Chapter 969: You guys have really harmed me!!!

It was another sunny day, with warm sunlight spilling down from the sky, shining on his face with full warmth.

Taking back the morning newspaper from the mailbox at the door, Naoki Nagayama stretched, took a deep breath of the fresh air with a chill, and felt refreshed, only then walking into Yamasakura-in again.

The thick egg roll in the frying pan made a slight sizzling sound, and the aroma of grease and eggs combined together permeated, making Eitaro and Miaotaro walk back and forth anxiously between the kitchen and the dining room...

Akina, who was making breakfast, was in a good mood, and her mood was also very good. While turning the ingredients, she was still humming a song. Her white and red cheeks were like some kind of tender and smooth jelly, making people want to take a bite~

Naoki Nagayama put the newspaper on the dining table, went to the kitchen to help take breakfast, and by the way, glanced at the anxious cat and dog:

"Really not giving it to Eitaro and Miaotaro? They look very anxious..."

Perhaps hearing their names, Eitaro quickly ran to Naoki Nagayama's leg and sat down, looking up at his master, his thick tail wagging wildly, his eyes full of expectation...

Even Miaotaro learned to flatter, running into the kitchen and rubbing against Akina's ankles. He knew who could decide the food.

"Eitaro and Miaotaro are too fat~ If they continue to eat like this..."

Akina looked at these two fur babies, somewhat helpless... Why were the two raised by the Nagayama family both big eaters~

"But... they look very pitiful..."

Naoki Nagayama scratched the dog's head. Anyway, he was very soft-hearted, so the strict role was played by Akina!

"No!" Akina said firmly. "We must control their food intake! This is for their own good!"

Eitaro lowered his head upon hearing this, and didn't even wag his tail...

After finishing the convoluted reasons in one breath, Naoki Nagayama listened to the angry "beep-beep" sound of the phone hanging up in the receiver, feeling refreshed, only then did he put down the phone unhurriedly.

Then Akina also sat beside him, intimately leaning against Naoki Nagayama, watching the newspaper her husband was reading:

"Any fresh news?"

"It's all year-end inventory and so on~" Naoki Nagayama flipped through it casually, and then saw the top ten most popular idols. "Ah, Akina is about to be surpassed..."

"Hmm?"

Akina turned her head to look. Half of the newspaper page was divided into two lists, the most popular female idols and the most popular male idols...

Akina still topped the list of female idols, but powerful competitors like Naoko Kawai, Yoshie Kashiwabara, Kyoko Koizumi, Yukiko Okada, and Shizuka Kudo had already divided up the fan vacuum left by Seiko Matsuda, and their fan base and exposure were increasing rapidly, and their popularity index was also rising fast.

Plus, in the past few months, Akina had reduced many exposure opportunities. If it weren't for the fact that the marriage matter had exploded public opinion once again, she might have already been surpassed~

However, the male idols were very stable. Toshihiko Tahara was at his peak, followed by Shonentai, Koji Yoshida, Shingo Kazami, and other newcomers. Masahiko Kondo was already very reluctant to rank in the top ten... After all, one of the three major music programs, *Music Station*, never invited him, making him have much less exposure than other idols...

"Yukiko-chan and Shizuka-chan are indeed very capable..."

Akina generously encouraged her competitors and continued to look for a few more glances, then was quite surprised,

"Naoki-san, among the top fifty in this list, Shizuka Kudo in fifth place, Junko Ito in sixteenth, Momoko Kikuchi in twenty-first, and Chika Aoyama in thirty-fifth... seem to be idols of Shu-Yu, right?!"

"Oh?"

Naoki Nagayama only then looked at it seriously upon hearing this. Only then did he discover that those who took the idol path under his family seemed to have quite good results... It's just that he didn't see the ranking of the Cat's Eye Three Sisters~

And there were also Yuki Saito, Kaoru Kohiruimaki, Rie Miyazawa, and others, who were taking the actor path...

"Sure enough... it seems Masami-kun is doing very well!"

"Naoki-san, didn't you care about this before?!"

Occupying four in the top fifty was an incredible achievement for an agency, and they weren't at the end of the list, in other words, they all had great potential.

"I really don't care much about this..." Naoki Nagayama shook his head. His focus was on movies and investment. "At most, I paid some attention to Junko Ito at the beginning, and later I paid more attention to Shizuka Kudo... As for the idol industry, the one I care about most is Akina!"

"That's more like it~"

Akina was in a great mood after hearing this, and raised her head to give Naoki Nagayama a sweet kiss~

"...... There's oil on your lips~" Naoki Nagayama was a bit disgusted...

"Hmm? You're still dodging?"

Seeing that her husband was so uninteresting, Akina stretched out her hands, straightened Naoki Nagayama's face, and then kissed him three times squarely on his face!

Then she laughed and continued to eat breakfast~

Naoki Nagayama didn't dare to wipe it, and could only wash his face while changing clothes...

