They are in the music show, but I am a stranger to them

"From now on, I can do whatever I want! No one can control me!"

Some people always say that lucky people will be healed by their childhood throughout their lives. Then Miao Meng feels that she should be another unfortunate person - she is using her life to heal her childhood of being obedient to others and having no self-will.

The specific manifestation is that after Miao Meng left her hometown, came to Tokyo, and owned her own house, her needs grew almost retaliatory. She wanted to buy everything she didn't have in her childhood to make up for herself now that she was finally free.

Miao Meng started being a beauty blogger without telling her parents in high school. Now she has 300,000 followers. The wealth she has accumulated in the past few years is enough for her to splurge in a big city like Tokyo for a while.

So Miao Meng began to make up for her childhood. She not only bought a drum set, but also wanted to buy some other musical instruments to add to her room, to create an atmosphere that "at first glance, it's a musician's house."

Moreover, in order to prevent herself from being discovered by people who know the business when filming the video, Miao Meng does not plan to buy anything that is just for show. She must buy good things!

While Miao Meng was looking for her target in various musical instrument stores and asking the store clerks if there were any better targets, she set her sights on a special guitar.

"How about this one? It was sold to us by a very tall boy this morning. I think it might meet your requirements."

At that time, after hearing Miao Meng's needs, the clerk recommended a guitar that he had just purchased to her. Miao Meng clearly remembered that although the guitar looked very clean, even she, a layman, could see the ancient feeling of the guitar.

"As you can see, this guitar is a bit old, but the wood used to make it is Jacaranda, and the tailpiece has not been replaced. It is the original style, and it has always been cleaned, so the sound and frets are not damaged. Although the price will be higher, the collection value can be said to be very high."

"How much does it cost?" Although he didn't understand a lot of professional terms, Miao Meng asked the question immediately after knowing that this guitar had collection value.

"Eight hundred thousand yen."

“——I bought it!”

Although this was indeed very expensive for Miao Meng, and almost emptied all her savings, she did not think about this issue at all because she was almost obsessed with revenge consumption at the time.

She doesn't really love guitar, she just does it to satisfy herself and to vent. In other words, as long as she can enjoy everyone's surprised and admiring looks, money doesn't matter to Miao Meng.

But when Miao Meng bought the guitar and hung it on the wall of her rented house without paying much attention to it, she did not expect that because of this guitar, she would have so many interactions with that unexpected "him"...

"I'm sorry, but I must take that guitar back."

The boy who got her contact information from somewhere, quickly confirmed her identity, and made an appointment to meet her, looked to be only in high school age, but was exceptionally tall.

This feature also allowed Miao Meng to quickly understand who sold the guitar he bought to that store.

"I specifically told the clerk not to sell the guitar. I told him I would buy it back soon, but he obviously didn't take my advice seriously."

“It’s a little complicated to explain, but I must buy this guitar back!”

...What a strange boy. This was Miao Mengqin's first impression of the boy who called himself "Chen Qi" and looked particularly anxious but with a firm tone and look in his eyes.

She didn't understand. If the boy was in urgent need of money, then it would be reasonable for him to sell his beloved guitar and want to buy it back. But judging from his tone, it shouldn't have taken him long from selling the guitar to buying it back.

If he could raise the money, why did he sell the guitar? Why did he sell it so quickly and buy it back? Was it for fun?

However, before Miao Meng could figure out the logic of this matter, the next moment, Chen Qi took out a thick stack of banknotes from the bag he had prepared long ago, handed it to Miao Meng with both hands, and said in an extremely sincere tone:

"Here is the 500,000 yen I got from selling my guitar. I think this should be enough to buy back this guitar, right?"

Meow Dream: "Five hundred thousand yen?! Wait! I spent eight hundred thousand yen to buy this guitar!"

At that moment, facing the 500,000 yen handed over by Chen Qi, Miao Meng's face turned pale. At that moment, she even forgot the principles of maintaining her personality and image as a celebrity blogger on the Internet, and shouted at Chen Qi in an extremely surprised tone.

However, when Chen Qi and Miao Meng looked at each other in confusion at the same time, Miao Meng reacted almost instantly.

I was cheated by the clerk in that store!

Everything that happened afterwards... Miao Meng herself couldn't remember it very clearly. She only remembered that she was so angry that she lost her mind. Holding the music bag in one hand and grabbing Chen Qi's wrist with the other hand, she ran towards the music store in a rage and questioned the store manager.

However, it was obvious that the store manager himself knew nothing about the matter and only said a bunch of words that Miao Meng couldn't understand, such as "the price of buying guitars and the selling price are different" and "the clerk resigned some time ago and can't be contacted by phone now".

