A few days before their departure, Yiren started to browse the internet about the companies in Seoul that trained and produced Idols, and she found the Five Biggest Companies that have the most power to raise Idols to the top-level superstars.
"Let me see, according to this site, and from online reviews, these five are the best, hmm... let me read first," said Yiren to herself.
The First one is BeatStar Entertainment which produced idols or boy groups like Cyclone, Wave, Tempest, and the supermassive group BeatEvo which consists of core members from the three groups. "Well, I do really like BeatEvo, most of their artist is handsome so I can't argue with that..." commented Yiren.
The second one is Tourniquet Entertainment which mostly produced girl groups like Genie, Girl's Dream, and the new monster rookie Naeviz. "Hmmm, they have hidden grading, there are easy cases to debut from them, and only the members know what is that. Maybe I will check on them more later."
The third group is the rising group whose only artist is topping every chart worldwide, the Bulletproof Gang with their artist, Blast. "Ah, apparently they have longer time as a trainee, and only after certain times will they debut their artist. So that is the reason why there are many trainees from this company but only a small amount of artists are produced."
The fourth one is another company known for its weakness in handling their artist affair but always produced great music that topped the chart, the CrossBlock Entertainment, with the mixed-gender artist on their belt, like Basstears, Finale, and Light Strings. "Their management is sucks, but I can't deny that their artists are top notch, well, I think I will put them on my second opinion for now."
Lastly, the company that produced all their artist from a survival competition that they held every three years, the Rise and Shine Entertainment with Starshine, Quake, And X-0 (read: exzero) a new group that formed from a survival competition that has contestant from Chinese, Japanese and Korean all together. "With the recently emerged X-0, I think they will take a longer time to produce another group, with the span of two years, I guess this is my last option for now. I'll scout for more information later at Seoul, I guess."
Other companies have produced decent idols but Yiren's standard is high so she doesn't check out the others as she just reads every detail about these five companies, after reading all the necessary content about the companies, then she goes to sleep.
Meanwhile, his brother Xion is listening to classical music that has been playing for about one hour in his room while browsing the information between Hanlim and SOPA while comparing each other and finding out that it's on the same tier as many Idols also goes to the schools and both schools itself already produced many students that finds their works in the entertainment industry, furthermore, Xion found out that in the time to register to both school will come at the second month of the summer, while they are traveling from the second month of winter, it will give them around three months in between so there's so much time for preparation...
That is the reason why the next day he asked Yiren to prepare to take the general International Exam Test for second-grade Senior High School so both of them can be applied for school earlier if necessary.
"Come quickly, we need to catch the bus, I didn't want anyone to see us leaving the house like this, Act normally, OK?" urges Xion towards Yiren.
"Okay-okay, jeez.. why you are so secretive. you even dismissed the driver to take us around.." nagged Yiren.
"He will pick us up at the cat cafe that you like, as long as you aced today..." replied Xion.
"Really? Okay... I just shut my mouth and force my brain cells till they are dead for now" She replied happily.
"This punk..." sigh Xion awkwardly.
Both of them do the exam behind Yuyeon's knowledge and finish the exam 5 days before their departure. While the children are hiding things from her, Yuyeon herself is also hiding that the family is going on a trip across the world as a surprise gift for them that will shock them because of a change of plans.
Two days before the departure, Xion made sure that the result of the exam would be sent to their emails respectively. After making sure everything is ready and set for their plans then he rests assured about everything.
At the airport, after taking their luggage from the car, Yuyeon takes the sibling's ID card and Passport and proceeds to the Flight Counter with the luggage in a trolley since there's not much baggage that they are bringing with them, they each only bringing a travel bag with Yuyeon have his traveling purse bag, Yiren with her small but trendy purse bag and Xion with his sling bag.
All of them are wearing winter style clothing, with Yiren wearing a long cardigan below a knitted shirt with long jeans on low boots, Xion is wearing a long jacket with a scarf and a sweater with beige color jeans and sneakers while Yuyeon looked stunning with a white jacket and black blouse with white long pants and a black high boots, all together they just looked like models on an airport fashion... All eyes looked at them when they walked towards the waiting room.
Yiren was anticipating her first time traveling abroad, especially on a plane, Xion is kinda anticipating too since it's been so long since the last time he got on a plane too, Yuyeon is not bothered by that since she often travels on a plane to attend some kind of gathering for medical exhibitions, together with her late husband. Because of her anxiousness, Yiren was walking left and right impatiently. After several minutes, she got bored and started to examine the schedule board...
5 minutes later, she found that no scheduled plane was going from Hongkong to Seoul on the board. amidst her confusion, she then asked her mom, "Mom, why didn't I see the scheduled plane departing for Seoul?" Yuyeon just simply replied, "that's because we are not going to Seoul this time, honey.. we are going to Miami."
