I live my life in Tokyo

"Well, are you surprised?" Sakurajima Mai twisted her scarf around her fingers and looked at the boy who had been silent since a while ago.

"After listening to Director Aoyama's analysis, I finally understand what makes Japanese dramas so attractive."

Sakakibara Kaede smiled, a smile that is common to ordinary people, "I took it for granted that I could act in any role with Zhang Shuai's face. This idea is undoubtedly wrong."

"It turns out that every profession has its own difficulties and essence."

"If Director Aoyama hears you say that, he will definitely pull you into the STARS training class to be a model student."

"Haha."

The camera was in place again, and Sakurajima Mai raised her hand and gently patted her cheek, then rubbed it to make sure her smile wasn't stiff.

Sakakibara imitated her and gave his face a finger massage, but he then remembered that he didn't need to smile in this scene, he just had to keep a sour face.

"Hiro-chan~ I hope we can be in the same class~"

"Ah."

"By the way, what about lunch tomorrow? Is Hong-chan still going to eat at the canteen? The food there is very unhealthy."

“Fried rice and bread are still quite healthy.”

"Mo--The reason why Hong-chan is so thin is because of his bad eating habits. I'll make you a lunch box tomorrow. How about we eat together tomorrow?"

"It's so troublesome. I have to get up early to make lunch boxes... Besides, you want to make friends at school, right? Is it really okay to stay with someone like me?"

The young man stopped first, rubbed his temples and held back a yawn.

The girl caught up with the boy, walked quickly to his side, and looked at the city in the distance that was shrouded in darkness with him.

"I still remember you always brought me here to play when I was a kid, hehe."

"Yes."

"This is a view that Hong-chan and I enjoy alone."

"Yes."

The young man put his hands in his pockets, exhaled a puff of mist, and looked up at the starry sky.

"Hiro-chan...what kind of person do you want to be in the future?"

The boy thought for a while, and his movements gradually relaxed from the initial stiffness.

"I... don't know." He organized his words, his lenses reflecting the starry sky, and he seemed not to be used to talking so much.

Director Aoyama was stunned. There was no such sentence in the script. The sound crew member next to him looked up at Director Aoyama, waiting for him to call NG.

"Wait." Director Aoyama carefully observed the backs of a man and a woman in the picture. Nishida Orange turned his profile to Kitahara Hiroshi, who still looked up and thought.

"I..."

"Hiro-chan...whatever your childhood dream was, that will determine what kind of person you will become in the future~"

The girl whispered softly.

The staff who was recording the sound couldn't help but turn their heads again. This paragraph of words was not in the original lines. It was fine that Sakakibara Kaede was an amateur, but why did Sakurajima Mai also do this?

Director Aoyama shook his head and signaled with his eyes that everything was normal and continued filming.

The girl's eyes were on the boy, and the boy's eyes were on the stars.

He paused for a moment, and then as if he had mustered up his courage, his words shone like stars.

"I...I want to shine brighter than anyone else in the world."

“——cut!”

Sakakibara Kaede kept looking up at the sky. He was still savoring and chewing the character of Kitahara Hiroshi.

After a moment, he came to his senses as Sakurajima Mai pulled his sleeve, and turned to look at Director Aoyama with a serious expression.

send.

When he was savoring the role just now, he thought that the nerd Kitahara Hiroshi would not come up with such an answer immediately when suddenly asked this question, and would need to hesitate for a while.

In order to cooperate with him, Mai Sakurajima also deviated from the original script and improvised a short scene with him.

"Director Aoyama."

The two of them walked quickly to Director Aoyama, only to see a man in his thirties gritting his teeth. Sakakibara lowered his eyes. This part wouldn't have to be overturned and started over again, right? There has to be a limit to learning and applying what you have learned, Sakakibara.

"...too..."

"too?"

"It's so beautiful! This is youth!"

Director Aoyama roared with a hint of nasal sound, and he hammered Sakakibara Kaede's shoulders hard, making a banging sound. "In a short period of time, you understood Kitahara Hiroshi's personality and wording, and even made artistic improvisations, enriching Kitahara Hiroshi's character."

