How does ordering someone to play with you become your girlfriend?

Chapter 174 Zhao Yu’s Birthday

O'Ni's recording studio in Tokyo.

Time flies and it is already March. During this period, Uenojia and Chen Xiuhua have already set the engagement date.

The date was set for March 25th, at which time the cherry blossoms in Tokyo were in full bloom, and there were still a few days before Yuka started school, so there was still time to return to China after the engagement was completed.

After returning to China, I will definitely get together with my friends again. After all, the spring season has not ended yet, so I can't fly to Japan to attend the engagement ceremony.

After the date was set, the rest was easy. The Ueno family basically took care of everything...

According to Masazo Ueno, if the money is not spent at this time, what is the point of keeping it?

So, with the help of his ability to make money, Zhao Yu could be said to have completely free time, and all he had to do was wait for the dress to be ready and then pick it up.

There was nothing that required him to be present for the time being, so he took this opportunity to come to Tokyo to record an album.

If this session isn't recorded well, he won't have much time left later.

As the music stopped, Zhao Yu took off the monitoring headphones on his head, let out a long sigh, and walked out of the studio.

This is the third to last song in the album and also his favorite, the Cantonese version of "First Love".

As a native of Chengdu, even though O Ni hired a staff member who could speak Cantonese to teach him, it still took him several days to sing the song.

Now that the recording has finally been successful, he feels a great sense of accomplishment. It also means that he will have a reason to release more Cantonese songs in the future.

"The performance was perfect, Mr. Zhao." As soon as Zhao Yu came out, the sound engineer came up to him and extended his hand to him.

"It's all thanks to your cooperation that I was able to finish the recording so quickly." Zhao Yu shook his hand and spoke.

"No, you are the one who arranged the music and sang. We are just responsible for recording." A hint of admiration appeared on the sound engineer's face.

There are actually quite a few singers in Japan who can arrange and sing independently, but there are only a handful of them who are really good at it.

But Zhao Yu was able to achieve something that even veteran composers like O'Ni appreciated, and he didn't even graduate from a music major. This can only be described as a genius.

"So, there's nothing else to do after we finish recording the remaining two songs, right?" Zhao Yu asked.

"There is one last thing. You need to work with Ms. Yuhua to shoot a promotional video. When do you think it would be a good time?" The staff member next to the sound engineer suddenly interrupted.

"Do we want to shoot a promotional video?" Zhao Yu frowned.

"Yes, after all, this is your love letter to Miss Youhua. It is most appropriate for the two of you to promote it together. Doesn't Miss Youhua come with you today?" asked the staff member.

"This...she really didn't come. Didn't you notice that I was alone these past few days?"

Zhao Yu wanted to find Youhua to go together. He asked Youhua two days ago, but Youhua refused to come together for the first time.

Although Zhao Yu was a little confused, he did not force Youhua to come to Tokyo with him.

He was not used to being alone during this period, so he recorded so quickly.

"Sorry, I thought Miss Yuka was waiting for you in the hotel, but she didn't come with you? That's really rare." The staff said embarrassedly.

Because they are co-singers of his own company, he would also watch the live broadcasts of Zhao Yu and Youhua.

He had never seen the couple act separately since they started live streaming in Neon, so this was the first time he had seen it.

"I'm not used to being separated from Youhua. You don't know how I've been able to get through the past two days." Zhao Yu shrugged.

In a sense, Zhao Yu has become heavily dependent on Youhua.

"Can I find time to bring her here after I get back?" Zhao Yu asked.

"Of course, the album release is scheduled to coincide with your engagement, so you can come anytime before that," said the staff.

"Ok, let's wait for two days and then shoot after the dress is finished. I'll continue recording the other two songs." After nodding, Zhao Yu walked towards the recording studio again.

"Would you like to take a break, Mr. Zhao?" The sound engineer looked at Zhao Yu's back and asked.

It takes a lot of energy to record a song, otherwise it wouldn't have taken two days to finish.

Zhao Yu's non-stop work has a certain impact on his voice.

"No, I have an appointment with Youhua and I must go back today." Zhao Yu shook his head and went into the recording studio.

