I Am an Emperor in a World of Mixed Anime

Sitting in the president's office of Yunmeng Group, Dongye Ming flipped through the termination contracts of Sanjiao Chuhua and a certain donut lady, as well as the new contract signed with Yunmeng Entertainment, which Kong Ming had brought, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Your real name is Hatsune?"

"Besides, they're all members of the same group, so why is Mitsumi Hatsuka so cheap?"

Compared to the exorbitant demands of the Donut Lady contract, the Triangle Chuhua contract was practically a steal, barely covering any training costs.

He glanced at the girl sitting in her office, smiling and looking completely at ease. It was lunchtime, and she had just finished decorating her dorm and was meeting her new boss. She had only managed to grab two donuts from the company cafeteria and was now nibbling on them.

While we don't deny the value of her legendary five-time champion title, isn't the gap a bit too big?

When she heard the new boss mention something related to her, Junda Mana blinked, then gave him a cute and cheerful smile and offered him a donut she had never tried before.

"Want some? You can share one with Mr. Higashino."

Akira Higashino shook his head. "No, it's too sweet. Thank you."

The other person wasn't disappointed, happily took back the donut, and took a big bite, enjoying both flavors at once.

She's actually quite satisfied with her current company. Although it's less famous, the talent agency department doesn't have many artists, so the resources allocated to it aren't actually less, and are even more than what she had at her previous agency.

Most importantly, the basic salary and benefits are very good, the firm's rules and regulations are also very humane, and the profit sharing ratio is dynamically determined according to the firm's popularity and business performance each year.

The only regret is that my own teammate cheated on me.

He took a part-time job as the lead singer of another band.

What was that saying again: I didn't ask you to dedicate your life to Sumi forever, I'm not a blue octopus! But what's with taking on the part-time job as the blue-haired guitarist and lead singer? What's wrong with your band mentality? You're only sixteen, right? If this continues, you'll be juggling four bands at 32, eight bands at 64, and end up like Hachiman Urin! As your original partner, I might have to stop trusting you, really!

The girl still felt a little resentful that her only teammate had been taken away by Niu.

Recalling the scene of Chu Hua circling around that blue-haired girl, it seemed that the two had known each other since childhood and were childhood sweethearts, and she couldn't help but sigh silently.

Sigh, women who are fickle and easily bored.

If she hadn't already successfully debuted and it hadn't been too troublesome to debut solo again, she might not have listened to Chu Hua's nonsense and switched to this company.

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P.S.: My latest chapter was removed from the review process on the very first day of this month. It happens once a month. I keep revising it, but it still won't pass the review and gets frozen. The scope of the freeze is getting bigger and bigger. It's like being pranked on April Fool's Day. It's like I'm just trying to boost my performance.

I've written it so plainly, where's the sensitivity? I originally planned to update 10,000 words a day, but I've been busy revising the text and contacting the editor to try and revive chapter 149. This chapter is a combined total of over 4,000 words.

Chapter 152 Not Worth Mentioning

"Regarding the termination fee, it seems to be related to Ms. Toyokawa. After learning that Mitsumi Hatsuka terminated her contract in order to form a band with Ms. Toyokawa, the other party's agency did not make things too difficult for her."

Upon hearing Kongming's explanation, Higashino Akira immediately understood.

The agency that Mikawa Hatsuka originally signed with seems to have some connection with the Toyokawa family, so when her subordinates saw an opportunity, their desire to improve couldn't be suppressed.

So instead of taking advantage of the chaos, they actively cooperated.

After comforting Junta Mana, who had just been brought over by her teammates, and reminding the lady to pay attention to her diet, Higashino Akira didn't keep her around. Instead, he sent her to watch the performance and rehearsal of the band that Mitsumi Hatsuka, who was juggling two relationships, was working part-time.

He continued to review the recent work reports from Yunmeng Group.

He doesn't need to worry about the development of ordinary enterprises. With Kongming around, he only needs to occasionally put forward a general direction or idea, and let Kongming analyze and improve it. Under such circumstances, it only takes up 60% of Kongming's energy.

