Chapter 512

Ueno Park in Taito Ward is Japan's first park. In addition to the Shinobazu Pond in the middle of the park, there are also many famous attractions such as Toshogu Shrine, the Great Buddha Pagoda, and Gojo Shrine.

Even in winter, without the Somei Yoshino cherry blossoms that are as brilliant as clouds, there are always many tourists here.

Naoki Nagayama and Akina Nakamori came to this park again. Akina, wearing a trench coat and a scarf, covered the area from the tip of her nose to her chin. Although her exposed eyes were also very delicate, no one would recognize that she was the top idol of today.

Perhaps it was because of the concealment of the scarf, the two who were not worried about being recognized didn't keep their distance like ordinary Japanese couples because of concern for others' eyes. Instead, Akina Nakamori held Naoki Nagayama's arm, appearing very intimate.

"Thirty-five, thirty-six..." A relaxed voice kept ringing out beside him.

On the Shinto path to Toshogu Shrine, there are very famous stone lanterns, and now Akina was counting them one by one like a child, as if she would count until the end.

Naoki Nagayama felt very strange about his girlfriend's approach: "... Akina, isn't it known that there are ninety-five in total? Why count them again..."

"Ah~~~ Naoki-san, you made me forget what number I was counting to!"

Akina tugged at his arm, her thin brows furrowed. Under her long eyelashes were eyes full of childishness, which were now revealing complaints.

"It's only interesting if I count it myself!"

"Thirty-six." Not expecting that even with the lower half of her face covered, she could still express emotions so vividly, Naoki Nagayama compromised. "The next one is thirty-seven."

The girlfriend, who became happy again, started counting again.

This outing was a mid-session break during the recording of the song, but Naoki Nagayama still had the goal of making Akina tired from walking, so he planned to walk around Ueno Park from the entrance. They had already visited the Science Museum, the Tokyo Museum, and Ueno Zoo before coming to Toshogu Shrine.

However, this girl, so small, how could she still be so energetic after walking a circle? This must be more than ten thousand steps, right!!

They didn't have much reverence for Tokugawa Ieyasu, so the two just took a look at Toshogu Shrine. Not far away, they returned to Bentendo next to Shinobazu Pond.

Akina saw the familiar shrine and couldn't help but hug her boyfriend's arm tighter.

"Naoki-san, thinking about it now, you were talking to a sneaky person here that day. Was that person colluding with you?!"

Her eyes were full of smiles, making Naoki Nagayama couldn't help but laugh: "Ah, you mean Shige-san Yamakawa. He is from an event support company. The lotus flowers in Shinobazu Pond that day were set up with their help."

The two laughed and walked to the side of Shinobazu Pond. However, the lotus flowers in the pond now were all withered. The lotus leaves were covered with mottled scorched yellow, as if they had been roasted, leaving only some withered yellow lotus stems standing lonely on the water.

"Eww... they're all withered." Akina looked at the residual stems and defeated leaves on the lake. This was too different from that day~

"The roots are still alive. When summer comes, it will be a piece of graceful lotus leaves again."

Naoki Nagayama didn't have too many thoughts, but asked his girlfriend beside him, "At that time, shall we come to see it together again?"

"Yeah!"

Akina Nakamori suddenly became happy again and hugged Naoki Nagayama's arm tighter!

At this moment, the two naturally didn't dare to go to a high-end restaurant to eat, and even the small roadside restaurants were not safe.

This was Tokyo. You never know when a paparazzi will jump out of the bushes nearby.

However, neither Naoki Nagayama nor Akina Nakamori were picky people. The ramen delivered from Shin-Okachimachi was also very delicious... It was just that Onodera Shin, the tuner, was a bit full.

Perhaps she was really a bit tired. In the afternoon recording of "Snow Flower", she quickly found the slightly tired, hoarse voice. After slowing down the speaking speed a little, it was like listening to a gentle Yamato Nadeshiko talking to you in your ear.

After recording Akina Nakamori's solo vocals, Onodera Shin said to Naoki Nagayama beside him:

"Naoki-san, this 'Snow Flower' will definitely make people remember this winter!"

"... I hope so~" Naoki Nagayama smiled. "It will also make people remember the singer Akina Nakamori!"

Up to now, Akina Nakamori's positioning was actually still a young idol. She had released quite a few records, and the sales were also very good, but there were almost none that could be called classics.

And this "Snow Flower" was undoubtedly a classic masterpiece, a song that would be covered by singers from many countries in the future.

