Lonely Rock: Love Songs Dedicated to the Stars

"How do I look now?" Yuma asked Hoshika.

Yuzhen looked quite refined with his glasses on, and his suit fit him well. He had also just used hairspray to fix his hair, which he changes every day.

In Xingge's opinion, Kenzaki Yu is really, really cool now.

"It's alright." Xingge wanted to raise her hand to scratch her head, but it was covered by the veil.

A silence fell between them, and they suddenly didn't know what to say.

"What are you two doing?" Kenzaki Yuriko came over from the side. "Hurry up, we're going to the photo studio to take wedding photos."

……

In the evening, everyone who had just finished get off work sat together in the performance hall, looking at the photos that the store had sent to Youzhen.

"The shop manager is so beautiful!" Kita stared at Hoshika in the photo, her eyes shining. "And the shop manager has such a great figure, I'm so envious."

When Kita, a popular and beautiful girl, compliments her on her looks and figure, Hoshika is naturally very happy. However, she is also afraid that the strict persona she has cultivated in front of everyone will be ruined, so she can only try her best to keep it in check.

Yuma could tell what Hoshika was thinking just by glancing at her expression: 'Kita's approval really carries weight.'

“Although I’m not happy about staying in the exhibition hall again, it’s nice to see these happy photos.” PA said, then stood up. “I have things to do when I get home tonight, so I’ll be going now.”

PA has now let go of this matter.

Yuzhen and Xingge knew, of course, that she was going back to do her live stream, so they let her go.

"By the way, where did Pochi go? I haven't seen her since earlier." Yuzhen noticed that Pochi had suddenly disappeared.

"Maybe he went back first?" Xingge wasn't too sure, since no one saw Boqi leave.

“Pochi is here.” Liang squatted down on the ground, pointed to a small clump of pink powder on the ground and Pochi’s headdress next to it, and said to everyone, “She has been like this since just now.”

It took everyone a lot of effort to revive Boqi before they left the theater and went home.

After Yuma and the other two returned home, Hongxia made a request to him.

Yuzhen had just turned on his computer, ready to go live and show off to his fans his sweet experience of taking wedding photos with Xingge this afternoon.

"You want me to use live streaming to garner votes for you?"

“Okay, brother, just read this.” Hongxia handed Yuzhen a slip of paper. “Ryo said that if this is combined with the cat-eared virtual avatar that brother uses, there will definitely be no problem.”

"Then I'll give it a try."

During the live stream, Yuuma felt that Ryo's suggestion was unreliable, but for Nijika's sake, he still opened the note and read the words on it: "Support Ending Band, meow, support Ending Band, thank you meow."

Chapter 130 Champagne at Halftime

Online voting is still ongoing, and PA also campaigned for the End Band during the live stream.

That afternoon, she also told the band that she voted every day and had asked her friends for help.

Nijika and Kita were very curious because they had never heard her talk about her friends.

Actually, the friend she mentioned was one of the viewers in her live stream. She didn't expect Hongxia and Xiduo to care so much, and for a moment she didn't know how to answer.

"I bet PA spent the weekend at some trendy bar in Azabu-Juban," Kita speculated about PA's holiday. "That sounds so cool."

After she said that, how could PA possibly reveal that she spent her weekend at home playing games with her online friends?

"I will hold online salons with international friends to discuss topics related to the new era..."

After listening to PA's words, Yuma and Hoshika admired her greatly, for she could describe staying at home and playing games with her friends in such a refreshing and unconventional way.

"As expected of a mature woman!" Kita looked at her with shining eyes. "She's so cool."

Seeing that they still wanted to ask PA, Yuma and Hoshika went over and stopped Nijika and Kita: "How many votes have you received so far? What's your ranking?"

Nijika and Kita then realized they hadn't watched it yet, and Yuuma and Hoshika helped PA out of the predicament.

Hongxia and the others turned on their computers and searched for their band's rankings.

Despite having so many people helping to garner votes, the band could only temporarily settle for 39th place.

"It's alright, we've already achieved this ranking in less than a week." Xingge thought the ranking was pretty good. "Looks like next week shouldn't be a problem."

"Don't open the champagne halfway through; there's a lot of uncertainty with these kinds of things."

Yuma still felt uneasy, but Nijika and the others were already popping champagne. It had never been such a wonderful start.

Meanwhile, Hiroi and Shima were watching the band's music video at the Shinjuku Flot.

Just as Hiroi was about to cast her vote for the End Band, Otsuki Yuyuko suddenly appeared behind her.

Hiroi borrowed 5,000 yen from Otsuki last month to buy alcohol. She was in the wrong, so in the end she gave in to Otsuki and voted for their band.

……

"That kind of thing isn't a big deal." Yuma and Hoshika looked at Hiroi, who was drinking in the izakaya. "Otsuki is probably jealous because you're going to vote for the End Band, right?"

"How could you do something like that in front of people?" Xingge looked at her helplessly.

"That's why I came here to vote." Hiroi waved his phone at the two of them. "As long as I carry Otsuki, everything will be fine."

