Joker's Band Game Story

"Of course. After all, I am responsible for your lives."

Xiangzi answered with a smile on her face, but she had no idea how much impact this sentence would have on Chuhua.

Chuhua was deeply moved when she heard these words. She didn't expect that Xiangzi was actually willing to take responsibility for his own life.

But...but she doesn't know what her real life is...

Chu Hua was excited for a moment, then calmed down and continued chatting with Xiangzi: "Xiao Xiang is really amazing, he has already gained such high popularity just after his debut."

It's really amazing that mujica was able to gain such high popularity without revealing the true identities of the five members of the group.

Chuhua also started from scratch. When she and Mana formed Sumimi, it took them a long time to gradually gain the current popularity.

Of course, the main credit goes to Mana Junda, who won five consecutive championships in the National Amateur Singing Competition. As a result, she was taken away by a scout and found Mikado Hatsuka, who was also discovered by a scout.

As a five-time champion, she naturally has a certain fan base. Her first performance was at the opening ceremony of the shopping street building built by Toyokawa Group. After the two sang the song "I'm Sorry You're So Cute" written by Kurusu Akatsuki, they gradually became popular. Now she and Mana have also become popular idols.

The naive Chu Hua thought that their popularity was purely due to their own abilities, but in fact the promotion by the agency and the Toyokawa family behind them was the main point.

That's why she praised Xiangzi for being so amazing and becoming famous so quickly. This sentence made Xiangzi smile bitterly for a moment.

She knew why she became famous so quickly, it was because she had signed an agreement with her grandfather.

Therefore, this time the band must succeed and not fail. She must meet the results of the agreement, otherwise...

Without thinking any further, Xiangzi looked at Chuhua again: "This is all thanks to you. There is no one more suitable than you to be the face of Ave Mujica."

Xiangzi was not wrong in saying this. She invited Chuhua to be the lead singer because of his strong ability. As for fame, she really didn't care that much.

But... when she invited Chuhua to come, Chuhua agreed without asking anything, so she was still a little worried...

"Is it really okay if you don't ask anything?"

"Ah."

Chuhua nodded confidently and admitted that she really didn't mind and she was happy to do whatever Xiangzi did.

After all...she admired Xiangzi so much, longed for Xiangzi, wanted to get Xiangzi... and become Xiangzi.

"You must be the type of person who could be easily tricked into buying crystals."

“That’s too much~”

Listening to Xiangzi saying that he was naive and easy to be deceived, Chuhua couldn't help but say something coquettishly.

But she felt differently in her heart.

She actually hoped that she could be as innocent as Xiangzi said, but she couldn't.

She is a dark person after all...

While the two were chatting, Xiangzi's cell phone suddenly rang. She lowered her head to look at the caller and her face changed.

"Work?"

"Um, sorry I have to go first... I'm Toyokawa."

Xiangzi left quickly. Looking at her hurriedly leaving figure, Chuhua couldn't help but reveal a look of worry on her face.

But after Xiangzi left completely, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

It looked so... joyful.

Although she didn't see it, she knew who called Xiangzi...it was the police station.

Her father must have been drunk and causing trouble outside, and then was locked up by the police. After he sobered up, he was taken away by his family.

This was not the first time Xiangzi had encountered such a thing, so she quickly went to the familiar police station to pick up her father.

Returning to his shabby home, Xiangzi couldn't help but purse his lips again.

She is no longer oblivious, but Toyokawa Shoko.

Pushing open the door, she looked at the empty wine cans on the ground, sighed helplessly, and began to collect them.

Since she had to go to school during the day, she always left money on the table so that her father would not go hungry for three meals.

But each time I gave him the money, it was only enough for food, and I didn't know where he got so much beer.

He threw his father onto the mat, then returned to his room, lay on the mat and prepared to sleep.

There was no bed in the house, and the poor house didn't even have much furniture. Apart from the necessary tables and chairs, there was basically nothing else.

But those tables and chairs were usually not used, because Xiangzi never ate any of her three meals at home. She had breakfast and lunch at school, and dinner immediately after work. She didn't have time to cook a meal for herself at home.

As for my father who has been at home all the time...it is even more impossible for him to cook.

The underage Xiangzi entered the adult world early, but because she was still a minor, she suffered more discrimination than adults.

Many jobs were unwilling to be given to her. When she was looking for a job, she could only look for some low-paying jobs with no requirements. She delivered newspapers outside regardless of rain or shine, and towed a trailer to deliver express deliveries to every household.

Although she was a young lady, she was able to let go of this attitude. She lived in a dirty and messy environment and did hard labor that ordinary students would not do. At that time, she really felt that she was living in the darkest days, but... She was so tired that she had no time to think about these things.

Lying on the mat, Xiangzi was not very sleepy. Compared with the past, she went to bed a little earlier today. But she had to go to bed early because she had more work to do tomorrow and had to get up even earlier.

But she just couldn't fall asleep, and her brain couldn't help but start to wander. She thought about the bumpy road she had walked before, and she knew that she would soon have to say goodbye to this road in the future.

There are not many things on this road that are worth her lingering on and reminiscing about. She is enduring it. She is silently charging towards her own life. She wants to prove that she will not be crushed by life.

So when she looked back on this journey, her eyes were cold. She saw those difficulties as torture and training for her. Only by enduring this test would she be baptized, and she would be able to...

For some reason, Amamiya Ren suddenly came to her mind.

His appearance was a turning point, a turning point that changed his life.

He brought himself to the stars and became a waiter, earning a good salary every day, and the work pressure was not that high.

She was very grateful for Amemiya's help. After all, without him, she would not have more energy to think about how to form mujica.

but……

Now when she thinks of Amemiya again, she feels a little sour.

