Why wasn't I the one who got the male lead's script?

Shiyu looked carefully at Aki Tomoya, who was completely speechless after being hit by her words, and the last bit of reluctance and indecision left in her smile disappeared completely.

"Or, even if you thought I might still have feelings for you, you still felt that it wasn't a big deal and that you could just ignore it? After all, I'm not your heroine—right?"

Shi Yu's few casual words once again caused a huge uproar among the onlookers in the auditorium.

"Wow..."

"What a terrible person..."

"I know, I know. He's the typical gigolo who's always looking for more, using ignoring other girls to get them to work for him. Then he boasts to himself, 'If it weren't for me, they wouldn't have come together to shine and produce such a great work.' Even gigolos don't just sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor."

“No—I didn’t!!”

Even at this point, Aki Tomoya still doesn't want to give up his reputation in the public eye.

"I—I didn't force them at all. I even groveled and begged them kindly to help me realize my dream! If our game succeeds in the end, then isn't it a win-win situation for both parties?!"

He tore his throat and stared at Shiyu with his red eyes. His eyes no longer contained the longing and admiration as before, but only unprecedented hatred and anger.

"On the contrary, you, Senior—it's one thing to go back on your word, but you actually took advantage of my completely defenseless and sincere heart to harm me!! Is this what you call admiration and appreciation?!"

In the face of Tomoya Aki's angry questions and accusations, Shiyu seemed very calm.

"Ah, so you also know how much I once admired and appreciated you."

"Well--"

With just a simple rhetorical question from her, she could once again make the self-righteous Tomoya Aki speechless.

"I'm sorry, Ethics-kun. I've also discovered that I'm the kind of woman who becomes blind and stubborn when I fall in love. So..."

Shiyu smiled bitterly and looked away, her tone no longer as sharp as before.

"...I need to give you up in order to love myself better."

"------"

Shi Yu's words made many people in the auditorium hold their breath.

In their eyes, Kasumigaoka Utaha has always been a proud and unapproachable beauty. They never imagined that she would be attracted to someone else and be so humble for love.

“…Kasumigaoka…Shiha…”

——The same goes for Eriri, who was standing between the podium and the seats, staring at the big screen in a daze.

She could personally understand how painful it would be for Shiyu to choose between her past feelings and her current responsibilities.

No matter how much Tomoya Aki disappoints Shiyu, he is still someone she once liked.

"...Stop making excuses. After all, Senior... aren't you just selfish?!"

After hearing Shiyu's true feelings, Akito Tomoya did not show any sign of being moved or touched.

He was baring his teeth like a sick tiger whose sore spot had been pricked, and the only emotion surging in his eyes was disgust.

"You keep saying how much you like me and admire me—yet now you're just walking away. Are you always choosing your own interests over mine?!"

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It's interesting to be cuckolded only when he treats the girl as a tool... The issues of the parties involved must be resolved by the parties involved. This is much more satisfying than letting Qing talk nonsense.

I can understand the joy of Miss Hayasaka (dog head) I wonder how you feel

Xing Jianqing Can't Be Alone Again: Chapter 10: Symphony of Interplay (Part 4)

He yelled at Shiyu hysterically, and was about to walk up to her and press her shoulders to vent his anger.

"If that's the case, stop saying you like me!! Don't use that as an excuse to do things that go against my will and hurt me. How is this any different from Eriri, the one who heartlessly abandoned me?!"

He took off his glasses with gritted teeth, his eyes already wet with liquid that had unconsciously flowed out.

"It's because you'll all definitely leave me in the end that I choose someone who will never leave me... That's why I can't accept your feelings!!"

His aggrieved and vulnerable look made the students in the auditorium who witnessed the whole process quiet down again.

After all, they were just outsiders - there was no way to infer the complex relationship between these people based on these few words.

However, in the silence all around, Lian Shiyu lowered her head and did not refute.

“…Stop changing the subject, Renye.”

A female voice with a hint of anger came from the microphone in the quiet auditorium and reached the ears of Tomoya Aki on the other end of the camera.

The girl with blonde twintails, Eriri Sawamura, who had been in a daze until just now, now raised her head fiercely and stared at Tomoya Aki through the projection screen.

"It's fine if you say this to me. I did do something to offend you when I was a child. But when you say this to Kasumigaoka Utaha... what do you mean?"

angry.