In the end, if Chen Qi hadn't pulled her back in time, Miao Meng might have really been so angry that she would have smashed the store.

It’s no wonder that Miao Meng was so excited... At that time, she had just left her original family that made her feel suffocated, and left her extremely controlling parents, and came to Tokyo alone.

She thought she had broken free from restrictions and embraced freedom, but she had only been happy in Tokyo for less than two days before a tiny speck of scum in this city almost defrauded her of the pitiful savings she had accumulated during her three years of high school...

This huge gap between heaven and hell, coupled with the strong sense of humiliation of being slapped in the face by society, plus the violent shock of finding that she had nothing after she calmed down from her impulsiveness, directly overwhelmed the nerves of this fledgling 20-year-old female college student...

"I...I want to expose them! This shady shop! Damn Tokyo! Damn Tokyo people! Mom is right! There is no good person in Tokyo!"

Miao Meng, who was in a state of dismay at the time, was almost carried by Chen Qi back to the house she had rented for half a year. She sat limply on the floor, her eyes tightly suppressing the tears of humiliation. She took out her mobile phone and muttered to herself, and countless means of revenge and venting emerged in her mind.

While she was chattering viciously, her fingers quickly began to type and post pictures on Twitter. She became more and more agitated, and even escalated her anger to Tokyo and the quality of Tokyo residents.

However, just a second before Miao Meng was about to vent all her anger, a hand grabbed Miao Meng's mobile phone in time and pressed the power button, preventing the message that could have destroyed everything Miao Meng had worked so hard for from being successfully sent.

When the phone was turned off, Miao Meng didn't even turn around to glare at Chen Qi behind him...

She was just crying, gritting her teeth and pursing her lips to force herself not to cry out loud, but the tears that were filled with strong grievances and frustrations could not stop falling drop by drop...

Why...is this world so unfair to me?

My childhood was so bad. I didn’t have the ability to pursue my dreams. Why now that I’m grown up, life still doesn’t allow me to pursue my dreams? Why doesn’t life allow me to do what I want to do?

Am I really not worthy of having my own life?

I just want to do what I want to do...Why does this world always not let me do what I want?

The bitterness of childhood and adulthood all flooded into Miao Meng's heart, magnifying the sourness and pain in her heart countless times. This beauty blogger who has 300,000 fans and is envied by countless people is now crying like a person who has nothing.

"Don't give up so quickly, Meow Meng dear, maybe everything can turn around."

"Look, the money you used to buy the guitar is still there, isn't it?"

However, just when Miao Meng had the thought of leaving Tokyo and returning to her hometown in humiliation to apologize to her parents, a male voice filled with deep comfort and tenderness came softly into her ears at the moment when she was completely unprepared.

The next moment, Miao Meng, who had not reacted, only felt her palm being wrapped by a large and warm force. Just when Miao Meng subconsciously wanted to withdraw her palm, she felt a familiar texture coming from her hand...

"This is..." Miao Meng subconsciously took the thing in her hand, and then the familiar fifty thick bills appeared in her hand.

"I told you, I will take this guitar back no matter what, even if I have to buy it from you, Miao Meng."

At the moment when Miao Meng turned her head subconsciously, she saw the big boy who was half-kneeling behind her and almost at the same level with her. After handing the money to her personally, he smiled helplessly and bitterly and said to her softly:

"Of course, I won't let you suffer a loss. Since your receipt proves that you spent 800,000 yuan to buy this guitar, I will buy it back from you for 800,000 yuan."

"But, I only have 500,000 here, and the remaining 300,000... Meow Meng dear, if possible, please allow me to repay you slowly."

"...Why are you so persistent in buying this guitar?" However, Miao Meng, who had just been severely punished by the big city of Tokyo, subconsciously became alert for this good thing that seemed like pie in the sky.

She looked at Chen Qi, who was smiling gently in front of her, and alarm bells began to ring in her heart, wondering if he had other intentions towards her.

"You clearly sold all your guitars, but now you're going to do whatever it takes to buy them back... Why?"

"If you are pitying me, I'm sorry I can't accept your kindness."

After all, during the three years of high school, she had money and confidence, and could finally dress up her own dream exquisitely. During these three years, she also gained more self-confidence. She knew that after these three years, she had completely grown up, and her temperament and appearance had changed a lot. She was completely different from the unconfident self before.

Therefore, if there really is someone who is greedy for her... and wants to get closer to her in this way, then no matter how embarrassed Miao Meng is, she will definitely beat Chen Qi out.