However, before Hiroi could vote, she felt a stomachache and went to the toilet with her phone.

After a while, Yuma and Hoshika noticed that Hiroi had returned with a long face.

"What's wrong? Are you still feeling unwell?"

Although she's usually unreliable, she's still their junior, and seeing her like this, Yuma and Hoshika are quite worried about her.

Should I take you to the hospital?

"No need." Hiroi suddenly grabbed Yuuma's clothes and cried, "My phone fell into the toilet!"

Are you an idiot?!

Yuma was completely speechless about what to say to this guy, but he still went to help Hiroi retrieve his phone.

……

Over the next few days, the band continued to practice diligently and kept an eye on their rankings, which remained quite stable without much fluctuation.

However, they are still worried that if this situation continues, they will definitely lose the election.

On Monday, Hongxia was surprised to find that they had risen to 30th place, and if they could maintain that, they would advance.

On Tuesday, Xingge and PA returned to the performance hall with a cake on it, which read "Congratulations to the Ending Band for successfully advancing to the next round" written on it in jam.

However, as soon as the two of them entered the exhibition hall, they discovered that everyone except Yuma had been transformed into Pochi, and Yuma was comforting them.

"What happened to them?" Xingge asked Youzhen, leaning closer. "Why have their faces all turned into those messy lines like Boqi's?"

"Because they just checked the rankings and found that their band's ranking had changed to thirty-eighth," Yuma replied. "And that's how it turned out to be what you see here."

"Sister, you're back?" Hongxia snapped out of her daze and noticed Xingge and PA were back. "What's with this cake?"

Xingge and PA quickly exchanged a glance: 'What should we do? They'll be even more upset if they see something like this now.'

'There's no other way, I guess I'll just have to ask Kenzaki-sensei for a bit.'

The two women looked at each other again, nodded, and then suddenly slapped the cake onto Yu-chan's face, who was standing next to them.

"What am I going to do? How am I going to reach thirtieth place in the remaining week?" Hongxia complained.

“SIDEROS is currently ranked third.” Kita glanced at the rankings. “They’re amazing.”

"It must be a problem with the initial publicity." Yuzhen had already cleaned the cream off her face. "I forgot to tell you at the beginning, otherwise you wouldn't have had no reputation at all."

“How can you blame your brother?” Hongxia slammed her hand on the table and stood up. “This is our band. It’s our own fault that it turned out like this. It has nothing to do with your brother and sister.”

Xingge also wanted to comfort them:

"Actually, although there is a huge difference in votes between the top tiers, the gap between the lower tiers is not that big. It is already very impressive to have this ranking."

After the band finished their performance, they felt they couldn't just stay there and be sad, so they went back to the practice room and practiced for a while before leaving.

……

Yuzhen went home that evening. It seemed his mother was busy with his wedding plans with Xingge, and she even called him back.

He postponed this matter until after the music festival, wanting to finish the immediate tasks first.

It was past 11 p.m. when he got back to Shimokitazawa, but when he entered the room he found Xingge lying on the sofa, asleep and hugging a plush toy.

Yuzhen tiptoed closer to the sofa, picked her up, and carried her to the bedroom.

"You're back?" Xingge felt herself being picked up, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Youzhen. "Put me down, I can walk by myself."

"Did I move too much?" Yuzhen put her down and watched her rub her eyes. "How did you fall asleep in the living room?"

"I was watching TV dramas." Xingge yawned. "It was so boring that I fell asleep while watching."

She was actually waiting for Yuuma to come back, but she couldn't bring herself to say it.

Where did you watch the TV series?

On the phone.

"But this isn't a TV drama." Yuzhen opened her phone, and what appeared to be the two of them in wedding photos. "I get it, a romance drama, right? One we acted in?"

"You rascal..." Xingge snatched back her phone, opened the bedroom door, "Go to sleep, I'm so sleepy."

Chapter 131 Idiot

While having breakfast, Yuzhen searched for the band End of the Day and found nothing but stage diving videos. She also discovered that some members of their fan group seemed to be posing as high school students to solicit votes.

“There seem to be some strange people in your fan base,” Yuma said to Nijika, who was eating. “That’s probably why not many people voted.”

Hongxia swallowed her food and glanced at Youzhen's phone: "Is that so? It feels so scary."

After finishing breakfast, Hongxia went to school, while Yuzhen was still reading posts about the end of the band. Then he came across an online article titled "The Next Generation Band About to Become a Sensation."

This article mentions the band End of the Band. Although it doesn't have many views yet, Yuzhen checked the publisher's homepage and found that this person's articles have quite a lot of traffic.

He felt that based on this article, the band might actually have a chance to be nominated.

He was just about to put down his phone when he came across a video and noticed that the cover image was his virtual avatar used in his live stream.

Yuzhen clicked in and discovered that his words when he campaigned for the band that night had been made into a brainwashing video. But is his voice really that nice?

Yuma felt increasingly smug as she thought about it.