Now Eitaro wasn't hungry anymore. Sure enough, there was an extra meal~

After arriving at the Shu-Yu building in Ikebukuro, the two ladies at the front desk greeted him with full smiles, and their voices were three points sweeter than usual!

"Naoki-san, Ohayou~"

"Xingxia-chan, good morning too~"

"Naoki-san seems even more handsome today!" Jia Hua Xing beside her was more cheerful and said intimately.

"Hahaha, Hua-chan is also beautiful~"

After getting on the elevator, Naoki Nagayama didn't go to the editing room to continue working for the first time, but came to Yoshimura Otomo's office.

"Otomo-san, good morning~"

"Ah, Naoki-san is here~" In Yoshimura Otomo's office, Shuichi Ido was already drinking tea. "Then we can almost start~"

"Yes, it's the annual surprise moment again!"

Shuichi Ido smiled and looked at Naoki Nagayama,

"And it's the double surprise given by Naoki-san!"

Yoshimura Otomo shook his head: "Naoki-san, do you know how much workload you have brought us?!"

"Hahaha, I was just thinking that everyone has worked too hard this year~" Naoki Nagayama touched his head and said somewhat awkwardly.

Indeed, suddenly doubling the year-end bonuses of company employees was a great pressure for finance and senior management...

Now the Shu-Yu Group had such a large volume, and the year-end bonuses were all hundreds of millions. Just withdrawing so much cash from the bank at the end of the year was a difficult thing to do~

In this era, online banking hadn't developed yet. Most companies even distributed monthly wages in envelopes. If they distributed year-end bonuses, most of them used cowhide bags to hold money, because ordinary envelopes were easy to break...

And there was also the distribution of year-end bonuses. As a management method, it was generally distributed by the president if possible...

"In short, start early~" Yoshimura Otomo didn't say much and stood up. "The conference room next to the finance room... the employees are coming in batches~"

"Hmm, go, go, go, go early and be at ease... I heard that Hikari Kitamura and Momoki Tsunoda, they sleep in the finance room at night~"

Shuichi Ido also stood up. Hundreds of millions were placed in the office, and he wasn't at ease even with a safe~

"Haha, if there really are robbers and thieves to steal, what use are the two of them..." Naoki Nagayama joked with his two good friends while walking. "They will be tied away together, right?"

"There is an alarm button..."

"Hahaha~"

The three guys chatted and laughed as they walked towards the finance room on the third floor. At this very moment, in the Shu-Yu building in Ikebukuro, employees and artists were constantly coming...

When the three of Naoki Nagayama arrived at the finance room, Momoki Tsunoda and the others had already packed the year-end bonuses, and the names were also pasted on the outside, placed in several boxes~

"Naoki-san, Otomo-san, Shuichi-san..." Hikari Kitamura handed over a form. "This is the list of distribution... one basket for each business department..."

"Yes~ Kitamura-san, you have worked hard~"

Yoshimura Otomo took the form, and the heavier money boxes were naturally moved by the two young people!

"Not at all, this is all duty-bound..." Hikari Kitamura shook her head with a smile. She was very happy, after all, there were bonuses for them too.

"Alright, let's move the money over and notify the front desk to let people up~" Shuichi Ido walked out with the box neatly. It was just in the conference room next door, only a few steps away~

"Haha, the weight of money~" Naoki Nagayama sighed while holding the box and followed.

Not long after, in the lobby on the third floor, Shu-Yu employees gathered...

The first to be distributed were the year-end bonuses of the film business department. Familiar faces like Masataka Komori, Xu Mudao, Kongming Sakata, and Guangming Xiaoyuan walked into the conference room, their faces full of surprise as they took the thick envelopes from Shuichi Ido, bowing repeatedly and saying words of thanks.

Even newcomers like Munao Matsuo and Tomoyuki Nishimoto didn't miss out...

"You have worked hard this year... and achieved very good results." Yoshimura Otomo gave a lecture to every employee. "However, you still have to continue to work hard next year~"

"Shu-Yu's success is the result of everyone's efforts, and Shu-Yu's profit naturally has to be shared with everyone..."

"Without everyone, there would be no Shu-Yu... Without Shu-Yu, naturally there would be no year-end bonuses for everyone!"

"Shu-Yu's tomorrow depends on you!"

"In the entertainment industry, besides Shu-Yu, where else can there be such a thing as temporarily doubling year-end bonuses~"

According to different employees, Yoshimura Otomo's PUA rhetoric kept changing, and he was at ease...

Although Naoki Nagayama couldn't stand it, the atmosphere of this era was like this.

Employees and the company are one body. Treating the company as a home is not a joke. If the company makes a profit, it will also give back to the employees... Unlike later generations, "I treat the company as a home, and the company treats me as a cow or horse..."

Unknowingly, the year-end bonuses were distributed to the cultural and entertainment business department, and then he saw well-known artists like Junko Ito and Shizuka Kudo who were mentioned this morning.

"It's very good this year~" Naoki Nagayama handed the special cowhide envelope to Rie Miyazawa, which only had about 100,000 yen in it. "Rie-chan, this is New Year's money!"