However, Chen Qi's final answer was something Miao Meng could never have expected. The bitter smile on the boy's face widened a little bit, and he shook his head helplessly and responded softly:

"——Because this guitar is not mine. I secretly brought it out from the livehouse."

"Of course, please don't misunderstand me. Although I know that my behavior is called 'stealing', I actually obtained the consent of the store manager's granddaughter. She and I worked together to do this."

During the following period of time, Chen Qi also explained the whole story to the dazed Miao Meng... It was so bizarre that Miao Meng felt it was a little unreal.

There was a cat-like girl who had always regarded a livehouse as her home. But suddenly one day, the store manager, who was also the girl's grandmother, suddenly decided to close the store that the girl regarded as her home.

In other words, once the store closes, it will be like losing her "home" for the cat girl.

So, the cat girl asked Chen Qi for help. Chen Qi tried to debate with her grandmother, but her grandmother was extremely tough in closing the store. Chen Qi didn't even have time to say a few more words before being kicked out by the store manager.

Perhaps, in order to prevent her granddaughter from standing still like this, and hoping that she could leave "home" and wander around the outside world until she finds her next home, the grandmother had to use such tough measures to force the girl to leave home.

Of course, the grandmother, who had a sharp tongue but a soft heart, did not tell the truth to her granddaughter. She just said that the store was too old and too shabby, and it would cost a lot of money to renovate it, so it was not cost-effective, so it would be better to close it down directly.

For this reason, Chen Qi faced the cat girl who was begging desperately, and finally came up with a bad idea -

He stole a guitar from the livehouse, then turned around and took it to a faraway music store to sell it. He then gave the money to the cat girl and asked her to use it to see her grandmother.

And Chen Qi also prepared her lines for the cat girl, the only lines that might convince her grandmother.

"Grandma, if you want to close [SPACE] because you have no money, I have some here."

"I sold the guitar that my grandma gave me. I just hope that she won't let SPACE close down... No matter how much money I need, I will find a way to help her get it together, as long as she doesn't close my 'home' and doesn't drive Lenai away..."

——Chen Qi believes that any grandmother who loves her granddaughter, no matter how tough she appears to be on the surface, as long as she still has the soft spot of "family affection", she will definitely be moved by her granddaughter's words.

This is also the only way Chen Qi can think of to shake his grandmother's will. Only by relying on the old woman's weakness for family affection can he have a chance to realize the cat girl's wish.

Of course, he couldn't really sell the cat girl's guitar. The guitar was handed to her by her grandmother personally. Even if Lenai was willing to give it away in order to keep SPACE from closing, Chen Qi didn't dare to really sell the guitar - he couldn't afford the risk.

Chen Qi himself had no money at the time, and the guitar in his hand, which he bought with his own savings, was not worth much at all. If he wanted to impress his grandmother, even if it was just a superficial effort, he had to make it flawless.

Therefore, he had no choice but to steal the guitar from SPACE with Kaname Lenai to exchange it for money.

Chen Qi originally planned that no matter whether his plan succeeded or not, he could redeem the guitar with the money and the receipt from selling the guitar. Especially after he specifically told the clerk not to sell the guitar to anyone else and got a confident response, he thought he was safe.

But he never thought that man proposes, God disposes... Now the only consolation for Chen Qi is that the guitar can be found and he can still find a way to redeem it.

“…Is there really such a thing?”

After listening to Chen Qi's story, Miao Mengqin, who had already been dumbfounded, said to Chen Qi in an incredulous tone:

"You stole such an expensive guitar just for that girl? Do you know that if you get caught, you might actually go to jail?"

"Well... it shouldn't be, right? After all, it was Lenai and I who worked together. Even if grandma found out, she wouldn't call the police to arrest me." Chen Qi was particularly sure about this. However, he also knew that if he did this, no matter whether his plan succeeded in the end, he would probably not escape a beating.

"You did it just for that girl? You're going to spend 800,000 to buy this guitar from me? You're going to take on a debt of 300,000 all by yourself?" Miao Meng was still unwilling to believe that there was someone in this world who took on all the responsibility. She unconsciously said to Chen Qi:

"Since you and she worked together to do this, and you are just an accomplice, shouldn't the person who started it be responsible for the payment?"

"Then I'm afraid Le Nai will really be beaten. Le Nai is just a junior high school student. She can't afford to pay you back." Chen Qi shrugged helplessly and smiled softly at the dazed Miao Meng:

"Besides, if grandma knew that I sold the guitar for 500,000 yuan and bought it back for 800,000 yuan, with grandma's personality, she might not only make trouble for the store, but also for you, Miao Mengqin. By then, Miao Mengqin might have wasted 300,000 yuan, right?"