After all, the other party is not the same kind of person as herself. She can recall the happy times he spent with the Ending Band. Whenever she sees the Ending Band, her heart can't help but aches.

Once upon a time...she also had a similar band...but she ended it all with her own hands.

No matter how reluctant she was, she knew that she no longer had the energy to run this kind of pretend band. She had to spend more time studying to get a scholarship, and more time working to ensure that she would not starve to death.

It was not until with Amemiya's help that she was able to gradually break free from the numb life of work and study.

So she should be thanking Amamiya, right?

But why... do I feel a little disgusted with him...

Covering her chest, Xiangzi knew why she hated Amemiya.

She hated Amemiya's comfortable life, she hated Amemiya's kindness, and she hated the help Amemiya extended to her.

Once upon a time, I was as innocent and kind as him, but why did God make me become like this...

Others are still smiling, but I am sad alone...

She knew that her idea was wrong, but she couldn't help but hate everything.

"Why...why are you all so happy...and I...and I..."

She covered her chest and grabbed it tightly. The huge force made her fair skin red, but she didn't care about the pain.

Or rather...she just needed to feel this kind of pain, she just needed this kind of pain to punish herself.

Reason told her that this was wrong, but she just couldn't change the purest thoughts in her heart.

She knew that this was jealousy. She was jealous of why others could still enjoy happiness while she was stuck in the mud.

So every time I thought of Amemiya trying to help me, every time I thought of his actions, or even just thought of his face, I felt deep pain.

"Why...why am I so shameless..."

Holding her arms and pinching her skin, she was using this pain to forgive herself.

Her conscience could not tolerate herself being such a shameless person, so she needed to use this most clumsy way to persuade herself not to feel so guilty.

But after all this, she had a deeper impression of Amemiya without knowing it.

A princess stuck in the mud, wouldn’t she wish someone could rescue her from the mud completely?

Even though she is no longer pure and spotless, even though she is now full of sin.

She longed for someone to save her, and she hoped someone could rescue her as soon as possible.

"Amemiya..."

Chanting Amamiya Ren's name, Xiangzi was still punishing herself. She hated Amamiya so much, but why could she never forget Amamiya?

Why, why, why! Why did she long for Amamiya to be by her side again?

She needs to atone her sins, but she is the poor one. Her pride prevents her from giving up her dignity, but she hates herself for falling into darkness.

Was she wrong from the beginning? Was it right to become a caged bird in the Toyokawa family?

Why...why can't she be happy?

Yes, why can't I be happy?

Xiangzi's eyes became empty. She looked at her father who was kneeling on the ground and pounding the ground. "That's enough... leave me alone... looking at such an outstanding daughter like you, I... feel so ashamed... please... disappear!"

Why can't I be happy?

Xiangzi couldn't help but think about this question in his mind.

She had been taking care of her father for such a long time, even leaving the Toyokawa family and working day and night, but the result was that she was the daughter of this Reimu Ryūryū. Is this the ending she wanted?

She felt her body stiffen and the blood in her body almost coagulated. She felt suffocated, and the only pillar that had been supporting her to hold on collapsed completely.

The cheerful, kind and caring father who used to be like this eventually turned into this useless person.

She...had lost everything.

She lost her status as the eldest daughter of the Toyokawa family, she lost her mother, she lost her father, she lost everything...

No, there is still ave mujica, there is still the band, she still has the band… She only has the band left…

I am not Toyokawa Shoko... Ling Menggu Yiqi VIII? Baqi Liu'Yin)

I am...oblivious...

(PS: Xiangzi is a masochist purely because of the secondary creation. After all, on the one hand, it is very contrasting that the daughter of a wealthy family is secretly a masochist. On the other hand, it is also because the early Haqi Xiangzi does need to be punished. But is the punishment of Xiangzi in this state really a punishment? (Thinking))

Chapter 24: Performance at Budokan

After packing her luggage, Xiangzi quickly walked downstairs with the suitcase. She no longer wanted to live in this house.

She has always hoped that her father could return to his former self, the smiling, kind and honest father.

But he couldn't do it. That incident made him let go of everything and fall into complete depravity. Xiangzi no longer had any hope. She had indeed lost everything now.

When she got downstairs, Ruo Ye Mu was already waiting for her. The two of them would go to the martial arts hall together and then start their performance of the day.

Today is their first step to ave mujica, and they will definitely succeed.

Sitting in the car, Xiangzi couldn't help but cover her face and cry. She was unwilling to accept it. She really couldn't accept why her father became like this.

"Asshole dad... He doesn't understand how I feel all along... I won't go back... I can't go back..."

When she said she couldn't go back, was she referring to that little home, the Toyokawa family, or the happy past...only she herself knew.

But no matter which one it was, she couldn't go back, just as she herself said, she couldn't go back, it was already in the past.

And the future...she has no future, she only has mujica, and mujica's future is her future.

"Martial Arts Hall...a man?"

Mu, who was standing next to him, looked at Xiangzi's sad look and couldn't help but ask a question.

After all, Xiangzi said that she only had mujica left, so for mujica, the next performance was the most important.

But unfortunately, this is not what Xiangzi needs to hear. Xiao Mu's wrong response makes Xiangzi's expression become a little ferocious: "What's the problem? What do you think I have worked so hard for? Cut off the memories, forget everything... Except ave mujica, I have nothing left."

At this time, Xiangzi has completely fallen into darkness. She is no longer the Xiangzi that Xiaomu knew before.

She has come to her senses and no longer trusts anyone. The white moonlight Xiaoxiang has been killed by reality.

At this time, Mu didn't say anything. She felt that Xiangzi was different from before, but... she didn't know what to say.