Tokyo Bubble Life

Chapter 1005 Chapter 1014, Tokyo love story, both complicated and simple!

Chapter 1005 Chapter 1014, Tokyo love story, both complicated and simple!

By February, the biting cold wind makes people want to stay at home.

In the past, even large animals such as cattle and horses would hide in the barn to hibernate during the winter, but now hard-working workers have to brave the cold wind and go out to work in the company shivering in the coldest weather of the year.

So, this is why humans are inferior to animals~

"Sure enough, a life without work is a real life!"

Naoki Nagayama was in the heated room of Yamazakura-in, looking at the cold and lonely dry landscape in the courtyard through the glass partition door, touching Eitaro and sighing,

"Yingtaro, you don't even want to go out! It's so cold, it's best to stay at home~"

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

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

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

As for the other rich wife, she did not think about spending her husband's money on shopping or competing with other wives of celebrities. Instead, she stayed at home to take care of her pregnancy. Recently, she even opened a design studio at home, drawing all day long. It seems that she will also make her own things in the future.

If you want to wear new and trendy clothes, you can just go to the brand stores in Shinjuku and buy them!

"Really? You don't even know how to enjoy life even though you're so rich," Nonaka Mari complained in her heart, "If I were a rich lady, I would definitely buy all the clothes in the clothing store in one go, wear one set and throw one away!"

Just at this moment, Akina came down from the stairs with a bulging belly.

Mingcai is five months pregnant, and her belly is becoming more and more obvious. She feels sleepy more often, but once she gets up, she doesn't want to lie in bed.

Look, when he walked down, he was holding a sketchbook in his hand and wearing large black-framed glasses on his face. It was obvious that he was going to his newly established design studio in a while.

"Good morning, Naoki-san~" Akina greeted her husband in high spirits, and then petted the dog that came up to her, "Good morning, Yingtaro too!"

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

"I can't sleep. I don't know what's going on, the baby is kicking me." Mingcai touched her belly. The baby's movements became more and more frequent. As a mother, she felt it best.

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

"My dear daughter, you have to be a good boy, or else after the baby is born, Akina's mother will spank you!"

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Akina Nakamori burst out laughing and reached out to pat Naoki Nagayama on the back.

"Naoki-san, what are you talking about? I'm going to hit you first."

"Eh hey hey? I'm helping Akina educate her child!" Naoki Nagayama dodged with a smile, "You really don't know how to appreciate 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 a new day full of energy, which made Nozaka Mari, who was serving breakfast, couldn't help but shake his head.

They are indeed two fools.

But, it is indeed very happy!

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

"Hi, I'll be right here" X2

Naoki Nagayama still keeps the habit of reading the newspaper while eating breakfast. There is no other way, now he has no mobile phone to use, so he can only rely on this to eat with his meal.

And there is a piece of news about him in today's newspaper.

"The list of winners of the Academy Awards has been announced!" Naoki Nagayama said as he looked at the film edition article. "And just like before, the Blue Ribbon and Film Junpo Awards were also announced at the same time."

"A movie award?"

Mingcai came over to take a look, and sure enough, it was the one that was judged when they were at Hongyuyuan. Mingcai had also lived at Hongyuyuan for more than half a month, so naturally she already knew the list of winners of the Film Academy Awards.

Now I look at it, the other two awards are actually pretty much the same.

"As expected, Kurosawa's Ran is the biggest winner!" Akina exclaimed, "Last year, Naoki-san's movies couldn't compete with Kurosawa's."

"After all, he's the famous director who made Seven Samurai!"

In fact, Naoki Nagayama has never met Akira Kurosawa. He has met him, but the two of them did not have much friendship. He could only say that he knew there was such a person in the film industry.

One of them is a highly respected senior film master, and the other is a rising star in the film industry. Logically, they should appreciate each other. However, Naoki Nagayama rose too fast and too high, while Akira Kurosawa remained ambitious as he got older. Somehow, they felt like rivals.

Last year, Naoki Nagayama focused 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 films he directed were mainly innovative, and naturally could not compare to "Ran" carefully directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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

"Naoki-san, aren't you unwilling to accept this?" Akina asked curiously.

"Why would I be unwilling to accept this?" Naoyama Naoki said with a smile, "Is it possible that no one else can win the award except me?!"

Naoki Nagayama has always been very open-minded about who will receive the awards. After all, these films are actually masterpieces of other future masters, and he is just showing them to the world in advance.

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

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

"Is this... Tokyo Love Story has started selling?" Naoki Nagayama was a little surprised. "Is it ahead of schedule?"

When we communicated with Shogakukan before, they did say it would be in the next few days, but why is it in the newspaper today?

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

".You already have it, or it's a pre-print of the collector's edition."

"No, buying it at the bookstore is the way to support Naoki-san!"

"You use our money to buy books, and I only get 15%," Naoki Nagayama complained, "Is this supporting me? This is 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 tyranny of the pregnant woman.

After breakfast, Naoki Nagayama called Kuniharu Morikawa of Shogakukan to inquire about the details.

