Chapter 2

Jiang Minjing clenched her fists tightly and gritted her teeth. If it weren't for the bandages on that guy's head, she would have really wanted to step forward and give him a left hook and a right hook, and warn him that pissing off his little sister was dangerous.

"Can you speak properly? Even if I become a star, we don't have to become enemies, can't you be a bit more understanding as a brother!" Jiang Minjing gritted her teeth and held back her anger.

Li Huanle originally wanted to say a few more words, but thinking of the memory fragments of that otaku in his mind, he calmed down a bit. Seeing Jiang Minjing holding back her anger, clenching her small fists, and gritting her teeth, his heart softened a lot.

"Then let's not talk about it. By the way, where are the two people who hit me?" Li Huanle changed the topic, noticing that only he and Jiang Minjing were in the room, he immediately asked.

"They went to buy food. The police came earlier to take statements. By the way, Oppa Lee Wonjae called to ask about your condition. He seemed very angry, you should call him back!" Jiang Minjing's stiff body relaxed when she saw Li Huanle change the topic, and she felt relieved. She really didn't want to argue with him anymore.

"Oh no~!!" Li Huanle sat up suddenly, his face changed drastically as he remembered that his phone was broken in the accident.

"Quick, give me your phone!" Li Huanle extended his right hand anxiously to Jiang Minjing.

"Oh, oh!" Jiang Minjing was startled by his action and quickly took her phone out of her pocket and handed it over. However, just as she handed the phone to Li Huanle, she suddenly thought of something and tried to take it back, but Li Huanle had already taken it.

He quickly found Lee Wonjae's number and dialed it...

"Hello, Wonjae, today... yeah, I understand!"

After listening to Lee Wonjae, Li Huanle's anxious face calmed down a lot. After Lee Wonjae reminded him to rest well, Li Huanle hung up the phone.

"What's wrong, Oppa? Is it about the company?" Jiang Minjing asked with a slightly flushed face, looking like she wanted to get her phone back quickly.

Li Huanle sighed deeply and fell back straight...

"Ouch!!!"

A moment later.

"Oppa, are you an idiot?" Jiang Minjing, sitting on the bed, patted Li Huanle's back of the head, unable to help but laugh and ask.

Li Huanle's face turned red as he turned his head away. It was really embarrassing; his head had hit the bed rail, and it hurt so much that he almost cried, especially in front of this cheap sister.

But thinking about the time, ever since his cheap sister became a trainee, their relationship had taken a sharp turn for the worse. Every time they met, they either faced each other coldly or had a big argument. It had been a long time since they had any intimate moments.

Li Huanle closed his eyes and sighed. Honestly, he didn't consider himself a good person, but he was definitely a man of his word.

Since the beginning of last year, he had applied for a social practice at school and then worked at his adoptive father's company. He personally visited every distributor, even some large chain stores, supermarkets, and even applied for vending machines with the company's brand at government departments.

Unfortunately, this society is very realistic. In business, profit is the ultimate measure. Many companies found the products of Li Huanle's company too expensive and had no advantages compared to similar products. For a year and a half, the company's production had decreased, and the piled-up products had increased. Due to the factory's shutdown, many employees had resigned.

The company's situation was getting worse, and bankruptcy was just a matter of time.

"Why did you have to start a 'Little Umbrella' research and production company, old man? What am I supposed to do with a just-graduated college student?" Li Huanle thought with a sense of melancholy. Twelve years is not a short time. Although he later realized that Koreans were xenophobic and peculiar, which he didn't like, the warmth this family brought him was real.

Calculating the medical expenses for the people he injured, it was a terrifying amount. Li Huanle felt he owed his adoptive father a lot, so he couldn't refuse his father's last request.

Although he later found out the reason his adoptive father started the company, which was a great reason, reality wouldn't change just because of a great reason.

Was the 'Little Umbrella' company, which was on the brink of collapse, really beyond saving?

Jiang Minjing looked at Li Huanle, who suddenly turned his body, and her eyes became a bit pained. This cheap Oppa, who was four years older than her, was someone she didn't like at first, but he had always protected her in her studies, keeping her from being bullied by seniors and often taking her out to play. Their relationship had become very close until she became a trainee for her dream, and Li Huanle's strong opposition led to their relationship hitting rock bottom.

