"Although you are a newcomer, the contract will not be too superior, but since I personally admire you very much, I can make an exception to offer you a better condition," Yuko Nakano first sent a big favor, and then said: " Our firm implements a monthly salary plus sharing system, the newcomer has a basic salary of 50,000 yen per month, the sharing ratio is 1:9, the period is 5 years, during which you need to unconditionally obey the company's arrangement, if it is you, the monthly salary can be raised to 100,000 yen, in addition, if you perform well enough, you can at the end of each year on your existing monthly salary and share ratio of the appropriate floating a few points. ”

"In addition, you have great potential in music, after joining the firm, we will contact the record company for you as soon as possible to prepare for the singer's debut, the specific record contract sharing, and negotiate with the record company, but your song royalties, concert revenues, and radio usage fees, etc., the company's practice is to take a one-time 60% in the first year, and the subsequent distribution will no longer participate. ”

In his last life, Ye Zhao once saw a word on the Internet to describe Japanese and Korean brokerage companies: sweatshops. Compared with any eighteenth-tier Internet celebrity in China, there are tens of thousands of yuan to get when they go to a hole, and popular stars are often paid millions of dollars, and Japanese and Korean artists are much more pitiful, not only do they not even think about the sky-high salary, but they have even worked hard for many years, and the money they earn has basically gone into the purse of the brokerage company.

And if domestic artists have hard wings, they can jump ship and start an independent studio, but Japan and South Korea themselves because the entertainment industry is very perfect, resulting in almost all the resources of the brokerage company and the TV station, once you offend the brokerage company, unless you are strong enough in the background or do not need to deal with the media, you can basically say goodbye to the entertainment industry.

The old apartment that Ye Zhao lives in now costs 50,000 yen a month, and with the dictatorial right of RB brokerage company, Ye Zhao can only wait for the company to arrange a job for him, as long as the company gives up on him, he can only receive that pitiful monthly salary and wait for the end of the five-year long contract. The reality is that a newcomer like him with no resume, no matter how good he looks, no matter how talented he is, it is difficult to get better conditions than this.

Seeing that Ye Zhao was still hesitating, Yuko Nakano simply added another fire, and incited: "Do you know who I remembered when I saw you singing with a guitar? I remembered Masaharu Fukuyama. Now Fukuyama-kun is a hot star in both the music and film worlds, but I think that your conditions are not inferior to him, and Yanyin's strength is not too different from AMUSE, as long as we work hard, we will definitely be able to train you to become the second Fukuyama-kun. ”

Who is Masaharu Fukuyama? Even 23 years later, in 2017, he is still the top star in the RB entertainment industry, he not only acts well, but also is one of the few male solo singers who has succeeded in the RB music scene, and he married Kazue Fukishi in 2015, which shattered the dreams of thousands of young housewives, and made him nicknamed "RB Andy".

1994 is the rising period of Masaharu Fukuyama, any 19-year-old boy, if he is instigated by a scout to "become the second Masaharu Fukuyama", he will definitely be so excited that he nods and agrees without hesitation, but unfortunately Ye Zhao is not a real 19-year-old boy, so in the face of this seemingly tempting condition, he just said: "Aunt Nakano, I don't want to be the second Masaharu Fukuyama." ”

He just wants to be the unique Ye Zhao.

"But I'll consider your proposal, and if I want to, I'll definitely contact you. Although he has crossed this contract in his heart, he plans to mix in the arts industry in the future, and for this kind of agent who has a lot of power in a big firm, even if the deal cannot be negotiated, he must not be offended, so he did not say it to death.

Yuko Nakano, who has been working for decades, is naturally not the kind of person who is anxious and white-faced, and in the face of his shirk, he was not dissatisfied, but slowed down his tone and said: "After all, it is a big deal, it is right to think about it, Ye Jun is not yet an adult, and it is necessary to discuss it with his family." After a pause, he said: "However, after all, it is not so easy for newcomers to debut, and when the opportunity is in front of you, you still have to take advantage of it." ”

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At 9 o'clock in the morning of the next day, Ye Zhao came to the headquarters of NTT DOCOMO in Chiyoda Ward on time, and in addition to coming to receive his 1 million yen, he also had to sign a contract for advertising shooting. The person in charge of receiving him was a minister surnamed Suzuki who was about fifty years old, and after explaining the terms of the contract to Ye Zhao one by one and confirming that there were no objections, Ye Zhao waved his pen and signed his name on the contract.