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

"These large bookstore chains sometimes find newspapers to place advertisements themselves, or they look for novel critics to build momentum and put a few copies in their stores in advance as a trial."

"But the unified sales time is still the day after tomorrow!"

Naoki Nagayama nodded: "I see."

"By the way, Naoki-san, we are also going to hold a promotion at Shogakukan." Naoki Nagayama just called, and Morikawa Kuniharu took the opportunity to discuss, "Should we prepare some signed books as prizes for the event?"

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

"Why not just get a thousand copies?"

Naoki Nagayama was stunned for a moment, then a well-shaped expression appeared on his face, "Bongzhi-san, I'll give you one more chance to organize your words!"

".Hahaha~" Morikawa Kuniharu laughed, "No more kidding. Naoki-san, please help me sign a hundred copies. That shouldn't be a problem!"

(Kuniji Morikawa’s mind: What a shame it didn’t work!)

Naoki Nagayama then let Kuniharu Morikawa go:

".Bongzhi-san, please deliver the book to Yamazakurain. I happen to be free today."

"Hey, please wait a moment, I'll ask Furuya Yuya to deliver it right away."

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

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

I even took out new novels from the library and started reading them in advance. This is also a benefit of work~

"Tokyo Love Story. Ting Shu" Hirata Ryoto glanced at the cover, looking at the sketch of a dark-skinned man and a girl with a sunny face, smacked his lips, "This is the male protagonist, why does he look like he came from the countryside?"

The stereotype these days is that workers from the countryside who come to big cities are all dark, thin, and hard-working, without the fair skin of city dwellers who are not exposed to the sun or the fatness of affluent life. Just like me~

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

"Tingshu. That's Naoki Naoki." Hirata Ryouto curled his lips, "It's another harem novel, just like him."

Everyone likes the protagonist.

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

"It's a bad fate that started from the first sight~"

Hirata Ryoto continued reading while complaining, but he didn't expect that he would be addicted to it all of a sudden.

“Hahaha~ This isn’t a story about a male protagonist. Nagao Kanji is actually a bootlicker.”

"Hey, Akaname Rika is not a fool. She even dated her boss? She's very brave to have an extramarital affair~"

"This is a love triangle"

Hirata Ryoto was amazed. Although he knew it was a love story as it was written in the title, the hero and heroine here were completely different from those in other novels!

"This complicated love story is similar to "Love Century"~"

As expected, it is a love story in Tokyo, just like the city of Tokyo itself, full of complexity! Hirata Ryoto couldn't help but become curious about Naoki Nagayama. Why did the story he wrote so much in line with the experience of urban workers? !

I heard that he has had a smooth life, became famous at a young age and has never had to work!

Before I knew it, I had been watching until noon.

Just as Hirata Ryouto was absorbed in reading, Inoue Reika, a female college student who often came to buy books, walked into the store and saw the clerk looking at a novel with an engrossed look:

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

"Ah," Hirata Ryoto responded, and when he saw that it was a familiar customer, he smiled and said, "Haha, it's Naoki Nagayama's new novel, Tokyo Love Story."

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

"Eh? Is it a new novel?! Is it a return to pure love this time?!" Inoue Reika is a fan of Naoki Nagayama's books, but her previous book, "Paradise Lost", was so bold that it really scared her despite her young age.

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

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

Akana Rika loves passionately and devotedly, giving her all to her lover; Nagao Kanji loves restrainedly and timidly, carefully choosing safe emotions.

Therefore, Nagao Kanji could never understand why someone could throw himself into a love affair without caring about his own safety, express his love so passionately, and pursue love so bravely.

As a bookstore clerk, he has read quite a few novels, and he thinks they are all interesting, so there must be some aspect that particularly attracts him.

Inoue Reika flipped through two pages and also became interested:

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

"It won't be sold until the day after tomorrow, but it's already in the warehouse. I took it out secretly to look at it." Hirata Ryoto said with a smile, "But if Lijia wants to see 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’re already so familiar with each other!”

"Haha, Arigato~ Hirata-san!"

Inoue Reika showed a sweet and sunny smile, which warmed others' hearts like the warm sun in winter and calmed down the uneasy hearts~

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

"Sure enough, a bright smile can make people feel warm."

Inoue Reika, who was excitedly flipping through the novel, didn't notice it. Seeing Hirata Ryoto's thoughtful expression, she asked:

"Hirata-san, what's wrong?"

"what"

Hirata Ryoto looked at Inoue Reika in front of him, and suddenly felt an impulse in his heart.

"I was thinking, if I were to find a girlfriend, I would definitely look for a girl who smiles as sweetly as Li Jia-chan!!!"

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Inoue Reika was stunned when she heard this, and even Hirata Ryoto was a little stunned.

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

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

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

But he didn't leave~

The cold wind outside made the air in the bookstore seem to heat up, making Hirata Ryoto even want to unbutton his collar.

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

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The sunlight sneaking in from somewhere is shining on the cover of the novel held up by Inoue Reika. The male and female protagonists in the sketch are smiling and looking at the scene in the bookstore. "Tokyo Love Story" seems to have taken shape~