Crossing over, and then being blocked by a rich JK.

Chapter 441 Heart to Heart [4K2]

"Wow, it really hasn't changed at all."

Nagano Rin, who was dragging her suitcase, raised her eyes and looked at the entrance of the Hayakawa family with a nostalgic look on her face.

When Shangzi first moved in, her friends came and lived with her for a while.

Everyone knows that Shangzi is the kind of person who will grit her teeth and endure things alone. No matter how much pain and grievance she feels in her heart, she will not tell anyone and will just bury those emotions deep in her heart.

Only when time has passed and the wounds that caused her pain have completely scabbed over, will she perhaps talk about it at a drinking party as if she were telling an insignificant past event.

"I haven't redecorated the house, okay?" Naoko Hayakawa rolled her eyes at her, turned around, took out a pair of new slippers from the shoe cabinet and threw them in front of her, "Here, change your shoes."

If possible, she didn't want to copy the "kindergarten teacher" on this matter, but a person's mental age is far from his actual age, and she was afraid that if she didn't mention it, the person would follow her into the living room.

Mainly because she was too lazy to mop the floor.

"hai~"

Nagano Rin responded and changed her shoes properly.

"By the way, where's Yuki?"

After bending down to put her shoes away, she suddenly brought this up.

Just now when we were drinking coffee, Naoko also said that Yuki has two days off this week.

As far as she knows, for high school students who are about to enter their second year of high school, they will choose one of the long-awaited weekends to stay at home to sleep and relax their tense nerves.

As for plans such as going out on a date, they will be postponed to the weekend when one is more energetic.

"I'm recording in the studio."

Naoko Hayakawa changed into her slippers and turned to walk towards the living room.

She did not go down to disturb the two young men's thoughts.

"With that Watanabe?"

Nagano Rin followed her closely and joined in the conversation.

"Yes."

Naoko Hayakawa nodded slightly and gave an affirmative answer.

As they talked, the two of them sat down on the long sofa in the living room.

"Come to think of it, is Watanabe really as good as you say?"

After picking up the TV remote control and turning on the TV as if it were her normal routine, Nagano Rin asked this question.

Yes, she knew that Naoko was not the kind of person who would exaggerate, but Watanabe Yu's resume was really too exaggerated. If it was posted on a forum, others would laugh at him for making up a story without even making it realistic.

"Didn't I tell you that his achievements can be found on the Internet? He has two pseudonyms, one is the author 'Watanabe', and the other is the singer 'Jay'."

To be honest, Naoko Hayakawa never thought that one day she would become a lobbyist to speak up for Yu Watanabe.

In a sense, she has become the person she hated the most.

"..."

Hearing this, Nagano Rin fell silent.

She rarely saw Shangzi so serious.

The last time the latter was so serious was when she told them that she would take good care of Yuki and give her a new life.

——And she did it.

The last time was when he said he wanted a divorce.

"I understand your feelings. Anyone who knows his age and the achievements he has made will have doubts like you. After all, he is indeed a little too 'abnormal'."

Naoko Hayakawa did not blame her, but instead found a way out for her.

This is indeed human nature.

When a person is so outstanding that he or she is beyond the secular understanding, the first reaction of most people will be suspicion, or even thinking in the direction of conspiracy theories, rather than believing.

"So you are very satisfied with this son-in-law?"

Nagano Rin smiled and changed the subject.

If we continue with the previous topic, she really won't be able to respond.

"……so so."

This time it was Hayakawa Naoko's turn to be silent.

If Watanabe Yuu only had Yuki as his girlfriend, then the answer that would come out of her mouth at this moment would definitely be satisfaction. No, it should be very satisfaction. But unfortunately, there is no if in life.

"generally?"

Nagano Rinne frowned, thinking that her best friend had very high standards.

A boy with such conditions is hard to find even with a lantern, no, even with a spotlight.

"Hmm, there are always some things that are not so satisfactory." Hayakawa Naoko said vaguely, and then threw out a new topic, "Speaking of which, what have you been busy with recently?"

This circle of friends of theirs can be said to be besties. No matter how busy they are in life, they will always find time to chat with each other in the Line group and tell everyone about their recent situation.

