They all pushed me!

"Tomorrow is the day when Ruby will shoot her debut single MV. As the beginning of a super popular idol girl, the first step of Kitagawa Rumi's flower road, can I, a single promoter, be allowed to go and watch it?"

"Yeah."

She was coaxed so much that even the black stars in her pupils disappeared, and she completely lost the momentum she had at the beginning. Kitagawa Rumi returned to the form of the cute and naive sister that Kitagawa Ryo was most familiar with.

"I'll take you back to the hotel."

Beichuan Liang, who was still taking care of and controlling his sister's emotions, slowly sat up and stood up, one hand gently supporting her waist and the other hand passing between her legs.

Just letting his sister hang on him with her arms around his neck, Kitagawa Ryo carried Rumi out of the room in a princess-like manner, but he ran into the duo of Kana Arima and Akane Kurokawa who were acting a little sneaky.

"Hello, Liang-senpai, it seems that you have reconciled with your sister."

Arima Kanae looked at the brother and sister with a smile, and there was nothing unusual in her tone, and it seemed that she was sincerely happy for the two of them.

"Well, I was just about to take Ruby back to the hotel where she was going to rest. Xiao Qian was staying in the same room with Ruby, right? Let's go back together?"

Kitagawa Ryo nodded calmly, and spoke to Kurokawa Akane, who was standing on the other side with her head down and seemed a little uneasy.

"Ah...ok."

When her name was suddenly called, Akane Kurokawa looked up in panic, only to see Kitagawa Rumi being held in the arms of a princess. She stammered and asked:

"W-what's going on?"

"Ruby is a little tired."

Beichuan Liang casually said something perfunctory, glanced at his sister who was hugging him tightly, and said teasingly:

"It's not heavy anyway, so adding Xiao Qian won't be a problem."

"No."

Suddenly, he felt a warm sensation on his shoulder. Beichuan Ryo looked down and saw his sister biting his left shoulder lightly in a threatening manner, leaving a shallow tooth mark, and muttered this sentence softly.

Seeing the two siblings being so affectionate, Kurokawa Akane suddenly recalled the first time she met Kitagawa Rumi a few years ago, when she was also so affectionate with Kitagawa Ryo.

However, unlike the unique envy in her heart at that time, perhaps because of the words she just heard from Arima Kana, now Kurokawa Akane rarely had some inexplicable thoughts that made her feel a little embarrassed.

No, no, no, no, Hoshino-senpai is Ryo-senpai's fiancée, and Ruby is also Ryo-senpai's sister. It's normal for them to be so close...

[Don't you want to kiss Liang-senpai? ]

Arima Kane's words just now inexplicably came to mind again.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

As if to shake these things out of her memory, Kurokawa Akane followed behind Kitagawa Ryo, shaking her head from side to side with a flushed face.

The other party must have deliberately said something to disrupt her thoughts in order to interfere with her audition competition in a few days!

Don't be fooled, don't be fooled, don't be fooled...

[I really want to]

Woo——No.

Thinking of the matter-of-fact and confident expression that Kana Arima had just shown, an expression that she had seen countless times at auditions in the past few years, Akane Kurokawa puffed up her cheeks angrily, and her inexplicable competitive spirit emerged again.

She just didn't want to see Maganai win this 'competition'.

Yeah! That's it.

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He accompanied his sister to have dinner, watched TV, held her hand for the first time in a long time, told her a bedtime story and coaxed her to sleep thoroughly. Then, Beichuan Ryo helped her to get the quilt.

Just as he was about to fold up the corner of the quilt of Akane Kurokawa on another nearby bed, he discovered that Akane Kurokawa, who was three years younger than his sister, was sleeping very well, with her quilt tidy and no sign of being kicked around.

"Finally, I managed to fool him temporarily..."

Kitagawa Ryo suppressed the urge that inexplicably welled up in his heart, wanting to poke the cute little face of Kurokawa Akane who was sleeping peacefully in front of him. He put his hands together and walked out of the hotel room, strolling alone on the empty streets late at night, smiling at himself.

Perhaps Kitagawa Rumi had been avoiding reality before, but in the afternoon conversation, Kitagawa Ryo actually deliberately avoided the reality that his sister kissed him and shifted the topic to the agreement between idols and fans in the previous life.

