Chapter 471: Akina looks good even when she cries~

Otaru City in Hokkaido, once the maritime gateway of Hokkaido, was incomparably prosperous and known as the "Wall Street of the North." Now, as a declining city, only brick warehouses and buildings full of Western style remained, narrating the glory of the past.

Naoki Nagayama had been to Otaru. When he came to Hokkaido for skiing with his family the year before last, he even bought a few handicrafts here.

He didn't know if he would continue to come here to play this year.

Around ten o'clock in the morning, Naoki Nagayama took his filming team and arrived at this small city by a special car from the airport.

"Naoki-san, is this the place where we are going to film?" After getting familiar, Kijima Xu, besides having low presence, was actually quite talkative.

"Yeah, we'll be here for a while." Naoki Nagayama tightened the thin gauze on his body; his body, just recovered from a serious illness, was still a bit weak. "But at this time, the temperature in Otaru is already this low~"

"In Hokkaido, it usually snows in November." Kijima Xu moved the filming equipment from the car, and then, together with Kongming Sakata and Guangming Xiaoyuan, walked toward an old house on a small slope.

Naoki Nagayama rang the doorbell in front, and after a while, he heard hurried footsteps coming over, and then the wooden door with a sense of history at the entrance opened.

"Naoki-san, you've arrived!" It was Masami Inada who opened the door. "I thought you wouldn't be here until noon!"

"I had to leave secretly before Xiu-san started filming." For Masami Inada, who already knew the inside story, Naoki Nagayama had nothing to hide.

Several people worked together to move all the equipment into place. Naoki Nagayama asked: "Otomo-san mentioned before that he borrowed a batch of high school student extras from Feng-dage. Have they arrived?"

"Them? They are resting in an inn near the school," Masami Inada said. "I already had them go to the school to get into position in advance."

"Eh?" Naoki Nagayama knew Feng-dage's little brothers; they were more or less hoodlums before. Asking them to stay in school... "Daijobu?"

Masami Inada smiled: "No problem. Feng-dage sent his most capable little brothers, little brother Wenyi Imamura and little brother Beidou Nakazawa!"

Ah, it's those two~

Naoki Nagayama remembered these two little hoodlums he had tricked into going to Feng-dage's side, but now they could be considered to have embarked on the right path!

"Then there's no problem. After the other actor arrives, we'll set off. We can start formal filming in the afternoon~"

At this time, Kijima Xu, who was silently listening on the side, said:

"Naoki-san, how about we go over first and set up the camera positions?"

"Hmm... that's fine." Naoki Nagayama handed the scene sketches he had drawn earlier to Kijima Xu. "The first scene is in the classroom. Just set up the cameras according to these angles."

"Hai!"

"Then I'll take Kijima-kun over first..." Watching the photography team move things, Masami Inada reacted quickly. "Wait a moment, I rented a car, I'll drive it over right now. By the way, there's one for Naoki-san too."

The car keys were placed in Naoki Nagayama's hand. After several years of training as a manager, Masami Inada was very thoughtful in his work.

After the few people left, Naoki Nagayama walked into this three-story old house and began to inspect it.

The first floor was the kitchen and a large living room, connected to the Japanese-style room in the courtyard outside, and there was also a side room that should have been for the butler to live in.

The second floor had three bedrooms plus a circular hall for receiving guests, with glass windows that could see the scenery outside, and an old piano was placed here.

But now the entire circular hall was filled with old books and some miscellaneous things, all of which Naoki Nagayama had asked Masami Inada to prepare in advance.

The third floor had two smaller empty rooms, and there was an attic at the very top.

"It really has a sense of history~" Looking at the courtyard planted with birch trees on the balcony, "It's very suitable for the scenes of *Love Letter*."

Because it was too cold, he boiled a pot of hot water in the kitchen on the first floor, and then brewed a pot of hot tea with exquisite Western-style tea sets. Naoki Nagayama picked up a book at random in the living room on the second floor and began to read.

Old-fashioned knights, but it was an original English version. Fortunately, Naoki Nagayama's English ability was okay.

Half a pot of tea was drunk when he heard the sound of a car honking at the door.

Looking up from the window, a man and two women were getting off a taxi. It was Akina Mori and her two managers.

Naoki Nagayama hurried down from the second floor, just in time to hear the sound of the doorbell.

"Akina!" Naoki Nagayama looked at his little girlfriend at the door with a smile, his eyes filled with laughter. "You're here?"

