Hu Yueli smiled and said, "Then we have to perform well, otherwise we will disappoint Yinghua."
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was the day of the singing party. The campus was bustling with activity, and the students were making final preparations for the party. The stage was decorated very gorgeously, with all the lighting and sound equipment, and the whole venue was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
Long Tao and Hu Yueli were nervously making final preparations backstage. Hu Yueli said nervously, "Long Tao, do you think we will make a fool of ourselves?"
Long Tao smiled and patted his shoulder: "Don't worry, we have practiced enough, there will be no problem."
At this moment, someone suddenly shouted, "Long Tao, come on!"
Long Tao turned around and saw that it was Ishihara Sakura, Aragaki Yiyi and Ishihara Mina. The three of them were standing in the front row of the audience and waved to him.
Long Tao felt warm in his heart and nodded to them with a smile: "Thank you for your support!"
The singing party officially began, and the host introduced each program enthusiastically. The audience was also very excited, applauding and cheering continuously.
Soon, it was Long Tao and Hu Yueli's turn to perform. They took a deep breath, walked onto the stage, and faced the audience, feeling nervous and excited.
As the music started, Long Tao and Hu Yueli began to sing the songs they had carefully prepared. The two of them matched their voices very well, the melody was beautiful, the lyrics were touching, and the whole performance was full of affection and power.
The audience was moved by their singing and applauded. Ishihara Sakura, Aragaki Yiyi and Ishihara Mina also cheered for them with happy smiles on their faces.
After the performance, Long Tao and Hu Yueli walked off the stage and were warmly welcomed by their classmates, who praised their performance and their moving singing.
Ishihara Sakura ran over and said excitedly: "Brother Long Tao, you sang so well! I was so moved that I almost cried."
Aragaki Yiyi also smiled and said: "Yes, your performance is really great!"
Ishihara Mina looked at Long Tao tenderly, her eyes full of praise: "Long Tao, you are really talented."
Long Tao smiled slightly, his heart full of gratitude: "Thank you for your support. Without your encouragement, we wouldn't have such a good performance."
After the party, everyone celebrated together, and the whole night was filled with laughter. Surrounded by their classmates, Long Tao and Hu Yueli felt extremely warm and happy.
After the party, Long Tao drove his Ferrari to Ishihara Sakura's school. He planned to invite Ishihara Sakura to dinner. He was so caring and considerate to Aragaki Yiyi, but he was too cold to Ishihara Sakura. Long Tao met Ishihara Sakura on campus. She looked a little hesitant, walked up to Long Tao, and whispered: "Brother Long Tao, I have something to tell you."
Long Tao was slightly stunned and nodded: "What's the matter?"
Ishihara Sakura took a deep breath and mustered up the courage to say, "I've been thinking about our relationship recently. You are more than just a good friend to me, you are more like my family."
Of course Long Tao knew what Ishihara Sakura meant, but he didn't dare to give a direct response.
Long Tao smiled slightly and said gently: "Yinghua, you are also a very important person to me."
Ishihara Sakura lowered her head and said softly: "I know you and Aragaki Yiyi have a good relationship, and I don't want to affect your relationship. But I hope our friendship will not change because of this."
Long Tao was slightly stunned, then smiled and said: "Yinghua, don't worry, our friendship will not change. You will always be my good friend and my family."
Ishihara Sakura raised her head, a touch of emotion flashed in her eyes: "Thank you, Brother Long Tao."
Long Tao smiled and patted her shoulder gently: "It's okay, Sakura. We will always be good friends."
Ishihara Sakura nodded with a relaxed smile on her face: "Well, I believe we will always be good friends."
As Long Tao's comics are about to be released, Long Tao continues to be busy with his studies and comic creation. His relationship with Hu Yueli, Ishihara Sakura, Aragaki Yiyi and Ishihara Mina is getting closer and closer.
Long Tao got up from the bed and was about to go to class when he received a call from Master Akira Toriyama. On the other end of the phone, Master Akira Toriyama's voice was full of enthusiasm: "Long Tao, I have a new idea recently and I want to work with you. Are you interested?"
Long Tao was excited and quickly agreed: "Of course I'm interested! It's my honor to work with you."
Master Akira Toriyama smiled and said, "Okay, let's find a time to meet and talk about it in detail."
After hanging up the phone, Long Tao was full of anticipation. He knew that this cooperation would be an important turning point in his comic career and also a brand new challenge.
In the afternoon, after class, Long Tao met with Master Akira Toriyama and discussed the details of the cooperation in detail. The two hit it off and decided to jointly create a new comic work.
