Tokyo bubble life

In February, the cold wind blows so hard that people just want to hide inside their homes.

In the past, even big animals such as cows and horses would hide in livestock sheds during the winter, but now hard-working workers have to go out in the cold wind and work in the company shivering in the coldest weather of the year. .

So, this means that humans are inferior to beasts~

"Sure enough, life is life when you don't have to go to work!"

Nagayama Naoki was under the heater of Yamazakura Garden, looking at the cold dry landscape in the yard through the glass partition, touching Yutaro and sighing,

"Yingtaro, you look like you don't even want to go out! In such a cold weather, it's most comfortable to stay at home~"

Mrs. Nonaka Mozato, who was busy in the kitchen, couldn't help rolling her eyes when she heard this. She had been living with this family for almost a month, and she gradually understood the true nature of the Nagayama couple.

Apart from being good at making money, being talented and handsome, they are just two idiots!

If it were any other wealthy family, shouldn't they be thinking about their ambitions like opening up new tracks, occupying the market, and controlling the industry all day long? But Naoki Nagayama actually thinks about not going out to work!

The other, as a wealthy wife, did not think about spending her husband's money on shopping and partying with famous ladies to compete with each other. Instead, she just stayed at home to raise her baby. She even recently opened a design studio at home and painted all day long. I've been painting for a while, and it looks like I'll do it myself later.

If you want to wear trendy new clothes, just go to a brand store in Shinjuku and buy them!

"It's true that I can't enjoy life even if I'm so rich," Nonaka Mozato complained in his heart, "If I were a rich wife, I would definitely buy all the clothes in the clothing store in one go, wearing one set and losing the other!"

At this moment, Akina came down from upstairs with a full belly.

Akina was five months pregnant, her belly became more and more obvious, and she felt sleepy more often, but as long as she got up, she didn't want to lie down in bed.

No, when I walked down, I was still holding a sketchbook in my hand and wearing big black-rimmed glasses. It was obvious that I was going to my newly established design studio in a while.

"Naoki Sanzao~" Akina greeted her husband energetically, and then petted the dog that came close to her, "It's so early, Yutaro!"

"Why don't you sleep a little longer?" Naoki Nagayama asked, "There's nothing wrong."

"I can't sleep anymore. I don't know what's going on, but the baby is kicking me." Akina touched her belly. The baby's fetal movements became more frequent. As a mother, she felt it most clearly.

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Nagayama Naoki walked to Akina, bent down and brought it close to her belly, and said seriously to the baby inside:

"Good daughter, you have to be good, otherwise Akina's mother will spank you after you give birth!"

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Nakamori Akina burst out laughing, stretched out her hand and patted Nagayama Naoki on the back.

"Naoki-san, what are you talking about? See if I don't hit you first."

"Eh, eh? I'm helping Akina educate her children!" Naoki Nagayama smiled and dodged, "I really don't know the heart of a good person!"

"You haven't even given birth to your child yet!"

"This is prenatal education!"

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Early in the morning, the two young couples started their new day energetically. This made Nonaka Mori, who was serving breakfast, see this and couldn't help but shake his head again.

They are indeed two idiots.

However, I am indeed very happy!

"Naoki-san, Akina-san, breakfast is ready~"

"Hi, come right away" X2

Nagayama Naoki still maintains the habit of reading the newspaper while eating breakfast. There is no way, now there is no mobile phone to check, so he can only rely on this to prepare meals.

And there is news related to him in today's newspaper.

"The list of winners of the Film Academy Awards has been reported!" Naoki Nagayama said while looking at the movie version of the article, "And sure enough, as before, the Blue Ribbon and Film Weekly Awards were also announced at the same time."

"A movie award?"

Akina came over to take a look. Sure enough, it was the one they judged when they were at the Red Fish Institute. They also lived in the Red Fish Institute for more than half a month. Naturally, Akina already knew the winners of the Film Academy Awards.

Looking at it now, the other two awards are actually very similar.

"Sure enough, Kurosawa Akira's "Ran" is the biggest winner!" Akina exclaimed, "Last year Naoki-san's films couldn't compete with Kurosawa Akira."

"After all, he is the great director who made "Seven Samurai"!"

Nagayama Naoki has actually never met Akira Kurosawa. What he has seen is that the two of them have no friendship. He can only say that he knows that there is such a number one figure in the film industry.

