Chapter 99

"Sorry, everyone in the family, I just lost my composure a bit." Jin Taeyeon nodded and took over the conversation, "Yoon Hyun, as expected of someone who came out of MBC's top variety show, Infinite Challenge, you're really good at speaking, not at all inferior to senior Liu Zaishi!"

"Hey, that grasshopper Liu Zaishi is not even in my line of sight." Yoon Hyun pretended to be very cool and stroked his non-existent beard.

"Today, I'm really glad to have Yoon Hyun here on our Close Friends, because the atmosphere today is unusually good."

"Stop calling me Yoon Hyun, Yoon Hyun all the time. You usually just call me oppa, why are you being so formal here? It feels like I'm on the show 'Taeyeon's Not So Close Friends'." Yoon Hyun, finding Taeyeon's polite language a bit strange, interjected.

As soon as Yoon Hyun's words were out, the text message platform immediately exploded, with a queue of red hearts appearing.

"Hey! Family members, don't start cheering!" Jin Taeyeon's face turned a bit red, "Yoon Hyun oppa is a very good friend of our Girls' Generation. Yoon Hyun oppa, who was the first person from Girls' Generation you met?"

"Yoon Ah, I guess." Yoon Hyun knew that Jin Taeyeon was trying to get the show back on track, so he decided not to cause more trouble. He was a bit worried that if he made the show too entertaining, Taeyeon might not be able to control the situation. "It was before my debut, when I accompanied a friend to an audition."

"Is this friend now an actor in the entertainment industry?" Jin Taeyeon really didn't know.

"Um, it's Jiuri and Bora from T-ara..." Yoon Hyun answered a bit awkwardly.

"So, Yoon Hyun oppa, you're actually closer to T-ara than to Girls' Generation, right?" Jin Taeyeon made a very angry face.

The text message platform immediately started flooding with messages like "Taeyeon is jealous!" and "Yoon Hyun, don't play the field!"

"Everyone is a very good friend! And so far, I haven't even written a song for T-ara. I've already planned the second song for you!" Yoon Hyun smiled and deflected. "I haven't written for T-ara, right? It's just that I haven't written for them. If you think about it, I might be a bit closer to T-ara."

"0509 friend asks, oppa, who was the person you thanked at the Baeksang Arts Awards this year for leading you into acting? Was it Bora or Jiuri?" This was actually a rhetorical question. Everyone who followed this knew it was because of Yoon Ah, right?

"It's not them. Although I met them earlier because of my older sister and accompanied them to many auditions, the person who really made me feel that acting might be interesting was Yoon Ah." Yoon Hyun said seriously, his tone sincere, "It was over a thousand auditions! At that time, I felt that this little girl would definitely become a big star, and I asked her for her first signature."

"Oppa, I have to remind you that although this is Taeyeon's Close Friends, many family members really like Yoon Ah. Calling her a little girl might make them angry. Look, someone is already protesting on the text message platform!" Jin Taeyeon said with a mischievous smile.

"Cough, compared to me, who has a 30-year-old mentality, Yoon Ah is just a pure... um, innocent... um, well, a mischievous little girl!" Yoon Hyun tried two words but felt they didn't quite fit the cunning Yoon Ah, finally settling on "mischievous."

"Ha ha ha! I suddenly want to invite oppa to our show tomorrow. I think Yoon Ah will definitely ask you why you used the words 'pure' and 'innocent.' Look, someone on the text message platform is already demanding that you commit suicide to apologize. And how can you face Yoon Ah's kiss at the Baeksang Awards like this!" Jin Taeyeon looked gleeful.

"Words like 'pure' and 'innocent' are better suited to describe Suhyun. Yoon Ah should just be cute, mischievous, and lively. That suits her better. But I really thank her for making me interested in acting. Walking the red carpet and receiving the award together at the Baeksang Arts Awards was a great memory." Yoon Hyun tidied up. He didn't want to offend Yoon Ah's fans with his jokes. Although he wasn't afraid of anything, he didn't want Yoon Ah to feel guilty...

