Chapter forty-three
In an apartment in Ebisu, Tokyo, after a brief and urgent doorbell rang, Watanabe Riki opened the door and greeted the people outside the door, "Mr. Oda, please come in."
"I'm disturbing." Oda Yuzo changed into disposable slippers in the entrance hall and walked into the room. This comfortable and spacious one-bedroom apartment is Watanabe's residence in Tokyo. His hometown has a whole building in Kyoto. He is an absolute tycoon.
"How is Ye Jun's condition?" Oda Yuzumi asked.
Watanabe Rik pointed to the balcony, "It seems that he is a little too leisurely." Oda Yuzo walked over, Ye Zhao sat on the ground, holding Watanabe Rik's bass, and playing it vigorously according to a book "Bass Performance Tutorial".
"Why do you feel like you are not affected at all?" Oda Yuzo said jokingly.
"On the contrary, I was in a very bad mood." Ye Zhao put down Beth and stood up, "Mr. Oda, how did the information be collected?"
"It's all right. That Ogawa Mika moved from Shinjuku's lounge to Akasaka in June this year, but she didn't do well there. Also, she changed her name to a new nickname, no longer called "Ruzuki", but now she is called "Miyo".
Oda Yuzo was a staff member sent by BEING to assist Ye Zhao. After being surrounded by reporters that night, Ye Zhao contacted Watanabe Ryu, who drove to the apartment. Aragaki Akihiko took the staff's disguised "Ye Zhao" and left in the nanny car. While the reporter's attention was attracted, the real Ye Zhao brought back his apartment in Ebisu from Watanabe Ryu.
Afterwards, Ye Zhao contacted Nagato Daiyuki overnight. After explaining the truth of the matter, he proposed his solution: Ogawa Mika was afraid that the news would not be big enough, so she took out the fake photo. Although the man in the photo was very similar to Ye Zhao, she was not the original person after all, so as long as it could be proved that it was a fake photo, things would turn around.
Nagato Daiyuki is not very enthusiastic about investigating the truth. In his opinion, singers have nothing but two ways to stay behind the scenes and become full-time lyricists, or rely on the accumulation of high-quality music to make the audience forget these scandals. Unless they can get evidence to turn the world around, if it is just irrelevant testimony, it will only keep increasing the popularity of the scandal.
"There will be necessary public relations here. You might as well go to the backstage for a while and wait until the popularity of the magazine drops, and then we will arrange for you to come back slowly." Nagato Daiyu is not a person who loves to cause trouble.
"At least let me try it? I always feel that this matter is not that troublesome." Ye Zhao tried hard to win.
Nagato Daiyuki pressed his swollen temple on the other end of the phone and felt that he had signed a hot potato, "Okay, at most one week. If you can't find a breakthrough, you have to follow my arrangements."
"No problem." Ye Zhao agreed. The next morning, Oda Yuzo came to the door. When he was a teenager, he had joined the rioters in Tokyo and knew everything about the darkness. With his help, collecting information about a drink girl was just a matter of convenience.
"As for the interpersonal relationships around her, her current boyfriend is Kago Eizusaki. She met a man when she was drinking in Shinjuku. She seemed to have a lot of money. When Mika Ogawa left Shinjuku, she threatened to 'live a good life with him', but now she doesn't know why she came out to drink again."
Ye Zhao sneered, "It's probably because of the rich wife's dream." Compared to Mika Ogawa suddenly attacked, what he cared more about was whether this matter was accidentally exploited by BRUNING, or Mika Ogawa was exposed under the instruction of BRUNING.
No matter what, if you want to make a breakthrough, you must first find the real person.
In the lounge where Mika Ogawa works, there is a deserted alley on the back of the building. Occasionally, there are drunk guests or idle vagabonds who leave some unspeakable chalk paintings on the alley wall. When Ye Zhao found her, Mika Ogawa was sitting on the steps at the door, staring at the graffiti on the wall with a confused face. When she saw Ye Zhao, she squinted her eyes and asked hesitantly: "...A Zhao?"
Ye Zhao put his hands in his jacket pocket, "I heard you have lived a good life with a man working in the bank?"
"How can you compare to you? You will become a big shot if you are not careful." Mika Ogawa smiled, stood up from the steps, put her hands behind her back, and raised her face to look at Ye Zhao.
"I'm thankful for your blessing. I just had a sign of rising, but I was not far from falling." Ye Zhao looked at her, "But you, the annual salary of bank elites will not be less than 8 million yen. Are he willing to let you come out and continue doing this job?"
Mika Ogawa did not answer this, "You came to me for the sake of the magazine's report? Want to find me to clarify?"
"No." Ye Zhao replied very simply, "The report has been posted. It is useless for you to come out to clarify it now. Maybe you have to be regarded as being coerced by me. I don't want to add any crime to this pile of bad accounts."
