Volume 4 2012 Chapter 811: The embarrassing compensation plan
Yi Haoyan is going to have his birthday, and it’s also his coming-of-age ceremony when he turns 18.
This is an important event for Quan Enfei. As a girlfriend, she certainly wants to celebrate this special day with her boyfriend.
But the timing was unfortunate.
On November 11, 2012, Yi Haoyan’s birthday, she had to go to Busan.
That day was Sunday, and there were many commercial activities. Girl's Day had several commercial performances in Busan in a row. Including the time for commuting, they might not be back until the evening.
The girl didn't know what to do.
Although Girl's Day is on the decline, it still has some fame. After its comeback, it has received many commercial performance invitations. As a regular dancer, Eunbi has basically participated in all the performances and accumulated a lot of stage experience.
Although the process was hard, the experience was fulfilling and enjoyable, and Enfei enjoyed the feeling of pursuing her dream.
While dancing on the stage, she often fantasized about when she could stand under the spotlight and become the focus of everyone's attention like Hyeri.
The girl really wants to go to the commercial performance in Busan this time.
But she also wanted to celebrate her birthday with her boyfriend.
This is where the conflict arises.
Busan is 550 km away from Seoul . At the speed of the nanny car, the one-way trip takes 4 hours.
There are more than one performance there, so once you go to Busan, the earliest you can return to Seoul is after 11pm.
Not to mention the fatigue and condition from running around, it’s too late to celebrate your birthday at this time.
What should I do?
This is the life of ordinary people, surrounded by all kinds of helplessness anytime and anywhere.
Unlike the relatively simple life of students, dancers who have entered society also lead a life similar to that of artists.
It's high-intensity, fast-paced, highly competitive, and job opportunities are unstable.
Eunbi is not the only one who faces the problem of work-life conflict. The other dancers also have various problems and troubles.
I was not feeling well but I had to go on stage...
I just had a fight with my family, and I have to keep my facial expressions under control during the performance...
After working so hard to perform, I still can’t get paid, but I have to continue performing because I’m afraid of offending the sponsor...
I want to spend some time alone with my partner who is also my dancer, but I can never find the right time...
These are compromises that have to be made in order to work.
Ordinary people live in such a realistic and helpless way, and they have gradually become accustomed to it because it happens too many times.
Although life is not just about the immediate, there is also poetry and the distance.
However, in most cases, poetry and distant places are not only empty but also far away. Getting by is the mainstream state of a long life, and being helpless is the norm in life for ordinary people.
This is not the first time Enfei has encountered such a situation.
Last year, on Yi Haoyan’s birthday, because she had to prepare for the stage, we were unable to celebrate on the same day, and ended up having to celebrate one day in advance.
And the two of them only had time to celebrate briefly before Enfei had to rush back to practice.
A good birthday was spent in a hurry and sloppily.
This year, the same thing happened again!
For two consecutive years, she couldn't celebrate her boyfriend's birthday properly. Although Yi Haoyan didn't care, Enfei felt very sorry.
The timing was too unfortunate, as Yi Haoyan had something to do on his birthday. Enfei didn't encounter such troubles on her own birthday.
In comparison, she felt so sorry for her boyfriend.
This time, she didn't want to do that again.
After all, this is Haoyan oppa’s coming-of-age birthday!
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"What should I do~Oppa~"
Enfei was feeling a little low because it was her boyfriend's coming-of-age ceremony, but she didn't have enough time to celebrate for him due to work.
The girl felt very sorry.
"That's it? There's no need to worry about it. Of course the performance in Busan is more important. For birthdays and the like, you don't have to worry about the time. It's fine as long as it's about right."
After listening to his girlfriend's hesitant story, Yi Haoyan breathed a sigh of relief. He thought it was no big deal.
The boy was very open-minded about the conflict between Enfei's work and his birthday. He didn't care much about these things.
"But, last year too—"
Enfei still felt very sorry.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's good to celebrate in advance. A birthday is just a commemoration. As long as I feel good about it, the rest is not important."
Yi Haoyan touched the girl's hair, trying to make her relax a little.
For him, this is not tolerance, let alone sacrifice.
Because teenagers' thoughts are different from those of ordinary people, they don't care much about such ceremonial anniversaries.
But Enfei still cares.
She is an ordinary person who cares about many things like ordinary people. The young girl has not yet fully adapted to the conflict between work and life.
So now the situation becomes interesting.
The "birthday boy" who was clearly being wronged looked indifferent and instead comforted his girlfriend who couldn't be with him.
However, the girl who couldn't celebrate his birthday with him because of work was still upset and couldn't let it go.
Even though her boyfriend didn't blame her.
The underlying logic behind this interesting phenomenon is simple and heartwarming.
Whether it is Yi Haoyan or Quan Eunfei, they are always thinking about each other.
Yi Haoyan feels that Enfei's performance is important, and his own birthday is not that important, so he is very open-minded.
Enfei feels that her boyfriend's birthday is important, but she can't give up her work, so she is in a dilemma and she is very conflicted.
Yi Haoyan didn't want Enfei to be entangled, so he said that it didn't matter to him, and he really didn't care, he was not trying to make his girlfriend happy.
But Enfei felt that she owed her boyfriend, so no matter what Yi Haoyan said, she felt guilty and unhappy.
This is not the result the boy wanted to see.
After figuring out the reasons why his girlfriend was troubled, he frowned and came up with a plan.
"Well, let's do this~"
The boy blinked and looked at Enfei with a mischievous look.
"Since you feel you owe me a birthday celebration, then just give me some compensation. That's fair, right?"
"Yeah, that makes sense! Oppa, tell me what you want, and I'll do my best to satisfy you."
The girl was a little stubborn and nodded firmly, as if only this could alleviate some of the guilt in her heart.
What a sincere and good girl.
"Then come closer and I'll tell you."
The boy grinned and motioned his girlfriend to come closer.
"Hmm? Does it need to be so mysterious?"
Although she didn't know what he was doing, Enfei still leaned over obediently.
Yi Haoyan leaned close to the girl's ear and began to make a request.
At first, Quan Enfei nodded while listening. She felt that her boyfriend was right and reasonable, and that she could meet such a request and should do it herself.
But as I listened, some of the requests seemed strange.
"Mo! What kind of request is that?"
The girl 's ears turned visibly red.
She turned her head away, staring at her still smiling boyfriend with a shy look on her face.
"Hey? Don't hide! I haven't finished yet~"
The boy admired his girlfriend's cute little red face and pulled her to continue talking.
"I don't want to hear it! Oppa is so weird! This kind of thing——"
"You said just now that you would do your best to satisfy me. How can you go back on your word?"
Yi Haoyan immediately brought up old issues.
"Mo! How did I know you would say this..."
Quan Enfei regretted her decision very much. She never expected that her boyfriend would make such a request.
"This is also my birthday wish~ Eunfei, how can you not listen?"
Someone is acting like a hooligan with all the confidence.
But now it's too late for Enfei to regret.
The rabbit that fell into the trap was bitten on the ear by the wolf with bad intentions and kept making demands.
No one knew what was said specifically except the parties involved. All that was seen was that Enfei's little face changed from a light blush to a bright red.
In the end, his face was red and almost bleeding...
It must be a very unforgettable birthday wish for her, right?
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