They all pushed me!

It was not until she picked up the cup of cocoa on the table that she realized the heat had dissipated and turned cold.

Arimakana bit down on a straw.

But the cold cocoa has a more distinct and cold sweetness.

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Unlike previous years, this year Kitagawa Ryo plans to invite Kindaichi Toshiro and Saito Ichito's family to a New Year's dinner at his home. After all, neither he nor Hoshino Ai have any direct relatives who can be invited to the wedding. Over the years, Kindaichi Toshiro and Saito Ichito can actually be regarded as their elders in the real sense.

After personally going to the LALALAI Theater to invite Toshiro Kindaichi, and receiving the invitation with a smile, Kitagawa Ryo also walked to the theater stage on the first floor.

The musical "Matilda", which is jointly presented by several theater troupes and is expected to begin performances early next year, is currently undergoing intense and orderly rehearsals. Because it is a play aimed at children, most of the characters in the play are children. However, among the group of child actors, Kitagawa Ryo found Kurokawa Akane at first sight.

As an actress who was highly praised by many other stage directors and troupe leaders, passed the audition with a high vote, and successfully won the role of the protagonist Matilda, Akane Kurokawa did not disappoint them with her performance in actual rehearsals.

Akane Kurokawa, who is at the center of the stage, vividly displays the innocence and childlikeness of the child as well as the cleverness of the character of Matilda herself.

This is a story for children. The protagonist Matilda in the story has the superpower to control things with her mind. She uses it to punish her cunning and greedy parents who dislike her, and to teach a lesson to the principal who implemented violent education on students and forced relatives to death to seize their property.

When Kitagawa Ryo arrived, they were rehearsing the scene where Matilda first discovered her superpowers and carefully tested and confirmed them.

She can pick up and put down the cup on the table from a distance, turn on and off the lights in the room freely just by looking at the switch on the wall, and let the pencil stand up automatically so she can write and draw on paper... With the cooperation of stage mechanisms, props and special effects, Matilda played by Akane Kurokawa is like an omnipotent child, and everything around her is running according to her will.

During the break, because she saw Kitagawa Ryo standing in the audience on the stage, Kurokawa Akane, without removing her clothes and makeup, immediately trotted up to him, lifting the hem of her slightly long skirt.

"I didn't expect that Senior Liang would come to watch the rehearsal."

Her eyes sparkled and her tone was full of surprise.

“It’s a very good performance.”

Beichuan Liang first praised her, then raised his eyebrows at her and said jokingly:

"How does it feel to have super powers?"

Without waiting for Akane Kurokawa to answer, he exaggeratedly grasped his right arm with his left hand, dragged it in front of Akane Kurokawa, opened his palm, revealing a small cupcake inside, and said in surprise:

"My right hand suddenly became uncontrollable. I wanted to hide it and eat it myself. Is this Xiao Qian's superpower?"

Seeing Beichuan Liang performing such a lame show, Kurokawa Akane also laughed and said in cooperation:

"Yes, this is Matilda's telekinesis!"

However, after saying this, Kurokawa Akane did not immediately take the small cake, but looked up at Kitagawa Ryo, blinking and said:

"I am now controlling Senior Liang's right hand and asking him to feed me the cake."

"That can't be helped."

Upon hearing this, Beichuan Liang shook his head pretending to be helpless. It was he who came up with the idea first, so he picked up the small cake with his fingers and carefully fed it to the other person's mouth.

"Ah wu——"

Akane Kurokawa puffed up her cheeks and ate it in one bite. She chewed it with some difficulty for a long time before swallowing it. Then she sent an early New Year's greeting to Ryo Kitakawa:

"Happy New Year, Ryo-senpai."

“Please give me your guidance next year.”

"Um... should I say forever?"

We are indeed good friends who follow the same drama together.

Beichuan Liang burst out laughing.

Chapter 39: Official Announcement

On the last day of this year, Kitagawa Ryo used his personal account on the social platform to announce that he would be leaving Burning Production and engaging in solo activities starting January 1 next year.

