They all pushed me!

It just so happened that a fan fiction author that she had been feeding had delivered this week's supply of fan fiction to her on time and in the correct amount. Kitagawa Rumi clicked on it and saw that she had become a new-age super super popular national idol, punching Johnny's, kicking Amuse, being respectfully invited to the stage by the Tokyo Dome's operating staff, and confessing her love to her brother Century after the concert at the top of the world.

As a happy sponsor, Kitagawa Rumi generously sent another 10,000 yen reward, expressing the hope that the other party would continue to work hard next week and focus on writing about what the old-fashioned president of Johnny's office is like.

As soon as Kitagawa Rumi sent the reward and message, the MEM in the headset began to thank the gift loudly:

"Thank you for the 10,000 yen SC (Super Message) for 'I've Always Been a MEM'. Is the volume a bit too low? Okay, I'll turn up the volume of the microphone a bit. Is that okay?"

Kitagawa Rumi, who didn't care too much, continued to hug her knees and admire the other party's masterpiece. She watched it from beginning to end twice despite the death time of being killed as soon as she landed on the ground in one night. After the collaboration ended and they each went off the air, she stretched her body leisurely and prepared to go downstairs to the living room on the first floor to get a glass of water.

It's already July, and Kitagawa Rumi has changed her pajamas into summer clothes. The light and comfortable fabric outlines the girl's exquisite curves well. Because it's a bit hot, she casually rolled up her sleeves and trouser legs, revealing half of her white and smooth thighs.

Although the family rule is not to walk around outside the bedroom in tight underwear, it is almost midnight after all, and pajamas can't be considered tight underwear.

Of course, in the final analysis, as long as you don’t get caught by love, it’s fine.

Kitagawa Rumi, who was feeling a little thirsty, went downstairs swiftly, got a cup of water, and was about to go back to the bedroom while drinking it in small sips, when she suddenly heard some noise coming from upstairs at the stairwell on the second floor.

Although the sound insulation of the rooms in this house is quite reliable, if you stand near the stairwell, you can still hear some noises in the corridors.

Kitagawa Rumi walked up two steps curiously, stopped at the corner of the stairwell and looked up. She saw her brother leaning in front of a window in the corridor on the third floor, seemingly talking on the phone.

"Hmm... I see. The information from reporter Nakamura is indeed very complete, but they are basically all victims from 20 years ago. Ai did tell me about a few suspected insiders through her channels yesterday. I'll send you the list later. Sorry for the trouble."

After ending the brief conversation with Mr. Izaki, Kitagawa Ryoya put the phone back into his pajamas pocket with a somewhat melancholy look on his face, propped up his chin and stared aimlessly at the deep night sky outside the window.

Because Weekly Bunshun had reported on the dark side of Johnny & Associates in the last century, Kitagawa Ryo and Mr. Izaki quickly found the reporter Nakamura who had reported the incident and explained their purpose to him. The other party quickly showed his willingness to cooperate and handed over to them a large amount of information he had collected that year, including victims' oral statements, related photos, etc.

Among all these, what Kitagawa Ryo found most difficult to accept was that in order to maintain the childishness of the little boys he liked, Kitagawa would force them to be injected with estrogen when they were in the stage of secondary sexual characteristics development and growth to satisfy his personal desires.

When he thought about being remembered by such an old pervert for so many years, and remembered the way his gaze licked him like a tongue when they met that day, Beichuan Ryo inevitably felt a chill.

Even after the dinner that day, Kitagawa was still trying to arrange a private meeting with him. Of course, the reason was still to discuss matters related to ACE's use of the Tokyo Dome stage venue, and all kinds of hints were quite obvious.

Frankly speaking, after having offended Burning Production, a giant in the industry, Kitagawa Ryo really doesn't want to be at odds with Johnny's Office again.

But whether out of his own emotions or out of more simple morals, Beichuan Liang wanted to try to do this.

At worst, he wouldn't even mind using his future acting career as a bargaining chip to push it forward all at once. After all, if Kitagawa really had intentions on him a long time ago, then this itself would be the biggest gimmick and explosive point.

As for Kitagawa Rumi, who was standing at the stairs holding a water cup and listened to most of the conversation between the two, she was first shocked, then panicked, and finally, until her eyes were completely fixed on her brother's profile and she stared at it for a long time, she felt at ease again.

At this moment, she finally understood a little bit of what Beichuan Liang said to her that day, the true meaning of the sentence "Do you feel that I am overprotecting you?"

What makes Kitagawa Rumi most sad is that she still seems unable to help.

She wasn't even in the first place to comfort him and feel sorry for him.

