At night, a lively party was being held at Azabu's club.
There were many men and women present, all young people. Among these people, Matsumoto Chengfu was considered older, and he seemed out of place with the others at this party.
In fact, in terms of identity, he was the only one present who had nothing to do with the entertainment industry. He was just invited by the protagonist of the party.
"There are quite a few people here." After Matsumoto arrived, he complimented the protagonist of the party.
It was true. For this birthday party, about twenty or thirty people gathered here to have fun. However, when he heard what he said, Kondo Masahiko's heart seemed to be stabbed by something.
However, he still concealed his unhappiness and said to Matsumoto Shigeo with a smile: "It would be better to be more lively."
In previous years, more people attended his birthday party than this year.
Once you lose power, people in the entertainment industry are more realistic than anyone else. Because of this, Masahiko Kondo, who was once an idol, can't stand this gap more than anyone else, and wants to make a comeback no matter what.
Make a comeback...
However, the idol world can no longer tolerate him.
The big prize made Jason lose his face, and Jason had no hope for him. As for Marisan, he allowed himself to be beaten and scolded, and with the help of Kuroyanagi Tetsuko to plead for mercy, he finally got Marisan's forgiveness.
As long as Marissant is around, his status in the firm is stable. However, when he leaves the firm, he is still an unpopular idol who has offended half of the music industry.
Now the agency has both the youth team who debuted early but are still popular, and Hikaru Genji who just debuted and is highly recommended. Even Toshihiko Tahara, who is at the same time as him, is in a much better situation than him. As of now, he has long lost his reputation.
The value of the investment.
The profession of idol is different from that of actor. Actors can regain attention as long as they have good works, but once idols are past their prime, they will be beaten to death on the beach immediately.
However, even if you turn into an actor, the actor world does not look at idols differently. What's more, things are different from the past. Without the momentum that was so popular at the beginning, there is almost no way out in the idol world. Now, if you want to be an actor, you can only start as a supporting role.
It is precisely because he cannot bear the fall from a high place that he is eager to make a comeback. How can such Kondo Masahiko endure the eradication of the halo of the past and start from a small role again?
He was determined to focus on his racing career, but he couldn't get results in racing.
If he can't even be seen on the track, then in the eyes of the world, he will have completely fallen to the bottom. Because of this, Kondo Masahiko has been paying out of his own pocket to compete this year, even if he has to pretend to be fat.
Racing is a very expensive sport, and if it continues like this, Kondo Masahiko will not be able to bear it.
Life has always been smooth sailing, but suddenly it comes to this dilemma where there is no way out. At such a moment, there is only one person that Kondo Masahiko hates the most.
It's all the fault of that woman in Zhongsen! If she hadn't caused trouble, would things have turned out like this?!
Marissan was right, his life was getting worse and worse because of being mixed up with that woman!
When they decided to date, Zhongmori was still a young idol on the rise, and he was already in the idol world. However, after that, his popularity continued to decline, while Zhongmori became more and more prosperous.
This kind of woman will only steal other people's luck and cannot bring any good things to others...
Thinking of Akina Nakamori's refusal of his proposal to buy a house and her dead-headed way of being indifferent to anything he said, Kondo Masahiko became very angry because this woman who had been fooled by him in the past suddenly stopped listening to him.
The cold war began after the Daishou incident. Kondo Masahiko tried to ease his relationship with her. However, the more he tried to do something, the more Nakamori Akina became alienated from him. After the house purchase negotiation collapsed, the relationship between the two had long been in name only.
Breaking up is no different.
Both of their birthdays are in July, but Nakamori Akina's birthday a few days ago has nothing to do with Kondo Masahiko, and now his birthday party has nothing to do with Nakamori Akina.
Not only that, tonight's heroine is another person
"Amei."
Kondo Masahiko smiled and introduced Matsumoto to the other person at the venue.
When she was twenty years old, Mui represented Xiangjiang at the Tokyo Music Festival, and later released records and held concerts in Japan. During this period, she had many activities in Japan.
In the 1980s, the Japanese music scene had a lot of interaction with Hong Kong. Idols like Kashiwahara Yoshie, who had expired in the country, were still very popular in Hong Kong. The same was true for Kondo Masahiko, who was still a big star in Hong Kong even when his popularity in the country had declined.
Kondo Masahiko and Amei met when they went to Hong Kong to attend an event.
