"Xiamen... it's by the sea, right?"

"Yes."

"How about singing by the sea for the fans then? We haven't held a fan meeting in China, nor had any opportunity to perform in front of our Chinese fans. Let's take this chance to have a fan meeting in China!"

"Oh! That sounds great."

Bae Juhyun had noted down this idea in her memo a long time ago. Without exaggerating, her main goal for going to China to film the group's variety show this time is to take this opportunity to properly meet the fans who have been supporting them from afar in China.

In the past, due to the differences between countries, they couldn't come here to support her.

But this time, the fans don't need to come; they're the ones going over.

This proposal also made Lee Yeonju's eyes light up.

It's indeed quite a reliable suggestion, so she didn't hesitate one bit, not even giving Liu Xin'an on the other end of the phone a chance to speak.

"No problem, I'm sure the fans will be very excited then."

"Ah~ Starting to get excited. When do we depart?" Kim Yerin couldn't contain her excitement as she took a sip of the coffee in her hand and hurriedly asked.

Lee Yeonju glanced at the time and thought for a moment before answering, "We'll have to wait a bit longer. A lot of permits and approvals are still needed, probably not until June at the earliest."

"Ah~ still a long time to go."

"Alright, the preparation for today is about done. You can all leave... Ah, Irene, you need to stay behind."

After discussing the group variety show, there's another variety meeting that needs to be held. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

This year Bae Juhyun is very busy, and this time her personal variety show is also being filmed by Lee Yeonju.

"Me?"

"Yes, we need to discuss your variety show."

Bae Juhyun shrugged, sat back down, then smiled and waved at the other members.

After everyone had left, she turned to Lee Yeonju and asked, "Now it's already mid-May, if we're departing for China in June, my variety show needs to be completed in these few days?"

She didn't mind being busier and working harder.

But the problem was that this time her variety show's plan involved preparing food to entertain friends.

The plan was to film a total of eight episodes, but...

Eight episodes with eight dishes, just these ten or so days, she didn't think she could master them perfectly.

"No, it's split into different sessions, filming twice before departure, and twice after coming back. Anyway, the broadcast won't be until July, so it's not very urgent."

"Two times?"

This number slightly puzzled Bae Juhyun.

Filming twice before departure and twice after coming back adds up to only four times, but the show is supposed to have eight episodes.

"Although it's a bit presumptuous to ask, but may I inquire, could Irene find eight friends to taste the dishes?"

Listening to Lee Yeonju's answer, trying to hold back her laughter, Bae Juhyun couldn't help but feel defeated.

She glared wide-eyed, her face also carrying a smile of disbelief.

"Hey! What kind of talk is that! I have a lot of friends!"

Bae Juhyun didn't really get upset, after all, this segment would be aired later, and all the fans knew she didn't actually have that many friends.

The few friends she did have were probably all super busy during this time.

"Each episode is around 30 minutes, so if every episode has a new friend, it will be quite tight on content. It's better to have one friend every two episodes."

This was the real reason for having a friend every two episodes, the earlier mention was more of a joke.

Well... indeed, Bae Juhyun didn't have that many friends.

"Is that so? But I really have a lot of friends!"

"Yes, we believe you, so has Irene thought about which friends to invite this time?"

Bae Juhyun thought for a moment, then showed a mysterious smile.

"I'll personally invite them when the time comes. Just send me the filming schedule in advance, preferably a week ahead..."

"Ah, next week's around this time is when the first episode will be filmed, you can start preparing to invite them now."

"Ha... really, what dish should I make then?"

"The dish will be randomly drawn on the filming day."

Lee Yeonju's response left Bae Juhyun stunned, she then showed a look of doubt.

"What?"

"You'll be informed on the day of filming."

"What? You mean I'll need to learn on the spot? This is different from what I submitted in my proposal! I protest!"

Bae Juhyun had clearly written in her proposal that this variety show was to showcase her "girlish charm" by preparing delicious food for friends, not learning spontaneously and then making poison to harm her friends!

She didn't care about saving face anymore, hurriedly complaining, "You all say I don't have many friends, if you do this, how can I dare invite friends to taste food!"

"This change was decided after our unanimous discussion, a variety show needs a little comedic element, wouldn't you agree?"

"Your so-called comedic element is watching my friends and me suffer, right?"

"Yes."

This overly honest answer made Bae Juhyun sit back helpless, showing a look of resignation, waving her hand.

"Let's go with what the crew planned, you're really bad, wow!"

Bae Juhyun's aggrieved voice also made everyone in the room laugh, despite being 32 years old this year, she's sometimes so adorable it's hard to handle.

This was also thanks to having a female PD filming their show; had it been a male, they might have been completely won over by the girls' various cute antics and become utterly compliant.