Chapter 194: Stars make money very quickly!

Since the morning, Eitaro had been a bit restless.

Even his favorite little yellow duck toy was thrown aside today. He was turning around the house everywhere, seemingly looking for a hiding place.

Yes, he seemed to feel it too—Tsuruko Nagayama was coming today!

Naoki Nagayama looked at Eitaro running around, feeling a little apologetic in his heart. If he had known, he wouldn't have let him listen in on the phone call last night.

But Eitaro, this is your inescapable fate!

Putting Eitaro behind him, Naoki Nagayama drove his convertible sports car to the station. There was still some time before Tsuruko arrived.

Tokyo in April occasionally had showers, but the scenery in the rain also had a special flavor.

However, today was a good day, sunny and breezy. Naoki Nagayama, sitting in the convertible, could still smell the faint fragrance of flowers. If he analyzed it carefully, besides cherry blossoms, there were gardenias, tulips, roses, etc.

Tsuruko chose a good day to come~

Tokyo Station of the Shinkansen was always crowded. After Naoki Nagayama parked his beloved car in the parking lot, he waited at the exit.

This time, he had already asked about the arrival time in advance and arrived at the station more than ten minutes early.

It was still a bit difficult to find a high school student who wasn't very tall in the coming and going crowd, so Naoki Nagayama decided to let Tsuruko take the initiative to find him.

He stood at the exit, holding a balloon in his hand, ensuring that she would see it at first glance when she came out.

Although he wore a mask, relying on his height, which was much higher than the Japanese average, Tsuruko would definitely be able to recognize him at a glance.

So at the exit of Tokyo Station, one could see a masked monster holding a balloon... making the patrol police nearby have the urge to come and ask.

"Nii-chan?!"

Tsuruko Nagayama, wearing a blue sweater, carrying a backpack, and dragging a suitcase, walked out of the exit. Sure enough, she saw Naoki Nagayama at first glance.

"Tsuruko~" Naoki Nagayama waved his hand to indicate his identity, then walked over and took the suitcase.

"What did mother bring? So heavy."

Tsuruko finally got rid of the heavy object and shook her hands easily. "Some dried goods, fresh seafood, and snacks, etc. ~ I told Nii-chan that you can buy them in Tokyo, but she still had to bring them."

"Ha~ Mother is still the best~" Naoki Nagayama didn't have a mother who could care about him in his previous life.

"Tsk, mother isn't even here and you're still fawning." Tsuruko looked at this second brother with disdain. "Nii-chan really learned to fawn in Tokyo!"

"What are you saying, you guy!" Naoki Nagayama knocked Tsuruko's head without hesitation, showing his brotherly majesty.

The two of them came to the parking lot while fighting. After getting in the car, Tsuruko Nagayama found that Naoki had been wearing a mask.

"Why does Nii-chan keep wearing a mask? Is it a cold?" She naturally knew that Naoki didn't have symptoms like pollen allergy. Their whole family didn't have this situation.

"It will be very troublesome if I don't wear a mask. You know your brother is at least a star~"

Naoki Nagayama said casually while driving. Recently, this situation had become more serious. Originally, the exposure on TV and movies was very large, and he was handsome and easy to be recognized. Several times when he went out, he was surrounded by little sisters.

But he didn't need to wear it in the car. Naoki Nagayama took off his mask.

"Eh? Is that so?"

Tsuruko still didn't believe it. The feeling of her brother, whom she had seen since childhood, becoming a star was still a bit strange.

Tokyo Station was not far from Shanyingyuan, and it only took ten minutes to drive. Naoki Nagayama quickly turned from the Shuto Expressway Yaesu Line into the street.

Looking at the road signs, Tsuruko, who had a certain understanding of Tokyo, became suspicious.

"Nii-chan, aren't we going to Waseda? Why did we come to Chiyoda?" She thought Naoki Nagayama had always lived in the apartment in Waseda.

"I should have said it before, right? I live in Shanyingyuan now." Naoki Nagayama recalled. He should have told his family.

"Shanyingyuan... isn't that another name for an apartment building?"

Tsuruko was surprised. The family thought it was just a different name and didn't expect it to be a different place.

"Ah, no, it's a different place."

Naoki Nagayama wasn't a person who liked to show off. Plus, in Japan, the property situation of children who had separated from the family belonged to the privacy of adults, and the family generally wouldn't get to the bottom of it, so it caused some cognitive dislocation.

