Chapter 330

The days are long, the sky is clear, the warm wind blows the spring, it is a good time in the world, and all flowers are blooming~

Idlers in Tokyo always like to wander around the streets and alleys, enjoying the best season of the year. Those who work hard every day can also enjoy the beautiful spring on their way to and from work.

In this season when cherry blossoms begin to fly, a new drama from Fuji TV was aired.

After wandering outside all day, Toshiya Araki of Musashino North High School returned home in the evening. A high school freshman on spring break doesn't have such great pressure and can enjoy the beautiful time of youth to the fullest.

"I'm home~"

After changing his shoes at the entrance, this guy walked slowly into the living room.

"Toshiya, have you eaten dinner outside?"

Mother's voice came from the bedroom. She was tidying up the clothes dried during the day and preparing the bedding for the night. Father was still socializing outside and would usually return home drunk after 10 o'clock.

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"Hai, I ate at a ramen shop with Asano~" It's normal to eat out with friends during the holiday, and he had told his mother before.

Toshiya Araki skillfully found the TV remote control and turned on the TV. He came back at this time specifically so that he could see the prime-time TV drama as soon as he got home.

"What is it tonight? Has *Taiyou ni Hoero! * (Roar at the Sun) been updated to the latest version...?" Toshiya Araki changed channels casually, "*Boys Over Flowers* will be aired later... A new drama?"

Looking at the preview time, Toshiya Araki put down the remote control, went to the refrigerator in the kitchen to get an apple and cut it into a fruit platter, and by the way, took a can of soda. Watching TV also needs a sense of ritual.

Eating apples while waiting for Fuji TV's new drama, Toshiya Araki felt that rich people were about this leisurely~

However, as the TV drama started...

"What is this? So many luxury cars! Isn't that a Ferrari? Can it really be parked at the school gate?"

"What's wrong with these students? They are clearly in school uniforms... The school bag is Dior, the watch is Vacheron Constantin, the girl's earrings are Tiffany..."

"This teacher is too failed! He actually knelt down to the students... These students are too arrogant!"

"But it's quite handsome~ F4 Hahahaha~"

"Would rich people really build such a noble school themselves?... But that teaching building, isn't it Seikei University? It's right near our house!"

"When was it shot?!"

Unknowingly, Toshiya Araki had already finished watching the first episode. In the early 80s of the Showa era, the mainstream students' impression of campus was still old-fashioned campus TV dramas like *Class 3B of Kinpachi-sensei*, which were close to reality and reflected student problems.

Suddenly seeing such a novel and fantastic TV drama, he felt that all his curiosity had been hooked out.

"Oh my..."

Toshiya Araki rubbed his eyes, looked at the clock next to him, and it was almost 10 o'clock. He hurriedly got up to wash up. If he ran into his drunk dad coming back and seeing him still watching TV, he might be scolded.

"Let's talk to Asano about this TV drama tomorrow. Tsukushi is very cute, and F4 is also very interesting..."

Naoki Nagayama came to the studio to punch in as usual.

After walking to the office, he found that Otomo Yoshimura and Shuichi Yin Tang were already there.

"Otomo-san, is there anything today?" Naoki Nagayama didn't even sit down, "If there's nothing, I'm going to watch cherry blossoms~"

In a trance, the two in the office seemed to hear a sharp voice shouting in their ears:

"If there is something, report it early, if there is nothing, retire from the court~"

"Come to think of it, there really is something." Otomo Yoshimura shook his head in confusion, shaking the phantom sound out of his head, "Naoki-san, wasn't yesterday the first day *Boys Over Flowers* aired? Shouldn't we go ask about the playback effect today?"

"Ah, yesterday?"

Naoki Nagayama almost forgot about this, and the ratings, it seemed that he had never put it in his heart, and had already defaulted that it would be very high quality.

Shuichi Yin Tang complained from the side: "Naoki-san won't be drinking at home every day these days, even his brain is confused!"

"How is that possible?! I'm a good drinker who can drink a thousand cups!"

Naoki Nagayama immediately retorted, but there was a bit of weakness in his tone.

Because he had indeed been drinking every day these days, and he didn't know why there was always an unspeakable emotion accumulating in his heart recently.

However, it didn't seem to reach the threshold, so the memory in his mind never came out, and it was very uncomfortable to be neither up nor down. He could only try to see if he could enter that state by drinking.

Otomo Yoshimura interrupted their words: "Don't say these useless things. To show sincerity, let's go there. By the way, let's talk about what happens next."

"What happens next?"

"Payment!" Shuichi Yin Tang looked at him sideways, "We've already given them the product, now is the time for returns!"

