Celebrity Neighbor: My girlfriend is a big star?
Chapter 179 - 168. Red velvet joins little broken station_2

Chapter 179: 168. Red velvet joins little broken station_2

Here are just a few sentences, and Liu Xin’an’s voice in the audio sounded very casual.

But asking them to learn such a short sentence in Chinese...

After ten minutes, although they were still stumbling, everyone finally managed to get the sentence right.

As artists, they’re never short on effort.

No one who’s made it this far is lazy.

If they don’t know how to do something, they practice.

Another half-hour later, the five of them had memorized these sentences in Chinese.

Aside from the tone still sounding a bit off, they had mastered everything else well.

Once the people assisting with the filming came in, they would find a Chinese teacher to confirm everything. If there were no issues, they could start filming right away.

"Brother Seong, we’re all ready. Could you call them in?"

Kang Seulgi took out her phone and called their manager. After a brief instruction, they got up.

They couldn’t shoot in the practice room, so they chose a conference room.

They waited quietly in the conference room for a while, and the manager from earlier, Brother Seong, came in with a few people.

Bae Juhyun and the others stood up to greet them.

"We’re shooting a greeting video for Chinese fans today. The greeting phrases have been prepared in advance, and you have about half an hour to practice."

"Ah, no need. We’ve already prepared it in advance," Bae Juhyun said with a smile, receiving a surprised look from Seong Taekyon.

"You prepared it in advance?"

"Yes."

"Hmm, even better, let’s see it."

It proved their efforts would never be in vain.

They recited the self-introduction smoothly, and even the translator responsible for teaching them Chinese this time was a bit surprised.

"Is it okay?"

"Yes, yes, you just need to tidy up a bit, and we can start filming right away. Since it’s the first video, it’ll be less than a minute, just a greeting to the fans in China."

"What about the follow-up?"

Seong Taekyon glanced at the inquiring Bae Juhyun, already having a sense of her anxiety.

She might be anxious because she hasn’t worked in a while... he could understand.

"We’ll see the fan’s feedback. If the fan count is high and they are enthusiastic, we might plan to shoot some vlogs and daily practice room activities to post. If the feedback isn’t enthusiastic, we’ll decide then."

Bae Juhyun didn’t say too much more, just took out her phone and started adjusting her hairstyle and clothes in the front camera.

———

The [An and Juhyun] account was approved last night and posted its first update on the same day.

Meanwhile, Red Velvet’s account appeared on Bilibili’s homepage at 9 AM the next morning.

But to Bae Juhyun’s disappointment, by noon, their group’s follower count just barely surpassed 200,000.

Her small account with Liu Xin’an had nearly 400,000 followers in just one night.

This disparity made Bae Juhyun feel like her popularity had faded.

While eating lunch and constantly refreshing her phone, Son Seungwan noticed.

"How many followers?"

"Over 200,000."

"Oh! That’s not bad!"

Son Seungwan didn’t have a full concept of China’s vastness. She knew it was big, but she didn’t know just how big.

To her, getting 200,000 followers in less than half a day was quite an achievement.

"Yesterday, the small account I opened with Liu Xin’an got nearly 400,000 followers overnight."

"...Don’t worry, Juhyun. Your personal account has more followers than his main account and our small account combined."

Son Seungwan’s attempt to console Bae Juhyun left her unsure of what expression to show.

Was this really comforting her?

"I’m worried the company will abandon this account later."

If possible, Bae Juhyun really wanted to develop on the same platform as Liu Xin’an.

Maybe one day their accounts would grow big, and they could appear together in front of the camera?

But for now, this result might be hard to convince the higher-ups.

No, she needed to come up with a solution.

At the very least, she couldn’t let the higher-ups have thoughts of giving up on this account.

Having figured this out, Bae Juhyun focused on her lunch.

The lunch meant for maintaining her figure naturally didn’t taste great, but the upside was she didn’t have to struggle on the treadmill.

On the way back after lunch, Bae Juhyun ran into Vivian Ning and Yu Jimin heading to the cafeteria.

She was initially surprised, then smiled.

"Jimin, Ningning, you’re going to eat?"

The two juniors, who had just finished their promotion activities, politely bowed to greet her.

After all, she was a senior, and especially in a crowded place like the cafeteria, manners had to be impeccable.

"Hello, Juhyun, Seungwan. Have you already eaten?"

"Yes, did you just finish?"

"Yes, we’re heading to lunch now."

Yu Jimin responded with a smile, and Vivian Ning gave Bae Juhyun and Son Seungwan a sweet smile as well.

"Congratulations on winning the Rookie Award. Quite an impressive start."

Not long ago, aespa had won their first Rookie Award, but Bae Juhyun didn’t think that it would be their only award this year.

In a few days, there would be the Melon Music Awards, and aespa was nominated for the Rookie Award there too. Since there weren’t any other stand-out rookies this year, they were likely to win it.

Yeah... they might just be this generation’s monster rookies.

"Thank you, sisters."

"By the way, Ningning, you said aespa also has an account on Bilibili. How many followers do you have now?"

The abrupt change in topic made Ningning pause. Realizing Bae Juhyun was asking, she quickly pulled out her phone, then just as quickly hid it, remembering something.

Her panicked action made the girls around her laugh.

After all, they weren’t supposed to have phones publicly.

But everyone secretly kept their phones at some point.

Bae Juhyun handed her own phone to Vivian Ning.

Vivian Ning took it, searching for her group’s name in the search bar.

"Um... We have about 200,000 followers now."

"Oh! That’s a lot too."

"Yes, the fans are all very enthusiastic. Red Velvet also opened an account on Bilibili today, right?"

"Yes, we have around 200,000 too."

"Amazing! Reaching 200,000 in just a day, as expected of Red Velvet."

The junior’s praise made Son Seungwan smile, and she sweetly teased them.

As the main vocalists of their groups, Son Seungwan and Vivian Ning had a good relationship, and they both felt a sense of camaraderie as foreigners.

Bae Juhyun, on the other hand, was quiet, thinking deeply before finally saying goodbye to Yu Jimin and Vivian Ning along with Son Seungwan.

If aespa had around 200,000 followers and the company didn’t abandon their account...

Bae Juhyun’s eyes lit up, and she released Son Seungwan’s hand.

"Seungwan, you go back first. I’m going to the manager’s office."

"Hmm, are you going back to the dorm today?"

"Not today, maybe tomorrow. You can take Brother Seong’s car back."

"Okay."

Son Seungwan nodded, waved to Bae Juhyun, and turned towards the practice room.

Bae Juhyun headed straight for the manager’s office.

At this time, the manager had already had his lunch, so there was no chance she would be disturbing him.

"Knock knock knock"

"Come in."

Bae Juhyun took a deep breath, reviewed what she wanted to say in her mind, and put on her best business smile.

She opened the door and walked up to the manager, who was looking down at some documents, and greeted him politely.

"Manager."

"Yes, Irene, what’s up?"

The slightly older man crossed his hands under his chin, looking at Bae Juhyun with interest.

Bae Juhyun... had been coming to him quite frequently lately.