247: This data can't be bought, right?

At S.M. Entertainment's Red Velvet practice room, the five members were diligently practicing the choreography for 'Psycho'.

After finishing the last move, Bae Joo-hyun wiped the sweat from her face: "Let's drink some water and rest."

No sooner had she spoken than there was a thud, and Kim Yerim lay sprawled on the floor, playing dead.

"Yeri!" Son Seung-wan thought she had fainted and rushed over to check on her.

Kim Yerim couldn't stand the shaking: "I'm still alive, stop shaking me, let me lie down for a bit!"

Seeing that she hadn't fainted, Son Seung-wan breathed a sigh of relief but didn't forget to ask: "Yeri, don't you feel pain?"

"It's alright!" Kim Yerim answered weakly with her eyes closed.

Bae Joo-hyun heard her voice and sat back down: "Boring!"

"Tsk tsk!" Kang Seul-gi expressed her admiration, "Youth is truly good! Tough and durable."

"Silly Bear, catch this."

Park Soo-young tossed a water bottle over.

Kang Seul-gi caught it steadily, not forgetting to retort: "Joy, I'll say it again, I'm the second oldest."

"Oh!" Park Soo-young casually agreed, then handed Bae Joo-hyun's water bottle to her, "Irene, this is yours."

"Sigh~" Kang Seul-gi watched Park Soo-young busy handing out water and could only sigh to herself.

She twisted open the bottle cap, drank, and opened her phone, seeing news about the BP group variety show on the hot search list: "Oh my! Has it aired already? Does it have to be so fast!"

"What aired?" Bae Joo-hyun looked at her in confusion.

"Jisoo and their group variety show."

Kang Seul-gi clicked on the link, "Why is Zoe always hiding behind Lisa, with her head tucked in!"

Bae Joo-hyun leaned her head over and saw this scene: "Aigoo, it really is... affected."

"Irene, aren't you afraid Zoe will fight you to the death!"

"Her, huh~" Bae Joo-hyun expressed disdain, "Seulgi, fast forward a bit, this shy Zoe makes me feel awkward."

"Uh???"

"Why are you spacing out? Never mind, I'll do it myself."

She took her phone and started dragging the progress bar.

She only stopped when Xu Zhiyou was speaking eloquently, constantly trying to fool fans: "Now that's more like it!"

"Huh!" Kang Seul-gi only found it strange, "Irene, I remember you don't have a feud with Zoe!"

Bae Joo-hyun rolled her eyes at her: "You're the one with a feud with her, I just genuinely can't stand her pretending to be gentle, what are you thinking!"

"Tsk tsk tsk!" Kim Yerim turned her head, looking at her leader with a series of clicks of her tongue.

Listening to them talk piqued Son Seung-wan's curiosity, so she got up to get her phone.

She opened the BP group variety show and was greeted by a colorful barrage of comments: "Oh my, is this dense barrage serious?"

"Let me see."

Kim Yerim got up and leaned her head over, "Tsk tsk, just based on this density of comments."

"The viewership ratings probably won't be low either. Is this a group variety show? It's like a national variety show!"

"Did you forget that Zoe made a big splash just this morning? It would be strange if the viewership ratings were low."

Park Soo-young said it was nothing.

Kim Yerim lay back down, sighing: "How come we're all idols, but they just travel and their viewership ratings skyrocket."

"But what about us? We work ourselves to death every day, and our achievements are still crushed into dregs. It's a sin!"

"When you put it that way, it really does sting a bit."

Son Seung-wan nodded in agreement.

Kang Seul-gi shrugged: "Who told YG to only have one girl group, and they even brought a bug-level leader, there's no way to compare!"

"Oh?" Bae Joo-hyun narrowed her eyes at her, "Seulgi, are you saying your leader is very weak!"

"She's alright, at least she has a pretty face that can..." Kang Seul-gi's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly shut up.

