Hai Ling: It was mainly because several members of our team had connections and abilities that we were able to achieve this. I didn't play any role.

Lixi: I understand.

After thinking for a while, she typed back: Remember to call me next time you have a performance.

Hailing: Definitely.

I put down my phone and looked out the window at the dark night view. I felt as if there was a huge stone blocking my chest, making me feel suffocated.

Sighing, she picked up her phone again and opened the band group chat interface to send a message.

Lixi: Deng, have you rested?

The first person to reply was not Takamatsu Deng, but Chihaya Aine who loved surfing the Internet.

Aine: Wait, Rikki, you're not thinking...

Lixi: That’s right.

Aine: Why is that? Didn’t we agree to talk about it after the live show is over tomorrow?

Li Xi: No, I want to say it now.

Su Shi: Did you meet in the evening?

Seeing that Su Shi, who usually kept silent, had come out on his own initiative, Li Xi briefly told him about the performance in the evening.

Su Shi: Xiaoxiang formed a new band and made his debut?

Tian Nalin, who had just returned home, saw the conversation in the group and quickly interrupted.

Tian Nalin: Yes, Xiangzi started to form his own band after watching everyone’s first performance last month.

Tian Nalin: But Xiangzi is not trying to compare herself with others, nor is she trying to annoy everyone. She has her own difficulties.

In reality, Su Shi was lying on the bed holding her mobile phone, quickly looking up information about the Mujica band, feeling mixed emotions.

Even so, she still pretended not to care and replied lightly.

Su Shi:Oh.

Tian Nalin saw through this at a glance, but tactfully didn't expose it.

At the same time, Gao Songdeng also discovered the chat content in the mobile phone group.

Deng: Xiaoxiang, why don’t you tell everyone?

Li Xi: Deng, that girl no longer considers us friends, so don’t think about her anymore.

Tian Nalin, who was typing a reply, almost vomited blood when he saw the message.

Ms. Tatsuki Shiina's way of speaking is truly well-deserved.

He quickly erased the original text and typed in new content at lightning speed.

Tian Nalin: No, Xiangzi was worried that if everyone knew about it, it would cause unnecessary misunderstandings, so he didn’t say anything.

Li Xi raised his eyebrows and was about to type to refute his point of view.

Fortunately, Tian Nalin sent a message via private chat first.

Tian Nalin: Rikki, don’t do this, Deng will be sad.

As expected, when he saw that it would affect the lights, Li Xi gave up his original idea and decided to wait and see.

In the group chat interface.

Aiyin followed up on the previous message, saying, "Yeah, Tomorin, don't overthink it. Xiaochu even specifically asked us to keep this a secret. Because the band members aren't allowed to reveal their identities, they say it's to protect Mujica's worldview or something..."

Deng: Thank you everyone, I'm fine.

Tian Nalin: Everyone, have a good rest tonight. Let’s talk about this matter in person tomorrow. It’s hard to explain it clearly on the Internet at the moment.

Deng: Yeah.

Then Aine cooperated and started to change the topic, talking about some things about the band.

Aine: Summer is coming, Tomorin, do you think we should make a new team uniform?

Deng: What do you want to do, Xiaoai?

Aine: Yes, I got some new inspiration after watching the performance.

Li Xi: Rejected! You'd better practice more if you have this time.

Aine: Hey~ Why is that? Nasan praised my skills and Rikki, and you are still criticizing me.

Li Xi: What's so great about your mediocre skills? Chu Hua can sing and play better than you.

Aine: Pink Pig's shocked expression pack.

……

Seeing that the atmosphere in the group had returned to normal, Tian Nalin breathed a sigh of relief, plugged his phone into the charging cable and went to take a shower.

Halfway through washing, he suddenly realized what was happening.

"Strange, why should I speak up for Teacher Daxiang?"

Given his cheerful personality, he should be hoping for a fight between chickens and dogs and for the girls to tear each other apart, so why is he trying to be a peacemaker?

40

Chapter 40 What if there is a sixth person?

The next day, the scorching sun rose from the east, and the chirping of cicadas came from the trees.

Tian Nalin got up early for morning exercise as usual, running along the path to the bank of the Sumida River to do radio gymnastics.

The green plants on both sides of the road gradually changed from the tender green of spring to the deep green of summer. The morning breeze was not as cool as that of spring, but mixed with a little dryness and heat. A thin layer of sweat would appear on the skin if the body moved slightly.

After finishing his exercise that day, Nalin returned to his rental house drinking some iced juice bought from the convenience store and found a bag of something placed on the table in the living room.

When he took a look, he found a few seaweed rice balls in the bag, with a piece of paper underneath. The beautiful handwriting made it clear who wrote it.

Xiangzi: Tianna-kun, I made some extra rice balls. If you don't mind, please have them for breakfast.

These are rice balls made by Teacher Daxiang himself... I guess he is apologizing for his willfulness last night.

Tian Nalin recalled that when he first visited his home, Xiangzi seemed to have given him rice balls. At that time, he treated them as treasures and ate them all up. In the end, he ate too much. Now he finds it ridiculous when he thinks about it. It wasn't a precious thing after all.

I picked one up and tasted it. Just like last time, it was seasoned with salt. It tasted salty with the aroma of seaweed, which was just enough to replenish the salt lost during exercise.

Because the weather was hot, he habitually raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and immediately realized something.

