I live my life in Tokyo

The boy took this statement seriously: "If I hear the truth in the morning, I would be willing to die in the evening."

He embraced life. Even if the boy's existence disappeared again in the next moment, at least there was proof of his existence in this world.

It's not Sakakibara Kaede, but the trace of his existence in the past.

Living passionately and slacking off are not contradictory.

"Wow, not bad."

The song ended with Jay Chou's catchphrase, and the phone rang at a very appropriate time.

"I'm here, where are you?"

It feels like A and B make an appointment to meet, A arrives at the destination and asks B where he is, and B says he's almost there and then walks out.

But today, Kaede Sakakibara is not the one who hasn't gone out yet. He is a STARS rising star who is enjoying a rare opportunity to be picked up and dropped off by his agent.

"Wait a minute, I'll change my shoes and go downstairs."

Putting on the coat that he never changed for years, Kaede Sakakibara thought for a while and decided to put on the Sobu High School winter coat.

Men always want to wear less in winter, so that they can highlight their graceful posture and well-trained curves. In addition to slender and crystal fingers, it would be even better if they can show their fair collarbones at the right angle. When passing by a girl inadvertently, the corners of his mouth should be just right, and his eyes should pass through the girl's face without any care. The depth of his eyes is three parts of ridicule, three parts of coldness, and four parts of indifference. He is indeed an outstanding alpha male.

The same is true for women. They seem to have a cold-resistant buff. In the winter, they still wear JK short skirts and bare their long legs, regardless of the wind and rain. They show the most beautiful things in the coldest day. I have to admire their perseverance.

Sakakibara Kaede admired their courage, but he was already at the age where he could just soak wolfberries in health and lie on the kotatsu to do nothing, so he put on his coat, wrapped himself tightly, and put on his shoes at the entrance.

If you can't come back tonight, you might as well cook something special and try something new.

The snow in the corridor had been cleared away completely. Sakakibara Feng saw a silver Honda parked across the door. He rubbed his chin and sighed a few times, feeling quite moved by himself.

The agent finally came to pick me up, this is a good start!

"Thank you for making this special trip for me, Iida-san."

After Sakakibara sat down, he greeted the man in gold-rimmed glasses in the front seat. The man turned his eyes and looked Sakakibara up and down, "My harem king, you're going to the audition wearing this?"

"This is a preparation to maintain your body. The profession of an actor relies on the body, just like a car needs maintenance. If the actor's body is worn out, it can no longer run." Sakakibara sneered and counterattacked, "Besides, real acting skills cannot be seen by clothes, but by the performance of voice and emotion. I believe that the supervisor and director have sharp eyes and can see our every word and action during the audition clearly."

The man rolled his eyes and asked tentatively, "Iida-san, from the sound of your voice, has the agency found the resources to adapt the galgame into a live-action film?"

Kei Iida, who had just driven the car onto the avenue, lost control of the steering wheel with his right hand and nearly hit the yellow Volkswagen Super Beetle next to him. "I was just kidding, just kidding. Think about it yourself, if a galgame is adapted into a real person, the user base will definitely not be large."

"How many people play galgames? You think it's possible to organize a small-scale cosplay exhibition, but which investor would be so stupid as to invest money in a live-action galgame?"

"Then it's okay to make anime into a live-action version, right?"

Sakakibara settled for the next best thing. He counted on his fingers and said, "Something like the live-action version of Death Note. I want to try this type of thing. Whether it's playing the male protagonist with a harem, the male protagonist with a middle-aged syndrome, or the male protagonist with a dark side, it's also a challenge for me."

"Sure enough, you've been exposed." Iida-san pointed his finger at the man in the rearview mirror, the sneer on his face no longer concealed, "You said you wanted to make a passionate anime, but in fact, it's all about men's desires, right?"

"You misunderstood me again, so I said, people's understanding is completely different." Sakakibara Kaede had the innocence of Hanma Yujiro, "Look at me, a poor student with no money and no status, a loser. In modern society, I would have been eliminated long ago."

