In a world dominated by men in black behind the scenes, it would inevitably be clumsy to fight on your own.
However, in the following business meetings, once or twice, when Nakamori Akina showed her difficult attitude, Watanabe Wan Yumi remained calm and spoke to help her diffuse the atmosphere.
The shrewdness and ability shown when he was helping Shin Iwahashi help others, and he was calm and just right when he was used to help others. Shinichi Iwahashi was most familiar with Watanabe Manyumi's actions. After thinking about it for a while, he realized that she was very interested in Akina Nakamori.
A subtle hint of kindness.
However, just describing this kind of support as goodwill may not be accurate.
Nakamori Akina instinctively felt that she was being cared for by Watanabe Mayumi - just as she first thought, Watanabe Wanyumi withdrew his gaze from her because he sensed her resistance.
She couldn't tell whether it was because she directly felt her care, or whether it was because she had a subconscious feeling after witnessing her shrewdness and ability that she had the experience of being cared for by this Watanabe-san.
Watanabe Manyumi has seen Nakamori Akina's embarrassment when she was forced by her father and brother but was unable to fight back, and now she can cooperate with Shinichi Iwahashi to resolve the problem easily.
Nakamori Akina had mixed feelings towards Watanabe Manyumi like this. She couldn't say that she was completely grateful for the care she received from Watanabe Manyumi. But it was not superficial, and there was no malice in repaying Watanabe Manyumi.
, just like the kindness shown by Watanabe Mayumi may not be complete and unthinking kindness.
She glanced at Watanabe Wan Yumi from time to time, looking at her smooth speech and behavior, and she couldn't help but think in her heart that "she is powerful enough". She would never be as capable as this Watanabe-san in her whole life.
Even if she resists, she will not deny others because of it. This little thought is what makes Akina Nakamori so cute.
But she clearly resisted Watanabe Manyumi's shrewdness, but she could not avoid being cared for by this shrewdness. Not only that, the more she resisted Watanabe Manyumi's shrewdness, the more shrewd and capable Watanabe Mayumi showed her kindness.
Watanabe Manyumi noticed her resistance, and felt that Nakamori Akina was like a paper tiger, so she wanted to tease her deliberately. But the more she acted like this, the more Nakamori Akina resisted.
But no matter how much the paper tiger shows its teeth and claws, it is just looking to bluff people.
There is something subtle flowing between the two women who have only met each other a few times and have never spoken to each other alone.
This subtle thing turned into a thread, passing through Watanabe Mayumi's ease and Nakamori Akina's clumsiness. These two women, who had their own thoughts, these two originally unrelated qualities were connected by this thread.
Together.
Although everyone has their own ideas, Watanabe Mayumi does not hate Nakamori Akina, and Nakamori Akina does not dislike Watanabe Mayumi——
The only one who suffered in the aftermath was Shinichi Iwahashi.
When a paper tiger spreads its teeth and claws, it can only scare one person.
…
After the party is over, whichever party takes the lead and is responsible for preparing the party here will be responsible for seeing off the guests. Watanabe Wan Yumi is the earliest to arrive and the last to leave.
If she didn't leave, Iwahashi Shinichi, the de facto central figure in today's discussion meeting, couldn't leave immediately. He and the staff from Warner and Toshiba EMI said goodbye, and Akina Nakamori also came to say hello to him before leaving.
The two pretenders greeted each other politely, and Akina Nakamori left first with the accompanying staff. However, Mr. Nozaki, who was studying the sound, was not in a hurry to leave, and caught Shinichi Iwahashi and chatted with him for a while.
Leave.
Just when Iwahashi Shinichi breathed a sigh of relief, Watanabe Manyumi came over and discussed with him, "Shall we take a walk together later? Shinichi-kun."
"ah."
Iwahashi Shinichi looked at her and agreed. So, he just finished eating Watanabe Wanyumi's meal and got into her car again.
"Nakamori-san people are very independent."
In the car going back, Watanabe Manyumi said this. She carefully considered her words, "But this kind of opinion is an opinion that leaves no way out."
"Leave no escape route."
Iwahashi Shinichi thought for a moment.
"When we make a project, we always have to consider that even if this round fails, there will be opportunities to cooperate again later. But Nakamori-san is different. When she is making this project, she only considers the current situation.
There is no such thing as the thought that we may have to deal with it in the future, so we should leave room for discussion.”
