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Chapter 513 Thank you Brother Zhou Yi
"Buy this. Oh, and this, this, and that. Please pack them all for me, thank you."

In Ginza, inside a luxury store.

Xiao Yaxuan, who bought things without blinking an eye, made the beautiful female clerk, who had not met such a big customer for a long time, smile happily. She even looked at the man wearing a mask, sunglasses and a baseball cap more favorably.

Obviously, this should be a man who doesn't want to reveal who he is shopping with his lover?

Since she started working in this line of work, the female clerk has seen many mistresses and other people bringing their financial sponsors here to enjoy the evil pleasures of capitalism, and she has long been accustomed to it.

If Xiao Yaxuan wasn't there, she would have wanted to go up and show her courtesy.

Even in her career, there are only a handful of sponsors who are willing to spend so much. The most important thing is that judging from the condition of the skin on her exposed hands, this man is obviously very young - he is willing to spend money, he is young, and he seems to have a good figure. Isn't this better than serving those pot-bellied fathers?

"Miss, may I ask who you are——"

"Swipe the card, but not my card."

As he said that, Xiao Yaxuan turned around and cast his gaze at Zhou Yi who was admiring the clothes in the store: “It’s his.”

"I thought you were going to say swipe your own card."

"My mother will beat me to death."

Facing Zhou Yi's teasing, Xiao Yaxuan recalled her extremely strict mother and couldn't help but sigh.

Although the female clerk did not understand the Chinese conversation between the two, she quickly communicated with Zhou Yi in English and took his card.

"Your mother?"

Zhou Yi was puzzled: "You are in Japan, how can your mother control you?"

"See, this is the difference between the two of us."

Xiao Yaxuan leaned against the art column, smiled and shook her head: “My mother still controls my spending.”

Not to mention the credit card limit, my monthly pocket money is NT$10;
In order to prevent Xiao Yaxuan from learning bad habits and spending money recklessly or being cheated, Xiao's mother even hired a chief financial officer to do part-time audits. Any large-scale consumer expenditure by Xiao Yaxuan had to be approved by the chief financial officer.

In Xiao's mother's own words, the entertainment industry is too chaotic and there are too many unexpected temptations. Her daughter is so rich that it is hard to say whether she will not become addicted after being exposed to it.

Yao Qian can only take care of his career, so as a mother, she naturally has to pay more attention to his life.

"Obviously, in my mother's eyes, I am not a 24-year-old daughter..."

At this point, Xiao Yaxuan pursed her lips, the tip of her tongue pressed against her throat, and while blinking faster, she turned her head to look at the bustling street scene outside the store. After a while, she said, "But she is 14 years old."

It is said that parents are the best teachers, but most of the things Xiao Yaxuan learned from her parents were not very good.

"gentlemen……"

The returning clerk interrupted Xiao Yaxuan's memories. Zhou Yi took the card and looked at her with a smile on his face: "As for your way of spending tens of thousands of dollars just for a dog at home, I still support you, Auntie."

"?"

Xiao Yaxuan slowly typed a question mark.

No, am I telling you this to make you agree with my mother?

Am I someone who is short of that little money?

"So, my suggestion is, if you want to hide your private money and are afraid of being discovered, you can deposit it with me. I will keep it for you for free, and your aunt will definitely not know what's going on."

"..."

Xiao Yaxuan, who was carrying a lot of bags, rolled her eyes at him and said, "You have made hundreds of millions, and you are still thinking about my little things. Isn't it a bit unreasonable?"

"Who would complain about having too much money, especially if it's free--"

"Ah! Zhou Yijun? You are Zhou Yijun, right?!"

While Xiao Yaxuan was teasing him, in another part of the store, two young women who had secretly watched him for a long time plucked up the courage to take the initiative to ask, with uncontrollable excitement on their faces: “You must be Zhou Yijun, right?

"I'm very familiar with your voice. That bracelet and the Bodhisattva jade are all Zhou Yijun's symbols!"

For Zhou Yi's loyal fans, masks and hats alone are obviously not enough to obscure the brilliance of their idol, especially after they carefully compared them with the promotional photos - all the accessories match, the voice is so similar and he speaks Chinese, if you are not Zhou Yi, who is Zhou Yi?
As for the woman next to her... I don’t know her.

Never mind, it doesn’t matter, she’s probably just a model.

"Shhh."

Zhou Yi didn't expect to meet his fans just by going out for shopping, especially in such a luxury store. He immediately took off his sunglasses and mask, raised his index finger to his lips, and smiled: "Don't be too loud, it will affect the normal business of the store."

The two female fans who saw the true face of their idol covered their mouths with their hands and nodded their heads frantically like chicks pecking at rice. "Woo woo woo" sounds came out from between their fingers from time to time, showing how excited they were.

"Zhou Yi-kun, are you really going to sing a duet with Nakajima Miyuki?"

"Zhou Yi-kun, can you write Japanese songs?"

