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

Tokyo, Minato-ku, Akasaka 9-6-35, Johnny & Associates Headquarters.

"Hello, I'm Sakura, here for the interview."

"You're here for an interview, right? Show me your invitation. After going through security, go up to the second floor. The meeting room opposite the core practice room on the second floor is the waiting area. There are clear signs along the way, so don't wander off."

"If you accidentally enter a classified area, the agency has the right to pursue legal action against you."

"...Understood."

Jun Sakurada arrived an hour before his scheduled interview time and was subjected to a security check that was comparable to a body search.

As expected of an idol agency, their control over information is absolutely top-notch, at least in Jun Sakurada's opinion.

The verification process went smoothly, without any scenes like "the receptionist seeing his name, exclaiming in surprise and bowing down, or casting ambiguous glances."

Even when Sakurada Jun removed his mask and sunglasses to reveal his stunningly handsome face during the identity verification process, he didn't attract any strange looks.

"Looks like my cheap mother's connections aren't working out either," Jun Sakurada thought with a light laugh.

He wasn't too surprised by this situation; Johnny's receives hundreds of thousands of resumes from teenagers all over Japan every year.

Of these, only a few hundred people can successfully sign a contract to become "Jr," which means trainee, and only a handful can ultimately debut as a group.

After decades of selection, what handsome men haven't I seen? What young masters haven't I met?

However, it's best not to receive special treatment; not being targeted means that the consequences of causing trouble will be relatively smaller.

However, if Jun Sakurada were more familiar with the habits of Tokyoites, he would know that in Tokyo, people usually arrive about twenty minutes early for job interviews.

If you arrive more than half an hour early, the receptionist won't even bother to glance at you.

Sakurada Jun arrived a full hour early, yet he still received direct access, which was rather strange.

His electronic devices were temporarily stored away, leaving Sakurada Jun with only a USB drive containing the accompaniment music.

With nothing to do, he simply walked towards the waiting area indicated by the receptionist.

The second floor of Johnny's headquarters has no windows, the corridor seems low, and the monotonous gray and white walls give it a uniquely neon-colored sense of oppression, as well as... a small workshop atmosphere.

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Johnny & Associates, the largest idol agency in Japan, boasts an annual revenue that rivals the combined revenue of the three major K-pop companies, yet it's essentially a small, family-run operation.

It doesn't go public, doesn't issue shares, has only a few hundred employees, and the Kitagawa family firmly holds power, allowing them to act arbitrarily.

This model makes the agency extremely resilient to pressure, but the oppressive atmosphere also leads to a proliferation of mentally unstable individuals, from managers to trainees.

Jun Sakurada focused his mind, strode forward without looking to the side, ignoring the practice rooms with the names of prominent figures in the Japanese entertainment industry, and headed straight for the waiting area.

There's no need for him to have too much entanglement with Johnny's; he's not one of those obsessive sasaeng fans.

The safest course of action is to finish the job and leave, and never have any further contact with these filthy bastards again.

The waiting area was a meeting room opposite the practice room for the formal interviews. The door was ajar. Jun Sakurada gently pushed the door open and went in. To his surprise, there were already people inside.

She was about 1.6 meters tall, with long, neat, and smooth black hair draped over her shoulders. She was leaning against the wall, reading a book whose title was illegible.

A girl whose pretty face you can only see half of is focused...?

Sakurada Jun was suddenly a little confused.

Johnny's Entertainment has no female trainees or girl groups, at least not in the 21st century.

Why would any girls attend the interview?

Although it was somewhat offensive, he still glanced at the girl's upper body without leaving a trace, and it seemed that she really didn't have much of a figure.

Could it be... that Johnny's Entertainment has become so open that even people from Nanliang can become idols?

Jun Sakurada was deeply shocked.

"I guess you're thinking something rude, but that's not what you think." Just as Sakurada Jun was stunned, the girl spoke, her voice clear and pleasant, not like a boy's fake voice.

"I'm just a staff member's family member. I'll be taken to my relative's office before the interview starts, and it's busy there right now."

"Generally speaking, interviewees don't arrive at the waiting area an hour early, so my brother arranged for me to be here, but I didn't expect that someone would actually arrive so early."

"Understood, my apologies." Jun Sakurada nodded, realizing he had made a small blunder.

The girl looked up from the book, slowly raised her head, and her gaze sharpened slightly the moment she saw Jun Sakurada's face.

Jun Sakurada wasn't sure whether the girl, who seemed to be an insider, recognized him or just thought he was good-looking.

After a two-second silence, the girl suddenly chuckled and said, "It might be a bit presumptuous to say that, but I think I should be able to see you in the practice room very soon."

"Is it really that exaggerated?" Junya Sakurada laughed, but the forced smile seemed to transform into genuine joy under the influence of his succubus physique.

"You'll find out soon enough." The girl kept everyone in suspense, then extended her hand: "Takizawa Rin, nice to meet you."

As she reached out, she stared into Jun Sakurada's eyes, hoping to see some emotional fluctuation, but she saw nothing but calmness.

"Jun Sakurada, nice to meet you." Jun Sakurada shook hands with the girl noncommittally, then found a seat and began to rest with his eyes closed.

Takizawa Rin—he had absolutely no recollection of that name, and even if he did, she was someone in the entertainment industry, not someone he needed to pay any attention to.

After staring at Sakurada Jun's calm and leisurely demeanor for a few moments, Takizawa Rin's lips curled up into a cryptic smile, and she turned her gaze back to the book.

Time passed in this harmonious atmosphere for about six or seven minutes when a call came from outside:

"Xiaoling, it's time to go!" With the call, a handsome man in a suit, who looked to be in his early thirties, pushed open the door and entered. He was taken aback when he saw that there were actually two people in the waiting area.

Especially when he saw Jun Sakurada's face, he stared at it for a few seconds, and his eyes suddenly lit up:

"You must be Jun Sakurada!" The man called out Jun Sakurada's name in one breath, and the latter was stunned, feeling a chill run down his spine.

There's no way around it. In a place like Johnny's with such a bad reputation, it's really hard to imagine anything positive when someone who looks like an idol or former idol calls out your name.

"It's a pleasure to have you here for the interview. I'm Hideaki Takizawa, the vice president of Johnny & Associates." Hideaki Takizawa gave a standard senior smile and warmly shook hands with me.

Jun Sakurada's heart skipped a beat.

It's you, Johnny's number one traitor!