He lied that he had broken up with Akina Nakamori and was in a relationship with Mei. Later, when the truth was revealed, he even said a famous saying: "Mei, you are so independent and you can live without me, but Nakamori will not be able to live without me."
But now, not only did Zhongsen not live without him, but he actively distanced himself from him, and the relationship between the two existed in name only. But with Amei, because she was alienated from Zhongsen, she opened her heart and got close to him again.
"This Matsumoto-san is an expert in real estate investment." Kondo Masahiko introduced Matsumoto Shigeo to her.
If the relationship with Nakamori Akina hadn't collapsed, Matsumoto would have met someone else.
When Kondo Masahiko and Nakamori Akina proposed buying a house, they were not buying a house for marriage, as he said, but they had other ideas.
After the Daesang incident, which offended the music industry, he was eager to invest in his racing career so that he could make a name for himself and make a comeback. For this, he needed a lot of money. In today's world, if you want to make a lot of money, the fastest way is to invest in real estate.
and stocks.
During the golden age, it was not like he was not involved in investments. Otherwise, the income from being an idol alone would not be enough to support his current racing career. Johnny's idol looks glamorous, but the remuneration is actually not high, and the commission is very high.
Besides, in addition to racing, there are also various daily expenses. How can there be enough money for such things?
Now he is in urgent need of a large amount of money for turnover, and the best way is to buy land and then rely on the land money to make money. The previous idea was to ask Nakamori Akina to provide this "initial capital", but his wishful thinking came to nothing. Kondo
Zhen Yan once again had his mind set on Amei.
However, Amei and Nakamori Akina are different, and Kondo Masahiko is well aware of the difference in personality between the two.
To convince Nakamori Akina, marriage is the best bait. Although this time the bait lost its flavor after being soaked in water for too long and eventually melted in the water, Kondo Masahiko believed that it was Nakamori Akina who had the problem, not him.
Wrong bait.
But Amei has been working hard since she was a child and has seen through the world. She is not as naive as Nakamori. In front of her, if Kondo Masahiko tells a lie, it will be easy to see through. Besides, she has an independent personality, and a bait like marriage is absolutely unavailable to her.
It doesn't work.
Kondo Masahiko pondered her thoughts and came up with another strategy.
After much deliberation, I proposed to her, "Now is the golden age of real estate. If you invest with your eyes closed, you will win. I have my eye on a good piece of land and plan to buy it and entrust it to professionals to help take care of it. Do you want to join me?"
Amei has an independent personality and has her own opinions. In this case, the only option is to throw out the benefits.
However, benefits alone are not enough, there also needs to be some human touch.
"Want me to come too?"
Kondo Masahiko answered her, "Yes, let's invest together. In that case, the meaning of this land will be unique."
If you lie to Amei, you will be seen through. However, the most advanced lie is that every word is true. Besides, Kondo Masahiko thought to himself, he did not want to defraud her of her money, he just borrowed it first.
There is a romantic love for her, there are interests that can actually make money in front of him, and there are even reasons that have been found in advance to justify the behavior. Everything seems to be aboveboard, except for Kondo Masahiko's true thoughts.
Not aboveboard enough.
…
However, whether he used marriage as a bait to induce Nakamori Akina or to win over Amei to buy land, the current Kondo Masahiko has never thought about marrying any of them.
Now he only longs for that kind of "absolute power", the kind of absolute power that allows Marissa to control the Grand Prize, the kind of absolute power that can make the usually majestic Enka School helpless and barely maintain its dignity with the help of Nakamori Akina.
This kind of power can only be given to him by Marissa, who has shown him this kind of power.
Marisan didn't like Nakamori Akina to begin with, and after the Grand Prize incident, she even hated Nakamori Akina for causing her trouble. What's more, after the incident, Nakamori Akina even refused to help him restore his reputation, which made Marisan even more angry.
I hate her and want them to break up more than anyone else.
Although there was some unhappiness over the Daeshang matter, Marisan seemed to have not given up on the idea of making him her son-in-law, and hoped that Keiko could spend more time with him.
Kondo Masahiko knew why Marisan wanted him to be her son-in-law, because he was obedient.
The empress of Janis wanted her daughter to become a faithful "master" like her, so she had to hand over her most loyal dog to her.
Kondo Masahiko knew what Marissan was thinking, but he didn't take it to heart. So what if he was at a disadvantage in the beginning? Who can say for sure what will happen in the future? Even a "house slave" has a chance to turn over.
