I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 409 This is Mr. Beichuan’s superior writing ability!

“The plot of this book is based on the real experience of the heroine of the Wakayama poisonous curry incident, Hayashi Masumi.

Due to the needs of novel writing, the plot of the novel has some deviations from real events. Please do not substitute real people into the story of the novel. "

At the top of the serial page of "The Villain", two lines of large characters written by Hide Kitagawa himself were prominently marked in red font.

Since "Snow Country", as his fame grew and his social influence became stronger, Kitagawa Hide's novels on realistic themes would be preceded by a few lines of such "Disclaimer".

It’s not that Kitagawa Hide is worried that he will be caught up in some public opinion storm because of this——

With his current literary status and social influence, people in the Japanese literary world have already worshipped him as a god, big names in the academic world all want to make friends with him, and celebrities in the publishing, journalism and entertainment circles are also proud to read Kitagawa Hide's novels and star in film and television dramas adapted from his novels.

If they want to defeat Kitagawa Hide in the field of public opinion, even the Ministry of Education, which officially controls this area, is basically unable to do so.

But just because one cannot criticize Kitagawa Hide doesn’t mean it won’t affect the companies under his name and Kawaide Shobo, with whom he has a very close relationship.

The Japanese literature market, driven by Kitagawa Hide's novels, has now become a popular commodity that everyone is eyeing. Even the six major conglomerates that have never paid much attention to the entertainment industry have established publishing houses and entertainment companies.

Kawaide Shobo holds over 50% of the literary market share, so it's impossible for others not to be jealous.

If the six major conglomerates can reduce the brand credibility and influence of "Wenyi" through legal means, they will not show any mercy.

Kitagawa Hide, who is cautiously trying to promote e-books and online reading, has already sensed this.

Under such circumstances, when even the leading companies and industry bosses had no objection, it should have been easy for him to let Beichuan Network swallow the fat piece of e-reading.

But the fact is, as the plan progresses, there is more and more invisible and inexplicable resistance coming from all sides.

From small things like prosecutorial supervision from relevant departments to big things like official documents from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, there will always be resistance in the field of e-reading, making it difficult for Beichuan Network to quietly and comfortably develop the market.

With Kitagawa Hide's current financial resources and connections, there are still people who dare to secretly go against him. It is obvious that only the six major financial groups that truly control Japan can do so.

After discovering this, Kitagawa Hide immediately became alert and became much more cautious in everything he did.

Having lived two lives, no one knows better than him the terror and cruelty of these consortiums.

Xunzi, who was reading the novel, had no idea that these two lines of words contained so many conflicts of interest and conspiracies.

She was only focused on watching "The Villain" which Mr. Kitagawa asked her to watch.

The Hayashi Masumi case caused a lot of controversy in September, and almost every Japanese person has heard about it to some extent.

Kaoru had heard people talking about this both at work and at school.

In their private chat room, Chihaya Ruri was so shocked that she kept posting real photos of Hayashi Masumi. It was hard to believe that a middle-aged woman who looked like this could cheat hundreds of millions of yen from a man!
In 1998, Japan was already in its sixth year after the bursting of its bubble economy. Relying on its strong and tenacious technology and entertainment industries, the country's economy had shown signs of recovery.

The series of economic policies implemented by Keizo Obuchi after he came to power also produced very good results.

But even so, 1 million yen is equivalent to 100 million US dollars, which is not a small sum in this era in the eyes of ordinary people and even some wealthy people.

Chihaya Ruri said that Hayashi Masumi must have some tricks that she couldn't tell anyone, but Kyoko thought that middle-class old men were easier to deceive.

Kaoru didn't have much interest or thoughts on this matter, but she was quite curious about Hayashi Masumi.

She really wanted to know what Mr. Kitagawa thought of Hayashi Masumi and why he used the strange word "evil girl" to describe her.

In 1981, the famous female singer Miyuki Nakajima wrote a song titled "evil woman" in Japanese.

In traditional cognition, the word "evil woman" means a bad woman.

But obviously, the novel "The Villain" cannot be simply interpreted as "bad woman".

The entry point and beginning of the novel are also very interesting.

Everyone thought that Kitagawa would use the story of Hayashi Masumi as the starting point, but Kitagawa started with another woman——

Ms. Tatsumi Terada, daughter of the victim, Takao Terada.

