When he opened a corner of the curtain, the sunset had already coated the sky and the earth with a light golden color. Ye Zhao put down the curtains and glanced at the Sakai Izumi who was sitting beside him.

"You are probably wondering why I suddenly invited you?" Sakai Izumizu spread a library magazine on her knees that she bought at the station. She was slightly myopic and had a pair of light round-frame glasses on her nose. She looked intellectual and approachable.

"No matter what the reason is, it's all very luxurious." Ye Zhao replied.

"Luxury?" Sakai Izumizu was a little surprised by Ye Ao's words.

"Of course. After all, in the first twenty years of my life, I never thought of traveling with Sister Quanshui."

Sakai Izumizu chuckled, "I was worried that you would be unscrupulous, but now it seems that this kind of worry is still a lot."

"As long as Sister Quanshui doesn't leave me alone and returns to Tokyo alone, this kind of thing will be fine." Ye Zhao also replied with a joke.

...

Ye Zhao met Sakai Izumi in the recording studio at BEING headquarters.

When the tabloids first dug up his old stories, Ye Zhao only thought it was a big information that he had to go through after becoming famous. However, when the directional report of "Weekly Women" came out, he immediately realized that something was wrong. At the same time, the words "Maybe Cheng Fu in the cafe that day, he would fall a big fuck because of something" clearly appeared in his mind.

This series of reports is organized and orderly. First, some of his past events aroused people's curiosity. Because it was just a trivial matter and nothing important, even BEING would not be prepared. Then, boiled a little bit of frog-like ingredients. When it was caught off guard, it poured dirty water on him. Such a smooth operation and a large-scale operation of so many tabloid magazines at once, no one could do it except BRUNING, the industry giant. Ye Zhao had to suspect that when Hexi Chengfu found him that day, he had already prepared this plan. Talking about poaching with him was just a trick he played first and then the army.

In BEING, the only person who can accept his questions and answer the grudges between the genocide and BEING for him was Masao Akashi. When he made an appointment with Masao Akashi and came to the recording studio of BEING headquarters on time, he met Sizumi Sakai in the corridor.

"Sister Quanshui, are you here too?"

Sakai Izumi nodded, "I'm preparing a new song recently. There is a place I don't think is suitable, so I plan to come to the studio to change it." He paused and asked with concern: "The reports this time are really bad. Ye Jun, it doesn't matter?"

"It's still acceptable for the time being." Ye Zhao opened the door of the recording studio, and the two walked in one after another. Akio Akio looked at the incoming water of Ye Zhao and Sakai, and was a little surprised: "Is the water of the spring also coming?"

"We happened to meet. Teacher Akishi, I'll go across the street. If you have any questions, don't worry about me." After Sakai Izumizu said that, he waved to the two of them and entered the recording studio.

There were only two people in the control room, Ye Zhao and Akishi Masao. Akishi Masao sat on the chair and pushed a swivel chair next to Ye Zhao, "Sit. There is no need to say, it must be for those reports?"

"Teacher, someone from BRUNING's office came to me a while ago and wanted to poach me from here, but I refused. After that, the first magazine that reported me appeared on the market, so I think this matter was mostly done by BRUNING. I just don't understand what kind of hatred and grudges our company and the Ran Group? When I went to MS, BRUNING's Koizumi was talking coldly to me today. Now these reports are the same. Not only me, but also the three generations of the company have revealed them together."

After hearing Ye Zhao's words, Masao Akishi did not rush to answer, but looked at the recording studio opposite - although Sakai Izumii pulled the curtains on the glass wall connecting the control room after entering, which was a unique habit of recording in Sakai Izumii. After a while, Masao Akishi said: "It is said that most of the fans of artists are similar to those of artists, so this is true."

"What's the meaning?"

"I ask you, when did you become a fan of Quanshui?"

"Well..." Ye Zhao thought for a while, "From the beginning." Although he had heard ZARD's songs in the 1990s in his previous life, when he really fell in love with Sakai Izumizu, she had already died. Now he is back in 1994. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was the beginning when he knows her entire life trajectory.

"Since that's the case, you must also know the experience of being a model before her debut, right?"

Ye Zhao nodded, "Sister Quanshui was once a contracted model of Xingchen before the singer debuted." He also took some large-scale photos.

"BEING and Xingchen Firm are the same consortium, so at the beginning of its establishment, there were more cooperation between the two companies. When the company selected B.B.QUEENS, Xingchen sent a few new people to run for the election, and Quanshui was one of them. When President Nagato chose her to debut as the lead singer of ZARD, she transferred her contract from Xingchen to BEING."