"What are the requirements for a male lead in the harem? Not only does he have good money, but he also has a lot of people who are awesome. Don't you think this is a difficult test for an actor like me?" Sakakibara opened his arms and raised his voice to speak passionately. "Challenging the limits has always been human instinct - or rather, it is human possibility, and I want to witness and experience it all."

"You don't have the resources, Sakakibara brother." Iida Kei opened the car window to let out the thick ACG atmosphere in the car. "Now you know, light novels are just toilet paper. There are very few that really stand out and are adapted into animations, and the chances of them being adapted into live-action ones are even lower."

"My advice to you is to wait." He tapped his fingers on the steering wheel and examined his only actor through the rearview mirror. "It's unlikely that STARS Agency can come up with such a job. If the TV series is well received, the agency may continue to develop in the TV series field. We still have to wait for new investors to come forward to adapt the animation into a live-action version. This opportunity is hard to come by."

Seeing that Sakakibara Kaede wanted to say something, Iida Kei quickly added, "Of course, the same is true for special effects dramas. There are simply no resources in the market right now."

"But once this kind of resource appears, it will be like mad dogs fighting for food." The middle-aged man sneered, with a somewhat unrestrained demeanor like Jiang Taigong fishing. "At times like this, there is a saying of audition, and Sakakibara-kun, your duty is to defeat your competitors completely."

"alright."

The man replied weakly, his attention drawn to the trembling on the bluebird.

The military advisor was boasting excitedly when he saw that his general had wilted halfway through. He could not help but sigh deeply that his talent was not appreciated. He was a talented man of Ru and Ying, but his general was actually Lu Bu, a commoner from Bingzhou.

The Honda drove into Tokyo, crossed the bridge and drove for about ten minutes before Kei Iida stepped on the accelerator and slowly parked the car in the parking space.

The audition today was still for an advertisement, but the importance of this advertisement was completely different from the last time Sakakibara Kaede took on the advertisement for Almighty Soda. This advertisement was a graduation season advertisement aimed at most high school seniors - and the shooting period for this advertisement was also longer than that for the soda.

Every year’s graduation season has corresponding graduation advertisements. Each advertisement contains a story that is full of the charm of youth.

Sakakibara Kaede didn't know the content of the audition, but it was probably an audition in which she played the role of a student and took various actions.

There were quite a few people outside the studio, most of them were actors. Sakakibara Kaede's eyes swept over them one by one. This was the first time he saw so many colleagues.

The audition was conducted alone. The military advisor confidently watched the back of the general who looked like Lu Bu leaving, and stood alone to the side smoking.

After getting his number at the door, he went inside to enjoy the central air-conditioning, unzipped his clothes, and came to the rest area.

Here he unexpectedly found an acquaintance, who was familiar but not very familiar.

He considered it for a moment and whispered, "Higuchi-senpai?"

The brown-haired woman in front of him who was browsing her phone looked a little younger than Sakakibara Kaede, and she also had a teardrop mole at the corner of her eye. Higuchi Madoka gave people a rather cold vibe, and although they were both the main actors, they didn't communicate much.

Sakakibara Kaede mostly chats and talks with Sakurajima Mai, and knows very little about Higuchi Madoka.

"It's Sakakibara-san."

He sat at a position that was neither too close nor too far from Higuchi Madoka. This distance would not embarrass himself, and would not cause Higuchi Madoka to get up and change seats.

Higuchi Madoka nodded politely. She is an artist who is both an idol and an actress. She has her own group in the idol area of ​​the agency. She came to the actor area to try new things and explore the path for the future.

The conversation came to an abrupt end, and Sakakibara Kaede also discovered that Higuchi Madoka was not the type who would talk when she was teased. In this case, it would be better for Bluebird to look at Sese, ahem, and see how she reacted to yesterday's TV series.

His role and the traffic he received are totally disproportionate, or is it that the hardworking and submissive male lead is no longer popular in this era?

The number of followers of Sakakibara Kaede increased by several hundred again, but his updates were still deserted. Just when he was thinking about whether to post some updates about his daily life to enrich his account, he heard his own number.

The auditions were conducted in pairs. When Sakakibara Kaede walked in, she met an unfamiliar actor and they nodded to each other.

From the name tag on his body, we can tell that he is from Burning Production, an artist agency with a long history.

