1014, Tokyo love story, both complicated and simple!
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In February, the cold wind blows so hard that people just want to hide inside their homes.
In the past, even big animals such as cows and horses would hide in livestock sheds during the winter, but now hard-working workers have to go out in the cold wind and work in the company shivering in the coldest weather of the year.
...
So, this means that humans are inferior to beasts~
"Sure enough, life is life when you don't have to go to work!"
Nagayama Naoki was under the heater of Yamazakura Garden, looking at the cold dry landscape in the yard through the glass partition, touching Yutaro and sighing,
"Yingtaro, you look like you don't even want to go out! In such a cold weather, it's most comfortable to stay at home~"
Mrs. Nonaka Mozato, who was busy in the kitchen, couldn't help rolling her eyes when she heard this... Having been with this family for almost a month, she gradually understood the true nature of the Nagayama couple.
Apart from being good-looking, talented and handsome, they are just two idiots!
If it were any other wealthy family, shouldn't they be thinking about their ambitions like opening up new tracks, occupying the market, and controlling the industry all day long? But Naoki Nagayama actually thinks about not going out to work!
The other, as a wealthy wife, did not think about spending her husband's money on shopping and partying with famous ladies to compete with each other. Instead, she stayed at home to raise her baby. She even recently opened a design studio at home and painted all day long.
I've been painting here and there...it looks like I'll do it myself in the future...
If you want to wear trendy new clothes, just go to a brand store in Shinjuku and buy them!
"It's true... I can't enjoy life even if I'm so rich..." Nonaka Moli complained in her heart, "If I were a rich wife, I would definitely buy all the clothes in the clothing store and wear them in one go.
One set is lost!"
At this moment, Akina came down from upstairs with a full belly.
Akina is five months pregnant, her belly has become more and more obvious, and she feels sleepy more often, but as long as she gets up, she doesn't want to lie down in bed.
No, when I walked down, I was still holding a sketchbook in my hand and wearing big black-rimmed glasses on my face... It was obvious that I was going to my newly established design studio in a while.
"Naoki-san...Good morning~" Akina greeted her husband energetically, and then petted the dog that came close to her, "Good morning, Yingtaro!"
"Why don't you sleep a little longer?" Naoki Nagayama asked, "There's nothing wrong..."
"I can't sleep...I don't know what's going on, the baby is kicking me..." Akina touched her belly, and the baby's fetal movements became more frequent. As a mother, she felt it most clearly.
"..."
Nagayama Naoki walked to Akina, bent down and leaned close to his belly, and said seriously to the baby inside:
"Good daughter, you have to be good, otherwise Akina's mother will spank you after you give birth!"
"..."
Nakamori Akina burst out laughing, stretched out her hand and patted Nagayama Naoki on the back,
"Naoki-san, what are you talking about? See if I don't hit you first..."
"Eh, eh? I'm helping Akina educate her children!" Naoki Nagayama smiled and dodged, "I really don't know the heart of a good person!"
"You...haven't even given birth to a child!"
"This is prenatal education!"
"..."
Early in the morning, the two young couples started a new day energetically like this. This made Nozaka Mori, who was serving breakfast, see it and couldn't help but shake his head again...
Sure enough, they are two idiots...
However, I am indeed very happy!
"Naoki-san, Akina-san...breakfast is ready~"
"Hi, come right away..." X2
........
Nagayama Naoki still maintains the habit of reading the newspaper while eating breakfast... There is no way, now there is no mobile phone to check, so he can only rely on this to prepare meals.
And there is news related to him in today's newspaper...
"The list of winners of the Film Academy Awards has been reported!" Naoki Nagayama said while looking at the movie version of the article, "And sure enough, as before, the Blue Ribbon and the Film Academy Awards were also announced at the same time..."
"A movie award?"
Akina came over to take a look, and sure enough, it was the one they judged when they were at the Red Fish Institute. They also lived in the Red Fish Institute for more than half a month, so Akina naturally knew the list of winners of the Film Academy Awards.
Now that I have looked at it, I see that the other two awards are actually very similar...
"Sure enough, Kurosawa Akira's "Ran" is the biggest winner!" Akina sighed, "Last year Naoki-san's films couldn't compete with Kurosawa Akira..."
"After all, he is the great director who made "Seven Samurai"!"
Naoki Nagayama has actually never met Akira Kurosawa... ah, he has, but the two of them have no friendship. He can only say that he knows that there is such a number one figure in the film industry.