"What does that have to do with you? I was stupid and I was cheated out of this money!"

Finally, Miao Meng, who could no longer control her emotions, spoke to Chen Qi in an intolerable tone. There was even a hint of inexplicable anxiety in her tone. She forced the guitar bag beside her into Chen Qi's hands and pushed Chen Qi out of the house.

"This guitar! You take it! The price is five hundred thousand! From now on, no one owes anyone anything!"

"boom!"

With the sound of a heavy door closing, Miao Meng locked Chen Qi out of the house without even waiting for him to speak a second time. It was not until she could no longer see the boy who had angered her that Miao Meng could no longer bear it and kept pacing around the house, still cursing and complaining:

"I'm so angry! I'm so angry! How can there be such a stupid guy in this world? Shouldn't such a guy who takes all the responsibility on himself have been deceived by others long ago? How can there be such a fool!"

"Why wouldn't he be cheated? Meow Mengqin, who is so smart, was cheated out of so much money the next day in Tokyo! Why? Do fools have good luck?"

“I’m so pissed! I’m so pissed!! Ahhhh – I really want to beat that guy up!”

With a strong inner imbalance, Miao Meng chose to lie flat on her bed. However, even so, her legs continued to swing up and down, reflecting the extreme imbalance in the girl's heart...

In addition to the imbalance, there is something more that Miao Meng cannot understand... In this society, are there really people like him who don't consider themselves?

From childhood to adulthood, from family members to strangers, Miao Meng has never seen anyone who truly cares about others wholeheartedly and puts himself aside. Even his own parents, Miao Meng knows that his parents are actually quite selfish...

They imposed their regrets on her, forced her to give up her ideals and hobbies, and forced her to become the "good child" of their dreams... But what about themselves? After imposing their dreams on her, they spent every day in a daze, even lying on the backs of her grandparents to support them.

What right do they have to teach me a lesson? At least, she can still leave the family and support herself. What right do they have to say that she is a heartless daughter?

Regardless of school, Miao Meng has seen countless classmates like himself who forced themselves to accept new things they were not interested in in order to avoid being isolated. And his own being deceived today has further proved the ugly faces of people in this world who will do anything for fame and fortune.

In comparison, the boy's purity, tolerance and devotion... seemed like he was not born in this world. He was like a piece of white paper that had never been stained with any color. He was so clean...

It even made her wonder how he had survived to this day.

He, a person like him, would definitely suffer a loss if he went out. If he hadn't met me, he might have been inexplicably saddled with a debt of three hundred thousand. At his age, how long would he have to pay it back?

And this thought kept lingering in Miao Meng's mind for the next few days...

She didn't understand why she was so worried about the big boy she had only met once, but she just couldn't forget his cleanliness, his purity and innocence...those were the qualities she had lost long ago but also the qualities she had hoped to possess.

And one day, Miao Meng, who was still in a very complicated mood, accidentally saw a video on the Internet... It seemed to be a video of singing and playing, and the number of views was not high.

However, the guitar in the video that made her feel so familiar made Miao Meng stop her gaze. She would never mistake it. This guitar was the one that had caused her such a big loss! They were exactly the same!

So that means the poster of this video... is the boy named Chen Qi?

Unconsciously, Miao Meng clicked on the video, and then clicked on Chen Qi's personal account. Looking at the video that only had 10,000 fans and generally only had 10,000 to 50,000 clicks... Miao Meng was silent.

As a fellow blogger, Miao Meng knew very well that such a low number of clicks would not bring much profit to Chen Qi. When she thought about how this big boy, who obviously did not have much ability to pay back the money, had vowed to pay back her 300,000 yuan debt alone, Miao Meng could not help but feel mixed emotions...

Miao Meng didn’t know why such thoughts arose in her mind...but she wanted to help Chen Qi.

Not for anything else, just because she was able to encourage herself in time when she almost lost everything, just because when she was deceived, there was an innocent big boy who was really willing to help her out of the predicament... Miao Meng also wanted to help him.

Just think of it as me being kindhearted and not wanting to see such a good boy live such a miserable life. As a senior, and having been helped by him, I should just think of it as returning the favor in my own way.

I believe that with the help of this blogger with 300,000 fans, it will definitely help Chen Qi gain more fans, right? This is easy for Miao Meng.

So, Miao Meng opened the private message without thinking, sent a message to Chen Qi introducing herself, and quickly expressed her willingness to help Chen Qi.