Because I didn't think about my options, I was particularly unwilling to give in, and I didn't care whether I might offend anyone.
In other words, from their perspective as men in black, there are no permanent friends or enemies in the industry. But Akina Nakamori gave Watanabe Watanabe the feeling that she had no concept of friends or enemies at all.
Watanabe Manyumi glanced at Iwahashi Shinichi, "This kind of personality is enough to offend people in the industry."
It's good to have someone to protect you and it's good when you're popular. Otherwise, once you're out of power, you'll lose the value of being protected and you'll have to be eaten alive.
"However, being independent in work is a valuable quality for an artist." Watanabe Mayumi said sincerely, "For an artist, following what is told is the least worth mentioning."
Iwahashi Shinichi didn't expect to get into Watanabe Mayumi's car, and what was waiting for him was such a coherent impression and analysis of Nakamori Akina. He may not agree with everything Watanabe Mayumi said, but he had to admire her again.
People have a sophisticated eye.
He paused and only said: "You said a lot of nice things for her just now."
Watanabe Manyumi replied, "Women should help women."
At today's discussion meeting, it was true that she and Akina Nakamori were the only two women present. But Watanabe Manyumi was obviously making a pun. Iwahashi Shinichi did not expect her to answer like this and was stunned for a moment.
After coming back to his senses, he said, "It's what you say, and it's what you do."
"What did you say about me?" Watanabe Wan Yumi looked at his words with an incredulous expression.
Their eyes met. Iwahashi Shinichi didn't expect her to have such a strong reaction, and he couldn't think of the source of her strong reaction. He didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Watanabe Manyumi thought of what she had discovered at this meeting, and gave him a hard and soft nail, "It's my turn to say, 'This is what you would do.'"
It's a shame that he could do such a thing as taking the gems from another store as his own.
Iwahashi Shinichi's heart skipped a beat.
What she said was confusing, but Iwahashi Shinichi understood it as soon as she heard it. Hearing the pun, it was difficult to answer the question for a moment. After hesitating for a short while, Watanabe Wan Yumi suddenly laughed again, "With you
Kidding."
Her smile was hearty, but she seemed to be deliberately ending the topic.
Iwahashi Shinichi made her stunned for a moment, followed her words, and smiled bitterly, "I never knew you were so good at joking." If this could be considered a joke.
Watanabe Mayumi was at ease and answered him, "Then I will drive more times in the future."
"It's better to spare me." Iwahashi Shin shook his head repeatedly.
Watanabe Manyumi saw his expression of being helpless and found it interesting.
She thought of Iwahashi Shinichi's mood and was unwilling to embarrass him. Even if everyone else couldn't understand why he did what he did, she could understand why Iwahashi Shinichi made such a choice.
"It's something you would do."
Although this matter was not appropriate, Watanabe Manyumi really thought so and was unwilling to say anything more. After all, there was a layer of separation between the two of them and they did not speak out.
She lowered her gaze, glanced at Iwahashi Shinichi's knees, and casually changed the subject, "I have something to ask you."
"What?"
"It's about ZARD." Watanabe Manyumi turned the topic back to business matters.
Iwahashi Shinichi straightened his sitting posture and showed his businesslike ability, "What's wrong with ZARD?"
Back to business, the atmosphere in the car suddenly changed.
There are only emotionless drivers who remain indifferent and drive silently no matter what the atmosphere of the people behind them is.
"How do you plan to arrange ZARD's cooperation partners?" Watanabe Wan Yumi was curious.
Shinichi Iwahashi asked a young man like BOLAN to collaborate with a mature and beautiful enka singer, and prepared Akina Nakamori, who has a variety of styles, for ORIGINAL LOVE. Then who will ZARD collaborate with?
The planning has been going on so far, and he has discussed so many different aspects, but he has never touched ZARD and left the band alone.
"It's difficult." Shinichi Iwahashi told her, "First of all, it's obvious that Sachiko-san is not suitable for sharing the stage with idols."
Her stiff dancing posture and shy energy that can't stand the camera, if she has become a big star, if she does this once in a while, she will be praised as kawaii by the audience.
But now that she is about to enter the rising stage, if she acts like this, she will be at odds with herself. As for finding an idol with excellent singing skills to form a band with her, that would be unnecessary.
"It doesn't seem appropriate to talk to enka singers..."
