Celebrity Neighbor: My girlfriend is a big star?

They've been together for so long already, Liu Xin'an is quite certain about this point.

Bae Juhyun pursed her lips, choosing not to lie but honestly nodded: "The chief said that if we appear in public more, our chances of coming to China to shoot variety shows will get bigger..."

"Tsk, that old fox."

Liu Xin'an understood this reasoning as well, but the problem was that doing so would cost Bae Juhyun a portion of her popularity.

Nowadays, the attitude of the two countries towards their relationship is already quite clear.

The domestic side is unanimously supportive, offering congratulations, even wishing they would hurry up and get married.

For Liu Xin'an's online friends and Bae Juhyun's fans, it's a win-win situation.

But on the high-level side... it gets more complicated.

Setting aside those black fans who quit and criticize, some of Bae Juhyun's fans actually hope she can separate her career from her personal life.

In other words... you can date, no one is stopping you.

But you can't show off all the time.

Manager Kim's current approach is to use Bae Juhyun's popularity in Korea to exchange for opportunities to develop in China, which indeed makes sense, besides, how much popularity can be lost? Only a small part.

But Liu Xin'an is a bit greedy, he usually chooses to have it all.

He wants to have Bae Juhyun and the others come to China, but also manage Bae Juhyun's personal popularity well.

So...

"No need to do such things, I'll make sure you come to our country smoothly."

Bae Juhyun remained silent, she stayed quiet for a while, then timidly looked at Liu Xin'an who was seriously looking at her, cautiously asking: "Are you angry?"

Bae Juhyun's frantic probing made Liu Xin'an raise an eyebrow, he put on a serious face, pretending to be aloof: "Hmm, very angry."

This made Bae Juhyun panic, her small hand in her pocket clenched into a fist out of nervousness, although she could vaguely sense that this jerk was teasing her, but... she didn't dare to gamble.

What if this guy was really angry? Not admitting her mistake would be fine, but joking about it... would definitely make him madder.

In her panic, she even directly took her hand out of her pocket and proactively put it into Liu Xin'an's pocket, seeking that big hand that gave her an infinite sense of security.

Once enveloped by the warmth, she finally realized... this guy was indeed teasing her.

The smile on Liu Xin'an's face also confirmed this point distinctly.

Only then did she sigh in relief, a feeling of grievance surged up in her heart.

"Don't scare me like that!"

"Alright, alright, just a little lesson for you, if something like this happens again, tell me first, didn't Manager Kim ask you to discuss it with me?" He didn't believe Manager Kim dared let Bae Juhyun do such things behind his back.

Bae Juhyun nodded honestly, then gave a light hum and muttered softly: "I knew you wouldn't agree."

"Then why didn't you discuss it with me."

"Would you agree?"

"Of course not."

His rapid response left Bae Juhyun exasperated, another free hand naturally reached up to pinch at Liu Xin'an's cheek.

Too bad this guy's body is too good, there's no flesh on his face, even trying to pinch a layer was impossible.

Acting on a whim, Bae Juhyun suddenly said: "Xin'an, it would be nice if you were a bit chubbier."

Liu Xin'an looked perplexed: "You like chubbier?"

"No, just a little chubbier than now, but not too much, just a tad."

"That's really demanding."

"Hehe~"

The two shifted from standing shoulder to shoulder, to leaning closely against each other.

The feeling of Liu Xin'an's large hand tightly holding hers filled Bae Juhyun with immense satisfaction, she slightly struggled, adjusted to intertwining fingers with Liu Xin'an, then mischievously brushed her fingernail lightly across the back of his hand.

The prickly sensation made Liu Xin'an glance at Bae Juhyun beside him.

"Behave, we'll head back after roaming around."

"Sure~ When will we be able to see ourselves at the New Year Festival?"

"Hmm, probably in the latter half, it'll likely be late, I'll call you then."

"I heard from Uncle and Auntie that there's a Spring Festival Gala to watch at night, will we have the chance to appear on that in the future?"

"Uh... It's highly unlikely, even if my dad steps in, achieving that level for you guys would be tough, don't think about it."

"What a pity, if we could appear on the Spring Festival Gala, we'd be amazing, in China."

The Spring Festival Gala's exaggerated viewership left Bae Juhyun dumbfounded, a nation of 1.4 billion could have such a high audience share, if they had the honor to participate, how many people would see them through this opportunity...

"You're overthinking it, nowadays people just have the Spring Festival Gala playing for background noise, not many people seriously watch it."

"Why?"

"Um... how to say, there are too many young performers now, while previously the gala was about family joy, but nowadays we often need to introduce these performers to our family... it's not much fun anymore."

"Eh?"

Bae Juhyun still couldn't understand, Liu Xin'an grinned, knowing it was tough to explain, he simply decided not to.

"Getting to participate in the New Year Festival, you are already really impressive, after some years of hard work, maybe you can make it on to the local TV Spring Festival Gala."

"Oh... okay."

Bae Juhyun herself didn't want to think too far ahead either, for her, resolving the issue of coming to China for variety show recordings was the priority.

Other matters... cannot be rushed.

———

As per the usual tradition, the sumptuousness of the New Year's Eve dinner once again made Bae Juhyun's eyes widen.

And this time, there were a few others equally stunned as her, and that was Park Jinyoung's family.