"The most important thing is that you have firmly attracted the audience's attention to you. It turns out that the nerdy male No. 3 has such a cool side that is unknown to others - it has nothing to do with your appearance." Director Qingshan kept replaying the last scene and sighed with emotion, "This is a unique personality charm."

"If the actor who played Nishida Orange was not Sakurajima-kun, then this scene would have been completely overshadowed by Sakakibara-kun and become his one-man show."

"Sakakibara-kun, you have touched the threshold of emotional performance. Kitahara Hiroshi in this part is particularly touching. The dream of a nerd who only knows how to study is so dazzling. You have grasped this transformation very well and it is very natural. Keep working hard in the next two days!"

Sakakibara Kaede was stunned. This evaluation was too flattering. He was a little flattered.

"Um... tomorrow?"

I have to go to school tomorrow.

"..."

Director Aoyama was distracted for a moment, and looked at Sakakibara Kaede sharply. Then he remembered that Sakakibara Kaede was just an extra who came to have a free dinner!

"Hiss..." He pointed his finger at the side of his face and paced a few times, "Sakakibara, have you ever had performance experience before?"

"I played the role of a yellow-haired guy who tried to steal the princess in the class performance of the high school cultural festival."

Director Qingshan coughed repeatedly and cleared his throat quickly.

"——Ahem, Sakakibara, a person's talent cannot be concealed. Based on this short scene, I can see that you are an excellent actor, no less than Sakurajima-kun who has many years of experience."

When talking about dreams, we naturally have to be practical. Director Aoyama knows that young people today cannot rely solely on passion, and he naturally understands the principle of sugar-coated bullets.

"Sakakibara-kun, why don't you come to our STARS agency on Saturday? If you are interested in artist activities, we will sign a contract with you and become an artist under STARS."

"this is my name card."

Sakakibara took Director Aoyama's business card and nodded in agreement, "Thank you Director Aoyama for your appreciation."

STARS Artist Agency, Hiroshi Aoyama.

"Haha, I know this is a difficult decision and it will affect your future choices, but we are very lenient. It doesn't matter if you don't come. At most, we can just find another actor for this scene. Don't feel any psychological pressure."

Director Qingshan smiled, turned around and began to ask the crew to pack up and leave.

Mai Sakurajima had just walked out of the dressing room after removing her makeup. The tension that still remained from acting made her stretch.

She searched the crew but didn't see the boy. She hummed softly and walked towards Director Aoyama. She needed to watch Nishida Orange's performance again in the car to confirm that she had made no mistakes.

We'll meet again anyway.

. . .

Kaede Sakakibara was walking home with shopping bags in his hand. It was not difficult to notice that there was one more shopping bag in his hand.

There were three extra lunch boxes in it.

Don’t ask, if you want to know, it was given by the makeup artist.

Chapter 6: Abandoning Darkness and Joining the Light (Fog)

"Are you serious?"

Sakakibara Kaede sat at her desk, pen in hand, and squeezed out these words.

Hiratsuka Shizuka crossed her arms and leaned against the bookcase. She sneered when she heard this, "Do you think the teacher is joking with you? What? You just issued a military order yesterday, and you want to go back on it today?"

"This is a necessary process. Although the teacher understands that you have been on break for half a year, it is still a bit difficult for you to adapt to taking the exam right after returning."

"But depending on your grades in the subjects, it will determine whether you stay and attend the school's study sessions."

"Sakakibara, you're already a senior in high school. Although I want to be gentle, time passes faster than you think. You don't want to have any regrets, right?"

After-school tutoring... Sobu High School holds tutoring sessions for various subjects during club activities. Although Sobu High School is a key high school, there are still students who are not good at one subject.

"By the way, Sakakibara, what major are you planning to take? Do you have a favorite university?"

Hiratsuka Shizuka flipped through the test paper and looked up to ask.

Depending on the major, the subject selection for the college entrance examination will also be different.

"Your Chinese and history grades are pretty good. It would be a good choice for you to major in liberal arts in the future." Hiratsuka Shizuka handed the test paper she had specially revised yesterday to Sakakibara Kaede. "As long as you brush up on geography, you will have more than enough in the liberal arts major."