One of them is a highly respected senior film master, and the other is a new upstart in the film industry who has gained fame. Logically speaking, they should have admired each other. However, Naoki Nagayama's rise was too fast and too high, while Akira Kurosawa's ambitions have not diminished as he gets older. , I don’t know why, but I feel like an opponent.

Nagayama Naoki's thoughts last year were mainly on the Palme d'Or in the first half of the year and the Tokyo Film Festival in the second half of the year. The director's films were mainly innovative, and naturally they were not as good as "Ran", which was carefully directed by Akira Kurosawa.

So Akira Kurosawa won almost half of the three major film awards this year.

"Aren't Naoki-san unwilling to give in?" Akina asked curiously.

"Why don't you want to be unwilling?" Nagayama Naoki said with a smile, "Can't anyone else except me win the prize?!"

Naoki Nagayama has always been very liberal about the awarding of awards. After all, these movies are actually the masterpieces of other future masters and he is just letting them be shown to the world in advance.

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Akina ate her breakfast in silence and stopped talking. She still felt that her husband should win all the awards.

Nagayama Naoki continued to flip through the newspaper, but when he saw a certain piece of news, he subconsciously stopped his hand - a new work by a famous artist, Tingshu takes you to experience "Tokyo Love Story".

"Is "Tokyo Love Story" on sale?" Nagayama Naoki was a little surprised, "Is it ahead of schedule?"

When Shogakukan communicated before, it was indeed said that it would be in the next few days, but why did it appear in the newspaper today?

"Naoki-san's new book is on sale!" Akina said in surprise, "That's great, I want to be one of the first readers to support it!"

".Don't you already have it? You should try printing the collector's edition."

"No, going to the bookstore to buy it is to support Naoki-san!"

"Using all our money to buy books, only 15% goes to me," Naoki Nagayama complained. "Is this supporting me? Is this supporting the bookstore?"

"This is different. I don't care, I just want to buy it!"

Akina became stubborn, and Naoki Nagayama could only succumb to the power of the pregnant woman.

After breakfast, Naoki Nagayama called Kuniji Morikawa of Shogakukan and asked about the specific situation.

"Ah, nationwide sales will indeed have to wait until the day after tomorrow," Kuniji Morikawa explained, "This should be a sales measure of Kinokuniya Bookstore, releasing some information in advance to increase its popularity."

"These large chain bookstores sometimes find newspapers to place advertisements. Or they find novel critics to build momentum and put a few books in stores in advance as early adopters."

“But the unified sales time will still be the day after tomorrow!”

Nagayama Naoki nodded: "That's it."

"By the way, Naoki-san. Our Shogakukan is also going to have a promotional event." Nagayama Naoki happened to call, and Morikawa Kuniji also discussed by the way, "Would you like to prepare some signed books as prizes for the event?"

"Signed books?" Nagayama Naoki nodded, just like Akina's signed photo, "How many books do you want?"

"Why don't you just get a thousand copies?"

Nagayama Naoki was stunned for a moment, and then a tic-tac-toe appeared on his face, "Kuniji-san, I'll give you another chance to organize your words!"

"Hahahaha~" Kuniji Morikawa laughed, "No kidding. Naoki-san, please help me sign a hundred copies. This will be no problem!"

(Kunji Morikawa thought: It’s a pity that it didn’t succeed!)

Nagayama Naoki then let Morikawa Kunji go:

"Kuniji-san, please send the book to Sansakura-in. I happen to be free today."

"Hey, please wait a moment, I'll have Furuya Yuya send you there right away."

Hirata Ryoto, who came to Tokyo to work hard, is the kind of worker who has to work in the cold wind.

But fortunately, his job is in the bookstore, so he can take a break when there is no one around. In such a cold weather, there are not many customers coming to the bookstore, so he can naturally relax a little.

I even took out the newly arrived novel from the library and read it in advance. This is also a work benefit~

""Tokyo Love Story". Teiki" Hirata Ryōto glanced at the cover, looking at the sketch of the dark and thin man on the cover, and the girl with a sunny face, and smacked his lips, "This is the male protagonist, how do you look like that?" Looks like he came from the countryside.”

The stereotype these days is that workers who come to big cities from the countryside are all dark, thin, and hard-working. There are no city dwellers who are white and unexposed by the wind and sun, and fat who live a prosperous life. Just like myself~

The heroine next to her looks like a city girl, with a confident and sunny smile.

"Nazuki. It's Naoki Nagayama." Hirata curled his lips, "It's the harem story again, it's just like him."