"No wonder you didn't get much rest these two days, it turns out it was an agreement." The staff member suddenly realized.

"So it's not just me who misses Yuka, Yuka also misses me..." Zhao Yu's voice came from the recording studio.

Even though she didn't come with me, Yuhua asked me to go back tonight, which means she can't leave me, right?

Thinking of this, Zhao Yu couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth. So... I have to work harder.

"I really envy their love..." The sound engineer glanced at Zhao Yu who had already put on his headphones and couldn't help but reveal an envious expression.

With such a lovely girlfriend, everyone would want to see her as soon as possible, right?
It’s a pity that a single person like me can’t understand his feelings…

"Hurry up and finish recording and go to the social gathering. It's not good to be single all the time." The sound engineer muttered to himself as he came to the equipment.

Time goes back to two days ago, when Zhao Yu had just left the Ueno family.

In the living room of the Ueno family.

Yuka was kneeling on the tatami in the tea room, with the people from the Ueno family, Shiori Nanamiya and Li Qingwan beside her.

Aunt Liu has been busy warming up for the premiere of Shiori Nanamiya recently, so she didn't come. Except for her, everyone else was already there.

"Youhua, didn't you go to Tokyo with Brother Yu today?" Li Qingwan asked with some confusion.

It was understandable that he and Shiori Nanamiya didn't go, but it was a bit strange that Yuka, who was completely dependent on Zhao Yu, didn't go.

Not only did he not go with Zhao Yu, but he also called so many people over at once. It felt like something big was about to happen.

"I called everyone here today because I want you to do me a favor." Yuhua cleared her throat and spoke.

"Help? What help? Did you and Brother Yu just have a fight?" Li Qingwan said subconsciously.

With such a big fuss, it can only be a conflict with Zhao Yu, right?
"Fight! Did Yuwaer bully you? Youhua?" Chen Xiuhua interrupted.

She didn't think that such an obedient daughter-in-law like Youhua would make Zhao Yu angry. She didn't even follow Zhao Yu to record the song. It must be that Zhao Yu did something to make Youhua angry.

"Yujun didn't make me angry, Mom." Youhua shook her head.

"Did you make Xiaoyu angry? Youhua...sometimes girls should..." Now Sayuri was the one who was worried.

She was afraid that Youhua was taking advantage of Zhao Yu's favor and making some excessive demands, so Zhao Yu didn't take her with him.

"It's not my problem. Don't worry, we are doing fine recently and nothing has happened!" Youhua said helplessly.

Why did everyone suddenly think that there was something wrong with my relationship with Yujun? Just because I didn't spend time with Yujun?
"Then why did you call us here?" Li Qingwan asked.

"What day is the day after tomorrow?"

"March 3th?"

"That's why I asked everyone to come here."

Youhua did not explain, but Chen Xiuhua next to her looked suddenly enlightened, as if she had thought of something.

"I almost forgot! March 3th is Yuwaer's birthday!" Chen Xiuhua exclaimed.

I've been thinking about getting engaged for a while now and actually forgot my eldest son's birthday.

"That's right, the day after tomorrow is Yujun's birthday." Youhua nodded.

"This guy is really good at hiding his identity... If you hadn't told me, Youhua, I wouldn't have known his birthday at all." Li Qingwan sighed.

Other anchors wish every day is their birthday when they are live streaming, and they start warming up one month before their birthday.

It was just to be able to deduct a lot of gold coins from the audience on the day of the live broadcast, but Zhao Yu didn't care at all. It even seemed that his personal information was filled out by the live broadcast staff.

It is precisely because of this that Li Qingwan never noticed when Zhao Yu’s birthday was.

"He is like this. He has never celebrated his birthday since he was old enough to understand." Chen Xiuhua sighed.

In addition to the reason of engagement, it is also very important that Zhao Yu never pays attention to birthdays.

The family was relatively poor in the past, so Zhao Yu never mentioned birthdays like other children. Even if Chen Xiuhua remembered it, Zhao Yu would just ask her to cook a bowl of noodles.

Over time, the birthday tradition was forgotten.

