Lonely Rock: Love Songs Dedicated to the Stars

"Has Boss Kenzaki forgotten about it himself?" PA tilted his head, covered his mouth, and chuckled as he looked at him.

"I'm so sorry." Yuzhen looked at everyone present, surprised that they remembered what he had just casually mentioned. "I really did forget."

Liang and Boqi placed the birthday cake that everyone had prepared on the table in the performance hall, and Xingge lit the candles.

Yuuma looked at the flickering candlelight, unable to suppress a smile. He made a wish in front of everyone, hoping that everyone's lives would go smoothly from now on.

Chapter 104 I'm Not Your Mother

"I'm sorry, brother, we don't have much time, so this is all we can prepare."

"It's okay, I'm just happy that everyone still remembers this kind of thing." Yuma said, cutting off a piece of cake, putting it on a plate and handing it to Hongxia, "Go and eat cake with everyone."

Yuma watched as Hongxia and the other three children ate cake together, when Xingge and PA also came to his side with cakes.

“Hongxia has already told them about the uncertain Riot situation, and they have all decided to participate.”

Xingge told Youzhen what had just happened.

"Not bad, they're quite united this time." Yuma ate her cake. "However, it seems they have quite a lot of preparations to make."

On the other side, Nijika put her arms around Kita and Pochi's shoulders, thanking them for being willing to participate.

She was moved by the way Boqi firmly expressed his desire to participate when he arrived this afternoon, and he did not back down even though he knew that the final review would involve performing in front of hundreds of people.

This was a decision that Pochettino made after a considerable internal struggle.

Liang, watching the three of them behaving so intimately, took out a flyer and leaned over to them, saying, "I'm going to participate too, please don't exclude me."

Then she received a thank-you hug from Hongxia.

After finishing the cake, Hongxia confirmed the schedule with everyone: "In order, the procedures are: demo review, online voting, performance review, and final review. The final review will be conducted in the style of a music festival."

“The demo review deadline is in April, so there’s still plenty of time.” Yuzhen sat down next to them. “Before that, you need to finish the song and music video, and do a lot of band activities.”

"Band activities?" Hongxia thought for a moment. "The monthly performance at STARRY is definitely not enough. It seems we need to do street performances."

"Let me make this clear first, you guys will still have to stick to your scheduled shifts as usual." Xingge also came over. "I won't give you any special treatment or free performances."

“But the quota for one performance is 30,000, which is too difficult.” Hongxia looked at Xingge with pitiful eyes, hoping that she could make an exception.

"Then why don't you just schedule more shifts?" Xingge closed her eyes and refused to look at Hongxia.

“Senior, look at this!” Kita pointed to the flyer and showed it to Nijika. “This flyer says the prize money for the winner is one million.”

"One million?" Yuzhen looked at the flyer. "Such a big event only offers this much prize money?"

Everyone turned to look at Yuzhen after hearing what he said.

Xingge knew that he had invested a lot of money in some of Youxing's small projects, such as convenience stores, bars, and music stores. In addition, his two restaurants earned him a lot of money every month.

Furthermore, Yuzhen doesn't usually buy anything too expensive, so he has a lot of money saved up, which explains why he feels that the event gives him too little.

“You can perform here as you please.” Xingge’s expression changed immediately when she looked at Hongxia. “If you really win the prize money, just give me 500,000.”

"Now that you've decided to participate, have you looked into the information of the other participating bands?"

PA approached Kita and asked.

Her question reminded everyone of the matter of scouting enemy positions.

Xingge turned on her computer and searched for bands of the same age as them.

The first is Beast Ria, an electronic rock band based in Tokyo, which focuses on new music that combines electronic dance music with rock.

"They seem like a very innovative band; they must be a really great band."

Xingge felt that they were terrifyingly strong just by looking at their photos.

The second is the Osaka band Nanpa Girls, who incorporated a lot of parody elements into their songs.

"They seem really energetic." PA looked at the band's group photo and checked their performance videos on her phone. "It seems like a lot of young people like their band."

The third is SIDEROS, a heavy metal band based in Shinjuku flot.

"Isn't this Otsuki's band?" Yuma immediately recognized Otsuki standing in the middle of the photo. "I saw her before when I went to Shinjuku Flot with Hiroi. She's Hiroi's junior, so she must be very talented."

Yuma then remembered to look up SIDEROS's detailed information.

“They’re already a super popular band that can hold independent shows.” He flipped through the information he found. “The leader, Yuyuko Otsuki, is the guitarist and lead vocalist. She started the band’s activities three years ago, but it seems like she keeps kicking out members. The current members are all in their first year.”

Yuma frowned as she looked at the information above. Otsuki had quite strict requirements for her teammates.

Xingge searched for the band's performance videos and found that Hiroi always appeared in other people's performance videos.

"She's such a troublemaker." Yuma sighed as she watched Hiroi jump off the stage in the SIDEROS performance video.

……

In short, everyone realized that the current End Band is overwhelmingly inferior in terms of both the number of songs and popularity.

