Tokyo: Being coveted by my wife, I just want to play games

Chapter 306 Dear Mr. Dongchuan

The Red and White Songs Contest is Japan's Spring Festival Gala, and the rehearsal backstage is also crowded.

Especially as the opening time approached, various singers and artists were screaming to the music score, and the whole rehearsal hall was like a dance of demons, but not everyone was concentrating on practicing singing.

Many singers and artists were secretly looking at Fuyukawa Che who was chatting and laughing with Izumi Himawari, but more people were paying attention to Hoshitani Tsukasa who had taken out his phone and was talking excitedly in the corner.

Especially the female singers under Universal Music, all of them stared with wide eyes in nervous curiosity and anticipation.

The big boss of their company has come, so they were already paying close attention to him. What’s more important is that many of them saw Dongchuan Che giving the music score to Xinggu Si just now!
"Could it be that Mr. Dongchuan is going to write songs for people in our company?!"

"Is this true? Is Xinggu-san's power so strong?!"

“Who will be the lucky one?”

Dongchuan Che's songs are always popular, and the female singers are so excited to think that they may also get Dongchuan Che's songs. Their reactions are also seen by the others around them, and they secretly look at them with a little envy, and then secretly look at Dongchuan Che.

The various people in the rehearsal hall.

Although he felt all these gazes, Dongchuan Che didn't care about it. He just chatted with Yuezhu Asuka about some details of "Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves" while chatting with Izumi Himawari.

But what’s interesting is that compared to the nervousness and anticipation of other singers, there is more confusion on Izumi Himawari’s innocent little face at this moment.

"Really? I shouldn't have come to participate in this show."

Regardless of other people's gazes, Izumi Himawari leaned against Fuyukawa Tetsu, looking at the music score while muttering to herself. The Red and White Song Contest is indeed a high-level stage, but the problem is that it is held on December 12st every year.

After Japan was completely westernized during the Meiji Restoration, the year-recording method was changed from the Chinese lunar calendar to the Western Gregorian calendar. The New Year was set on January 1st, and today, December 1st, is Japan's New Year's Eve, which is equivalent to China's New Year's Eve.

On New Year's Eve, for Izumi Himawari, who has lacked family care since childhood, she would rather watch TV and drink with her family.

Eat, drink, play, lie in Fuyukawa Che's arms and play with cats and dogs. After three rounds of drinking, watch variety shows with Sayoko and the others, kneel on the tatami to weave ropes, eat rice cake soup and soba noodles, drink Tusu wine and taste herring roe according to custom the next morning, and paste paper-cuts of the twelve zodiac animals on windows and doors, waiting for relatives and friends to visit, or go visit others.

That was the New Year's Eve she and Izumi Himawari had imagined, not staying in the rehearsal hall practicing singing like they were now.

I feel a little unhappy, but for a twenty-year-old girl, her mood changes as quickly as the weather.

Izumi Himawari was very unhappy just now, and angrily complained to Tokawa Tetsu that "the Red and White Song Contest is really boring." But as time went on to around 7pm, with the arrival of Sayoko and Miyano Mitsuba, she was soon moved again, and even after being pinched on the face by Miyano Mitsuba, she rarely argued with her, but her eyes were red.

Only Sayoko and Miyano Mitsuko came. Chika Ohara and Fujiko Sato were the pillars of their respective families, so they had to go home to be with their parents and families. But it wasn't that they didn't contact each other at all. Fuyukawa Tetsu had just said a few words to Sayoko when Chika Ohara and Fujiko Sato called over via video.

So, backstage at the intensive rehearsal of the Red and White Songs Festival, amid the amused and emotional looks of countless singers and artists, Toru Dongchuan and three other people sat around a small round table, eating melon seeds and chatting on their phones. It was very much like a family celebrating the New Year. At this time, there was no longer any regret on Izumi Himawari's face, she just stayed next to Toru Dongchuan and acted coquettishly.

For her, the New Year is not important. What is important is that Toru Dongchuan still has Sayoko, Miyano Mitsuko, and Yuezhu Asuka by her side. And the same is true for Toru Dongchuan.

"Well, the show is about to begin. Let's wait for Xiaokui to return victoriously!"

"Alright, alright, don't get too excited and break your voice when the time comes."

