"—So, you want me to believe that you and she are in a relationship?"

The time points to twelve, and after a long narrative, Shinoda points to the TV and asks a concluding statement.

"In the Fortifications of Nogizaka" is playing on TV, and today is also the first time that Qiu Yang and Shinoda have watched a similar idol show.

When Shinoda asked this, the camera just cut to Asuka Saito, she tilted her head and smiled sweetly, and Qiu Yang on the side was looking at her stupidly. As the camera went, it was as if he had been cut off, and he took another big sip of wine off the screen.

"It's not me who said, Qiu Yangsang, I take the liberty of asking, don't you be a little idol rice demon, right?"

In fact, he also knew in his heart that Qiu Yang's description of everything in detail just now, coupled with the collapse state of completely "entering the play", no matter how ridiculous this thing sounds, I am afraid it is true. I can only have fun to ease the frustration of my unlucky junior.

Qiu Yang didn't take Shinoda Cangzhen's words, but just drank the can of beer in his hand by himself.

"It's not that I'm in love with her, it's that I've been in love with her for two days." Qiu Yang smiled bitterly as if he were self-deprecating, "I have to correct Shinoda senpai." ”

"No, then you're going to be depressed like this forever?" Seeing that the joke didn't have the effect of easing the atmosphere, Shinoda took the chicken soup route instead, "Don't you plan to say that you will work hard and get people back?" Tokyo is so big. ”

"I want to!" Qiu Yang seemed to suddenly become excited, and his voice suddenly rose an octave. Then he collapsed back into the couch.

"However, people are well-known idols. I'm an outsider, I want money, I don't have money, I want a job, what do I do to find her? ”

"That's what's wrong with you." When Shinoda Cangzhen heard this, he realized that Qiu Yang's biggest problem was mostly because of low self-esteem. He seemed to suddenly remember something, and he was a little excited all of a sudden.

"Look at me, usually because of the relationship between that idol department, plus... Oh, don't mention it. In short, I know a lot of male and female idols, but they are not as mysterious and unattainable as you say. A considerable number of them just regard the idol career as a job, and in private they are ordinary people like you and me, and even many idols end up marrying ordinary people and starting a family after graduation. ”

"So you don't have that much of a burden, do you? You should have more say in this than me, does Saito-san usually make you feel that she is out of reach? ”

That's true.,The previous relationship with the little bird and Hashimoto-san was quite natural and harmonious.,Anyway, everyone is a big Tokyo with the flow.、Ordinary little part.。

- Otherwise, he would not have been completely unaware of the abnormality with his delicate mind.

Shinoda saw that Qiu Yang's eyebrows were a little soothing, so he struck while the iron was hot:

"So I mean, why don't you just come and get in touch with the activities of our idol department. Anyway, you are not a novice who knows nothing about the entertainment industry now, and when the time comes, you will meet some friends in the circle, and maybe you can be reconnected with a bridge? ”

Shinoda has some selfish intentions of wanting to attract people to join the gang because of the lack of people in his own club, but it is more for Qiu Yang's good - after all, what he said is true, the strong contrast between the signboard of Todai and the idol art is a huge gimmick in itself. Many media in the entertainment industry will also actively pay attention to their stage presentations, and even be invited to some above-ground variety shows in some special capacities.

Some excellent members are almost half of the insiders, and there is no need to say much about their connections.

Qiu Yang's side also fell into thought. If you ask him if he likes the stage, it's hard for him to deny it - when he was in college before, like every literary and artistic youth, he acted in so many dramas, but that's all.

The idol stage is really a concept that is too unfamiliar to him, and he can't help but hesitate a little.

However, the follow-up benefits that Shinoda proposed did have an attraction that he couldn't refuse—for him now, he couldn't turn down any possibility of reaching birdie.

"You let me think about it again......" Qiu Yang was also a little drunk, he looked at Shinoda sincere eyes, and felt a headache for no reason.

It just so happened that his phone rang like a lifebell, an unfamiliar number.

The first reaction was - could it be that the bird changed his contact information and took the initiative to contact him? He took a deep breath and answered with trembling hands.

"I'll answer the phone." Qiu Yang motioned to Shinoda Cangzhen, who was still chattering on the side, to be quieter, "Hello...?" Who is it? ”

"Hello Qiu Yangsang, I was rescued by you on the side of the road that day, the mother of that child, I don't know if you remember?"