Speaking of which, ever since he won the Best Director Award, this guy Shuichi Yin Tang has become a bit bloated, actually daring to despise him, and even his face has become round!

"Shuichi-san~" Naoki Nagayama called out maliciously when they went out.

The person walking towards the car turned his head when he heard the words: "What's wrong?"

"Your little belly is showing!"

Shuichi Yin Tang hurriedly lowered his head. The shirt that was originally tucked into his dress pants really split a button, revealing the little belly he had raised by eating and drinking recently.

His face was embarrassed, saying "... I'm old, so my metabolism is naturally slow~" while sucking in his stomach and getting into the car...

The Fuji TV headquarters building in Shinjuku was already very familiar to the people of Tree Friend Films.

Having been notified by phone before, the three of them walked familiarly to the production department's floor and saw Rumi Nishi sitting at her desk: "Rumi Nishi-san, good morning."

"Ah, it's Naoki-san, and Otomo-san and Shuichi-san, you've had a hard journey!" Rumi Nishi was still looking at a document, but now she immediately welcomed the few, and explained the situation very quickly, "Tai-san is in the broadcast room and will be back in a while. Let's go to the reception room and wait for a while."

"Hai, sorry for the trouble~"

Rumi Nishi diligently served hot tea to the few: "Naoki-san, do you know the playback rate of *Boys Over Flowers*?"

"Of course I don't know, today is just to understand the playback situation." Naoki Nagayama held the hot tea and said, "How is it? It won't be very bad, right?"

"Of course not, the playback rate of the first episode reached 19%!" Rumi Nishi said excitedly, such a playback rate was already very good.

However, Naoki Nagayama didn't feel happy. It was already aired in prime time, and it couldn't even open a gap with *World's Strangest Stories*? Besides, the agreement signed with Burberry before set the playback rate at 20%.

Seeing that Naoki Nagayama was not happy, Rumi Nishi was a bit strange: "What's wrong with Naoki-san? With such ratings for the first episode, it shows that *Boys Over Flowers* is performing very well!"

Otomo Yoshimura answered for him: "I originally thought it would definitely break 20%, hahaha~"

"This is only the first episode~" Rumi Nishi was very confident, "It will definitely catch up later."

Generally speaking, the playback rate of high-quality TV dramas will slowly rise, but there are also Japanese dramas with quality collapse where the first episode is the highlight moment, but *Boys Over Flowers* will definitely be better later.

Just at this time, Tai Sugiura came up, holding a document in his hand: "Naoki-san, Otomo-san, and Shuichi-san, sorry, I was delayed by something just now."

"It's okay, it's okay, we just talked about yesterday's ratings."

Tai Sugiura was also very excited: "Hai, 19% ratings, very good."

As he spoke, he opened the information in his hand: "I compared the ratings of other TV stations in the same period, Naoki-san, we actually snatched a part from *Taiyou ni Hoero! * (Roar at the Sun)!"

This super-long police drama already had a very large audience base. Although there were troughs, the playback rate had been fluctuating around 30% since 1982. Yesterday, it rarely became 27%!

"Haha, maybe some students are tired of watching police dramas~" Shuichi Yin Tang laughed, "After all, it's more than 600 episodes~"

Yeah, a TV drama that lasted 15 years...

Tai Sugiura also sighed, and then became happy again: "The start of *Boys Over Flowers* is very good. After it finished airing yesterday, the TV station has already received a lot of calls!"

"Haha, most of them are asking if there is such a school in reality."

"By the way, Naoki-san, many girls are asking about Rui Hanazawa!" Tai Sugiura blinked, "Hoping for signed photos of Rui Hanazawa or something."

"Eh..." Ah, there's this thing too!

Naoki Nagayama had a headache. After becoming famous, signed photos really need to be prepared, and photos also need to be taken. It's just that he needs to practice his signature font more...

After chatting about the ratings for a while, Otomo Yoshimura began to talk about the promotion of *Boys Over Flowers* and related cooperation issues such as peripherals, and naturally also implicitly reminded about the payment.

And Tai Sugiura, as an old man in the production department, naturally received the signal, repeatedly guaranteeing that he would pay in time, and by the way, made an appointment for the celebration banquet later.

For Tai Sugiura and Rumi Nishi, having such a TV drama performance at the beginning of the year, this year's bonus will be very generous.

"Hai, no need to see us off~"

Otomo Yoshimura and the three bowed and said goodbye to the two who sent them to the garage. This visit was very smooth.

"Is Naoki going to watch cherry blossoms again?" Otomo Yoshimura asked when they were parting.

"Maybe go drink tea..." Naoki Nagayama responded, "Otomo-san, is there anything else?"

"There's nothing else, just a reminder, the preparation work for *Cat's Eye* is almost finished, when will it officially start?"

