15 years in business

Sukiyaki is just sukiyaki. After finally unifying their opinions, Yoshizawa and Ninagawa had a protracted debate on the topic of "what side dishes should be served first for sukiyaki".

Yoshizawa: "Shouldn't you put the beef first and then the vegetables?!"

Ninagawa: "No way, that would be too greasy."

"Okay, okay." Yoshizawa symbolically pushed two pieces of shiitake mushrooms in, "Is this okay?"

After a few minutes, Ji Ze took a spoonful of sugar and was about to pour it into the pot.

Ninagawa: "Hey hey hey hey!"

Yoshizawa: "What's wrong? Was it burned?"

Ningagawa gulped down a mouthful of saliva: "Do you want to add sugar?"

"Otherwise?" Yoshizawa had a caring expression on his face.

Ninagawa said insincerely: "But sukiyaki should be salty..."

Ji Ze smiled, showing a mouthful of bright white teeth: "You don't understand, this is my family's secret recipe."

Ninagawa could only watch as Yoshizawa added sugar to the base.

Before the beef changed color, Yoshizawa took a chopstick of tofu and put it into his mouth, saying warmly, "Eat."

Ningagawa picked up the chopsticks, struggled fiercely for more than ten seconds, and finally put the chopsticks upright in front of her: "I'm used to waiting for the meat to be cooked before eating other dishes."

Yoshizawa akimbo, dumbfounded: "Hey, let me tell you, are you Japanese?"

Ninagawa took out his passport and patted it in front of Yoshizawa: "Do you think I am Japanese!"

Yoshizawa glanced at the black cover of the passport, finally failed, and collapsed on the tatami mat laughing, while Ninagawa secretly stuffed a large piece of beef into his mouth while he was not paying attention.

Yoshizawa finished laughing, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and sat up again: "Have you watched "Wonderful Stories of the World"? There is an episode in it about sukiyaki, and the hero's hobbies are as strange as yours."

"I've seen it." Ninagawa poured Yoshizawa wine, "I still haven't figured out what the last black and soft thing is."

After quieting down, Ninagawa realized that the TV in the lobby was on, broadcasting entertainment news.

"Well, I don't know, maybe it's just a suspense." Yoshizawa raised his glass to drink.

"Actress Yuki Canota revealed that she has a boyfriend in a relationship..."

Yoshizawa's hand stopped suddenly, and he turned his head slowly, staring at the image on the TV, Cangtian Yuki stood in front of the media, smiling and answering various questions about her boyfriend, the flashes kept flashing, and she didn't Unaffected, the smile is still sweet and decent.

Ninagawa asked, "Do you know each other?"

Ji Ze put his wine glass down heavily, and said in a harsh tone, "I don't know you!"

Ningagawa has good eyesight, she knew that Yoshizawa and this actress had entanglements once, silently refilled the wine glass, and comforted Yoshizawa kindly: "Forget it, it's all over, I can only say that the fate is not enough, You can't stop her from finding her own happiness just because she has been with you before."

Ji Ze's face was livid: "You don't understand."

"Why don't I understand?" Ninagawa was not convinced, "I just broke up too, he..."

The pronunciation of "he" and "she" in Japanese is different, and Ninagawa slipped his mouth for a while, and quickly kept silent.

"I can only watch her with other people! Can't do anything! You don't understand! No one will understand how I feel!"

Ji Ze slapped the table hard, as if he didn't know the pain, he shook his hand and left.

His coat was still on the seat. Yoshizawa had drunk a lot just now. Ninagawa pushed open the window and looked at it. It was dark and it was snowing outside. He would definitely catch a cold if he went out in unlined clothes. He sighed and took his coat to chase after him. go out.

The first floor of the hotel is divided into two areas, one half is the hot spring, the other half is the place for drinking and eating. The owner thoughtfully opened a side door, so that travelers who have traveled long distances can directly enter the restaurant to rest. When Ninagawa passed by the guests entering the hotel, They can feel the cold air that belongs to winter attached to them.

The maroon cloth curtain was blown up high by the wind, with the words "go to tea" written in navy blue on it, ink splattered wantonly, and a gas lamp hung on the right side of the curtain, under which Ji Ze pitifully huddled, burning on the wick the heat to keep warm,

The curtain was stretched open, Ninagawa walked up quickly, lifted Yoshizawa's arm, stuffed it into the coat: "It's snowing, you will get sick like this."

Just now Ninagawa held the coat in his arms for a long time, and there was still his temperature and smell on it. The smell on Ninagawa's body was a unique and pleasant woody fragrance. Yoshizawa was so sad that he was dizzy, and he didn't even choose his gender. She hugged him tightly, as if trying to strangle him to death.

Ji Ze said sullenly: "I like you, let's be together, I will treat you well."

"How long have we known each other, are you stupid?" Ninagawa laughed and brushed the snowflakes off Yoshizawa's head.

Yoshizawa buried his head in Ninagawa's shoulder, the heat of tears made Ninagawa's heart ache.

On a winter night, the two bereaved loved ones hugged each other to keep warm, Ninagawa felt the slight trembling in Yoshizawa's body, and couldn't help but soften her heart: "Okay, baby, don't be sad, don't be sad."