It was not the voice of a bird on the other end of the phone, which made Qiu Yang a little deflated all of a sudden.

"Well, I remember, what's the matter?" Qiu Yang tried to cheer up and barely coped, "If you want to thank you, you will be exempted, and you should do it." ”

"Ahh "I have booked the restaurant on the 29th, and I want to thank you." But it's okay, I'll leave my contact information to you first, and if you change your mind, feel free to contact me. ”

"Uh-huh... Yes. "It's hard to resist people's enthusiasm, and Qiu Yang can't say anything more, just say that he really doesn't have time when the time comes.

"Okay, my name is Mariko Shinoda and I'll text my name to you in a moment."

"Shinoda ... Ma Lizi..."Qiu Yang hung up the phone, typing in the name of the contact person while muttering words in his mouth. "Another one surnamed Shinoda is quite a coincidence..."

"-What did you say?" Shinoda Soma, who was sitting opposite him and was originally watching the little idol variety show intently, heard him talking to himself, and suddenly turned his face to look at him in shock.

"Huh?" Qiu Yang was a little confused by his overreaction, "Oh, senior, you may not know, I fainted before because I saved a child." Now my mother wants to find me for dinner to thank me, but I don't want to go, I'm not in the mood. ”

"No, no, no, it's not this, you just said, what's her name?"

"Mariko Shinoda... Could it be that Cang Zhenjun knows? Qiu Yang was also a little surprised, but thinking about the two people with the same surname, it would not be a coincidence that they were relatives...

……

"Cang Zhen called me and said, when you two were classmates, I really thought it was incredible!" Mariko Shinoda covered her mouth lightly, "Our family Cangzhen is really causing you trouble." ”

"No, no, no, no trouble, Shinoda senpai took very good care of me at school. I am alone in a foreign country, and I am not familiar with the place, and it is my predecessors who are slowly getting acquainted with me. ”

Qiu Yang sat in the family dining room, being coerced by the young woman sitting next to him by the young woman sitting next to him, and felt a little tired.

Since he learned about the sister-brother relationship between Shinoda Cangzhen and Mariko Shinoda, and his sister Mariko-san is still an idol member of the former AKB, he has begun to doubt his physique a little - he has been in Neon for half a year, and he hasn't known a few people in total, and he has more or less something to do with the entertainment industry, and Tokyo is really full of little stars?

"Anyway, I want to thank you today, if it weren't for Qiu Yangjun passing by, my child might be on this..."Mariko Shinoda still has palpitations when she thinks about it now, "Plus thank you for tolerating my brother's nonsense, and I want to invite you to a meal anyway." ”

After speaking, she raised her glass, "Of course, by the way, I would like to wish a happy new year in advance!" ”

Qiu Yang was really a little uninterested, he was still somewhat immersed in the sadness of being forced to fall out of love, just cooperated, forced a smile and clinked glasses, and then drank it all.

"Happy New Year, Shinoda senior, Shinoda sister, I will give you a lot of advice in the future."

"Okay, okay, don't say Shinoda and that Shinoda, I can't tell the difference." Shinoda Cangzhen looked at Qiu Yang with a depressed and pretentious look that he couldn't cheer up, and he was irritable for no reason, "You can be regarded as the benefactor of our Shinoda family, and you are my junior." In the future, you will call me Cangzhen, my sister, you can call Sister Mariko. ”

"Okay, Cangzhen senior, Sister Mariko."

Qiu Yang was somewhat moved - he actually didn't have a few people left to rely on in Neon, and this sense of belonging that he had regained made him almost cry.

"After Qiu Yangjun fainted, there was nothing serious." After three rounds of drinking, Mariko's words gradually increased.

As if she suddenly remembered something, she suddenly lowered her voice:

"That's right! Last time I was in the hospital, I met Saito-san from Nogizaka 46, but she didn't seem to recognize me. Mariko narrowed her eyes and whispered gossiping, "Are you two in love underground, I can see that she cares about you very much...... Qiu Yangjun, you're quite capable! How did you know that, how did you know that? I'm so curious! ”

The air was quiet all of a sudden, and Shinoda Cangzhen's smile froze suddenly-Oh no, how did my sister know about Qiu Yang and Saito Asuka? I didn't have time to remind myself, this is not a pot that is not opened!