There were five "examiners" sitting in the room. Their businesslike expressions made the other actor put away his smile. The two stood firm and began to introduce themselves.

"I'm Kaede Sakakibara from STARS, thank you for your guidance." Kaede Sakakibara's self-introduction was very brief and concise, with a serious expression, and his competitors were the same.

"The question for this audition is... your reaction when you see a girl you've had a crush on for a long time walking towards you during break time."

"Begin!" The examiner said this and immediately blew the attack horn without giving the two men time to react.

They were both stunned at the same time. The actor from burning production tried hard to look forward, with a slightly awkward smile on his face.

Sakakibara Kaede closed his blue eyes slightly, and his thoughts went back to his youthful days. At that time, he sat in the front row of the class, and after class he would often chat and laugh with the students in the back seat, just to see her more.

A secret love that ended in vain. The few opportunities we had to speak were only polite expressions during our duty hours.

I thought I had forgotten her and couldn't remember her face clearly, but now when I think back on it, I can still remember the girl's pure and elegant smile in the evening classroom as the sun set.

Sakakibara Kaede lowered his eyes and looked to the side, still keeping an eye on the girl's face out of the corner of his eye. He had a faint smile on his face, but his heart was beating faster and faster.

The girl came to the table with a faint smile. The boy turned around as if nothing had happened and looked at the girl's smiling face. He was about to say something, but he got nervous and bit his tongue.

His gaze often lingered on her, and every move he made could make the boy's heart soar. Although he was cheering and leaping for joy in his heart, looking forward to the girl's words, his face looked as if nothing had happened, and he put on a mask of indifference.

. . .

Sakakibara Kaede rubbed his slightly stiff cheeks and used associative memory to put himself into the past or fictional memories. This method worked over and over again.

Compared with the boys, the competition among girls is much more intense.

The man thought for a moment, took out his cell phone and waited in the rest area.

He didn't know the result of the audition yet, and he would probably have to wait until the girls' auditions were over before he could inform them.

While waiting for his colleague Higuchi Madoka from the same office, his heart was already flying towards the lunch.

Eating is his source of motivation.

Chapter 4 Everyone wants to take regret medicine (k)

Higuchi Yuanka adjusted her breathing and followed the crowd to leave the examination site.

Turning a corner, she left the crowd, leaned against the wall alone, and took out her cell phone - on it was a message of encouragement sent to her by her childhood idol group before the audition.

A smile appeared on her face, faint and unclear.

Higuchi Madoka rarely smiles, or rather, she is not the type of person who loves to smile. When a genuine smile appears on her lips, that is when fans cheer.

The girl thought that being an idol was a job that just made people laugh, and now she thinks that actors might be the same.

A charming smile at the right time is more effective than any words... This is her weapon.

She wasn't very confident about the audition, the topic of the audition was how she would look when she saw the boy she had a crush on walking towards her.

Higuchi Madoka has never been in a relationship, nor has she ever had a secret crush on anyone.

In school, she is the type who doesn't talk much, and her naturally cold attitude will make girls who want to get along with her stay away. If she didn't have the company of her other three childhood friends, her present, past, and future life would be blank.

Faced with this kind of test, Higuchi Madoka, who has no experience in secret crushes, has no advantage at all.

She thought she put on her most shy smile, but she didn't have the confidence that she could fool the professional examiners.

This smile was the one she had when the idol group quietly appeared in the lounge area and brought her some gifts while she was acting.

Relax, feel comfortable, and pure without any disguise.

After sending the edited text message, Higuchi Yuanxiang walked towards the rest area. At least, she wanted to hear the result before leaving.

"Thanks for your hard work."

The boy was still sitting in his previous seat. After seeing her, Sakakibara Kaede was not surprised to see Higuchi Madoka's calm expression, so he waved and greeted her.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Higuchi Madoka repeated the man's words, and after sitting down, she asked casually, "What are the questions for the boys?"

"What to do when you see the girl you have a crush on walking towards you." The man shrugged. "After all, this is an advertisement for graduation season. If you don't act boldly now, you won't have a chance in the future. After entering college, you don't see each other as often as before. All that remains in both of your minds are past memories and growing regrets."

