They all pushed me!

"What do you two think?"

Perhaps because the expression of Yokozawa Natsuko, who was a comedian, was quite funny, Kitagawa Ryo also smiled and shook his head:

"Personally, if a girl is willing to get up early and put on makeup for almost an hour just to go out with me, I would still feel very touched."

"That's about it."

Compared to Kitagawa Ryo, who seemed not to want to talk more about this topic, Hoshino Ai was quite enthusiastic. Perhaps because she had a stronger sense of resonance with her as a girl, she said a lot of words of approval in one breath, and finally suddenly turned around and asked Kitagawa Ryo:

"Ryo, have you ever read The Little Prince? The rose in the story has this kind of personality. She made careful preparations for her first meeting with the little prince, but when they actually met, she pretended to be like she didn't dress up just for you."

"She is so arrogant and girly."

Kitagawa Rumi did not expect to suddenly hear the name of "The Little Prince" from Hoshino Ai's mouth. In the fourteen days of memory that she carefully treasured in the deepest part of her heart and would take out to carefully recall and organize before going to bed every night, there was a chapter about it.

While she was still in the hospital, the hospital placed quite a lot of fairy tale picture books in the children's ward, ranging from "Alice in Wonderland" to "The Little Prince", and Kitagawa Ryo, who was in the same ward with her, would sometimes take them to read stories.

Kitagawa Rumi still remembers that her brother would always change his voice to play different roles. Although he was just one person, he was always very lively as if he was performing a stage play.

A stage play that is performed for her and her only audience.

"When you put it like that, it does make me feel a little bit similar."

It was just like a script that had been discussed in advance. Beichuan Liang showed a look of realization, raised the corner of his mouth, and took over the topic with a smile:

“I remember the original text in the book seemed to be like this:”

"She carefully selected the colors, she slowly put on her clothes, and adjusted the petals one by one. She didn't want to appear wrinkled like a poppy, she wanted to bloom with her beautiful light. Yes, that's how she loved to dress up.

She disguised herself mysteriously for many days, and then one morning, at sunrise, she suddenly revealed her true face.

She had dressed so carefully, and now she yawned and said:

'Oops! I just got up... Sorry... I haven't washed up yet.'"

My brother's acting is still as good as before.

[The sound is so sweet, I want to record this and listen to it every night before going to bed. ]

[I really want to tie Liang to my bedside and have him read me stories to put me to sleep every day.]

[The lines are so touching, I love the clear boy's voice. 】

It turns out that I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Kitagawa Rumi pouted, hugged her knees, and lay weakly on Kitagawa Ryo.

"What's wrong? Ruby, are you tired?"

Feeling the weight pressing down on him, Beichuan Liang withdrew his gaze from the pages of the book, turned his head and touched his sister's hair.

"Just want to lean on it for a while."

Kitagawa Rumi's voice was a little low.

"Go ahead, but don't fall asleep. Ruby hasn't taken a shower yet."

"Ah."

Kitagawa Rumi pursed her lips, and she lay back on Kitagawa Ryo's thighs, completely transferring the weight of her body to her brother.

It seems that only in this way can I have enough confidence to click on the tablet in my hand to let the program continue playing and continue watching.

Fortunately, there was not much progress left in this episode, and the main film was quickly finished, and then it was time for the final segment of each episode, Guess the Wolf.

"So, after this episode, who do Ryo and Ai think is most likely to be the Wolf-kun hiding among the boys?"

Natsuko Yokozawa took a piece of chalk and pointed at each of the photos of the male guests on the small blackboard brought up by the staff, then turned around and asked the two people in the commentary booth.

"I still choose male lead, but male lead's performance this time is a bit suspicious. It's obvious that female lead has some feelings for him, but male lead, who is usually very sharp, has suddenly become dull. This seems very wrong."

Beichuan Liang looked quite professional, speaking one trick after another:

"But I wouldn't label him a wolf directly. After all, I know a friend like him. His idea of ​​dating is that he wants the girl to like him, but he doesn't want the two of them to progress too quickly. He longs for a love that comes after a long wait, preferably with twists and turns and difficulties in the middle."

"Although it sounds very literary, he thinks the word love itself is already very literary. For him, the fantasy of the soul is actually higher than the physical contact, and only in this can one find true happiness."

In fact, this is all from the comments written by his agent, Mr. Izaki, to him. As for the result of thinking and doing this? Although the other party firmly denied that this was his personal feeling, Mr. Izaki is almost sixty years old and is still alone.

Just as Beichuan Ryo was about to leave work after saying this bunch of meaningless words as before, Hoshino Ai beside him provided an answer that no one expected:

"Actually, I think none of the four boys are [Wolf-kun]. Or rather, all four boys are [Wolf-kun]. But if you judge it that way, then the girls are also [Wolf-kun]. No, they are [Wolf-chan]."