While managing the Yunmeng Group, Kong Ming did not give up his love for art. He did not give up his work as an artist manager. Although he did not sign any other artists, he also took the time to catch up with the trend and wrote a few popular songs and put them into the group's copyright music library while arranging the development of Yuejian Yingzi.

It's definitely not tiring; after all, it's a matter of cultivating one's character, and for Kongming, it's merely a moment of relaxation amidst his busy schedule.

The rest of my energy was devoted to matters that weren't openly discussed within the Yunmeng Group and could only be discussed with a few absolutely reliable colleagues.

For example, Higashino Akira is currently reviewing the intelligence and news reports submitted by the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

Are the three heirs of the Shinomiya family fighting each other?

"We did it?"

Kongming stood quietly behind his lord, watching him review various intelligence reports and memorials.

When he heard this question, he simply waved his feather fan modestly.

"The old patriarch of the Shinomiya family is in declining health, and the future successor is still uncertain. They still dare to plot against our lord. Our lord's Imperial Guards don't even need to take action. Liang only needs to release some information, whether true or false, to stir things up. They've already thrown themselves into chaos."

Clearly, Kongming was not proud of this. This was just a small favor he did in his spare time, and it was not worth mentioning to him at all.

Because the version wasn't very advanced, the Kongming recruited by Higashino Akira couldn't freely borrow the east wind or perform human transmutation; he was just an ordinary person with a basic understanding of feng shui and divination, and a sufficiently high IQ.

Previously, when faced with the advanced versions of those body-snatching tactics, they were somewhat harassed and found it difficult to get started. It wasn't until Higashino Akira arranged for a henchman from the supernatural realm that they were able to effectively inflict casualties on the opponent.

However, a family like the Shinomiya family, which is purely a mortal force and not a violent organization like the military, but just a commercial conglomerate, might not even have the same level of martial virtue as the Yunmeng Group did when it first started out. They are simply too easy to deal with.

It wasn't that Kongming was arrogant; it was just that, from the perspective of someone like him who had followed a boss to start a business and accomplish great things, his past experience had taught him that, in the conventional sense, businessmen were not really suited to sitting at the table eating.

"It's a pity that we need to make full preparations for a while before we can take over the Shinomiya Group. Only when that old wolf with the guts to overturn the table falls can we minimize the impact."

It's not that they're eyeing the Shinomiya Group's money. The Yunmeng Group, with its fixed daily income, has never lacked funds, especially since their land grabbing and buying spree in the countryside of Japan has never stopped.

Even the daily monetary reward cap for Akira Higashino continues to increase.

Otherwise, given the current level of benefits and compensation offered by Yunmeng Group, it simply cannot afford to support so many full-time employees.

Kongming was mainly interested in some of the resources and industries of the Sigong Group. Just as the other party was eyeing the only high-quality industry that Yunmeng Group had shown so far, namely game development and operation, if Yunmeng wanted to reach the top, it had to pull down those big conglomerates and groups above it, occupy their market share and ecological niche, and absorb the assets that they possessed that were beneficial to Yunmeng Group to accelerate its own development.

Akira Higashino wasn't worried about this, probably because there were too many rich young ladies in anime, which led to a large number of top conglomerates in this crossover anime world.

“If the Shinomiya family can’t hold on, we won’t be the only ones eyeing it. There’s no need for us to be pawns for others. We’re not in a hurry. As long as we can get the part we want, that’s enough.”

For other conglomerates, those heirs who only have daughters or an only daughter are the easiest to deal with. For those who don't have an only daughter, it doesn't prevent others from helping them have one.

Without the protagonist and plot halo of the original work's single worldview, the competition in the commercial field is actually more realistic and fierce.

The older generation can still hold their own and fight back and forth, but it's hard to say what will happen when the next generation takes over.

Xiao Deng is the easiest to bully.

As you can see, a certain blue octopus has been transformed into a soft, chewy little cake that only dares to breathe outwards.

Akira Higashino asserted, "Time is on our side now."

As I continued reviewing the applications, I came across another one that piqued my curiosity.

"Kongming wants to ask for leave?" Higashino Akira raised an eyebrow. "This is the first time. Has he run into some trouble?"

