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

"But..." Chen Xinghua opened his mouth.

"I still have to practice guitar tomorrow," Goto Ichiri interrupted Chen Xinghua directly.

"I still have to practice guitar tomorrow." Goto Ichiri emphasized again.

Chen Xinghua raised his cell phone.

"Wait a minute, Ichiri, if you're afraid to hand the lyrics to Ryo-senpai face to face, why don't you take a picture of the lyrics with your phone and send it to her first?"

Goto Ichiri clapped his hands, as if he had heard some great idea.

"Yeah, why didn't I think of this idea?"

It's always better to be talked about through the Internet than face to face.

"Then I'll take pictures." Chen Xinghua took Goto Ichiri's lyrics book, put it on the desk, then opened his mobile phone and took a few pictures.

"This one is out of focus...take another one." Chen Xinghua frowned and deleted the photo he had just taken.

"The lighting in this picture is not good, it's blocked by the phone, let me take another one."

After the anger aroused by Chen Xinghua's voice subsided, Goto Ichiri realized that he seemed to have done something quite extraordinary.

Did I just throw him to the ground?

She actually skipped the steps of holding hands, kissing and hugging, and directly pushed her childhood sweetheart down.

This...this...this...

Fortunately, Chen Xinghua was so immersed in taking pictures that he didn't notice that Goto Ichiri's face, who was standing behind him, suddenly turned red.

(You're so brave, Pochi-chan. You pushed him down so quickly... Do you want me to buy you some birth control?)

No...I don't have any such thoughts about him.

(Pochi-chan, if you like someone, you should be brave enough to say it out loud. Don’t keep it bottled up in your heart. Otherwise, if another girl gets there first, you’ll just have to hide in a corner and cry.)

"Ichiri." Chen Xinghua's sudden voice startled Goto Ichiri.

"Here." Goto Ichiri immediately assumed standard military posture.

"I think the matter of producing original songs should be discussed with everyone in the band... I want to send your lyrics to the group so that Hongxia can take a look as well." Chen Xinghua explained.

“Because we’re a band.”

"Oh... okay." Goto Ichiri agreed immediately.

What Chen Xinghua said makes a lot of sense.

How could it be that when a band starts to create original songs, the band leader doesn’t know about this?

"Hiss..." Goto Ichiri suddenly took a deep breath. She almost forgot this.

If Chen Xinghua had not mentioned this matter, wouldn't he have been unknowingly hiding it from Captain Hongxia and pulling the other two members of the band to create songs?

What does he want to do? Does he want to overthrow Hong Xia and seize power and usurp the throne?

Chen Xinghua glanced at Goto Ichiri and hugged his knees again, burying his head between his knees.

Forget it, leave her alone.

"@Hongxia, @Liang-senpai, Yili said she wants to write lyrics."

A striking message appeared in the group chat of the ending band.

"Oh oh oh, Pochi-chan wants to write lyrics, of course you can." Hongxia's account sent this message.

"But we haven't found a lead singer yet." Liang poured cold water on him. "We can only sing the lyrics after we find a lead singer."

"Ryo, don't be so boring. A lead singer... a lead singer can definitely be found as long as we're willing to look for one." Hong Xia responded, "Once we find a lead singer and Pochi-chan writes the lyrics, Ryo will arrange the music."

"Oh." Liang responded.

"Yili, check the group chat." Chen Xinghua looked back at Goto Ichiri and found that this guy was still immersed in his own world.

"Let me, a speck of dust, sink into the dust." Goto Ichiri raised her "gray" arms. Obviously, her mood had also become "gray" like her body.

"Don't be silly, I'm going back to sleep. You should go to bed early too, Yili." After saying that, Chen Xinghua picked up a stack of light novels on the ground and returned to his room along the same path he came from.

(Hey, Pochi-chan, Pochi-chan, get up quickly, don't lie on the ground like crazy, I have come up with a great plan to kidnap Kita, how about calling it "End the Band Kita-chan Kidnapping Operation"?)

"Goto Ichiri" said in Goto Ichiri's heart.

(Hurry up and discuss this battle with me.)

36. Kita Ikuyo

The next day, early in the morning.

Chen Xinghua packed his guitar bag early and boarded the morning tram, traveling a long distance.

After getting off the tram and walking a few streets, his destination appeared before him.

It was a place used to rent out a concert hall.

But before Chen Xinghua arrived at this place, a blue-haired down-and-out young lady was already standing at the door waiting for him.

"Xiangzi, didn't I tell you? You don't have to come so early."

Toyokawa Shoko raised her pale little face, which was showing a slight flush of color.

"Gui'an...you get what you pay for."

Her surprise meant that Chen Xinghua gave too much, so she had to provide perfect service.

This may be the last bit of pride that Shoko Toyokawa has.

"You..." Chen Xinghua walked up the stairs, but in the end he didn't say anything nonsense like you don't have to provide such perfect service.

Since Xiangzi is a person with strong self-esteem, let her show her self-esteem at this time.

"Did you eat this morning?"

"I have eaten. It was porridge made with nutritious meat and vegetables as recommended by the doctor." Shoko Toyokawa replied. Not letting her employer worry was also part of her service.

....In order to satisfy him, I have to suppress my self-esteem.