"Hey, stinky uncle, I know. Hey, the director is calling people, I'm leaving."

He waved his little fist at Dongchuan Che fiercely, and Izumi Himawari ran to find the director happily.

Looking at her impetuous back, Dongchuan Che smiled and shook his head, and said to Sayoko: "This girl is already 20 years old, and she is still so noisy. She doesn't act like a grown-up girl at all, and you don't care about it."

“Come on, you’re the one who usually dotes on this girl the most, and now you have the guts to say something like that.”

Miyano Mitsuwa next to her laughed and retorted, and even Yuezhu Asuka, who had been watching "A Director's Self-cultivation", took the time to look up and rolled her eyes.

Obviously, they all knew how much Fuyukawa Tetsu doted on Izumi Himawari, but before Fuyukawa Tetsu could explain, Sayoko laughed and said, "That's right, Aoi is only 20 years old and has become what she is now~ It's all caused by Tetsu-kun."

"Don't drive around outside in that shape!"

Suddenly, Dongchuan Che drove away and lived directly in Bengbu, but he had no way to explain it. After all, what Sayoko said was true. From the age of eighteen to twenty, Xiaokui has indeed become like Xiao Dongchuan now.

There was no way to refute it. Seeing his funny and frustrated look, the three girls all burst into laughter.

It was obvious that the beautiful woman in her thirties liked this kind of dirty topic very much. Seeing that there were not many people in the rehearsal room, Miyano Mitsuba lifted her calves and teased Xiao Dongchuan with her high heels. As a result, she was naturally hugged by Dongchuan Che and kneaded and taught a lesson.

"There are too many people here, go home and see how I deal with you!"

"Hehe, seeing how Xiaokui was just now, I don't know if you still have the energy to deal with me tonight. Besides, I want to sleep with Yazi-chan in my arms tonight. I want to see the sweet-smelling Yazi-chan when I open my eyes on the first day of the new year, not some stinky guy. Okay, okay, I'm just teasing you~"

Miyano Mitsuba was teasing in a coquettish manner, but before she could say a few words, she was defeated by Dongchuan Che's tickling attack and quickly begged for mercy in a coquettish manner.

After patting her on the side of her hip unhappily, Dong Chuan Che smiled and said, "Alright, alright, I'll play with you again when we get home. Let's talk business first. Have you guys dealt with the sale of the Elden Ring?"

Miyano Mitsuko nodded, "Don't worry, everything has been handled. Besides, with the current popularity, I think it will still sell well even if we don't promote it."

"That's good."

Dong Chuan Che drank some mineral water and his eyes relaxed a lot.

The release date of Elden Ring is January 1th.

This year, Japan's New Year holiday is from December 12 to January 28, a total of seven days. The release date of "Elden Ring" missed the New Year holiday, but it is still included in the calculation, because January 1 is Japan's Coming of Age Day, and then it will be a three-day holiday.

In addition to the working class, the winter vacation for students this year also lasts until January 1th.

The game is scheduled to be released on January 1th, just in time for the holiday peak season. But thinking of this, Dongchuan Che said, "Have you explained everything about employee benefits to Kawaguchi and the others?"

"Elden Ring" will be released in less than a week, so although most of the employees of the Holy Light Society are on holiday for the New Year, some employees in the entire marketing department and other departments still have to work overtime.

No employee would want the company to work overtime during the New Year. Dongchuan Che didn't want to either, but there was nothing he could do because the Tokyo Game Fair Winter Exhibition would be held before the New Year.

Naturally, he didn't want to miss such a good promotion opportunity. In order to seize this wave of popularity, all he could do was to give his employees more benefits as compensation.

The compensation is also very simple and crude - giving money.

The wages during the Chinese New Year period are five times the usual wages. At the same time, for every three million sales of "Elden Ring", the wages during overtime will increase by another 100%.

That is to say, if the sales volume of "Elden Ring" is 0, then the overtime employees will get five times the salary, but if the sales volume of "Elden Ring" exceeds million, then the salary will be eight times the salary, if it exceeds million, then the salary will be ten times the salary, and if the sales volume exceeds million, then the salary will be twelve times the salary!
If other bosses said this, employees would just think it was just empty talk. After all, some companies would not even pay their employees if they could not make a game with 20 million sales, but Dongchuan Che was different!