Akina Mori, however, was very surprised looking at Naoki Nagayama's face. After not seeing him for a while, her boyfriend had lost more than a circle:

"Naoki-san? Why have you lost so much weight?"

"? Is that so?" Naoki Nagayama didn't feel anything himself, so he looked at the reflection in the window. "Ah, it seems so~ Didn't I have a cold for a while before? So I lost weight~"

"... Was it actually that serious..." Akina bit her lip, feeling a bit distressed. As a girlfriend, she hadn't even noticed this; it was really too inexcusable!

"I've already fully recovered! It was just a small cold!" Naoki Nagayama didn't care at all.

The two people carrying luggage walked over. Naoki Nagayama hurriedly made way, invited Akina Mori, Maki Ueda, and Fusahori Akio into the room, and then introduced it to the three like a host:

"This is where we will live for the next few days. There will also be some scenes filmed here in the future!

The first floor is the kitchen and living room, and the second floor is the guest room. Akina, hurry up and pick a bedroom on the second floor, first come, first served!"

Akina Mori didn't go upstairs, but let the little assistant and the manager go up to put their things away first. After the two went upstairs, she rushed directly into Naoki Nagayama's arms, hugged her boyfriend tightly, and her eyes turned red:

"Naoki-san, being so sick... I didn't even notice..."

Naoki Nagayama hugged his little girlfriend and comforted her: "Weather changes, isn't it normal to have a cold? I also didn't want you to worry, and I'm already better now~"

"But losing so much weight, it must have been very serious those days. Why didn't Naoki-san tell me?" Akina's black and white eyes were already filled with tears. "You kept saying it was just a simple cold..."

"It was originally..." Naoki Nagayama, who had a stiff mouth, originally wanted to cover it up, but seeing Akina's expression as if she was about to cry, he hurriedly admitted,

"Okay, I didn't expect it to become serious later~ My body has always been very good."

Watching the tears roll down her pretty face, Naoki Nagayama hurriedly wiped them away with his hand, then kissed Akina on the forehead, and said words to soothe a child:

"Alright, alright, isn't this recovered? Don't cry, don't cry. You won't be pretty if you cry..."

"... Uh..."

"Wait... this sentence doesn't seem to comfort Akina~"

"Akina looks good even when she cries~"

"Pfft~" Akina Mori, who was originally sad, was suddenly amused by these words, and hurriedly let go of the hand holding Naoki Nagayama,

Wiping her tears while crying and laughing,

"Naoki-san! How can you be like this~"

"Hahaha, I'm telling the truth~"

Naoki Nagayama took out a handkerchief and handed it to Akina. He remembered that a movie once said why a man should carry a handkerchief—because when a girl cries, you can hand it to her... It was used, it was used!

Akina wiped the corners of her eyes with the handkerchief:

"I really don't know where Naoki-san learned this!"

Then she looked at her boyfriend seriously: "Naoki-san, if something like this happens in the future, you must tell me! Don't carry it alone!"

Naoki Nagayama looked at Akina's firm eyes and felt a warmth in his heart:

"Hmm, I understand~"

At this time, the duo who sent the luggage upstairs came down.

Fusahori Akio originally saw that his idol seemed to have cried, and a fire ignited in his heart, but then he saw the sticky atmosphere between the two, and the fire went out immediately.

"Akina-chan, the luggage has been put away."

Maki Ueda continued: "I chose a room for Akina-chan that can see the distant mountains."

"Maki-chan is so good~ Thank you, Fusahori-san~" After Akina Mori regained a little vitality, she pulled the little assistant and walked around the room.

Naoki Nagayama poured out the previous tea, brewed a new pot, and sat in the living room chatting with Fusahori Akio.

"Fusahori-san, this afternoon, we are going to start filming. I'll leave it to you for these three days~"

Fusahori Akio said in a muffled voice: "Naoki-san, what are you saying? We should be the ones thanking you for the opportunity. However, Akina has no experience in acting in movies, so Naoki-san still needs to take care of her."

"Haha, I know. The scenes this time are mainly to capture that sense of greenness. This is high school days, after all~"

Naoki Nagayama said indifferently. After all, three days, just filming a few scenes, there would definitely be no problem.

"What program did Fusahori-san participate in with Akina recently?..."

Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Naoki Nagayama wanted to have a good relationship with his little girlfriend's manager, chatting about family life to create a good foundation for his future actions.