However, this happened to satisfy Toyokawa Shoko's self-esteem, because she lowered her self-esteem in order to satisfy Chen Xinghua who had helped her, rather than suppressing her self-esteem in order to make her life better.

There are many differences between the two.

This is for him, not for yourself.

Chen Xinghua stared into Toyokawa Shoko's eyes, as if asking her, is what she said true?

"Please don't doubt my service." said Shoko Toyokawa.

Chen Xinghua turned around and walked inside.

"Come in with me and rent a room... Your task today is to practice piano with me. While I'm practicing, pass me water, wipe my sweat, and bring me lunch."

"I'll calculate the payment by the hour."

Toyokawa Shoko lowered his posture and followed Chen Xinghua like a follower.

The concert hall rented by Chen Xinghua has a large piano, and this is one of the purposes of his renting this concert hall.

The spacious concert hall is suitable for both guitar lessons and piano practice.

It's not easy to practice piano at home...because there is no extra space at home to accommodate a piano.

Chen Xinghua walked into the concert hall and sat on the chair in front of the piano. His fingers brushed across the somewhat old piano.

After casually sending his current room number to Xiduo, Chen Xinghua began to play according to the music score he found on his mobile phone.

He is actually a very realistic person.

A world-class guitarist or a world-class pianist, which one would be more likely to mobilize industry resources to make Goto Ichiri famous or end the band?

Chen Xinghua didn't know the 100% accurate answer, so he decided to try both.

....It's nothing more than squeezing out a little more sleep time.

He survived three years of high school, so why is he afraid of this?

Toyokawa Shoko raised her brows.

She was very familiar with the piano music played by Chen Xinghua because she received education from the head of the family before being kicked out of the Fengchuan family, and the head of the family's education naturally included strict piano education.

He played "The Blue Danube Waltz" in a very awkward manner, like someone who had just started learning the piano.

After the song was finished, Chen Xinghua closed the piano lid.

"Sure enough, the feel of the piano simulated by a musical keyboard is very different from that of a real piano," Chen Xinghua exclaimed.

"Wow, it's a real piano." Kita's voice, full of optimism, came from outside the door.

And after a while, Kita, exuding the aura of Yangjiao, appeared in front of the piano holding a mobile phone.

"Can I take a photo and post it on SNS?" Xiduo looked at Chen Xinghua, his eyes full of longing desire.

Chen Xinghua waved to Xiduo.

"Please... just don't include other people in the picture."

"By the way, Kita, did you bring your guitar?"

Kita, who was taking various selfies next to the piano, patted the white guitar bag behind him.

"How could I forget this? Of course I brought it."

"....and piano ensemble, edited, and sent."

"Xiangzi, help me get the guitar bag over there." Chen Xinghua did not hesitate to order Xiangzi, who was much thinner than himself, because this was to protect Xiangzi's self-esteem.

The more Xiangzi does, until her salary matches hers, the better her mood will be.

But if you give her a salary that does not match her tasks out of the intention of taking care of Xiangzi, it may really hurt Xiangzi's self-esteem.

Because Xiangzi is the kind of awkward girl who would rather faint from exhaustion than ask others for help.

"Here." Toyokawa Shoko took the guitar bag and handed it to Chen Xinghua.

"This is..." Kita looked at Chen Xinghua who was desperately winking at him, pretending not to know Toyokawa Shoko.

Because Xiangzi definitely doesn't want more people to know about the difficulties her family is facing.

"Who is it?" As a qualified real person, Kita is very good at observing people's words and expressions.

What's more, Chen Xinghua had used social media to remind her yesterday not to sympathize with Toyokawa Shoko.

"Hello, I'm a member of the logistics management team, just call me Xiangzi." Fengchuan Xiangzi hid her last name, even though this might cause Chen Xinghua to mistake her name for "Feng Xiangzi".

"He's the support staff of our band." Chen Xinghua lied without any shyness. "Xiangzi, let me introduce you. This is my friend, Xiduo."

"By the way, Kita, I still don't know your last name."

"Just call me Kita, don't worry about my full name. This is just a very small matter!" Kita Ikuyo laughed.

How can I have the nerve to say a name like Kita Ikuyo, which sounds like a joke?

(Note: In Japanese, Kita Ikuyo is pronounced the same as "Here we come, let's go.")

"What's wrong with saying the surname?" Chen Xinghua said doubtfully.

"Uh, haha." Kita Ikuyo laughed awkwardly a few times, "Let's focus on more important things. Come and hand over my guitar."

"I can't wait."

Kita Ikuyo took out a "guitar" from her white guitar bag.

37. She ruined everything

"Xiduo, I know that bassists who are somewhat famous earn more money than other instrument players." Chen Xinghua still had some knowledge about musical instruments.

Because a great keyboard player needs to understand the timbre of the other instruments in the band.

"But you have to think clearly, bass is a deviant path... Once you become famous for playing bass, people will say, oh, the guitarist in that band plays really well."

“Why don’t you say the bassist plays well? It’s because amateurs can’t hear the sound of the bass at all.”

The instrument Kita brought was a multi-string bass.

"Senior, what are you talking about?" Kita mentioned the word "guitar" in confusion, "Isn't this a guitar?"