After putting away the contract, Suzuki handed over the envelope containing the check, Ye Zhao took out the check, looked at the 6 zeros followed by 1, and showed a satisfied smile, not caring at all that there were several people in the room watching.

Suzuki's son was about the same age as Ye Zhao, so when he saw his appearance of being a money obsesser, instead of looking down on him in his heart, he asked kindly: "Has Ye Jun ever thought about how to spend this bonus?"

"Of course it is - to do something big with it. Ye Zhao put the check back in the envelope and put it away carefully.

Teenagers of this age want to buy brand-name sneakers or personal computers, and Suzuki's son recently pleaded him to buy a computer for a full 360,000 yen on the grounds of studying. So Suzuki didn't take Ye Zhao's words to heart, but just said politely: "Then I wish you success." ”

One million yen, according to the exchange rate of soft sister coins against yen in 1994, about more than 80,000 soft sister coins, whether in China or RB, is not a huge amount of money, which is why Suzuki thinks that Ye Zhao's big thing is to use the bonus to go shopping. In 1994, when China was developing rapidly, it was a time of rapid development, and it was possible to break out of the world with 80,000 yuan to do business, but RB, which had just experienced the bursting of the bubble economy, the most realistic use of this money was to buy some luxury goods to improve life.

The place of the celebration banquet agreed with Fujii Natsumi was at a restaurant near Nakano Station, and at five o'clock in the evening, when Ye Zhao walked out of the station, Fujii Natsumi was already waiting outside the exit. Today, she wears a fashionable light-colored waist-cinching jumpsuit shorts, and her straight and slender legs attract the attention of many passers-by. Seeing Ye Zhao, Fujii Natsumi waved her hand vigorously: "Ye Jun!" The two or three young men who were originally going to come forward to talk to each other gave up when they saw this.

Nakano Ward is not only home to Nakano Broadway, the first otaku paradise, but also a music mecca, in addition to Nakano SUNPLAZA, a prestigious concert venue, many musicians have lived here before they became famous, and even Horikoshi High School, the cradle of RB's stars, is also located in Nakano Ward, because of this, it is often haunted by entertainers.

Outside the reserved restaurant, a girl with long hair in a shawl is playing WANDS's "Shi の扉" with an electric box guitar, this song with a fierce and bright rhythm has a unique flavor under her interpretation, under the flashing neon lights, her focus on singing makes Ye Zhao think of a very famous female guitar singer YUI in later generations.

The days of singing in Shibuya made him have a deep experience of the hardships of the singer industry, perhaps because of this, Ye Zhao took out his wallet and put a thousand-yuan bill into the piano box in front of the girl, and the girl greeted him with her eyes.

For dinner, you can eat stuffed pork with bell peppers, vegetable stew, potato salad, chicken tempura, and grilled sea bream, the restaurant's signature dish. Fujii Natsumi replaced the wine with tea and congratulated Ye Zhao: "Congratulations on winning the championship." ”

"Thank you. Ye Zhao raised his cup and took a sip of oolong tea. At this time, it should have been more enjoyable to have a beer, but unfortunately, whether it is him or Fujii Natsumi, there are still so many months before RB's legal coming-of-age date, although the merchant turns a blind eye and will not refuse them to order alcohol, but the honest and obedient Fujii Natsumi still insists on not drinking.

Natsumi Fujii is a very lively girl, and with her, at least you don't have to worry about the cold, so the meal is still quite enjoyable. After the main meal, it was dessert, and Fujii Natsumi gently dug the cake with a spoon, and suddenly said, "I always feel that there is something different about Ye Jun now compared to the past." ”

"Really?" Ye Zhao's eyebrows jumped.

Natsumi Fujii nodded, "Well, I'm more cheerful and more personality than before, but how to put it, this change is a little too fast and sudden, and it feels like a sudden change of person." Speaking of this, Natsumi Fujii smiled herself.

"People always change. Ye Zhao said perfunctorily.

The moment he walked out of the restaurant with enough air conditioning, the heat wave on his face made Ye Zhao subconsciously raise his hand to block it, and the moist and hot sticky wind after the summer rain stained his body, making people feel depressed for a while. Ye Zhao feels that couples who can walk with their arms in this weather are true love.

The girl who was selling the song had stopped playing, and seemed to be about to close the stall and go back, Ye Zhao looked at the guitar she put aside, and suddenly a thought arose, and he stepped forward and asked, "Hello, can I borrow your guitar to use it?"