Congratulations, Sushi, you have been optimized by me.

When it comes to the piano, Ebizuka Satoshi's eyes become much sharper. After all, this is the only confidence she has.

"Then you will be in charge of the arrangement. I'm not very good at arrangement, you should be better than me."

"Row."

RUPA saw that with the addition of Chihiro, the team suddenly became a little formal, and he couldn't help but curl up a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.

Of course, the combination of these five people is still a bit strange.

She is a bassist and knows a bit about arranging music, though she usually just supports Xiaozhi. But now the team has a bassist, keyboardist, and guitarist, but no drummer.

Even their lead singer is a bassist... No, when did their bassists become so powerful?

It is said that in a band, the lead singer is the most important person.

Now the bassist who is ridiculed every day has become the lead singer... Although their lead singer seems to be a little confused about his position.

As for the unknown lyricist... forget it, RUPA doesn't care about it. After all, everything now is actually very satisfactory.

"Um, Sushi, is it okay for you to sing?"

"Eh?" Nagasaki Suyo shuddered slightly after hearing this. "No... Chihiro, are you serious?"

"if not?"

"But……"

"How can we not try? And you have to know how happy it is to be able to sing on stage. Do you remember what Xiao Mu said? Maybe they say they are unhappy in the band because they can't be the lead singer?"

"Xiao Mu wouldn't think that..." Nagasaki Suyo rolled her eyes, "Besides, what stage? We're just releasing the song online, we're not going to perform live."

"What's wrong with releasing songs online? The internet is the biggest stage, and don't worry... no one would imagine that someone with a slurred voice like you would have the guts to be a lead singer."

"Haha... provoking me, huh?"

Very good, Nagasaki Suyo admitted that she was actually a little tempted.

Although what really made her heart beat faster was not these few words of provocation, but the opportunity to work with Chihiro.

In fact, she doesn't have many opportunities like this to work closely with someone for a common cause. Whether it is to deceive the people in cyrchic together, or to make money for Chihiro's livelihood like now, she really wants to participate.

She even wanted to drag Chihiro to move into a house that was neither too big nor too small like Rupa and Satoshi's, which looked like it would give her a homely feel.

Alas...it's all because her mother is too rich.

"RUPA...are these two really okay?"

Ebizka Satoshi stood far away at the door, pulling Rupa, who had also walked in, and whispered, "Why do I feel like... these two people don't come here to play music, but to talk about love."

"What are you talking about, Xiaozhi~" Rupa was also a little confused by Xiaozhi's words, "But... whether it's playing in a band or playing music, it's actually the same as the feeling of being in love.

Everyone must cherish the time they spend together, and never break up even if they have arguments.

After all, how many couples can reconcile after breaking up, and how many can still be as 'loving' as they were in the beginning?

“…No, I was just making an analogy.”

"I'm just making an analogy."

"..."

Satoshi Ebizka remained silent. She actually didn't quite agree with this theory, because she felt that even couples who broke up could reconcile.

But it's different with a band. Once a band breaks up, it's really broken up. Especially those bands that broke up due to differences in musical concepts, Xiaozhi believes that there is absolutely no need to reunite.

Tolerance is important between couples, and there is actually a similar sentiment of tolerance in the band, but giving up on insisting on yourself for others...are you still the same person you were before?

However, Ebizuka Satoshi had a feeling. She could feel that both Motoyasu and Chihiro in front of her were the kind of people who would persevere in pursuit of a goal and would never give up.

But... it seems that what they insist on has nothing to do with the goals they want to achieve.

In fact, this feeling also reminded Ebizuka Satoshi of someone she hadn't seen for a long time, her former rival in the piano field - Toyokawa Shoko.

She even came all the way from Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture to Tokyo to develop her career, actually because Xiangzi was in Tokyo.

Unfortunately, she searched through the performance lists of various music festivals and live houses, but couldn't find any information about the other party.

Xiaozhi's phone suddenly rang with a ding. The girl picked it up and saw that it was a message that a new member had joined the group chat:

【Oblivionis has joined the group chat】

"Hiss...it really is a string of letters OB."

Chapter 141 Red Ginger's New Song (1/2)

For Shoko Toyokawa, today's workday ended much later than usual.

Although this was also because she was more than an hour late, returning to the home she didn't want to return to later was actually not a bad thing.

When Xiangzi got home, it was almost 8 o'clock in the evening. Because of work, she had only eaten two pieces of bread in her spare time to fill her stomach. Now she had to have a proper dinner.

However, after she opened the door and shouted "I'm back", she did not see her father.

The lights in the small rental house were dim, and one of the men's leather shoes at the entrance was missing, as if a drunk had accidentally put on different shoes after getting drunk.

"That's really outrageous..."

Shoko Toyokawa clenched her fists and looked resentfully at the shoe cabinet whose door was not even closed properly, as well as the messy garbage bags on the coffee table in the living room that could be seen from this angle.

If it wasn't her father, the father who was once very reliable in her mind, she would never have tolerated it like this.

Everything in front of us has already shown that the man must be wandering around the street drunk, and he may even be taken away by the police for lying on the ground or causing trouble.

This...is not the first or second time.

However, most of the time her father would actually come back home on his own. If it weren't for the call from the police station, Xiangzi wouldn't have the energy to worry about where this unreasonable father went every day.

Xiangzi shook her head, walked into the kitchen and used the microwave to heat up the lunch box she bought from the supermarket. Although she did have some money now, she was very busy every day and didn't want to cook at all.

Instant hot bento is her best choice.

After dinner, she still needed to tidy up the messy living room, but when people are working, they can't help but think about things that have nothing to do with the work itself to pass the time. And today, all Xiangzi thought about... was the lost and confused Nagasaki Suyo who she and Mu met at Yuze Coffee Shop.

