I am a literary giant in Japan

The next morning.

Ono Satoko, Sato Tsuyoshi and others who had signed contracts with Kitagawa Entertainment reversed their previous passive state and began to actively cooperate with Kaoru's information collection work.

Ever since the "forcing the emperor to abdicate" incident by Ono Satoko and others, Kaoru, who was originally gentle and a little immature in her actions, has instantly matured.

Upon learning that Mr. Beichuan was really going to serialize a new book in his own magazine, the editors in the Beichuan editorial department were like chicken blood, and they immediately became motivated to work. They contacted the authors they had stockpiled and asked them to work overtime to write some new books.

Every time Mr. Kitagawa publishes a new book, the sales of that magazine that month will basically go through the roof.

This means that all authors serializing in the current issue can enjoy more than ten times or even more reader traffic than before.

For those authors who are just starting out or have been standing still and unable to make any progress, this is simply a godsend opportunity to turn things around!

If they can become a little famous with Mr. Kitagawa, then the editor in charge of them will be able to rise with the tide and get a promotion and salary increase, just like editor Yasushi Ishida of "Dazhong"!

While Kaoru was quietly collecting a large amount of information related to the Asakusa community, the senior executives of the "Wenyi" editorial department were in a state of headache.

"Tokyo Man" successfully made "Wenyi" leave "Xinwenxiang" ten blocks away, and it firmly sat at the top of all literary magazines in the publishing industry in the first half of 1998.

But after the completion of "Tokyo People", there was no news about Mr. Kitagawa's new book, so they had no idea who to fill the vacant position.

Kawade Shizuko and Saito Reina, who knew a little about Kitagawa Hide's recent situation, understood that Kitagawa Hide would definitely not focus on "Wenyi" in the next few issues -

He was not originally an author who was closely tied to "Wenyi". Now he has to focus on boosting the sales of "Beichuan". It is normal that he has no time to take care of "Wenyi".

They were also embarrassed to always let Kitagawa Hide take care of "Wenyi"——

After all, when she was recruiting Kitagawa Hide, Kawaide Shizuko frankly said that she would never tie him to the Kawaide Shobo.

But even though this is the truth, the two of them are still a little anxious and worried when they think that the August issue of "Wenyi" will not include Kitagawa Hide's novel.

After all, apart from Kitagawa Hide, who is a bug in the literary world, there is not much gap between Kawade Shobo and the newly established Shinbunxiang in terms of other author resources. If they really have to compete head-on relying solely on their author resources, Kawade Shobo does not have a 100% chance of winning.

On the other hand, Kitagawa Hide has no time or energy to think about so many things.

In the second half of August, he will focus most of his time and energy on the upcoming "Asakusa Red Group".

No matter how high his current status or how much wealth he has, he must put all his efforts into preparing and writing every new book. This is a principle he has already established on his writing journey!

In addition, he is also refining and polishing the remaining chapters of "The Little Prince".

This is his first "love letter" to the two little ones. Regardless of sales or performance, he strives to perfectly present the essence and core of the original work.

Otherwise, when the two little ones grow up and can understand "The Little Prince", it would be a bit embarrassing if they are not interested in the book written by their father.

In addition, although Rena Saito has not come to urge for manuscripts recently, "Wenyi" also has a well-behaved look of "I won't bother you unless you come to me on your own initiative."

But after all, he has already invested in Kawaide Shobo, and Saito Rena and Kawaide Shizuko are also his close friends in this world. He will definitely not watch "Wenyi" go and fight a tough hand-to-hand battle with "Shinbunxiang".

Of course, he currently has two books to write, and he has no idea about the new book to be serialized in "Wenyi".

It is just a pipe dream to want to rush out a new book and then serialize it in the new issue of "Wenyi" which will be released in a few days.

However, Kitagawa Hideya has also figured out in the past few days how "Wenyi", which will be released on August 8, should smoothly get through the period without him.

The method is to use his second disciple, now the undisputed number one in the world of mystery literature, Keigo Higashino!
August 1998, 8, at the Kitagawa family villa in Minato Ward.

Since finishing writing "The Devotion of Suspect X", Keigo Higashino's dream of becoming a pure literary writer has begun to stir again.

Three years ago, he was a failed writer who tried and failed over and over again, and no matter what he wrote or submitted, his work would be accepted.

Because of unstable income, aging and uncertain future, his wife, with whom he had been married for seven years, filed for divorce.

