Chapter Ninety-Seven: Self-employment

"It's probably called self-employment......

Katsuto Matsuura shook the sheet music in his hand, threw it on the table, lit a cigarette, took a beautiful puff, and said to Ayumi Hamasaki with satisfaction, "Good job." That kid probably never dreamed that this would be the case. By the way, you said he wrote it on the spot?"

"Yes. Ayumi Hamasaki said, "He wrote it in front of me, and the score and lyrics are the same. ”

"It seems that this kid's creative ability is indeed not simple. ”

Ayumi Hamasaki hesitated for a moment and said, "President, I think it might be better to ease the relationship with each other in the long run." ”

"You know what!"

Katsuto Matsuura pointed at Ayumi Hamasaki with dissatisfaction and reprimanded: "The more talented he is, the more he can't be given room to grow, and a young man like this who doesn't know the times should be trampled to death as soon as possible when he is not fledgling!"

Hamasaki took two steps back, looking shocked.

The cigarette in Matsuura's hand had just almost poked her in the face.

Face is the foundation of female artists, once the appearance is broken, it is likely to ruin the future.

Matsuura, however, was unaware of his dangerous moves, and was still scolding without leaving his face, obviously very dissatisfied with Ayumi Hamasaki's position.

He even cursed the word "ζ±šγ„".

The cursing words in the language are very limited, and there are only a few words such as "red deer, 倉態, red deer Yelang" and so on, which almost do not involve human organs, at most to the extent that "your mother is a convex navel". Therefore, some people say: I am easy to accumulate mental pressure, which has a lot to do with not being able to scold the street happily.

"ζ±šγ„" is a more insulting word than "red deer noro".

No, not only in Ben, but in any country, it is very insulting to say that a woman is "dirty".

Just as Katsuto Matsuura was scolding, the office door opened.

"President, Hamasaki-senpai. ”

Kanda Kumiko greeted the two people in the room respectfully.

Hamasaki replied, and looked at Lai Miko in a complicated manner.

Although Kanda's "surrender" ended up being useless, Katsuto Matsuura did not break his promise, personally called her parents, and signed a contract with her in advance.

Yes, the current Kanda Laiweizi is already a member of Ai Hui's banner.

If Lin Hai was present, he would have found that history had begun to change under his agitation.

Kanda Raimiko β€” now it's time to call her "Koda Rami" β€” came to Tokyo a year early and joined Ai Hui.

Regardless of the fact that it is only a year in advance, it is completely unpredictable what the impact will be.

In the original history, Koda came to the future, and he was slow step by step, so that it took many years to emerge under the suppression of his predecessors such as Ayumi Hamasaki, and finally achieved a place in the music scene.

However, in this life, she and the "Three Singers" at the turn of the century are on the same starting line, except for Ayumi Hamasaki, who has released a single, the others have not even officially debuted.

……

Koda didn't know himself

"fate", but she knew that the opportunity had to be firmly grasped.

This is a very smart girl.

Seeing that Koda said without saying a word, Matsuura smiled, and Hamasaki couldn't help but think.

It wasn't until Koda sat on Matsuura's lap that Ayumi Hamasaki finally couldn't stand it.

"President, President Matsuura," Ayumi Hamasaki frowned, "I have something to say to you." ”

"Say it. ”

Katsuto's hand was still on Koda's waist.

"There are some things that I wish I had said in private, so-"

Ayumi Hamasaki said this and looked at Koda Kimi.

"President, then I'll go back first. ”

Koda didn't plan to get up, and was pulled by Katsuto Matsuura.

Katsuto Matsuura said impatiently to Ayumi Hamasaki: "If you have anything to say, just say it here!"

Seeing his attitude, Ayumi Hamasaki suddenly felt speechless.

What else to say? to say that you are sincere to him, to say that you are not with him because of his status?

These words have been said more than once.

Ayumi Hamasaki turned around to leave without saying a word, and Katsuto Matsuura called out to her.