"What? After hearing what I said, you seem to be disappointed?" Ye Zhao carefully paid attention to Mika Ogawa's expression.
"...No." Mika Ogawa looked at the ground, "It's just a pity. I originally thought that if you were willing to speak well, I might change my mind."
"Change your mind?" Ye Zhao showed an interesting expression, "Now that's how you are, are you still keeping your hands?"
Mika Ogawa smiled, "Fifty million. Give me 50 million and I will play this last card."
"Fifty million? I'm given to you, and then what? What's the face of this card?" Speaking of this, Ye Zhaoqing cut Ogawa Mika's arm with her hand, groped her right hand around her waist, and a small tape recorder "smacked" to the ground.
"I'll give you 50 million. When you get the money, I'll hand over the recording and transfer records to the magazine? Ogawa Mika, do you think of someone as a fool?" Ye Zhao picked up the tape recorder that fell on the ground and played with it in his hand, but he sighed in his heart that his predecessor actually died for such a woman.
After being seen through the methods, Mika Ogawa seemed to have thrown away her last hope and murmured: "...it's over."
"What?"
Mika Ogawa's eyes were full of resentment, "Kago accidentally saw a photo of me and you, and planned to give this to the tabloid to exchange for extra money. But the magazine said that only that one was not exciting enough, so he suggested taking some photos like that."
"Why are you cheating if a dignified bank elite does this?"
"Kaigu is not a bank elite at all. After I followed him, I realized that he was just a gangster in lending business. That bastard, that bastard borrowed a lot of money to bet on horse racing in my name, but he lost all of them. If he couldn't get the 50 million, I would be finished!" That's why she woke up from her dream of returning to good deeds and rejoined in this industry.
"So you want to come and blackmail me?"
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"How much do you owe?"
"Eight million." Mika Ogawa said lifelessly.
"I owe eight million, but I ended up extorting me 50 million. Your appetite is really good." Ye Zhao mocked.
"No, it's 1,170,000. There is still 3.700,000 interest." Mika Ogawa smiled strangely, sat on the ground, took out a lady's cigarette and lit it, "Kagu tells me that you will definitely come to me after the news comes out. When the time comes, you will record what you say. No matter whether you give it or not, you can make another profit by selling the recording."
"What would you do if I gave the money?"
"Take that money with you and fly away, and get rid of the villain Kagu." Mika Ogawa said without blinking, "But now, there is no money and no recording, so she has to let you go."
"Can I ask what the card you left?" Ye Zhao said suddenly.
Mika Ogawa glanced at him and said nothing.
"I'm wondering if that card is worth 50 million."
"What do you mean?" Mika Ogawa had a little bit of aura.
Ye Zhao nodded, "Yes, if it's worth it, I'll give you the money."
"Then I told you, what should I do if you regret it?"
"You are not qualified to bargain with me now." Ye Zhao smiled and took out a small recorder from his pocket. "Just based on those words just now, I will sue you for slander."
Mika Ogawa suddenly laughed, "Azhao, you are much more difficult than before. If you were the ones in the past, in order to calm down, you would have agreed immediately when I first proposed it."
"And then fall into your trap?"
Mika Ogawa ignored Ye Zhao's sarcasm and whispered: "The man in the fake photo is called Riki Fujimoto, who is a young master of the tyrant clan who had been with Kagura before. If you still see your feelings in the past, don't lie to me..."
...
Hiding in the cigarette shop in the narrow alley, almost no one would come here to visit if it weren't for regular customers around. When Fujimoto Riori came back, his grandmother sat in front of the narrow counter of the cigarette shop like every day in the past, curled up. Whenever he saw this scene, Fujimoto Riori felt a tingling pain in his heart.
But that's all. Fujimoto Riori, whose father ran away from home, did not understand the hardships of life, but instead succumbed to the temptation of the flower world. He joined the gang of the Rape Clan in high school and became the kind of gangster he feared most when he was young. In order not to worry his elderly grandmother, Fujimoto Riori maintained his true nature, leaving no exaggerated plane heads, nor did he shave his eyebrows to the point of only the blue eyebrows. At first glance, he looked no different from an ordinary young man.
"Grandma, I'm back." As soon as Fujimoto opened the counter door, he was stopped by a man with flat head, many acne marks on his face and sharp eyes, "Fujimoto Lyukun? I want to talk to you about it." The man pointed to the direction of the alley. Fujimoto Lyukun followed his fingers and saw a gray car parked at the entrance of the alley. The person in the back seat rolled down the window and made a "come" gesture to him. Seeing his face clearly, Fujimoto Lyuk felt his scalp a little numb.
The man showed a urging look on his face. Grandma opened her turbid eyes, "Xiao Liao?"
"I am a colleague in the shop where I work. I asked me to go out for something." Fujimoto Riori lied as soon as possible, followed the man to the alley and got into the car together. After the door closed, the driver's seat started the car.