Akina Nakamori singing "Snow Flower" meant that she had begun to transform from an idol singer to a powerful singer.

Making an OK gesture to Akina behind the glass window, Naoki Nagayama patted Onodera Shin's shoulder:

"Onodera-kun, today's work is almost over... However, later, there will be a band coming to record other instruments, and I will also come to supervise the final mix."

"Hai, I understand." Onodera Shin patted his chest and guaranteed, "I will definitely do my best!"

"Yeah, come on! I'm counting on you!"

"Hai!!!"

Sigh... The skill of drawing cakes is getting better and better. Even just verbal praise makes people feel excited~

Akina, who left the recording studio, seemed a bit tired. After all, she had recorded the song many times and walked a lot.

Naoki Nagayama, who was originally thinking about where to kill time, gave up his original idea:

"Akina, why don't we go back first today? Watch TV and eat snacks at home, and have a good rest?"

"Yeah~" Akina looked at her boyfriend with soft eyes. "As long as I'm with Naoki-san, it's the same everywhere~"

It wasn't far from Akina's apartment. After discussing it, the two decided to walk back slowly and buy some ingredients by the way.

Naturally, they weren't going back to Shanyingyuan!

If they stayed at Shanyingyuan for another night, would they let Noriyuki Hosoda come to Shanyingyuan to pick her up tomorrow?!

Letting Akina hang the weight of her body on him, Naoki Nagayama and his girlfriend chatted and laughed while slowly strolling to the apartment in Taito Ward.

Ahead was that gray-white apartment.

Just at this moment, Naoki Nagayama suddenly stopped: "... Akina, do you think that car is a bit strange?"

"?"

Akina Nakamori looked over. At the corner of the small road in the distance, there was actually a van parked. In the middle of winter, the rear window was actually left open... facing Akina Nakamori's apartment, and it just happened to be able to stick out a lens!

The two of them had walked over from the back of the vehicle, so they didn't attract the attention of the people inside the van.

"Is this... paparazzi?"

Akina Nakamori had also been photographed many times in the past two years, so she quickly recognized it.

"How could it be?! They actually found my apartment?"

It hadn't been long since she moved out of the last apartment, and the address of the new apartment had actually been found by the paparazzi. Akina Nakamori was a bit flustered for a while.

"Are we going to have to move again?!"

"Looks like it should be." Naoki Nagayama observed. This car should have been parked for quite a long time. It might also be because there were too many revelations about Akina in the past two days, so the paparazzi were tracking Akina's itinerary with all their might. "Once one paparazzi knows, all the media will soon know Akina's address."

"This... we weren't photographed, were we?"

Akina Nakamori immediately thought carefully about whether she had been photographed when she went out with Naoki Nagayama.

"If we had already been photographed, this car wouldn't be waiting here." Naoki Nagayama gently patted Akina's shoulder, and the two turned and continued walking towards the recording studio. "Anyway, let's contact the agency first."

"Sigh... Hosoda-san's vacation..." His young girlfriend was very distressed.

"After all, it's a sudden event." Naoki Nagayama shrugged. "Looks like we'll have to make Hosoda-san suffer again~"

"Hai! It's confirmed to be a paparazzi car."

"Hai, I'm at the recording studio now. I didn't enter the apartment, so I shouldn't have been discovered..."

"Hai, I know... I'll wait here."

Using the car phone in the Toyota Century to contact Noriyuki Hosoda, this experienced manager immediately told Akina Nakamori not to go back anymore. Next, he would come to pick up Akina Nakamori to stay in a hotel temporarily, and would also notify Maki Ueda to help pack her personal items.

Once a new address was found, he would immediately have a moving company move all the furniture and such directly to the new address. Akina would never return to this apartment again.

"What a pity... even though I haven't moved in for long..." Akina had a bitter face. That apartment still had quite a few beautiful memories.

"This is also something that can't be helped."

Naoki Nagayama felt that he should take some responsibility. After all, the scandal with him made Akina Nakamori a hot topic recently. Countless paparazzi wanted to seize this opportunity, which was why they found Akina's address so quickly.

Maybe some employees within Stardust Promotion were also bought off.

"Then... Akina, during this time, do you want to live in Shanyingyuan?"

When Akina Nakamori heard this, she couldn't help but be moved, but after weighing it, she chose to give up:

"Arigato, Naoki-san. But forget it. This would also put Naoki-san's address at risk..."

