In the music series, the male protagonist writes a self-help manual for the inner world

This is true both as a drummer and as a captain.

...She must have come to Xiuhua Middle School during the school festival to see her captain. This inexplicable association suddenly appeared in Hongxia's intermittent thoughts.

"Besides, there are band captains in this world who are much better than me."

Ijichi Hongxia denied herself from the perspectives of both drummer and band leader.

For Ijichi Hongka, the most desperate thing is not that she has worked hard for the band but has not received any reward, but that she believes that if she disappears, everyone in the band will live a better life.

In this case, won’t she only have side effects?

"So why am I indispensable?"

Like a poor girl about to fall into an ice cave, Ijichi Hongxia grabbed the rope in front of her, not knowing how strong it was.

She clearly felt that she was not indispensable.

“You are irreplaceable.”

Chen Xinghua leaned forward slightly, shortening the physical distance between himself and Hong Xia, and also shortening the spiritual distance between them.

He felt that he should now find out Hong Xia's strengths and then strongly affirm them, so that there would be a great chance of solving Hong Xia's problems.

But...what was his opinion of Hong Xia? Chen Xinghua didn't want to just solve this problem with pure rational thinking, he also wanted to add a little bit of his own emotions to this solution.

Because Hongxia was a friend he had been with for a semester, not a desperate high school student who was about to jump off the train to hinder the travel of office workers.

If he just wanted to solve Hong Xia's problem like a machine without any emotion, he couldn't do it.

Thinking of this, Chen Xinghua once again looked at the familiar face in front of him.

...yellow hair, triangular alopecia, red pupils, and a face that should have a sunny expression but now has a rare gloomy look.

"I like you... the way you like it a lot."

"This isn't from the perspective of the drummer or the band leader, it's just from my own perspective."

Chen Xinghua knew that the liking he was referring to was not just the liking between men and women, so in order to avoid misunderstanding, he added in the next sentence.

"I like how you always look at things with a positive attitude..."

Optimistic girls are always popular.

"I like how you always take care of others gently... I still remember the second time I came to STARRY with Yili, Hongxia saw that we were a little sleepy, so you invited us to sleep upstairs in your house."

As he spoke, he added some experiences from the past.

"He also gave us hot milk and omurice when we woke up."

Listening to the man's voice and recalling the past, Hong Xia couldn't help but curl her toes inside her canvas shoes, and then complained to the man in front of her: "You still remember this?"

However, Hongxia remembered that what she handed to Chen Xinghua and Goto Ichiri was "fried rice" instead of omelet rice.

"...It's just a small thing. There's no need to remember it so clearly."

Hong Xia lowered her head, as if she couldn't bear to recall the past.

“It’s these little, ordinary things that intertwine together that form the foundation of our friendship.”

Chen Xinghua clasped his hands together and looked at Hong Xia's hanging yellow ponytail.

Is it just friendship? Hong Xia couldn't help but rub her white canvas shoes against the floor, and the heat generated by them made the floor warmer.

"And I feel like I'm being healed just by being around you."

Chen Xinghua put down his clasped hands and spoke seriously.

At the same time, he was thinking about a very serious question: how should he describe a woman who has a sunny attitude and subconsciously takes care of others?

"It's a bit too much like a confession."

Hong Xia lowered her voice and finally uttered a sentence as thin as a mosquito.

…But this wasn't a confession, she knew.

However, as time goes by and things change, will the general level of affection between men and women eventually just remain at an ordinary level?

"And I also feel that Hongxia, you are indispensable for the completion of the band."

Chen Xinghua watched Hong Xia's mouth opening and closing, but his ears did not absorb enough information from the faint sound of a few decibels.

"Everyone in the Ending Band is connected by you... If it weren't for Nijixia, Ryo wouldn't have joined the Ending Band. Then, Kita, who followed Ryo's senior, wouldn't have joined the Ending Band, or even thought of learning guitar."

Only at this time, Chen Xinghua addressed Yamada Ryo with the respectful title "Senior Ryo" instead of using a title like "Xiao Liang".

"If you hadn't joined me on the street, we wouldn't have been able to meet the Ending Band."

"I feel like you, Hongxia, are like a bond that connects everyone to the same band."

Her ears received the message, and Hong Xia's toes, hidden on the table, gently touched the table in front of her, venting the drastic changes in her emotions.

...So, in his heart, this is what I am like? This gentle being, radiating my own sunshine to those around me?

Hong Xia subconsciously clenched her fists.

And it's not just that... Hong Xia pursed her lips and realized this.

Because he said this after he had vented his negative and desperate emotions towards him and was no longer the little sun that always radiated optimism to the outside world.

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Chapter 272 He is the keyboardist of the ending band.

If Hong Xia was the little sun who was always optimistic, always gentle to others, and never affected by emotions or things, she would never pull him over and pour out her negative and desperate emotions on him.

So he not only likes this trait, but also likes the person? Hong Xia couldn't help but think so.

"Pochi-chan seemed to have said that she wanted to become famous and perform at a Budokan, becoming a rock star."