The content of the notice was very simple. It just stated the matter in a straightforward manner without directly stating the reason or future direction. It also briefly conveyed the hope that fans would continue to support it in the future. The wording was quite official. Most fans didn't even think this was important news and just subconsciously left their blessings.

After all, outside the entertainment industry, except for veteran fans, in fact, most fans recognize either Kitagawa Ryo's face or his works. If you ask them to name their favorite film and television works starring Kitagawa Ryo, they can all talk about it very well, but if you really ask about the agency that the other party belongs to, many people really know nothing about it.

In other words, they neither understand the specific industry ecology within the circle nor do they think these are important from the beginning.

However, people in the industry all noticed something was wrong. After all, it was common knowledge that Kitagawa Ryo's contract with Burning Production had not yet ended, and Burning Production would never take the initiative to terminate the contract with the popular Kitagawa Ryo at this time. So there was only one truth left:

Kitagawa Ryo was willing to pay a huge penalty for breach of contract and bear the risk of retaliation from the other party, but he still took the initiative to terminate the contract with the agency early.

To be fair, although Burning Production almost got Kitagawa Ryo's nearly ten-year child labor contract for nothing due to Kitagawa Susumu's short-sightedness and over-exploitation in the early years, after the first contract expired five years ago, the agency still showed great sincerity, providing Kitagawa Ryo with a more complete agency team and promising to allocate more resources, which eventually led to the agency breaking through the siege of its competitors and completing the contract renewal.

The facts in the following years also proved that there was absolutely no problem with this deal. Compared with other child stars who had grown up and had a lack of successors, Kitagawa Ryo's popularity, which was quite rare, soared proportionally with his age. To this day, it is not a problem to call him the absolute top star of Burning Production.

But such a baby who lays golden eggs has now resolutely chosen to leave the firm, which has really made many people imagine a lot and wait with bated breath to see the company's reaction, or rather, a joke.

Just like sharks smelling blood, the first to act are always reporters from tabloids and online marketing accounts. Each of them adheres to the contemporary Internet spirit of starting with a picture and making up the rest. All kinds of conspiracy theories and speculations were rampant for a while, and on the last day of the year, they made another strong push for performance.

But just after the New Year's bell rang, at 12:01 on January 1 of the new year, Beichuan Liang took the initiative to reveal the answer to everyone:

[Happy New Year everyone, I am Beichuan Liang. At the beginning of the new year, I also have something important to tell you. Although it is very willful, no matter what, I still feel that I should tell you in person:

@Hoshino Ai and I are in a formal relationship with the intention of getting married. 】

Hoshino Ai reposted this post almost immediately, and left a comment saying "Please give me more advice in the future, forever."

Thus, the most explosive news of this year and even in the past decade was born, which was said to be comparable only to the death of the Emperor.

The discussion heat of related topics on Twitter directly refreshed to the historical high in recent years, and even caused the server to crash at midnight. Although Twitter officials urgently clarified that it was a technical problem shortly afterwards, the incident was also used as an interesting topic of conversation, which once again pushed up the heat of this official announcement.

Yahoo's top ten hot searches also quickly fell, all dominated by related keywords. A large number of netizens flocked into the comment sections of various reports and left messages of blessing, confusion, frustration or contempt.

The comments section of Hoshino Ai's own dynamics are even more disgusting. The vast majority of Kitagawa Ryo's female fans almost directly accused her of actively hooking up. Some even said with certainty that it was Hoshino Ai herself who deliberately designed the marriage with a child, forcing Kitagawa Ryo to admit their relationship.

A small website with only dozens of daily active users, specializing in various voting and selection, but with only a few hundred votes, its main function is to be used by Chinese marketing accounts to spread Japanese netizens' views on xx. Due to the massive forwarding of information by interested parties, its traffic was temporarily overloaded, just because the vote it was conducting happened to be on the "most hated female star".

In less than half an hour, Hoshino Ai was voted the undisputed first place by more than 100,000 people.

On the other hand, in the "Most Wanted Man to Hug" contest that was in full swing, a large number of Kitagawa Ryo's fans, in order to vent their dissatisfaction, collectively chose to vote for a male star who was temporarily ranked second. After stepping Kitagawa Ryo to second place, they turned to vote for the third place.