Chen Xiuhua now thinks that it seems that she has never celebrated a formal birthday for Zhao Yu in all these years.

"Thanks for your reminder, Youhua." Chen Xiuhua looked at Youhua.

"I didn't have the conditions to celebrate Yuwaer's birthday before, but now I want to make it up to him. Do you have any good ideas?"

"I've just been thinking about it for a long time, but I feel that none of them are perfect, so I hope everyone can brainstorm together and give Yujun an unforgettable birthday." Youhua looked at everyone.

"Please!" "An unforgettable birthday... This should start with what Brother Yu likes, right?" Li Qingwan touched her chin.

"Kamen Rider?" Yuka and Shiori Nanamiya asked in unison.

When it comes to what Zhao Yu likes most, it can only be special effects, which is also what Youhua likes most.

"How about taking him to see a special effects movie? I see there seems to be a theatrical version being released recently." Shiori Nanamiya took out her cell phone to check.

"No, no, no, what about us in that case? We can't go with Youhua, right? It would take a lot of light bulbs to watch a movie with just the two of us?" Li Qingwan complained.

"That's true...Does dad have any good ideas?" Yuka looked at Ueno Masazō.

"On my birthday, your mother pretended to forget it, and then she cooked a delicious meal in the evening as a big surprise for me. I was really touched at that time..."

Ueno Masazō looked at Sayuri, and the two looked at each other affectionately.

"It's a bit too ordinary. Don't you have any more creative ideas?" Yuka's words made Ueno Masao a little embarrassed.

A candlelight dinner isn't romantic enough? Am I really out of date? Ueno Masao couldn't help but wonder.

Last time he tried it for a whole night, he finished all the tempura shrimp but still couldn't taste the so-called intention. Now it is even criticized for being mediocre, and he feels like he has been abandoned by the times.

"If you want to talk about creativity, then just ask dad. I heard that he had a very exciting birthday before." Ueno Masazō looked at Ueno Shinichiro.

Shinichiro Ueno showed a hearty smile on his face, "Hahaha, that was a long time ago... At that time, Mamiko and I had just started dating, and she secretly ran away from home and took me to the mountain shrine to watch the fireworks festival in the distance."

"We ate the Japanese sweets she made for me together at the shrine while watching the fireworks in the sky..."

"How romantic! What's next?" Yuka asked expectantly.

"Later, Mamiko's father found us and brought a group of people to take her back. The two of us hid from them while going down the mountain. It was an unforgettable memory..." said Shinichiro Ueno.

"Shrines...fireworks...these can be considered, but the others don't seem so easy to replicate." Yuka thought for a moment and wrote down these two points on her phone.

"Xiao Wan, what about you? Do you have any interesting ideas?"

"Me?" Li Qingwan began to think hard.

"Got it! Didn't I like playing JRPG games before? My dad invited a bunch of people to play for me on my birthday, and then I played the real-life version. How about this?"

"Rich people's birthdays are always different." Shiori Nanamiya complained.

"The live-action game... I wrote it down. By the way! Shiori, what was your previous birthday?" Yuka looked at Shiori Nanamiya.

"I don't celebrate my birthday very often, but there was one that was quite special," said Shiori Nanamiya.

"When I was in high school, I looked like a bad girl, so on my birthday I joined a group of bad boys and drove around the suburbs of Tokyo all night."

"Isn't this alike? She's completely a delinquent!" Li Qingwan glanced at Nanamiya Shiori.

I didn't expect this guy to have such a wild side.

"Is it a motorcycle?" Yuhua's eyes lit up.

"Bad boys don't have money to buy other cars..." replied Shiori Nanamiya.

"Shrines, fireworks, cosplay and motorcycles..." Looking at the keywords in the memo on her phone, Yuka suddenly raised her head.

"Everyone! I have an idea!"

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"Huh...it's over!" Zhao Yu stretched and waved to the sound engineer outside the recording studio.

"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Zhao." The staff member opened the recording studio and spoke.

"Are you okay now?" Zhao Yu asked.

"Well, all you need to do is bring Miss Yuhua to shoot a promotional video together later." said the staff.