Bae Joo-hyun saw her with her head down, not speaking: "Speak! Why did you stop?"

"Speak what? I don't understand!" She slowly got up and patted her butt, "I'm a little hungry, I'm going to..."

Bae Joo-hyun saw her trying to run away: "If you don't want to get beaten, sit back down."

They still had to practice dancing, and she didn't have time to play hide-and-seek with her.

"Yes!" She plopped back down, as obedient as could be.

Bae Joo-hyun rolled her eyes at her, throwing her phone: "That's enough, let's continue practicing."

"Mianhae, I was wrong, Irene, who doesn't have a slip of the tongue sometimes? It's not worth getting upset over such a small thing..."

"Yah!" Bae Joo-hyun's face was full of black lines.

She thought she was going to make her practice, she was so speechless: "Silly Bear, are you sick?"

"Aren't you going to make me practice?" Kang Seul-gi asked uncertainly.

"Practice your head! Do you think I'm very idle!"

When Kang Seul-gi heard that she wasn't going to make her practice, she stopped being obedient, propped herself up on her arms, and looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle: "Life is full of traps, sigh~"

"Yah!" Bae Joo-hyun clenched her fists, really wanting to punch her.

"Huh!" Kang Seul-gi shivered in fright.

Before Bae Joo-hyun could erupt, she quickly ran off to practice. From her many years of experience in tempting fate, being quiet and obedient was the best option at this moment.

"......"

Yang Hyun-suk saw the popularity of the BP group variety show: "I just found a phone, I didn't expect the promotional effect to be so good, tsk tsk!"

Thump~ Thump~ Thump~

"Come in!"

The assistant held documents and respectfully placed them on the table: "President Nim, these are the data for the second episode of the BP group variety show."

"Has everything been compiled?"

"Yes."

Yang Hyun-suk reached for the documents, then immediately pulled his hand back, looking up at the assistant: "How's the positive review rate?"

He wasn't worried about the viewership ratings, but he was afraid the positive review rate might be a bit iffy, so he asked to be mentally prepared.

After all, which girl group was like his company's big unlucky combination, where members arguing and bickering was considered mild.

From time to time, they would also have fighting and brawling segments, especially the leader, who constantly caused all sorts of trouble, in two words, it was upsetting.

This kind of atmosphere was perfectly fine in other countries, but in the Peninsula, a country with strict senior-junior and superior-subordinate relationships, a lot of negative reviews were certain.

How could the assistant not know what his President Nim was thinking? His President Nim's attitude towards BP was a mix of love and headache.

Suppressing a smile, he opened the documents: "President Nim, the viewership rating is 30.2%, and the positive review rate is 97.3%..."

"What's the positive review rate?" He thought he misheard and asked again.

"97.3%!" The assistant repeated, holding back a smile.

Yang Hyun-suk snatched the documents, looked at them, put them down, and slowly said: "It couldn't be bought data, could it?"

Thinking about it, he found it funny again. With Xu Zhiyou's love for money, it was absolutely impossible. He shook his head.

He looked at the assistant: "It doesn't matter, as long as the viewership ratings are high, that's fine. Next, with the advertisers..."

...

Thailand.

"Zoe, open the door, I need to talk to you."

Park Chaeyoung, as expected, came to kick Xu Zhiyou's door again.

Xu Zhiyou opened the door, looking at her speechlessly: "What big deal is it this time?"

"Is it that your sister-in-law's slipper factory went bankrupt, or that your sister-in-law ran off with some young punk!"

"Get lost~" Park Chaeyoung rolled her eyes at her, pulled out her tablet, "Let's watch the second episode."

"That's it?" Xu Zhiyou felt her hands itching, really wanting to beat her up.

"What else!" With her adorable big eyes, she really left Xu Zhiyou speechless for a moment.

"Park Chaeyoung, I really am... sigh, never mind."

Seeing her adorable big eyes, she just couldn't bring herself to do it.