I'm surrounded by women.

It’s not that Katori Genzakura is too lazy to work during school hours, nor does she think the work intensity is too high. She was just thinking about talking to Bunkan Mihui about increasing her work intensity when she was at school.

However, having lived two lives, she is naturally not a naive student. She does have a good relationship with Koizumi Kyoga, but when it comes to shooting time, both voice actors and artists are very sensitive.

If filming takes place outside of the contract period, how will the salary and benefits be calculated?

And this kind of behavior, to put it simply, is equivalent to working overtime, and the guests participating in the filming with you are like colleagues in the company. Now the company asks you to work overtime on your day off, if you agree to it casually, you may not be liked by both sides. Your colleagues will think you are a big spender, and the company may even take advantage of your work for free.

Perhaps from a newcomer's perspective, a director's willingness to allow them to appear an extra day, and their willingness to agree, presents a prime opportunity to do a favor. However, the entertainment and voice acting industries are a world built on personal connections.

New voice actors who hold this idea in mind will often suffer a great loss. It seems that every agency in the industry is not in contact with each other, but in fact, there are a lot of twists and turns and communications between them. If you agree to perform an extra day with the director, you may indeed be thanked by the other party.

However, the other party may turn around and tell your story to a colleague with whom he has a good relationship. Then when this colleague director invites you to participate in his project, he may treat you as a soft persimmon.

In the industry, don't think too badly of everyone, but also don't think too well of everyone.

This is the experience that Katori Genzakura learned from her previous life.

So to put it simply, no matter how good my relationship with Koizumi Kyoko is, we need to make things clear at this time.

Even brothers have to settle accounts clearly.

"Director Koizumi said at the time that the main content of this extra episode is to tell the story of a certain couple's time after school. The couple she plans to film today is you and Sanjiao Chuhua. The contract is here."

After Bunkan Mihui finished speaking, she took out a contract from the side pocket of the driver's seat.

After taking the contract, Katori Genzakura smiled slightly and said, "I, Koizumi Kyo, am a very particular person."

It is generally a pleasure to work with such people.

Thinking of this, Katori Genzakura flipped through the book roughly. When she found nothing wrong, she picked up the pen prepared by Bunkan Mihui and signed her name on it.

"How long until the shoot?"

"The filming location is very close to here, in a nearby park. It's less than five minutes' drive there. We still have an hour until the scheduled filming time. Because we didn't know if you would agree, the production crew is still waiting at the company. If we call them now, even if they leave from the company and go to the park to set up the equipment, it will take at least two hours before we can start filming."

Mihui Bundate roughly calculated the time. She originally had no concept of time, but since becoming the agent of Katori Gensakura and Kita Ikuyo, Mihui Bundate has been cramming a lot of time management knowledge and even enrolled herself in a cram school taught by a time management master.

Katori Genzakura looked at the time, then chuckled and said with a hint of mischief:

"Sister Meihui, I've always been the type who eats early. Usually, I start eating as soon as I get home from school. If you want to take me to work overtime now, that's fine, but you can't let me go to the shoot on an empty stomach, right?"

After listening to this, Bunkan Mihui instantly understood what Katori Genzakura meant. Although she was a little short of money recently because her father had not paid her salary, as her parents' biological daughter, could she really bear to see herself having no money to spend?

I could just treat Katori Genzakura to a big meal and then use my credit card. Since I can't pay off the credit card anyway, I can just roll on the ground in front of my parents, crying and making a fuss.

"No problem, Genying, what do you want to eat? This is my first time near your school. Do you know any good restaurants?"

"I want to eat that."

Katori Genzakura pointed to a restaurant not far away. Bunkan Mie looked in the direction Katori Genzakura pointed and saw a Chinese hot pot restaurant.

"Tie Guo, I think it mainly sells teppanyaki, right? It looks delicious. Okay, let's go to this restaurant."

As Bunkan Meihui said this, she stepped on the accelerator and drove forward.

