Tokyo: The Beginning of the Gauze Female Devil

"Kaneda Teru, he..."

"He unilaterally broke the contract and signed with KB Agency behind our backs!"

"Boom——"

Like a bolt of thunder, there was a loud bang in Matsumoto Arina's mind, and her eyes went dark. She almost fainted.

"How come?"

"How is that possible?"

"Isn't the penalty for the new contract 20 billion yen?"

She held on to a last glimmer of hope and asked Asami Uesugi, "How could KB Agency help him pay so much money?"

"The new... the new contract was drafted by Kaneda Teru's agent, Minister Yoshida..."

"Kinda Teru has always been dissatisfied with his salary, and Minister Yoshida also wanted to help him gain more benefits, so... it was delayed for a few days..."

"boom--!"

A ferocious look appeared on Matsumoto Arina's originally delicate and pretty face, and she clenched her fist and hammered hard at the office.

"……asshole!"

"Trash, a bunch of trash!"

“They are all company parasites!!!”

……

……

The foreshadowing is over, and it’s time to start wrapping up!

The pace has been a bit slow these past two days, but we’ll speed it up tomorrow!

There is no other way, I have to write the foreshadowing plot between Matsumoto Honma and Asada Ichiyo, it will be used later.

Of course, it could also be due to the black room or lack of traffic...

Anyway, we're on track tomorrow!

I will add more updates for you when I have free time!

I wish you all can speed through Erlang Zhenjun when playing Black Monkey tomorrow!!!

Chapter 280 Eighty Million

"boom--!"

"What do you mean by delayed for a few days?"

The solid wood desk was slapped hard, and the water on the cup on the table swayed. Matsumoto Yuina raised her eyebrows and shouted at Uesugi Asami: "...Didn't I ask you to keep an eye on me?"

"Why did such a big omission occur?"

"President...President..." Facing the thundering wrath of Matsumoto Arina, Asami Uesugi closed her legs under her OL uniform and buried her head low.

"Director Yoshida is in charge of the new contract, and the treatment given to Kaneda Teru is the best in the entire firm, but..."

"I just want to know why no one told me that Jin Tianhui was dissatisfied with the treatment he received from the company?"

There was a fire in Matsumoto Arina's eyes, and a strange blush appeared on her pretty face.

"I heard that all I heard was that Kaneda Hui was working very hard, and everything was in order and thriving!"

"This..." Asami Uesugi was hesitant to speak, unable to utter a few words.

Sometimes, one stands too high and is out of touch with reality. What one hears depends entirely on what the people below want to say to her as the president.

"Okay, okay, you kept it a secret from me, right?"

Matsumoto Arina laughed in anger and threw all the documents on the table to the ground with a clatter.

"Asami Uesugi!"

"Tell me clearly what's going on!"

Although Matsumoto Arina is young, she is the president of an agency. When she loses her temper, she is even more angry than her mother Matsumoto Yuriko.

"President...President..." Asami Uesugi buried her head even lower and her body trembled slightly, even though the girl opposite her was a few years younger than her.

She adjusted her frameless glasses, forced herself to calm down, and said in a calm tone: "The signing of the new contract went very smoothly at the beginning, and Jin Tianhui was also very satisfied with the treatment of the firm."

"I have also reviewed the contents of the contract for the president, and there are no problems."

"only……"

Uesugi Asami paused, then continued, "The only person who was dissatisfied was Minister Yoshida."

She only said this much, but Matsumoto Arina, who had been the president for so many days, understood almost everything immediately.

Minister Yoshida is Kaneda Teru's agent, and the agent and the artist share honor and disgrace and interests.

In Japan, brokers have enormous power and a lot of say!

In terms of the artist's profit, in addition to the basic salary, the agency generally takes 60% of the artist's annual announcements, commercial performance income, etc., and the remaining 40% is divided equally between the agent and the artist.

There is actually a gap of several days between the new contract and the old contract. During this gap, the agency arranged for Kaneda Teru to appear on a variety show, with the intention of giving him a little sweetness and helping him adapt to the current work rhythm.

But Director Yoshida was dragging his feet on signing the new contract simply because he wanted Kaneda Teru to wait for a good price, act like a big shot after he became famous, and take advantage of the firm's life-and-death situation in order to ask for more benefits.

Even if she can get an extra 10% commission from the agency afterwards, she can still get a lot as an agent!

However, Minister Yoshida obviously went too far and thought he had everything under control.

I never thought that Kaneda Teru was also a restless character. After appearing on a variety show, his fame increased a lot, and his wings gradually became stronger. So he secretly contacted other agencies without the knowledge of Director Yoshida.

Matsumoto Office proved the potential of Teru Kaneda, but Teru Kaneda did not want to stay there and struggle for half his life for this half-dead office.

People go up, water flows down. This is normal in the entertainment industry where people are fickle and indifferent.

Matsumoto Arina is naive. She thinks that as long as everyone in the office works together, they can overcome the difficulties together.

It's a pity that everyone at Matsumoto Entertainment Agency, from the director and secretary to the artists and employees, has their own ulterior motives, and no one is on the same page with her!