To sum up, everyone's speaking frequency is still quite high, except for the person who was the most active in the past half month who has been extremely silent, as if he disappeared out of thin air.

If she hadn't seen her repeating herself occasionally, she would have really suspected that something had happened to her and she was forced to disappear.

"Busy with work."

Nagano Rin answered without even raising her head, then leaned back slightly and lay down on the soft sofa.

"Be specific."

Naoko Hayakawa pursed her lips.

Of course she knew it was work-related.

Otherwise, with someone's temper, how could he be forced to not even dare to log into his private social media account?

"To be more specific, the client urged us to do it." Nagano Rin sighed and turned the TV channel to her favorite documentary channel. "I haven't thought of a suitable piano piece for the appointment, but they need it in the near future, and then..."

She didn't finish her words, but the meaning was clear.

Facts have once again proved that even if there is such a thing as a deadline, there will still be no inspiration.

This thing really can't be produced by just forcing it.

"understood."

Naoko Hayakawa nodded in agreement.

She had this experience when she was young, but she was relatively luckier at that time. After the other party urged her twice, she gave the other party a satisfactory finished product.

"So I have a headache." Nagano Rin'e looked tired. "The most important thing is that I am embarrassed to tell others that I need time because I have already said it once."

If I say it again, it will sound a bit like a procrastination tactic.

Although for now, her actual approach is no different from the procrastination tactic.

"It doesn't matter if work isn't going well, my family is also urging me to 'make new friends'."

Speaking of this, she couldn't help but sigh again. She had just said that people who sigh would let happiness slip away, but she still couldn't help it.

"I just feel like, after the age of 35, does life no longer belong to oneself?"

She had an answer to this question in her mind, but she didn't like it.

"That's a matter of opinion." Hayakawa Naoko considered her words, "but for me, it is indeed true."

The day she became a single mother, she realized and accepted that her life no longer belonged to her alone.

She had to temporarily suppress her girlish side and become a real mother.

But it was also due to her change of thinking at that time. It was at that time that she began to understand her mother and understood why her mother said and did that at that time.

“That’s why I’m afraid.”

Nagano Rin turned down the volume of the TV, then closed her eyes and adjusted her mood.

"afraid of what?"

Naoko Hayakawa was a little curious.

Before this, she always thought that the reason why Rin was not in a relationship was not for any other reason, but simply because she had not found the right person.

“I’m afraid of taking on extra responsibilities, afraid of getting in over my head and getting hurt, and even more afraid of becoming a mother.”

In fact, Nagano Rin had no idea why she became so frank today. She blurted out the secret that she had kept in her heart in the past without even any hesitation.

"Because I know there's no way to go back on this kind of thing. You can't just stuff it back into her (him), right?"

Having said that, she smiled with relief and then shook her head.

"Yes."

Naoko Hayakawa nodded slightly and echoed her words.

“So am I particularly timid?”

Nagano Rin asked in a strange tone.

"Well, this has nothing to do with being timid, right? It's just pure and careful consideration." Hayakawa Naoko shrugged, "Isn't it a good thing that I didn't make a decision based on emotion just because I was too excited?
"And it is precisely because of the profound understanding of this responsibility that we can treat our lives more carefully.

"So emotionally and logically, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages."

Although she was comforting her best friend, she didn't want to speak against her conscience.

"Does it have more advantages than disadvantages?"

Nagano Rin turned her head.

"Yes, it is a good thing to think comprehensively and in detail, because careful consideration will prevent you from getting hurt easily, but the problem is that sometimes thinking too much can stop you from moving forward."

Naoko Hayakawa spread her hands.

This is what is commonly known as scaring yourself.

If you think too much and do too little, you will easily worry about gains and losses, afraid of not getting it, afraid of losing it, and then become extremely anxious.

But it is clear that nothing has happened yet, and the worst case scenario is just my imagination.

“I can’t help but think about it.”

Nagano Rin said this in a low voice.

"That's okay." Naoko Hayakawa gently held her hand, giving her friend some comfort. "So do you want to go listen to their live performance?"