"Remember what you should do and what you shouldn't do. ”

Ayumi Hamasaki paused suddenly, turned, and asked, "I don't understand." ”

"Didn't I understand enough?"

Katsuto Matsuura turned his face and smiled and asked Koda Rami, "What about you?"

"Hmm. Koda replied, "Do whatever the president tells you to do." ”

"That's it, oh, reward. ”

Katsuto Matsuura handed the song sheet to Mirai Koda, looked at Ayumi Hamasaki again, and said without hiding his disgust: "There are some things I can give, but you can't take the initiative to ask for them, think about it yourself!"

……

Ayumi Hamasaki doesn't know how he got home, and he was so confused along the way that he almost broke the traffic rules.

When I walked into the bathroom, turned on the faucet, and held a handful of water on my face, tears fell uncontrollably.

As she wrote in her autobiography, published twenty years later, Katsuto Matsuura was "the man who made her go to the point of self-destruction." ”

Katsuto Matsuura appeared in front of her at the lowest point of her life and gave her affirmation, encouragement, care and help, allowing her to find hope for the future.

I wonder if Ayumi Hamasaki, who was only seventeen years old at the time, why not fall?

So, Ayumi Hamasaki, who couldn't suppress the feeling in his heart, wrote a letter to Katsuto Matsuura to confess, and the other party agreed. Next, Ayumi Hamasaki joined Ai Hui, and in order not to affect his regular work, the two turned into an underground relationship.

When did this love go sour?

Ayumi Hamasaki recalls that it probably started on the day he returned home after completing a year of training in the United States.

On that day, Ayumi Hamasaki, who was suffering from lovesickness, secretly returned to China without notifying the other party in advance, ready to give his sweetheart an unexpected surprise. However, when she arrives at the nest of the two, she finds Matsuura entangled with several strange women.

Yes, not one, but several.

That's right

For Ayumi Hamasaki, it was like a bolt from the blue.

The two didn't quarrel that day, Matsuura explained that it was just a physical need, and Ayumi Hamasaki forced himself to accept the absurd explanation.

However, in the face of her forbearance, Matsuura became more and more unscrupulous, and later he didn't even bother to find an excuse.

An argument began between the two, until one day, when Matsuura slapped her in the face, she finally understood.

In the other person's mind, she may not be important.

……

Ayumi Hamasaki came out of the bathroom, took out his phone from his bag, and walked to the window.

Open the phone's address book, select the contact "M", and when he was about to press the call button, Ayumi Hamasaki suddenly hesitated.

M is the code name of Katsuto Matsuura.

In order not to interfere with their normal work, the two did not openly love each other - this was requested by Katsuto Matsuura in order to protect her.

Now it seems, maybe just out of self-preservation?

Ayumi Hamasaki thought to himself, maybe he was just a code name in the other party's heart.

Thinking like this, she ghostly pressed "Up" and dialed "K".

……

"I'm not a guest on the show. ”

Lin Hai patiently listened to Ayumi Hamasaki's "bumpy road", chuckled, and said, "Or, can I still trust you?"

On the other end of the phone, Ayumi Hamasaki suddenly woke up.

Yes, I deceived him, but I went to confide in him, this ......

Ayumi Hamasaki felt a little bored, and she pulled out a cigarette and lit it.

Lin Hai heard the unique crisp voice of the ZIPPO lighter on the phone, and frowned: "Snuff out the cigarette!"

Hamasaki was stunned for a moment, subconsciously pressed the cigarette into the flower pot, and then smiled: "I remember the first time we met, you were also so polite, can you smell the smoke through your mobile phone?"

"You're a singer. Lin Hai said succinctly.

"Are you concerned about me?"

Ayumi Hamasaki asked, but didn't get a response, and then asked, "Isn't it okay to just vent?"

"There are many ways to vent, like crying. ”

"What if you can't cry?"

"That proves that there is nothing to be nostalgic about. Lin Hai said: "Actually, it is not necessary to say that it is inseparable, in fact, what I am most afraid of is dragging ......."

"You're going to persuade me to separate from him?"