He secretly looked at Qiu Yang, but fortunately, he didn't have the expected painful expression.

Qiu Yang pulled out a reluctant laugh, and replied in a low voice: "The previous words are counted, but now they have probably broken up." ”

"Ah, I'm sorry, I don't know..."Hearing this answer, Shinoda Mariko woke up a little, knowing that he was talking too much.

"It's okay, it wasn't that long ago." Qiu Yang shook his head, feeling that there was nothing he couldn't say, "When I came back from Hokkaido, she suddenly disappeared from my world, and I don't know what's going on." ”

He told the story again and again. Mariko Shinoda seemed to be deeply attracted by this sweet and rapidly fading relationship, and when she heard the end, when Qiu Yang said that she couldn't find the bird, Mariko's eyes turned red.

"Qiu Yangsang, I don't think you need to be so negative." Wiping her eyes, Mariko Shinoda said her judgment rationally, "I'm also an idol myself, and the rapid disappearance of Saito-san is probably not her own will, it is estimated that the operation intervened." ”

"I've also heard about this, Sony's management is much stricter than ours, and the handling of such incidents is quite cruel. So, I didn't expect you to dare to be so high-profile when you were in love, and you were all on the hot search. It's okay if you're an uninformed person, you can only say that Saito-san is too careless - she's a popular idol! There is no self-consciousness of being stared at all the time! ”

Qiu Yang himself also blamed himself, he knew that he would be more low-key, what kind of earthy romance, and go back home to celebrate Christmas with peace of mind, wouldn't there be nothing to do!

"However, although she may not be able to be contacted for the time being, I don't think Qiu Yangsang should be particularly frustrated, after all, the future is long, and no one can say anything about what will happen after graduation." Mariko Shinoda also expressed relief.

"My own story is telling, my husband and I met after I graduated, and we soon decided to get married – yes, he's a general clerk. So Qiu Yangsang, don't be particularly desperate, I think that as long as Saito-san still has you in his heart, your future is still very promising. ”

Qiu Yang actually figured it out as soon as he heard Marizi say that the little bird may have been forced to leave him, but he didn't take the initiative to leave him:

Before, he was always immersed in the sadness of being isolated and left behind, but now that he thinks about it, the bird may be suffering from the same sadness as him, or even greater pressure from all walks of life. This made him a little excited at the same time, and at the same time, he suddenly blamed himself very much.

- I was so depressed that I didn't even think about the pain that Asuka-chan might be experiencing. Thinking of this, Qiu Yang's heart began to throb again.

As for the possibility of the future depicted by Mariko, he didn't have much hope. He is a pessimistic and negative person, there are so many excellent people in front of and behind the scenes in the entertainment industry, and it is really difficult to maintain the unattainable "graduation" with his short-term bond with the bird.

Thinking like this, he also silently made up his mind in his heart.

"Cang Zhenjun, next time I want to follow you to your club."

Shinoda was a little surprised, but he agreed. Mariko Shinoda on the side immediately understood Qiu Yang's intentions.

"Qiu Yangsang, although I think the possibility is very small, it is also a bit wasteful for your personal future." Mariko Shinoda sat up slightly, a little serious, "However, if you need it, some people I know from my sister's side may be able to help you too." ”

"Then I'll thank Sister Mariko first." Qiu Yang seemed to cheer up a little, and he felt that his breathing was no longer so suffocating, "But don't get me wrong, I don't want to squeeze my head to join the entertainment circle, go to play tricks and be an actor or something." ”

"-We don't have the energy and conditions." even took the initiative to make a joke after a long absence.

"I'm just thinking about ......" he sighed softly as he turned his head to look at the neon flashes of traffic on Ginza Street.

"I just wondered, can I stand a little taller, maybe in the entertainment circle, maybe outside the entertainment circle - I don't have the luxury of standing side by side with her, just stand in a position where she can see, okay?"

"—well, I don't want to be forgotten by her."

Qiu Yang's sigh fell gently, and every lament in the streets and alleys of Tokyo converged together, being carried by the traffic, twisted and torn apart, but also surging towards the future.