As expected, upon entering the restaurant, one could smell the reassuring aroma of the iron pots and beef, chicken, mutton and pork.

There is also a gas stove on each table. After you order the dishes, the chef will fry the dishes in the kitchen first, then bring them over together with the iron pot and continue to cook on the gas stove.

"Yuan Ying, which one do you want to eat? You're welcome, just order whatever you want." Bunkan Meihui, who had a credit card in her wallet, felt that she was incredibly strong.

Katori Genzakura had never been to this restaurant before, so she flipped through the menu and ordered a signature dish:

"Let's have a three-in-one iron pot combination of beef, pork and chicken."

Chapter 196: Go to college or get married?

"Excuse me, would you two like to order some main courses?" After the waitress wrote down the dishes ordered by Katori Gensakura, she started asking directly if they wanted to order some main courses.

"Eh? Is one dish enough? There are two of us." Bunkan Mihui, who was drinking cold water, asked curiously after hearing this.

Generally speaking, restaurant waiters will start asking whether you want to order a staple food and what kind of staple food you want after they think the dishes are almost ready.

But now they have only ordered one dish, and they are directly asked if they want to order a main course? Is it because they look like they have a small appetite?

After hearing Bunkan Meihui's question, the waitress quickly explained, "Because our teppanyaki is usually made in large portions by default, if two people eat, one dish is enough."

As she spoke, in order to let Katori Genying and the others feel the portion of the teppanyaki in the store more intuitively, the waitress pointed her finger in the direction of another table of guests not far away. The guests at that table ordered seafood beef teppanyaki, also for two people, and the portion looked really big.

Even though Katori Genzakura and Bundate Mie are both big eaters, they were still a little surprised when they saw the size of the teppanyaki. They didn't expect that the teppanyaki was not expensive but the portion was so large.

"I think the two of us should be able to finish it, right?" Katori Genzakura asked doubtfully in a tentative tone.

"You can finish it, but it's not recommended to eat it all, even if you have half left to take away," said Bunkan Mihui.

Recently, while Katori Genzakura was in school, Bunkan Mihui also followed some seniors in the agent industry to ask for advice.

I learned a lot of new things.

So much so that after learning about this, the general manager of the Wenguan Museum couldn't help but sigh: My daughter has grown up.

Because Katori Genzakura is a girl, when asking for advice from the agent, Bunkan Mihui specifically looked for agents whose responsible artists and agents were female.

Relying on the relationship with Wenguan General Manager, Wenguan Meihui also learned experience from many excellent agents.

After calming down to study, Bunkan Mihui suddenly realized that there are so many things to consider when being a manager.

For example, in the current situation, Bunkan Mihui learned it from an agent. When there are still a few hours before the announcement, the voice actor may want to eat because he is hungry.

Although voice actors do not have too many requirements for diet, as an agent, if you want the voice actor's acting career to last longer, there are still some details that the agent needs to remember.

As it is now, although voice actors are allowed to eat, considering the type of announcements that will follow, there needs to be some requirements on how much they can eat.

If you're just eating one or two burgers, then there's no big problem, but if you're having a more formal meal like teppanyaki with a main course, then the voice actor should eat a little less.

Especially when the next announced work is dubbing.

Then we can’t let the voice actors eat too much.

There is a saying that goes, only when you are full can you have the strength to work.

However, the work of voice actors is different. Sometimes if a voice actor eats too much, it will affect their subsequent performance. So if you want the voice actors to perform normally, the best amount is to let them eat only until they are 80% full.

Eat to the point where you're no longer hungry but still want to eat.

That's why even though she knew that she and Katori Genzakura could finish all the teppanyaki, Bunkan Mihui still asked Katori Genzakura to eat less.

Even though Bunkan Mie hasn't explained her suggestion yet, Katori Gensakura could guess the reason. After all, she was a senior in the voice actor industry in her previous life, so she knew about small things like not being able to eat enough before the announcement.