In the novel, Terada Tatsumi, a news anchor working for a large TV station, is beautiful, tall, and has outstanding abilities.

The story begins with her taking wedding photos with her fiancé, Dr. Kobayashi.

Tatsumi Terada's parents divorced when she was a child, and she was awarded to her mother, but she had a deeper relationship with her father, Takao Terada.

When taking wedding photos at the beginning, Tatsumi Terada even took the initiative to ask her father to take a photo with her.

Seeing a third person in their wedding photo made Dr. Kobayashi very embarrassed, even though he was his fiancée's father.

He couldn't help but think that his fiancée loved his father more than he loved himself.

Due to the special nature of news hotspot work, Terada Tatsumi, who had not yet finished taking her wedding photos, left in a hurry after receiving a phone call.

Embarrassed Dr. Kobayashi could only send Terada Takao home in even greater embarrassment and helplessness.

After this embarrassing wedding photo plot, the story of the novel officially begins.

"The opening plot is unexpected. Mr. Beichuan always gives people unexpected surprises."

Kaoru, who has always taken Kitagawa teacher as her role model, couldn't help but secretly admire him in her heart.

After coming to Tokyo, she has been trying to write novels, and showed some of her manuscripts to Rena Saito and others.

Unfortunately, her ability in literary creation is not outstanding. The novels she writes are only slightly better than those of her peers. When compared with serious novelists, her true colors are immediately exposed.

Rena Saito told the little sister frankly that if she wanted to serialize in a top magazine like "Bungei", she would probably have to study for another ten to eight years.

In terms of literary talent, Kaoru is not even as good as Shirou Dango and Rena Saito.

But this did not discourage Xunzi.

She continued to study and work part-time, finding time to read and write, striving to officially serialize her own novel before graduating from university!
And during the learning process, when she looked at Mr. Beichuan's novels from the perspective of a creator, she suddenly realized that her idol turned out to be such a tall towering tree!

Some of the small designs that appeared randomly in the novel were enough for her to study for a long time.

Back to The Villain.

The title of Chapter 2 is "Father and Daughter, Husband and Wife".

Although they have not registered for marriage certificate yet, Tatsumi Terada is already living with her fiancé.

On this day, Takao Terada, who thought his daughter was on vacation, opened the door and walked into his daughter's house without saying hello in advance. He happened to meet Dr. Kobayashi, who was sleeping on the sofa in her underwear with an embarrassed look on her face.

Takao Terada originally planned to put down the food and leave, but Dr. Kobayashi enthusiastically asked his future father-in-law to have dinner with him.

The sushi served by Takao Terada was very authentic Kyoto sushi. Doctor Kobayashi originally thought it was just ordinary sushi and didn't take it too seriously.

But after eating a piece, he was amazed and learned from his future father-in-law that the sushi was made by his girlfriend. Thinking of Terada Tatsumi, who never knew how to cook, Dr. Kobayashi felt even more bitter.

Late that night, after a day's work, Terada Tatsumi dragged her tired body into bed. She passively responded to her fiancé's affection with a perfunctory attitude, which made Dr. Kobayashi more and more annoyed.

At the same time, Takao Terada, a middle-aged man who had been divorced for many years and had no desires or demands, was enjoying the ultimate happiness given to him by Hayashi Masumi.

Terada Tatsumi, who was still unaware of these things, thought that her fiancé would still love her unconditionally and cooperate with her.

But one day after get off work, Terada Tatsumi suddenly discovered that Dr. Kobayashi had disappeared, as if he had evaporated from the face of the earth.

Tatsumi Terada called his phone frantically, but no one answered.

She had no choice but to call the hospital where Dr. Kobayashi worked, but was told that Dr. Kobayashi had already resigned and started his own business.

Just when Terada Tatsumi was about to call the police, a strange phone call suddenly came in.

The caller was a young girl.

On the phone, the young girl spoke arrogantly, and challenged Terada Tatsumi in a smug and domineering manner.

In order to convince Tatsumi Terada, the young girl sent a somewhat blurry photo via the Internet.

When she zoomed in, she could vaguely see that the naked fiancé was hugging a young girl with a bright smile, who was also naked.

Until this moment, Terada Tatsumi finally realized that her fiancé had cheated on her with a busty, passionate young girl!

She was puzzled.

She and her fiancé were a good match, with the man being talented and the woman being beautiful. Moreover, Dr. Kobayashi's parents had paid the down payment for their house in Tokyo. All the pre-marriage preparations had been completed. So what was the problem?