It didn't seem like she was joking or making a joke. Hoshino Ai looked quite serious. She stretched out her right index finger and tapped her lips lightly:

"Don't be fooled by Wolf-kun. But if Wolf-kun is the one who deceives people, then wouldn't the female lead in the show just now also fall into this category?"

"If you ask me, lies are bound to exist in the process of falling in love."

At this moment, Hoshino Ai's eyes were blooming as bright as stars, without any trace of confusion.

She smiled at the camera, at Beichuan Liang, or perhaps at herself and said:

"Because we all want the person we care about to see our perfect self, but we also want the other person to like our real self."

“As for the self that is stumbling, running hard from the real self to the perfect self.”

Hoshino Ai playfully stuck out the tip of her tongue:

"Please tell a lie and pretend you didn't see it even if you saw it."

Chapter 54: Trust Training

LALALAI Theater Building, inside the practice room.

Having just finished the warm-up exercises, Kitagawa Ryosho took advantage of the break to explain to Kurokawa Akane as much as possible about his own thoughts and experiences in performance.

"In yesterday's morning class, I taught Qian the Seven Powers and Four Senses that actors need to master. Qian, do you still remember?"

Before the formal class, Beichuan Liang also guided the child to review and revise what he had learned.

Kurokawa Akane, who was already a little over five years old, was very smart. After just a moment's thought, he answered Kitagawa Ryo's question easily:

"The seven powers refer to sharp and meticulous observation, active and stable attention, rich and active imagination, sharp and sincere perception, true, accurate and reasonable judgment and thinking, sensitive and delicate adaptability and vivid physical and verbal expression."

"And the four senses refer to the sense of reality, the sense of image, the sense of humor, and the sense of rhythm."

"I remember it very clearly, Akane."

Kitagawa Ryo nodded with great satisfaction. As a direct junior whom he had personally recruited into the LALALAI troupe, he was quite impressed with Kurokawa Akane's performance.

"Thank you for the compliment, so what are we going to learn today, Ryo-senpai?"

Kurokawa Akane has always been eager to learn and he studies very seriously.

"Yeah, yeah, what are we going to learn today, Ryo-senpai?"

It was a pity that a former super popular idol girl came from nowhere and directly entered the circle of the two without paying any attention to the atmosphere. As soon as she opened her mouth, Beichuan Liang couldn't help but twitch his mouth, and said with a headache:

"Don't mess around at this time, okay?"

"I'm not making trouble. I'm also a new actor who just joined the troupe. It's still guidance for Ryo-senpai to guide one person, and it's still guidance for two people."

Hoshino Ai put on a very innocent look and even helped Kitagawa Ryo make the decision with ease.

After the last episode of the dating variety show "Don't Be Cheated by the Wolf" in which the two of them co-starred as commentators was broadcast, they received comments on the Internet such as "The two of them are surprisingly compatible", "I'm a little obsessed with the female guest in this episode", and "She seems much more open-minded than the previous vases".

However, because the two of them changed from calling each other "Hoshino-san" and "Kitagawa-san" to "Ai" and "Liang" which they are used to calling each other during the recording of the show, quite a number of fans sensed something was wrong.

But under Saito Ichigo's plan, the head of the LALALAI troupe, Toshiro Kindaichi, subsequently announced on the social platform that Hoshino Ai had returned to the troupe after four years and had signed a contract with LALALAI again to become a drama actor. He also said that there would be a new drama starring Kitagawa Ryo, Hoshino Ai and others at the end of the year, which barely explained the tacit understanding between the two that did not seem like that between former colleagues.

There are even fans of Kitagawa Ryo who specifically came out to explain that the two of them did not call each other by their single names to show affection, but by their stage names. After all, Hoshino Ai has always used the stage name "Ai" without her surname throughout her career as an idol and drama actor.

Anyway, they are the most professional when it comes to self-comfort and self-imagination.

"If you're really that free, I'll just leave Qian to you to teach."

Kitagawa Ryo glanced at Hoshino Ai unhappily. He had trained her wholeheartedly for nearly three years, but now she came to him and pretended to be a newbie.

"Then Liang should teach it himself."

When Hoshino Ai heard that Kitagawa Ryo wanted to entrust Kurokawa Akane to her, she waved her hands repeatedly. In the few days after returning to the troupe, she also learned about the potential of the youngest child in the troupe.

To put it bluntly, Hoshino Ai is really afraid that one day she will be stumped by this kid in front of her.

"And it doesn't look like she would want me to teach her."