Therefore, Hongxia decided to add one more song to the existing three original songs, and to make a mini record and music video for that song, and then send it to the demo for review.

Ryo and Pochi wanted to focus on producing new songs, so Nijika took charge of video editing and CD packaging design, while Kita was in charge of promoting the band.

"Speaking of videos, store manager, haven't you been using your phone to film everyone's performances all along?"

PA glanced at Hoshika, who was watching videos of other bands' performances with Yuuma.

"That's great! Sister, can you show us the video?" Hongxia leaned over and shook Xingge's arm.

Xingge covered her phone; she absolutely did not want anyone to see her photo album.

With the help of Nijika, PA, and Yuuma, Hoshika's phone ended up in Nijika's hands.

When Hongxia opened Xingge's phone, the truth came out: it was full of photos and videos of Youzhen taken by Xingge.

Many of the photos were taken in the middle of the night while Yu-chan was asleep, and there are also many old photos taken when she and Yu-chan were still in school.

Xingge felt so ashamed that she covered her face and squatted in a corner.

Hongxia scrolled down and found a strange video while looking for performance recordings. The previous cover was black, and it was impossible to tell what it was.

Curious, she clicked on it and heard Yuma's voice, but there were no images inside.

"So, does that mean we're back together?" That was Yuzhen's voice, sounding a little drunk.

"Think what you want, I'm sleepy and going to bed." That was Xingge's voice. "Give me back my phone."

"No, I want to keep proof that you're willing to get back together with me."

"Then why don't you record it with your own phone?"

Yuzhen thought the beginning sounded normal, then suddenly remembered that he had said something inappropriate when he was drunk that night. But by the time he recalled these things and tried to snatch Xingge's phone back, it was too late.

"Is tonight okay?"

"You... don't even think about it!"

"Be lenient with her." Yuzhen's voice sounded like he was pleading with Xingge, which was how he spoke to Xingge when he was drunk.

"Why should I be lenient with you? She's not your mother."

"Then..." Yuuma's voice paused for a moment, "Mom?"

"Ahhhhhhh!!!! Turn it off right now!"

While Nijigasaki and the others were still processing a huge amount of information in their minds, Kenzaki Yuuma clutched his hair and let out a sharp, explosive sound.

He never expected that Xingge would not delete the video; now he had shot himself in the foot.

Chapter 105 Play a Game with Me

Hongxia returned the phone to Xingge; she didn't dare scroll down any further.

"It's clearly very interesting." Ryo had just expressed her dissatisfaction that she hadn't seen anything more interesting when Hongxia covered her mouth and dragged her away.

Xingge found the recording of the band's performance that she had previously recorded and sent it to Hongxia. Then she and Youzhen left the concert hall.

Hongxia looked at the videos and turned on her computer to try editing them.

The other three little ones were now surrounding her.

Pochi: "Please cut out the shots of my face; I don't want anyone to see them."

Kita: "Senior, could you please edit my face? It doesn't look good on camera like this."

Liang: "This song starts with the bass, so I need to put my shot at the very beginning."

Even though Hongxia has a very good temper, being surrounded by the three of them chattering and making a bunch of demands like this is still very annoying, and she got angry, which is rare for her:

"Yakamasi! You'll have to do all these things yourselves!"

Seeing Hongxia's anger, the three people who had just been surrounding her quickly apologized to her.

Hongxia works very quickly and finished editing the video in no time.

However, this was the first time they had seen their own performance from a third-person perspective, and they discovered quite a few problems. After watching, they went back to the rehearsal room to practice.

……

While Hongxia was busy editing the video, Xingge and Youzhen, feeling extremely ashamed, temporarily handed over the things in the performance hall to PA, and then the two of them ran upstairs.

"You didn't delete that video before?" Yuzhen asked, slumped over the restaurant table. "It's so embarrassing."

"Didn't you say you wanted to keep evidence? So I didn't delete it." Xing Ge held a glass of juice in her hand, sipped the straw, and tilted her head slightly to look out the window. "But, it was you who insisted on recording it. Humph, anyway, you were the one who said those things, so you deserve to be embarrassed."

Yuzhen had nothing to say. It was indeed his fault. He was drunk that day and his mind wasn't clear. He was also too happy because Xingge and he got back together, and he got carried away and couldn't control his emotions.

"But what exactly did you go out to buy today?" Xingge turned to look at Youzhen. "I didn't see you bring anything back."

"I just managed to snag a newly released plush toy." Yuma looked up from the table. "I put it in my room."

I guessed so.

Xingge looked at him helplessly. Although Youzhen doesn't usually spend money recklessly, sometimes when he sees a video reviewing something he likes online, he can't help but want to buy it.

He usually manages to control himself, but it seems he couldn't this time.

Xingge lowered her head and drank the juice in her cup little by little with a straw, occasionally glancing up at Youzhen.

She touched the two movie tickets in her pocket, which she had bought casually this morning when she and Hongxia went to the shopping street.

Hongxia and the others are all in the exhibition hall, now is a good opportunity to give him this.