"Mr. Zhou Yi, what do you think of Utada Hikaru's upcoming new album..."

The moment Zhou Yi took off his disguise, all the young customers in the huge store rushed in, and even squeezed Xiao Yaxuan out - the latter had to take a few steps back, standing there shaking his head helplessly.

However, when she looked at Zhou Yi, who was busy signing autographs and taking photos, the corners of her mouth rose silently, her eyes full of the man's ease.

"Arigato Zhou Yijun."

"Arigato Zhou Yi-san."

"Ah..."

After Zhou Yi satisfied a whole floor of star-chasing girls, his hands and energy were exhausted. Xiao Yaxuan was happy and relaxed, sitting aside and drinking milk tea leisurely - she even had time to stroll out and buy milk tea.

Zhou Yi, whose hands were almost numb from fatigue, saw her so leisurely that his eyes almost turned green.

"Arigato, Zhou Yi-san."

Before Zhou Yi opened his mouth, Xiao Yaxuan took the initiative with a smile, kicked the bag on the ground with her toes, held the milk tea cup in both hands, and seriously imitated those Japanese girls, raised her voice and bowed.

Zhouyi: "..."

Depend on!
"Shocking news! Zhou Yi's girlfriend is revealed! She is actually Taiwan's Utada Hikaru? !"

《Enemy Literature! Zhou Yi's new girlfriend is nicknamed Taiwan Utada Hikaru in Taiwan!》

"Utada Hikaru's stand-in? Emperor Zhou Yi's charming wife?!"

"..."

Facts have proved that when it comes to finding topics, Japanese entertainment media are even better than Hong Kong media in China - they even directly pulled out Utada Hikaru, a married woman who had just returned from her honeymoon to prepare for a new album, and started playing with the so-called substitute literature.

"Looking back to the time when Utada Hikaru won the Asia's Best Sales Award at the World Music Awards, beating Zhou Yijun who only won the Greater China's Best Sales Award. Since then, the Emperor of Asian Pop Music has been thinking about her all the time..."

"It is said that after the news of Utada Hikaru's sudden marriage came out, Zhou Yijun was heartbroken, so he found Elva Hsiao, who was advertised by EMI as the Taiwanese Utada Hikaru when she debuted, as his girlfriend..." "Hsiao knew that she was a stand-in, and she ran to Taiwan in a rage, without even telling her close teachers and family, just to confront Utada Hikaru..."

"The reason why Utada Hikaru ended her honeymoon early was because she thought she couldn't lose to Zhou Yi. She wanted to make Zhou Yi always feel regretful and become the woman he could never get..."

"The emperor is infatuated with his wife, the inside story of Utada Hikaru's flash marriage is exposed, it was actually for Zhou Yi!"

"..."

In terms of reporting angles and patterns, and in terms of immorality, the bottom line of this group of Japanese entertainment media is far beyond Xiao Yaxuan's imagination——

Within just one day, her cell phone was bombarded with calls.

Utada Hikaru, who was sitting at home and the pot came out of the sky, was also confused - it’s not a buddy, what are you talking about? I got married so quickly because Zhou Yi likes married women. Is Zhou Yi the reincarnation of Cao Cao?

We weren't even close at all. We only met once at the World Music Awards that year, and we were just acquaintances. We didn't even exchange contact information.

She has met this Elva Hsiao several times. After all, they are both under EMI. When Elva Hsiao first debuted, she also won the World Music Award for the highest sales in Greater China. She was a new star of the century who was on par with the queens as soon as she debuted.

But, it was just meeting a few more times.

When did she become my substitute???

Am I so attractive?
Subconsciously, after seeing the news, Utada Hikaru looked at herself in the mirror.

It would be a bit heartless to say that she is pretty, and it is already good enough to be described as having a mediocre appearance. And because of hormone treatment, her body is a little fuller than before.

Ayumi Hamasaki's fanatical fans now call her "Main Kumamitsu" to mock her.

Because of the involvement of Zhou Yi, Utada Hikaru even specifically asked her agent what was going on - the answer she got was that the media was just making up stories to attract attention...

The only thing to blame is Viking Records' mistake in positioning Hsiao Ya-Hsien when she just debuted. They originally planned to develop step by step under the name of Taiwan's Utada Hikaru, but Hsiao Ya-Hsien became a big hit in one go. Her first solo album became a hit throughout Greater China and won the sales champion in Greater China that year.

Originally, the title of "Taiwan's Utada Hikaru" had been abandoned by Virgin Records as Hsiao Ya-Hsien became popular. However, in Japan, Hsiao Ya-Hsien was completely unknown. In order to give the public an impression as quickly as possible, the media directly dug up this title again, and also associated it with a series of substitute literature...

Don’t ask whether this love story is true or not, just ask whether this love story is wild or not.

"Only wild ones can sell well. Look at what is written in Hong Kong."