Eriri Sawamura didn't know how many times she had been angry today, but in short, she was very angry now - she felt that her anger could burn her eyebrows off.

"Ah, that's right!! When we were in elementary school, I left you behind when you needed a friend the most. How can you take revenge on me for ignoring me, ignoring my kindness, and being hot and cold towards me? It's all my fault - but why should you treat Kasumigaoka Utaha with the same attitude?! What did she do wrong?!!"

The confused onlookers stared blankly at this unprecedented quarrel, and it was a long time before they realized what was going on.

"Oh my god, Sawamura-kun and Aki Tomo are also childhood sweethearts?"

"What? These two are childhood sweethearts? They're clearly worlds apart in status, looks, and abilities..."

"Wait, let me hear what Sawamura-san said, and combine it with the information that Kasumigaoka-senpai revealed earlier... In other words, Tomoya Aki is keeping both of these beautiful women hooked? Is the reason he's keeping Sawamura-san hooked because she once wronged him and so he can't trust her?"

"Excuse me, I'm about to say something harsh... Someone who seeks repayment for a favor is no more noble than a perpetrator of violence. Furthermore, An Yi pushed Hoshimi into the spotlight simply because she disliked him... If you don't open up about your conflicts and instead just hide behind them and try to trip him up, you're not a real man."

"Stop talking. The reason this guy is hanging around Kasumigaoka-senpai is because he feels he's not good enough for her. [Because I don't think I'm good enough for you, so we can only be friends. But even if you like me, you have to hold it back because we can only be close work partners.] - Listen to this, isn't it disgusting?"

"Ah... If I were pursued by such a beautiful senior, I would sometimes feel ashamed of myself... not to mention Sawamura-kun..."

"But would you keep two beautiful girls hooked at the same time, and use your inferiority complex as an excuse to avoid their kindness when they are pursuing you relentlessly?"

"...That won't happen. After all, if two beautiful women like me, it must mean that there is something special about me, haha."

"So that's the conclusion, but it could also be because these two beautiful women happen to be blind, haha."

"Hey! You bastard—"

Eriri ignored the noisy voices in the crowd, but continued to roar in a deep voice at Aki Tomoya, who was still angry but looked stunned.

"Did Kasumigaoka Utaha do anything wrong in the beginning? Didn't she fall in love with you and want to pursue you just because you helped her once? Even if she's against you now, isn't it because you ignored her feelings time and time again that she felt disheartened and simply quit?!!"

Eriri's voice was trembling with anger. The emotion bursting out of her blue eyes as she stared at Tomoya Aki made Shiyu a little dazed.

"Stop confusing cause and effect—you're using the excuse of fooling me to deal with her, you bastard!"

Tears had already welled up to the corners of her eyes, but Yinglili still gritted her teeth, tilted her head back stubbornly, and forced herself not to let the tears slide down from the corners of her eyes.

Never retreat.

At least here, even if it's just this once, we must never retreat.

Whether it was for the black-haired boy standing on the podium, or for the black-haired girl with a headband who was looking at him in surprise on the screen.

I absolutely cannot give in here and run away with my tail between my legs again - Sawamura Eriri made up her mind.

Sitting on the bench on the rooftop, overlooking the auditorium and taking in the entire scene, Hayasaka Ai raised her eyebrows.

To be honest, the role played by Eriri, this unplanned variable, was somewhat beyond her expectations.

"Sawamura-kun...hmm."

After a brief moment of distraction, Shiyu regained her composure and calmness, bringing the conversation back to its original rhythm.

"Let's put that aside for now, Ethics-kun. After all, emotional issues can't be clarified in a short time."

In order to prevent Eriri's unstable emotions from exploding - and to prevent herself from becoming even more emotional, Kasumigaoka Utaha rubbed her temples, trying to maintain her composure between the lines as she started a new topic.

"Well, let's get straight to the serious question-and-answer session. You keep saying that you only consider me and Sawamura-kun as your business partners, but whether it's salary management or anything else, you're not even a qualified business partner."

Shiyu tried hard not to turn her worried gaze towards Eriri. What that guy just said was enough to shake her heart.

She held out her white palm, her knuckles slightly bent.

"First, we didn't sign a fair labor-sharing agreement, which means you couldn't pay us a stable salary. Second, at the initial stage of the project, you only gave us a vague outline to "create the cutest heroine." When we presented the work, you completely rejected it and sent it back to the drawing board simply because you didn't like it."