Japan's major television stations also reported this social news as soon as possible. NHK TV even hung it below the midnight and morning news at a frequency of every 15 minutes.

However, these have nothing to do with the two protagonists of the incident for the time being.

Because they are just announcing this established fact to their fans, not seeking their opinions, and they will not change their minds because of those comments.

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"January 1st...what a memorable day."

Hoshino Ai, who was leaning against Kitagawa Ryo, suddenly said this. The New Year's dinner was over, Kindaichi Toshiro and the Saito couple had already said goodbye and left, and Kitagawa Rumi was sent to bed early.

But Hoshino Ai had no intention of leaving. She pulled Kitagawa Ryo to sit on the balcony to look at the stars, her tone calm as if nothing had happened.

"What's easy to remember?"

"Of course, it's the anniversary of our official relationship."

Hoshino Ai winked at Kitagawa Ryo.

"Will there be one-week anniversaries, one-month anniversaries, one-year anniversaries, and even various wedding anniversaries in the future?"

"Celebrating anniversaries every day? That's not bad."

Xingye Ai smiled and looked at the bright moon outside the window:

"If there are too many, it's not worth commemorating. It's like a birthday, which only comes once a year."

"I just wanted to find a reason and a day to express my love for her."

"A sense of ceremony?"

"perhaps."

Although Beichuan Liang said this, Hoshino Ai still took out her phone and carefully wrote down the specific year, month and day on the memo, and made a note at the end:

[The day Liang and I officially announced our relationship]

And on this line, you can vaguely see more notes.

"What did you write?"

Kitagawa Ryo leaned over and asked with interest, and Hoshino Ai had no intention of hiding it from him and showed it to him openly.

From the first meeting to the first class, to the first shopping trip and the first co-performance, all the time was remembered clearly, which surprised Beichuan Ryo:

"I don't remember having the habit of keeping a diary before."

"I added these later based on my memory. This is where I started to remember them."

Facing Beichuan Liang's doubts, Hoshino Ai also pointed to the middle one, read out the date on it, showed a somewhat nostalgic smile, and then read out the notes at the end:

"【The day I kissed Liang for the first time.】"

"I remember that you were the one who suddenly kissed me first, right?"

"Do you remember it so clearly?"

"It was my first kiss after all, and it happened so suddenly, and it was semi-forced by the woman... Anyway, it was completely different from what I imagined."

"Hey, hey, that was my first kiss, okay? And Ryo didn't suffer any loss. He got his revenge countless times afterwards."

However, what Kitagawa Ryo and Hoshino Ai didn't know was that Kitagawa Rumi, who had not gone to bed obediently, was now standing in the dark living room, squatting behind the sofa, listening to their conversation quietly.

Just like the time when they were locked outside the door, only a few minutes had passed, but Kitagawa Rumi felt like more than ten years had passed. She even seemed to see the dozen years passing by between the two men and women whose bodies were almost pressed together. The heavy feeling made up of time was like an indestructible wall, and the memories were transparent bricks that trapped the two of them in this besieged city. Although they could see clearly from the outside looking in, there was not even a crack for others to get in.

Then, among those years, months and days flying all over the sky, Kitagawa Rumi heard that date.

Many things happened that year that left a deep impression on Kitagawa Rumi.

The release of "Spider" starring Ryo, her sixteenth birthday, Hoshino Ai's twentieth birthday and the performance at Tokyo Dome, and of course, the sasaeng fan incident in between, and because of it, she was able to hug Ryo to sleep again after many years, and that night she carefully took his first kiss...

But the time that Hoshino Ai mentioned was earlier than the day she remembered most clearly and that would definitely not be wrong.

Be early.

early.

She did give her first kiss, but it was not the other person's first kiss.

This fact echoed in Kitagawa Rumi's mind, making her eyes almost go dark. Her body went limp, and she felt as if she could not support her current posture. She even had the illusion that the strength of her knees and body were all disappearing.

A feeling of exhaustion, or rather... a feeling close to nothingness slowly came over me.

Kitagawa Rumi sat there weakly, with her head lowered and motionless for a long time.

