Well, the official story about how Ayu and Max started working together was always very strange, like...
"Oh, let me get this girl who never acomplished nothing, can't sing, can't dance, is skipping the singing classes we are paying to her and send her to another country for 6 months so she can pretend she finally learned how to sing so maybe she can become profitable in the near future! OMG, I'm a genius!"
Putting that much effort into her career cuz they were lovers make a lot more of sense. 