Not yet an adult, so the year-end bonus was paid into the regulatory account... It had to wait until she was an adult to be used~

Speaking of this, it was because of Rie Miyazawa that the regulation was raised, because she had a vampire mother. If all the money was given to her, maybe not a cent would be left after she became an adult... Shu-Yu couldn't let underage artists become money-making tools for their parents.

"Arigato~"

Rie Miyazawa smiled and took the envelope. Shu-Yu usually gave pocket money, but it was also much better than artists in other agencies like Johnny's~

"Keep working hard next year~"

"Yes!"

After Rie Miyazawa went out, the next one to come in was Chika Aoyama... It had been a long time since he saw her. Chika Aoyama, who was already very beautiful, became more and more bright, like a peony flower in full bloom.

"Chika-chan, come, this is yours!"

Naoki Nagayama greeted with a smile and handed over the year-end bonus~

"Arigato~" Chika Aoyama took the year-end bonus, full of smiles... She was already an adult and could buy, buy, buy and spend, spend, spend happily!

"Is your grandfather okay recently?" Naoki Nagayama asked. "There have been a lot of things recently, and I didn't pass by to see him~"

"Yes, grandfather's body is very good. He even went to the mountains to burn pottery recently~"

"Haha, really old and strong... Chika-chan, please send my regards to him~"

"Yes~"

Naoki Nagayama was married, so Chika Aoyama gave up...

She completely buried the youthful heartbeat in her heart. Now she really treated Naoki Nagayama like a big brother next door~ The two of them felt comfortable talking to each other~

After Chika Aoyama went out, Shizuka Kudo came again...

So many well-known artists returned to the Shu-Yu building. It is said that many reporters were squatting outside the building. Although Naoki Nagayama didn't dare to steal photos, artists under Shu-Yu could still be photographed.

It is said that today is the day they receive their year-end bonuses. After waiting to photograph their expressions, they can know whether Naoki Nagayama is like the rumors to his artists!

People came to the conference room in batches. Shu-Yu Group has developed to now, and there are more than 300 formal employees... Everyone has to be given a red envelope and encouraged...

Even for members of branch companies like Shigeru Araki, they have to communicate about work situations. In short, the whole process is not so fast.

After everyone received the year-end bonus, a whole day was about to pass!

After the last person on the list left, Shuichi Ido stretched:

"Finally over..."

"Yes~ I'm exhausted~" Naoki Nagayama also loosened his muscles and bones. "Distributing money is also very tiring~"

Yoshimura Otomo teased:

"Is Naoki-san tired? But I see you chatting very happily with Chika-chan and Shizuka-chan and the others?!!"

"Yes, yes, Naoki-san only chats with beautiful female employees, and male employees are chatted by me and Otomo-san!" Shuichi Ido hurriedly added a knife. "Yi... tsk tsk tsk, Naoki-san, you are a married person!"

"No way?! Don't slander me!"

Naoki Nagayama hurriedly refuted, but under the gaze of the two, he became more and more guilty... It seemed that if he was not careful, he really chatted more with beautiful female employees...

"I'm just concerned about the employees! It just happened that they were girls!"

"Qi~~" X2

Yoshimura Otomo and Shuichi Ido jointly despised Naoki Nagayama. This guy actually dared to do it but didn't dare to admit it!

The three people walked out of the conference room chatting and laughing, and returned the list to Hikari Kitamura... As for the year-end bonuses of the finance staff, they were naturally given first!

"What to do next?" Naoki Nagayama asked in the elevator.

"Don't want to work..." Shuichi Ido looked at Yoshimura Otomo...

"Indeed... after distributing money for a day, I feel empty inside..." Yoshimura Otomo nodded seriously. "Need comfort..."

Then the three looked at each other and blurted out:

"Go drink flower wine!!!"

It was as if they had matched the password, and the three guys started to calculate excitedly whether to go to the newly opened club or to a familiar old place...

Just at this time, Naoki Nagayama noticed the ring on his hand...

"But... I'm married... Is this a bit..."

Shuichi Ido and Yoshimura Otomo looked at each other and put their hands on Naoki Nagayama's shoulders together, and also raised their hands:

"We are all married~"

"Naoki-san... you know, even if you are married, some hobbies need to be maintained~"

"Relaxing your mood, venting your bad mood, and leaving your good mood for your wife, this is the secret to maintaining a good marriage!"

"Don't worry... we won't tell Akina-chan!"

These two guys said one word after another, whitewashing the act of going to the club to drink flower wine as a legitimate social way for men... Actually, in this era, in Japan, it cannot be said to be wrong...

Naoki Nagayama was pulled into the sedan by them in a dilemma, sighing in his mouth:

"Sigh... Otomo-san, Shuichi-san... how can this be~~~ You two, you have really harmed me!"

"Forget it, forget it, it's agreed, this time we are just going to drink~"

"As for others, I will absolutely not participate!"

"Especially the young ladies, absolutely don't call them for me!"

"...." ===== CHAPTER 970 =====