Chapter 1128: Naoki Nagayama, he knows how to film! He understands me!!!

"Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way..."

Starting from Christmas Eve, the brainwashing melody of "Jingle Bells" permeated every street and alley in Tokyo. In shops, department stores, and even on radios and television stations, this famous Christmas song was announcing the arrival of Christmas.

Even the originally secluded Shanying Yuan did not escape this brainwashing~

"Dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang..."

Nagayama Hezi hugged Little Ye Zi and spun around, humming the melody of the song while she turned.

Little Ye Zi was also wearing a cute one-piece reindeer suit, with small antlers made of red velvet fabric. She was dressed up like a chubby toy deer, laughing happily along with the rhythm of the music and her aunt's movements.

After playing for a while, Nagayama Hezi asked Akina with some curiosity:

"Akina-chan, where did you buy Little Ye Zi's clothes? How come I haven't seen them in the mall?"

"I made them myself! You can't buy them on the market!" Akina explained, "But the design was suggested by Naoki-san... cute, right?"

"Oh~~"

Nagayama Hezi flipped through Little Ye Zi's velvet feet and her tiny tail, feeling that it was extremely cute.

Sure enough, once she encountered her own brother, even the clothes became exceptionally excellent~

"It really is very cute... I want to buy a few sets..."

There is still a nephew back home. Although he is a boy, since he is young, it doesn't matter if he is dressed like a girl~

"Is it for Ye Zi?" Akina walked over and took Ye Zi, "Actually, I also drew some design sketches for clothes and have already sent them to the garment factory for sampling... There are dinosaur jackets, duck jackets, and styles like dogs and cats, etc."

"When we go home for the New Year, I can bring some for Ye Zi... Ah... and also for Big Brother Feng's Lily..."

Akina's side business, which she had already started, had contacted a processing factory through the channels of stylist Yoyo Ochi. Now, she had begun to produce some clothes based on her own design sketches and was attempting to sell them together in the clothing store.

The first batch was mainly women's clothing, and the sales were quite good. Children's clothing was another style she was experimenting with. Following her husband's suggestion, Akina first chose female customers as the customer base.

After next year, once the brand name was registered, she would consider opening a specialized clothing store on the Shinjuku commercial street to sell her brand's apparel.

The two women were just talking when Naoki Nagayama walked in from the doorway, holding an envelope in his hand.

After walking into the small living room, he handed the envelope to Nagayama Hezi:

"Here... movie tickets!"

"Ah... Arigato, Nii-chan~~~"

At this moment, calling her brother was very affectionate and sweet, enough to give people goosebumps!

"Alright, alright, don't make that look..." Naoki Nagayama shivered and hurriedly smoothed the hair on his arm, "You said you wanted movie tickets, but you didn't say so earlier. It's already Christmas Eve! And you still want me to specially find someone to send them over at the last minute..."

"Isn't it because I thought I could definitely buy them with pre-sales~"

Nagayama Hezi was a bit embarrassed and annoyed. She was the type of person who only thought about buying tickets at the very last moment, but she didn't expect that all the movie tickets for Christmas had been sold out. Even the midnight and late-night screenings were gone, so she could only seek help from her brother.

"Shouldn't this kind of thing have been considered in advance by your boyfriend, Jin Tian Dalu?"

"Aiya... Dalu is busy writing his graduation thesis and still has to look for a job..." Nagayama Hezi, who was in love, would also defend her boyfriend in front of others, "Plus, don't I have Nii-chan~~"

"Tch~~ You know how to defend your boyfriend at such a young age~"

Akina laughed and patted Naoki Nagayama on the arm when she heard this.

Is it that every brother looks down on his sister's boyfriend? Eh? But why did my two brothers act like little fanboys after knowing Naoki-san...

Nagayama Hezi came in the morning to ask her brother for tickets. Naoki Nagayama had to call Eiichiro Watanabe, who was in charge of publicity at the company, and got the connection tickets from him... It was almost the last batch, after all, tomorrow was the Christmas premiere, and everything that should have been sent out had been sent out.

At noon, Nagayama Hezi had lunch at Shanying Yuan before leaving satisfied~

"Naoki-san is really good to Nagayama Hezi~"

Akina sighed a little. Naoki Nagayama not only gave his sister a house to live in for free while she was in college, but also helped her open a milk tea shop to set up her business, and usually gave her various gifts...

"I just have the ability to do so..."

Naoki Nagayama stroked Ying Tailang, who had become lively again. When Nagayama Hezi was here just now, he had tucked his tail and hid on the veranda, and only dared to frolic now that people had left.

"After all, she is alone in Tokyo, and Mom and Dad also entrusted me to take good care of her..."

"When she gets married in the future, I won't care anymore!"

"Haha~" Akina looked at Naoki Nagayama's expression and laughed, "Can you really not care?"

"Of course... After marriage, it's two families!" Naoki Nagayama nodded, "Nagayama Hezi also has her own life!"