Since its establishment, Holy Light Society has never owed employees a penny, and all promises have been fulfilled in the end. And more importantly, all employees who participated in the production of "Elden Ring" are very confident in this game!
Thirty million sales is not impossible! And thirty million sales can bring fifteen times the salary to employees who work overtime!
Working one day during the Chinese New Year is equivalent to working half a month during normal times!
Work overtime for seven days during the Chinese New Year and earn 105 days’ salary!

This is more exciting than gambling!

Needless to say, when Dongchuan Che just released this statement a few days ago, it almost blew up the entire company building.

Which company has given such treatment? !

All the employees of Shengguang Club were excited, and people who applied for overtime were like carp crossing the river! And that was the first time that a senior executive in the company came to him, Dongchuan Che, to plead for mercy, saying, "President, don't worry! The people in our team are very conscious! You can completely trust us to do the overtime work during the New Year!"

It is obvious that in today's society where money is scarce for everything, there are actually very few people who dislike overtime work. What working people really dislike is unpaid overtime.

The company's employees were all vying to work overtime, which made Dongchuan Che laugh and cry. In addition to wages, since it was Chinese New Year, he also asked Kawaguchi and Aunt Nogi to prepare some New Year gifts for the employees, as well as some activities where they could win small prizes such as [mobile phones] and [computers].

"Don't worry, don't worry. Kawaguchi and Amei were already setting up the stage for the event before I came out. Kawaguchi is always cautious and responsible, so nothing will go wrong." Knowing what Dongchuan Che was thinking, Miyano Mitsuba smiled and replied, then said, "Speaking of which, this is the first time I've seen a boss like you who is so willing to give benefits to employees."

There was some emotion in Miyano Mitsumi's eyes. She had worked for both SATE and NTsoft. NTsoft was a first-tier company, and SATE was an international giant. But no matter where she worked, she had never met such a generous boss.

Thinking of this, Miyano Miting's eyes gradually showed more admiration when she looked at Dongchuan Che.

Character is like appearance, both are small cards when played alone, but they become different when combined with other cards. She doesn't want Dongchuan Che to be a simple good guy, but there are also few women who don't want their men to have good character when they are very capable.

Feeling her gaze, Dongchuan Che took a sip of water and said with a smile: "Don't make me sound like a saint. I just want to further drain their labor force."

"Tsk, you are a hypocritical fellow. You even [drain their labor force]. From my perspective, you have a sharp tongue but a soft heart. You can't bear to see others suffer, but you are afraid of being taken advantage of. That's why you always act cold and icy outside! What are you doing, you bastard~"

"You keep talking nonsense. I think you just need a kiss."

Miyano Mitsuha pouted cutely, but as soon as she pouted her lips, Dongchuan Che leaned over and kissed her.

Although she is very wild at home, often wearing a long skirt with no gaps, and at most wearing suspender stockings, she always pays attention to her aura outside. At this time, there are still many people in the rehearsal hall. Suddenly, she was kissed by Dongchuan Che, and she shyly punched Dongchuan Che's shoulder with her little fist.

The two of them were playing around, and the atmosphere was quite joyful. Soon, as the host at the front desk read out the name of a certain singer, several people also went to the second floor of the venue to watch the performance.

The person singing on the stage at this time was not Izumi Himawari, but a male singer that Toru Fuyukawa did not know.

The Red and White Songs Contest is said to be somewhat similar to China's Spring Festival Gala, but the similarity is mainly in terms of influence and status in the industry.

In fact, the Red and White Songs Contest is completely different from the Spring Festival Gala. To put it simply, the Red and White Songs Contest is a contest between the "female singers and female artists team (red team)" and the "male singers and male artists team (white team)", with both sides taking turns to sing on stage, and then the invited guests will give scores.

In the early years, the Red and White Songs Contest had a strong competitive atmosphere, and everyone from the performers to the judges were relatively serious. However, in recent years, this competitive atmosphere has gradually weakened, and the overall style has begun to develop in the direction of family fun.

However, although the competitive atmosphere has gradually weakened, some old customs of the Red and White Songs Festival are still retained.