Ji Ze shed tears for a while, and after controlling the water in his head to dry, he raised his head and sincerely apologized: "I'm sorry, don't take what I just said to heart."

Ninagawa shook her head openly: "No need to say I'm sorry."

He squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying: "Let's go back."

Yoshizawa opened the curtain. The jacket on his body was short, and because of the movement of his arms, the jacket was slightly tilted. The pocket on one side was too shallow, and the keys contained in it fell into the snow with a "plop".

Ninagawa: "You dropped something."

He bent down, fished out the keychain from the water, and just about to hand it to Ji Ze, his eyes were attracted by the pendant on the key.

It was a small photo frame made of plastic, with a photo sticker sealed inside. It was the photo of the actress and Yoshizawa. The background was the snow-capped mountains. The two were wearing thick jackets, embracing each other, and compared to "Victory" Ninagawa noticed that Aota's teeth were slightly turned out, which was obvious in the photo, but when he was on TV just now, in order to hide this shortcoming, he carefully controlled the width of his smile.

For a beauty-loving actress to expose her shortcomings unsuspectingly, she must have been very close to Yoshizawa.

Ninagawa wiped off the unmelted snowflakes on the small photo frame, and found a red date marked on the lower right corner: 2020.1.1

Seeing his movements, Yoshizawa suddenly remembered the date of the photo, and stepped forward to snatch the key from Ninagawa's hand.

Ninagawa dodged the shot with a feint, and raised the hand holding the key: "Yoshizawa-kun, if I remember correctly, it will be 2019 in a few days, right?"

He stood in the snow with a pale face: "Why do you have a photo of 2020?"

Yoshizawa: "Yeah... it's a typo!"

Ninagawa was unmoved, and shook her head regretfully: "Yoshizawa-kun, your acting skills have regressed."

The key was still in Ninagawa's hand, and that date was almost dazzling in Yoshizawa's eyes. He thought, this time, he really couldn't keep it secret, so he simply picked up Ninagawa and walked towards the guest room: "Come here, I'll talk to you slowly." explain."

The room Ninagawa booked was on the third floor. Yoshizawa took out the master key to open the door, first turned on all the lights, and turned on the heating to the maximum.

After finishing all this, he walked to the window and pulled the curtains to the bottom with a "swipe".

Yoshizawa sat in front of Ninagawa: "What I say next may scare you. This is something you have to ask yourself. I'm just telling the truth."

Ninagawa nodded in understanding.

Ji Ze had never met such a difficult person before, and sighed sadly: "Actually, if you really want to say it, one sentence is enough."

Paused: "I died once."

Yoshizawa saw that Ninagawa's eyes widened suddenly. His eyes were already big, but when they were fully opened, all the red flesh at the top of the eyes was exposed, making his gaze even more fanatical.

Ninagawa: "Can you continue talking?"

"I died once..." In order to relieve the tension, Yoshizawa grabbed an empty teacup and squeezed it in his hand, "In 2020, after marrying Yuki."

While Yoshizawa was talking, the pendulum of the wall clock behind him kept shaking, as if measuring the copied time.

This time, Yoshizawa took out the key generously, took off the small photo frame on it, and put it in front of Ninagawa: "This was taken when we went skiing, and Yuki and I each had one. It was that day, I insisted on going to An inaccessible snow-capped mountain fell because of lack of skill, hit his head on a rock, and died."

"The wound seems to be here. Of course, it's gone now." Yoshizawa touched his smooth forehead, frowned, and moved his finger to the right side near the hairline.

Affected by him, Ninagawa also secretly touched his arm. He died twice, each time with broken tendons and fractures, and died of torture. Now his limbs are still intact, but he still cannot forget the pain before his death. At that moment, that kind of intense, domineering pain.

"Yuki and I were married with children, and when I died," Yoshizawa said of his own death, using a more formal grammar, "Yuki was pregnant with children, twins."

Ninagawa was dissatisfied with his slow way of telling, and eagerly added: "And then? Did you come back to life?"

"Ah, that's right." Yoshizawa didn't understand why Ninagawa was so excited suddenly. As the narrator of the story, he lost the initiative and could only nod and shake his head dully.

Ninagawa managed to calm down the turbulent mood: "In what year did you wake up?"

What Ji Ze said made him no longer calm: "2018."

Ninagawa wanted to jump up and tell him that I was also reborn in 2018! What kind of evil year is 2018? Is there a bug in the world?Why do the dead come back to life this year?

"Don't talk about this, compared to the year I was resurrected..." Yoshizawa was very puzzled, "It seems that your reaction is even more strange?"

"Strange?" Ninagawa quickly adjusted her mood, trying to make herself look confused and innocent, "Why am I strange?"

"I thought you would feel scared, or at least question me." Ninagawa pretended to be calm, which made him look even more suspicious. Yoshizawa searched his face for clues, but found nothing in the end.

After all, Yoshizawa would never have imagined that he was sitting at the same table with another reborn person.

