I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 142 Are you very satisfied now?
"Excuse me." Mori Tetsutaro bowed slightly, changed into indoor shoes at the entrance, and followed Tanaka Aoi into the room.

Tanaka Aoi asked him to sit down and handed him a cup of hot tea. Along with the cup, a tape recorder and a bulging yellow envelope were also pushed over.

"What is this?" Mori Tetsutaro raised his eyebrows. He roughly guessed what was in the envelope and the contents of the tape recorder.

"When I was an intern editor at Kodansha, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Akira Yasuhara once instructed me to seduce Yomiuri Otaku, who was still an author working for Editor Saito at the time."

Recalling the past, she was filled with sorrow.

Even though it happened less than a year ago, Tanaka Aoi feels like it happened a lifetime ago, as if it happened a long, long time ago.

She bit her lip and lowered her head, saying, "The recorder contains the chats between me and Akira Yasuhara, and me and Yomiuri Okatake. The envelope containing the obscene recordings contains various private photos of us when we were dating. They were taken by a private detective I hired."

"I see. Ms. Tanaka, can I open it and take a look now?" Even though he knew it might be those things, Mori Tetsutaro was still surprised to hear Tanaka Aoi admit it herself.

This is not only evidence that proves that Yomiuri Okamoto cheated on his wife, but it also links to Kodansha, which is a slap in the face to Sawako Noma!

She recently held a press conference to clarify the rumors that there was no shady dealings in the editorial department of "Qun Xiang".

No shady dealings?

Then why would the deputy editor of the editorial department allow an intern to seduce writers working for other editors?
Why is this kind of thing used as the core criterion for whether an intern is converted to a regular employee?
Tanaka Aoi nodded and explained in detail the cause of the incident.

From her regularization problem, to Yasuhara Akira's suppression of Kitagawa Hide in order to overthrow Muramatsu Tomoshi, to the failure of the plan and his ruthless kicking of her in the end.
These rumors have actually been circulating wildly among the people for a long time, and are highly consistent with the plot in the movie "芥廾".

Unfortunately, reporters and literary critics could not find any solid evidence, and since Kodansha denied it, no one could do anything about it.

Now, with these photos and this recorder, the talk show on TBS not long ago will become a laughing stock in the industry, and "Five Bodies Not Satisfied" will really become "Lower Body Satisfaction"!

Tetsutarou Mori couldn't wait to open the envelope. There was a thick stack of photos inside, basically covering all the types he wanted. Could it be said that it was worthy of the work of a private detective?
Professionals are different!
As soon as he finished looking at the photos, Tanaka Aoi handed him a Walkman that could play tapes, which surprised Mori Tetsutaro.

If Tanaka Aoi hadn't been secretly observing her expression, she would never have been able to perform this comfortable action so smoothly.

Looking at the beautiful and charming woman in front of him, he subconsciously shrank back.

By taking photos, recording audio, and understanding how to read people’s expressions, you will most likely know how to please a man.

It’s better to stay away from such women as much as possible!

Mori Tetsutarou thanked him, calmly put on his headphones, and spent about half an hour listening to the contents of the tape.

After listening to it, his face changed suddenly. The revelations in it were far beyond his imagination.

It turns out that Mr. Kitagawa was not talking nonsense, and "Agaragi" is indeed a novel with realistic themes!

The content presented in the recorder is in no way inferior to the original plot of the movie "Akutagawa", which makes him think of the judges of the Akutagawa Prize. Could they be as bad as those people in Kodansha?

Although the Akutagawa Prize has been plagued by controversy over the years, people still hold it in awe. After all, it is a gateway for newcomers in pure literature, and its fame and status are there.

Not everyone can easily question authority.

Even though Kitagawa Hide wrote "Akira" for satire, most industry practitioners still feel that the movie and novel are exaggerated.

Now, how could it be exaggerated? Teacher Beichuan clearly gave them a little face!

After working in the industry for many years, Tetsutarou Mori thought there were many strange things he had not seen. Now it seems that he was just a frog in a well.

The most terrifying thing is that the recorder also involves some great literary figures.

For example, Academician Ichiko Sadajiro, who has always been at odds with Kitagawa Hide, and even high-ranking officials from the Ministry of Education!
"Mr. Morizhe, can these things help Mr. Xiu Beichuan?" Tanaka Ao asked in a low voice, biting her lip.

"Yes! Absolutely! This will not only help Mr. Beichuan, but if these things are supplemented with a sharp literary review, it will be enough to shake up the publishing industry and the literary world."

Mori Tetsutaro was very excited holding the evidence. It was worth it that he always kept watch for Yosuke during college. This great gift might help him make further progress in the field of literary criticism!
"That's great. I'm glad I could help him." Tanaka Aoi smiled as if a heavy burden had been lifted off her shoulders.