"Hmm... let's wait, at least until April." Naoki Nagayama felt that he might not be in a state recently. "Shuichi-san, take advantage of this time to look at TV Tokyo and see how Ultraman's special effects dramas are shot... Hahaha, *Cat's Eye* will also be broadcast one episode at a time, it will be very busy then!"

"Che~ I know!"

This guy Shuichi Yin Tang is really bloated~

After coming out of Fuji TV, Naoki Nagayama first returned to Shanying Yuan, but watching cherry blossoms and drinking sake didn't seem to be able to arouse Naoki Nagayama's inspiration;

After noon, he came to Sanmeiju in Ginza, wanting to clear his thoughts with clear tea and reconcile the emotions in his heart with Zen... but it still didn't work.

After drinking tea for an afternoon, except for the bloating of the lower abdomen, there was no other effect.

"It seems... the stimulation is not enough..."

In annoyance, Naoki Nagayama thought of his own disco. In that atmosphere... it seemed to be the time when emotions were most active!

After driving to the disco street in Takadanobaba, the queue outside was already nearly a hundred meters long, and everyone was waiting for the opportunity to enter:

"It's been half a year, are there still so many people who like this decoration style?"

Crossing the queue, Naoki Nagayama saw the graffiti on the wall near the disco entrance, and it was obvious that other street artists were adding bricks and tiles.

"How about raising these walls a little bit later, and inviting graffiti masters to re-create them every once in a while, turning this place into a gathering place for Tokyo graffiti culture?"

Seeing this wall about 6 meters long, Naoki Nagayama thought it was quite good, but he didn't know if other shops around would be willing to contribute their walls~

He didn't walk through the main entrance, Naoki Nagayama entered the disco from the small door, but was surprised to find that there was no strong rhythm music in the disco today, and even Shigechi Araki was not in the backstage, so he hurriedly grabbed a waiter to ask about the situation.

"Is Yutaka Ozaki doing the opening concert today?"

Is it actually today?

That's right, Saturday is when most people come out to play.

Naoki Nagayama walked to the front and found that Yutaka Ozaki was only wearing a simple white T-shirt and jeans, but standing on the stage attracted everyone's attention.

He was talking to the audience under the stage:

"Minasan, the previous few rock songs with strong rhythms are over. Next, let's take a break and listen to some soothing songs."

"Presenting *Meteor Shower* for you~"

The Blast band behind him began to play soft and moving music. People in the dance floor who had just danced to their heart's content shook their bodies slowly with the music, and by the way, made time to drink.

Naoki Nagayama didn't make a sound, and after ordering a cocktail, he joined the crowd under the stage.

"This song seems to be the theme song of the TV drama." A girl said, "*Boys Over Flowers* that just aired yesterday!"

Her companion was surprised: "Could it be the singer himself on stage?"

Then the two became even more excited~

"Is *Boys Over Flowers* actually getting attention even here~" Naoki Nagayama walked away silently, it seemed there was no need to worry about the charm of *Boys Over Flowers* at all.

After a soothing song ended, Yutaka Ozaki on stage started explosive rock songs again. After all, this is a nightclub. Tetsuya Komuro and Akira Sudo spent a lot of effort on the choice of songs.

Amidst the noisy rhythm, Yutaka Ozaki drove the atmosphere in the venue. The constantly shining colorful neon lights illuminated the scene in a psychedelic and crazy way, plus a little alcohol, the atmosphere in the middle of the dance floor was already hot.

Those who had heard the songs sang along with Yutaka Ozaki, and those who hadn't heard them shook their bodies with the music. Sure enough, after a while, Naoki Nagayama felt that he was high, and the whole person seemed to let go.

In the past, he came to play with friends, and there was always a string in his brain. This time, he was alone and didn't need to suppress it at all.

He went to order another cocktail. In a short time, continuous strong cocktails went into his stomach, and his brain began to become chaotic.

Listening to the music on stage, there seemed to be strong rhythm music playing in his brain, and a duet of a man and a woman began to echo in his ears.

So. Donnani hanarete iyou to (So, no matter how far apart we are)

Kokoro no naka de wa itsudemo (In my heart, no matter when)

Issho ni iru kedo sabishii nda yo (I'm with you, but I'm still lonely)

So baby please tada hurry bae (So baby please, just hurry bae)

Baby boy atashi wa koko ni iru yo (Baby boy, I'm here)

Doko mo ikazu ni matteru (Waiting here, not going anywhere)

You know that I love you dakara koso (You know that I love you, that's why)

Shinpai shinakute ii nda yo (You don't need to worry)

*Soba ni Iru ne* (Stay by My Side)... It turns out... it's this song~