After returning home, Long Tao told the good news to Ishihara Mina and Ishihara Sakura. They were very happy and proud of Long Tao.
Ishihara Mina said gently: "Long Tao, you will definitely succeed, we will all support you."
Ishihara Sakura also said excitedly: "Brother Long Tao, I believe you will become a great cartoonist!"
Long Tao smiled slightly, his heart full of gratitude: "Thank you for your support, I will definitely work hard."
In the following days, Long Tao devoted himself to the creation. He and Master Akira Toriyama had a very pleasant cooperation and the creation progressed smoothly. However, Long Tao could clearly feel the worries that Ishihara Sakura mentioned before. He decided to find an opportunity to have a good talk with her and resolve her doubts.
Long Tao invited Ishihara Sakura to go for a walk together. In the park, Long Tao whispered, "Sakura, I know you've been feeling a little uneasy lately. Can we talk about it?"
Ishihara Sakura was slightly stunned, then nodded: "Okay, Brother Long Tao."
The two found a quiet bench and sat down. Long Tao said gently, "Yinghua, I know you are worried that our friendship will change because of other things. But I want to tell you that no matter what happens, our friendship will not change."
Ishihara Sakura lowered her head and said softly: "Brother Long Tao, I'm just afraid of losing you as a friend."
Long Tao smiled and gently held her hand: "Yinghua, you will never lose me as a friend. The friendship between us is very precious, and I will always cherish it."
Ishihara Sakura raised her head, a touch of emotion flashed in her eyes: "Thank you, Brother Long Tao."
However, in her heart, she did not understand that she was a friend. She understood that she would never lose him.
Chapter 271 The benefits of connections
Long Tao didn't expect that after spending some time together, Ishihara Sakura actually fell in love with him, which made Long Tao a little unbelievable.
But this is not a bad thing for Long Tao.
The only thing Long Tao needed to consider was how to accept Ishihara Sakura while maintaining a certain distance.
For Long Tao, ever since Ishihara Sakura first began to frame him, she would never be his soul mate in this life. In this case, Long Tao would at most arrange a position for Ishihara Sakura that was slightly higher than that of an ordinary person, but definitely not a particularly high position.
This is Long Tao’s psychological expectation of Ishihara Sakura.
Long Tao's deep feelings towards Ishihara Sakura are complicated. He cannot completely trust her, but Ishihara Sakura herself is good-looking and has a good figure. As a normal man, Long Tao will definitely not reject Ishihara Sakura. This contradictory emotion makes him hesitate and look forward to it when facing Ishihara Sakura.
Long Tao is prepared to take things one step at a time.
Whether it was Ishihara Sakura or any other girl, for Long Tao, whenever they encountered inconsistent time, Long Tao would handle it differently.
In fact, Long Tao values character more than appearance.
Long Tao is naturally more gentle to girls with good character than others. If a girl has a bad character, no matter how beautiful she is, it is difficult for her to enter Long Tao's heart.
Before Long Tao got the system, he couldn't easily tell whether a person was good or bad, nor could he tell what a person's inner thoughts were, and was easily deceived by others' appearance.
Is this also the fundamental reason why Long Tao was deceived by Ishihara Sakura right after he arrived at this family?
There was no way. Ishihara Sakura was quite pretty, and Long Tao had never been in a relationship before, so he had no resistance to girls like this.
So before Ishihara Sakura could even do anything, Long Tao completely fell.
Under such circumstances.
It is very difficult to be on guard against Long Tao.
However, after his rebirth, Long Tao himself was bound to the system, and things were completely different. Long Tao could not only perceive the strengths and weaknesses of these people at the first time, but also know their related character weaknesses.
After Long Tao learned this information, it became almost impossible for others to trick him.
Because of this, Long Tao pays more attention to character and personality.
If a person has bad character, even if he or she is beautiful, Long Tao may be afraid of him or her, but Long Tao will never take these people to his or her heart, let alone regard them as his or her very important partners.
These are some of Long Tao’s fundamental principles.
In the past, Long Tao might have lacked a girlfriend, but after obtaining the Goddess Conquering System, for Long Tao, as long as he is willing, girlfriends are just a matter of quantity.
Of course, Ishihara Sakura is not very clear about these things.
The reason why Ishihara Sakura has been experiencing particularly intense inner activities in recent times is that she has different expectations for Long Tao.
The previous Ishihara Sakura was simple and just wanted to stay with Long Tao.
