Chapter 740: Let's live together!

The brilliant sunlight outside the window shone in, slowly crawling onto the bed, making the eyelids of the person who was originally asleep move slightly, slowly opening their eyes.

I don't know if it was because of the wine or because he slept too long, but when Naoki Nagayama got up in the morning, he felt a bit dazed, and it took him a while to recall what happened yesterday.

"Everyone came to the Mountain Cherry Garden for a gathering......"

"Then cleaned up the kitchen....."

"Then....." thinking of what happened later, Naoki Nagayama's mouth turned up, and his mood suddenly improved, "But after that, I originally wanted to take a nap, how did I sleep until tomorrow all of a sudden?!"

I can't figure out what's going on; I clearly have good physical strength and I'm not tired~

"Akina should be up, making breakfast downstairs? Today, Fusunori Akiko seems to be coming to pick her up after ten o'clock....."

Muttering while puzzled, he finished washing up, and then walked downstairs.

But there was no trace of Akina Nakamori on the first floor.

In the empty living room, there was nothing but furniture, and only the sound of the wind blowing through the bamboo leaves came in from the glass sliding door.

The huge house suddenly felt empty and lonely; the Mountain Cherry Garden, which had been lived in for three years, actually made people feel a bit strange.

Where are the people? Why is there no one?

Where did they go? Did they leave?

Just as he was letting his imagination run wild, with a click, the front door opened.

Following a beam of light that shone in, what followed was Eitaro's round, white, and fat head, and a large orange cat that darted to his feet and rubbed against them.

"Eitaro, Meitaro?"

Akina Nakamori, who walked in immediately, put down the shopping bag in her hand, took off the hat brim on her head and the mask covering her cheeks, revealing her exquisite face that had been blocked.

Seeing Naoki Nagayama standing in the living room, she showed a brilliant smile:

"Naoki-san, you're up~"

"I got up a bit early today, so I took Meitaro and Eitaro out for a stroll!"

"And bought ingredients for breakfast!"

Her fair and rosy face leaned in, full of joyful emotions: "Are you hungry? I'll make breakfast~"

The chattering words, carrying thick happiness, as if carrying the bright and warm morning sunshine, flowed into Naoki Nagayama's heart together.

"Akina~~"

A warm current flowed out from his heart again, making Naoki Nagayama show a warm and relaxed smile, and he couldn't help but reach out and hug the beauty in front of him, as if holding a treasure, unwilling to let go.

"Ah...... Naoki-san, you're hugging too tight......"

Akina Nakamori didn't resist being hugged suddenly, and was even a bit happy, but she was still carrying the shopping bag, so she could only gently pat her boyfriend's back with her other hand.

Naoki Nagayama let go of Akina in his arms, but kept his arms around her, looking at her black and white eyes, and said softly but seriously:

"Akina, let's live together!"

"Eh?!"

The sudden invitation to live together made Akina Nakamori feel uneasy, and the breakfast she made was a bit off~

But Naoki Nagayama wasn't that delicate; he hadn't even eaten dinner yesterday, and his appetite in the morning was incredibly good, eating everything clean.

"Naoki-san, why did you say that suddenly?" Akina Nakamori held her face and looked at her boyfriend.

"There's no special reason~" Naoki Nagayama thought for a while, "I just want to wake up with Akina every morning, eat breakfast together....... A new day starting with seeing Akina should be even better!"

"........"

Akina was a young girl who had only been in love once. Listening to her boyfriend's sincere feelings, she felt like the whole person was floating, and for a moment she didn't know how to respond.

But Naoki Nagayama didn't stop, moving his stool closer to Akina:

"How about it? Does Akina want to live with me?"

"But...... I often come back very late......" Akina frowned, "It might disturb Naoki-san....."

"It's fine, I'm a night owl~"

"But sometimes I get up very early....." Akina was a bit coy, "It will still disturb Naoki-san....."

"It's fine, I sleep soundly; no one can wake me up once I'm asleep!"

"But I have a lot of miscellaneous things, souvenirs, little knick-knacks....... " Akina's eyes darted around, "They take up a lot of space...."

"It's fine, the Mountain Cherry Garden is very big! If needed, we can squeeze out another room!"

"But......"

Akina Nakamori's heart was in a mess, and she wanted to continue saying what she was worried about.......

Naoki Nagayama knew that proposing to live together suddenly made his girlfriend unable to make up her mind for a moment, even if Akina agreed in her heart, this was a big step forward for the couple's relationship.

That's why there was the current Akina constantly asking strange questions.....

But since he had proposed it, he didn't mean it casually; he had to think of a way to make Akina clarify her thoughts directly!

So Naoki Nagayama directly interrupted Akina's questioning, his face disappointed, and said "earnestly":

"There's still a 'but'........ so many reasons..... it looks like Akina doesn't want to live with me..... since that's the case...... then the previous words...... just treat them as....."

