Tokyo Heart Thief's Daily Life

"......senior?"

Before Xiangzi could reach out his hand, he watched Luo Zhen running towards the dusk.

That eager attitude even made her a little envious for a moment.

"...Momoka Kawahara. Is she the original lead singer of 'Diamond Dust'?"

The numerous information on the Internet was reflected in Xiangzi's golden eyes, completely covering up her immaturity.

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"——Momo Xiang!"

Luo Zhen ran back home at the fastest speed in his life and opened the stuck door.

He rushed in from the entrance without even changing his shoes.

He had anticipated the worst.

Maybe when he came back, the house was empty. The 20-year-old shameless, loser, alcoholic rock star who had lived with him for three months was gone.

All traces of her life here would disappear. There would be no more underwear and pantyhose scattered in the bathroom, and no more beer cans tilted on the table after she finished drinking.

That is an ending that he absolutely cannot accept.

So when Luo Zhen rushed into the living room and saw Taoxiang holding a garbage bag to put beer cans, they were both stunned.

Especially the peach scent.

She trembled with guilt and quickly hid the garbage bag behind her, causing the beer cans on the table to roll to the ground.

She looked like a child who had done something wrong, smiling foolishly:

"Yo, yo~! You came home so early today, didn't you buy any groceries... burp~! (?-﹏-?)"

"...You've been drinking."

Luo Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and glanced around the room. There were quite a few empty cans scattered around.

Although Taoxiang is a heavy drinker and has poor drinking habits, her alcohol tolerance is even worse.

She usually loses memory after drinking two or three cans.

But now, not to mention the smell of alcohol all over the room, there are probably about a dozen cans on the ground.

Luo Zhen sighed softly:

"You didn't go to work today, did you skip work?"

"...I asked Subaru to ask for leave for me." She pouted and defended herself like a child.

Luo Zhen then pressed on: "How do you explain the wine? We agreed not to drink during the day, right?"

"...You're so nagging. It's none of your business what I do, right? Besides, I'm cleaning up right now... hiccup~!"

The woman burped again, and the smell all over her body was as if she had just been fished out of a jar of wine.

I heard that whether a person smells like alcohol is strongly related to genetics.

So people like Taoxiang, who get drunk after drinking a little and have a bad temper when drunk, are weaklings who are not born to drink.

Luo Zhen walked forward, snatched the garbage bag from the woman who was staggering while standing, and helped her clean up the mess.

Taoxiang wanted to argue with him at first.

But he pushed her lightly and she fell on the sofa, too dizzy to get up.

Luo Zhen cleaned up the empty cans on the floor, wiped up the spilled liquid, and wiped her butt without complaint.

Taoxiang saw all of this.

She curled up on the sofa, shielding her eyes with her arms:

"Don't worry about me... Just be a good high school student and enjoy your youth..."

"Besides, aren't you already dating the twins? Go on a date, get a room, have sex... Why are you working so hard? You even have to work on your days off..."

Luo Zhen: "If I don't work, I won't have money. If I don't have money, I won't be able to buy food or cook, and then you and I will both starve."

The man's answer was very simple, as if it was a matter of course.

This made her even more upset.

Taoxiang turned over and lay on her side facing inwards:

"So, leave me alone!... I'm not yours, and I don't even pay for your meals, so why should you cook for me?"

"Even if you're helping me with my rent, helping me with my roadshows, or taking care of me... what good is that to you?"

......Luo Zhen was silent for a while.

He cleaned up the living room and threw out the trash before coming back.

He glanced at the suitcase in the corner and changed the subject without answering the question:

"You want to leave Tokyo? Go back to Hokkaido?"

"..." Tao Xiang said nothing.

Luo Zhen continued, "You dropped out of high school, so you practically cut off all ties with your family, right? So if you go back now, will they accept you? ...That's not quite right. After all, they're family, so they should still accept you."

"But at what cost? Will you continue to make music in Hokkaido, or give it up? How do you want to make a living? Will you continue to work odd jobs and muddle through, or will you follow your family's arrangements and go on blind dates, hoping to find a rich man to marry and live as a housewife?"

"Let's not even talk about your ability to do housework, but the idea of ​​[a hot blonde girl who dropped out of high school and wandered around Tokyo for three years before suddenly returning home] probably won't appeal to many. Conservative people would think your private life is chaotic and you're definitely not the right person for marriage."

Ah, but Luo Zhen deliberately changed his tone to one that sounded like he had a good idea:

"If you're not getting married and just want to find a man, it should be pretty easy. After all, you're still pretty fashionable and pretty. Although you're starting to have a beer belly, it should be manageable with a little control. You have a slim waist, long legs, and a big butt. Although your breasts are a little small, they're not too flat, and you still have your femininity. If you're willing to take the plunge and work in a nightclub or something like that, you should be able to make some money—"

“You’re so long-winded!!!”

Taoxiang took out her favorite pillow again and threw it on the face of the chattering Luo Zhen.

Of course she knew that Luo Zhen's words were just to provoke her.

But these were things she had thought about countless times and were the ugly realities she didn't want to face.

She was already crying, and her tears were gushing out like a spring, soaking her clothes.

But those eyes were still stubborn, staring at Luo Zhen with great determination:

"How many times have I told you to leave me alone! I'm just a complete loser, a waste of society! Just let me do whatever I want, and leave me alone!!"

"..."

Luo Zhen lifted up his messed-up hair and took out his cell phone.

