"Thanks, I need to talk to my agent about this first. ”

Faced with the opportunity in front of him, Lin Hai replied.

The other party was a little surprised, but he didn't expect Lin Hai to refuse.

Yes, if you change to a foreigner, you will probably misunderstand that Lin Hai is pretending to be reserved, but in fact he is very tactful in refusing.

The word "ありがとう" is not simply "thank you", but is sometimes used to express rejection and apology.

Japanese people are very "glass-hearted", so when talking to people they don't know well, they rarely say no or no.

For example, if someone with a sweet tooth is asked, "Do you like cake?"

Type 1: I'm very sorry, but I'm fat-prone...... (Excuses are readily available, as long as they don't go too far)

The second: Okay, thanks, but ......

The latter is more formal and more decent.

If you understand this, you can understand why Japanese etiquette has reached the level of hypocrisy, but in fact, there are so many ways to say it, but because you can't say "no", you have to think out of it to explain.

……

"I didn't expect you to refuse. ”

Coming out of the Honda headquarters building, Hiroshi Akabane couldn't help but say.

Lin Hai smiled and didn't speak.

It's not that you don't like it, it's not that you have a good impression of the Honda brand, but that no one will get along with money.

The normal income of Japanese artists is low, and if you want to make money, the key is to rely on advertising.

But Lin Hai didn't want to fall out with the anti-Machi Takashi for a momentary benefit.

Although Takashi Antimachi did not sign an advertising contract with Honda - the advertising contract is in the hands of the crew, and the crew has every right to decide who will play the final role - but this kind of "cross-cutting love" practice is unbearable for individuals. 【~iQi Literature &&Better, Newer and Faster】

"Nowadays, there are not many artists like you. ”

Akabane Hiroshi said with emotion.

It's an exaggeration, but it's not wrong.

Even if Japan is a country that attaches great importance to dignity and humility, even if the younger artists are always respectful to the senior artists, once they seize the opportunity, most of the artists will also become disrespectful.

Sighing to sighing, Akabane Hiroshi agrees with Lin Hai's choice very much, and he doesn't want conflicts in the crew more than anyone else.

However, contradictions always come and go.

……

The next day, after a day's shooting, Takashi Antimachi took the initiative to say to Nanako Matsushima: "Matsushima-san, can I invite you to have a drink in the evening?"

"Okay, thanks, but I'm the one who can't sleep when I drink. ”

Nanako Matsushima politely replied to the absolute square.

"Then ......" anti-Machi Takashi tried to change tactics.

"Rude!"

Nanako Matsushima didn't wait for him to say anything, bowed, and then waved at Lin Hai who was passing by: "Lin Jun!"

"Anti-machi-senpai, Matsushima-senpai. Lin Hai stepped forward, nodded to the two, and then asked Nanako, "Is there anything that Matsushima-senpai called me?"

"That's right, I heard that there is a good coffee shop before, and someone happened to give me two coupons, I want to ask if you are interested in one

Get up?"

Nanako Matsushima said, and the trick usually conjures up two coupons.

Belch......

Lin Hai was a little speechless, and said in his heart that this kind of old-fashioned excuse is not even needed by high school students......

Despite this, in the face of the other party's sincere and expectant eyes, Lin Hai really couldn't refuse.

"Okay. Lin Hai nodded dryly, and then asked Takashi Anti-Machi: "Do you want to go with the anti-machi seniors?"

"No, I don't like coffee. ”

Anti-cho Takashi simply refused, pretending to wave his hand in a chic manner: "I still have something to do, so I'll be out of company first." ”

Turning around, Takashi Omachi's face suddenly darkened.

……

"I heard that you wrote a song for Hikki, she didn't come today, did she go to record?"

Nanako Matsushima asked as she started the car and pretended to be nothing.

"yes. Lin Hai said with a smile: "Recently, she has suffered, and she has to record songs and film again......"

"Are Lin Jun and Hikki lovers?"

