Chapter 43: Two-Dimensional Girl

  It was almost noon, and the warm sunlight shone down, not only casting a holy glow on the girl's body, but also making Zhou Xiao feel warm from head to toe.

  The mirror reflected the girl sitting on the ground playing with her little toes, and what she heard was a coquettish voice, this state is simply a hundred times happier than lying in that dark bedroom worrying about when Mr. Daxian might crawl in!

  The little girl playing with her toes is absolutely no more than 20 years old, looking like she's only sixteen or seventeen. Her voice is very nasal, but in fact, Zhou Xiao, who has been over the age of liking nasal girls for many years, actually likes idols and AKB. However, among the idols fourteen years later, this type of nasal girl almost doesn't exist anymore. The idols fourteen years later are more free-spirited and self-centered, they will say they like barbecue instead of cream cake, dare to put butter or even ink on their faces. Compared to today's idols, in the environment of over a decade ago, it's already rare for such nasal girls to survive.

  However... looking at the little girl in the mirror, lowering her head and holding a phone to chat with her mother on the other end, Zhou Xiao surprisingly didn't feel any disgust. This was strange, as he had witnessed over a decade of idol development history, and such behavior wasn't something that just anyone could do in front of him. But even without seeing the girl's face, Zhou Xiao still strangely acknowledged this point - that no matter what, he wouldn't dislike this girl's spoiled behavior!

  "Look up, look up quickly!" Zhou Xiao looked at the girl in the mirror, constantly muttering to himself in his heart. If he didn't look up, he wouldn't be able to see the girl's face clearly.

  But no matter how much he urged her, the little girl who was lowering her head and acting coquettishly with her mother still didn't show any sign of lifting up her head.

  The more anxious he was in his heart, the more Zhou Xiao wanted to see the girl's appearance. His eyes were staring at the mirror, but his hands were constantly searching for a way to make the girl lift her head.

  "No choice, it has to be like this!" Zhou Xiao gritted her teeth and kicked the iron railing outside the balcony!

  "Pong!" A crisp sound.

  A girl as sensitive as a little deer lifted her head at the moment the sound started, and Zhou Xiao finally got to see what she looked like!

  With a flash of lightning, Zhou Xiao withdrew the mirror from her hand and sat back down on the ground, staring at her own feet.

  The sound just now was quite loud, and he's wearing slippers...

  "Hsss...hsss..." Zhou Xiao inhaled cold air but didn't dare make any sound.

  "Who's there?" The girl's voice rang out and was very close, apparently she was just a wall away from herself.

  Zhou Xiao certainly couldn't answer, he tried to hide himself in the corner while stretching out his hand to rub his toes that had just kicked against the railing.

  The girl asked two questions and then retreated with suspicion, while Zhou Xiao, who was inhaling cold air, finally burst out laughing after calming down.

  The girl's glance was just a brief moment, from seeing the girl's appearance to putting down the mirror, the total time was less than one second. The girl from over a decade ago must have looked completely different from Zhou Xiao's memory of her fourteen years later, but despite all these preconditions, Zhou Xiao still recognized her at a glance.

  The absolutely unbeatable two-dimensional beauty, although her singing is unpleasant to listen to and her acting skills are even worse than Yuka Izutsu's, but relying solely on her looks, she became popular from Japan to China, with photos and posters plastered all over major portals... Ogura Yuko!

  In Zhou Xiao's time and space, she was a 31-year-old mother who had already stopped taking photos, got married and had children. But fourteen years ago, she was just a 17-year-old girl who had just arrived in Tokyo and hadn't even released a photo album yet!

  That face as beautiful and pure as a 2D character, transparent without any hint of vulgarity, will be an invincible presence in the Japanese gravure idol world for years to come.

  "It's really full of celebrities here! Kawashima, you've found me a great place that can't be beat!" Zhou Xiao was squatting in the corner of the balcony, excitedly exclaiming, "That's Ogura Yuko!"

  This girl is absolutely a legend, but in fact her personality is not very suitable for being an artist. She has a bit of a dull temperament and can't say anything interesting when chatting, which makes her lack explosive points when appearing on the show. In order to make her more interesting, the operation team set up a route for her to be pretentiously cute, and also repeatedly claimed that she is from Apple Star Planet and so on. As for whether she is really such a person? Otaru University of Commerce is one of Japan's six major private universities, and Yuko Ogura was admitted to the literature department of this university, majoring in clinical psychology.

  She has a lovely and innocent image, like a little princess, which is the result of her good self-management. She is actually a very smart and down-to-earth girl, otherwise it would be difficult for her to survive in the entertainment industry for over ten years.

  After sitting on the balcony for a while, Zhou Xiao returned to the room again. Although he saw Ogura Yuko, it was impossible for him to go over and flirt with her at this time.

  From her conversation with her mother just now, Zhou Xiao heard that the girl seemed to have already signed a contract with an entertainment agency and was undergoing various trainings. In fact, every newcomer in the entertainment industry usually needs training before their debut, including speech tone, body language, adaptation to camera lights, etc. After signing with Being, Zhou Xiao thought he would take the route of being a singer and actor, so he didn't arrange many such trainings. However, for actresses like Ogura Yui who are on the path of becoming an idol, they don't have enough songs or movies/TV dramas to leave a lasting impression, so they especially need more exposure to make their image last in the audience's mind. This is also why she needs to undergo a lot of training, while Zhou Xiao has very few people paying attention to this aspect.

  This afternoon, Sakai Izumi, who had finished her own affairs, called Zhou Xiao again. The two made an appointment to go to a recording studio. In the recording studio, Sakai Izumi began to teach Zhou Xiao music lessons. Directly renting a recording studio as a classroom seemed a bit extravagant to Zhou Xiao, because not only did he not have to pay for the two-person course, but even before renting the recording studio, it was all paid by Izumi. However, Izumi's decision was quite resolute, and she had no intention of saving money for herself.

  After that day, Zhou Xiao gradually got busy, with most of his time occupied by classes with various teachers from the company. Next was the finalization of two songs for the single, among which the first song was "Little Love". As for the second song, Zhou Xiao had originally wanted to choose Ayaka Hirahara's "Jupiter", which was also a high-quality million-seller single. But putting aside the guitar arrangement, just his singing skills alone made it difficult for him to master this song that spanned several octaves from low to high notes. Zhou Xiao thought that if he were to sing this song himself, he would have to wait until his singing skills improved before attempting it.

  So in the end, C/W chose another song that was equally popular in both China and Japan.

  Although this song is not enough in sales compared to "Jupiter", its popularity may be even more, especially in China.

  As the debut song of a girl group that debuted in 2001, as the theme song of a TV series, and as the ending song of the TV anime "Today's Five-Year-Old Class" and "Unheard Flower Name", especially the latter, this song has been widely spread among Chinese animation fans.

  "Secret Base ~ Kimi ga Kureta Mono ~", the official Chinese translation is "Secret Base, All That You've Given Me". Although the original singer was a female, Being's level of skill makes Zhou Xiao absolutely confident that his rendition will also be perfect.

  And by the way, the lyrics of this song actually describe friendship between men rather than romance. In that sense, isn't it ZONE's four little girls who are not suitable?

  After hearing Zhou Xiaojie's guitar version of "secretbase", Nagato Daisuke also nodded repeatedly, he understood that the quality of this song was not inferior to "small love", and perhaps at the first song, he still had some worries about whether Zhou Xiao was just a flash in the pan, but when the second song came out, he completely relaxed.

  Zhou Xiao is indeed a genius, this point... almost goes without saying!