Watanabe Manyumi followed his words and thought about it. As a result, she was suddenly flashed by Iwahashi Shinichi, "I thought of another idea."
"What?"
"We took ZARD out of the plan," said Shinichi Iwahashi, "and did not allow ZARD to participate in the production of the single. Of course, we did not mean to exclude them completely."
"Let everyone from ZARD provide songs to the participants of the project." He didn't hesitate and went straight to the point.
Watanabe Manyumi didn't expect him to say that, so she reacted.
"ZARD's music style is actually nothing special. It's just a pop band that can sing in karaoke. However, their style on stage is quite special. In a sense, it's centered around Sachiko-san.
's band."
Iwahashi Shinichi and Watanabe Manyumi said, "Sachiko-san's characteristics on stage are too strong. If we really want to collaborate, we can only sing in the recording studio. What's more, for live performances, no matter what singer we collaborate with, the effect will not be much better."
go."
If the effect is not good, it is better not to do it.
"Every time I think of it, it comes out." Watanabe Manyumi shook her head after hearing what he said.
However, what he said is not unreasonable.
"Let ZARD contribute music to the idols participating in the project." Shinichi Iwahashi already had an idea in his mind.
Kamai Sachiko's appearance is quite beautiful, which allows her to provide songs as a lyricist, and it is also a way to deepen the public's impression of her as a "talented and powerful beauty vocalist".
"You are the chief producer." Watanabe Manyumi said this, which is equivalent to acquiescence.
"But you are the BOSS." Shinichi Iwahashi joked at her.
Watanabe Mayumi's smile lies in this word.
"However, instead of letting ZARD directly participate in the planning, I have another idea to increase the band's popularity." Iwahashi Shinichi said.
"What?"
Iwahashi Shinichi did not answer, but suddenly mentioned, "Wan Yumi-san and Kikuchi Momoko-san are fans of ZARD."
"..."
Watanabe Manyumi was a little speechless, but she continued following his words, "I remember the band's debut single, so I asked Kikuchi-san to help promote it."
"Yes, thanks to her."
"Kikuchi-san even called the company before and wanted to go to ZARD's concert. I sent tickets to her office for people related to the band's tour next month."
"This time, the idea I came up with to increase the band's popularity was thanks to Kikuchi-san's inspiration and her blessing." Iwahashi Shinichi didn't sell it just now, so he was waiting here.
Watanabe Manyumi looked at his face and thought to herself, it's really unpleasant for a man to be so secretive.
…
As an artist, you don't have to report every day like ordinary office workers. When you have work, you may start from home early in the morning, and when you don't have work, you can arrange your own time.
Momoko Kikuchi doesn't have much work recently compared to before, so she has more time for herself. The reason why she has less work is not because she has become obsolete quickly during the period after the New Year, but because the contract has not been decided yet.
Come down.
Her contract with the firm will end at the end of September, but until now, she has not decided to renew it. If she does not renew the contract, the firm will not dare to take over work for her rashly, so as not to have problems with her work contract.
dispute.
On the other hand, it is not certain that she will continue to work in the company, and the firm will not give her too much investment.
The current firm made many mistakes in its previous planning for her. After the previous TV series "Yuejiu" was broadcast, although Momoko Kikuchi contributed to the popularity of the TV series, she herself did not benefit from it.
She took part in the filming of the TV series with great determination to transform, but did not receive the ideal feedback. This made Momoko Kikuchi even less confident in the agency.
Since her debut, her manager Iwasaki Ka Yunmi has been taking care of her, and she has been particularly enthusiastic about her during this period. Previously, Iwasaki Ka Yunmi was quite reserved, but after learning that Momoko Kikuchi was dragging on the feud,
After the contract renewal, her desire to persuade Kikuchi Momo to become independent became more explicit.
Do you want to follow Ga Yunmi-san to become independent? Momoko Kikuchi is still a little undecided.
Recently, Momoko Kikuchi has received the best response, and her favorite job is shooting a commercial for Fujifilm disposable cameras.
In the afternoon, the agent from the firm called Momoko Kikuchi.
"Peach Jam, GenZo sent us records and concert tickets." The manager asked her if the things should be delivered to her residence, or if she should go to the office to get them herself.
Previously, when Momoko Kikuchi called Shinichi Iwahashi to ask for tickets, she had already greeted her manager. Now that she received something from the record company, her manager was not surprised.
Momoko Kikuchi was in a good mood when she received the call.