"Then I'll go back." Zhao Yu glanced at his cell phone. The time was five o'clock in the afternoon. It would be evening when he got back to Nara.

"As expected, you have always been thinking about Miss Yuka." The staff member teased.

"Once I realized that Yuhua was not around, I couldn't stay for even a day." Zhao Yu showed a trace of helplessness on his face.

He was just reminded by the staff that his mind was full of Yuka when he was recording the song, and his longing for her seemed to be overflowing.

"Okay, then how about I take you to the airport? It seems there are still flights to Osaka now." The staff member suggested, remembering the agreement Zhao Yu had just made with Youhua.

"That's great! Thank you!" Zhao Yu clasped his hands together and thanked the staff.

At dusk, Zhao Yu finally returned to Nara.

After coming out of Nara Station, the scene of Yuka welcoming him at the door of her house appeared in his mind, and he couldn't help but quicken his pace.

She's obviously reluctant to leave me and has set a time to come back, but she's unwilling to go to Tokyo with me. Is Yuka just playing idle play?
However, it must be said that after two days, Zhao Yu finally understood how difficult it would be to leave Youhua.

You can see Yuhua soon...

His steps became faster and faster. He was originally walking, but before he knew it, he started running until he saw the gate of the Ueno family.

He quickly ran to the door, but Zhao Yu did not see the figure he had always wanted to see.

"Yuhua is not here?" Zhao Yu frowned. This shouldn't be the case.

Didn't she ask me to come back tonight? Why didn't she come to greet me?
"Maybe the meal is ready and waiting for me?" After thinking about it, this was the only reason, and he pushed open the door.

After crossing the courtyard, Zhao Yu came to the living room of the Ueno family.

The living room was empty, even the lights were not on, making it look a little eerie.

Click! Zhao Yu turned on the light switch at the entrance and looked around the living room. Only then did he realize something was wrong.

There's no one here either, so where would Yuuka go? And... why are the others gone too?
"Cough cough!" A coughing sound was heard.

Zhao Yu looked in the direction of the sound and saw the photographer holding a camera, looking at him in the tea room.

"You're back, Brother Yu."

"No? Why are you the only one here?" Zhao Yu asked.

He was thinking that someone would welcome him back, but it wasn't a cameraman.

"You don't have to look disappointed if Yuka doesn't welcome you, right?" the cameraman complained.

"You just reminded me. Where are Youhua and the others? You should know where they went, right?" Zhao Yu looked at the camera.

"Of course I know, but..." The cameraman smiled, looking a little scary in the shadows.

"You have to complete the mission before you can see her."

"No? Here we go again!" Zhao Yu widened his eyes.

Are you kidding me? I just passed those tests a few days ago, and now I have to face another task today.

"Let me guess, it's Xiaowan's job, right?" After thinking about it, Zhao Yu felt that only Li Qingwan would be so boring.

"Yuka is waiting for you somewhere, and you can only see her through prompts. This time it will also be broadcast live, are you ready?" The cameraman did not answer, but continued to speak.

"Can I not go? Can't this Li Qingwan just be quiet for a while?" Zhao Yu complained.

"No, it wasn't the eldest lady's idea. It was Yuka who proposed it this time." The cameraman shook his head.

"Yuhua?" Zhao Yu was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Yuhua asked him to come back quickly for this.

"Anyway, this is not a test. I just want to play a game with you. The reward is also very generous. Believe me... I won't let you down." said the cameraman.

"Okay, if it's Yuhua's idea, let's give it a try." Zhao Yu could only nod in agreement.

"Very good, I knew you wouldn't refuse, so... let the game begin!" said the cameraman, speaking to the staff hiding in the corner behind him.

The staff quickly turned on the live broadcast, and the audience who had been waiting for a long time immediately poured into the live broadcast room.

[Realistic game live streaming? What new activity is Brother Yu doing? ]

[From the live broadcast introduction, it seems like a real-life challenge show? 】

[Look at Brother Yu's confused face, it seems like he doesn't know either? ]

"The first mission target is here." The cameraman pointed to the note on the coffee table next to him.

Zhao Yu walked to the coffee table and picked up the note.

“It’s actually here?”

(End of this chapter)