Lonely Rock: Love Songs Dedicated to the Stars

'I'd rather buy a motorcycle. As for cars...' Yuzhen felt that she really needed to go back to driving school to practice after the New Year.

Yu-Xing originally intended to drive him home, but as soon as they stepped out the door, he received a phone call. It seemed to be some urgent matter at the company, so he left Yu-Zhen behind and ran off.

'It's Christmas and I'm still so busy. Sigh, what a corporate slave.'

In the end, Kenzaki Yuuma took the train back to Shimokitazawa by himself, and it was already dark when he returned to the exhibition hall.

"I'm back." He pushed open the door and walked into the exhibition hall, seeing Xingge sitting next to the bar. "Are you still working? Are there any bands performing here for Christmas?"

"No, I was just watching a TV series."

As soon as she heard Yuzhen's voice, she closed the laptop, as if there was something she didn't want him to see.

Yuuma was quite curious about the show she was watching, but he was interrupted by Nijika when she returned just as he was about to ask.

She had just returned from the Shinjuku flotilla. The performance was fairly successful, but because it was their first away show, the applause and cheers that she had imagined lasting for more than ten minutes were nowhere to be seen.

"That's already very good, this is an important step." Yuzhen nodded at her. "Will Hongxia come to my house for dinner with us tomorrow night?"

"I want to go! I want to go!" Hongxia looked very excited. "I miss Aunt Yuriko too. I've already prepared Christmas presents for Uncle and Aunt."

"Oh right, we're celebrating my sister's birthday here tomorrow at noon. It can also be a celebration party for our Christmas performance." Hongxia opened her phone and sent a message to the members of the band.

"Yay! I can't wait!" Kita really likes this kind of event, and she'll definitely be there.

"I'll come if you provide meals." Liang's requirements were very low.

"I...can too!"

Boqi's voice message startled the three people in the performance hall.

"Why are you yelling so loudly?" Yuzhen looked at the message sent by Boqi helplessly.

Meanwhile, Pochi was still immersed in the joy of spending Christmas with her friends. She had made progress in attending such a lively party, hadn't she? She had completely forgotten about Xingge's birthday.

Chapter 110 An Unexpected Gift

After Christmas, the atmosphere on the streets changed, and many couples could be seen on the streets of Shimokitazawa.

Yuzhen tucked the box containing the ring into his coat pocket, and he would touch it every now and then, his palms already sweating with nervousness.

He originally planned to give it to Xingge when he got home for dinner that evening, but Hongxia said she was having a birthday party at the exhibition hall that afternoon, so he decided to give it to her directly. He could also tell his family about it when he got home that evening.

'She won't refuse the proposal, will she?' Yuuma walked through the streets of Shimokitazawa, heading in the opposite direction from the performance hall, but he was completely absorbed in his own world and didn't notice, 'She couldn't possibly refuse, right? I shouldn't overthink it.'

"Sister, is that brother?" Hongxia and Xingge had just come downstairs when she saw Youzhen walking in the opposite direction and tugged at Xingge's clothes.

"That idiot!" Xingge quickly caught up with Youzhen and grabbed his hand. "Hey! Where are you going?"

"Huh? Xingge..." Youzhen was startled by her, then came to her senses, "Of course we're going to the performance hall."

"You're going the wrong way."

"Really?" Yuma looked around after hearing Hoshika's words. "We really went the wrong way. Sorry, I was thinking about something."

"Don't stand there and embarrass yourself, let's go." Xingge quickly pulled him towards the performance hall.

They need to hurry up and clean the performance hall this morning. Hongxia has also invited SIDEROS today, so they can't let them laugh at them.

……

In the afternoon, everyone gathered together, and Hongxia volunteered to be the emcee for the party. The atmosphere was quite good.

The table with Ryo, Pochi, and Otsuki was a little different; the three of them didn't interact at all.

'This isn't quite what I expected.' Pochi looked at the table; the snacks that had been there were now empty, a stark contrast to the lively table on the other side, where people were constantly chatting and the snacks were barely touched.