"Personal advice, the decision is yours. ”

Lin Hai didn't want to say too much, but he really felt that Ayumi Hamasaki's "crazy for the madness" was not worth it.

In her previous life, she really did "self-destruction" for the sake of the other party.

Here's an example.

In 2004, Ai's board of directors decided to remove Katsuto Matsuura, and it was Ayumi Hamasaki who saved him by threatening to leave.

Why does Ayumi Hamasaki have so much energy?

Because she was a well-deserved sister in the Asian music scene at that time, in just a few years, she attracted nearly 100 billion yuan for the company, more than half of the company's total revenue, and was called the "super money printing machine". On the first day, she said that she would advance and retreat with Matsuura, and the next day, the stock price of Bakers immediately plummeted by more than 10%, and the board of directors was removed

There is no other choice at all.

But what did she gain?

What she harvested was a severely overdrawn body, which had tormented her for many years with bronchitis, pharyngitis and other diseases, and what she harvested was deaf ears, which were refrigerated by the company just after she was out of breath, until she was old and decrepit, and had to leave the scene gloomily......

The most important thing is that her dedication has not been exchanged for Matsuura's treatment of her.

……

There was no in the previous life, and it is even more impossible in this life.

Lin Hai knows very well that Katsuto Matsuura is a complete bastard, and he maintained a close relationship with Ayumi Hamasaki in his previous life, just because he valued her ability to absorb money.

In this life, Koda Miku debuted ahead of schedule, and in terms of appearance, material, dancing skills, and even singing voice, he is not inferior to Ayumi Hamasaki - strictly speaking, he has to win the first line. Coupled with Koda's future family background, there is no need to say much about how Katsuto Matsuura will choose.

Ayumi Hamasaki knows this himself.

In fact, since meeting Mirai Koda, Katsuto Matsuura's attitude towards her has not been as good as before, but it is better to say that he can still maintain decent care for Ayumi Hamasaki before, but he just doesn't want his early investment to be wasted.

In the company before, after Ayumi Hamasaki handed over the song written by Lin Hai to the other party, the other party made it clear that he would use that song as Koda's future debut song, and the proximity was close and close, which was obvious enough.

"I'm sorry......" Ayumi Hamasaki said, "I'm sorry, I deceived you, you must be very angry, if you want to scold me......"

"Why should I be angry?" Lin Hai asked rhetorically, and said disapprehantly: "When I gave you the song in the afternoon, I guessed that it would be like this." ”

Ayumi Hamasaki's eyes widened in surprise: "You said you had already guessed?"

"yes. Didn't you say that it's normal to bet on both sides? ”

"But...... Why?"

"It's kind of a peach in return, after all, you also helped me. ”

"But ......"

"No, but. Lin Hai said: "It's just a song, there's nothing to be sorry about." Besides, the songs I wrote should really be so good to sing?"

……

Hanging up the phone, Lin Hai spread his hands at Oshima Xiaomei.

Akimi Oshima asked, "Wouldn't it be too early to face Ai Hui like this?"

"It's not Ai Hui, it's just Katsuto Matsuura. Lin Hai said: "With what I know about him, he will definitely not be able to endure it for too long." ”

"So you dug a pit for the other party to jump?" Oshima asked again: "I see that you have been holding your mobile phone since you came back, did you already know that she would call?"

"If a little girl does something wrong, she will inevitably have a troubled conscience. ”

Little girl?

Akimi Oshima felt angry and funny.

"How old are you?"

"A woman who is so naΓ―ve that she can fight for it, what is not a little girl?"

"Don't get carried away, aren't you afraid that she will tell Katsuto Matsuura what you just said, what if the other party doesn't take the bait?"

"No, I believe her. ”

Lin Hai shook his head, looked at the bright lights outside the window, and said

"Some people don't grow up in a lifetime, and sometimes, it only takes a moment to grow up. ”

……

Only a day later, Ayumi Hamasaki called Lin Hai again, and hung up after a few words.

Lin Haichong is waving to Hikaru Utada, who is helping the gaffer.