"In 1992, ZARD slowly got on track, appeared on TV many times, and decided the date of the first tour. Just when the situation was good, the magazine suddenly became like what you are going through now. First, it reported some things about her student days and when she was a white-collar worker in the office. Since the singers in our company were relatively low, this kind of magazine has always been very popular among the public. Just when this curiosity reached its peak, the photos she took when she was a model suddenly came overwhelming. In addition to the real part, it was also mixed with fake black materials."

"Since you have entered this circle, you should know that the most toxic part of the tabloid is the kind of half-true thing. Because there is a real part, people will subconsciously believe in the fake part. Quanshui is shy and introverted, not good at arguing, and after seeing those false reports, she collapsed and cried in the recording studio. The audience who originally loved her had doubts about her after reading these reports. In order not to cause unnecessary commotion, the original tour was cancelled."

"How is it? Doesn't it sound very familiar?" Akio Akishi asked slowly.

"BRUNING's tricks are really the same." Ye Zhao's voice was a little low. He knew the so-called "black history" before his debut, but he never knew that the black history was revealed in this bloody way.

"The reason why BRUNING can quickly dominate the art world is to constantly swallow up and eat up small companies. At first, BEING was just a small production company that was not as good as the top one, so the Ransing Series naturally didn't take it seriously. When we successfully launched TUBE and B’z, BRUNING tried to reuse the same trick and proposed to purchase the song copyright of its singers, but it was flatly rejected. Since then, the two companies have had grudges."

"After that in order to prevent the fire system from being encroached on BEING, BEING, Xingchen, and several other companies in the industry, we formed an alliance to fight against BRUNING's forces, and then we completely stood on the opposite side of BRUNING, so you were treated coldly by BRUNING's artists on MS. In recent years, BEING's popularity has been the case. When BRUNING continues to be weak in music and cannot seize the market, we began to dig out such small materials everywhere, real and fake to magazines, and use their media resources to exaggerate them."

"So," Ye Zhao thought of BRUNING's network of relationships that were spread throughout the entertainment industry, and asked: "The reason why BEING's artists are low-key and do not appear on TV is because BRUNING suppressed it?"

"That's right. The company itself doesn't like publicity beyond music, but the bigger reason is that it comes from BRUNING's pressure. They not only use the method of reducing their remuneration to seize our resources in advertising and film and television, but also spoke in the media that are close to them. If we hadn't had a good relationship with Asahi TV, and Asahi TV was so powerful that BRUNING would have made a move, you wouldn't even have a chance to go to MS to play songs."

Ye Zhao never expected that there were so many secrets hidden in this era. As a latecomer, what Ye Zhao knew was the so-called low-key nature created by BEING for the outside world. He could not have imagined that this low-key nature contained the inability to break through the siege and had to choose another way. In order to pursue freedom of entering BEING, he also labeled the BEING system and made a great enemy for himself when he first entered the entertainment industry.

"How? After hearing these things, do you feel stressed?" Akio Akio asked.

Ye Zhao smiled, "Not only did I feel the pressure was too high, but I was even more motivated." If BEING was afraid of BRUNING, he would take the initiative to surrender when BRUNING delivered an olive branch. With their support, maybe this small production company could develop into one of the best record companies in the industry. But fortunately, the long-time household would rather give up media resources and just be a production company focused on music than be swallowed by the big office as rations.

Similarly, if Ye Zhao is afraid of BRUNING, then he can get rid of all difficulties by accepting the recruitment of Hexi Chengfu. But in the final analysis, no matter how powerful a powerful force is, if he just surrenders to a stronger side than himself, he will always be a piece of fish on the chopping board. No matter how weak a force is, as long as he has a heart that dares to resist, he will one day be able to get rid of the shackles of the strong and become the master of his own destiny.

After getting what he wanted to know, Ye Zhao felt a lot more relaxed. At least, before the battle began, he had to know who his opponent was? Although he is still far from the word "opponent" in BRUNING's eyes, he still has many such confrontations in the future.

After the master and apprentice finished the conversation, Sakai Izumi told Akishi Masao through the microphone connected to the control room, asking him to help supervise the shed. It was rare to see the recording of Sakai Izumi. Ye Zhao simply stayed and listened. After recording it twice, Sakai Izumi came out to discuss some details with Akishi Masao. Ye Zhao also participated and carefully expressed his own opinions.

The discussion of the song came to an end. Sakai Izumizu raised her hand and looked at the watch on her wrist, and suddenly asked Ye Zhao: "Ye Jun, are there any arrangements next?"

"No."

"Since that's the case, can you accompany me to Kamakura?"

“Eh?!”
Chapter completed!