Chapter 72: Quan Hui Bin

  After dinner, Jang Sung-won sent Mun Ka-young back to her home and didn't even go in for a sit. He bid farewell to Mun Ka-young and drove back to Hancheng. By this time, it was already 8 o'clock at night. Without stopping along the way, he arrived at Lee Hyo-ri's apartment around midnight. That night, he also made several rounds of courtesy calls with Lee Hyo-ri. After a day of exhausting his energy, traveling fatigue, and ** consumption, even with his superhuman physical strength, he was exhausted, but he felt sweet as honey.

  Before long, Park Byung-ryul went through a lot of twists and turns to secure an appearance on the hottest variety show "X-man" for Jang Sung-won.

  Starting from last November, "X-Man" has been broadcast on SBS TV and soon rose to fame in the highly competitive weekend variety show lineup. To this day, it has become a top-rated program in Korea's variety shows, with consistently high ratings. It also catapulted its three MCs - Yoo Jae-suk, Kang Ho-dong, and Kim Je-dong - as well as an increasing number of guests to stardom. You Hee-yeol, who maintains a good friendship with Jang Sung-won, is also one of the beneficiaries of this program.

  Because the show was a huge hit, most celebrities, especially those in the second and third tier, flocked to it, making it difficult to get on the show. Not only did the celebrity's current popularity have to be high, but their PR skills also had to meet certain standards. However, old faces who were well-liked by audiences from the beginning of the show, such as Kim Jong-min, Andy, Kim Jong-kook, Yoon Eun-hye, and Lee Ji-hyun, could appear on the guest list at any time as long as their schedules allowed, after all, they were an important part of the show's ratings guarantee.

  For entertainment programs, especially those that require humor or coordination with the MC to be humorous, Zhang Chengyuan is extremely averse and not skilled at all. He always feels that such programs are very hypocritical. The reason for this may be that he simply hasn't realized that making the audience laugh is a remarkable and difficult thing to do. Therefore, in the past, when encountering invitations to such programs, he would avoid them if possible, and only attend if it was absolutely unavoidable.

  Park Byung-ryul had always hoped he could participate frequently, although participating in such programs would not bring much pay, but it was extremely helpful for maintaining exposure and popularity. Under his repeated persuasion, coupled with the fact that he hadn't met Yoon Eun-hye for a while, and hearing that she had already agreed to attend this episode, Jang Sung-won reluctantly accepted.

  On the day of recording, Jang Sung-won arrived at SBS TV's 'X-MAN' program filming location more than half an hour in advance. After greeting the PD and writers, he exchanged greetings with several guests who had also arrived early, then sat alone in a corner of the waiting room waiting for the start of filming. Park Hyung-ryul occasionally reminded him to be more lively during filming, fearing that Jang Sung-won would stand still like a wooden stake.

  Sitting idly, he suddenly discovered a newly arrived beautiful guest secretly checking him out. The woman was around twenty years old, with long hair down to her shoulders and a beautiful face. Her facial features were delicate and refined, with large and spirited eyes; her height was only average, but her proportions were excellent, her waist was slender and elegant, and even her slight movements had a mysterious rhythm, making him wonder if she was an extraordinary dancer.

  It's a bit strange that Zhang Chengyuan felt that her gaze at him seemed to be a little excited and a little lost.

  "Could it be that she knows me?" Zhang Chengyuan thought to himself, but his memory seemed to have no impression of this beauty, only vaguely remembering that the woman should be a singer, but one thing was certain, he had never met her in person before.

  Just as he was about to ask Park Hyung-ryeol, Yoon Eun-hye walked in alone from the entrance of the resting room. He stretched out his hand and beckoned her over, and Yoon Eun-hye immediately came over with a smile on her face, bowing and greeting other artists and guests along the way.

  Yoon Eun-hye walked up to Jang Sung-yoon and was about to bow, but he pulled her into a chair beside him. "No need for formalities," Jang said. "You know I don't like that sort of thing."

  Yoon Eun-hye leaned in close to him and whispered, "With so many people around, I have to put on a show somehow."