Hearing the conversation, Xion was caught by surprise," but weren't we talking about Seoul and her beauty before?" Yiren was about to lose her mind, afraid that something might backfire in her plan or else, started to nag at her brother, silently pleading, "Oppa, how's this happening?"
Xion looked at her pitiful face, started to rack his brain for excuses and new plans, but before he could think of anything to counter, Yuyeon then explained her trip plans for the duo without mentioning all the concerts that they are going to attend as it was her real surprise for the siblings. "We are going for a holiday in Miami, then we go to enjoy Los Angeles after that we fly again to Beijing for sightseeing, then enjoy a warm bath in Tokyo and we go to Seoul for the end of the trip before home, how's that?
Did you like my plans? at most, we are about to spend about 7 weeks on this trip.." Xion and Yiren looked at each other speechless and didn't know what to do. Both of their plans are about traveling around South Korea and enjoying all the scenic areas and food before asking their mother to join them in looking at the schools, but all of that has been dashed up with Yuyeon's plan.
Too lazy to think after being reminded that they still have around 5 weeks before the opening of the registration period, Xion just shrugged everything aside and said " well, let's enjoy this trip to the fullest.. we can think about the rest later..", Yiren looked back at Xion, exhaled deeply and decided to talk to his brother at later times... Yiren then sat back beside Yuyeon and just hugged her arms and put her head on her shoulder and decided not to ruin the atmosphere.
30 minutes later, the trio is already on the airplane, sitting in the first class, Xion and Yiren are sitting together in the middle part since it can accommodate two people side by side, and Yuyeon chooses to sit next to the window on the left of the siblings because she wants to spend some time alone while on the plane to read a couple of information about New Hope Hospitals that have been sent to her private emails, New Hope Hospitals itself is a Franchise Chain Type Hospital that spread around Hongkong and has hundreds of small laboratories and affiliated clinics.
Yuyeon doesn't handle the management issues directly but is still the President and the Largest owner of the franchise stock, a trimester report still has to be given to her since she ought to know about what happened inside the Hospital before Xion is supposed to take over her job, she put her trust in the management of the hospital greatly that's why many people that worked in the management area are trying their best to repay her trust.
There was an incident way back in the Hospital's economy because of embezzlement when the family get the accident but the culprit was easily eliminated because of cooperation between the employees. Some were pardoned but the others were cut short by Yuyeon, who then repaid the effort of everyone with a small rise in their monthly wages or positions.
The carrot and stick method really brought a good impact on the atmosphere after that, and it made the economic growth and the service excellence in the hospital soar to a new level, becoming the second-best hospital at that time and now stays as the best hospital in Hongkong.
Xion and Yiren's hearts beat faster when the take-off announcement was told by the stewardess, Xion checked his seat belt and then Yiren's. Seeing Yiren's face is filled with mixed emotions, he then takes Yiren's hand and holds it tight, this makes Yiren feel somewhat relieved amidst her panicked state.
Yuyeon was watching both of them on the side and was reminded that Xion's late father also did the same for her and Xion on their first flight. the airplane started to move and thrust upwards for departure, Yiren was feeling the tension for the first time, grabbing Xion's hand harder, since they are departing with Airbus A380, the different sensation that Xion had ever encountered, felt new with this bigger plane.
Yuyeon then laughs seeing her children looking kinda miserable just for the first time in the air before the plane arrives at its flight course.
"Hahahaha, both of your faces is so ugly now..., wait, let me take a picture of you guys" Yuyeon then snapped some picture of the children who can't do anything at the moment.
When the plane is on its course, Yuyeon then calls the stewardess to give water to her children to drink. The stewardess then brings water for the siblings to drink and says "welcome to the sky for the first time" while smiling at Yiren and Xion. " If you have any needs, you can push the
Xion then takes both the glass of water and put it on Yiren's seat table while drinking his immediately and says thank you to the stewardess. Yiren, still adjusting her mind, then drinks her water. She took a deep breath and then spoke smoothly... Amazing… so this is how it feels like. Xion, who has already claimed himself, then adjusted his seat in bed to enjoy the journey, while Yiren busied herself with reading some in-flight magazine.
Two hours later, Yiren started to feel bored and started harassing her brother to play something with her. Xion, unbothered, started to turn his head and sleep. Seeing his action, Yiren then asked her mom, "Mom, how long till we arrive in Miami?" Apparently, because of her nervousness, she didn't pay any attention to the stewardess's announcement.
Xion also perked up his ears wanting to know the answer since he also didn't pay much attention to it. "Hmmm… about 20 hours more I think.." replied Yuyeon nonchalantly. "WHAT???"The siblings then replied with shocked expressions in their eyes, both of them didn't know what to say afterward and just slumped in their seats.