If she hadn't insisted on having ACE perform at Tokyo Dome before Samejima Abiko graduated, her brother wouldn't have had to contact Johnny's Office, let alone be dragged into this inexplicable storm and make enemies for the agency that had just set sail.

The feeling of guilt and self-blame, yet being unable to do anything, overwhelmed Kitagawa Rumi's heart. The reality was not a fan fiction in which she could customize the plot at will.

She should try harder.

If it could reach the height of love, perhaps just as she had imagined, the Tokyo Dome would need her performance to prove its worth.

then.

Kitagawa Rumi tightly grasped the collar of her shirt, almost squeezing it out of shape, her rosy red eyes looking dazed.

Naturally, Rumi knew about the wedding dress that Ai had ordered a few days ago. Just like a few years ago, she helped Ai put it on with her own hands. The next morning, she watched with her own eyes as a garbage bag of torn white gauze was cleaned out.

It seems that my brother is under a lot of pressure recently.

As if she had found the last reason to convince herself, Kitagawa Rumi went downstairs quietly, and her pupils as dazzling as rubies once again hid in the dark night.

The water in the glass was rippled at the rim.

Like it's about to overflow.

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"It seems that Ruby has become more and more diligent recently. She even got up earlier than us."

Beichuan Liang chewed the perfectly fried egg in his mouth slowly, took a sip of the hot milk, and spoke to Ai sitting opposite him with some surprise.

"Indeed, it seems that she went out to exercise and practice early in the morning. I heard from Kyoko that Ruby has been taking the lead in the team these past two days. She also told her that she hopes to reduce the tasks and frequency of live broadcasts so that she can release the next album as soon as possible."

Ai took a bite of the sandwich in front of her, nodded and replied:

"She's getting better and better at making breakfast. She told me yesterday that she wanted to move out as soon as possible, but haven't we been busy with the new drama recently? So I told Ruby that I'll help her move when the filming of the new drama is finished, around September."

"Hearing you say that, I feel like an adult all of a sudden."

"I'm already quite old, okay?"

Beichuan Ai snorted coquettishly, but immediately turned serious again and said seriously:

"Hirano Sho, has Ryo heard of this actor?"

"I remember him. He seems to be a new generation actor who is about my age. He is quite popular. I remember he starred in "Grifters Hunter" and the live-action movie version of "Kaguya-sama: Love is War."

Beichuan Liang thought for a while and soon remembered the other person's appearance.

"Well, he was also an artist of Johnny's Office. He quit his group and terminated his contract with Johnny's Office at the beginning of this year. Gao Feng, who used to be in our group, had a good relationship with him, but he is very popular now. Even if he experienced harassment from Kitagawa in his early years, he probably wouldn't say it. So I asked Gao Feng to ask his former trainees and screened out some people who may have experienced harassment and are willing to tell the truth."

"Does it mean that the lower the popularity, the more willing you are?"

"We can't help it. After all, no popular artist is willing to bear this level of scandal, and also have to bear the consequences of offending Johnny's Office."

"I will let reporter Nakamura contact them. Rather, his identity is more suitable than ours."

After finishing this somewhat heavy topic, Beichuan Ai also wanted to liven up the atmosphere by using chopsticks to cut the middle line of the heart-shaped fried egg on the plate, picked up half of it with chopsticks, leaned forward slightly, and handed it to Beichuan Ryo's mouth:

"Ah——"

Although he felt that his wife's action was a bit childish, Kitagawa Ryo, who had done a lot of childish things in bed in the past two nights, had no right to refute and obediently accepted the love feeding with his mouth.

"Okay, now it's Ryo's turn to feed me."

Sitting back in her seat, Kitagawa Ai held her cheeks with both hands with anticipation, swaying her body slightly left and right, and the strands of hair by her ears trembled. Her liveliness and dynamism made Kitagawa Ryo involuntarily raise the corners of his mouth, and he picked up the half of the fried egg on his side as if it was a one-to-one replica.

"Ah wu——"

Beichuan Liang smiled and reached out to help wipe away some of the sauce that flowed from the corner of Ai's mouth.

Just by seeing this picture, he felt that he was in a good mood and good state for the whole day before going to the filming set.

Chapter 5: Only by being true to yourself can you gain true love (k)

After finishing breakfast, they tidied themselves up in front of the mirror, packed their lunch boxes and other necessary items, and drove to the set of the new drama as usual.

The story of the piano chapter was filmed at the end of last month. After being awakened by the devil, the father and daughter finally reunited on the piano master. The old professor of the music department recognized the talent and character of the piano and took the initiative to accept her as a student. The father and daughter agreed to become people who could make each other proud and then separated again. The former continued to work hard to pay off the debt, while the latter officially entered the full-resident music college to continue her studies with the financial support of the old professor. They communicated regularly every day to report each other's progress, and smiled and congratulated each other for the father's repayment of another debt and the daughter's learning of another song.

