Didn’t you say you were just using me as a substitute?

"Sometimes I really want to stab you in the face." Ye Yingtong stared coldly at Kitahara Tsutomu's face.

My boyfriend is so handsome, which can be annoying sometimes.

Being thought of every day.

But then again, if Kitahara Tsun really wasn't that good-looking, she wouldn't look down on him.

Kitahara Takashi: “?”

*

For the next few days, Kitahara Takashi took photos and accompanied Yozakura Hitomi to visit Milan City.

The two went to Milan Cathedral together and kissed in the church.

We also went to the Sforza Castle and saw Michelangelo’s last sculpture, “The Pietà” and Leonardo da Vinci’s original manuscript of the Tifozio.

Feeding the pigeons in the Cathedral Square.

It was just scattered on the ground, and the pigeons didn't fly over.

Because it's dirty.

Although white doves symbolize peace, they are actually also called "flying mice" and carry many viruses.

Of course, farmed ones are not counted.

On the other hand, crows are truly auspicious creatures.

Before the Tang Dynasty, crows were the sacred birds that represented signs and prophecies, hence the saying: The crow announced good news, and the Zhou Dynasty began to rise.

The last day was spent at La Scala Opera House.

The two of them only spent a few short days together, but it made Ye Yingtong start to think, "What if it could always be like this?"

Unfortunately, she can't.

Since she was born into the Konoe family, she had to bear the corresponding responsibilities. She could not have as much leisure time as ordinary high school girls.

The two parted at Tokyo Airport.

Before leaving, Kitahara Tsutomu hugged Ye Ying Tong tightly, and then was driven away by Ye Ying Tong.

Ye Yingtong kept watching Beiyuan Zun walk away, staring at his back as he disappeared in the crowd. She felt empty, as if something was inexplicably missing.

But when she lowered her head and saw the ring on her right ring finger, she smiled faintly again.

She was looking forward to graduating from high school more and more.

"Totaro, there's no need to monitor Zun anymore. Just withdraw the people." After walking out of the airport, Yozakura Hitomi said to Totaro without turning her head.

"Miss?"

Kotaro looked at her in surprise.

This doesn't suit Yozakura Hitomi's style.

Ye Ying Tong did not explain.

She just touched the ring in her hand.

He said he would marry her.

Although this man lied all the time, flirted with other women every day, and always made her angry, he never made promises to anyone casually.

Once he makes a promise, he will definitely keep it.

He said that he told Kamikawa Nari that he would be the top student in the grade, and he did it.

He once told Shota Ohtani that he would definitely lead the team to win Koshien, and he did it.

Ye Yingtong never trusts anyone, but if that person is Kitahara Tsutomu, she is willing to believe him once.

Volume 321: What Am I?

“So many people have come.”

After getting off Fukuoka Airport, Takashi Kitahara took the company's business car to arrive at the Yulongqi competition site.

Sitting in the car and looking outside, Kitahara Takashi discovered that there were a lot of people present today.

There were huge crowds of people at the entrance, at least tens of thousands of people.

Just looking at the number of people in front of us, its popularity is no less than Koshien.

"The Jade Dragon Flag is a very important event." Ogizu Yoshiko introduced to Kitahara Takashi.

The Yulongqi, also known as the 'National High School Martial Arts Tournament', is a competition for high school students held in Fukuoka every summer by the Nishinippon Shimbun in late August.

Its predecessor was actually called the 'Kyushu Student Martial Arts Tournament', which was originally a local competition limited to boys in the Kyushu area.

In 1959, it was renamed the "Golden Dragon Flag High School Kendo Tournament", but it was still limited to male students from Kyushu.

It was not until later that the women's individual competition was added and the name was changed to "Yulongqi High School Kendo Tournament". Only then did high school boys from all over Japan become eligible to participate.

The competition is divided into individual and team competitions.

A team consists of five people.

There's nothing special about the individual battles, but Yulongqi is famous for its team battles.

There are no preliminaries and no emphasis on team formations. Every year, more than 500 teams compete in a free-for-all. The rules of the competition are: the winning team stays on the field, the losing team leaves, and this continues until only one team remains on the field.

In other words, as long as you are strong enough, no one will say anything even if you stand on the field and play from start to finish.

Not only will no one say anything, but in order to encourage such people, the conference has set up a "Dare to Fight Award" to reward those players who can fight one against five, one against ten, or even one against fifteen or twenty.

This unique competition system that pursues the ultimate personal martial arts has gradually spread the influence of the Yulong Flag competition.

Every summer, there are various high school competitions and many other flag competitions, but there are really few that are as famous as the Yulong Flag.

The manga "Slam Dunk" has made more and more people fall in love with basketball. Japan has also been committed to developing campus basketball, but the Japanese basketball market has always been sluggish.

Its national competition stage is not as popular as the Yulong Banner.

Kitahara Takashi had always felt that the Jade Dragon Flag received little attention and was not valuable enough, but that was only because he compared the Jade Dragon Flag with Koshien.

Compared with Koshien, the Jade Dragon Flag is indeed not valuable enough.

