.......

"Idiot Section Chief! Pig head, shameless..."

Cursing and opening the door to the apartment, Iwata Lingkong finally returned to his own little world at almost ten o'clock in the evening.

He tossed his shoes casually, balled up his socks and threw them into the changing basket. He couldn't wait to rush into the shower room... On a hot day, he was sent by the section chief to Nerima District, Tokyo to discuss business, and he had to accompany him

Singing and sweating profusely, I haven’t come back until now...I haven’t even eaten dinner.

This is a helpless and busy day for the lower-class social animals...

Iwata took a shower, put on a loose T-shirt, and sat in the small apartment for a while, dazed, and then prepared to get something to eat due to the protests of his stomach.

"What are we going to eat..." Looking at the bowls and chopsticks piled up in the sink, Iwata Lingkong decisively gave up the idea of ​​making something.

"I remember there seemed to be some instant noodles at home..."

Dragging his light body, Iwata took out a portion of instant noodles from the cupboard, then turned on the electric kettle and waited for the water to boil.

He turned on the TV at the same time, slowly opened a can of beer, and changed the channel on the TV while drinking...

"How can we fix it... The evening show has ended..." Iwata sighed, "... Anyway, "Squid Game" has finished playing. It seems that I can only watch the late night show...

....Are you looking for a salty variety show..."

At this moment, the TV screen just switched to TV Tokyo.

A middle-aged man wearing a chef's uniform was busy doing something in the kitchen...

"TV Tokyo actually teaches people how to cook at night?"

Iwata Lingkong unexpectedly said that TV Tokyo does have a lot of food variety shows, but they are usually in the morning slot or the lunch slot...that's when housewives have time to watch TV.

Originally I wanted to change the channel, but Iwata Lingkong just felt that the gentle man sitting in the kitchen smoking and waiting for the water to boil seemed very similar to his current situation...

Forget it, for the sake of sympathy for the same patient, I won’t change it... Anyway, it’s just to kill time.

I turned my head and glanced at the old electric kettle. There wasn't even any bubbles. It would probably take another ten minutes... Iwata Lingkong drank beer and watched "Midnight Diner"~

"Zizzi..."

The small red sausage fell into the frying pan, and the hot oil made the knife point rise up, making it look like the tentacles of an octopus. Even the diners who came to eat were full of surprise...

After putting it in your mouth, you will feel satisfied with the chewing expression. It should be the right aroma of oil and chewy texture~

Is the plump half-cooked sturgeon roe so delicious? Why does the showgirl seem to have enjoyed the supreme delicacy? It should be that this dish contains stories from the past!

Shouldn't Tamagoyaki be salty? Oh, salty is called sashimi-yaki... What kind of strange trivia is this?!

The set meal that the Cowherd ate looked delicious... but that guy was looking at the pager absentmindedly? Hey, hey, hey, enjoy the delicious food!!

Unknowingly, Iwata Lingkong didn't even drink the beer at hand, and was completely attracted by "Late Night Diner"... until the whine of the electric kettle woke him up.

"What's going on?! Ten minutes have passed like this?"

Iwata Lingkong was very surprised. He didn't seem to see anything, but he seemed to see a lot of things...

"Midnight Diner" is a flat narrative, all stories about ordinary people. There seems to be no ups and downs, but people can sink into it unconsciously... and those strange dishes... seem to be all

It looks delicious...

"hungry....."

Subconsciously touching his belly, Iwata Lingkong felt its angry reminder... He quickly tore open the package of instant noodles and poured hot water...

"But there seems to be a little shortage of simple instant noodles..." Lingkong Iwata subconsciously recalled the octopus sausages in "Midnight Diner"... "If it can be paired with octopus sausages, it should be almost the same.

....”

"..."

A few minutes later, Iwata, who was eating instant noodles and watching TV, sighed:

“It would be great if there was such a late-night restaurant near the apartment I live in that is open from night to morning!”

“I don’t have to eat such dry instant noodles anymore!!”

"Who can give our workers some warmth!!!"

"...."