The locker chapter that follows not only reveals the locker's origin, but also opens a page on the past of the Demon King, one of the two protagonists of the story.

The nickname Locker comes from his childhood experience of being abandoned in a coin-operated locker by his father and then taken home by his mother. His biological father was a man who was addicted to alcohol, gambling, and domestic violence. When Locker witnessed his father beating his mother who was protecting him again and again, he knocked his father down from behind with a bottle of wine. He killed someone.

His mother told him to run away quickly and not to say anything after he got out. Not long after, he heard the news that his mother confessed to murder and was sentenced to prison. He became an orphan and was sent to the "Bear House" by the staff of the Child Consultation Center.

Because of the last words his mother said to him, "Don't say anything," and his past of killing people, which bothered him almost obsessively, he never said a word after entering the locker of the Bear's House. Naturally, he could not be adopted, so the Demon King simply hired him as a staff member and cook at the welfare home and let him stay here.

But one time when he was taking the children from the welfare home out for a walk, he once again witnessed a man on the street punching and kicking his pregnant wife. He rushed up and knocked the man to the ground as if he had PTSD, and was detained in the police station.

While the Devil is explaining Locker's past to Mailbox, their conversation is overheard by the other children. When Locker returns from detention, all the children except Mailbox are unwilling to accept a murderer as their cook and playmate and want to kick him out.

In order to help Locker untie his knot, the Devil and the Mailbox gathered all the children in the welfare home and showed them a notebook that Locker had collected in his room. The notebook recorded the personality traits, eating habits, taboos, and happy and sad things that every child here, past and present, had encountered. They told them that prejudice is enough to kill, and that they should never doubt the important family members who accompany them because of a few words from outsiders.

On the other side, the Devil finally managed to meet the Locker's mother who was serving her sentence. He learned from her that the Locker did not actually kill her father. It was she who gave the other party a fatal blow from behind when he woke up and wanted to take revenge. He did not expect that this would become the Locker's heart knot that prevented him from meeting her for so many years and kept him in trouble.

After finally learning the truth of what happened, Locker returned to the Bear's House and received sincere apologies from all the children. After showing a relieved smile, he was finally able to speak.

But among the children who were laughing and excited because the lockers had spoken, Mailbox was having a hard time laughing. When she had followed the Demon King to the police station to investigate the files of that year, she had accidentally heard another rumor about the Demon King from a police officer.

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“It’s finally time to shoot the final episode.”

Kurokawa Akane yawned softly as she flipped through the script in her hand. The sunlight shone through the gaps between the branches and leaves, casting a fluttering light and shadow on her face. She lazily tucked the few strands of hair hanging down by her ears back behind them, and looked at Beichuan Liang who was sitting opposite her, and said with her eyes slightly lowered:

"I'm already used to discussing the script with Senior Liang here every morning."

“There will definitely be opportunities for cooperation again.”

Beichuan Liang nodded casually and unfolded the script in his hand:

"The final chapter is about the mailbox and the demon king. I think Akane has read the script for the last two episodes."

"Ah."

Kurokawa Akane nodded first, and seeing that Kitagawa Ryo had entered his usual state of chatting about the play, she immediately put aside some of her romantic thoughts and focused all her attention on it.

"The Demon King was also a child from an orphanage. He was later adopted by a family that particularly wanted a son. They deliberately concealed his situation. In fact, the family already had a girl who was one year older than the Demon King, but she was not liked by them."

"In the ten years since then, the Demon King has been working very hard to repay his adoptive parents for their kindness. He has achieved the best level among his peers in all aspects. Compared with him, the older sister, who was never valued, has naturally become a marginal figure in the family. In her eyes, it seems that the Demon King is her parents' biological child."

"Inferiority always kills people in the middle of the night. After leaving a suicide note naming the devil as the source of her stress and the culprit, this girl chose to commit suicide."

"It was as if one suddenly learned to cherish after death. Her mother only then realized that the other person was her own child and fell into intermittent mental disorder. As a result, her father drove the demon king out of the house."

"The devil thought that he had destroyed the foster parents' family and became disheartened. After graduation, he chose to become the director of the children's welfare home, Little Bear House. While sending money to the foster parents' family and asking for forgiveness on time every month, he also hoped to find the most suitable parents for all the children in the welfare home with a sin-atonement mentality, so that those parents who are interested in adopting children can meet the most suitable children for them."

At this point, Beichuan Liang also smiled self-deprecatingly, mixed in the story of the Demon King were parts of his own experiences.

"Then there's the mailbox."