  Zhang Chengyuan said: "That makes sense, so get up again and pay your respects to your brother, and do it with reverence!"

  Yoon Eun-hye patted Jang Sung-won's shoulder and said, "Sung-won hyung, how can you do this? You're teasing me again! When Lee Jin comes later, I'll tell on you and let her punish you properly."

  Zhang Chengyuan exclaimed: "Zhēnér jiě is also here! I asked her a few days ago, and she said she couldn't make it this time."

  Yoon Eun-hye said: "I don't know about that, anyway she told me yesterday that she was coming."

  ……

  Two people chatted and laughed, occasionally slapping each other, looking very close. This made some artists who were closer to Yoon Eun-hye curious, guessing that Jang Sung-won might be Yoon Eun-hye's boyfriend. But thinking again, if he was really her boyfriend, he probably wouldn't dare to flirt in front of so many people. They should just be very good friends.

  Perhaps some fans still remember that Yun Eun-hye and Jang Sung-won had collaborated on a school uniform advertisement as early as the spring of 2000, which also caused a wide topic in the student community, but most of them were artists, who would know these?

  However, there is an exception among the guests present. One of them knew about this past event, and that person was the beautiful woman who had been sizing up Zhang Chengyuan earlier. As Yoon Eun-hye chatted with Zhang Chengyuan, the female guest walked forward and greeted Yoon Eun-hye, saying: "Eun-hye, hello, how have you been lately?"

  Yoon Eun-hye hastily stood up and bowed her head to answer: "Hui-bin sister, hello, it's great to see you, let me introduce... this is..."

  "No need to introduce, how could I not know? You and Zhang Chengyuan senior met in early 2000 when you were shooting the CleverS school uniform advertisement together. Senior Zhang Chengyuan, hello, I'm Quan Huibin from Luv, also your fan JEON, do you still remember me?"

  "Jeon? My number one fan Jeon? Who wrote over a hundred letters to me and then disappeared without a word? Zhang Chengyuan couldn't help but forget this name, although he hadn't read many of those letters before passing them on to Park Byungryul to handle. But this person was his die-hard fan from the very beginning of his career, and could even be said to be his first fan, so naturally he had a deep impression. What made him a little disappointed was that after he enlisted in the army, Jeon never wrote another letter to him again. He thought people would forget about him once he left. Unexpectedly, today he ran into the real person, and it turned out they were even colleagues."

  "Sunwoo oppa, can I call you that?" Although Sunwoo Hwi Bin and Jang Sung Won were the same age, since Jang Sung Won was born in February, he was considered to be part of the same generation as those born after March 1982, making him one year senior to Sunwoo Hwi Bin. That's why she had always called him that when she was a fan of his.

  Zhang Chengyuan didn't know Quan Hui Bin's age, but judging from her appearance, she seemed younger than him, so he nodded and said, "Of course."

  At this time, he didn't think that he was only one year older than Yoon Eun-hye. Since Yoon Eun-hye called Jang Hui-bin "sister", Jang Hui-bin must be at least the same age as him, and it seemed inappropriate for Jang Hui-bin to call him "oppa". However, even if he thought of it, he didn't care, because if he counted his previous life's age, he would definitely be much older than Jang Hui-bin.

  "Oppa, since I became a singer, I haven't had the time to write you a sincere letter. I didn't keep my promise to you and I'm really sorry, please forgive me!"

  Zhang Chengyuan hadn't read those letters and didn't know what her promise was, so he could only vaguely say: "What's there to apologize for? You don't have to worry about it." He thought no wonder she had looked at him with a worried and fearful gaze just now.

  "So you're forgiving me, oppa!" Hwang Hui-bin's joy was written all over her face.

  "Of course, of course." Zhang Chengyuan responded perfunctorily, making up his mind to find those letters after the meeting was over and clarify what Quan Huibin had promised him. However, times had changed and the letters Quan Huibin had sent him had long been disposed of by Park Byung-ryul, so how could they still be kept until now?