"Asuka, please reply to me quickly if you see it, I have something very important to say to you."

……

"Asuka, I thought about it for a moment, and it's not your fault that you didn't tell me this, I understand all of you. I just want to tell you that I can accept all of it, and I can accept that I can't walk in broad daylight every day like those little couples. But I really want you to take the initiative to tell me, and we face it together - I just don't want me to know your identity through hot searches. ”

……

"Asuka, I thought a lot about it last night, and I don't think I'm angry anymore, can you reply to my message, I'm really not angry."

……

"Asuka, have you encountered something? I've been in touch with Hashimoto-san, I'm not angry with you, she said she can't contact you either, don't scare me, okay, I'll buy a ticket back to Tokyo tomorrow. ”

……

It has been two days since the separation with Nanami Hashimoto, and in the past two days, Qiu Yang has followed Wata's team, fighting hard and recording the customs and customs along the way. However, I always take out my phone from time to time to check if there is any information from Asuka Saito.

- However, I can only see the series of messages I send, and the tone has soothed over time, but there is always no news.

In fact, about the fact that Asuka Saito is an active idol, he did have a nameless fire at the beginning - from the concealment of the birds, from the concealment of Hashimoto-san, from the feeling that he was kept in the dark as a fool.

But Qiu Yang himself also knows that he has no actual reason for anger, and what is hidden behind this anger is actually his uneasiness.

- The gap between the identities of the two is too great, one is a little-known international student who even settles down temporarily, and the other is a well-known active idol. From any point of view, there is no possibility of being together. What's more, idols are still forbidden to be in love, at least from the current point of view, the two have no future at all.

That night, he lay in the hotel and learned everything about Nogizaka 46 and the idol side of Asuka Saito. All kinds of new terms hit, and he seemed to be forced to become a member of the Japanese entertainment industry overnight.

"Big TOP", "Next-Generation Ace", "C Position", "Encounter with a Beautiful Girl in XX Years", ......

The more pleasant words the outside world gave to the bird, the more inferiority complex and instability he felt in his heart.

To some extent, he may have been lucky to start a relationship with such a national idol without knowing it; But from Qiu Yang's own point of view, it is extremely unfortunate.

- The little neighbor who has been secretly in love for a while has finally caught up with him, and now you tell me that she is an active idol and does not belong to him alone for the time being, I am afraid there is nothing more troublesome than this.

Asuka Saito's sudden disappearance - no return to messages, no phone calls, also made his uneasiness reach its peak.

Qiu Yang originally thought that it was Nana Hashimoto who communicated with her - the news of the "revelation" of their concealment of their identities was conveyed to the past, and at the same time, he also conveyed his angry state to the past. Maybe Hashimoto asked Kotori to treat himself coldly, and then restore contact when he was angry.

But after waiting for a day in a frustration, Qiu Yang, who was really worried about the bird's condition, took the initiative to contact Nanami Hashimoto. unexpectedly only received a lot of apologies from her:

"-I'm really sorry, whether you believe it or not, Qiu Yangsang, I was really, really entangled in whether to tell you the truth, but I couldn't contact Asuka sauce for a while, and I couldn't do it myself."

Nana Hashimoto's eyes were a little red when she didn't put these words under the code - she did know that her joint concealment with Xiaotori made Qiu Yang instantly feel betrayed by the two closest people, and she had experienced similar feelings in the entertainment circle, she couldn't understand it the most, and she felt guilty in her heart.

“…… So are you in touch now? ”

Qiu Yang actually knew in his heart that Nanami Hashimoto was also in a dilemma on both sides, but he really couldn't let go so quickly, and his tone was a little deliberately stiff.

"No, I haven't been waiting for news from her for a day." Nana Hashimoto didn't see such an alienated reply, and she was even more aggrieved in her heart, "Qiu Yangsang, don't be so angry, okay." ”

In other words, in normal times, in the face of Nanami Hashimoto's rare little coquettishness, he will definitely waver. It's just that now, he can no longer hold anything other than Asuka Saito in his heart.

"Hmm." Just like that, the conversation was aborted.

……

Perhaps seeing Qiu Yang's soul, Professor Watata agreed to Qiu Yang's request to return to Tokyo earlier without saying much.