"Once when she went with the Demon King to deliver New Year gifts to her adoptive parents, the Demon King was rejected by her adoptive father as usual. As the two of them were arguing, perhaps because of their similar age or because they did look alike, the mentally ill adoptive mother suddenly recognized Mailbox as her dead daughter, opened the door directly, and held Mailbox in her arms."

"In order to appease the other party's almost crazy mental state of joy, and in order to allow the Demon King to reach a superficial reconciliation with his adoptive parents, Mailbox began to act skillfully."

"After all, she is the child in the orphanage who lies the most, cries the most, and can cry or laugh at any time."

"So, in the days that followed, like other children who were tried out in the adoptive parents' home, Mailbox stayed there. The mother dressed her in her old clothes and styled her hair. She tried her best to learn and imitate her every move, because in her opinion, this would improve the relationship between the Demon King and his adoptive parents and help him get rid of his old obsession."

Kurokawa Akane interrupted Kitagawa Ryo and put forward his own opinion for the first time:

"But I think there is also confusion and anger involved."

"Tell me?"

"Because at that time, she herself would be at a loss. She knew that the love she received from her adoptive mother was fake, but she was more afraid that what she had experienced from the Demon King was also this kind of love mixed with guilt and compensation for another person, like a substitute meal."

Kurokawa Akane pointed the index finger of his right hand at the side of his face and raised his chin slightly:

"She must be thinking, the reason why the devil treats her so specially is that maybe she looks like his 'sister' who died many years ago?"

"really."

Kitagawa Ryo nodded in agreement with Kurokawa Akane's understanding. Half of the inspiration for the mailbox story came from the relationship between Rumie, Sarina and Ai.

"So after that, Mailbox tried her best to imitate and replicate, wanting to completely transform herself into another person. She wanted to become the Demon King's former family member, the object of his guilt, and a child who could receive the most straightforward love from others."

"Well... But speaking of which, the other half of the inspiration for this script comes from you, Chiyin."

"--ah?"

Shocked by Kitagawa Ryo's sudden remarks, Kurokawa Akane, who had completely lost his usual calmness, opened his mouth slightly and looked at him in disbelief.

Although he had been laughing at his competitor Magana who had lost because of his carelessness and thought "this is simply written about me" a few months ago, when Kitagawa Ryo said "half of the inspiration came from you", Kurokawa Akane inevitably fell into a mess of fantasies and thoughts.

"If I made such a presumption, I would like to apologize to you, Chiyin."

Beichuan Liang lowered his head slightly, then looked at Kurokawa Akane in front of him with sharp eyes, and then said:

"Just like what I taught Chi Yin before, the most direct and useful way to express experiential acting is imitation, because there are too many different characters in the script. Even if you go through life, there will definitely be many things that you cannot experience in person. If you want to play this kind of role well, the techniques of imitation and emotional replacement are naturally the most practical."

"In fact, I noticed during the audition that Akane's acting about motherhood was very loving. In the first three episodes, when she played the villain, Akane should have referred to Aizawa Suzu in Homeless Child. It's easy to see Kana's shadow, but these are all normal learning summaries. For example, Himekawa in the crew has been imitating and learning from others' acting just like you."

Having said that, Kitagawa Ryo suddenly changed the subject, and his dark pupils captured Kurokawa Akane's eyes directly, making her feel for a moment that all her little thoughts had been seen through by the other party.

"But I don't want Chiyin to bring the performance style on stage into reality, just like the phantom mailbox in the script that was desperately imitating the past. This will only lead to false, unconfirmed feelings and stubbornly take them as true."

Kurokawa Akane suddenly felt his throat dry and wanted to say something subconsciously, but in the end he fell silent.

"I remember it all. Although it was seven or eight years ago, Akane had the same hairstyle as Ruby for a while. Of course, it was really cute."

"Then, last month I was busy and didn't come over for a day. I heard Ai say that you had dinner together that day. Well, from that day on, the lunch box that Chiyin gave me at noon every day was filled with some fixed dishes that gradually converged."

"Actually, there's no need to do this. Love's food is love's food, your food is your food, and the same goes for your hairstyle and even your dressing style."

Beichuan Liang smiled and touched the little head of Kurokawa Akane, who was lowering himself lower and lower in front of him, almost burying his face between his knees in shame, and took the initiative to comfort him:

"Akaine can lose herself on stage, but Akane off stage is still the most real and the cutest."

Although the pronunciation is the same, Akane, Kurokawa Akane can clearly understand that the Akane in Kitagawa Ryo's first sentence is the stage name he gave himself, "Akane", and the Akane in the second sentence is the name "Akane" given to her by her parents.

"……I see."

Beichuan Liang heard her small but firm answer.