"Are you talking about Watanabe and Yuki?"

"Ah."

"Won't it disturb them?"

"No, as long as we are careful, it will be fine. Besides, they are short of one person to help operate the equipment."

Naoko Hayakawa released the hand that was holding Nagano Rin, patted her pants, and stood up.

"Get up."

She turned around and extended her hand to her best friend.

"Oh."

Nagano Rinne responded weakly and held her hand back.

Then, she was pulled up from the sofa by Shangzi.

*
Akiba Bookstore, inside the president's office.

"Please take a look."

The general manager of the operations department lowered his head and handed the written materials he had prepared to Beichen Ichiro.

"Well, wait a moment."

Beichen Ichiro took the information and started reading it.

With the completion of the serialization of the last four chapters of "White Night Walk", those voices on the Internet suddenly disappeared.

Those who were still stubborn before either chose to delete their comments and run away, or changed their statements imperceptibly.

To use the jokes from within Akiba Bookstore, some of the "sharp" voices began to sound "pleasant" in the face of powerful facts.

"So, they really did hire a large number of water armies before?"

After quickly scanning the information, Beichen Ichiro said this unexpectedly.

He had thought they would be smarter.

It's no secret in the industry that mainly recruit water armies. If you look for a little evidence, it's easy to find out the real culprit.

"Yes."

The general manager of the operations department nodded and gave an affirmative answer.

"To be precise, it was after that sharp criticism appeared that those trolls began to consciously and deliberately 'provoke conflict'."

In fact, they are quite clever. At least compared with the previous water armies, the water armies they hired at that time were no longer simple ones who used standard sentences to provoke conflicts, but they first praised and then criticized. The kind that you really couldn't tell the difference if you didn't look carefully.

Their tricks are quite insidious. They will specially select a group of people to stand on Watanabe's side and argue with those critical remarks. Then they will pretend to be angry and start a war with those passers-by who have made critical remarks.

Honestly speaking, if the quality of "White Night Walk" wasn't really good enough, the tricks they played would easily ruin "White Night Walk".

It might even destroy Watanabe's hard-earned popularity among the public.

Fortunately, "White Night Walk" performed well and President Watanabe's judgment was correct, so that group of people did not succeed.

"Their methods are much more sophisticated than before."

Looking at the analysis in the data, Beichen Ichiro frowned unconsciously.

Looking back now, he truly felt the danger.

I can only say, thank goodness!

"After all, it cost so much money." The general manager shrugged, "I also got the price for hiring this kind of water army."

He felt that this evidence would be a good card, and now was the time to play it.

Can it be considered the final blow?
"What do you think?"

Beichen Ichiro put down the information, raised his head and looked at him.

“I think I can fight back.”

The general manager stated his thoughts in a straightforward manner.

“Did the author apologize?”

Beichen Ichiro did not respond to his words, but asked a question.

"Not yet."

The chief executive shook his head.

He felt that the other party would not apologize, and at most would just admit defeat in a vague manner.

"We will release this 'evidence' after he apologizes."

Beichen Ichiro gave his judgment.

"Wouldn't that make us look petty?"

The general manager couldn't help but ask another question.

Logically speaking, it is most appropriate to use a series of combos to kill the opponent before he begs for mercy.

"Wrong, we never forgave him from the beginning to the end, so how can we be fussy about it? It's just that the other party said their own thing, and we said ours, right?"

"...That seems to be the truth."

"This way, we can hurt that little circle!"

Let the netizens who are watching the show see clearly what the underlying character of some people is like.

It also makes everyone understand that most of the time when a prodigal son returns, it is not because he truly knows from the bottom of his heart that he is wrong, but because he sees the fire burning there and knows that if he does not bow his head, the fire will burn himself.

In other words.

It’s not that I know I’m wrong, but that I know I’m going to die.

The evidence they throw out will be the last straw that breaks the camel's back. As for what their final outcome will be, that is not what they should be concerned about.

Those who deliberately try to "encircle and kill" others must also be prepared to be "encircled and killed" themselves.

There is a saying that goes, you can't just be a white lotus that doesn't get hurt when you have the upper hand.

(End of this chapter)