Before leaving, Hoshino Ai suddenly chuckled for an unknown reason.

After sending away Hoshino Ai who came over to act cute with the kids, Kitagawa Ryo shook his head helplessly and turned around to continue teaching Kurokawa Akane, but suddenly found that she was gone. When he looked again, he found that the little girl had hidden behind him at some point and was trembling as she pulled at the corner of his clothes, with only half of her face exposed.

Yes, as a talented actor in the making with impeccable learning ability and attitude towards study, Akane Kurokawa has a serious problem of being afraid of strangers.

But come to think of it, it seems that her parents wanted to send Akane Kurokawa to study in the troupe just to improve this aspect of their daughter's character.

Thinking of this, Beichuan Liang felt as if he had become a kindergarten teacher again.

The reason why I said "again" is because he has a direct junior in the agency who needs to be trained by Magana.

I didn't expect that at the age of sixteen I would experience the life of a thirty-six-year-old.

While complaining, Kitagawa Ryo carefully pulled Kurokawa Akane out from behind:

"Does love look scary? There's no need to hide like this."

"It's a bit... hard to handle."

It felt like her pupils were stung by the bright light unique to energetic characters, Akane Kurokawa explained timidly.

Although she has been in the LALALAI troupe for some time, Akane Kurokawa has not been able to expand her social circle except for Ryo Kitagawa, whom she already knew (on TV) and is also her acting teacher.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that there are no children of her age in the troupe now.

"That won't do. Maybe Akane will be on the same stage with Ai later. And even if it's not Ai, Akane will still have to face other actors and the audience when she performs on stage."

Beichuan Liang stroked his chin, trying hard to think of a solution.

As one of the performance forms that is closest to the audience, actors can almost see the expressions of the audience in the front row while performing. Therefore, quite a number of actors are in good condition during rehearsal, but once they go on stage, they will have problems such as blank minds, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeats and even muscle spasms.

Psychological tension often leads to physiological loss of control. Akane Kurokawa has learned the theoretical knowledge quite well, but she has never participated in even a small-scale private play or rehearsal, let alone going on stage.

"How about this, let's do relaxation training today."

After planning a few training methods for this type of problem, Beichuan Liang clapped his hands and said to Kurokawa Akane in front of him:

"The first thing is gaze training. Qian needs to learn to look into other people's eyes and be able to look into their eyes when talking without being nervous."

"Well, I'll try my best."

Akane Kurokawa nodded obediently and agreed.

Then, Kitagawa Ryo pulled in five other actors from the troupe, both men and women, ranging in age from twenty to sixty.

"Xia, just follow me and do it."

After saying this, Beichuan Liangye took a step forward. He looked directly into the eyes of the person in front of him and introduced himself easily:

"Hello, I'm Beichuan Liang, please take care of me in the future."

Then, he smiled and pressed his hand, motioning the actress in front of him to squat down so that her eyes could be level with Kurokawa Akane's.

Then, Beichuan Ryo reached out and slightly straightened Kurokawa Akane's face. He half-knelt beside her, asked Kurokawa Akane to raise her eyes and look at the actress, and gently guided her to speak a complete sentence:

"Hello... I'm Akane Kurokawa."

Under the guidance of Kitagawa Ryo, Kurokawa Akane stammered and looked into the pupils of the five people one by one to complete her self-introduction.

"Xian did a great job. It would be best if you could greet others like this before coming to the morning class every time."

Although Akane Kurokawa's first performance was not particularly satisfactory, Kitagawa Ryo still adhered to encouragement and education, and did not hesitate to give her praise.

"Then, try trust training."

"Qian needs to learn to relax her body as much as possible, but remember that relaxation is not laxity. Appropriate relaxation can relieve the tension in your heart."

Kitagawa Ryo half-knelt beside Kurokawa Akane, speaking gently and carefully bit by bit, his voice flowing slowly into her cochlea like lukewarm syrup.

"Xia, close your eyes now, count to thirty seconds in your head, and then lie back down."

"In this process, you should try to eliminate unnecessary tension and trust that the person behind you can catch you steadily."

“You may feel fear and terror at first, but once you mentally clear those emotions, your body will follow suit – relax and unwind.”

"What Qian needs to do now is to experience this feeling and the changes in her body."

Kurokawa Akane followed Kitagawa Ryo's instructions and slowly closed her eyes. When a person's vision is blocked, they will unconsciously amplify the perception of other organs to adapt to this world. So she immediately felt that Kitagawa Ryo's voice seemed to be closer, as if it was passing over the surface of the cerebral cortex over and over again.

At the same time, Kitagawa Rumi, who arrived late at the troupe because she stayed in bed for a while, finally ran to the door of the practice room on the second floor.