Just as they were talking, Shanyingyuan had arrived.

"Look, we've arrived."

Amidst a fence of bamboo was a two-story gray small Western-style building with brown doors and window frames, which well neutralized the cold and hard feeling of gray.

The huge cherry blossom tree next to the small building was already as high as two stories, plus the green vegetation surrounding it, which had a bit of Zen meaning in the middle of the bustle.

Naoki Nagayama pressed the remote control, and the gate of Shanyingyuan slowly opened.

As the car drove into the garage, Tsuruko could also see large glass windows, a wide courtyard, and the scenery of dry landscape.

And a little white ball that was barking at the car.

"Eitaro!"

Tsuruko finally confirmed that this was Naoki Nagayama's residence. This was Shanyingyuan.

Tsuruko, who had just arrived at Shanyingyuan, was full of curiosity about everything here.

On the way to the bedroom, Naoki Nagayama was asked almost ten thousand whys, such as when did you buy it? How much did it cost? How many rooms are there? What is this room for... and so on.

After answering seriously several times, Naoki Nagayama found that Tsuruko was not for the answer at all, but to vent the excitement in her heart.

At that time, she knew that Naoki bought an apartment in Waseda, and there was a Tsubakiya Nana beside him to accompany her. And now in Shanyingyuan, besides Eitaro in her arms, there was only Naoki Nagayama alone.

"Your bedroom is this one."

There were four rooms upstairs, one master bedroom, one piano room, and the other two were secondary bedrooms. After opening the door, it was a Western-style bedroom style, without places like tatami and closets.

"The bedding is all new and has been dried for the past two days."

"Hi!"

Tsuruko put her backpack on the bed and then started the process of exploring everywhere with Eitaro, while Naoki Nagayama went downstairs, thinking about organizing the things brought over.

After opening the suitcase in the kitchen, there were indeed many things.

The fresh fish meat in the plastic box looked like it had just been slaughtered. The bags were filled with marinated dried fish, dried seaweed, and other common dried goods. And the snack box contained the small snacks handmade by his mother that he had eaten since childhood.

Naoki Nagayama put these things in categories and saw that Tsuruko had already come down from the second floor. After putting Eitaro in the living room, she looked around the first floor again.

"Nii-chan actually bought such a big house in Tokyo!" Tsuruko's face was red, and she was sweating from running around. "Is it actually so impressive?"

"This is nothing~" Naoki Nagayama said casually. "Stars make money very quickly!"

"Honto ni?"

Of course not! How could ordinary idols make money as fast as Naoki Nagayama?

Even for top artists, it was already very impressive to earn tens of millions a year, not to mention most artists who took very low remuneration in the first few years of the agency. Even if records or movies sold well, the ones who made money were the capital behind them.

Compared with ordinary people, they certainly earned a lot, but compared with Naoki Nagayama, they were all going to cry.

Naoki Nagayama was good in that he directly sold several explosive songs, sold a program, and then two movies sold well. All of this basically had no cost.

"Nii-chan, then do you think I can become a star?" Tsuruko Nagayama seemed to be moved by the star industry with unlimited "money" prospects and asked confidently.

"You..." Looking at the high school girl who could only be said to have a little beauty. "Tsuruko-chan, can you dance? Can you sing? Can you act?"

"... None of them!" Tsuruko Nagayama was a little panicked, but immediately gathered her momentum. "But I can learn, I am very smart!"

"Tsuruko-chan, then you should focus on how to use your smart brain~"

Although Naoki Nagayama could arrange for her to debut, even provide some famous songs, and even take her to film movies, etc.,

but he still didn't want Tsuruko to enter the entertainment industry. This was completely a mixed dye vat. After ordinary people enter, they don't know what color they will be dyed. For those who don't have enough talent or luck, the entertainment industry will consume all your youth and dreams, and then leave a scarred soul.

And he couldn't always accompany Tsuruko. She had her own life, would come into contact with different people, meet friends, meet love...

As everyone knows, friendship and love in the entertainment industry are luxuries.

"What! Nii-chan, you look down on people!"

Tsuruko ran away angrily, looking for Eitaro, who didn't know where to hide, to seek comfort.

Naoki Nagayama smiled at Tsuruko's youthful back. As a top student, if Tsuruko could learn computer technology well, maybe she could become a female version of Jobs in the future~

"Tsuruko, let's go out to eat at noon!"

"Hi! Where to go, where to go?"

"Of course, go to the restaurant I often go to."