Mori Tetsutaro suppressed his surging emotions and glanced at Tanaka Aoi suspiciously. Her relaxed expression just now did not seem fake.

Judging from what she just said, why does it feel like she doesn't want to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune, but is simply trying to help Teacher Beichuan overcome the public opinion crisis?

Could it be that Miss Tanaka is also a die-hard fan of Mr. Kitagawa?

He secretly glanced around the room and found that there were indeed quite a few physical books of "Wenyi" and Teacher Beichuan on the bookshelf.

Wait, Kodansha intern editor, Tetsutaro Tanaka Hiromori felt like he had heard this name somewhere before and it sounded very familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a moment.

"Anyway, thank you very much for the information you provided." Mori Tetsutarou shook his head slightly. Maybe it was because he stayed up too late and his memory faded. Anyway, he thanked the other party first, then asked for a price and settled the matter.

"The Nikkan Sports Newspaper has already agreed with me that I will be solely responsible for writing the literary review. In addition to these materials, if you have other negatives and tapes, please sell them to me as well."

This is the unspoken rule of this industry.

Usually the person who provides the information will secretly keep the negatives and copy tapes, and if you don't buy them together, they will sell them to someone else.

Tanaka Aoi shook her head: "I didn't reserve any negatives or other tapes. They are all here."

"Okay. How much would you like to sell them to me?"

Mori Tetsutarou put away his things, sat up straight, and asked respectfully,
"By the way, the Nikkan Sports Newspaper should have mentioned this to you as well. If you are willing to appear on camera or accept a recorded interview, I will add a generous interview fee."

"560 million yen." Tanaka Aoi seemed to have thought of the price long ago. "I won't appear on camera, but I am willing to accept a recorded interview."

Mori Tetsutaro looked at her deeply. It seemed that the other party had already figured out the price in mind, so it didn't seem like a situation that could be negotiated.

560 million yen.

The price is a little bit high, but it is within an acceptable range.

Once I finish writing the literary review, I can submit it to a few major newspapers. I think it will be easy to make back the money.

If Yosuke wants to monopolize this news, then let the Nikkan Sports News reimburse the money.

After thinking this through, he nodded decisively, took out his checkbook, quickly wrote down the numbers, and then handed the check to Tanaka Aoi.

The two men handed over the goods and the money, and then Tanaka Aoi took out a new blank tape and prepared to accept his recorded interview.

While Mori Tetsutaro was fiddling with the tape recorder, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Ms. Tanaka, excuse me, does the number 560 have any special meaning to you?"

"Yes." Tanaka Aoi's expression became extremely complicated. She hesitated to speak, and finally smiled, "It is a very important number to me."

"I see." Mori Tetsutarou knew from her expression that this must involve some personal emotional issues, so it would be better not to pry any further. "Then let's get started now."

"Okay, I'm ready."

"Hello, Ms. Tanaka Aoi, my name is Mori Tetsutarou, and it's an honor to interview you."

Tetsutarou Mori is very cunning.

Or, as a senior literary critic, he knew how to criticize his opponent accurately and make him unable to fight back. After returning from Tanaka Aoi's house that day, he immediately got into work mode and wrote a literary review entitled "Are you worthy of being the opponent of Mr. Kitagawa?" in just two days.

The entire manuscript is nearly 5000 words long, and is followed by a text version of Tanaka Aoi's recorded interview, which can almost occupy the entire literature section of a newspaper.

Such a long literary review is unheard of in the Japanese literary world.

Even so, the Nikkan Sports Newspaper immediately accepted the manuscript without making any cuts, promising to use it directly to fill the literature section of its own newspaper.

Even Tetsutaro Mori could feel the overflowing hostility from the Nikkan Sports Newspaper towards Kodansha.

However, the fights among these big men have nothing to do with him. He only hopes to lend a helping hand to Mr. Kitagawa with this literary review, so that the March issue of "Wenyi" that will be released soon can continue its glory and directly beat "Qunxiang" and "Literary World" that held a joint essay contest without leaving anything behind!
For this reason, after he finished writing the manuscript, he did something unusual and did not inform anyone. He only secretly gave it to the Nikkan Sports News, and then told Yosuke to suddenly publish it in the evening edition of the Nikkan Sports News today, on the 17th.

Don't do any warm-up to arouse readers' expectations.

Just aim for the unexpected!
The Daily Sports News was very cooperative. In the afternoon, they sent employees to secretly overturn the typeset evening edition and withdraw all the manuscripts in the literature section, only posting his article.

By the way, the 560 million yen hush money was also reimbursed.

evening.

Tetsutarou Mori looked at the time, then put on his windbreaker, hurried downstairs, and took the subway directly to the most prosperous city center.

He was going to Maruzen Marunouchi Bookstore near Tokyo Station to buy the evening edition of the Nikkan Sports News and see what readers were thinking.