When a top-performing employee suddenly submits a special report requesting a vacation, instead of at most scheduling his work in advance and squeezing in a break as usual, it's hard for Higashino Akira not to think things through.

After all, Kongming was somewhat addicted to work. He would only rest if he asked for it, rather than working tirelessly day and night for Yunmeng.

"Thank you for your concern, my lord. This leave is only to fulfill the friendship between my classmates. Liang has received a lot of help from her classmates in the past. Now that she has formed an academy idol group and is preparing for her first stage performance, Liang, as a well-known agent of Yunmeng Entertainment, should go and help support her. If the group has potential, we can also consider signing them later to add another capable member to the group's entertainment department."

"Who?"

"A classmate from the language school."

"I'm asking for your name."

The concept of school idols reminded Akira Higashino of an old anime where a school, facing enrollment difficulties and seemingly planning to close down, formed an idol group to perform and use the group's fame to save the school and attract enough new students.

Because it was so long ago, almost thirty years ago, he couldn't remember the specific characters and plot, but he vaguely remembered that the animation was quite popular.

"Tang Keke".

"Have not heard."

I really don't recognize this name. At first glance, I thought it was Tang Youyou's younger sister from the sitcom Love Apartment who came to Japan to study.

Although I can't remember it clearly, Akira Higashino still had the basic logic: international students don't need to enroll in a school that's about to close down, let alone try to save a school in an island nation.

It's probably a background character derived from the concept of related works.

Chapter 153 How dare you assume my gender?

at night.

Akira Higashino scrolled through social media, trying to soothe his racing spirit in preparation for the next enjoyable driving experience.

As for Nagasaki Motoyo, after a runaway where she could leave all her troubles behind and just run forward, this young and pretty widow finally stopped bothering him with her daily messages about Toyokawa Shoko's new band.

Perhaps she felt shy?

It is said that the feng shui of the Nagasaki Sue family is quite remarkable.

The fact that a girl who exudes a motherly aura and a mother who exudes a youthful aura could both gather together always left Akira Higashino slightly speechless whenever he thought about it.

It's somewhat contrary to the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.

Meanwhile, on Goto Ichiri's side, Higashino Akira received an invitation from Kita to visit their school's cultural festival in a while, saying that there would be a performance by Pochi-chan.

Akira Higashino happened to have no other plans that day, and after a little thought, he agreed.

It's not that I like watching performances, but I'm more interested in the fact that Ichiri would probably show a cute, gloomy, almost dying expression in such a situation.

In addition, I haven't met with her recently, and Guitar Hero's Twitter posts haven't been updated with any new material. The quality and length of the posts have been severely reduced. I need to give her some inspiration.

Akira Higashino has now become the leader of the abstract fandom on the Guitar Hero account. It's all thanks to his constant eccentricities that Guitar Hero has gained a group of strange fans.

Miko and Xiaohua actually posted the photos of themselves with Mai Sakurajima from their last trip to Okumizome on social media, but they probably set viewing restrictions, so there weren't many likes.

Higashino Akira glanced at it, couldn't help but chuckle, and casually saved the photo to his phone, giving it a like.

What kind of pose is this for a group photo? Are all high school girls this weird these days?

It has a slightly abstract yet cute feel to it.

Akira Higashino felt he was falling behind the times. Back when he was in school, group photos were all about arm in arm, giving a thumbs up or making a peace sign.

Just as I was thinking about it, Mai Sakurajima sent me a message.

Mai Sakurajima: "Someone secretly told me today that there's a guy who looks a lot like Higashino-kun running hand-in-hand with another girl in the street."

Akira Higashino: "I like working out, Mai-san knows that."

Mai Sakurajima: "Hmm~"

Akira Higashino: "For example, double push-ups."

Mai Sakurajima: "That's perverted, like something Higashino-kun would say."

Akira Higashino: "It was Mai-san who planted a spy next to me to follow me first, and then she turned around and accused me. How scary! Mai-san is so scary! Is this what they call a yandere?"

Mai Sakurajima, who was filming in Itomori, saw this reply and her eyes widened immediately, her pretty face turning red.

It is clear that it was not because of shyness.