Shiyu took a deep breath when she said this, and her expression looked a little complicated.

Anyone with a bit of work experience can understand how she feels - how hopeless it is to deal with such a client.

As a writer, Shiyu can write whatever she wants. As an artist, Eriri couldn't stop nodding her head when she heard this.

She has a mountain of manuscripts that were sent back for redrawing for all kinds of strange reasons, such as "I don't like this style", "Are the legs a little too bowed?", "I don't like warm colors, why not change them?"

But even so, you still have to patiently revise it repeatedly until you produce a work that satisfies the other party - this is the quality that the second party should possess, because only in this way can you be worthy of the funding from the first party.

Because they have to make a living, they have to swallow their anger even if they are unhappy.

But what did Tomoya Aki do at the beginning?

The planning direction was ambiguous, and the outline ideas were constantly overturned and remade. Because he "had a new idea", he dragged the entire creative team to start from scratch again - and did not pay the team any funds.

Vaguely specifying the creative direction and ideas is already a taboo for the party making the request. This guy didn't even pay the party B.

It is really unlucky to meet such a partner.

Shiyu smiled, but this time there was only coldness and contempt under her lips.

"You can't provide the planning funds, you can't pay the creative team, and finally you deny the existence of an emotional debt—your statement is untenable both in terms of work and interpersonal relationships. Do you really think that Sawamura and I are in love because we have too much time and nowhere to spend it, Lixin-kun?"

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Ah, I felt so comfortable when I wrote this paragraph. I can finally spit out the complaints I have been holding back for a long time orz

If you guys like it, please vote for me. Your support is really my biggest motivation for writing (I feel so excited when I think that someone is waiting for my update)

Xing Jianqing will never be alone again: The final chapter: The boy will never be alone again (Part 1)

As Kasumigaoka Utaha and Aki Tomoya engaged in a tit-for-tat argument, even Eriri, who was standing in front of him, quickly joined the fray—

Xingjian, who was standing on the podium, realized that he was no longer the focus of everyone's attention, and took a step back or two belatedly.

He faded out of the spotlight, but soon felt a gentle push against his back.

"...?"

"Shh, don't talk."

Xingjian turned around in surprise, and saw a girl with long gray hair who was also standing in the shadow of the corner. She put her slender jade fingers in front of her lips and gave instructions in a very low and serious tone.

"Don't get too close to me. Turn around and face everyone. We should act like we're just strangers. Be professional."

"…What? Futaba, you're talking like I'm some professional actor."

Although Xingjian raised his eyebrows in confusion at first, he soon realized the good intentions of Futaba's actions and turned his back to her without changing his expression.

He just whispered something through his humming lips that only the two of them could hear.

"I finally understand now... Is this your plan?"

He looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha who was still confronting Aki Tomoya on the screen, and Eriri who was wiping her eyes and trying hard not to cry under everyone's gaze, and a hint of complicated emotions appeared in his eyes.

They kept Hoshimi completely in the dark, hoping to let Aki Tomoya relax his guard so that they could catch him off guard.

"...There's no need to go to this extent for me. It's obviously hurtful to them as well."

"Don't tell me these things. Talk to them in person. I have no psychological burden in participating in this project."

Futaba didn't respond to Xingjian's words out of courtesy, but just glanced coldly at the people sitting in the audience who seemed to want to strip everyone on the stage naked, with a hint of disgust in her eyes.

"Besides, these are the decisions they made themselves."

She shrank back into the shadows—using Xingjian standing in front of her to completely hide herself behind him.

"The main reason they had it all out with Tomoya Aki was because they couldn't stand being treated like tools. Hoshimi, you're just a small part of that, so stop being so sentimental."

"Hey, hey...at least give me some face at a time like this."

The young man turned his head slightly, feeling a bit amused and helpless, not letting the subtle emotions on his face be exposed to everyone.

"When you all came out one after another... I was really touched."

"........."

Futaba, who had a slightly unhappy expression on her face, stopped talking after hearing this.

Her frown seemed to relax a little.

"I'm being serious, because when I encountered something similar before... not only did no one help me, but I was even attacked by everyone. So when something similar happened again, but the outcome was completely different..."

The young man put his hands behind his back and crossed his fingers. Although he did not turn around to face Futaba, his voice seemed to be mixed with a bit of helplessness, confusion and relief after surviving the disaster.