After a while, the two girls came down from the second floor.

Akina Mori looked at the chat between Naoki Nagayama and Fusahori Akio and leaned over: "Naoki-san, Fusahori-san, what are you talking about?"

"About Akina's dark history!"

Naoki Nagayama's answer naturally made Akina's cheeks puff up, but after teasing her, he immediately began to change the subject,

"Akina-chan, Maki-chan, it's almost noon, are you hungry?"

They had been rushing on the road since the morning, and hadn't eaten much after arriving in Hokkaido. When it was mentioned, they really felt empty in their stomachs, and both girls nodded.

"But... this is a small town, restaurants and the like are all in the city center..." Naoki Nagayama had checked the kitchen before; Masami Inada had already prepared ingredients in the refrigerator. "If you want to fill your stomachs, you have to do it yourself!"

"Eh?"

Although there was a sense of dislike, when they actually started doing it, the kitchen turned into a playground of laughter.

Actually, the future farmhouses also have this feeling. When cooking becomes entertainment, especially when with friends, it is very happy.

Naoki Nagayama could cook, and Akina Mori and the little assistant Maki Ueda were not novices. The only one waiting to eat like a master was actually Fusahori Akio, who looked relatively mature...

"Naoki-san can actually cook?!" The little assistant looked at Naoki Nagayama, who was cutting potatoes, with a face full of surprise.

Akina Mori was peeling turnips on the side and added: "Naoki-san is a descendant of a culinary family. Besides Japanese food, he is also very good at making Chinese food!"

"Eh?!" Maki Ueda was even more surprised. Such a handsome person, making a lot of money, talented, and actually could cook?

While thinking, she saw Fusahori Akio, who was idly reading a newspaper in the living room, and shook her head with emotion: "How can the gap between people be so big..."

"Akina is joking. Actually, I only know how to make some home-cooked dishes." Naoki Nagayama laughed. "I learned it all just to fill my stomach."

"That's also very amazing! My boyfriend only knows how to buy bento..." Maki Ueda complained. Although the little assistant looked young, she was three years older than Akina!

"Hahaha, that's because you have a good girlfriend like Maki-chan, who can cook for him~"

Naoki Nagayama praised, but didn't expect Akina on the side to secretly use the two-finger zen as if she were jealous: "Naoki-san is very envious, right~"

"Haha, hahaha~" Keeping the expression on his face unchanged, Naoki Nagayama laughed it off.

Three people cooked together. In more than half an hour, four dishes and one soup were completed.

Naoki Nagayama's shredded potatoes with sour and spicy sauce, Akina Mori's stir-fried turnips and fried chicken, plus Tian Zhenxi's pork curry and miso soup, a very decent lunch was completed.

The food made by themselves was naturally more delicious, especially the sour and spicy taste of the shredded potatoes, which was very suitable for Akina's taste. Fusahori Akio, who ate for free, naturally wouldn't say anything bad.

After finishing the meal, Naoki Nagayama prepared to take the three to school. Formal filming would start in the afternoon!

However, before leaving, Naoki Nagayama found the clothes left by Masami Inada,

"Akina, change into the school uniform! I also need to change. Over there, they are still in class, so it won't be convenient to change."

"Hai~"

When Akina Mori and Naoki Nagayama changed their clothes and came out, the remaining two looked at them with surprised eyes,

Maki Ueda said: "Akina-chan is really exactly like a high school student! As for Naoki-san..."

"What's wrong?"

Naoki Nagayama frowned and tidied up the uniform on his body, feeling that the memories of high school seemed to be slowly returning. It was a very unpleasant memory.

"I just feel that such a boy shouldn't be from our school!" Maki Ueda covered her mouth and laughed.

"Yeah, yeah, he should be from some noble school."

Because he had lost a lot of weight these days, the uniform on his body was a bit loose, and coupled with Naoki Nagayama's thin and fair face, he looked like a weak noble son.

"... It seems I need to dress up a bit more. It's a pity I didn't bring a makeup artist this time." Naoki Nagayama noticed this problem, looked in the mirror, and then looked at Akina Mori. "Akina... help me make my face a bit darker..."

"Eh? Hai!"

When Akina Mori heard this, she excitedly took out her makeup box, and then began to sweep back and forth on Naoki Nagayama's face with a giggle... Do all girls like to put makeup on their boyfriends?

Saw a comment from a reader, so I added a chapter~ ===== CHAPTER 472 =====