He was not a fool, so he naturally felt what came from his sister in the afternoon. It was neither the feeling that Kitagawa Rumi had for her brother nor the feeling that Tendouji Sarina had for her idol, but a mixed, more passionate and impulsive feeling.

Beichuan Liang even suspected that if her sister was not only twelve years old, she might have done something more extreme, beyond kissing.

He reached out and touched his lips, heavy and light feelings alternating in Beichuan Liang's heart, and even the evening breeze blowing across his cheeks felt a little sticky.

"Hey."

Beichuan Liang suddenly heard someone calling him from behind. He turned around and saw Hoshino Ai standing there with her hands behind her back.

"Why is love here?"

"Can't I come?"

Hoshino Ai deliberately opened her eyes wide, skipped to the side of Kitagawa Ryo, and naturally held his free left hand.

"How was the talk with Ruby? Is she feeling better?"

In response to Hoshino Ai's question, Beichuan Liang was just vague:

"If you are angry with me, it should have subsided."

"That means you're still mad at me."

Hoshino Ai raised her beautiful eyebrows, turned calmly to the front of Kitagawa Ryo, moved closer to him, and rested her head on his chest.

It was obviously the same action, but compared with his ordinary sister, this time Kitagawa Ryo could clearly feel the rich and soft touch, and he pressed there almost deformedly, showing his presence.

"Ruby doesn't want me and Ryo to get married."

"There is no such thing."

"If Liang says no, then I'll take it as no."

Hoshino Ai stopped talking about this topic and instead talked about her new drama "It's Not My Fault That I'm Popular".

"It will be aired in one month."

"Well, it should be very popular."

"It's Not My Fault That I'm Popular," which is scheduled to be released in the fall of this year, will officially start airing in early October. It is indeed only one month away from the end of summer at the end of August.

"Besides, the show hasn't even started airing yet, but hasn't Ai's ending song "Love" and the accompanying dance already gained quite a bit of popularity on the short video platform?"

"That's not just my credit. To be honest, the composer and choreographer deserve more credit."

Hoshino Ai smiled, but there was a hint of pride in her tone, and she was obviously very satisfied with Kitagawa Ryo's praise.

In order to achieve the effect of promoting in advance and gathering popularity, she revealed part of the new song in the previous "B Komachi×B Komachi" program, and uploaded the full song and choreography on her personal account not long ago.

It has to be said that this folk-style song, which is interwoven with string instruments and erhu, is quite catchy. MIKIKO, who is in charge of the choreography, is worthy of being the master choreographer of the national team at the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics. She almost perfectly choreographed a whole set of magical dances that fit the rhythm of the song. Combined with the performance of Hoshino Ai herself, it has become popular on all major video platforms in the past two days, and it has even been given a separate title of "Love Dance" to distinguish it.

"I remember that in the ending song of the TV series, all the main actors had to dance to it."

"Uh-huh, do you want me to teach you?"

Although it was a question, Hoshino Ai did not give Kitagawa Ryo a chance to answer. She moved around behind him very lightly and held his arms from behind with their shoulders against each other. At first, she was very serious and pretentious, but later she just waved her arms around aimlessly, as if she was playing a game that she never got tired of.

As Hoshino Ai controlled Kitagawa Ryo's arms to swing back and forth with a smile, she recalled Kitagawa Ryo's psychological analysis of the male protagonist in the script:

If you receive unreliable love when you are young, you might think that the nature and characteristics of love are unreliable, but later you will realize that only the love that you are sure of can give you a sense of reality.

Now she has experienced this reality, and this reality has made Hoshino Ai regain her original longing for the wedding.

The two of them danced awkwardly and stumblingly on the moonlit path.

It turns out that Liang, like the scheduled wedding, was never the end of love.

It’s just the original driving force of love.

Chapter 24: The Relationship between the Sun and the Sunflower

Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.

On the first day of the MV's official shooting, MEM啾 and Samejima Abiko, who lived in the same room, both woke up early at the same time, yawned, said good morning to each other, and walked to the sink together.

"You go first. I'm just going to go see how Ruby is doing."