He searched for the new song that Momoka had previously forbidden him from seeing. It had been 24 hours since she uploaded it yesterday.

Just as he expected, the reviews for these three new songs were mediocre... to put it bluntly, very bad.

It only has a few thousand hits, and the reviews are almost all negative.

Most of Taoxiang's few followers could not accept her sudden transformation.

The straight-forward comments were even more sarcastic, with comments like "You've run out of ideas", "It's all over", "You must have been dumped by your gigolo", "You're planning to make money with these over-the-top sad songs", and the comment section was in a mess.

Of course, even so, there are still some die-hard fans who appreciate Taoxiang and are fighting with Leziren, and some even exchange hundreds of messages.

One of the die-hard fans is named [Yamada of the World]... You can tell who it is at first glance.

Luo Zhen thanked Miss Yamada in his heart for being willing to reveal her name, and decided to treat her to a meal next time.

"So this isn't your first Waterloo, why can't you handle it this time?"

Luo Zhen squatted in front of the emotionally broken Taoxiang, looking at her from a lower perspective than her.

Taoxiang was crying and burping, and her face was a mess.

She snorted and sniffed, her hair sticking to her face.

"I've had enough... It's still like this no matter how much I insist. I should have recognized my own mistakes long ago..."

"I feel like good music just doesn't catch on... I worked so hard on the music, poured all my emotions into the lyrics, and created something I thought was a masterpiece, but in the end, it's just like this... I've had enough, and I don't want to continue to cause trouble for others..."

Luo Zhen: "Do you think you're harming me? Just like you're harming the other members of Diamond Dust?"

Taoxiang paused with sobs and was unable to answer.

Luo Zhen knew that she dropped out of high school and came to Tokyo, just like the four members of the original Diamond Stardust band.

They were classmates from the same school. Because their first original song became a hit on the Internet and they were invited by an agency, they went to Beijing with full confidence.

This is certainly very imprudent, and can even be said to be too frivolous and absurd.

Of course, their parents were also against it, but in the end they were unable to stop these spirited girls.

But the reality and the market are cruel. If it can’t be sold, it can’t be sold.

Even after struggling for two years, Diamond Stardust is still just a low-level unknown, and the only popular song is still the one he sang in high school.

The agency hopes that they will transform into an idol band and expand their sales by marketing the four beautiful girl members as a selling point.

This is actually an opportunity that many people dream of. Being able to use appearance as a selling point is a luxury in itself.

But Taoxiang is such a stubborn woman that even ten cows can't pull her back.

"It was me who persuaded them to come to Tokyo... I told them we would definitely become famous, that we could make a living from music, and that we had to let those old-fashioned parents and teachers know how amazing we were..."

Taoxiang sobbed in grievance, her whole body wet.

She hammered her thighs:

"I even said we'd be a band for life, always together... But because the songs I wrote weren't popular, I couldn't sustain it... I couldn't accept being an idol, so I left the band without permission and abandoned them...!"

Taoxiang pounded harder and harder as if she wanted to break her legs.

Luo Zhen caught her fist and held it tightly.

This made her even more upset:

"This is all my fault! Because I'm so incompetent that I broke our agreement and was so stubborn! We said we'd be in a band for life, but we left over some bullshit issue like musical direction! A damned guy like me—"

Luo Zhen: "So you regret refusing to transform? If I give you another chance now, would you be willing to wear a light and flowing skirt, jump on the stage and sing a song customized for you by a professional composer?"

......Luo Zhen's words without any emotion blocked all of Taoxiang's struggles, leaving her numbly with her mouth open and unable to utter a word.

Only tears kept flowing out, as if all the water in the body was turning into tears and being discharged.

“…Why is that?”

Taoxiang hunched her shoulders and asked humbly and aggrievedly:

"Why do you say such annoying things? You always seem to see through me and tear off my disguise... You're just a high school student, but you're much more mature than me. You make me feel ashamed again and again, and I want to die even more..."

"What on earth do you want to do... What good will it bring to you to stay with someone like me?"

"If it weren't for you, I would have given up earlier, accepted reality and returned home... Don't be so irresponsible and give me hope, making me think that there are still people who like me..."

Luo Zhen: "When did you start to think that I didn't like you?"

Huh... Luo Zhen exhaled the alcohol from his lungs.

It was all because of the strong smell of this woman, he was soaked through.

He looked at Taoxiang's messy hair, tears and snot, and her miserable face that made people want to laugh:

"I've already told you I'm a fan of yours. Although I only heard your songs a few months ago at a JK mission in Kumamoto Prefecture, I fell in love with them the first time I heard them. That girl is an even bigger fan of yours. She's gained strength to live from your songs, which is quite remarkable."

"...But, there's only that one song."

Taoxiang sniffed and snorted:

"My only famous song is 'Empty Box'... Just like the review said, it was just a miracle. I don't have any talent at all... I was just lucky to be able to create that one song..."

Luo Zhen: "But I just happen to like them all. I think every song you've made is a masterpiece. The only reason it didn't take off is because the audience wasn't good enough. In that sense, it's truly a miracle. 'Empty Box' just happened to find someone with good taste and it became a hit. The songs that followed just needed promotion."

This was such a gachi (die-hard fan) statement that even Luo Zhen himself felt sick just hearing it.

But this is what he really thinks, and he can't change it.

Because he liked Taoxiang's songs and felt that she would be able to successfully make a career out of music, that's all.

"...Just, that's it?"