Her boyfriend didn't often appear in public, but she still had to travel through places full of paparazzi. If you walk by the river often, how can you not get your shoes wet? What if one day she couldn't prevent the paparazzi's tracking...

Looking at Akina's firm gaze, Naoki Nagayama didn't continue to insist.

"Then let's wait for Hosoda-san to come." Looking back at the ingredients in the back row, "It's just a pity for these ingredients. Looks like I can only enjoy them myself~"

"And Eitaro and Miaotaro!"

When Noriyuki Hosoda came over, Naoki Nagayama felt that his expression was very complicated. After all, he was called over in the middle of his vacation.

Watching Akina being picked up, Naoki Nagayama sighed with a sense of loss.

Falling in love with a top idol is still very difficult!

The sky gradually darkened. Naoki Nagayama, who returned to Shanyingyuan alone, scratched Eitaro, who was still looking for someone else:

"Eitaro, don't look anymore. Only I came back alone~"

"Woof woof!"

The big dog didn't understand why there were two people when they went out in the morning, but only one left when they came back. However, it didn't have too many doubts because its master had brought back a lot of ingredients.

Rich experience told it that there would be good food again tonight!

Naoki Nagayama put the things away and came to the living room. Just as he was thinking about what music to play on the record player as background, he accidentally saw the calendar on the wall.

"It's already November 30th... Tomorrow is the last month of this year!"

"The New Year is coming... The third year of Showa is about to pass... This year, quite a few things have happened~"

For a moment, he was full of emotions, and his mind recalled the Analects he had memorized in his previous life:

"The passing of time is like this river, never ceasing day or night."

That day, when Confucius stood above the river, he should have had the same mood as he does now!

His thoughts flew, and Naoki Nagayama seemed to feel the scene of the river flowing slowly, and the faint water vapor came towards him...

Just at this moment, for some reason, his head stalled and sank.

Just like a fisherman feeling a fish on the hook,

Naoki Nagayama's thoughts subconsciously probed towards the heaviness he felt.

For a moment, a memory jumped out of his subconscious, and messy images exploded in his mind. The melodious melody echoed in his ears, and the Enka with Japanese characteristics echoed in his mind.

"

Ah, flowing slowly like the river (Ah, flowing slowly like the river)

Generations have passed (Generations have passed)

Ah, flowing endlessly like the river (Ah, flowing endlessly like the river, flowing to the distance)

The sky is just dyed in twilight (The sky is just dyed in twilight)

The sudden memory made Naoki Nagayama's head like a paste. The singing and music in his head were like omnidirectional stereo sound that couldn't stop.

Taking advantage of the slight subsidence of the memory impact, Naoki Nagayama hurriedly ran to the study on the second floor, took out blank manuscript paper, and wrote down this song.

"'Flowing Like a River'?"

After writing it down, Naoki Nagayama, whose thoughts gradually recovered, looked at the song in his hand and was slightly surprised.

This was the last song of the legendary Japanese singer Hibari Misora before her death. It was the number one song that moved all of Japan in the 20th century and was selected as one of the 100 good Japanese songs that Japanese people boast to the world, ranking 3rd.

The lyrics and music of this song itself were very excellent. Simple lyrics, sad melody, regretful emotions, the impermanence of life, and the sigh of time never stopping... It very much fits the Japanese culture of Mono no aware.

It was also combined with the background of the death of Emperor Showa, who was in power at the time.

Coupled with the fact that this was Hibari Misora's last song before her death, it made this song full of legendary colors.

Naoki Nagayama hummed it a few times. He was not very surprised by the appearance of this song. After all, he had definitely looped it on Bilibili.

However, what made him a bit embarrassed was that this song was the most famous song written by Yasushi Akimoto. Currently, his relationship with this chubby young man was quite good, and they even collaborated on a program together. They could be considered good friends.

Not to mention other songs he thought of, after all, he didn't know the authors, and some hadn't even been born yet. Stealing them was fine, but if he released "Flowing Like a River"...

Under the circumstance that their relationship was quite good, it was a bit embarrassing~

After all, Naoki Nagayama didn't have a thick enough skin yet.

"Forget it, let's put it aside for now... Anyway, Emperor Showa won't pass away for a few more years~"

Naoki Nagayama finally decided to seal this song first. It was not certain what would happen in the future. Under the butterfly effect, maybe Hibari Misora wouldn't invite Yasushi Akimoto to write the lyrics.