"Sorry, I think you misunderstood, we're just good friends. ”

"I'm sorry. ”

There was silence in the car for a moment.

After a while, Nanako Matsushima looked at Lin Hai in the rearview mirror and said, "You may have heard some rumors about me...... Don't get me wrong, I just want to thank you. ”

Lin Hai intuitively knew that the other party was looking at him, lowered his eyes and smiled: "It's too exaggerated to say thank you or something, I respect Matsushima's predecessors very much." ”

"Call me Nanako. ”

"Isn't that right?"

Nanako Matsushima chuckled and asked, "As a junior, shouldn't you listen to your seniors?"

The car stopped.

Nanako Matsushima leaned into the back seat and stared at Lin Hai with a slight teasing.

Lin Hai was stared at by her and said, "Ah, I just remembered that there are still some important things to deal with today, so it's very rude......"

He said as he prepared to open the door.

"Wait a minute. Nanako Matsushima said, "I'm really grateful to you for standing up for me, it may be a bit rude to ask like this, what kind of women do you like?"

"I'm sorry, I just don't want the crew's filming progress to be blocked, of course, in that situation, a man will come out, I just happened to be one step ahead. ”

Lin Hai paused when he said this: "As for the women I like, I think it's too early for me to ask this question. ”

After Lin Hai finished speaking, he waited for a while, and saw that Nanako Matsushima didn't mean to speak, so he said "rudeness", opened the door and got out of the car.

……

"What a special boy. Ah no, it should be said that men are right......"

Nanako Matsushima put one hand on the steering wheel, looked sideways at Lin Hai's fading back, and muttered to herself. Thinking of his rude behavior just now, his face flushed slightly.

She didn't know what kind of mindset she had in order to make that move.

Is it just to build a relationship with the other person that goes "beyond friendship"?

……

As early as the audition, Nanako Matsushima noticed that Lin Hai was special

It has nothing to do with image or talent, the most attractive thing is his emotional intelligence.

An artist with online emotional intelligence who knows how to manage his own network, as long as his luck is not bad, success is just around the corner.

Is Lin Hai unlucky?

Nanako Matsushima thought back to the information she had gathered about Lin Hai and felt that if Lin Hai's luck was bad, then no one could call it good luck.

Interested, so understand, after understanding, more interested.

Nanako Matsushima had to admit that she had thought about dating Lin Hai.

The scandal that she directed for her previous position certainly brought her popularity, but also damaged her image a lot, and she desperately wanted to take off the hat of "unruly love" through a normal relationship.

But...... It's a pity.

Nanako Matsushima scratches her hair in frustration.

Because she knew something about Lin Hai, she knew very well that pressing too hard would only backfire. And considering the age of the other party, this kind of thing really can't be rushed, and cultivating feelings in a long way is the right way.

Despite knowing all this, she chose a more direct approach.

Nanako Matsushima lit a cigarette, took a puff, and laughed.

Either way, the other party's reaction at least proves that he didn't look away, doesn't it?

……

At the same time, another woman was holding a cigarette and looking at Lin Hai with a strange smile.

Lin Hai's mind was still messed up at this time, and he didn't find the other party until he got closer.

"You don't want to pretend you didn't see me, do you?"

Ayumi Hamasaki pulled the car door and said, "Let's get in the car." ”

"Still no, let people see that it's time to misunderstand. ”

Lin Hai grew wise, and no longer dared to get into the car, keeping a safe distance from the other party with his hands in his pockets.

Don't be fooled by the illusion, this is not a herring, it is a shark.

"I deliberately waited for you in a circle, you don't appreciate it, am I not as beautiful as that woman?"

Ayumi Hamasaki made a joke and said, "Then let's talk about it here." ”

"Why don't you go in and sit down?"

Lin Hai asked, pointing to the coffee shop next to him.

……

It turned out to be coffee.

Coffee with plain water.

"Good habits. ”

Ayumi Hamasaki tapped the coffee cup with a spoon and said, "It seems that you really don't like me, and you haven't contacted me once since you came back from Kyoto." ”

"I accidentally lost your business card. Lin Hai replied.

