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Although both Shochiku and Kadokawa Films were very optimistic about "Love Letter", the popularity of the film far exceeded everyone's expectations.

Thanks to the fact that the filming and release took place during Japan's bubble economy, people's enthusiasm and ability to consume were high. Even taxi drivers would simply refuse to pick up passengers if the starting price was less than 1 yen. And a movie ticket like this only costs a few thousand yen.

As a result, fanatical readers of "Love Letter" are not satisfied with reading it only once, and many of them read it twice, three times, or even more times.

There was even a woman who made an appointment with all the "wallet men" she could contact and asked them to watch "Love Letter" with her.

The movie "Love Letter" is clearly about "pure love", "beauty" and "tenderness", but it ended up with such a weird situation.

But no matter what, the movie box office is rising, earning 2 to 3 million yen almost every day, and has reversed the decline for five consecutive times.

Under such a crazy sales situation, the novel "Love Letter" naturally became popular again.

Bookstores whose books have been sold out will always urge Yuhikaku to print more copies and deliver them as soon as possible. At the same time, influenced by dialect TV interviews, the sales of works mentioned in the interviews such as "Norwegian Wood" and "Tokyo Love Story" are unsurprisingly rising.

Media all over Japan would never miss such popularity and reported the news about the movie "Love Letter" at full speed.

For example, the Yomiuri Shimbun bluntly said that the movie "Love Letter" once again set off a pure love whirlwind in Japan.

And in such a passionate atmosphere, Fangyan stayed low-key in a hot spring hotel in Hokkaido, opening letters from readers one by one.

Most of them are women, young girls, young women, aunts, and middle-aged women...

Moreover, the contents of the letters are varied.

Some of them had a strong sense of empathy, feeling sad for the man and woman Fujii Itsuki, cursing the dialect and questioning why it was not a happy ending!

Some people directly praised "Love Letter" as a perfect movie. I don't know what kind of comments should be made on the movie to match its brilliance. Maybe shedding tears at touching moments will be enough.

Some of them lamented the unrequited love between male and female Fujii Itsuki, while confessing their own sad secrets, saying that they, like male or female Fujii Itsuki, secretly had a crush on someone in their hearts, but never had the courage to confess their feelings to that person.

Of course, there were also some artistic young women who left only a short sentence on a piece of white paper:

"Mr. Fangyan, how are you?"

This sentence is the most core and touching one in the Love Letter. Fangyan added a sentence in his reply letter with ease:
"I'm very good."

I have written no less than 20 replies like this. Of course, most of the letters mainly express my love and gratitude for "Love Letter". Some of them even regard Fangyan, whom they have never met, as the most trustworthy person and write some of their little secrets in the letters.

Just treat him as a tree hole! A caring brother!
Do I have the potential to be a top gigolo?
Fangyan smacked his lips, then put down the pen and shook his slightly sore wrist.

Just at this moment, hurried footsteps were heard from behind.

Keiko Matsuzaka trotted over with a newspaper in her hand, not caring at all that her loose yukata exposed some of her private parts.

"Look! Look!"

"what?"

Fangyan followed the direction her finger pointed and looked at the film review of Love Letter in the newspaper:

"This movie gives people the feeling of being as bright and sad as a young first love, as elegant and beautiful as a dragonfly in the snow, and as warm as the sunshine in winter. The library card in "Remembrance of Things Past", Akiba's love and responsibility, the tree on the sickbed and Hiroko's calls of "How are you?" and "I'm fine" in the snow all made me cry. What's more valuable is that this movie focuses not only on love, but also on all the warm emotions in life..."

"The beautiful original novel, the romantic script, the clean filming, the flawless performance, all these make up this movie "Love Letter". Future love movies can learn from it. If they can learn 60% to 70% of it, they will be able to achieve great success in love movies."

"How about it?"

Keiko Matsuzaka was very excited, "This is Mr. Sato's film review!"

"Who is he?"

After asking in dialect, I learned that Sato Tadao is a famous Japanese film critic. Not only did he write books such as "History of World Cinema" and "Modern Japanese Cinema", he was also a judge for organizations such as the Japan Film Academy and the Tokyo International Film Festival. He can be called the emperor of the Japanese film critic circle.

"Even he gave it such a high evaluation, Love Letter will definitely win many Japan Academy Awards!"

When Matsuzaka Keiko thought that she might be crowned the queen for the second time after "Putian March", she couldn't stop smiling. Fangyan stood up suddenly and grinned: "In that case, we should celebrate in advance."

"what!"

Keiko Matsuzaka screamed, then was held in his arms and went straight to the misty hot spring outside the house.

"Clatter, crash, crash!"

At the same time, it was cloudy and rainy in Hong Kong, and bean-sized raindrops kept hitting the windows.

Huang Yulang had a gloomy face. If anyone asked him "How are you?", he would answer without thinking, "I'm freaking not fine!"

In front of me are letters of resignation, all received in the past few days, and most of them are not on the layoff list.

"Dong dong."

Xu Jingchen knocked on the office door, and without saying a word, handed in his resignation letter, openly admitting that he was leaving.

"Chenzi, are you kidding me? Why are you also going to resign?"

Huang Yulang slammed the table.

"Mr. Huang, everyone has their own aspirations. I just want a better development opportunity."

Xu Jingchen said without changing his expression.

"What a joke! There is no better development platform in Hong Kong than my comics company!"

Huang Yulang's brows were twisted into a knot.

"Of course!"

Xu Jingchen said: "And they have already promised me that they will give me a chance to publish the comics I want to draw!"

"Which way is that?"

Huang Yulang immediately asked.

"There's no further comment."

Xu Jingchen looked mysterious.

"Let's go! Let's go!"

Huang Yulang said angrily: "Let's go! Don't come back after you leave!"

With thunder and lightning, his face looked hideous and distorted. "Don't think that the company will collapse completely without you!"

Just as he was venting his dissatisfaction frantically in the office alone, the secretary he sent to investigate the resignation suddenly ran over.

"Boss Huang, we've found out! We've already investigated it!"

"Say! Speak quickly!"

"Most of the people who left the company were poached by a publishing company called Mingkong!"

The secretary shouted, "The person responsible for poaching them is Cui Xingzhong, who left the company a long time ago!"

"Hem home shovel!"

Huang Yulang roared angrily, and at that moment, thunder rumbled outside the house, followed by heavy rain. (End of this chapter)