"Wait a minute! I'm not eating the sweat from Teacher Daxiang's hands, am I?"

Tian Nalin stopped chewing, finding the rice ball in his hand a little difficult to swallow.

Then he felt ashamed of his thoughts. After all, these things were made by someone else with great effort and contained the girl's love. How could he think like this?

Feeling guilty, Tiannalin ate up all the food.

……

Office, Mujica Band Office.

While enjoying the cool air-conditioning, Xiangzi chewed on the seaweed rice balls he made himself while using his computer to check the comments about his band on the official website. He also answered some questions as an official staff member.

Most of the comments were what she thought, all positive praise; occasionally there were some "dissonant notes", which she would automatically ignore; if there were any verbal abusers, she would directly send them to the black room.

Not long after, Chuhua opened the door and walked in. He saw the blue-haired girl who was already busy sitting at the desk. There was no surprise on his face. After all, Xiangzi was always the first to arrive during this period of time.

"Good morning, Xiaoxiang."

"Good morning Chuhua."

Xiangzi looked up at his friend, then shifted his gaze back to the screen.

Chu Hua didn't care. He sat next to him and said, "When does Xiao Xiang plan to hold a celebration party for the Live? Miao Mengqin was discussing this with me on the way home last night."

"I'm going to check the album's initial sales first."

Xiangzi leaned over and explained, "We've put so much effort into practicing and invested so many resources, so it's only natural that the Live will be successful."

Chuhua understood what the former meant. The cost of Mujica's first debut performance, plus the publicity and promotion costs, totaled about 500 million yen (about million RMB). Coupled with the high quality of the performance, it was difficult for it not to be successful.

As Region 11 is a country with very strict enforcement of artistic copyright, album sales are also one of the important indicators to measure a band's popularity and market performance.

In other words, only when the album sales and Blu-ray disc sales increase can the Mujica band itself earn enough money to maintain profitability.

Because most of the ticket revenue from the debut performance was used to cover the initial investment costs, and after deducting the agency's share, the band members actually got very little. Chuhua estimated that a few hundred million yen would be good enough.

Therefore, the success of initial sales (sales in the first week) is the real success, otherwise it would be like opening champagne halfway through.

"So this is what you think, Xiaoxiang. I will explain it to everyone then."

"Thank you for your help, Chuhua."

Xiangzi nodded. "Also, regarding the new song, Chuhua, do you have any inspiration? We can't just cover other people's songs every time we perform live."

"I was just about to discuss this with you, Xiaoxiang, today. The first six songs in our Mujica collection were too passionate. I'd like to slow down the next one. Is that okay?"

Xiangzi lowered his head and thought for a moment before replying, "Okay, then let's follow your idea, Chuhua, for the next song."

"That's great, thank you Xiaoxiang."

Chuhua said with a bright smile.

"No, I want to thank Chuhua for your help."

Xiangzi replied with a smile.

Just when things were looking good, the breathing lights on their phones flashed at the same time.

The two looked at each other, took out their phones to check, and found that it was a message in the band chat group.

Miao Meng: Something terrible has happened, meow!

Miao Meng: Our band has fallen to 9th place on the variety show topic rankings!

Miao Meng: It was the second most searched topic last night...

Xiangzi opened the website to confirm and found that it was just as Miao Meng said, Ave Mujica's ranking had indeed dropped to 9th place. If it fell any further, it would disappear from the public eye.

"As expected, people are fickle and forgetful, so popularity and obsolescence are the norm in this world..."

Although Xiangzi already knew these principles, he still found it difficult to adapt when he really faced them.

Chu Hua immediately comforted him: "Xiao Xiang, this result is actually very good. When Mana and I debuted, we didn't even make it into the top 10 trending searches."

"Yes, I know."

Xiangzi flipped through the top-ranked variety show topics to find the reason, and found that most of them were related to the Tis Idol Festival finals and some of the participating idol groups.

Suddenly, her finger on the scroll wheel paused. "Chuhua, did the entertainment agency's PasPale idol band advance to the TIS idol festival finals as a dark horse?"

"Yes."

Chu Hua's face changed, and he also thought of the situation they were about to face.

The resources that an agency can mobilize are limited. For example, the fact that Mujica quickly became the second most searched topic last night was because the performing arts agency contacted a third-party company to push it up there.

And in order for the PasPale idol band to successfully win the Tis Idol Festival, it is very likely...

No, the main resources will definitely be tilted towards this group, which will affect the publicity efforts of the Mujica band, which is also listed under the entertainment agency.

Thinking of this, Xiangzi slowly closed his eyes, with only regret and self-blame in his heart.

During this time, she was busy with the band's internal affairs and debut performances and didn't notice this situation. If she had known earlier that PasPale would advance to the Tis Idol Festival finals, she would probably change the debut date to July 7th.

Chu Hua quickly comforted him: "Xiao Xiang, this is not your problem. No one expected this to happen in advance."

"No, I was too proud and complacent. I thought I could handle everything. I was so absorbed in my work that I ignored external information and made a wrong decision."

As the saying goes, even the wisest man can make mistakes. In order to gain full control of the band, Xiangzi rejected the producer assigned by the agency and took on the role himself.

If there was a sixth person, he would definitely remind her of this crucial matter.

41

Chapter 41 Independent Live Plan.

The atmosphere at the Tis Idol Festival filming site was very lively.

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