If this is the case, there is a reasonable explanation for Yoshizawa's grief just now-he watched the woman he loved fall into the arms of others, and happily announced the news of marriage, and it belongs to the good memories between Yoshizawa and Cangtian. With Yoshizawa's death, it has been put into the Creator's recycle bin.

In order to protect Cangtian and prevent her from suffering the pain of losing her husband, Yoshizawa is willing to end this relationship early.After calming down, Ninagawa recalled all this, and he really wanted to tell Yoshizawa that maybe these are meaningless.

His retreat and forbearance are meaningless.

Ninagawa's first death occurred in 2023. In that year, Li Yu fell from a height on the set of "Northern Ocean and South Wind" because of a wire failure. Ninagawa learned the bad news after the fifth anniversary concert. He didn't even have time to take off his makeup, so he drove straight to the hospital. He didn't notice for a while, and attracted the attention of the media.

His makeup is so eye-catching, anyone can tell that this is Ren Ninagawa, a member of the Saudade group. He has never interacted with Li Yu in public, but after Li Yu's accident, he drove a car and rushed to Going to visit, everyone's mouth is worth a fortune, and their bones are destroyed. Once the photos are taken and spread, Ninagawa can't imagine how the media will make up this story.

So Ninagawa drove into an alley, misjudged the road conditions in a panic, got into a car accident, and never came out of the alley again. Then the time was reset, and he returned to 2018 and woke up in the dressing room of the first stage.

At that time, Ninagawa was just like Yoshizawa now, wanting to change the established destiny by himself. In 2023, Ninagawa reminded Li Yu to avoid all high-altitude scenes. Li Yu listened to his words and even rejected "Beiyang" The film appointment of "Southern Wind", but bad luck came again, but it was just a different object. At the [-]th anniversary concert of SAUDADE, Ninagawa fell from the stage and was sent to the hospital when his consciousness remained. After Li Yu learned that Ninagawa was injured, Driving to the hospital, in order to get rid of the media behind him, he also chose to take a small road and turned into that alley.

Li Yu never came out again.

"It's useless!", Ninagawa said these words out of nowhere.

Yoshizawa: "What? What's not working?"

Ninagawa snatched the teacup from Yoshizawa and poured tea into it, the scorching mist baked his hand.

He said: "It's useless, no matter what you do, the people who should go will always go."

Yoshizawa became confused: "I don't understand what you mean."

"Hey, it's almost full." He snatched the teacup containing hot tea from Ninagawa's hand quickly.

Ninagawa seemed to be possessed, and kept repeating: "It's useless..."

Ji Ze scratched his hair, thought for a long time, took out an empty teacup, and put it side by side with the teacup containing hot tea.

"As long as you don't see Yuki anymore, break up with her." Ji Ze opened the distance between the two teacups, "We won't go on honeymoon or go skiing."

Ji Ze put the empty teacup back on the tea tray: "I won't die."

He drank the hot tea in the other cup in one gulp: "Yuki doesn't have to bear the sadness of losing me."

Yoshizawa is like a bully who is doing his best to give lectures to scumbags. After he finished speaking, he asked thoughtfully: "So, it should make sense, right?"

The scumbag looked solemn: "But you never know when there will be a change."

Taking advantage of Yoshizawa's unpreparedness, Ninagawa waved and swept the cup of overheated tea onto the tatami.

"Hey!"

Ji Ze catches the cup quickly with his eyes and hands, and the mouth of the cup is facing down, the last drop of tea in it flows out and falls quickly.

It dripped on the snow and turned into a bright red dot.

"what!"

Canota Yuki kept stomping her feet in the snow, she sucked her fingers in her mouth, and looked at the hotel anxiously.

After the blood slowly stopped, Yuki bent down to check the suitcase with great effort. Sure enough, the plastic on the surface of the suitcase was aging, and a corner was raised, and the end was too sharp. Just now, she was accidentally stabbed by the sharp corner.

A hand on the back handed a Band-Aid: "It's just a small injury, it's fine."

The one who handed her the Band-Aid was a kind-hearted middle-aged man, Yuki looked in the direction of the voice: "Thank you."

She carefully bandaged the wound, her worried expression remained undiminished: "It won't be infected..."

The middle-aged man laughed loudly: "You are too sensitive."

"It's different now," Yuki wrapped up the wound and put his hands in his pockets, "It's okay to be insensitive."

The middle-aged man saw Cangtian dragging his luggage: "Are you going to the hotel there?"

He pointed to the signboard saying "go for tea".

Cangtian Yuki nodded: "Yes."

"Coincidentally." The man patted his chest and said in a confident voice, "I am the owner of the hotel, Shingo Yoshizawa."

Yuki: "Ah, hello."

"You came too late, there are no more rooms," Yoshizawa Shingo said, "Why don't I introduce you to other hotels."

Unexpectedly, Aotian Yuki refused: "No need."

She pulled the suitcase out of the snow and dragged it forward: "I must go there."

Yoshizawa Shingo guessed: "Are you looking for someone?"

"Yes." Cangtian slowed down and waited for Yoshizawa Shingo to catch up before saying, "I want to find Yoshizawa Shota."