"Then, oppa, the second person you met in Girls' Generation was Suhyun, right?" Jin Taeyeon wasn't really trying to push Yoon Hyun away from Sone. After the joke, she returned to the main topic.

"Yes, it was a very interesting coincidence. Because of a chance encounter, I became interested in composing, so I went to a bookstore to buy related books. I got so engrossed in a book that when I finished and went to the cash register, my feet were numb from standing for too long, and I almost fell. I thought no one saw, but a girl with long hair and a huge piano scorebook did. That girl was Suhyun."

"It sounds so much like a TV drama scene where the male and female leads meet! So, oppa, your meeting with Suhyun was so romantic!" Jin Taeyeon imagined the scene and said enviously.

"Not at all, it was embarrassing. Suhyun was short and looked like a little girl, and I was already as tall as I am now. Almost falling in front of a little girl... I still feel ashamed thinking about it!" Yoon Hyun genuinely didn't find it romantic...

"Oppa, don't deny it. Look, everyone on the text message platform is saying your meeting was romantic! 6106 friend said it best: 'Our first meeting, I used my awkwardness to make you smile, and in your smile, I found happiness, and in that happiness, I smiled even more.' So sappy!" Jin Taeyeon read the messages with a mischievous smile.

"Actually, Taeyeon, I think our meeting was romantic. This is just a coincidence!" Yoon Hyun felt uncomfortable with the message and quickly tried to change the subject.

"Hey! Oppa, don't say that!" Jin Taeyeon almost jumped up. Since the special stage of "If" on "Kissing You" over a year ago, there had always been a group of family members who thought the two should be together, and Yoon Hyun had been chosen by Sone as the only acceptable boyfriend for Girls' Generation. Yoon Hyun's words would definitely ignite this group.

Sure enough, as soon as Yoon Hyun finished speaking, the text message platform was flooded...

"Family members, don't take Yoon Hyun oppa's words as a joke. Our first meeting was on the backstage of our MBC debut stage. At that time, oppa was performing a special stage for 'Gangnam Style.'" Jin Taeyeon quickly tried to defuse the situation and gave Yoon Hyun a pained look.

"That doesn't count. It was just a meeting, not really knowing each other. We should start from the song, right? I don't know if Taeyeon has talked about the song 'If' on the show."

"It was when I got the song from the company and was asked to try singing it..."

"Then let me tell the story before that. When I received the offer to write the OST for that drama, I didn't take it too seriously. Although I had already written some famous songs, I was still a newcomer, so I just tried writing a song. I originally wrote it for myself, but it sounded mediocre no matter how I sang it, so I just gave it to the production team to find someone to sing it."

"Then they found me?" Jin Taeyeon was a bit surprised.

"It wasn't that I found you, it was that you found me." Yoon Hyun looked serious. "When you called me to go to your company to help you record the song, I was stunned. I didn't expect the circle to be so small, and it ended up in your hands by chance. My first reaction was, 'Oh no, if this song is sung by you and it fails, how will I explain it?' So I rushed over to try to salvage it. But when I got there and heard you sing it for the first time, I was completely shocked. I never thought the song could be sung like that, and it sounded so beautiful."

"Oppa, you're too kind..." Jin Taeyeon said, a bit embarrassed.

Yoon Hyun shook his head, "At that moment, I suddenly felt that if everyone is destined to find their soulmate from birth, and life is the process of finding that person, then for a song, isn't it the same? This song found the singer who was destined for it."

Yoon Hyun's words were incredibly moving.

When Jin Taeyeon heard Yoon Hyun's final words, her eyes became a bit misty.

"Then the song became a hit because of you. Honestly, I wasn't surprised at all. Because the first time I heard the song, you made me, the songwriter, cry."

"Thank you, oppa." Jin Taeyeon blushed and thanked Yoon Hyun for his praise.

At this point, the text message platform was already boiling. Jin Taeyeon glanced at the messages encouraging the two to get together and decided to ignore them all.

"Time flies, the first part is almost over. Let's end it by listening to a song by Yoon Hyun oppa, the king of Korean music, 'Gangnam Style'!" Jin Taeyeon quickly switched the live broadcast to music playback.

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