There was still a long time before noon. Tsuruko and Eitaro were playing a ball game in the courtyard.

In the afternoon, he planned to pick up Miho Nakamori with Tsuruko and prepare to go shopping in Shibuya. Speaking of which, he still had a shop in Shibuya, and he hadn't been to see it for a long time.

After brewing a pot of tea for the two, Naoki Nagayama, who was a little idle, read the newspaper he hadn't finished reading this morning in the living room.

There were no negative reports about the "Gas Station Robbery Incident" in the newspaper at all. The few reports were also analyzing the impact of this movie from a positive perspective. It seemed that Otomo Yoshimura and Toei talked well.

Other pages were some revelations that had just come out of the entertainment industry. There was even news about Johnny's top idols at Fuji TV. Masahiko Kondo's head portrait was circled separately.

Was this newspaper not public relations? Naoki Nagayama flipped through the name—"Tokyo Sports Newspaper." Sure enough, it was a newspaper known as only the date could be believed. They dared to report anything!

Just then, the phone in the living room rang.

"Moshi moshi, this is Shanyingyuan."

"Naoki-san, this is Otomo Yoshimura~" Otomo Yoshimura's voice came from the microphone, seemingly a bit impatient.

Speak of the devil!

"Otomo-san, what's wrong? Why are you panting so hard?"

"Daijobu, daijobu, I just came back from outside." Otomo Yoshimura explained. "After sending Junko-chan to the program, I rushed back."

"Eh? Isn't Masami Inada picking her up?"

"Inada-kun went to help find a suitable Akita dog~"

"Ha? Have you actually started preparing? You haven't visited Hachiko's hometown, right?" Naoki Nagayama was a little surprised.

"Anyway, we must find a puppy. It's still a bit troublesome to find two Akita dogs with a large age gap but similar appearance." Otomo Yoshimura suddenly thought of something. "Naoki-san, I was led astray by you."

"I called because several producers from record companies called the agency. They want to invite you to customize some songs for their idols."

"Ha? Customize for me?"

"Yes, there have been several hot-selling songs, and the industry is spreading that Naoki-san is a very talented creator." Otomo Yoshimura praised him fully. "It's just that you are relatively unsociable, don't participate much in industry gatherings and competitions, and don't even know how to contact you."

"If it weren't for knowing that Junko Ito is an idol of Naoki-san's agency on 'The Best Ten,' maybe they could only contact through the landline of the Tree Friend Film that has already been changed."

"Hahaha, that's true. The new phone hasn't been promoted much to the outside world~" The phone in the studio was changed because of harassment calls before, and the current phone was only known among acquaintances.

"So, does Naoki-san plan to take action?" Otomo Yoshimura asked. "A good opportunity to make a name for yourself~"

"Of course not!" Naoki Nagayama understood his situation. How could he customize songs?

"Otomo-san, didn't I say it before? I am an inspiration-type creator. When there is no inspiration, I have no creative talent at all! So whether it's my own idol or someone else's, there is no customization!"

He only heard the muttering from the opposite side of the microphone: "Actually, Naoki-san just finds it troublesome..."

"Hmm? Otomo-san, what did you say?"

"Nothing, nothing. Since Naoki-san is unwilling, then I will reject them." Otomo Yoshimura's voice recovered. "Is Naoki-san going to the studio today? Find time to visit Hachiko's hometown together?"

"It might not be possible these days. My sister came to Tokyo to play, so I have to accompany her~"

"I see, then let's go first." Otomo Yoshimura hung up the phone.

Naoki Nagayama was very confused. Was it just to inform that other producers were coming to ask for songs? This wasn't something urgent. Was it necessary to call in the morning?

Studio,

Otomo Yoshimura put down the phone and looked at Shuichi Yin Tang beside him.

"Shuichi-san, Naoki-san is unwilling to meet the customization needs of others. This is the treatment that only famous creators have. It seems that there are really no songs stored."

Shuichi Yin Tang shook his head: "Otomo-san, I still don't believe it. A guy like Naoki-san will definitely keep a hand."

"Sigh... but Naoki-san is unwilling to take it out. What should we do about Junko Ito's next song!" Otomo Yoshimura had been worried about this besides the preparation of the new movie during this period.

After all, the debut had been quite a long time. If the next song didn't follow up, it would be a bit too monotonous.

And other creators, where could they be found so easily... Good songs couldn't be found either~ ===== CHAPTER 195 =====