Seeing that Naoki Nagayama was about to withdraw the invitation, Akina Nakamori was suddenly anxious, hurriedly raising her hand to cover her boyfriend's mouth:

"No!"

(? -?)? Naoki Nagayama expressed his question with his eyes.

"You can't treat it as if you never said it!" Akina Nakamori hurriedly said, "I don't not want to!"

Naoki Nagayama took Akina's hand away and said with a smile:

"So that means you're willing?"

"Hmm......"

After the affirmative answer, Akina Nakamori seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, her mind was made up, and the whole person became relaxed.

Then she felt the happiness and excitement she hadn't felt when she was panicked before.....

I'm going to live with Naoki-san!!! Just thinking about this word makes me feel shy!!!

When Fusunori Akiko came to pick up Akina, he found that his artist seemed to have eaten something she shouldn't have.

The whole person was very excited, with a strange smile on her face, active thinking, eyes darting around, talking non-stop, and small movements constantly, as if she couldn't sit still.

If the car door hadn't been locked, Fusunori Akiko even suspected she would open the door to look at the high-speed ground flashing by......

"Akina-chan, did something happen?"

"Hmm? Why would Fusunori-san ask that? What's wrong with me? I haven't said anything? Is it that obvious?" Akina Nakamori was like a machine gun, her little mouth didn't stop.

"......" Now it's even more certain!

"Did something good happen?" Maki Ueda also asked.

"......" Akina Nakamori really wanted to share, but then thought about what Naoki-san just said, that she had to hide it from the agency for a while, so she could only close her mouth again, "Nothing, just very happy!"

"......."

The two managers looked at each other; do you think we believe that?

But since Akina didn't want to say, they didn't continue to ask.

And over at the Mountain Cherry Garden, Naoki Nagayama touched Eitaro's head and walked toward the study on the second floor.

Living with Akina wasn't something that could be done overnight.

To put it small, there were Akina's various things that had to be moved over slowly..... after all, it wasn't marriage, so she couldn't just find a moving company all at once.

To put it big, there was communication with Akina's agency, meeting parents and relatives, and also being careful not to be photographed by the media, etc.......

The more urgent matter at the moment was Akina's new contract with the agency!

Almost all idol artist contracts in Japan had clauses prohibiting romance, and Akina's was naturally no exception, but this point basically had no deterrent effect on the current Akina Nakamori.

Naoki Nagayama took out the new contract drafted by the agency and began to study it. Thinking about new terms, profit-sharing ratios, shares, etc., he wanted to fight for greater benefits for Akina during the negotiations and also have fewer restrictions.

After drawing and sketching for a whole morning, he finally completed a draft template for the agency contract. Naoki Nagayama looked at this draft and felt a bit emotional:

"If the agency doesn't agree, then don't blame me for signing Akina under my own name!"

After putting away the draft, Naoki Nagayama walked down from the study and headed toward the garage. He was going to the studio to let his own legal team help see if there were any problems with this contract.

The crisp autumn weather made driving a kind of enjoyment.

The refreshing wind blew across his cheeks, bringing bursts of coolness, making people feel refreshed.

Naoki Nagayama, who was a bit happy in his heart, saw the street trees by the road and felt they looked inexplicably pleasing, and even the shrubs in the isolation belt were full of vitality!

He relaxed the accelerator, and soon the convertible arrived at the studio.

"Hana-chan! Yukika-chan! Good morning!" Naoki Nagayama walked past the front desk with light steps, not forgetting to praise them, "You're dressed very beautifully today!"

"Good morning, Naoki-san!" "Good morning......"

Hana Hoshika answered generously, while Yukika Suzuki was a bit shy, and her voice was small...... she was praised by Naoki-san!

After Naoki Nagayama walked in, Hana Hoshika saw the silly girl next to her still secretly happy and couldn't help but give her a hand chop:

"Stop fantasizing! Yukika-chan...... Naoki-san just said it casually!"

"...... Hana-chan, how do you know he just said it casually?!" Yukika Suzuki was a bit indignant; the clothes she wore today were indeed carefully selected!

"...... Look, Naoki-san says that to every girl!"

Hana Hoshika pointed at Naoki Nagayama, who was talking to other employees. Sure enough, he only touched on the male employees briefly, while he would say things like "You're so beautiful today!", "Your complexion is very good~", "This hairpin is very eye-catching..." to the girls.

"Our Naoki-san is a central air-conditioning type of warm man!" Hana Hoshika paused after saying that and continued, "No, he's a sun-type sun that shines everywhere!!! The main thing is one word — fairness!!!"

"......." Yukika Suzuki had to agree.

And the little sun they were talking about didn't go to the boss's office as usual, but went to an office he rarely went to...... the Legal Department.