"Bang--" the ceramic coffee cup fell heavily to the floor, and the harsh sound filled the entire president's office.

The coffee cup shattered at the touch, and the broken pieces passed over the corner of Asami Uesugi's clothes, but she still kept her head down, not daring to breathe.

"asshole!"

"A bunch of damn bastards!"

Matsumoto Yuina roared in a voice that was almost broken: "You all treat me as a deaf, blind, and stupid person!"

Deceiving superiors and subordinates, changing one's mind from morning to night, betraying one's own people, and pretending to obey but secretly disobeying...

All kinds of life are played out in the Matsumoto office where the sick and dying person is in danger at any time. No one stands on the side of Matsumoto Yuina, and no one will help her to turn the tide.

A few days of free time and a simple artist contract are enough to make the new president run around in circles!

"Crackling——"

After venting her anger by throwing things around in the office, Matsumoto Arina had to sit down and clean up the mess with her hands on her face.

Her delicate and pretty face was listless, her long chestnut hair had lost its original luster, and her beautiful and soft body was hunched over, as if all the energy had been drained out of her in an instant.

"Asami, how much penalty did KB Agency pay for Kaneda Teru?"

A low voice replaced the original sharpness, a hint of bitterness flashed across Matsumoto Arina's pretty face, and she asked her secretary Uesugi Asami weakly.

"Mr. President, according to Kaneda Teru's original artist contract, the total is..."

Uesugi Asami was holding a stack of documents in her arms, sweat pouring down her forehead. She answered truthfully, "80 million yen."

"Haha, 80 million..." Slapping her forehead, Matsumoto Arina laughed at herself.

We've just started, and we've already lost 120 million yen!

The money was invested, he appeared on variety shows, a new album was in production, and he had several crews to choose from, but Kaneda Teruto jumped ship!

Where can she find an artist to temporarily replace Kaneda Teru?

Besides, if 200 million yen can't do it, what can 80 million do?

After a series of blows, Matsumoto Arina's mood has reached freezing point.

"Asami, how long has Director Yoshida been working at the office?"

She stretched out her slender hand and rubbed her brow, trying to make herself feel better.

"It should be... ten years." As a secretary, Asami Uesugi has read the information of all management employees and has a deep impression of Minister Yoshida.

"ten years……"

"Ask the finance department to pay her twelve months' salary."

She waved her slender hand at Asami Uesugi, and a hint of coldness flashed across Arina Matsumoto's pretty face.

According to Japan's labor law, economic compensation after dismissal is based on the number of years the employee has worked in the company, and for every year the employee has worked, one month's salary must be paid as compensation.

Considering that Minister Yoshida is a senior executive, Matsumoto Arina paid her a full twelve months' salary, making a full year.

"But……"

Hearing that Yoshida was going to be fired, Uesugi Asami felt a tingling sensation on her scalp, and had to open her mouth to remind him, "Mr. President, Yoshida is a long-established agent in the agency..."

"Besides, she has several artists under her."

The Japanese workplace adopts the "lifetime employment system". Unless a company is on the verge of bankruptcy, it generally will not take the initiative to dismiss employees, even if the employees have made serious mistakes, let alone senior company executives like Minister Yoshida who have worked for the company for more than ten years and hold high positions.

"boom--!

"so what!"

As if hitting rock bottom and rebounding, Matsumoto Yuina's temper suddenly flared up, and she slammed the table and said, "Without them, the firm can't operate, right?"

"Without them, the company will be closed, right?"

"It's best to get rid of all these termites!"

"Bang!" After saying this, Matsumoto Arina slammed the desk again, and then her mood fell again like a balloon with a hole in it and leaked air.

"Notify them, Mami..."

"I'm tired."

Uesugi Asami, who was as quiet as a cicada, bowed and said respectfully: "Yes, President..."

In addition to Minister Yoshida and Kaneda Teru having to bear the biggest blame for this matter, Asami Uesugi's poor supervision was also to blame.

There was a reason why she went to Matsumoto Arina some time ago to explain that she "couldn't get involved". The old and young people in high positions in the firm even dared to disobey the new president Matsumoto Arina, so how could they give face to her, a mere secretary?

"Click——" The door of the president's office closed gently, and the restless atmosphere slowly became deserted.

In the huge office, the sound of crying gradually rang out.

"Da da--"

Drops of tears fell through her fingers onto the table. Her mood seemed to be pressed deep into the sea by a huge weight. An indescribable feeling of powerlessness surged in her heart. Matsumoto Arina closed her eyes as if to cover her shame.

"Matsumoto Office..."

"Is there no hope?"

……

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Chiyoda-ku, Ochanomizu luxury residential building.

Although they are biological mother and daughter, their feelings are different at this moment.

It was just after ten o'clock in the morning, not long after the incident at the office, and Yuriko Matsumoto, who was at Matsumoto's house, received the news immediately.

"Hahaha……"

"Two hundred million for eighty million?"

Lying on the sofa in the hall, Yuriko Matsumoto rested her slender right leg on her left leg, her plump chest heaving, one slender hand holding a cell phone, the other covering her mouth, her whole body shaking with laughter.

"Tsk..."

"You really know how to do business. You are worthy of being my precious daughter!"