"How did I hear Kanda-chan say that she gave you back her business card?"

"Kanda 'sauce'?" Lin Hai asked rhetorically, "When did your relationship become so good?"

"I can't help it. Ayumi Hamasaki exaggerated his hands and said: "If you don't show your sisterly affection, how can you show my generosity?"

"Looks like you're in a bad mood. ”

Lin Hai pointed to his cheek and asked, "How did you do it?"

Ayumi Hamasaki had a noticeable red mark on his cheek.

"I told the truth, but I was slapped in the face. Ayumi Hamasaki said disappreciatively.

"President Matsuura?"

"Who else could there be?" Ayumi Hamasaki asked rhetorically, "Do you men all take liking the new and hating the old as their instinct?"

”

Lin Hai smiled: "Don't get involved with me, I'm still a boy." ”

"Or boys start hooking up, and when you become a man, what's the matter?"

"Don't worry, I'm sure I won't harm you. ”

The two of them are arguing, you come and go.

Strange to say, although Lin Hai was reluctant to deal with Ayumi Hamasaki, he was more relaxed when facing her.

"No kidding. ”

Ayumi Hamasaki put away his joking attitude and said seriously: "I am looking for you today, I have something to remind you." ”

"Isn't it a good thing?"

"Good thing, I'll think of you?"

Ayumi Hamasaki glanced at Lin Hai and said, "Although President Matsuura is relieved on the matter of mISIA, he has a lot of grievances against you, so you have to be more careful recently." ”

"Are you concerned about me?" Lin Hai asked with a smile, "Is it possible that he can still instruct the Sugiguchi Group to kidnap me?"

"I'll tell you about business, can you please stop joking?"

Ayumi Hamasaki said angrily and continued: "Didn't your agent tell you? To ruin an artist, sometimes it's enough to move your mouth!"

This is true.

Lin Hai heard the subtext of Ayumi Hamasaki, and I am afraid that Katsuto Matsuura intends to use the media to suppress Lin Hai.

"Don't scare me. ”

Lin Hai said with no fear on his face.

"I don't know if you've noticed this. ”

Ayumi Hamasaki took out a folded newspaper from his bag and handed it to Lin Hai.

Lin Hai unfolded the newspaper.

"Sports news?"

Lin Hai felt inexplicable, even if Katsuto Matsuura planned to use the media to splash dirty water, shouldn't he also use entertainment media?

Lin Hai looked at the newspaper in confusion.

The newspaper was fresh today, and it featured a large photograph that took up nearly a third of the page, showing a man in a No. 9 shirt kneeling on a green field with his hands over his face.

“…… Japan lost 1:2 to Jamaica, Masashi Nakayama scored a historic goal, but it was still difficult to change the fate of the team, and the Japanese team's first World Cup journey came to an end......"

Lin Hai silently read the content of the news.

I haven't been paying attention to the World Cup recently, but I didn't expect Japan's performance to be the same as in history, losing all three games in the group stage and being eliminated.

Probably the only thing that could make the Japanese fans feel consoled was the only goal scored by Masashi Nakayama in this game.

"So, what are you showing me this?"

Lin Hai felt confused.

Ayumi Hamasaki snatched the newspaper, took out his lipstick, drew a few lines on it, and put it back in front of Lin Hai.

Using Louboutin as a pen, she really did it.

Lin Hai pursed his lips and looked at what she had marked.

“…… It's shameful to make excuses for failure, but I'll say that France is so unfriendly that I could still hear the cacophony coming from outside until two o'clock in the morning. I'm not blaming the French fans, in fact it may be our opponents who are making noise......"

So says one player.

not

There is a mention of who it is, and the reporter knows that this kind of complaint is undignified and decent, but the passage itself is still grandiose in the newspaper, presumably to give disappointed fans a reason to exculpate themselves.

Or...... Who is to blame?

Ayumi Hamasaki marks more than that.