Today is the premiere of "Midnight Diner"... As a late-night TV series, TV Tokyo actually doesn't have many good ways to promote it... After all, there are not many night owls in the first place.

There are even fewer advertisements.

Besides, how high are the ratings for a late-night TV series?

However, the director of TV Tokyo, Kotaro Sakai, watched it for a long time at the director's office. After all, this was a TV series he had acquired, and it was the work of Naoki Nagayama.

"Director Sakai." Director Naohisa Nakagawa shouted to the director who seemed to be in a daze, ""Midnight Diner" has finished..."

"Ah, it's over~" Kotaro Sakai came to his senses and nodded, "How are the ratings?"

"Um...this needs statistical time..."

"Oh, yes..." Kotaro Sakai almost forgot that the statistics of ratings is still very troublesome...

"But it should be the same as before. After all... the late-night ratings will never be higher no matter how high they are..."

Director Naohisa Nakagawa was still talking, and he didn't notice that Kotaro Sakai's brows had wrinkled... If he can't read the air, no wonder he was transferred to the late-night broadcast as director!

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this moment, Matsuda Naohiko, an employee on duty at the production bureau who was answering the phone, suddenly walked in from outside the door:

"Director Sakai...something strange happened..."

"What's wrong?"

Kotaro Sakai thought there was an unexpected incident. At this time, he should be considered the person with the highest position in the TV station, so he came to see him.

"Um...just a while ago, there were a lot of phone calls..."

"??"

"They were all calls about "Midnight Diner"," Naohiko Matsuda said immediately, "Some asked when the next episode will be broadcast, and we naturally answered this..."

"Oh...it seems that some people like to watch it..." Kotaro Sakai's face improved a lot. "Midnight Diner" already has fans...

"But there are still people asking...what brand of octopus sausage is and where can I buy it..." Naohiko Matsuda said with a strange expression on his face, "Some people are still asking where the sturgeon roe is bought...

....”

"Where is the late night canteen?" "Is the food in the late night canteen real?" "Where is the strip club..."

Matsuda Naohiko took out a small notebook and read out the recorded questions one by one.

Kotaro Sakai's expression management was also a little out of control at this time... These guys were asking weird questions!!!

"Director Sakai, these questions..."

"Ahem!" Sakai Kotaro quickly adjusted, "record these questions and give them to the tree friends later... let them reply..."

"By the way, I will add the answers to the questions in the trailer at the end..." Kotaro Sakai suddenly had an idea, "Make these questions into highlights... Also, go talk to the tree friends and tell them

Make a copy of the recipe for each episode..."

Suddenly, many fantastic ideas flashed through Kotaro Sakai's mind, all of which could make "Midnight Diner" more closely connected with the audience.

The performance of "Midnight Diner" has exceeded his expectations... Perhaps as Naoki Nagayama said, this drama can also become a well-known IP of TV Tokyo!

"Haha~"

Thinking of this, Kotaro Sakai couldn't help but laugh~

The other two people in the studio saw Kotaro Sakai in a good mood and laughed in agreement...

At this time, Naoki Nagayama, who was working overtime in Shizuoka to shoot, didn't know yet that his "Midnight Diner" had quietly won the love of some viewers~

........

The next morning, the phone in Shizuoka's old house had been ringing non-stop since the morning.

"Naoki, I'm looking for you again!"

After her mother Nanako answered the phone, she shouted again to her second son in the bedroom upstairs.

"Hey, wait a minute..."

Naoki Nagayama, dressed casually, came down the stairs with a bang, still muttering:

"Mom, this staircase is too narrow and steep...it's very dangerous~"

Nagayama Nanako was not polite at all:

"I have raised the three of you, and there has been no danger! I think you are just looking for trouble now, Naoki!"

"..."

Forget it, Nagayama Naoki clasped his hands and begged for mercy, passing by his mother Nanako... He has been more and more disliked these days... Alas, I can't stay in this family anymore!

Picked up the phone: "Moses Moses, this is Naoki Nagayama!"

"Naoki-san!" It was Yoshimura Otomo on the phone, "Sure enough, you still haven't come back!!"

"..."
To be continued...