In the hotel suite, speechless Xiao Yaxuan took out a few Hong Kong newspapers and placed them in front of Zhou Yi——

"Zhou Yi was so tired that his hands cramped, and hundreds of Japanese girls expressed their satisfaction!"

"Tokyo is too hot! More than a hundred Japanese beauties are enjoying themselves, Zhou Yi's legs are shaking as he fights one against a hundred!"

"Zhou Yi likes a good wife, Utada Hikaru marries someone else for him..."

Compared to the Zhou Yi and Xiao Yaxuan scandal that has been talked about over and over again, in China, it is undoubtedly Japanese women and Japanese queens who can stimulate sales more.

The so-called "bringing glory to the country" has always been a topic that Zhou Yi fans and even passers-by, old, medium and small perverts, have always talked about with relish, not to mention that this time the prefix is ​​also "Japan".

That must be severely whipped!
"Fuck it, isn't this ruining my reputation? What does it mean to be a good wife? I have principles, okay!"

Zhou Yi looked down upon the looks of these people: "Besides, if you want to write, write something good, even if it's about the older Sakai Izumizu, or the new singer Sanzhi Yuka who is nicknamed the younger version of Sakai Izumizu."

If I really can't write him fried noodles——

Oh, no, many of his fans are underage, the kind that could be punished pretty badly.

"You picked it, didn't you?"

Xiao Yaxuan, who had come to complain, couldn't help but kick the man lightly after hearing this: "Do you know that because of you, everyone now knows that I stayed in Japan and didn't go to the United States, and my popularity in Japan has increased greatly."

Originally, she was a little-known figure in Japan. She had never come to develop the market at all. At most, only some Chinese people in Japan knew her name.

Now, thanks to the nickname "Taiwanese Utada Hikaru" on her forehead and the so-called rivalry between the Japanese version of Utada Hikaru and Zhou Yi, her popularity and search volume in Japan have skyrocketed in a short period of time.

Her English name even became a popular search term on Yahoo Japan and Google.

This is very raw.

Teacher Yao Qian was almost yelling at her on the phone to go back and record the song.

"Isn't it a good thing to have increased popularity? You're taking advantage of me, right? Many people want this kind of popularity but can't get it."

Zhou Yi glanced at her with disdain: "Why don't you say thank you, Brother Zhou Yi?"

In essence, Elva Hsiao’s current surge in popularity in Japan is the same as the popularity he rode on in Taiwan before his debut – both rely on the explosive popularity of one party to drive traffic for the other.

The only difference is that the incident in Taiwan was premeditated by Zhou Yi, while this one was purely an accident caused by Xiao Yaxuan and Zhou Yi in Japan.

As we all know, Viking has been carrying out Xiao Yaxuan's record plan to go abroad and go international in an orderly manner.

They have already found a lyricist to write the lyrics for the English version of "Sun Never Sets";
The song "U Make Me Wanna" written by the Blue group specifically for Elva Hsiao is also included in this EP.

Yes, the original singer of this song which is very popular in Europe and the United States is actually Elva Hsiao, but the English version was taken back by the Blue group, who wrote the lyrics and released it, and it became a big hit in Europe and the United States.

Now that Elva Hsiao is going to release an English EP, it is natural that she will sing the English version of this song.

The EP of three songs is now only missing one song.

"Utada Hikaru is also going to release an English album ahead of schedule, I think it will clash with hers, or be released at the same time as hers.

"Hmm... it's hard to say. The record contract she signed in the United States was not with EMI, but with Universal. The EMI executives were very unhappy with her about this, so they wanted to push me to compete with her. It just so happens that my popularity in Japan has also increased greatly because of you."

The Japanese distribution was given to EMI, while the European and American distribution was chosen by Universal. Utada Hikaru's operation of taking advantage of her high popularity in Japan to have the best of both worlds would indeed make EMI's top management angry - they are not a small company without channels, after all, they are an international giant.

As the trump card of EMI in Greater China, Elva Hsiao's record sales ability in Greater China is unquestionable. Even the veteran queen Lam Yi-lin is not enough for her to beat with one hand.

But compared to Utada Hikaru, she herself has no confidence.

This is one of the most monstrous things in the history of Japanese music.

"Zhou Yi, do you have any English songs in stock? I could lose to her before, but I don't want to lose this time." Xiao Yaxuan clenched her fingers and looked up at the man who was lost in thought.

She has never been a substitute for anyone.

"I don't have any in stock, but I think your experience can be made into a song."

Looking up at her, Zhou Yi smiled: "As for the song title, let's use the same name as a song in my first English album. If you want to ride on the popularity, then do it to the end."

"English major...same name?"

“Because Of You.”

A song about the impact of family on children.

Of course, in China, more people are probably familiar with this song because of the "Bei Ying" episode of "World Football". This song was chosen by the program team as the BGM for the most touching part of that episode, and thus became popular.

(End of this chapter)