Tokyo: My obsession with China led me to become the king of Japanese entertainment.

Takizawa Rin went home alone.

Hideaki Takizawa is still brooding over Jun Sakurada's affair, and he is now using his connections and abilities to find out which bastard stole his man.

It's probably still warm and cozy in the office right now.

But Takizawa Rin insists that Sakurada Jun's situation is far from simple.

She believes the breakthrough lies in the song her older brother calls a "low-quality K-pop-style Chinese song."

Throughout Jun Sakurada's entire interview process, he was able to easily give up even the final opportunity to sign a contract, but he was extremely persistent about this song.

There must be some deeper meaning behind this.

However, although the general direction was clear, the clues provided by Hideaki Takizawa were still too few.

There's only one line, "The chorus is pretty catchy," and even the pronunciation is questionable. Finding it will be quite difficult.

But Takizawa Rin decided to give it a try anyway.

After returning home, Takizawa Rin ate a simple bento box she brought from the convenience store, took a shower, and sat down in front of her computer feeling refreshed.

Sakurada is Japanese, so the Chinese songs he chooses might have some popularity in Japan.

With that in mind, she first searched on Japanese websites.

G-Ni-Thai-May, that's incorrect.

Even changing it to Romanized pronunciation doesn't work.

I'll switch to Chinese... but I don't understand Chinese...

If the Chinese people at this moment knew that in the early spring of 2019, a Japanese girl almost turned the Japanese internet upside down in order to understand Kun Ge's four-word mantra, I wonder what they would think.

"Damn it, what is the correct spelling of those words?" After working for more than an hour without any results, even someone as composed as Takizawa Rin couldn't help but complain a little.

The most likely spelling she can get right now is "to provoke someone into raising their eyebrows," which can probably be understood as an expression of anger.

But there's nothing about this that's worth Sakurada Jun sticking to so much...

At this point, Takizawa Rin regrets that the interview recordings and other materials were not kept on file. Even if they had been kept on file, Takizawa Hideaki would not have allowed his sister to see them in order to avoid suspicion.

All we can offer her now is the vague pronunciation of a line from a song lyric. Is it really possible for someone to investigate a song and its deeper meaning from such limited information?

With a slightly disheartened sigh, Takizawa Rin stretched. As expected of a girl who could be mistaken for a girl from Nanliang by Sakurada Jun, her body was so perfectly straight that it was breathtaking.

"I was too stubborn after all..." She sighed softly and picked up a VR headset from the table next to her.

Finding results through searching alone was too difficult, so she had to try another method and see if she could get lucky.

VRChat is a social networking app based on VR technology. Users can use self-made or downloaded VR avatars to communicate and cause trouble in virtual space, which is very much in line with the Japanese personality of "being able to completely unleash themselves when anonymous".

Takizawa Rin has been playing this for a while now, and coincidentally, among the friends she's made in VRChat, there's one Chinese person.

This woman, whose ID is "鹹鱼" (Xianyu), claims to be a Chinese student studying abroad and is currently pursuing a master's degree at a university in Japan.

She was the only person Takizawa Rin knew who could communicate in Japanese and was also very knowledgeable about China.

I logged on, and luckily, Xianyu was online at that moment, and to make matters worse, he was playing VRChat.

She entered the room where the salted fish was without hesitation.

"Huh? Rin-chan! Over here! What brings you online today?" I had only been in the room a short while when I heard a friendly girl greeting me.

A penguin with a messy drawing style, a fierce expression, eight-pack abs crookedly drawn on its abdomen with a marker, and wearing a red scarf and tie, waddled up to Takizawa Rin and let out a cheerful female voice.

Just looking at this model, one can only think of two words: ruthless bandit.

"Salted Fish..." Takizawa Rin looked at her friend's expression and felt a little helpless.

The main reason she didn't seek Miss Salty's help from the beginning was that Miss Salty had absolutely no interest in following celebrities and was even more of a shut-in than a typical shut-in.

Asking someone like this to identify a K-pop-style Chinese song based on a single, vague lyric seems rather difficult.

We can only try our luck.

"Salted Fish, my brother recently heard a song that sounds like it's in Chinese and he's quite interested in it..." She briefly explained what had happened.

Of course, she concealed her and her brother's identities, as well as any information related to Johnny's Entertainment. She only mentioned that her brother had accidentally heard a song that he found somewhat catchy and wanted to know what it was.

"Chinese songs..." Salty Fish paused for a moment, a hint of distress in his voice: "I haven't listened to many, so I can't guarantee I can recognize them. Hum one for me."

"I'm not quite sure about the melody either..." Takizawa Rin said awkwardly, "I only know the approximate pronunciation of one line of lyrics."

"This... there's not enough information." Salty Fish sighed, but still didn't refuse: "Tell me, what word is it? If you really can't figure it out, I'll go ask around in China, maybe I can find it for you."

"Yes, thank you, Salty Fish Sister!" Takizawa Rin nodded vigorously.

"That lyric actually only has four syllables; it's roughly pronounced like, 'chicken—you—'."

To make sure the salted fish could hear her more clearly, she deliberately lengthened the pronunciation of each word.

However, after reading only two words, he heard the salted fish speak almost without thinking: "Chicken, you're too beautiful?"

"Mmm, this is it... Huh?" Takizawa Rin nodded subconsciously, then suddenly realized something and her breathing became rapid.

No, this can actually hit the target in one shot?

Meanwhile, on the other side, the ruthless penguin named Salty Fish tilted its head and stared intently at the model of Takizawa Rin.

The simple penguin could not possibly express the real-life expression of the salted fish, but it still gave Takizawa Rin a chill down her spine.

"What's wrong, Salty Sister?" Takizawa Rin asked, somewhat bewildered.

After a long while, the salted fish slowly spoke, its tone complex, containing ecstasy, as well as a kind of incomprehensible astonishment and a strange suppressed laugh.

"I never expected this! Rin-chan, you with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, you're actually a Kuroko!"

……

The next morning, Takizawa Hideaki, sporting dark circles under his eyes, dragged his exhausted body back to his apartment. He had made countless phone calls and used his connections throughout the night, but to no avail.

Whether they are top figures in the industry or just ordinary people on the street, no agency has ever paid attention to a boy named Sakurada Jun.

How is that possible?

When he opened the door, ready to get some sleep, he was startled by his sister's condition.

Takizawa Rin's dark circles were even thicker than his, but she was in a strange state of excitement.

Hideaki Takizawa swore he had never seen such an excited smile on his own sister's face.

"Interesting, so interesting..." she kept murmuring.

Before Takizawa Hideaki could speak, she excitedly leaned closer and said, "Brother, I understand now!"

"About Sakurada-kun?" Takizawa Hideaki's mind raced.

"That's right!" Takizawa Rin paused, seemingly trying to build momentum. For some reason, even though he hadn't had much to do with this girl the whole time, Takizawa Hideaki seemed to be able to see a little bit of "sense of pride" on her face.

Sure enough, the next moment, Takizawa Rin couldn't wait to draw a shocking conclusion:

"The reason Sakurada Jun rejected your invitation, brother, is not because he received a better offer from others, but because he wasn't even aiming to join Johnny's and become an idol!"

"You, and the entire Johnny's Entertainment, have all been used by his plan!"