People in Zongman are masters of copying romance novels

Then after a while, Miss Liang smiled gently.

"Suki-san," she said, her voice drowning out the sound of raindrops. It was not as usual, but still short and cold.

"Suki-san, let's wait until winter comes."

Aoki wasn't sure what 'after winter' meant.

He thought - the Uji River was quite close to the station, so he and Miss Liang should not get wet too much.

......

On the way back, the rain did not get heavier.

The rain stopped completely until the bus arrived at the station and we were on our way back to the hotel braving the last few sporadic drizzles.

According to meteorological knowledge, the sky cleared up after the rain and the clouds that blocked the sun over the Uji River disappeared.

After returning to the room, Aokisuke divided the matcha chocolate he was carrying into two portions.

One was a specialty purchased by Aokisuke.

And the other...

Before leaving [Tsujirihei], Miss Liang paid for the dessert he bought.

Chapter 157: After the school trip, things get busy

Yamada Ryo returned to the room carrying a bunch of specialty matcha desserts that Aokisuke bought for her and Hongxia.

The hotel suite for two was a little quiet because Hongxia had not returned yet.

I took a quick shower by myself, changed out of my rain-soaked sweatshirt, and lay down on my bed.

After doing nothing, he relaxed a little and looked up at the ceiling.

I couldn't help but think of what Aoki Jie had just said -

"It's raining, as expected."

Because of this, I thought of what I said, "Please wait until winter."

......

If I confess my love to you now, how will you react?

It’s just a simple question, a question that only requires a yes or no answer, why doesn’t Suki-san tell me the answer?

Is this question a prank?

If this was a prank, why didn't I just ask the question directly when I wanted the answer so much, but instead took such a long detour?

He stared at the pure white ceiling in the room expressionlessly, and then Liang pressed his hands hard against his cheeks.

The temperature of the palm of my hand is slightly cold.

Let’s think about these things later.

......

The 28th, afternoon.

With nothing to do, Aoki Jie wandered around the hotel for a while and then returned to his room.

For him, a trip to a matcha shop during this school trip was more than enough.

The only regret was that if it hadn't rained that morning, he would have liked to visit a few more matcha shops to see which one had the better matcha desserts...

But it was just a consideration. If there was no chance, he was too lazy to make another trip.

After returning to the room, he read alone until the evening, then went out and had dinner with Hikigaya.

After dinner, Hikigaya stayed in Aokisuke's room until 9:30. The reason was the same as last time - his own room was too noisy and he couldn't stand it anymore...

He stayed in Aokisuke's room until half past nine before returning to his own room.

After Hikigaya left, Aokisuke washed up and went to bed.

And then the next day.

October 29th, Friday.

Although the school said that it would give students two days of free time, if you really count, the actual free time was only yesterday.

After getting up early in the morning and having breakfast, at exactly eight o'clock, Shizuka Hiratsuka began to arrange for the students to get on the bus.

When we came, we took the bus the whole way, and when we went back, the school arranged for us to take the bus to the station first, and then take the train from the station back to school.

The remaining day of the so-called two days of free time is included in the time spent waiting for the train at the station...

Aoki Jie didn't care much about it, but his classmates were quite resentful about it.

Unfortunately, even if they had complaints, they didn't dare to express them. The students in Class F, Year 2, knew Hiratsuka Shizuka's temper all too well...

In short, they had about half an hour of free time at Kyoto Station, then regrouped. Then, under the leadership of Shizuka Hiratsuka, the students of Shuka High School boarded the train.

The school trip to Kyoto in the second year of high school ended here.

......

The school trip ended on a Friday.

When they came back from school, it was Saturday and Sunday, which meant that the second-grade students still had two days to adjust and rest.

Some students will choose to play for two more days, while many motivated students will take advantage of this period to make up for the study time they have lost in the past week.

And Aokisuke, who is also a student——

After returning to Tokyo from Kyoto, his life became busy again after a long absence.

Seven o'clock on Saturday morning.

After being woken up by the alarm clock, Aokisuke quickly got up and started washing up.

When he was in Kyoto two days ago, he made an appointment with Tomosuke Niijima and the person in charge of KL Company to go to KL Company on the weekend to discuss matters related to the confidentiality agreement and the original animation script.

Therefore, even though he had just returned, Aokisuke had to take the train to Chiyoda District again this morning.

But these things are part of 'work', so even if I'm busy, I can't complain...

The time agreed with Niijima Yusuke was at nine in the morning. After tidying up a bit and having breakfast, Aokisuke went out.

After a bumpy tram ride, we arrived at the KL headquarters at 8:40.

As a company that can almost be called a leader in the industry, KL's company scale is not particularly large. It only occupies one floor of an office building in Chiyoda Ward, and does not occupy an exaggerated amount of land like most large companies.

I took the elevator upstairs and happened to meet Tomosuke Niijima who was acting as a middleman in the elevator.