One of them is a highly respected senior film master, and the other is a new upstart who has gained fame. Logically speaking, they should have admired each other... However, Naoki Nagayama rose too fast and too high, and Akira Kurosawa is getting older.
But his ambition has not diminished, and somehow he feels like a rival.
Nagayama Naoki's thoughts last year were mainly on the Palme d'Or in the first half of the year and the Tokyo Film Festival in the second half of the year. The director's films were mainly innovative, and naturally they were not as good as "Ran", which was carefully directed by Akira Kurosawa.
So Akira Kurosawa won almost half of the three major film awards this year...
"Aren't Naoki-san unwilling to give in?" Akina asked curiously.
"What's the point of being unwilling..." Nagayama Naoki said with a smile, "Can't anyone else besides me win the prize?!"
Naoki Nagayama has always been very liberal when it comes to the awarding of awards. After all, these films are actually the masterpieces of other future masters... He is just allowing them to be revealed to the world in advance.
"..."
Akina ate her breakfast in silence and stopped talking... She still felt that her husband should win all the awards.
Nagayama Naoki continued to flip through the newspaper, but when he saw a certain piece of news, he subconsciously stopped his hand - a new work by a famous artist, Teiki takes you to experience "Tokyo Love Story"...
"Is this..."Tokyo Love Story" on sale?" Nagayama Naoki was a little surprised, "Is it ahead of schedule?"
When Shogakukan communicated before, it was indeed said that it would be in the next few days, but why did it appear in the newspaper today?
"Naoki-san's new book is on sale!" Akina said in surprise, "That's great, I want to be one of the first readers to support it!"
"...Don't you already have it? It's a trial printing of the collector's edition..."
"No, going to the bookstore to buy it is the only way to support Naoki-san!"
"Using all our money to buy books, only 15% goes to me..." Naoki Nagayama complained, "Is this supporting me? Is this supporting the bookstore..."
"This is different...I don't care, I just want to buy it!"
Akina became stubborn, and Naoki Nagayama could only succumb to the power of the pregnant woman...
After breakfast, Naoki Nagayama called Kuniji Morikawa from Shogakukan and inquired about the specific situation.
"Ah... National sales will indeed have to wait until the day after tomorrow..." Kuniji Morikawa explained, "This should be a sales measure of Kinokuniya Bookstore, releasing some information in advance to increase awareness...
"
"These large chain bookstores sometimes find newspapers to place advertisements...or find novel critics to build momentum...and also put a few books in the stores in advance as early adopters...
.”
“But the unified sales time will still be the day after tomorrow!”
Nagayama Naoki nodded: "I see..."
"By the way, Naoki-san... our Shogakukan is also going to have a promotion..." Naoki Nagayama just called, and Kuniji Morikawa also discussed it, "Would you like to prepare some signatures?"
Books as prizes for the event?”
"Signed books?" Nagayama Naoki nodded, just like Akina's signed photo... "How many books do you want?"
"Why don't you just get a thousand copies..."
Nagayama Naoki was stunned for a moment, and then a tic-tac-toe appeared on his face, "Kuniji-san, I'll give you another chance to organize your words!"
"...Hahahaha~" Kuniji Morikawa laughed, "No kidding... Naoki-san, please help me sign a hundred copies... That will be no problem!"
(Kunji Morikawa thought: It’s a pity...it didn’t succeed!)
Only then did Nagayama Naoki let Morikawa Kunji go:
"...Bunji-san, please send the book to Sansakura-in. I happen to be free today..."
"Hey, please wait a moment, I'll ask Furuya Yuya to send him there right away..."
.......
Ryoto Hirata, who came to Tokyo to work hard, is the kind of worker who has to work in the cold wind.
But fortunately, his job is in the bookstore, so he can take a break when there is no one around... In such a cold weather, there are not many customers coming to the bookstore, so he can naturally take his time.
I even took out the newly arrived novel from the library and read it in advance... This is also a work benefit~
""Tokyo Love Story"... Teiki..." Hirata glanced at the cover, looking at the dark and thin man sketched on the cover, and the girl with a sunny face, and smacked his lips, "
This is the male protagonist, why does he look like he came from the countryside..."
The stereotype these days is that workers who come to big cities from the countryside are all dark, thin and hard-working. There are no urbanites who are white and not exposed to the wind and sun and fat who live a prosperous life... just like myself
Same~
The heroine next to her looks like a city girl, with a confident and sunny smile...
"Nazuki...it's Naoki Nagayama..." Hirata Ryōto curled his lips, "It must be the harem story again...just like him..."
Everyone likes the kind of protagonist...