But no matter what Chen Xinghua thinks of her, she still has to face the cruel reality.

"If she had joined Ave Mujica from the beginning, she would have been able to realize her dream quickly... With her guitar skills, she should have been able to do this."

And she could rely on the connections of her childhood sweetheart. Hong Xia subconsciously concealed this point.

"I don't think the atmosphere of that band is suitable for her..."

Chen Xinghua shook his head. No one understood the atmosphere of Ave Mujica better than him.

If you were to join his band, it wouldn't take long before you would spiral out of control and turn into pink dust in the sky because you couldn't adapt to the band's cruel atmosphere.

"I heard that the leader of the Ave Mujica band is quite cruel... According to the grapevine, he requires the drummer to practice for a full eighteen hours a day."

“Drummers are not allowed to go home until they have mastered the drum music.”

It’s a bit... Hongxia recalled the complaints that Yutenji Wakamaki had made about her during the school festival. Combined with the drum music played by Yutenji Wakamaki, she easily confirmed the authenticity of Chen Xinghua’s words.

No one could understand the pressure that Yutenji Wakami faced better than a drummer.

"Not to mention the bassists and guitarists, who lived under his oppression all the time."

Chen Xinghua used a very exaggerated description.

"If you think about it carefully, you'll understand. For a band that's been together for less than a month, it takes a very demanding and stressful band leader to get them to perform on time."

As he spoke, he opened his arms and waved, trying his best to show that he was the leader of the Ave Mujica band.

"real or fake?"

Hong Xia forced a smile, and at this moment, the canvas shoes on her feet accidentally hit Chen Xinghua's sneakers.

"Um……"

As if she had been electrocuted, Hong Xia retracted her white canvas shoes.

"of course it's true……"

Chen Xinghua looked at Hong Xia and took back his sneakers.

...Did I just touch the tip of Hongxia’s shoe?

"Can the gossip be false?"

...especially when this true gossip comes from the person involved.

"In short, I'm not suitable for bands that have a very serious atmosphere and put pressure on people all the time, even though AveMujica is indeed very successful in a commercial sense."

"But success in a business sense is not equivalent to success in one's personal life."

"And I also like The End... twice as much as I like Ave Mujica."

Chen Xinghua let out a light breath and expressed his true thoughts.

"As someone once famously said, liking Ave Mujica is work, but liking ending a band is life... even though Ave Mujica's music is certainly good."

If someone who is uninformed or knows only a few things hears this sentence, they will probably think that Chen Xinghua just feels that he likes his own band more than AveMujica.

But because Ave Mujica's music is much better than that of the End Band, I can only listen to Ave Mujica's music with a work attitude.

But Hongxia felt that what Chen Xinghua was thinking was probably just like the "literal meaning" of his words.

He truly felt that Ave Mujica was his job, and ending the band was his life.

"Besides... Ri really does like ending the band, doesn't she?"

Chen Xinghua pointed this out.

"I'm sorry to have you hear such discouraging words."

Hong Xia took a deep breath and then said.

As the captain of the band, you should focus on solving the problems of your band members instead of seeking help from them and pouring all your negative emotions on them.

As the leader of the ending band, you may really be unqualified.

When his thoughts came to this, Yidizhi Hongxia couldn't help but let out a sigh, and at the same time, let out the depression in his heart.

...So it's time for you to cheer up, Ichichi Hongka.

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you."

What the hell... I'm one year older than him, but I'm still as immature as a crybaby.

Doesn't this make him seem a few years older than you?

"It's okay...I have a lot of free weekends anyway."

Chen Xinghua shook his head and glanced in the direction of Yao Lenai. He found that the guitarist with short white hair was finishing the three cups of matcha parfait on the table at a rapid speed.

“And I don’t think it’s a waste of time.”

Chen Xinghua turned around and said softly.

At this moment, a cup of black tea was placed on the table by a gloomy-faced black-haired waiter.

"This is the Earl Grey tea you ordered, and the chocolate eclairs."

What followed was a black dessert and a gruff voice.

"Thank you."

Hong Xia looked in the direction of the voice and saw a black woman with a somewhat heavy face... Maybe she was so sad because she had a breakup today?

"Ah."

Shiina Riki responded in a low voice.

Just now, she witnessed from a distance the change in the expression on Hong Xia's face, from sunny to depressed, and then back to sunny again. And all this seemed to be because of Chen Xinghua.

The scene seemed a little familiar, as if it had happened to a certain black-haired drummer.

"Will you work hard with me next?"

Yidi Chi Hongxia turned around and stretched out her hand towards Chen Xinghua.

"Even though I'm an unqualified drummer and an unqualified band leader, if you're willing to believe in me, I'm willing to do my best to turn this band we're all in together into the best possible one."

"Although that sounds like a bit of a boast."

"..."

Shiina Riki used a notebook to cover up his expression, which made him wonder what kind of expression it had become.

Will he agree to it, or will he not agree?

Shiina Riki should have thought that this matter had nothing to do with her. After all, Chen Xinghua was neither an official member of her band nor her girlfriend.