At that time, Keigo Higashino was only thinking about how to turn his life around, and had long forgotten his childhood dream of becoming a pure literary writer.

Later, by chance, he became the second disciple of Mr. Kitagawa. Under his guidance, he wrote a series of hits such as "Secret", "White Night Walk", and "Blade of the Emperor". Keigo Higashino completely changed his destiny.

Now he is financially independent and has a certain social status in the popular literary world. A while ago, he also got a new wife through the introduction of a friend.

At this point, looking at his teacher who was getting further and further away from him, the dream of becoming a pure literary writer hidden in Keigo Higashino's heart began to burn again.

He wants to become a real writer like his teacher!

Therefore, after completing "The Devotion of Suspect X", he told the publisher and readers that he wanted to move into the field of pure literature.

Everyone was stunned when they received the news.

Keigo Higashino is an introverted and taciturn person. He didn't care about other people's opinions and plunged into the world of pure literature.

The result can be imagined.

The three pure literary short stories he wrote later all ended in failure.

Now, he fell into a vicious cycle of self-doubt and denial.

Just when Keigo Higashino couldn't find his direction, a phone call from Hide Kitagawa was like a ray of salvation, shining into his dark life.

When Keigo Higashino heard that his teacher was going to teach him how to write pure literary novels, he immediately picked up his bag and luggage and ran to the villa to "live together".

Kitagawa Hide, who knows Keigo Higashino's writing career better than anyone else, had already figured out how to guide his second disciple.

This time, the new book that Kitagawa Hide chose for him was "The Convenience Store of Sorrow", which in the original history went through a long period of failure and then once again pulled Keigo Higashino back from the bottom.

According to the original history, "The Convenience Store of Sorrow" began serialization in "Novel Wild Age" in 2011 and was published as a single volume by Kadokawa Shoten in March 2012.

This novel is Keigo Higashino's last work after "The Suspect" which achieved great success in both word-of-mouth and sales.

After writing "The Convenience Store of Sorrow", Keigo Higashino was completely regarded in the industry as a "trash author" who could only write rubbish books to make money and relied on the "Detective Galileo" series to make a living.

How good is the novel "The Convenience Store of Sorrow"?
The novel won the 7th Central Public Opinion Literature Award (among all the winning works, it is the only mystery novel with a popular subject matter and a purely literary writing style).

In the subsequent Apple Daily translated novel sales rankings, "The Convenience Store of Sorrow" ranked second for two consecutive seasons and topped the major rankings of Kinokuniya, Eslite, Books.com, and Kingstone for several weeks.

On Amazon China's 2015 best-selling book list, it ranked second overall.

On December 2017, 12, Amazon China released a series of annual reading lists based on Amazon's reading big data.

Among them, "The Convenience Store of Sorrow" has been on the list for four consecutive years and once again became the best-selling book on Amazon in 4. In Japan and other Southeast Asian countries, "The Convenience Store of Sorrow" has also dominated similar book bestseller lists for weeks to months.

But in terms of book sales, it should have completely surpassed Keigo Higashino's most acclaimed works "The Suspect" and "White Night Walk".

The novel tells a healing story about a grocery store on a quiet street. As long as you write down your troubles and drop them into the letter slot on the roller shutter door at the front of the store, you will receive an answer in the milk box behind the store the next day.

"Teacher Beichuan, this is the new opening I wrote according to your wishes. Please take a look!"

With dark circles under his eyes and messy hair, Keigo Higashino knocked on the door of Kitagawa Hide's study and walked in with a pile of manuscripts.

In the study, Kitagawa Hide was also looking a little decadent, wearing brown pajamas, as if he hadn't slept for several days.

"Well. Dongye, you came just in time. Take a look at my new book manuscript."

Kitagawa Hide took out a stack of new manuscripts from the typewriter and handed it to him.

After receiving a large amount of relevant information from Kaoru, he finally started writing "Asakusa Red Group".

Recently, he happened to hear the little story between Ashin and Yumiko, which made Kitagawa Hide's thinking more divergent.

The new inspiration made him revise the already perfected beginning several times. As time went by, and with Keigo Higashino's daily guidance in writing the book, the two of them became inseparable day and night, and it ended up being what it is today.

During this period, Yumeko and the others were a little worried, so they went to take care of the daily life of these two "book writing maniacs" in the order of Yumeko, Jabami Rei, Aso Mayumi, Saito Rena, and Kawaide Shizuko.