"I think this is the theme of this graduation season advertisement." The boy who had been writing essays for many years immediately grasped the key point. "Don't regret. Say what you want to say before graduation and shout out the feelings you want to express. Well, if there is a regret pill, most people would take one now. Whether it's going back to the bullied self and making yourself stand up bravely; or going back to the lazy self in class and giving yourself a slap to cheer yourself up and study hard; or telling the self who once wanted to commit suicide that you are also great, such encouraging words."

"Why, why didn't you stop her from confessing at that time... or something. Higuchi-san, what was your test question? It wasn't the same as ours, was it?"

It was the first time that Higuchi Madoka heard such harsh words coming out of the mouth of the seemingly sunny boy, and she glanced at him.

After getting an affirmative nod, Sakakibara Kaede nodded as if he understood, as he had just summarized the theme of the advertising theme for this graduation season.

Don't leave any regrets.

"Sakakibara-san, are you saying this because you've had a similar experience?"

"Yes, although my memory is a little fuzzy now, but these memories are like old toys in a cabinet. You have no impression of them when you don't organize them, but when you take them out and play with them in your hands, the warm feeling accumulated by time is so bright and visible." The young man smiled, his smile carrying a hint of nostalgia.

"I see, Sakakibara-san's audition should turn out well."

The conversation was as plain as water and did not make people feel awkward. As the topic gradually came to an end, Sakakibara Kaede took out his mobile phone and sent a message that the audition was over to the military advisor who was waiting in the car.

As the director of the graduation commercial, Oshima Hide was naturally in charge of this audition. Through the window, he secretly observed the many actors sitting in the rest area, and then turned his attention back to the form.

There are actors and artists who gave him outstanding performances in this audition, but if he wants to achieve the perfection in his mind, many actors are not qualified and cannot meet his standards.

His eyes stopped on a form, and he picked it up unexpectedly, raised his head and asked the examiner in charge of the examination, "How did this actor perform?"

Oshima Hide suddenly felt that this was a very stupid question, because he was watching every move of the actor and there was no other answer.

“I think it’s good, it’s in line with my expectations.”

There were several middle-aged men in suits sitting in the room, their faces were full of the Chinese characters of elites. One of the middle-aged men with pink hair nodded slightly, "Although I have never been involved in the entertainment industry, I think the expression and smile of this boy are the most genuine."

"When I see him, I think of my exciting and wonderful high school life."

"I think so too, Mr. Fujiwara. Mr. Sakakibara is really good at playing the role of a high school student in a youth drama." Oshima Hide gave enough face to the investor and spoke sincerely. After all, the graduation advertisements every year are handled by these court forces. They only need to become the court's lackeys and faithfully carry out their tasks. "Mr. Fujiwara, do you have any opinions on other positions?"

"I'll leave this job to you. The leading role has been decided. I have a meeting in an hour, so I'll leave this year's advertising to you." Mr. Fujiwara put Sakakibara Kaede's personal information back on the table, pushed the door open and left in big strides. The secretary who was waiting on the side immediately followed him.

"Thank you for your trust."

After finishing the social etiquette, Oshima Hide immediately turned his attention to other actors. To be honest, there were indeed many actors with excellent acting skills present, most of whom were more experienced than Sakakibara-kun, but this guy had good luck and acting skills this time.

With so few leading roles available, there is naturally some debate about who should play the remaining roles.

Behind the seemingly heated discussion, the actors in the rest area did not know that the male lead had already come to a conclusion.

Sakakibara Feng's attention left his phone and he found that most of the people in the lounge had already left. It seemed that the investors had contacted their agents and informed them that they were not selected. For actors, auditions are like eating and drinking. If you can't finish this meal, you can try the next one. Some actors even have to go to more than a dozen work locations on the same day just to get a supporting role.

The boy saw Oshima Hideo walking out of the office slowly, and he stood up and greeted him, "Director Oshima, so this commercial is directed by you, so the filming process should be smooth and fast."

After calmly flattering someone in the workplace, Sakakibara Kaede asked carefully.

"I haven't received any contact from my agent yet. How was the audition result?"