"-Got things out of order, I don't want you to look like you've lost your soul next year."

Qiu Yang, who was granted amnesty, immediately ignored the fatigue of the past few days, and changed his car to a plane and a plane to a Shinkansen.

Along the way, he kept thinking about the same question:

- If it weren't for Nanami Hashimoto's concealment, then what happened to Asuka Saito's disappearance? Did you do something wrong? Could it be that he ate alone with Hashimoto-san and didn't report in advance, and the birds tasted and got angry?

"No matter, let's go home first and wait for her to come back." Qiu Yang thought like this, "If you ask in person, you can ask everything clearly." ”

Interestingly, he had known Asuka Saito for so long, and during the time he didn't know her identity, he never noticed - in fact, on the way to work, as long as he looked at it, there were traces of her everywhere.

In the airplane's advertising brochure, the inside page is a photo of her model; On the screen of the subway, there is a CM with her every few minutes; Even the BGM of the ramen shop downstairs that often passes by can hear her voice when she stands at the door and listens carefully to the singing that flows down the street.

On the way from Asahikawa to Tokyo, Qiu Yang and Saito Asuka constantly met in this way. Every time they met, his eagerness to see the bird intensified.

……

It was already late afternoon when he returned to his apartment building in Asakusa, similar to the day he first arrived in the neon sky, the sun had gathered its last rays, and he was tired from the same journey.

Finally stood in front of the door of Little Bird's house, and I don't know if she got off work, looking at the team activity preview on the Internet, many activities at the end of the year were together one after another - music festivals, regular group SP, and of course, most importantly, the annual red and white.

Asuka Saito should have been very busy lately. Thinking of this, Qiu Yang suddenly hesitated, did he bother her a little during this time?

knocked lightly on the door, but no one answered the door, which was also expected by him.

With a slight push, the door was not closed, it was hidden. Qiu Yang suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart that was almost frightened.

——Pushing open the door, there was no familiar warm pattern, and the empty room made Qiu Yang feel dizzy. A final beam of sunset hit the hallway from the other end of the one-bedroom apartment.

……

……

"Hello? Sister? Shinoda Aoma finally returned to Tokyo from Fukuoka a year ago, and as soon as she entered the door, she received a call from her sister.

"- Yes, I'm in Tokyo, and the family dinner on New Year's Eve can be held as usual."

"—huh? Something happened before? What's up? …… Don't tell me anything like this? ”

"—Invite someone to dinner, right? Okay, okay, then eat the day before the New Year, I can have time. ”

"-Okay, okay, okay, then I'm hanging?"

What the hell, I heard my sister say that the little nephew almost choked to death in an accident, but fortunately I met a little brother who knew first aid, it seems that this little brother fainted or something.

Now this means that Cang Zhen will accompany her to invite this little brother to dinner, otherwise if she meets alone, with the urine of those tabloid reporters at the end of the year, don't make any amateur mistakes.

"Oh...... I don't have a few days off this year, and I won't be allowed to salte the fish properly. Shinoda rubbed his eyebrows.

The phone rang at an inopportune time again.

"I'm still standing in the hallway, one after another, and they don't let me in..." Is it Yoko-chan's phone?

Somewhat surprised, he pressed down to answer.

"Shinoda Senpai ......"

I don't know why, Qiu Yang's voice sounded hoarse.

"Huh? What happened to Yo-chan? ”

"I'm in a hurry to... Looking for you, now at your doorstep, senior you... At home? ”

"Huh??" Shinoda Cangzhen was taken aback, in his impression Qiu Yang was a very restrained person, and he would not make such an abrupt act of suddenly petitioning. "Yes, you wait a minute."

Turning around and opening the door, he was facing Qiu Yang, who was standing straight in front of the door - with messy hair, red eyes, and the appearance that tomorrow would be the end of the world.

"Y-What's wrong with you?" Shinoda was really scared.

"I can't find her......"

Qiu Yang didn't look at Shinoda or look like he was answering his question, he just repeated it to himself.

Standing in a daze for a long time, Shinoda waved his hand in front of him, Qiu Yang seemed to wake up like a dream, looking directly into Shinoda eyes, and the dull pupils made Shinoda really a little hairy.

"Shinoda-kun, I can't find her......"