While he was following Marisan's ideas and courting Jingzi, who was lukewarm towards him, he was looking forward to getting what he wanted from Amei, and waiting until he made a comeback...
Matsumoto Shigeo explained in detail about the land and how it would operate in the future. Kondo Masahiko watched Amei gradually show interest, and his mood improved accordingly.
Although Nakamori will only steal his luck and bring nothing good. However, this situation will end here. Kondo Masahiko knows that he will start to change from here. There is another road in life and good luck.
Wait for him.
…
Recording studio in Yoyogi.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, Seiichiro Kuribayashi and Tatsuya Hirakawa were arranging music scores when they heard the door of the recording studio knocking twice from outside, and then being pushed open.
"Good evening."
Appearing in front of the two of them was Iwahashi Shinichi, who had not shown his face for a long time.
Iwahashi Shinichi is very busy these days, and it is not easy to see him. When talking about work these days, the most commonly used tools are pagers and telephones. Tonight, he suddenly appeared in the recording studio, and even asked two of his subordinates who were working
A bit unexpected.
After the simple greetings, Iwahashi Shinichi sat down, chatted with the two about work for a while, looked at the music scores they compiled, and then asked Kuribayashi Seiichiro, "You helped keep the audition tape Akamatsu-san mentioned.
,Right?"
"Yes."
Seiichiro Kuribayashi stood up, walked to the console, and looked for the audition tape of Sachiko Kamaiike. While looking for it, he smiled and said, "You didn't come until now. Haruko has asked me several times in private."
Akamatsu Haruko did not call Iwahashi Shinichi a second time to urge him to listen to the demo tape.
Iwahashi Shinichi also smiled, "I've been really busy lately."
"Everyone knows this..." Seiichiro Kuribayashi was halfway through his words. He prepared the sample he had found and quickly called him, "That's it, Iwahashi-san."
"Thank you." Shinichi Iwahashi stood up, came to the console, and put on his headphones.
This was a cappella version of "Roppongi Hearts". When the female voice sang the first line, Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't help but think about how clear the voice was.
It's clean, without a trace of impurities. This first sentence alone is enough to make people listen carefully.
Iwahashi Shinichi's absolute sense of sound, every flaw in this audition tape cannot be hidden from him. It can be heard that the girl singing this song has not received much professional and systematic training, because in this way, her talent is revealed.
Scored superbly.
Where did Akamatsu Haruko find such a person?
After listening to the demo tape, Shinichi Iwahashi took off his headphones.
Kuribayashi Seiichiro looked at his expression and said: "Haruko asked me if she could bring her friends to the recording studio. I thought since he was her friend, it should be no problem, so I agreed on my own initiative. Unexpectedly, she asked me to
Help record the demo tape."
"Did Kuribayashi help you record it?" Iwahashi Shinichi asked him, "What kind of person is he?"
"Are you talking about Kamachi-san?" Seiichiro Kuribayashi smiled, "To be honest, when I first saw him, I didn't expect him to be someone who could sing such a song."
"The last name is Puchi?"
"It has the same surname as the Kuwamoto family of the Holy Son." Tatsuya Hirakawa said on the side.
"However, he is definitely not a relative of Seiko-san." Seiichiro Kuribayashi's tone was so sure that Tatsuya Hirakawa looked at him. He explained calmly: "If he was really a relative of Seiko-san, he wouldn't just be a model artist.
.”
That's true. If she were Shengzi's cousin, in this era where it's fashionable to make a debut with a family member, she would have to be scouted out by a talent scout and packaged to debut as an idol.
Even the troubled sister of Taopu Star's family had a talent scout sign her to debut.
"Model artist?" Shinichi Iwahashi was a little out of sorts.
"Haruko introduced her like this. It was also because she was a model and she came over just after work that day and was still putting on makeup, so she said that based on her appearance, she would not have thought she could sing so well," Seiichiro Kuribayashi said.
"Is it so powerful? Then I want to hear it too."
It was the first time that Tatsuya Hirakawa knew of the existence of such a demo tape, and it was sung by someone brought by Haruko Akamatsu. Seiichiro Kuribayashi praised it, and Shinichi Iwahashi seemed to think that Kamaiike-san sang well, so he followed suit.
curious.
Of course, another important reason for being curious is that this is the audition tape of someone brought by Haruko Akamatsu.
