I'm not a womanizer for Chihaya Aine

"Ah, so that's it... I thought I could hear Ao-san singing. I wonder what it would be like if Ao-san sang? Aine-chan, have you ever heard Ao-san sing?"

"Well... it just feels normal?"

Aiyin thought about Qing's performance when she came here last time. With that unstable emotional injection and mediocre singing skills, it would be an understatement to say that it was just average.

"But, Aine-chan and Ao-san have a really good relationship, to the point where they can even order songs and explain things for each other!"

Someone started to make a noise with a half-smile on his face, and there seemed to be something hidden in his words.

Aiyin pretended not to understand the teasing in her classmate's words and replied with a smile: "Isn't this what most friends would do?"

But Aiyin sighed secretly in her heart, thinking: Although Qing's arrival today surprised me, the classmates in the class now look at us differently...

After that, the party returned to its normal rhythm until it was over. Since most of the students in Yuqiu were top students with high deviation values, they were very self-disciplined and did not end the event too late.

Aine was able to make it back home in time for dinner, but when it was almost time for dinner, Chihaya-san received a phone call, so he went back to his room, changed into clothes for going out, and was about to leave.

Mrs. Chihaya asked reluctantly: "Didn't you say that we would take a break during the holidays? Why do we have to go to work on the first day, and at this time?"

Mr. Chihaya said helplessly: "Something happened at the company and I had to deal with it. Sorry."

Mrs. Chihaya knew her husband had no choice but to leave, so she could only ask, "Is it really that urgent? Can't you finish your meal first?"

Chihaya-san casually refused while combing his hair: “No, you and Aine can just eat it, I will take care of it myself later.”

"That's fine."

Mrs. Chihaya sighed, then walked to her husband and straightened his collar and tie. In fact, she had been mentally prepared for this, and this was not the first time this had happened.

Seeing his wife's worried look, Mr. Chihaya said with some guilt: "I'm sorry, I may not be able to accompany you tonight. Today is supposed to be..."

Before Mr. Chihaya could finish, Mrs. Chihaya glared at him unhappily, stopping him from saying anything, and said, "Ain is still here, what nonsense are you trying to say?"

Mr. Chihaya also looked at Aine who was sitting on the sofa watching them like an outsider, and then he said as if he remembered something: "By the way, I bought some Swiss rolls today and put them in the refrigerator. Little Aine can just share them with her mother, you don't have to leave them for me."

"Yes, yes. Got it. Let's go, be careful on the road. Little Aine, come and tell daddy to be careful on the road too."

Mrs. Chihaya, however, was hurrying her husband to the entrance, while speaking to Aine who was staring at them in a daze.

"Uh, well, be careful on the road."

Aiyin finally responded after her mother reminded her and said quickly.

After seeing Mr. Chihaya off, Mrs. Chihaya returned to the living room, looked at Aine curiously, and asked, "Little Aine, why did you seem absent-minded just now? Did something happen?"

Aine shook her head slightly, and replied as if she was whispering to herself: “Nothing… I just felt an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.”

As she spoke, a blush appeared on Aine Sakura's face, which was hidden by her long pink hair.

……

In Akabane, in a small house, the sound of a cell phone ringing rang, and the middle-aged man in the room slowly got up from the ground, picked up the phone and looked at the caller ID. When he saw the caller's phone, the lazy expression on his face suddenly became sharp and serious, but he immediately turned into a drunken look that was even more confused than when he just got up and answered the phone.

"Hello? Who is it?"

The man had clearly just checked the incoming call display, but he still asked incoherently who was calling.

"Mr. Tokiomi, I'm Wakaba."

A very polite male voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Oh, it's you...what's going on?"

Toyokawa Tokiomi still responded casually in an ambiguous tone.

"Master Fengchuan asked me to go to your house tomorrow to check on you. I'm telling you in advance, so please make time tomorrow."

The person on the other end of the phone did not change his attitude because of Toyokawa Tokiomi's tone, and he continued to speak politely.

"Tsk... trouble! Remember to bring me a few more bottles of wine!"

Toyokawa Tokiomi said impatiently, and put forward his request very skillfully, and then hung up the phone directly.

Obviously, this kind of conversation was not the first time it had happened, and it was not the first time that Mr. Ruoye had visited this poor home.

It was only after hanging up the phone that Toyokawa Tokiomi's cloudy eyes regained some clarity, and he murmured to himself: "It seems that Xiangzi will have to go out for a day tomorrow."