He opened the cover and started reading. The first scene was actually the heroine Akana Rika going to the airport to pick up Nagao Kanji...
"The bad fate started from the first sight~"
Hirata Ryoto complained and read on, but unexpectedly he became addicted to it all of a sudden.
"Ho ho ho~ Isn't this a plot about a male protagonist? Nagao Kanji is actually a bitch..."
"Hey, Akana Rika is not stupid and sweet... She even dated her boss? She had an extramarital affair... You are very brave~"
"This love triangle..."
Hirata Ryoto was amazed when he saw it. Although he knew it was a love story and it was written in the name, the male and female protagonists in it were completely different from those in other novels!
"This complicated emotional line is almost the same as in "Century of Love"~"
It is indeed a love story in Tokyo. Just like the city of Tokyo itself, it is full of complexity! Hirata Yoshito couldn't help but become curious about Nagayama Naoki. Why did the story he wrote so echo the experience of urban workers?!
Obviously I heard that he had a smooth sailing and became famous at a young age... He had never worked a part-time job!
Unknowingly, I kept seeing noon...
While Hirata was looking at it, female college student Rika Inoue, who often came to buy books, walked into the store and saw the clerk reading a novel with a look of fascination:
"Hirata-san, what are you looking at, so fascinated?"
"Ah..." Hirata Ryoto reacted and smiled when he saw that he was a regular customer, "Haha, it's Naoki Nagayama's new novel... "Tokyo Love Story"."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He said and handed the novel to her to read.
"Eh? It's actually a new novel?! Are you back to pure love this time?!" Inoue Rika is considered a fan of Nagayama Naoki, but the last book "Paradise Lost" was so bold, which really surprised the young man.
She was a little scared.
"It's not pure love...urban love..." Hirata Ryoto shook his head, "but it's quite interesting...The love story in Tokyo is both complicated and simple...
"
This "Tokyo Love Story" seems to have complicated emotional lines, but the real core is very simple... The busy city cannot tolerate the process of childhood sweethearts becoming in love over time. The moment when the eyes of a man and a woman meet, my heart is moved.
It's just that I can't help myself.
Akana Rika loves passionately and devotedly, and loves her lover with all her heart; Nagao Kanji loves restrained but timidly, carefully choosing safe emotions...
Therefore, Nagao Kanji will never understand why some people can devote themselves to love so passionately, express love so passionately, and pursue love so bravely...
As a bookstore clerk, he has read a lot of novels and found them all interesting, so there must be something that particularly attracts him.
Inoue Rika turned over two pages and became interested:
"Hirata-san, where is this book? I'm going to buy one..."
"It won't be sold until tomorrow, but it's already in the warehouse now... I secretly took it out to look at." Hirata Ryoto smiled, "But if Rika-chan wants to see it, it doesn't matter if you take it first...
"
"Is it okay?" Inoue Rika was a little surprised.
"Hahaha, it doesn't matter!" Hirata smiled and returned, "We are all so familiar!"
"Haha, Arigado~Hirata-san!"
Inoue Rika showed a sweet and sunny smile, which warmed the hearts of others like the warm sun in winter and calmed down the restless hearts~
At this moment, Hirata Ryoto seemed to understand what Nagao Kanji felt when he first saw Akana Rika...
"Sure enough, a bright smile can make people feel warm..."
Inoue Rika, who was excitedly flipping through the novel, didn't pay attention. Seeing Hirata's thoughtful expression, she asked:
"Hirata-san, what's wrong?"
"ah...."
Hirata Ryoto looked at Inoue Rika in front of him, and suddenly felt a little excited in his heart.
"I'm thinking, if you want to find a girlfriend, you must find a girl who smiles as sweetly as Rika-chan!!!"
"..."
After hearing this, Inoue Rika was stunned, and even Hirata Ryoto was slightly stunned.
The two people at the door didn't know what to say or do for a moment... The atmosphere inside the bookstore became a little cramped...
"Hirata-san, what nonsense are you talking about!"
Inoue Rika's face turned a little red, she raised the novel to cover her face, and then stamped her foot... as if to avoid it, but also as if she was shy...
But he didn’t leave~
The cold wind outside blew, and the air in the bookstore seemed to heat up, making Hirata even want to unbutton his collar...
"Lijia-chan, do you want to have lunch together?!"
"..."
The sunlight that sneaked in from nowhere was shining on the cover of the novel that Inoue Rika held up. The sketch of the hero and heroine smiled and looked at the scene in the bookstore. "Tokyo Love Story"... seemed to have materialized.