While riding on the subway, Mori Tetsutaro sat in a corner with his eyes closed to rest. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Mr. Kitagawa had real charisma and was really amazing.

Yomiuri Okata was originally an unknown little-known writer. He was noticed by Kodansha for his talent. With the gimmick of his physical disability, he had affairs with so many women even though he didn't have any decent works.

This shows the people's admiration and yearning for the group of writers.

Mr. Kitagawa was the undisputed top newcomer in the literary world last year. His first work this year, "Border", was another hit. There must be many beautiful women around him, but he has been able to remain chaste and has always been obsessed with literary creation.

This is amazing!
As he was thinking, the subway arrived at the station. He hurriedly got off the train and rushed straight to the bookstore.

Today is also the release date of "Literary World".

After Bungeishunju and Kodansha jointly launched a writing competition, they shifted their focus back to the top "upper-class writers".

After years of development, Bungeishunju has accumulated a large number of top right-wing writers. In the last issue, six big guys serialized new books together, which instantly brought its monthly sales to an astonishing 88 copies.

The biggest gimmick of this issue should be the final chapter of Shintaro Ishihara's "Brother".

However, he has not written any new works for many years and has been constantly exploiting his dead brother. Even with the strong promotion from "Literary World" this time, it did not cause much waves in the literary world.

When I walked into the bookstore, there were not many customers. Most of the readers gathered at Kitagawa Hide's personal bookshelf, flipping through his old books with relish.

The March issue of "Gunzo" released on the 15th is a complete disaster.

The entire issue basically published shortlisted works from a joint essay contest, but all of these works were completely outshined by novels such as "The Secret" that were newly serialized in "Wenyi".

Who would read your meal replacement books when there are better books to read?
Tetsutaro Mori had obtained sales information through private channels, and found that the March issue of "Gunzo" had sold less than 3 copies in two days, a huge difference from the previous issue. It was obvious that the readers were completely attracted by the previous issue of "Wenyi".

No wonder society is so eager to promote Yomiuri Okamoto.

At this time, the book "Five Bodies Are Not Satisfied" was still on the top sales counter outside.

It has to be said that this book did attract a lot of readers with its gimmicks, and Yomiuri Okata also focused on an inspirational character and a chicken soup story, which perfectly met the needs of the Ministry of Education and was strongly promoted by the official.

It was released on the 15th and nearly 12 copies were sold in two days. This is a hardcover paperback edition priced at 3800 yen, ranking second in price among physical books in the past two years, second only to Kitagawa Hide's "Hear the Wind Sing" priced at 5500 yen.

From this perspective, it is not a problem to sell 300,000 or 400,000 copies a month. It is indeed a rare hit.

If it weren't for the literary review I published in the evening edition of the Daily Sports News.

Passing the sales counter, Tetsutarou Mori went straight to the newspaper sales area.

The evening editions of major newspapers are not nearly as popular as their daily editions, with only a handful of people standing there flipping through them.

He checked the time and saw that the delivery man should be delivering the evening magazine.

Sure enough, within a few minutes, several porters in work uniforms came running over with a pile of new evening magazines.

The store manager, who had become a fanatical fan of Kitagawa Hide after his failed suicide attempt, immediately stood up to greet him.

The movers unloaded the goods and then carried over a standing poster.

This is the promotional billboard that the Nikkan Sports News Agency asked an advertising company to make this afternoon.

Many readers in the store also looked over out of curiosity.

Generally, this kind of billboard is used for large-scale publicity. Could it be a pre-release warm-up for some teacher’s new book?

Mori Tetsutarou suppressed his excitement and followed.

Yangjie had never mentioned the matter of the signboard to him. This Daily Sports News Agency is really good at making trouble!

"'Are you worthy enough to be Mr. Kitagawa's opponent?', a guy who is not satisfied with his five bodies but super satisfied with his lower body, cheated on his wife 53 times!?"

One reader's voice became louder as he read on.

Then more people were attracted.

"Who is the real scumbag? I love my wife very much and I am very grateful to her."

When Mori Tetsutaro looked at the sign, he was immediately filled with admiration for the editorial department of the Nikkan Sports News.

This sarcastic tone is unique.

It feels like everyone in their editorial department can become a literary critic!

Then, amidst the uproar, he saw all the readers in the store reaching out for the evening edition of the Daily Sports News!

Tetsutarou Mori knew this thing would be popular, but he didn’t expect it to be so popular!

It seems that anything that has something to do with Mr. Kitagawa can always attract a large number of readers.

He also quickly reached out to ask for a newspaper, and then quickly left the bookstore to avoid being discovered by acquaintances.

At the same time, outside "Peter Cat".

My wife Yumeko, who had just returned from school, pushed the door open with a pile of newspapers in her arms and a yellow envelope in her mouth.

"Xiu-jun, here's your bank statement!"

(End of this chapter)