She glanced at the girls sitting on either side. Ryo liked to be alone, so it was normal for her not to talk at times like this. But why was someone like Ootsuki sitting in this place? Shouldn't she be chatting and laughing with her friends at another table?

"I know, she must have come here because she felt lonely and pitiful." Pochi's self-hypnosis ended, and she looked gratefully at Dawei, who was playing a game console next to her. "Thank you! You're a good person."

Otsuki suddenly felt a chill. Why was Goto Ichiri staring at her and laughing? Was he mocking her for having no one to talk to? Damn it!

She immediately responded to Poch with a fierce look.

Yuzhen watched their interaction from behind, and he felt that they were having quite a bit of inner monologue.

"Pochi, this is a gift for you." He quickly patted the trembling Pochi on the shoulder and handed him the gift he had bought in advance. "Otsuki and Ryo also have some."

After learning that SIDEROS was coming yesterday, he took some time in the morning to prepare gifts for the girls. They are all very nice girls, and Yuma hopes they can become friends with the End Band.

Pochi and Otsuki, holding the gifts, watched gratefully as Yuuma left.

“Nijika, this is for you.” Yuma put a hat on Nijika’s head. “And Kita and PA, these are for you too.”

After receiving the lipstick from Yuuma, Kita's eyes lit up, and she took a picture and posted it to her account. PA received a controller, which she seemed to really like.

The others also received gifts from Yuma, and the girls from SIDEROS felt embarrassed to receive gifts after only meeting a few times.

"Then please, everyone, become friends with the End Band." Yuma looked at the group of energetic kids. "Let's all improve together."

……

"Today is also my sister's birthday party," Hongxia said after Yuzhen gave her the birthday present. "Today, my sister turns thirty."

Her words hurt two people at the same time.

Today is also Xingge's birthday party, and everyone who finished the band should have prepared gifts for Xingge.

After Kita finished speaking to Nijika, he took out a box of skincare products from his bag: "Happy birthday, store manager. This is a skincare product that I really like to use. I hope you like it."

"Thank you." Xingge accepted Kita's gift. She could feel Kita's thoughtfulness. 'Kita put a lot of thought into it, I'm so touched.'

“Well then, next up is Ryo.” Hongxia’s words drew everyone’s attention to Ryo, who was sitting to the side.

"I think the most important thing about a gift is the thought behind it." Liang stood up from the stool, made a heart shape with her hands, and asked, "Can the shop manager feel my sincerity?"

"Can you feel it?" Xingge looked at Liang helplessly. Of course, she didn't expect Liang to give her anything, after all, she knew his usual spending habits.

She was thinking of just letting it go, but Liang suddenly ran out and came back a while later with a small snowman. She even gave the snowman a name and said that the snowman had sneaked into Santa's gift bag to find Xingge.

"No! You've made up such a touching backstory, I won't be able to bear throwing it away."

However, the snowman would get very dirty if it melted inside, so Yuma put it in the flower bed outside the exhibition hall.

When he returned, the gloves PA had given him were already on Star Singer's body.

"And me too."

Hiroi suddenly appeared here at some unknown time.

"I'm giving this to you seniors." Before Yuuma and the others could ask, Hiroi took out a supermarket promotion flyer. "This can be exchanged for a sofa, but I haven't collected all the badges yet. I've been troubling you two seniors a lot, so this is just a small token of my appreciation."

“But this event seems to have expired.” Yuma, who was standing next to her, noticed the date on the flyer.

Xingge, who had been somewhat touched, suddenly tore up the flyer with a blank expression.

The children of SIDEROS were unaware of this and didn't need to prepare gifts. But Pochi, standing nearby, was already panicking. She had been so focused on Christmas and the party last night that she had completely forgotten about presents.

It wouldn't be good to just say she wasn't prepared; she feels the situation is very bad right now.