Because the size and spaciousness of the washbasin were not enough to support two people washing up together, MEM啾 also kindly gave up her seat and signaled Samejima Abiko to brush her teeth and wash her face first.

"it is good."

Samejima Abiko rubbed her sleepy eyes and responded. After being an idol for a while, she had begun to gradually step out of her overly closed little social circle and gradually adapted to interacting with other people.

After walking out of his room, MEM啾 slowly walked to the room on the same floor where Kitagawa Rumi and Kurokawa Akane lived. He knocked on the door twice gently and found that no one answered. Thinking that the two children were probably sleeping soundly, he yawned and walked back.

As a result, when she just walked back to their room, she was somewhat surprised to see Samejima Abiko in front of the sink, holding two toothbrushes with a serious look on her face, brushing her teeth one on the left and one on the right. She looked quite familiar with it, so it should not be her first time.

"This is?"

MEM tilted his head in confusion.

“It’s a double brushing.”

Noticing the return of MEM, Samejima Abiko temporarily put down the two toothbrushes in her hands and introduced them to her seriously:

"In this way, I can brush my teeth twice as fast, which saves me twice as much time. After all, I don't want to keep you waiting too anxiously."

After finishing the explanation, she took two more toothbrushes in her mouth, repeated the previous steps for a while, picked up the toothbrush holder, and rinsed her mouth.

"The only bad news is that the amount of toothpaste you use will inevitably double."

Throwing the two toothbrushes into the toothbrush holder, Samejima Abiko looked melancholy at the tube of toothpaste in her hand, which was almost empty and only had a soft, shrunken tube left:

“It feels like it won’t take this shoot to be over.”

Thinking of her temporary roommate's almost mysophobic habit of brushing his teeth after every meal, MEM啾 also smiled enthusiastically:

"If you run out of it, you can use mine if you don't mind."

"Thank you, but I'm not used to using other brands and flavors of toothpaste."

Samejima Abiko turned the toothpaste tube in her hand, and pinched the wrinkled surface with her fingers. There was a head portrait of someone printed on it:

"Here."

"Isn't this the one that Ryo endorses?"

Just now, I didn't pay much attention to it because it was far away. MEM啾 took another closer look and recognized the familiar orange color against her lips. A look of nostalgia appeared on her face:

“I used this a lot when I was a kid.”

"But you're almost fifteen, Abi, right? I stopped using children's toothpaste when I was in junior high school..."

Hearing what MEM-chu said, Samejima Abiko also sighed helplessly:

"I didn't use this at all before, and to be honest, when I was a kid I didn't really care what brand or flavor the toothpaste was. They weren't as attractive to me as the little picture books that were sometimes included with the toothpaste."

"but--"

At this point, Samejima Abiko also changed the subject:

"Ever since I met Ruby, she would always mention this every morning when we went to school together, and she would always breathe out at me, saying things like how her brother praised her for brushing her teeth so cleanly this morning, or whether she could smell the scent of orange or not..."

"Now that you mention it, it really sounds like something Ruby would do."

MEM nodded in agreement:

"But has Ruby been so clingy since she was a child?"

"It's been like this since I met them, brother and sister."

MEMchus replied incoherently while wiping her face with a hot towel:

"And MEM should have noticed that they are different from ordinary siblings. Although they are not related by blood, they are closer than many biological siblings."

"For example, our current ACE group, from the selection of members before the formation to the operation of the group after the formation, it is basically all supervised by Liang alone."

After washing up, Samejima Abiko was obviously much more awake than when she just got up. She leaned against the wall and suddenly asked:

"MEM, I remember that you were the winner of the special prize in the last All-Japan National Beauty Contest."

"Right."

Although MEM啾 didn't know why Samejima Abiko suddenly brought this up, she also humbly waved her hand:

"But that was almost three years ago."

The All-Japan National Beauty Contest does not actually have a fixed interval for selection. Sometimes it is held once a year, and sometimes it is not held for three or four years.

I don’t know if it’s because the winner of the last special award, MEM啾, basically faded out of the public eye after winning the championship, but since MEM啾, there has been no movement in the new competition.

"Actually, when Ruby had just celebrated her twelfth birthday earlier this year, she thought about participating in the beauty pageant like you, MEM. But she was unlucky and the new edition has never been held."