Although both of them are important supporting roles, they don't have many scenes, in the first episode that has been edited, Aizawa Ya played by Hikaru Utada, only two or three scenes and one line, is still an ambush, and Lin Hai doesn't show his face.

Of course, this does not mean that they can sleep at home, after all, the filming is not strictly in accordance with the progress of the film, because of the problem of venue arrangement, they have been focusing on filming outdoor scenes such as "campus exterior" in the past few days, so the two still need to report to the crew every day.

Lin Hai was really going through the motions, but Hikaru Utada was embarrassed to be idle, so he took the initiative to do chores, and he had some fun.

It is worth mentioning that the entire crew is currently enjoying the fun of "letting go of themselves", so much so that the filming progress is very fast. If nothing else, at least five episodes will be filmed by the release on July 7. For a TV series with only twelve episodes, it is equivalent to completing nearly half of the workload ahead of schedule.

This is much faster than the progress of other crews, so much so that both directors plan to give everyone an extra two days off before the release.

……

Hikaru Utada walked to the shade of the tree, took the towel handed by Lin Hai, wiped his sweat, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Lin Hai asked her with a strange expression: "Do you want to be so motivated?"

"Or else, watching like you?"

Hikaru Utada said angrily, picked up Lin Hai's water cup, and drank it.

"That's my cup. Lin Hai reminded.

"Hah...... It's alive......"

Hikaru Utada let out a sigh of relief, threw the cup to Lin Hai, and said, "I sent it to you, do you have any opinions?"

"This is not the United States...... Forget it, it's useless to talk to you about this. ”

Lin Hai decided not to meet the bear child in general.

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Ayumi Hamasaki called me......"

"The bad woman?"

As soon as Hikaru Utada sat down, he jumped up, stared at Lin Hai vigilantly, and asked, "What did she call you for?"

Utada just after a few days, when he accidentally visited the video store, he learned that the woman he saw that day was the villain who planned to "steal songs" with him, so he interrogated Lin Hai for a long time, and Lin Hai had no choice but to tell her about meeting the other party in Kyoto before.

After that, "Bad Woman" became the code name of Ayumi Hamasaki.

Should it be said that it is worthy of being an old enemy......

The two hadn't even spoken a few words, but Hikaru Utada instinctively hated each other and saw them as a potentially huge threat.

When she heard that Ayumi Hamasaki had called Lin Hai, she immediately became vigilant.

"Do you remember the song I asked you to record after I came back from Kyoto......?

Lin Hai explained to Hikaru Utada, whose eyes gradually lit up.

"That's not right!"

Hikaru Utada returned

God, staring at Lin Hai suspiciously: "Why did that woman help you pit your own boss?"

"One, she doesn't know the song was a pit yet. Second, something went wrong between her and her boss. ”

"That's it?"

"Or else?"

Lin Hai diverted the topic and said, "You call and ask Mr. Utada, if you can, I hope you can go with me to a TV show tomorrow." ”

"What show?"

β€œ!”

Hikaru Utada excitedly exclaimed, "Ah, I know that show!" Immediately after, she asked suspiciously, "You actually got an invitation?"

"I've been a bit of a character lately. Lin Hai said a stinky word, and when he saw that the other party showed a disgusted expression, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay, in fact, I asked some friends to get the invitation." In short, with the fame of your parents, if you want to participate, the other party should not refuse, and besides, you are just my follower. ”

"Who's your henchman!"

Utada Hikaru punched Lin Hai, and then asked: "Put this aside first, it means that you have a plan for a long time?" Can I understand that even if she doesn't take the initiative to find you, you will take the initiative to send the song to the other party?"

"Or what do you think?"

"But how could you?"

"Young people, curiosity should not be so important......"

Lin Hai pretended to be profound, but the orange cat showed his claws and almost scratched his face.

"Okay, okay," Lin Hai said, "It's not as complicated as you think." ”

"What's that?"

"You just think I'm being killed. Lin Hai spread his hands: "All in all, if the other party can't take the bait, I don't have any losses, right?"