Even if Bunkan Mihui didn't say anything, Katori Genzakura would not let herself eat too much.

Katori Gensakura still remembers that in her previous life, when her career was on the rise, before her agent had the chance to make any demands on her, she had already begun to impose very strict requirements on herself in terms of food, clothing, housing, transportation, etc. This was to ensure that her dubbing skills could remain at their peak for a long time.

When choosing the main course, Katori Genzakura and Bundate Mie each ordered a bowl of rice.

Originally, smelling the fragrance in the air, Katori Genzakura wanted to order a few more bowls of rice, but she had no choice but to take a break after finishing her meal because it was probably time for filming. Even if the next job was not dubbing, she couldn't eat too much.

Fortunately, this restaurant is not too far away, so I can pick a free time in the future to come here for a good meal.

When the ordered teppanyaki was served, Katori Genzakura's stomach suddenly made a clear urging sound.

Even Wenguan Meihui, who had just eaten a piece of meat floss bread before coming here, felt an indescribable emptiness in her stomach at this moment.

After picking up a piece of pork with chopsticks, Katori Genzakura took a bite and instantly felt the satisfaction brought by meat and iron plate.

"That was a close call. I almost starved to death." Katori Genzakura breathed a long sigh of relief.

After listening to this, Bunkan Meihui couldn't help but ask with concern:

"Yuan Ying, didn't you have lunch?"

"I've eaten, but I started to feel hungry as soon as I entered this restaurant. While waiting for the food to be served, the feeling of hunger became more and more obvious." Katori Genzakura said with a satisfied smile on her face while eating meat.

"Oh, I thought you were also a poor guy who didn't eat lunch." Bunkan Meihui couldn't help but sigh when she said this.

"Didn't you have lunch?"

"No, I was busy in a meeting at noon. A new person recently joined the firm. He hasn't even finished his probation period yet, but he's already acting so arrogant. Who would be so kind as to drag everyone into a meeting in the middle of the day? Only we have better tempers. If it were the technical department, I'm sure the newcomer would be beaten on the conference table by the big guys in the technical department before he could even speak for a few minutes."

"Is your firm really that rebellious? A bunch of regular employees were dragged into a meeting by a newbie who just joined the company and hasn't even finished his probation period?"

After hearing this, Katori Genzakura was also a little surprised. Which newcomer is so arrogant?

——A new employee who hadn’t even finished his probation period dragged a group of regular old employees to a meeting, causing them to not even have lunch.

What a niche sentence.

"Haha, it's amazing, right? This new guy doesn't have much background, he just graduated from a decent university, Kyoto University, but this is Tokyo, he can beat a bunch of graduates from famous universities to death with one stick!

Oh, forget it, this time I'll just treat it as a favor to the newcomer. This will be the first time I accompany a newcomer to a meeting, and it will also be the last time."

Bunkan Mihui said somewhat helplessly. Although she had been looking very energetic in front of Gen Ying just now, she was actually already too tired to sleep.

It was only now, after eating the meat, that I finally regained my spirits.

Bunkan Mihui has this kind of personality. She may not be a greedy person, but she always has to eat three meals a day.

Whenever she missed a meal, Bunkan Mihui would look very tired, just like she did just now.

"Come to think of it, Director Koizumi seems to be quite considerate of you, Gen Ying. After we finish filming 'Tachibana Love,' why don't we invite her here for dinner? After all, with Director Koizumi's personality, she might not go if you formally invite her to a high-end restaurant. But if it's a restaurant with a casual atmosphere like this, she'll probably agree readily."

At this point, Bunkan Meihui smiled and said:

"I learned this from an agent who had worked with Director Koizumi before. Although Director Koizumi was very strict during filming, he was very humble in private.

He has a very strong personality at work, but is very easy to get along with in private.

Ah… people like this are generally very capable of achieving things, especially after entering the workplace and starting to work, you’ll find that those who can completely separate their work and personalities are truly amazing.”