"Oh, I heard that Mai Sakurajima seems to be retiring from the entertainment industry. Is this news true or false?" Kitahara Takashi nodded, and then talked about the topic that has been trending recently.

"Really." Ogizu Yoshiko contacted Sakurajima Mai and confirmed that she did want to leave the entertainment industry.

"Why?" Kitahara Tsutomu was puzzled.

Although Mai Sakurajima has been noticed since she was a child and has had a smooth journey into the entertainment industry, she must have suffered a lot to go from a child star to her current top position.

No one's success and success are smooth sailing.

But if she quits now, what would be the value of all her efforts and hard work over the past ten years?

"She disagreed with her mother. Of course, the fundamental reason was that she had reached a period of transition." Ogizu Yoshiko paused, then looked at Kitahara Takashi and said, "You should know that before her mother, I was Mai Sakurajima's agent."

"Ok, I know."

Ogizu Yoshiko mentioned this matter to Kitahara Takashi.

"Do you know why I gave up on her?"

"why?"

"Her future seems bright, but in fact her career has already reached its peak. Every step forward from now on will be downhill." Ogizu Yoshiko said in a serious tone.

"Child stars debuted, thinking they were destined for the future, but then vanished into obscurity. There are countless children leaving the entertainment industry."

It is impossible for a person's life to always be smooth sailing.

Being surrounded by halos since childhood does not mean that the road ahead will be smooth.

"Mai was once a child favored by the goddess of luck. She was one of the few children who was beautiful since childhood and did not become ugly when she grew up. Instead, she became even more beautiful."

Being good-looking when you are a child does not mean you will be good-looking in the future.

In real life, there are many children who are good-looking when they are young but become ugly when they grow up.

Speaking of this, Takashi Kitahara suddenly thought of the actor who played Xia Yu in "Home with Kids".

He used to be very cute, but as he grew older, he became more and more ordinary, and no longer had the natural likability he had as a child.

Later, he seemed to start selling goods through live streaming.

"She is also very talented in acting. She understands the director very quickly and is very humble. She is very popular with fans."

"She seized every opportunity that followed."

"She always appears in popular TV series."

"If you only look at her current achievements, she's at least the heroine of a novel."

Kitahara Takashi: “….”

No, you also took it?

"But if you want to stay popular in the entertainment industry forever, talent and hard work alone are not enough. You also need background, resources, and a little bit of luck."

“The more glamorous something is on the outside, the dirtier it is on the inside.”

"Kitahara, do you know how many eyes are staring at Mai?"

Ogizu Yoshiko looked at him with deep eyes, revealing the dirty secrets of the entertainment industry.

"During the years that I was her manager, there were at least over a hundred people who wanted to take advantage of Mai."

"Especially after she reached the most beautiful age for a woman, the malicious intent of those people began to become more and more obvious."

"Sometimes, being too beautiful is a sin for a girl."

Kitahara Takashi remained silent.

Yes.

For women, the more beautiful they are, the more likely they are to be targeted.

"I'm not a good person. If I continue to be her agent, I'm not sure if I will do anything to send her to the bed of a director or a boss, so I resigned."

Like Kitahara Takashi, Ogitsu Yoshiko is not a good person in the complete sense. She will do anything to achieve her goals.

For example, letting Kitahara Takashi absorb the traffic of Sakurajima Mai.

But she is not a completely bad person.

She couldn't bring herself to send the child she had practically watched grow up to the bed of those fat pigs with big bellies.

"Although I left Mai, I have been secretly observing this child, wanting to see how far she goes."

"But after I left, I discovered that Mai's career had actually begun to stagnate since I didn't know when."

"In addition to my reasons for leaving, the main reason was that her mother, her company, and the platform she was on restricted her."

"Take brand endorsements, for example. Kitahara, if you didn't know Ms. Yozakura and couldn't get tickets to Milan Fashion Week, would you know Mr. Mario? Would you have had access to such fashion resources?"

Kitahara Tsutomu shook his head slightly.

A person's success cannot be attributed entirely to himself.

Platform, resources, connections, talent, opportunities and environment are all indispensable.

If he didn't know Ye Ying Tong, he would never have gone to Milan, and he would not have had the chance to meet Mario this time, and this opportunity would have fallen into someone else's hands.

this is the truth.

"Mai is capable and talented, but his mother's company is too small to realize her ambitions."

"But that stupid woman, her mother, hasn't discovered it yet."

Receiving this, Ogizuko smiled at her mother with a hint of contempt.

It was a brief moment of disdain for her mother.

"So what do you mean when you say she has reached the stage of transformation?" Kitahara Tsutomu asked again.

"Mai played a child when she was young, and now she needs to play a high school student. She is not allowed to rush to produce results at her age. What she needs is to ensure the ratings." Ogitsu Yoshiko has always adhered to the philosophy that people should do what they should do at their age.

Don’t be like Grandma Xiaoqing, who is 71 years old and still plays a young girl.

"Mai herself doesn't object, but she doesn't want to shoot kissing scenes or scenes with large scale." Ogizu Yoshiko said this with a wry smile.