“…… Obviously, the noise attack taken by the French team is seriously contrary to sportsmanship, and it seems to me that the person who created this kind of garbage music – no, it can't be music at all – is a disgrace to the entire Yamato nation......"

It's some fan.

Media people are no exception – "Recently, I have had to explain to my counterparts in other countries that this bad thing is just the behavior of a few people, but I still received a lot of ridicule and reprimand, which makes me so ashamed that I don't even want to stay in France for a day." I think our players are probably under the same pressure as me, and under that pressure, they were able to get a zero break, which I personally think is even something to ......boast about."

Seeing this, Lin Hai's face was about to wrinkle into a bitter melon.

However, this is nothing, in one of the commentator's articles, the other party even wrote by name -

"Hayashi-Kai is the culprit!"

"Nonsense!"

Lin Hai crumpled the newspaper into a ball, and his face turned green with anger.

This group of unscrupulous reporters is too shameless! If you lose, you will lose, and you can't wait to put the black pot on Lin Hai's head!

Ayumi Hamasaki's reaction to Lin Hai was no surprise.

She took a sip of her coffee and said, "Now you understand your situation, right?"

"If they want to say, let them say go!"

Lin Hai said angrily.

"That's not what I mean. Ayumi Hamasaki put down his coffee cup and said, "Don't you understand? Now the point is not whether you should be responsible or not, but that your work has been questioned, and it is an irrefutable question." Do you know what President Matsuura said when he read the newspaper this morning?"

She stopped at this point.

"How?"

"It doesn't matter what you say. The important thing is that he has contacted a lot of media outlets and is ready to attack you on the point that you are 'not worthy of your name'......"

It's not worth the name......

Lin Hai thought about it and felt that it was indeed a little tricky.

What are artists most afraid of?

No, no, no, as long as you have good work and don't cross the red line in the true sense, that's forgivable.

The most terrible thing is that "it is not worthy of the name".

Actors were criticized for having no acting skills, singers were criticized for singing out of tune, and funny artists were criticized for their performances...... These are the deadliest ones.

Lin Hai could guess what the media would say about him.

A young musician who is known as a genius doesn't even have a song, and the only musical work is noise......

Although the title of "genius" is simply something that the media can't wait to put on Lin Hai's head, the public will only regard Lin Hai as a clown who jumps off the beam in name when they see this kind of report, you can think

See, his reputation has entered the countdown stage from Stinky Street......

But.

Lin Hai took a deep breath and quickly calmed down.

"Thank you so much for the reminder!" he said earnestly to Ayumi Hamasaki.

"Your mental quality is better than I thought. Ayumi Hamasaki asked, "Got an idea?"

"It's a simple thing, just find a way to prove yourself. ”

Lin Hai leaned back in his chair easily and said, "Haven't you always wanted to cooperate with me?

"You're going to soften?"

"You're mistaken. It's not about cooperating with Ai Hui, it's just with you. Lin Hai said: "I don't plan to release this song. ”

"Not issued?"

Ayumi Hamasaki was confused by Lin Hai.

Lin Hai explained: "You know the Internet, I plan to post this song on the Internet......"

……

After listening to Lin Hai's explanation, Ayumi Hamasaki looked at Lin Hai as if he was looking at a devil.

"I'll admit it's a genius idea, and if it goes well, it could really help you get through the crisis, but you have to think clearly, the consequences of doing so are not as simple as they seem......"

"What does it matter?"

Lin Hai asked rhetorically, and then said angrily: "After I die, I don't care if he floods!"

"I just like the way you look!"

Ayumi Hamasaki licked his lips and found that his mouth was even more dry after drinking coffee.

Lin Hai provoked her with words: "So, do you dare?"

Ayumi Hamasaki was not provoked by him and picked up lipstick to touch up his makeup.

After touching up her makeup and pursing her lips, she said unhurriedly: "You know what I'm betting on, you know what I want." Dare, why not? But you always have to write the song first. Let's start with it, if it's too badly written, I won't play this crazy game with you......"

(End of chapter)