The kind that everyone likes the protagonist

He opened the cover and started reading. The first scene was actually the heroine Akana Rika going to the airport to pick up Nagao Kanji.

"The bad fate started from the first sight~"

Hirata Ryoto complained and read on, but unexpectedly he became addicted to it all of a sudden.

"Ho ho ho~ Isn't this a plot about a male protagonist? Nagao Kanji is actually a bitch."

"Hey, Akana Rika is not stupid. She actually dated her boss? She is very brave to have an extramarital affair~"

"This love triangle"

Hirata Ryoto was amazed when he saw it. Although he knew it was a love story and it was written in the name, the male and female protagonists in it were completely different from those in other novels!

"This complex emotional line is similar to "Century of Love"~"

It is indeed a love story in Tokyo, just like the city itself, it is full of complexity! Hirata couldn't help but become curious about Nagayama Naoki. Why did the story he wrote so echo the experience of urban migrant workers? !

Obviously I heard that he has everything going smoothly. He became famous at a young age and has never worked a part-time job!

Unknowingly, I have been seeing noon

Just as Hirata was looking at it, female college student Rika Inoue who often came to buy books walked into the store and saw the clerk reading a novel with a look of fascination:

"Hirata-san, what are you looking at, so entranced?"

"Ah," Hirata Ryoto reacted. Seeing that he was a regular customer, he responded with a smile, "Haha, it's Naoki Nagayama's new novel, "Tokyo Love Story."

As he said that, he handed the novel to her to read.

"Eh? Is it a new novel?! Is it back to pure love this time?!" Rika Inoue is a fan of Naoki Nagayama, but the last book "Paradise Lost" was so bold, which really surprised the young She was a little scared.

"It's not pure love. It's urban love." Hirata Ryoto shook his head, "But it's a very interesting Tokyo love story, which is both complicated and simple."

This book "Tokyo Love Story" seems to have a complicated emotional line, but the real core is very simple. The busy city cannot accommodate the process of childhood sweethearts falling in love over time. The moment the eyes of men and women meet, they can't help but be moved.

Akaname Rika loves passionately and devotedly, and loves her lover with all her heart; Nagao Kanji loves restrainedly and timidly, and carefully chooses safe emotions.

So Nagao Kanji will never understand why someone can throw himself into a love without hesitation, can express love so passionately, and pursue love so bravely.

As a clerk in a bookstore, he has read many novels, and he thinks they are interesting, so there must be something that attracts him.

Inoue Reika flipped through two pages and became interested:

"Hirata-san, where is this book? I'll go buy one."

"It will be on sale the day after tomorrow, but it's already in the warehouse. I took it out to read it secretly." Hirata Ryoto said with a smile, "But if Reika-chan wants to read it, it's okay to take it first."

"Is it okay?" Inoue Reika was a little surprised.

"Hahaha, it's okay!" Hirata Ryoto replied with a smile, "We are so familiar with each other!"

"Haha, it's so good~ Hirata-san!"

Inoue Reika showed a sweet and sunny smile, as if it was the warm sun in winter that warmed other people's hearts and calmed down the uneasy hearts~

At this moment, Hirata Ryoto seemed to understand what Nagao Kanji felt when he first saw Akaname Rika

"Sure enough, a bright smile makes people feel warm."

Inoue Reika, who was excitedly flipping through the novel, didn't pay attention. Seeing Hirata Ryoto's thoughtful expression, he asked:

"Hirata-san, what's wrong?"

"Ah"

Hirata Ryoto looked at Inoue Reika in front of him, and suddenly felt a little impulsive in his heart,

"I was thinking, if I want to find a girlfriend, I must find a girl who smiles as sweetly as Reika-chan!!!"

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Hearing this, Inoue Reika was stunned, and even Hirata Ryoto was a little stunned.

The two people at the door didn't know what to say or do for a moment. The atmosphere in the bookstore became a little awkward.

"Hirata-san, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Inoue Reika's face turned red, and she raised the novel to cover her face, then stamped her feet as if she wanted to avoid it, or as if she was shy.

But she didn't leave~

The cold wind outside blew, and the air in the bookstore seemed to be warmer, making Hirata Ryoto even want to unbutton his collar.

"Reika-chan, do you want to have lunch together?!"

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The sunlight that sneaked in from somewhere was shining on the cover of the novel held up by Inoue Reika. The male and female protagonists in the sketch smiled and looked at the scene in the bookstore. "Tokyo Love Story" seemed to have become concrete~