She originally just wanted to take a peek at Liang's love, hoping to learn something from it, hoping that she could also quietly become happy.

But I didn't expect that even the foundation for imagination was completely demolished.

In the end, even Kitagawa Rumi herself didn't know how she walked back to the room, but she had to go to bed quickly because ACE still had a work schedule tomorrow.

But what surprised her was that she no longer felt sad. Instead, her mind was filled with a deep and quiet boredom, as if nothing mattered. This made her feel a long-lost peace, a bottomless peace.

Be it dating, official announcement, or even marriage later.

These are the established realities that she cannot change no matter what.

But the future is still unknown. It is not like the fairy tale where the prince and princess live happily together as the ending. All of their lives have only lived a quarter or even less of their lives so far.

She can wait, and she can afford to wait.

With this thought in mind, Kitagawa Rumi half-forced herself to close her eyes.

As Beichuan Liang's sister in the eyes of the public, after dawn today, she will definitely face a swarm of reporters and interviews, and be asked about her thoughts on this matter.

Then let me make a rough draft first.

"Regarding this matter, the first thing that needs to be clarified is that all the malicious speculations on the Internet are untrue. I also hope that everyone can stop spreading rumors and attacks, because in my opinion, my brother and his sister are in a completely normal relationship..."

“They have a really good relationship.”

Chapter 40: I was also surprised

This storm of public opinion showed no sign of dying down until the next day. Instead, it seemed to be getting more and more intense. So much so that on the first day of the new year, people would immediately bring up this topic and express their opinions immediately after greeting each other with "Happy New Year" as in previous years.

Kitagawa Ryo's girlfriend fans are indeed incredibly powerful. Saito Ichito even took the initiative to help Hoshino Ai close the comment section of her personal account, and asked her to avoid public appearances in the short term. But even so, their Berry Pro agency received hundreds of malicious gifts and threatening letters within a single day, forcing the two to quickly issue relevant announcements, sternly warning against such bad behavior, and claiming that they had contacted the police to investigate the relevant incidents.

But not all fans are such extremists, especially when the hit drama "It's Not My Fault That I'm Popular" starring the two has just finished airing. Many viewers who did not go into it as a fan but just thought that the two looked familiar and that their several works and CP were indeed likable sent their blessings and classified the two as another couple in the entertainment industry who "fell in love on the set".

Of course, there were also loyal CP fans who reacted equally enthusiastically to the official announcement of Kitagawa Ryo and Hoshino Ai. The fact that the two finally got married even made it a little hard for them to believe when they saw it for the first time.

After all, what CP fans are best at is to deceive and satisfy themselves in various formal or informal occasions, through the little interactions between the two and the occasional mention in program interviews, saying things like "I'm just here, are the two people in the video a couple?" and "I'm not serious, I've watched Liang Ai for so long, I feel that everyone is exaggerating too much, and some people are shipping it too hard. It's just a very close friendship between two friends. There's no need to win back and forth, and don't have too many fantasies. Just watch the two people quarreling seriously. The interaction between the two of them is really eye-catching. I really envy their pure and beautiful friendship. So I'll be very satisfied if they continue like this. Of course, it would be even better if they could make an official announcement tomorrow." And so on.

For a while, all kinds of misunderstandings in the circle, such as fake medicine clips and Bible bound volumes, were pushed up again, and the comment area was skillfully arranged in reverse chronological order, and most of them could see various crying soybean expressions and "complete victory" speeches.

However, after the news was officially announced, the two parties involved in the incident seemed to have disappeared from this world. No matter whether they were blocking the entrance of the LALALAI Theater Building or squatting at the entrance of the residential area where the two lived with cameras, no one could find any trace of Kitagawa Ryo and Hoshino Ai. Many reporters were scratching their heads in anxiety, and unable to get first-hand and exclusive information, they could only keep ruminating and speculating, digging up some of the two's past to barely put together a report and temporarily send it out to attract attention.

However, unlike most of his colleagues, the new reporter of "Weekly Entertainment Live", Daichi Inoue, took the initiative to choose the front of the TBS TV station building as the waiting place.