and Park Hyung-ryeol. After some small talk, the agents of both sides went aside, leaving only Jang Sung-won and Yoon Eun-hye. Both knew that their agents did this to give them a little independent space, so they could get familiar with each other, in order to reduce some awkwardness in future cooperation.

  For Jang Sung-won, Yoon Eun-hye learned some information through the agent's introduction and knew that he was a very promising advertising newcomer and TV newcomer with good reputation, so she said straightforwardly: "Sung-won oppa, can I call you that?"

  Seeing Zhang Chengyuan, such a handsome and elegant young man, not many girls can remain unmoved and not want to get to know him. However, some girls are either too shy or pretending to be reserved, plus Zhang Chengyuan's usual expression is extremely cold and icy, so it's very difficult to approach him. But at this time, due to work reasons, Zhang Chengyuan's expression has become much warmer, so Yoon Eun-hye isn't intimidated by him at all.

  Jang Sung-won said with a smile, "Of course, from now on I'll call you by your name without using honorifics." Etiquette and honorifics may seem polite at first glance, but doing too much of it can create distance between people. Therefore, in the case of close friends, they usually don't pay attention to these things. Jang Sung-won and Yoon Eun-hye, who were about to start working together, didn't want to make unnecessary polite gestures either.