After this chapter ends, the real heroine Hayashi Masumi, who is known to everyone, still does not appear in the novel's plot.

For some reason, when watching the story of Tatsumi Terada, Kaoru felt an inexplicable sense of involvement.

In the Japanese workplace, young women like Terada Tatsumi who can stand on their own feet are actually rare.

In order to maintain sufficient work motivation and vitality, they often put their careers before everything else.

But in this way, their own lives will easily become a mess.

Was her fiancé's betrayal her own fault, or was it the fault of Japanese society?

A big doubt appeared in Xunzi's mind.

The same question has been raised by countless working women.

Kitagawa Hide's "The Villain" uses two seemingly insignificant chapters to deeply expose some pathological realities in the Japanese workplace and society.

In fact, working women like Tatsumi Terada will become very common in Japanese dramas and movies in the future.

For example, Satomi Ishihara in "Unnatural" missed many blind dates and dates because of work, and became an older single woman who gave her parents a headache.

But in 1998, the only work that could so clearly analyze the current situation of young working women was Hide Kitagawa's "The Villain".

The chapter title of Chapter 3 is "Dinosaur Serpent Woman".

The chapter begins when the TV station department where Tatsumi Terada works receives a special news broadcast assignment.

The protagonist of this special news is neither a politician nor a big star, but an ugly, older housewife.

Tatsumi Terada carefully read the news content and the information about the housewife and found that the other party was suspected to be involved in many suicide cases of middle-aged and elderly men!

The mission of TV stations is to blur the lines between right and wrong, retain viewers with hot news, and increase ratings.

So she had to lead the other party in the direction of being the murderer.

After another busy day at work, Terada Tatsumi dragged her tired body home. When she realized that her fiancé was not there, she forced herself to cheer up and drove to find her father.

Exhausted both physically and mentally, she needed her father's comfort and encouragement.

Then she saw Hayashi Masumi cooking at her father's house!

No one knows how terrifying Hayashi Masumi is better than Terada Tatsumi!

She had imagined this many times while reporting the news. If those cases were really committed by Lin Masumi, then this woman must have a heart of an evil snake!
And now, Hayashi Masumi, whom she identified as the "dinosaur femme fatale", was in her own home!

After learning more about the situation, she felt like the sky was falling.

It turned out that during this period of time, the relationship between my father and Hayashi Masumi had become so deep that they were discussing marriage.

Her father happily told Terada Tatsumi that Hayashi Masumi was very good at washing clothes and cooking, and was also very good at serving the elderly. Her grandmother liked Hayashi Masumi very much.

But no matter what her father said, Terada Tatsumi couldn't believe how this dinosaur-like vicious woman with only junior high school education and a former masseuse could enter and leave high-end residential areas and have a house full of branded luxury jewelry.

What’s even worse is that Hayashi Masumi is also involved in multiple suicide cases!
The situations of those old men who died were very similar to my father's.

The matter between my father and Hayashi Masumi was just too much of a coincidence.

Therefore, Tatsumi Terada was determined not to let such an unknown woman be with her father.

However, it was as if Takao Terada was bewitched by Masumi Hayashi, and he remained indifferent no matter what Tachimi Terada said.

The father and daughter, who once had a very deep relationship, broke up at the dinner table.

This is where the story of Chapter 3 ends.

This chapter is full of conflicts and contradictions. Kaoru enjoyed reading it very much and was also worried about Terada Tatsumi and her father.

Teacher Kitagawa cleverly used indirect description to highlight the uniqueness of Hayashi Masumi.

If it were most other writers, they would probably choose to directly write about how great Hayashi Masumi is. However, Mr. Kitagawa used Terada Tatsumi, a young career woman who seems to crush Hayashi Masumi in all aspects, to indirectly highlight Hayashi Masumi.

The first two chapters have laid the groundwork for so long, and after the character of Terada Tatsumi has been established, she is used to set off Hayashi Masumi.

In this way, the character of Hayashi Masumi can be easily portrayed.

Looking at the previous two chapters again now, all my previous doubts suddenly became clear.

Xunzi felt that if she could learn this little trick vividly, she should be able to be easily signed by "Wenyi"!

Even after seeing this, she still didn't quite understand why Mr. Kitagawa specifically asked her to read the novel.

Thinking of this, she continued reading.

(End of this chapter)