In this era where a woman follows her husband's customs, this sentence cannot be said to be wrong. After a woman gets married, she takes her husband's surname... unless she lets that boyfriend of hers, Jin Tian Dalu, marry into the Nagayama family!

Hmm... If Nagayama Hezi's career continues to expand and she becomes a wealthy woman, it's not impossible...

Christmas can be said to be the last festival of the year suitable for couples.

Coupled with the fact that Japan is increasingly influenced by Western culture, people have become very accustomed to celebrating foreign festivals.

In the current era where love capitalism is becoming more and more prevalent, on Christmas Day, there are unspoken rules for dates between couples:

Men should book dinner at a high-end restaurant that night and give a Tiffany necklace as a gift, while girls offer high-end chocolate as a return~

Afterwards, they should choose one from luxury specialty stores, membership nightclubs, celebrity concerts, or luxury parties as the main itinerary, and then pair it with bars, KTVs, movie theaters, etc., as atmosphere fillers~

Finally, spend a perfect night in a luxury hotel with a first-class night view...

To sum it up in one word—expensive!

However, the earning ability of young people in this era is very high. Good college students can easily exceed one million in their first year of starting salary, and ordinary ones also have seven or eight hundred thousand yen. Moreover, due to the seniority-based wage system, they are very confident about the future, so they spend money lavishly without hesitation.

This year's Christmas is only a little different from previous years.

A large portion of couples have turned watching "Ghost" at the movie theater into one of the main itineraries...

Under the vigorous promotion of Shuyou, "Ghost" already had great popularity and screenings.

Coupled with Naoki Nagayama's flamboyant manipulation, especially in the week before the release, almost all the media hotspots were about the lawsuit between Naoki Nagayama and the newspapers, and "Ghost" was also continuously heating up.

By the day of the official release, this movie had almost become a love movie known to the whole nation... The pre-sale system had an effect like hunger marketing, making watching "Ghost" on Christmas Day a fashion, a trend.

By this time, it was no longer just about watching a movie, but about measuring the importance of love between couples!

Many people who didn't buy tickets had to buy tickets from scalpers at high prices, allowing the scalpers to make a fortune before the New Year~

With the intersection of the hour and minute hands on the clock, the midnight bell of Christmas officially rang!

The apple from Christmas Eve had just been eaten, and the romantic candlelight dinner had not ended long ago, but the first batch of young couples had already washed up and arrived at the movie theater early to start queuing!

The energetic Yuri Mikami pulled the somewhat dark-circled Yoshito Tashiro and excitedly talked about the plot of "Ghost" she had heard before...

"It seems that it was also on such a night that a couple was robbed and shot after watching a movie on a date, ah, no, it was after watching an opera and walking through a small alley... Tashiro-kun, you must protect me like the male lead when the time comes!"

"..."

Yoshito Tashiro was speechless. You insist on walking through a small alley? Do you want to be robbed that much? Can't you walk on a commercial street with many people?!

Because they chose the midnight screening, the two of them opened a room by the hour near the cinema after their Christmas Eve date to wait for the time to come... Of course, they naturally did the things they loved in the middle... and then got up after sleeping for less than an hour...

Now Yoshito Tashiro is in a state of sage mode plus fatigue plus some morning irritability... He only feels that the gentle and charming girlfriend from last night is a bit annoying now...

"Hi hi hi... I will protect you... Even if I become a fierce ghost, I will follow you!"

"..."

Yuri Mikami suddenly felt that something was wrong and twisted Yoshito Tashiro's waist hard,

"Yoshito Tashiro, do you want to die and see right now?!"

"... No no no... I mean I will protect you even if I become a soul!"

A good man doesn't suffer immediate losses. Yoshito Tashiro hurriedly explained and then changed the subject,

"Speaking of which, there are so many people at the midnight screening!"

At the entrance of the movie theater in Ikebukuro, the people queuing up formed a large group, even blocking the cold wind at night.

The ticket checking place in front was slowly letting people in, and the groups of two or three coming from afar were still endless~

"In short, my friends seem to be watching "Ghost" today... I don't know if others are the same..."

"Sure enough, Naoki Nagayama's promotion is too powerful..." Yoshito Tashiro couldn't help but sigh, "It's a pity that he won the lawsuit, otherwise today's tickets would all be paid for by him... I heard that there will be a discount after Christmas..."

"But that wouldn't be a Christmas movie! Watching it on Christmas and watching it on other days have completely different meanings!"

"..."

Damn sense of ritual!

As they talked, it was finally Yoshito Tashiro and Yuri Mikami's turn. After checking their tickets, the two finally found their seats according to the seat numbers.

And at this time, the screening hall was almost full!

When the screening time arrived, the lights in the screening hall slowly dimmed, and the main feature of "Ghost" officially began to screen!

First, from the smashed wall, the faces of the three leads were revealed... and then it was the welfare for all female viewers this Christmas!