……

Also in a small house in Akabane, Qingzheng walked around the room while playing the harmonica rewarded by the system, and occasionally opened the wardrobe to look through it.

Thanks to the fact that the system would occasionally stuff some items into the house, Qing now did not have a very clear understanding of what was in his house.

Tomorrow is the day for her first date with Aine, and even if she has no experience dating girls, she can't just wear casual clothes for a date. So Qing is now looking for clothes to wear tomorrow.

By the way, the purpose of playing the harmonica is to simulate the feeling of the violin in "Sakura" so as to better compose music. Due to the two activated instrument playing skills, Qing now understands music theory and his fingers are very flexible and powerful. In addition, with the physical ability enhancement and long-distance running skills, lung capacity is not a problem. Qing quickly got started with the harmonica.

Moreover, if you just want to get the feeling, you don't need very precise harmonica skills, so Qing is now very leisurely. He plays the harmonica imitating the tone of the violin, while carefully looking through each piece of clothing, thinking about the effect of wearing it on himself.

However, when Qing saw a set of clothes that looked familiar hanging at the side of the closet, she even forgot to play the harmonica. If she hadn't been quick, the harmonica in her mouth would have almost fallen to the ground.

After catching the fallen harmonica, Qing stared at the windbreaker that looked out of place, cursing, "System, you deserve to die!"

71

Chapter 71: Arrive early, stay up late, and decompress.

It was a new day, and almost as soon as RING opened for business, Liu Zeqing arrived at RING, an hour and a half earlier than the agreed time.

It's not because I was looking forward to the date so much that I was eager to arrive early, but I just happened to get up early today and had nothing to do. It was also not convenient to play the harmonica at home in the early morning, so I came to RING early to drink tea.

If Qing knew how to put on makeup, she might be able to kill some time, but unfortunately she didn't, and the system didn't reward her with a complete set of cosmetics, so Qing, who could only follow makeup tutorials, couldn't learn. So today Qing went out without makeup.

Although she was helpless in makeup, Qing did put a lot of effort into her outfit. Last night, Qing tried many outfits in front of a half-length mirror before she found the best-looking outfit. God knows how hard it was for Qing, a novice in clothing matching, to try out a whole set of clothes in front of a half-length mirror on the dressing table.

Today, Qing is wearing a pink and white cardigan sweater with grey wide-leg pants, a small brown belt on her waist, and a pair of thick-soled white shoes, which clearly show off her tall figure and long legs. She looks mature and elegant, yet also has the casual feel of an urban beauty. She doesn't look like a high school girl, but rather like an urban white-collar elite on vacation.

After arriving at RING, Qing found a corner and started practicing the harmonica. Since RING was just a meeting place, the two would not stay here for too long after they met, so the location they chose was not very important, and choosing a corner was more suitable for Qing to practice the harmonica.

In fact, learning to play the harmonica was just a whim at first, but when she found that she made rapid progress in learning harmonica after having a foundation in other instruments, she became a little addicted to the feeling of improvement. In fact, Qing also had this feeling when she first learned to arrange music, but the overly urgent need to complete the arrangement gradually wore away Qing's feeling of pleasure under pressure.

Qing watched the advanced teaching video on her phone. She already knew every fingering technique by heart. At her current stage, the biggest difficulty was controlling her breath.

Because of the many attempts to find the feeling, Qing's playing was intermittent and not very musical. However, RING itself is a large-scale livehouse with strong comprehensiveness. Usually there are some people here to test the sound or even play. Qing practicing in the corner will not disturb others.

But soon someone came to disturb her. After Lixi brought Qing some black tea and brought it to Qing, she did not go back to work. Instead, she pulled out the seat opposite Qing and sat in front of Qing, holding her chin with one hand and watching Qing practice playing the harmonica.

Soon after Qing finished her practice, she looked at Li Xi and asked, "What a surprise, you actually have time to slack off here."

Qing was indeed surprised that Li Xi came to sit with her. In Qing's opinion, shouldn't Li Xi be working hard at home on arranging songs? Even if she really came to work, according to her personality, she would not come here to slack off.

Li Xi yawned and replied in a somewhat listless manner: "The senior in the store saw you sitting here practicing harmonica alone and insisted on sending me over."

Qing looked at Li Xi, who was seriously sleep-deprived, and sighed, "What an enviable senior. Apparently they asked you to come over and rest because they saw how listless you were."