Seeing Fujimoto Hiroshi himself, Ye Zhao subconsciously looked at him. Although his face did not look very similar, his side face was 70% or 80%. If he dressed up a little and deliberately didn't pat his face, he could really scare people.
"I'll go straight to the point, Ogawa Mika tells me that you are the person in the photo."
Fujimoto's heart skipped a beat and pretended to be stupid: "What photo?"
"Stop fooling around. Although your side face...well, it looks a bit like me, but you all missed one thing." Ye Zhao paused and curled up the appetite of Dianteng Village. "If you look closely at those two photos, you can see that there is a shallow scar on the right neck. Fujimoto, do you see if there is a bottom of my neck?"
Fujimoto subconsciously covered his neck and then carefully tested Ye Zhao's words. Sure enough, his neck was clean. The hero did not suffer any loss in front of him. Fujimoto lowered his head quickly, "I'm really sorry, Ye Zhaosang, I don't know that this incident will cause such a big trouble."
Bad. Smoking, boat photos, and taking out any of them is not a life-threatening scandal. How could he not know? Ye Zhao sneered, "Is it useful to be sorry? Now my life has been ruined by you. Fujimoto, you probably don't understand one truth, that is, people who are forced into a dead end can do anything."
"You, what are you going to do?" Fujimoto said tremblingly.
"So you know you're scared?" Ye Zhao narrowed his eyes, "I didn't think about it, I just invited you to a lawsuit. I think I don't know if you look at the sales chart, thank you for your blessing. My new single fell from the third place all the way out of the charts. In addition, the image was damaged, the advertiser asked me to pay about 200 million yuan in liquidated damages? It's reasonable to ask you to compensate for this part of the loss."
"Two, two hundred million?!" Fujimoto Riori took a deep breath and shrank his body.
"I heard that you only have a grandmother in your family, and it is not easy for the grandparents and grandchildren to depend on each other for life. You don't want her to worry about you, right?"
Speaking of grandma, Fujimoto Riori was depressed and released his trump card, "Ye Zhaosang, if I can help you clear this matter, can you show mercy?"
"Help me clear it? Now that the photos in the magazine have found a mistake, we are all going to sue the weekly magazine. Do you still need to do this for extravagance?"
Fujimoto gritted his teeth, "Even if that's the case, it's hard to have no decisive evidence, right?"
"Can you have it?"
"I have it!" Fujimoto's expression twisted for a moment, and then he exhaled a breath of turbid air as if he was relieved.
...
Oda Yuzo followed Fujimoto to return to the cigarette shop. When grandma saw the two of them coming back, she asked, "What's wrong?"
"Oh, I borrowed his book before and just asked him to take it back." Fujimoto said, and took Oda Yuma into the room inside. He went up to the second floor, entered his room, opened the drawer, and took out a roll of film from it. "The negative is here."
Oda Yuzo was skeptical, and Fujimoto Riori turned on the fluorescent light to facilitate him to confirm. Until he confirmed the content of the negative, Oda Yuzo took the negative and looked at Fujimoto Riori, "Why did you want to transfer the negative?"
Fujimoto lowered his head, "I originally planned to send the negatives to Ye Zhaosang in a while, so that I could make some money."
"If you need it next, you have to cooperate with someone to provide a certificate." After that, Oda Yuzo walked out of Fujimoto's home alone.
...
"Fujimoto's father ran away from home was a photography enthusiast and left him a lot of guys. After Kasuo Ei finished planning the photos, he gave them to him to take them back and rinse them. When he gave the fake negatives and photos to Kasuo, he happened to be in the club, and the light was not very good. Kasuo drank some wine. In addition, Fujimoto's loyalty has always been, so he burned it with a lighter without much confirmation." In the car, Oda Yuzo conveyed Fujimoto's confession to Ye Zhao.
Ye Zhao laughed sarcastically, "He took the fake photos and made me suffer a little, so let him taste the feeling of falling on the fake negatives."
"After that being said, Ye Jun can actually see the scars on the fake photos?"
"When I looked at him just now, I saw a scar on his neck and said casually that he was cheating him."
Oda Yuzo gave a thumbs up, "By the way, what should I do if Mika Ogawa's recording?"
The smile on Ye Zhao's face faded, "Save the original, and copy it to Kagurong for another copy."
"This..." Oda Yuzo was a little hesitant.
"Mr. Oda, I know this is a bit despicable. But I can't be stupid enough to be kind to someone who wants to harm me again and again." Ye Zhao's voice was silent.
"I understand." Oda Yuzo nodded.
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Two days later.
At four o'clock in the morning, Mika Ogawa, who had finished her night working, dragged her tired body up the apartment stairs. She inserted the key into the door lock, but the door handle turned away from it.
Chapter completed!