For example, the later the singers are ranked, the more famous they are. When the last two singers come out, the singers who have sung before will line up on both sides of the flower path to show their support. And Izumi Himawari is the last one to appear!
This is what Japanese fans call the "Big Finale"!

Normally, due to the national nature of the Red and White Songs Contest, there are rarely young singers as the closing act, let alone the "Otori". However, in the early days, because the closing singers of the Red and White Songs Contest were all enka singers, the path walked by the closing singers was also called the "Enka no Hanamichi".

[Enka] can be roughly described as Japanese folk music, which originated in the 1874s, that is, the Japanese freedom and civil rights movement after .

The goals of the movement were to establish a constitutional monarchy, set up a parliament, ensure freedom of speech and assembly, reduce land taxes, and amend unequal treaties, etc.

That era was during the Meiji Restoration, a historical process in which Japanese social forces resisted the emperor's autocratic system. However, due to the Meiji government's suppression, all propaganda printed materials were confiscated, speech venues were destroyed, and daily activities could not be carried out in a normal way.

So people who advocated freedom and civil rights took to the streets and promoted the content of their speeches to the audience in the form of singing in order to achieve the best publicity effect.

Although the freedom and civil rights movement ultimately failed and all uprisings were suppressed, it was not until seventy or eighty years later [when two big fat babies were born] that the five-star emperor named Mike on the east coast of the Pacific ascended the throne in the island country on the west coast of the Pacific, and the demands of the Japanese freedom and civil rights movement were realized.

Of course, the essence of Japan's Freedom and Civil Rights Movement was also due to the division and seizure of power by Japan's power elites and capital elites. It was not a movement initiated spontaneously by the common people. However, after the Freedom and Civil Rights Movement, the musical form of enka did become Japan's unique national genre, and as time passed, the subject matter also shifted from simple "keyboard politics" to people's lives, and began to sing about life, ideals, and love, eventually forming the "Showa style" that Asian fans should be familiar with.

The Meiji Restoration was one of the important turning points in Japan's national destiny. Therefore, enka has a very special status in the Japanese music scene, and the status of enka singers is higher than that of pop music singers.

Although fewer people listen to enka nowadays, the directors will usually try to choose enka singers or singers with an enka style for the two finalists of the Red and White Songs Contest. After learning that Izumi Himawari was selected for the Red and White Songs Contest, Fuyukawa Tetsu wrote a song for Izumi Himawari called "Toki no Ryure ni Mikoto".

The Chinese version of this song is "I Only Care About You" by Teresa Teng.

The song "Toki no Nagase ni Mi wo Makase" is a Japanese single released by Teresa Teng in her previous life in 1986. It topped the Japanese cable chart for half a year after its release, and was selected as one of the "Songs that Moved All of Japan in the 1th Century" in 1998, ranking 20th, becoming the only song sung by a non-Japanese singer among the selected works. In the 16 "Daiichi Song History - 2009 Famous Songs of the Showa Period", this song ranked fifth.

This incident even caused protests from the Japanese people!
"Toki no Ryure ni Mi wo Makase" won the "Japan Cable Awards" and "All Japan Cable Broadcasting Awards" for three consecutive times, setting a record in the history of Japanese music. However, because Teresa Teng was not Japanese, the organizers of the Japan Record Awards did not give her an award for two consecutive years. Finally, under the dual pressure of Japanese media and public opinion, Teresa Teng was awarded the "Gold Award"!
A Chinese woman who can make Japanese fans fight for the highest award in the Japanese music industry, that is Teresa Teng!
She has won numerous awards throughout her life and is a super diva who has truly traveled abroad!
There was no suspense. Although the Red and White Songs Festival requires singers to sing songs released this year, and although Izumi Himawari is not strictly speaking an enka singer, when the directors of the Red and White Songs Festival heard the songs, they were directly astounded. Izumi Himawari, who was originally the eighth to last to perform, was also arranged to be the [Grand Finale]!
At the age of 20, she was already on the Red and White Song Contest, and she was the finale. Fuyukawa Tetsu was very confident in Izumi Himawari, but other spectators who didn't know the truth didn't know that.

After chatting with Sayoko and the others for a while, Dongchuan Che just walked into the toilet cubicle when he heard chatting in the women's bathroom opposite.