"Legal Department..... speaking of which, I haven't been here even once....."

Naoki Nagayama said silently. Basically, the contracts that needed him to sign and look over were given to him directly by Tomo Yoshimura, or brought to him by Riko Hayano of the General Affairs Department.

He really hadn't been to the Legal Department's office!

After pushing the door open, inside was a small office similar to the Finance Department, where Legal Director Takanori Numata and Legal Counsel Takanori Ishizaki were working at two desks.

Originally, the two were leisurely drinking coffee, but after seeing that it was Naoki Nagayama who came in, they were so surprised they almost coughed it out.

"Naoki-san?!" Legal Director Takanori Numata called out in surprise, "Why did you come over here?!"

He reacted after a pause: "Ah...... no..... I mean, Naoki-san coming to the legal office in person, is there anything you need to instruct?"

"Haha, nothing major, don't be nervous." Naoki Nagayama understood the psychology of ordinary workers and didn't care, "I have a draft agency contract here, and I need to trouble Numata-san to help see if there are any problems."

Naoki Nagayama handed out the document bag and continued: "If there are no problems, please trouble Numata-san to help draft it into a formal contract format."

"Hai!"

Takanori Numata took the contract suspiciously. Tree Friend's contracts generally went out from their side, right? Why did Naoki-san bring a contract they hadn't seen before?

With the sensitivity of a legal professional, Takanori Numata immediately saw the keyword and looked at Naoki Nagayama with some suspicion:

"Naoki-san, this is..... Nakamori's contract?"

"Hai, it's a new contract for a friend, so please trouble Numata-san to help review it." Naoki Nagayama nodded and admitted it directly, "It should take some time..... tell me after the review is finished...... I'll be in the office all day today."

"Hai, I understand!"

Takanori Numata immediately agreed. Although he had arranged other things today, this was work issued by his own boss in person! Naturally, the priority was placed first!

"Hmm~" Naoki Nagayama nodded and left the legal office.

And the two legal counsels left in the small room relaxed quite a bit after the big boss left.

Takanori Ishizaki walked to Takanori Numata's side curiously: "Nakamori's contract? Naoki-san's friend? Isn't that Akina Nakamori's new contract?!"

"Should be..... reviewing the other party's new contract?" Takanori Numata opened the contract, "Is Naoki-san trying to poach someone?"

Immediately after, bursts of exclamations came from the small office.....

"Basic annual salary of over ten million!" "Agency split 50/50?!" "Record split is also so high?"

"Freely choose work?!"

"Actually also want 5% of the agency's shares?!!!"

"Such conditions?! Is this really an artist's contract?" Legal Counsel Takanori Ishizaki exclaimed, "This is a partner!!"

Takanori Numata nodded:

"It looks like Nakamori really went all out this time!"

Naoki Nagayama walked to the office and sure enough saw the diligent Tomo Yoshimura again.

"Otomo-san!"

"Naoki-san, why did you come over?"

Tomo Yoshimura looked at Naoki Nagayama strangely. Didn't this guy say he wanted to rest yesterday?

"I have something I need the company's legal team to help with, so I came over."

Naoki Nagayama didn't hide anything and told Tomo Yoshimura directly about the items in Akina's new contract, and also explained the conditions he wanted to fight for for Akina.

"Such exaggerated conditions?"

As the actual controller of the agency under Tree Friend and a former senior talent scout, Tomo Yoshimura was naturally no stranger to artist contracts.

However, in all his years in the industry, he had never seen such a high-quality contract.

The contract for the agency under Tree Friend's Girl's Group was already very loose, but compared to the conditions Naoki Nagayama just mentioned, it was a world of difference.

Not to mention anything else, 5% of the agency's shares...... was this an unrealistic delusion that a "commodity" should have?!

"Naoki-san, will Nakamori agree to such conditions?" Tomo Yoshimura asked somewhat uncertainly.

"I actually hope they don't agree....." Naoki Nagayama said, "I'm actually very conflicted now; on one hand, I want Akina to be closer to me, preferably signed to Tree Friend; on the other hand, Akina is an independent artist after all, and her cooperation with Nakamori is very pleasant, and she has developed deep feelings for the team....."

And there was also the fact that Chieko trusted Hanami Akira and Terabayashi Akira of Warner Pioneer very much, and Akina hadn't reached the age of 20 yet..... she still needed her mother's signature.

"However, if Nakamori really can't agree to this request, then there's no other way...... I'll justifiably sign Akina over....."

Tomo Yoshimura looked at his good friend and shook his head:

"Why be so troublesome..... just get married! Then she'll be the boss's wife of Tree Friend directly!!"

"......."

Naoki Nagayama silently extended his thumb and gave Tomo Yoshimura a like.

Sure enough, a business tycoon, one step to the goal! ===== CHAPTER 741 =====