As for the two little ones, they were temporarily transferred to Mayumi Aso's house to stay temporarily, so as to avoid being disrupted by Kitagawa Hide and his wife's reversed day and night schedule.

Hard work pays off.

With unremitting efforts day and night, Kitagawa Hide finally felt that he had come up with an opening that he was relatively satisfied with after revising the opening more than thirty times.

"Yes! I will read it carefully!" Keigo Higashino bowed 90 degrees and solemnly exchanged the manuscript with Kitagawa Hide.

After coming here, he heard that Mr. Beichuan was going to write a new book, so he became interested and secretly observed how the teacher created a new pure literary novel.

Keigo Higashino was deeply shocked by Kitagawa Hide's creative state and enthusiasm.

After achieving success, he spent a long time writing many mystery novels of varying quality in order to make money.

This is also the origin of Keigo Higashino's theory of the dual nature of gods and demons.

He felt that he knew better than anyone how difficult it would be for a creator to maintain his initial creative passion after gaining fame and fortune.

Humans are not pure typing machines, and continuously and efficiently producing excellent works is itself an extremely anti-human thing.

It's really hard to maintain this kind of passion and enthusiasm for work when you could be enjoying it.

Then Mr. Kitagawa used his own experience to tell him what the cultivation of a top writer is.

In the past, Keigo Higashino thought he was quite diligent and hardworking, but compared to the teacher in front of him.

Forget it, let’s not compare anymore, I can’t even see the taillights of other people’s cars.
"Introduction: The author has said that it is difficult to estimate how much trouble this novel will bring to the members of the Red Group and the people entrenched in Asakusa Park. However, after all, it is a novel, so please forgive me.

Chapter 1: "The Girl Playing the Piano".

Hanging around his waist was an old-fashioned tanned deerskin pipe with red copper hardware, a silver-plated pipe inserted inside and an agate pendant hanging from it. In order to prevent the government tobacco leaves from drying out, green vegetable stems were also placed inside.

He wore white skinny trousers, black leggings, white hand guards, and a simple navy blue striped kimono with the back of the kimono lifted up and tucked into the belt. He looked exactly like a bird catcher in a picture book of the Edo period. It is said that this outfit can still be seen in Tokyo today.

The person who said this was a policeman, so it shouldn't just be a joke out of nostalgia.

In this case, I should also imitate the wording of the Edo period:

This is the way!

I will lead you along this road to the residences of the Red Corps members.

It is said that during the Kanbun era, the young men wore white leather kimonos and skirt pants, and wore white sheathed swords on their waists. They even rode white horses and had their grooms sing popular groom songs when they went to Yoshiwara. Perhaps we should check whether the horse trail to Yoshiwara is this road. "

Keigo Higashino read the first chapter of "Asakusa Red Ball" softly.

Teacher Kitagawa said that the current Asakusa community should be rewritten as "Asakusa Park", the Red Falcon Group should be renamed "Red Group", and then the ancient language and style of the Edo period should be used to show the various creatures living there.

I have to say that it is a genius idea to write a modern novel using ancient language.

But the difficulty lies in that if the creator does not understand the writing method of ancient language, what he writes may be incoherent and incomprehensible to readers.

Keigo Higashino has also read the previous versions and indeed felt that this writing style was too difficult, and even Mr. Kitagawa couldn't handle it.

But now this version.
An indescribable sense of smoothness and comfort.

You are really worthy of being called Teacher Kitagawa!
"Dongye? Dongye? Dongye!"

Kitagawa Hide's voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

"Ah? Yes! Teacher Kitagawa, what's wrong?" Keigo Higashino quickly shifted his gaze away from the manuscript.

In just a short while, he found that Teacher Beichuan had finished reading his manuscript and had written a lot of densely packed comments on it, which made him feel a little dizzy.

"Come here, I'll tell you what needs to be modified."

Kitagawa Hide waved to him.

Keigo Higashino put down the manuscript in his hand and pasted it over obediently.

Kitagawa Hide glanced at Higashino Keigo, who was also looking very decadent, and asked with a smile, "Are you a little annoyed to have to revise it more than ten times a day?"

"How could that be?! I think your suggestions are all very useful and pertinent. I just hate that I can't meet your requirements, Mr. Beichuan. Compared with you, I have too many shortcomings."

Keigo Higashino quickly shook his head.

Beichuan Xiu smiled gently: "That's good. Since you are willing to change it, let's change it one last time!"

"Okay! Thank you for your hard work! Teacher Beichuan!" (End of this chapter)