“It seems like Pochi-chan has been putting a lot of thought into preparing a gift,” Hongxia said to Xingge. “Back in October, she asked me to ask my sister what she wanted as a gift.”

Boqi remembered that she had received 200,000 yuan back then, intending to buy Xingge a gift to avoid working. She never expected that boomerang would hit her now.

"Aaaaaah! Things are getting worse!" Pochi fumbled in his pockets, but found nothing. "What should I do? What should I send?"

Finally, amidst everyone's expectant gazes, Boqi announced that she was going to dedicate a song. But as she tried to start playing the guitar, a string broke.

"Goto Ichiri! You know what will happen if this gets awkward, right?" Yuuma stared coldly at Pochi, who was kneeling and trembling before him. "Go feed the fish."

Yuzhen, of course, had no idea that he had always been so vicious in Bochi's imagination. Bochi squatted down in the corner by herself, but was later comforted by Hongxia, who then pulled her back.

"Speaking of which, what gift is brother going to give sister?" Hongxia looked at Youzhen expectantly. "Sister is looking forward to it too, right?"

"It's nothing special, what can this guy give me?" Xingge turned her face away.

Yuzhen didn't say anything. He grabbed Xingge's left hand, then took out his right hand, which he had been keeping in his pocket, and covered it with Xingge's left hand.

Xingge seemed to sense something, her body trembled, and she turned to look at him.

After Yu-chan moved her hand away, everyone noticed that Hoshigo had a diamond ring on her left middle finger.

Chapter 111 An Unusual Christmas

It was already evening when Hoshika's birthday party and Christmas performance celebration party ended. Yuma and Ijichi saw the others off and got into the car to Yuma's house.

Yuuki happened to be driving home from work. Kenzaki's family lived in the Seijo area, not far from Shimokitazawa, so he picked up the three of them on his way.

“I should buy a car too.” Yuzhen sat in the passenger seat. Buying a car would definitely be more convenient, and he could help with transportation if the band needed to finish their performances.

You can drive now?

“You can practice if you don’t know how.” Yuzhen was hurt by Yuxing’s words and retorted directly: “I’ll go back to driving practice after the New Year. Once I’ve mastered it, I’ll take you to drift on Mount Akina and show you how good I am.”

Yu Zhen does have a driver's license, but as everyone knows, having a driver's license doesn't necessarily mean you can drive. He hasn't touched a car since he got his license, and now he can't even reverse into a parking space.

"Forget it, I'm more concerned about my life." Yuuki glanced at Yuuma while waiting at a red light. "You've already proposed, haven't you?"

He had seen the ring on Xingge's left hand when she got into the car, not to mention that Xingge would occasionally use her left hand to touch her hair in the back seat, which he could see with just a glance in the rearview mirror.

Hongxia was too tired from playing all afternoon and has fallen asleep on Xingge's shoulder.

"I guess you could say the proposal was successful."

Yuzhen turned her head and glanced at Xingge as she spoke.

Xingge noticed the two brothers' gazes, blushed, and nodded. Of course she agreed, but everyone was making a fuss at the time, and her voice was drowned out; Youzhen seemed not to have heard her clearly.

She has now given Yuma a definite answer.

“She agreed.” Yuzhen sat down in her seat, crossed her arms and looked at Yuxing with a smug look on her face. “Once we get married, it will be hard for you to catch up with me.”

"So why should I compare myself to you?" Youxing was too lazy to argue with him about these things, and he focused on driving when the light turned green.

His job was simply to take the three people in the car home, and then he could go find his girlfriend.

……

"When are you going to pick out the wedding dress?" Kenzaki Yuriko pulled Hoshika to sit on the sofa. "When are you planning to have the wedding? Is tomorrow okay? I can help you with the preparations; I'm very efficient."

"Mom, aren't you in a hurry?" Youzhen walked over, separated the two of them, and protected the bewildered Xingge.

“You’re both thirty years old, how can I not be anxious?” Kenzaki Yuriko got up and went to the kitchen. “You two think about it yourselves, I’m going to make dinner.”