The latter took the test paper and felt dizzy after taking a glance at the densely packed test paper.

"Um, Mr. Hiratsuka, can I do the science paper?"

"?"

"You're suddenly playing this trick on me?"

There is a reason to say this. The original owner of Sakakibara Kaede's science grades were terrible, and only the liberal arts were passable. When he first entered school, he had lofty ambitions and set a small goal of studying in the Department of Literature at the University of Tokyo!

Shizuka Hiratsuka looked down at Kaede Sakakibara from a high position. Could it be that this little brat saw through her? No, it was impossible.

It's just that the road to hell has changed.

She quickly took away the liberal arts mock test paper and spread the science test paper on the table. "Since you are ready to challenge yourself, the teacher will be here to watch you gently."

Sakakibara Feng suppressed his laughter and said, "Now that I'm here, I won't pretend to be a gentleman. I'll go to the cram school after school and be the best worker in the world. I'll experience the wrath of the king of the lower test paper after 5 years of college entrance examination and 3 years of simulation training."

The Japanese National College Entrance Examination is divided into two subjects: liberal arts and science. In addition to the required mathematics, the science paper that Sakakibara chose now includes 4 out of 2 subjects: physics, chemistry, biology, and geography. In addition, she also needs to take a second foreign language test, and Sakakibara naturally chose Chinese.

Sakakibara Kaede was completely confused by this magical history. Not to mention that China has won the League of Legends S championship for three consecutive times and the Dota TI shield for three consecutive years, yesterday when she saw the motherland win the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, she couldn't help but shout "awesome" again.

Under the magical changes of history and geography, only cold numbers can bring him some warmth.

In his previous life, Sakakibara Kaede had a photographic memory. He could learn anything after listening to it a few times. As for science subjects, which require only changing numbers but not the same question type, he could just as easily master them.

This question is not as tricky as before.

I picked up the pen and started writing. White clouds passed by, and I changed three leads in the mechanical pencil.

The pencil and eraser are the sword and shield, and the test paper symbolizes the battlefield of youth.

"...poor hospitality."

Sakakibara Kaede flexed his fingers, turned the fountain pen and put the cap back on, just like a successful knight who sheathed his sword.

What he was immersed in was not doing the test and studying, but the process of concentration and the exhilarating feeling of involvement.

"——I'll change it!"

A big hand appeared on his shoulder and grabbed the test paper. The old man's face turned red, he was breathing heavily, and his glasses reflected a bright light in the sunlight.

"Um... Mr. Sakai?"

Sakakibara Kaede remembered this old gentleman as a highly respected mathematics teacher. Every year, he was responsible for teaching science graduates. Many of the students from Sobu High School who were admitted to the Department of Mathematics at Waseda University and the University of Tokyo were his proud students.

"You, you, you, Sakakibara boy, why are you hiding your incompetence?" The old man was so excited that his saliva flew everywhere. He was standing behind Sakakibara Kaede and peeping at him. His hands were shaking when he saw the gradually smooth and flowing steps of solving the problem. Some of his ideas were even beyond the level of ordinary high school students. "You really scared me!"

Hiratsuka Shizuka looked at Sakakibara Kaede in confusion. How come after not seeing him for half a year, Sakakibara Kaede's academic imbalance had gone from one extreme to another?

Playing the pig to eat the tiger?

"Um... No, no, I just studied hard on my own for a while."

"So, you are ready to give up literature and take up martial arts?"

Sakai Yuichi straightened his chest, his white beard fluttering, like a victorious veteran on horseback, "Will you continue to stay in the boring and drowsy liberal arts department, or will you join me in conquering the world in the science department in the last autumn of your senior year?"

Shizuka Hiratsuka, who teaches liberal arts, couldn't help but interject, "Teacher Sakai, let's grade the papers first."

"walk slowly."

Sakai picked up the red pen happily, and his eyes met with Shizuka Hiratsuka's, creating a fierce spark.

Old man Sakai was very aggressive today.

Haha, I’ll definitely get this little guy, I said.