"Sister Mihui, aren't you like that?" Katori Genzakura asked half-jokingly.

Bunkan Meihui shook her head decisively and said:

"No, no, how could I possibly have such a personality? Although I long for a personality that can completely separate work and life, I'm actually quite clear in my heart that, at least for me right now, I still have a long way to go to achieve such a personality. If I encounter something at work now, I might still be thinking about it when I get home from get off work. It's impossible for me to have one mood when I go to work and another mood when I get off work."

Having said that, Bunkan Meihui stretched herself and then said:

"It seems that both Yuan Ying and I have a long way to go."

Facing Bunkan Mihui's sentiment, Katori Genzakura shrugged and said in approval:

"correct."

Bunkan Mihui continued to eat. She thought that Gen Sakura agreed with what she said that there was still a long way to go on the road of voice acting.

But in fact, what Katori Gensakura thought was that there was a long way to go, which meant - to find out the truth about Bai Cangjian's death.

After the meal, Katori Genzakura originally suggested going Dutch, although she initially joked that Bunkan Mie should treat them, but when it came to paying the bill, Katori Genzakura still suggested going Dutch.

"Although I know your family is quite wealthy, Yuan Ying, I'm not that short of money. Although I may be a little short of money right now, it doesn't matter. If I really had no money to spend, I would definitely go to my dad and cry and make a fuss. Don't worry, let me treat you to this meal.

After all, I am an adult, and as an adult, it would be a bit too embarrassing to let a child treat me to a meal."

After Bunkan Meihui finished speaking, she chuckled and said:

"You may not believe it, but I know I can still get some living expenses from my mom. Although it's not as much as when I was in college, it's at least living expenses."

"Okay then, you treat me this time. By the way, don't treat me like a child. I'm a high school student now." What Katori Gensakura wanted to say to Bunkan Mihui was that she was already an adult in her previous life.

There is one bad thing about being reborn from an adult back to being a student. That is, your thinking and logic in doing things are fixed at the adult age stage. Even if you return to your student days, you will still maintain the habits of your adult age in doing things and socializing.

However, Katori Genzakura is doing better now, because she was not reincarnated as a student, but was directly reincarnated as a baby, which can be regarded as the beginning of her second life in Japan. Now she has lived as Katori Genzakura for nearly ten years. Even though she still occasionally solves problems in an adult way, which seems a bit inconsistent, she has finally gotten used to her current underage status.

"Haha, I didn't expect you to have such a cute side, Yuan Ying. You're clearly an underage student, but you always want to be treated like an adult. How adorable!

Don't be anxious. When I was in high school, I also had this idea for a while, but after I became an adult, I actually hoped that I would not grow up so fast.

There's a saying that goes, "Don't think about growing up quickly. The adult world isn't good at all. Grow up slowly."

It was only after I graduated from university that I understood what this sentence meant.

However, some of my high school friends understood what this sentence meant right after they graduated. After all, when I was in high school, many students in my class chose to get married, have children, start a family, and enter the workforce right after graduating from their senior year.

After listening to this, Katori Genzakura couldn't help but smile. When graduating from high school in Japan, nearly half of the students choose not to take the college entrance examination and go directly into society.

Even Katori Genzakura herself has considered that if possible, she would not take the college entrance examination.

Katori Genzakura doesn't have much yearning for college. If he can really find a girl he loves during his three years of high school, Katori Genzakura would be willing to give up further studies after graduating from high school and start building his own family with his beloved girl.

"Yuan Ying, are you planning to take the college entrance exam?"

I don’t know if it’s because people automatically develop this hobby when they reach a certain age. After entering society, when I look at children who are still in school, I can’t help but ask them in my spare time: Are you preparing for the college entrance examination?

Bunkan Mihui didn't understand what was going on in her mind, but she just liked asking this question.

"Me? I haven't decided yet." Katori Gensakura told the truth. She really hadn't decided whether to go to college or not.