Jiang Minjing understood Li Huanle very well. She knew that this cheap Oppa didn't like Korea and should have left two years ago, but because of his father's request, he was tied to Korea.

Jiang Minjing didn't know what her father's business was until two years ago when she learned from the lawyer. She found the 'Little Umbrella' company disgusting. Seeing Oppa work hard for the company for a year and a half, his personality seemed to change. She wanted to persuade him to give up, dissolve the company, or sell it to Uncle Li, as long as Oppa didn't do this business anymore.

But Jiang Minjing understood that if the company really disappeared, Li Huanle would definitely choose to leave Korea. So she never said it out loud because, besides her grandparents in the hometown, Li Huanle was her only family.

Looking at Li Huanle's back, Jiang Minjing's eyes became a bit complicated.

"SBS Entertainment News: Yesterday afternoon at 3 PM, the popular girl group Wonder Girls signed a lucrative endorsement contract with TBJ. At the signing event at Lotte Department Store, thousands of fans..."

The TV on the wall opposite the hospital bed was always on. This entertainment news suddenly caught Li Huanle's attention.

Jiang Minjing saw Oppa suddenly sit up and stare straight at the news on the TV. Her first thought was, "So Oppa is a fan of Wonder Girls!"

But seeing Li Huanle's bright eyes, Jiang Minjing was stunned. It had been many years since she had seen such a look in his eyes.

"Are Wonder Girls that good?" Jiang Minjing thought, feeling a bit jealous.

"Knock, knock!"

"We're coming in!"

After two knocks, the door opened, and the culprits who had gone to buy lunch for Li Huanle entered the ward with packed food.

"Whoosh!"

Li Huanle's head turned lightning-fast, his eyes fixed on the girl with a haggard face. His sharp and inquisitive gaze scared the girl, who immediately hid behind the fat guy.

The news on the TV continued, talking about how TBJ's sales had rapidly increased after signing Wonder Girls and praising the group for sparking a retro trend with "Nobody" a month ago, earning them the title of "National Group."

It was as if he had found the last straw to cling to. Although it seemed unbelievable, Li Huanle's mind did indeed have some new things. At the moment of the accident, he really saw a golden light fall on his head.

It was a memory fragment from a Chinese otaku named Tang Menglong. Fortunately, it was just a fragment and didn't affect Li Huanle's personality much. Besides knowing the guy's name, the rest was all about the Korean entertainment industry, both past and future.

But Li Huanle was a bit speechless. After a car accident, his head was filled with so many memories. Why couldn't it be the cultivation techniques of a failed cultivator, making him the last cultivator on Earth, eventually breaking through and heading into space?

Earlier, Li Huanle had been in agony because of the memory fragments in his head, which made him curse out loud. Now, after calming down and carefully reviewing these memories... he cursed even more, "What a lousy watch I bought last year."

In the otaku's memory, over 50% was about swaying white legs, sexy dance moves, and beautiful girls. You'd think as a Korean otaku, he could be a bit more professional, at least to the level of an encyclopedia. Damn, he couldn't even remember some female idols' names, just their looks and figures.

And couldn't he have some memories of the Western entertainment industry? At the very least, he could remember a few popular English songs.

But the only thing worth celebrating was that he had memories of some popular or female idol-participating TV dramas, variety shows, and many Korean songs. However, the amount of memory was too large, and Li Huanle needed time to digest it.

Originally, Li Huanle didn't take these memories seriously. After all, everyone has their specialty. Although he knew a bit about instruments because of his ex-girlfriend, it was just at a popular level. Perfectly performing a popular song from memory wasn't easy, especially with his natural tone-deafness... o(︶︿︶)o sigh.

As for the movies and TV shows in the memories, writing them out would take even more time.

So Li Huanle just considered these memories a byproduct of the accident. But his thoughts changed just now.

According to the memories, Wonder Girls became globally popular because of "NOBODY" and were about to break out of Asia and go global. The title of "National Group" was fitting at the moment.

Now, although TBJ paid a high price to sign Wonder Girls, the returns in the future would far exceed the investment.

This was the effect of artists... no, true stars. The endorsement of such stars, if chosen correctly, could bring tremendous power.

And so-called star endorsements refer to the use of celebrities' images or videos through various promotional channels to make the target audience widely aware of the product, a marketing tool.