"She won the first prize at the Red and White Song Contest before she even graduated from college. It seems that Dongchuan Che has invested a lot of money to support her this time."

"No way, they are rich. But let me say, the greater the fans' expectations, the higher their demands. Moreover, fans of Showa-style old songs are very picky, and they will criticize if there is something a little off. Maybe that Toukawa Tetsu will shoot himself in the foot this time."

"Hehe, maybe there will be something interesting to watch later. Hey, did you hear that? Siguoyi, the sound of water next door is really loud! The water flows down the mountain, circling for a long time, it must be a huge bull!"

".Let's go!"

"Ah?"

"Idiot! We can hear them over there, and they can hear us too! Let's go!"

"Hey! Wait for me!"

"."

Hearing the hurried sound of high heels gradually fade away, Dong Chuan Che shivered twice and was stunned. But he didn't have any intention of chasing after her to fight.

People are like this, mediocrity gets stepped on, excellence gets envied. If you care too much about what others think, then no matter how you live your life, it will be wrong.

but
"It's a really big bull. They are really good at eavesdropping through walls."

After shivering a few times with a bit of amusement, Dongchuan Che put the big machine gun back into his trouser pocket, washed his hands in front of the sink, and then returned to the railing, chatting with Sayoko and the others while watching the performance from above.

I have to say that the Red and White Songs Contest is essentially not much different from a music festival. Popular singers sing for about ten minutes, and less popular singers sing for two or three minutes. It feels quite interesting to see one singer sings and the other one takes over.

In this leisurely time, time passed by little by little. As the show was coming to an end, more and more people were discussing Izumi Himawari, but.
Not many people say bad things about Izumi Himawari.

On the one hand, no one dared to say anything nonsense in front of Dongchuan Che, and on the other hand, although there were many bad people in this world, there were not so many jealous women like those two toilet girls.

On the contrary, many people around were discussing it with anticipation.

"Have you heard? The director team was originally going to put Izumi Himawari fifth to last, but after seeing the new song written by Mr. Fuyukawa, they temporarily moved her to the finale. I really don't know what kind of song Mr. Fuyukawa will write next."

"That's right, I'm super curious. But come to think of it, every song that Mr. Fuyukawa has written since his debut has been a classic, and this time will definitely be no exception."

"That's true, but this time Izumi-san squeezed out Ms. Lisa's finale position. Although Ms. Lisa is in a semi-retired state and is also a singer under SATE, given the current cooperative relationship between SATE and Shengguang Society, she probably won't say anything, but she has accumulated a lot of fans over the years. As long as Izumi-san's singing has some flaws, she might be bombarded by Ms. Lisa's fans."

"It's okay. As long as you don't want to go the black-and-red route, Mr. Dongchuan can suppress this kind of public opinion with a wave of his hand."

"That's true, but Izumi-san is only 20 years old. She must be under a lot of psychological pressure. I hope she won't turn it over later."

"Stop talking! Come on stage! The finale song of the night!"

A few women nearby were gossiping, and they were only halfway through their sentences when the host's excited shouts resounded throughout the hall. Under the gaze of Fuyukawa Che, Izumi Himawari, wearing a dark blue kimono with a wave pattern, walked to the center of the stage amid the cheers of the audience and the welcome of two rows of singers.

Izumi Himawari is originally a pure and sweet type. Now wearing this kimono with a black bow tied on the back, she really gives people a pure and clean feeling, especially her little face with exquisite makeup. Her clear and bright big eyes are as beautiful as a lake on a mountain.

"This girl looks a bit like a grown-up girl in a kimono."

Needless to say, today's particularly beautiful Izumi Himawari caused a sensation as soon as she appeared on stage. Listening to the "ghosts crying and wolves howling" in the hall, Dongchuan Che's mouth curled up a little smile, with an expression of "my daughter has grown up" written all over his face. And soon, under his gaze, Izumi Himawari, who had greeted the host and the audience, looked up in this direction.

When she saw Toru Fuyukawa leaning on the railing, her clear and bright eyes arched slightly, then she picked up the microphone and said with a playful smile: "Thank you very much NHK for giving me this opportunity. The next song "Toki no Ryure ni Mitsu wo Makase" is dedicated to everyone and also to my dearest Mr. Fuyukawa."

(End of this chapter)