However, as Long Tao became more and more outstanding and demonstrated stronger strength, the possessiveness in Ishihara Sakura's heart was born again.
No matter how scheming Ishihara Sakura is, she is only 19 years old after all and is still a little girl.
It is very normal for little girls to be scheming.
But Long Tao would definitely not do as Ishihara Sakura wished.
Apart from Ishihara Sakura, Long Tao spent most of this period of time discussing the plot with Toriyama Akira.
In fact, given Akira Toriyama's ability, even if he just draws some bad works, they can still sell very well in the market.
After all, Akira Toriyama has accumulated fame and fans over the years, which is not an exaggeration at all.
It’s just that Akira Toriyama is a person who is extremely strict with himself. He doesn’t want to ruin his reputation, so he has very high requirements for his works and the degree of innovation.
Of course, innovation in the eyes of Akira Toriyama and innovation in the eyes of Ryu Tao are completely different.
For people of Toriyama's generation, it was already good enough for them to have a sense of innovation. It was completely impossible for them to come up with innovations that were beyond their time.
Akira Toriyama's biggest advantage is his strong ability to control large-scale objects. In addition, he has a very good grasp of camera language and the plots he likes.
In this case, what Akira Toriyama actually wanted to get from Ryu Tao was some new ideas and new thoughts.
After incorporating these new ideas and new thoughts.
It is entirely possible to get 1+1>2.
And for Long Tao, all of this happens to be what he is particularly good at.
As a future reborn, Long Tao has all kinds of ideas and innovations in his mind. Innovation is very time-consuming.
And not every innovation can be actually applied in reality.
But Long Tao is different, because he is a reborn person. Long Tao knows what better labor and innovation will be in the future, and he also knows which innovations can be applied to practice to enhance the plot.
These are Long Tao's advantages.
Long Tao's advantage is exactly Toriyama's disadvantage. After Toriyama got these labors and innovations from Long Tao, he was able to quickly create some very sensational works by combining these ideas and innovations.
Akira Toriyama is a very kind and generous person. Long Tao only provided an idea, and Akira Toriyama was ready to give 50% of the subsequent income from this comic to Long Tao. Long Tao felt that this income ratio was too outrageous. If Long Tao agreed to Akira Toriyama's request, then with Akira Toriyama's influence, it would be very difficult for Long Tao to stay in Japan for a long time in the future.
Long Tao shook his head and finally agreed to only 30% of the income.
In fact, even 30% of the income is an astronomical figure.
This is additional income for Long Tao.
This is the benefit of connections and resources. If Long Tao did not have such good connections and resources, and did not show unparalleled strength, even if he gave Akira Toriyama some ideas, Akira Toriyama might have rewarded him, but it would definitely not be so exaggerated.
This is the benefit brought by the connections, strength and clarity that Long Tao had accumulated before.
Connections are also part of strength.
After staying at home for two days, Long Tao returned to school. There are a lot of things to do in school recently, so he needs to do some things in person.
In fact, since entering the sophomore and junior years, there have been many evening parties in the school. Most of the evening parties and activities are based on the culture and heritage of our country.
For Long Tao, the most important party at the moment is: a graduation party in two days.
In fact, Long Tao has no interest in these things at all.
Because Long Tao felt it was a waste of time, and he was not a person who particularly liked to show off.
However, since the teacher asked him to help, Long Tao had no choice but to decide to participate.
Chapter 272: This is nothing, it's just a small matter
In a previous life.
As for the various banquets held in these schools, Long Tao actually seldom attended them. Even if he did, he was just a spectator.
There was no other reason. In his previous life, Long Tao spent so much time studying. As for things other than studying, Long Tao rarely participated.
Not only did he participate very little, but it was meaningless to him. In his previous life, Long Tao spent most of his time thinking about how to improve his strength?
Apart from improving his own strength, Long Tao feels that nothing else matters.
Others may be able to give up.
But Long Tao absolutely can't.
In his previous life, Long Tao's parents had gone through great pains to send him to study in Japan, and they themselves had a huge debt. Under such circumstances, if Long Tao continued to play badly, it would affect not only himself, but also the entire family.
Long Tao doesn't want to see this kind of thing.
In order to change the fate of himself and his family, Long Tao worked very hard in his previous life.
Long Tao wants to change his current predicament through his own efforts and at the same time let his parents live a better life.
It was not until later that Long Tao realized how difficult it was.
Hard work can allow people to live a normal and well-off life, but if they want to completely cross the class line, this is basically impossible.