Li Xi opened her mouth slightly when she heard that. It was obvious that she had not thought of this at all. She just thought that the seniors were more enthusiastic and liked to watch the fun, so they asked her to come here. But after being touched by Qing, Li Xi felt that she was being taken care of, which made her butt, which had just sat down, a little restless.

Seeing Li Xi looking like he was ready to get up and go back to work at any time, Qing asked teasingly: "Why, do you want to go back to work to prove that you don't need to rest?"

Li Xi saw that Qing had seen through his thoughts, so he had to turn his head away to avoid Qing's teasing gaze, and said in a hard tone: "During working hours, we should work hard, right?"

Qing couldn't help but chuckle when she saw Li Xi's arrogant look. It was really fun to tease Li Xi like this. Li Xi saw Qing laughing unabashedly in front of her, and she clicked her tongue in dissatisfaction and wanted to leave directly.

"Don't you really want to accept the kindness of your seniors?"

The questions raised by Qing were still to the point, and Li Xi, who was about to stand up, sat back down.

As for how to manage interpersonal relationships, Lixi has never been very good at this aspect, and she herself has no confidence in her communication skills, so she was so easily provoked by Qing's few words and didn't know what to do.

“Please sit down. It’s still quite a while before the time Aine and I agreed to meet.”

Seeing Lixi's conflicted and helpless look, Qing gave up the idea of teasing Lixi and gave her a way out to stay.

But after Lixi sat down, she didn't know what to say to Qing. After all, it was not like they had no contact at all yesterday. They had only known each other for one day, and the topic they talked about during that time was all about the band.

Qing put the harmonica down on the table, then touched the wall of the cup to test the temperature of the tea. He stared at his reflection in the cup and asked nonchalantly, "Why do you look sleepy? Did you stay up late last night?"

Qing's words broke the silence, and Li Xi relaxed. He once again rested his chin on his hand and looked into the distance, answering absentmindedly: "Not really, I just went to bed a little late."

Qing followed Lixi's gaze and looked into the distance where there was nothing. She knew that Lixi was probably not in the mood to chat. She would either talk about some topics that would arouse Lixi's interest, or just find a suitable topic to end the chat and let Lixi rest in peace.

"If that's the case, why don't you just rest at home instead of coming to work?"

Qing asked with some curiosity.

When Li Xi heard Qing's question, he seemed to suddenly remember something bad. He sat up straighter, sighed, and said, "Actually, I didn't plan to come to work today, but..."

I just don't want to stay at home. If possible, Li Xi would of course work hard to complete the arrangement of the song as Qing thought, but her sister Maki always pestered her after the holiday, and when she saw her arranging the music, she started to give instructions, making it impossible for Li Xi to arrange the music according to her own ideas.

Of course, Li Xi had no doubt about Maki's ability to arrange music. If he followed Maki's instructions, the song would sound better. But even if he was being willful, Li Xi still wanted to complete the band's arrangement by himself.

Seeing Li Xi's hesitation, Qing had some ideas in mind, but he still remained curious and asked, "Just what?"

Li Xi turned his head to look into the distance again and said perfunctorily: "Nothing, I just wanted to come out for some fresh air."

Li Xi really thought that it would be better to go out and work if she was still pestered by Maki at home. She had played with Maki for a whole day yesterday, went shopping in Ginza together, played sports such as bowling and archery together, and went to Ueno Zoo to see pandas together... Li Xi thought that Maki was satisfied after playing for a day, but she still pestered her when she woke up today.

Because of this, Li Xi can only do his composing work at night, so it is normal that his mental state is not good.

Although Lixi was deliberately hiding the details of his situation, Qing knew that Lixi felt inferior to his sister. Plus, Lixi was not good at lying, and his words just now revealed that he didn't want to stay at home, so Qing quickly figured out why Lixi gave up his arranging job to work at RING.

After understanding Lixi's situation, Qingdu felt tired for Lixi. Although she was also very busy, now that she no longer had to consider the system rewards, she could just recharge herself when she was with Aine, which was a good way to relieve stress.

However, Lixi's situation is the opposite of Qing. When Lixi and Maki are together, it will probably only increase their internal friction.

So Qing thought about it and decided to help Li Xi relieve some of the pressure as much as possible, so he continued chatting and asked: "By the way, don't you still have to finish the arrangement of the song? Could it be that you have become so listless because you stayed up late to arrange the song?"