"Oh! What a coincidence, Aoki-san!"

In the elevator, noticing Aokisuke coming in, Niijima Tomosuke greeted him first with a very enthusiastic attitude.

Aokisuke was somewhat surprised to run into Niijima Yusuke in the elevator, so he simply said hello, "What a coincidence, Niijima-sensei."

Then the two stopped communicating.

The personality and temper of the person in charge of KL Company were things that Niijima Tomosuke had mentioned to Aoki Suke before. And to be honest, these things didn't really have much to do with Aoki Suke, who was only responsible for producing music, so Niijima Tomosuke didn't emphasize them again.

In essence, he was just a middleman, and he had done his best by introducing Aokisuke to KL Company.

Get out of the elevator.

With the guidance of Niijima Tomosuke, Aokisuke had a smooth journey and saved himself the trouble of communicating and explaining with the staff.

I followed him for about five minutes and arrived at a reception room.

After settling Aoki Suke, Niijima Tomosuke went out alone. After a while, he brought a middle-aged man who looked to be about thirty years old into the room.

"Mr. Aoki, this is Mr. Fujita, the person in charge of this KL project."

"Mr. Fujita, this is Mr. Aoki, the talented original musician I told you about before."

Niijima Yusuke spoke and briefly introduced the two of them to each other.

After Niijima Tomosuke finished his introduction, Aokisuke and the man called Mr. Fujita quickly started praising each other.

Fujita said some polite words like "I've heard of your name for a long time" and "Your music is very nice", and Aoki simply said that he has always been a loyal fan of KL animation.

Even though he hasn't watched any KL animation...

But these are not the main points - in short, after getting to know each other and having some overly formal compliments on each other, they started talking about business.

First, the matter of confidentiality agreements.

Fujita took out a contract from his bag and handed it to Aokisuke.

Opening the contract, Aokijie read it carefully from beginning to end.

The contract is simple:

First of all, there is a limited confidentiality period, which ends when KL's anniversary animation is broadcast. After that, the contract will become invalid.

As for the liability for breach of contract, if Party B, Aoki Suke, violates this contract and leaks the content of the script, he shall pay a one-time payment of 60 million yen to KL and bear the corresponding responsibility.

Aoki Jie has read many books on law and he could not find any loopholes in the contract.

So after a brief negotiation and confirmation with Niijima Yusuke, he signed the contract with almost no hesitation.

After signing the contract, we began to discuss the script.

Regarding the script...

The contract also mentioned that KL Society would send an electronic version of the complete script to Aoki Jie's email on the day of signing the contract, and would not provide a paper version.

Aokiji didn't really care about this. They all received the scripts on the same day, so even if there were any differences, it was just a matter of getting them a little earlier or later...

Chapter 158 Animation Short Film and New Song Concept

The three of them were very efficient, and after discussing the confidentiality agreement and the script, there was nothing more to say.

So Aoki stood up and suggested to go ahead.

"Thank you for troubling Mr. Fujita and Mr. Niijima today. Now that we've concluded our discussion, I'll be leaving first."

"Ah, Aoki-san, don't you want to stay and have lunch with us?" Fujita responded, not knowing whether he really wanted to keep Aokisuke for lunch or just wanted to make some instant noodles.

It was still early, and Aoki Jie didn't plan to continue wasting time at KL Club. Instead of waiting here until the hotel, he would rather go back to his apartment and take a nap.

He politely declined the other party's kindness, said goodbye again, turned around, pushed the door, and left the reception room.

After leaving KL, Aokisuke did not rush home. Instead, he went to a convenience store first to stock up on the few daily necessities left at home.

Finally, when I was choosing toothpaste, I received an email.

No surprise, it was an official email from KL agency.

Aoki was somewhat caught off guard. He'd expected the KL agency to take a while, but he hadn't expected things to go so smoothly.

He gave up the idea of ​​shopping for a while and buying lunch outside. He picked up a tube of "herbal toothpaste" at random, then immediately paid the bill and headed back to the apartment.

After arriving home, I put my things away, took out my phone, and opened the email from KL Agency.

The content of the email was quite formal.

Dear Mr. Aoki, you signed a contract with our company on October 10th. After verification, we have sent the script of "He" to your email address. Please check it carefully.

The name of the short film is very strange. If you only look at the name, you can't tell what it means.

There were two attachments below the text content, so Aokisuke turned his attention to the attachments.

One is the script document mentioned above, and the other is a video with the suffix format of mp4.

Aoki Jie was a little confused and hesitated, then opened the script document first.

He glanced at it briefly first, then began to read it carefully.

......

About five minutes later, Aokisuke finished reading.

The content of this script...

In fact, the story structure is very simple, but precisely because of its simplicity, it seems more sincere——

A boy who was born in an orphanage and could not even afford food and clothing since childhood was adopted by a couple when he was thirteen years old.