"Wow!!!" "Roar roar roar!" "Toshihiko Tahara! Such a good figure!" "Naoki Nagayama..." "..."

The first to appear were the two male leads with their upper bodies bare, dismantling the dilapidated old apartment. Both of them were handsome guys, with well-defined muscles, plus the sense of power of swinging hammers... At this time, the female lead Akina, who was also in the frame, had her brilliance covered up!

It made all the female viewers open their eyes wide all of a sudden, breathing rapidly...

Sure enough, Naoki Nagayama knows how to film! He understands me! He knows what the audience loves to watch!

And many male viewers frowned slightly at this time, subconsciously comparing with their own bodies, and decided to go to the gym for a few more days!

After the first scene, there was a transition, and the rhythm was very fast. A young couple and their common friends came to the big city to venture together, and several of them were developing in an increasingly better direction...

The love between the male and female leads Naoki Nagayama and Akina Nakamori was also becoming sweeter and more intimate. Everything was developing in the best direction... and it was becoming more and more compatible with the Christmas atmosphere.

Until it reached the most classic part of the first half of the love plot...

"Why aren't you sleeping?"

When the male lead Naoki Nagayama woke up in the middle of the night, he found that his lover was not by his side. After searching for a while, he found that Akina, who was a pottery artist, was actually making pottery in the studio...

"Can't sleep... so I came to make something..."

"Something on your mind?"

"Don't know..."

The two had talked about the future before, and now they were so happy that they were even a little worried about whether such happiness could last...

The male lead Naoki Nagayama took a stool and sat next to Akina. After watching for a while, he wrapped Akina in his arms and reached out to make pottery together, but didn't expect to make it messier and messier, deforming the pottery blank...

At this time, the automatic record player switched a record, and the soft melody of "Unchained Melody" began to permeate~

"Oh my love, my darling

I've hungered for your touch..."

The man's voice could actually be so lingering...

The male and female leads on the big screen, arms connected, skin to skin... The clay was constantly deforming in their hands, the ambiguity and lingering between lovers~

Although there were no overly explicit actions, under the foil of lights and music, desire overflowed from the screen...

Yuri Mikami watched this scene while holding her breath, even her legs were tense, and she didn't exhale the hot air from her chest until the plot ended. Even Yoshito Tashiro, who was in a sage state, felt a warm current surge through his heart at this time...

Such a plot, such an atmosphere, such a picture...

Sure enough, Naoki Nagayama knows how to film! He really knows what the audience loves to watch!!!

Just when the audience was still immersed in the happy scene, the plot of the movie took a sharp turn!

After an ordinary date, the two were robbed by robbers on the way home! And after a struggle, the male lead was shot in the chest by the robber... Blood flowed down...

The male lead died!

After his soul realized it, he refused the auspicious light of heaven and firmly walked to his lover's side...

"This is... becoming a ghost?"

"After becoming a ghost, he didn't forget his lover!"

Many female viewers silently reminded their boyfriends!

In the following plot, there were more special effects shots. Every time the male lead, who was a ghost, passed through walls or controlled objects with his mind, it would make the audience in the screening hall exclaim...

"Too real!" "Ghosts should be like this!" "..."

The ghost makeup and special effects scenes in those movies in the past basically had to be paired with horror sound effects, dim lights, and couldn't even be seen clearly... How could there be the real feeling in this movie~

This kind of special effect is so real that people think ghosts should look like this!

"Hurry up and chase! Don't let the murderer run away!"

"Ah... the murderer came to their apartment, the male lead hurry up and drive him out!"

"Cat is good! Sure enough, cats can see ghosts!"

"..."

Similar voices kept coming out in the movie theater. Every time there was a tense plot, it would cause exclamations from the audience... The viewing order in this era was not that strict. As long as it wasn't talking loudly and affecting others, no one would care!

The first half of "Ghost" was full of tenderness, while the second half was full of revenge with a sense of coolness in surprise... It was also mixed with some humor.

Of course, the main line was still the male lead protecting his lover...

This undying love made people sigh, made people sad, and made people look forward to it...

After defeating the villain in the end, the male lead Naoki Nagayama and the female lead Akina Nakamori, under the illumination of the light of heaven, were finally able to meet briefly on the rooftop...

However, humans and ghosts are ultimately two different worlds; life and death must remain separated. The male lead finally ascended to heaven amidst the auspicious light, leaving behind only the tears in the female lead's eyes, which eventually fell...

The big screen froze on a close-up of Akina Mori's tearful face, then slowly faded to black...

The melody of "Unchained Melody" played once more. To the ears of the audience at this moment, the lingering music seemed to carry a new, different feeling...

It was a pursuit of love, a nostalgia for what had passed, and an inability to let go of beautiful memories...

The audience present remained silent, and it wasn't until several minutes later that applause slowly began to rise, long and unceasing~

(End of chapter)