Qing deliberately used this tone of voice as if she had suddenly remembered something and mentioned it casually, so as not to give Lixi the feeling that she was urging him to finish the arrangement, and they could continue the conversation on this topic.

Li Xi didn't want to talk about this topic at first. After all, the situation was not going very smoothly. However, out of responsibility for the band, she still honestly reported the situation to Qing, a member of the band: "'Spring Shadow' is completed... As for 'If You Can Shine', you can start it at any time."

Lixi did not answer Qing's question about whether she stayed up late because of arranging the music, but Qing could easily guess the truth. Qing also heard the lack of confidence in Lixi's words. Qing could understand Lixi's feelings very well, because she was also a novice in arranging music. Although she had a professional level of music theory, she still lacked confidence every time she finished arranging music, wondering if she could do better.

In fact, Li Xi did feel that her arrangement of "Spring Shadow" still had room for improvement, but she couldn't grasp the inspiration, and compared to "Spring Shadow" which only needed to change the keyboard part to guitar, "If You Can Shine" which was originally double guitar + keyboard was even more difficult to chew. So in order to allow the band to practice normally, she should put "Spring Shadow" aside.

It's just that for a song like "If You Can Shine" that has proven itself on stage, Li Xi feels that it's okay if her adaptation is not as good as the original, but she really wants to prove her talent in the adaptation of "Haruhi Shadow" and prove that she can keep up with the genius.

Qing leaned forward slightly, looking somewhat expectant, and asked: "Is there a demo? I want to listen to it."

"Yes, yes."

As he spoke, Lixi took out his mobile phone, opened the demo he had made, then put it on the desktop and started playing.

After Qing listened to the song carefully, he knew that the current version of "Spring Shadow" would not be the final version. It would be better to say that Qing knew this from the clear guitar in the prelude.

After all, there are still some differences between the current version and the one presented in the animation. And as a musician, Qing immediately heard the problem with Li Xi's arrangement: she still couldn't get rid of the framework set by Xiangzi for "Spring Shadow", and always wanted to capture the feeling of the warm spring sun, but such an adaptation could not surpass the original version.

"How about it?"

Li Xi asked anxiously. Perhaps it was because Qing had been controlling the rhythm of the conversation, and even Li Xi's psychology was completely grasped, and Li Xi was not confident in his own arrangement, so he showed some weakness in front of Qing.

Moreover, Li Xi now knew that Qing came here today just to buy a guitar, which meant that Qing had been unable to practice guitar before. It was unreasonable for Li Xi to habitually pressure Qing like he did with Aine. For various reasons, Li Xi looked less irritable today, and even a little weak.

"not bad."

Qing gave a fair evaluation. Although the current version is not as good as Xiangzi's version and the version after Maomao joined, it is more than enough for practice or even performance on stage.

However, Li Xi seemed not satisfied with this evaluation. After all, Qing's evaluation was too brief and sounded perfunctory. So Li Xi continued to ask: "How does it compare to the original version of "Haruhi Kage"?"

Qing looked at Li Xi in surprise. Was he trying to make things difficult for himself? Since that was the case, Qing had no choice but to oblige him. So Qing tilted his head to express his doubts and asked, "Aren't you imitating the original style when you adapted the music? Are you imitating others and wanting to surpass them?"

Although Qing's words were impolite, and her calm tone gave people the feeling that she was asking questions very seriously, there was no mockery or sarcasm in Qing's eyes, only pure confusion, as if she was really confused about this.

As a result, Lixi no longer had the heart to get angry and question Qing. After calming down, Lixi found that what Qing said made sense, so she had even less reason to get angry with Qing.

Unable to vent his anger towards Qing, Li Xi could only lower his head and grit his teeth to suppress the resentment in his heart.

Qing Jianlixi's expression was not surprising at all, and he just continued to add: "But it is good enough. I was not lying when I said it was good."

Lixi did not answer Qing, but she was thinking in her heart: It is not enough to just be at a qualified level, I can do better, and the lamp deserves better.

Seeing that Li Xi didn't speak, Qing sighed and asked, "Are you dissatisfied?"

"No, I just wish the lights could sing a better tune..."

Li Xi explained awkwardly.

Qing took the phone from the table while Li Xi wasn't paying attention, and quickly operated it, saying, "In that case, why don't we let Deng and the rest of the band listen?"

72

Chapter 72: Trigger, tough, and broad-minded.

When Qing suddenly picked up Lixi's phone and said that he wanted to let Deng and the band listen to the demo, Lixi subconsciously wanted to take the phone back.