Although she had asked Mu not to tell Su Shi that Li Xi had formed a band, but thinking about it afterwards...did Su Shi really not know that Li Xi had formed a band?

In other words, there was no reason for Li Xi not to include Su Shi when he formed a band. After all, when Li Xi was blaming Sunkei that day, he even brought up Su Shi.

In other words...Su Shi actually refused at first.

There seems to be nothing to doubt about this. After all, Mu would not lie. She said today that Su Shi only mentioned the matter of reuniting the band to her after school in the afternoon, which already explains a lot of facts.

Perhaps, Su Shi had planned to give up everything at the beginning... But because she was about to leave Tokyo forever, and even leave this country, she began to hesitate and began to recall that rainy night with no follow-up.

"But...this is meaningless now, right?"

Shoko Toyokawa shook her head. In her heart, she could understand Su Shi's current thoughts very well. If it were her, she might not give up like this.

But the problem is that for a band that is destined to have no results, wouldn’t it be a deception or harm to everyone in the band to reunite?

Moreover, given the relationship between them now, there is no way for them to play together for the voice of the lamp like they did in the past.

She, Toyokawa Shoko, no longer has those lofty dreams.

She just wants to make money...

Her mentality is completely different from Su Shi, Li Xi and Xiao Deng. She, Toyokawa Shoko, has gone from being a well-fed and well-clothed young lady to a poor student who has no energy to enjoy her youth.

That's why she accepted Xiao Qian's invitation and joined the commercial music group "Red Ginger", right?

"By the way, the lyrics..."

After finishing her housework, Xiangzi went to the bathroom first. After washing her face, she walked into her bedroom, closed the door and turned on her laptop.

This computer could be said to be the most valuable thing on her body now. When she left Toyokawa Mansion, in addition to her clothes and her mother's belongings, the only thing in her suitcase was her personal computer.

Xiangzi would occasionally open her computer to write something, but most of the time she would give up halfway through.

Because at this stage she actually didn't know why she wrote these songs, so she felt a little ridiculous while writing them. In the end, there were really few that could be called "works".

[Xiaoxiang, create a new LINE account, and then I will add you in.]

The cell phone suddenly rang. After seeing the message from Xiao Qian, Xiangzi didn't think much about it. While thinking about what kind of song to write, he registered a new account.

The account ID was the Latin word meaning "forget" that she had written casually in her inspiration notebook before. However, as soon as she entered the group, she felt something was wrong.

There were five people in this group, including her. They all seemed to be smurfs like her. She didn't even know which one was Chihiro...

Apart from her name, the names of two of the other four people seem to be of the same form, one is called beni and the other is called shouga.

"Hmm... these should be the two original Red Ginger ones, after all, the group's real name is beni-shouga."

However, apart from these two people, there are two other people whose names are a bit confusing.

One is called "I Have Three Cats" and the other one... is called "We"?

Which of these two people is Xiao Qian?

However, a weird name like "We" always sounds inconsistent with Xiaoqian's image. On the contrary, cute creatures like cats are very similar to Xiaoqian's temperament, so the "I have three cats" should be Xiaoqian, right?

Oblivionis: Hello everyone, I’m Oblivionis.

After sending this formulaic greeting message, Shoko Toyokawa put her phone aside, then focused on waking up the computer screen and started her new job seriously.

In fact, music is indeed something she cannot give up, although now she... is just using music as a tool.

So just from the fact that she and Su Shi are on completely different paths, crychic is destined to become a thing of the past, an existence that needs to be cut off no matter who she or anyone else is.

[In order to cut off this faded feeling]

[Use your fingertips to trace the engraved dots and lines]

【It can be achieved as easy as crying】

[Don't think too much, just tear it into pieces]

Inspiration kept sprouting in Xiangzi's mind, and her fingers kept tapping on the keyboard, as if the computer keyboard had become her good friend like the piano keys.

She wrote the lyrics in one go, pausing only three times to revise the wording.

After finishing the song, Toyokawa Shoko realized that she had written a song that contained all the words she wanted to say to Su Shi but couldn't, and also the words she hoped Su Shi would say to her.

And the name of this song...let's just call it "Cutting Line".

Taking out her cell phone, Shoko Toyokawa looked at the group chat. It seemed that after she sent the greeting message, no one was talking except for four simple welcome messages. You know what, she actually quite liked this neat and efficient working atmosphere.

[Oblivionis: @I Have Three Cats I have already written the lyrics, I will send them to you now. ]

Although there is no evidence to prove that this person is Xiao Qian, Xiangzi feels that... this must be it.

However, what surprised her was that after she sent this message, the group chat, which had been quiet just now, suddenly exploded.

[I have three cats: Yeah, thank you for your hard work.]

[beni: No, so fast?! He must be cheating!]

[beni: "Cut Line"? The lyrics...seem pretty good.]

Shouga: Looks like the lyrics should be fine.

[Myself: So impressive…]

[Me: Wait, why is my ID this?!]

[Myself: @I have three cats, are you doing this on purpose?! ! !]

After that, there was no further news.

Just these last few sentences were enough to make Xiangzi confused.

"This 'we' seems to be a little bit ill in the head?"

No matter what, if you dare to yell at Xiao Qian in the group, you are guilty!

Chapter 142 Li Xi: I actually dreamed that I grabbed Su Shi’s collar? (2/2)

"unacceptable."

After leaving Xiaozhi and Rupa's house, Su Shi was walking on the road with Chihiro when she suddenly saw a new message on her mobile phone. She was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that she had logged into a new account on her mobile phone without knowing when.

What’s more, the ID of this account is actually the name of the wild cat that Qianxun adopted!

This...isn't this treating her like a pet cat?

"No, when did you get my phone? When did you change my account number?"