I am a literary giant in Japan

The real old guy Hidemasa Kitagawa is flying back to Tokyo, Japan.

The fake old man Nagai Kazufu was scowling in the study of his luxury home in Minato Ward.

His new work "Flowers of Hell", which he used to compete with Hide Kitagawa, has completed the final renovation.

With the brainstorming and full cooperation of nearly a hundred editors from Xinwenxiang Publishing House, "Flowers of Hell" can be regarded as his best literary work since his debut.

There is no doubt about this.

Moreover, "Flowers of Hell" also uses the "interview-style documentary" writing technique, which was once very popular in the Western literary world but is rarely used in the Japanese literary world.

Nagai Kazufu has stacked so many chips on this new work with the aim of completely defeating Kitagawa Hide and saving face for the New Wenxiang Publishing House, which had just lost in the competition among middle and lower-level authors.

It was also to revive the conservative faction that had been in a slump since Ichiro Tanizaki was imprisoned.

These days he has been frantically promoting his new book in front of the camera, and has been talking about the contradiction between the old and the new. He was just short of saying "It is my duty as Nagai Kazukaze to revive the glory of the conservatives."

Seeing that things are moving in a good direction, the two major financial groups, Mitsubishi and Sumitomo, are also strongly supporting me.

Some news that suddenly came from overseas yesterday shattered all his plans!
Kitagawa Hide, who had been blacklisted by the Nobel Prize officials, happily ran to Stockholm to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony.

After this incident was reported, it caused an uproar in the country.

After all, Japanese literature symbolizes the last backbone of the Japanese people.

Don’t worry about whether this backbone is strong or not, at least it is considered so by the people.

Kitagawa Hideto was openly blocked, but he still ran over to flatter the person shamelessly, instantly losing the favor of the readers.

The two major conglomerates also took advantage of the situation and used the media in their hands to hype up Kitagawa Hide's ugly behavior of "wanting fame but not shame", saying that he was not worthy of being the "number one in the world" in the Japanese literary world.

This was originally a good thing, and it happened at a critical moment when the two were competing.

Nagai Kazufu even suspected that Kitagawa Hide was cursed and his mind was not clear.

But soon, the reversal came!
Shortly after the Nobel Prize ceremony, reel after reel of recorded videotapes went viral around the world.

Nagai Kazufu asked his overseas friends to buy a copy for $100 and couldn't wait to watch it at home.

Along with him, the senior executives of Xinwenxiang Publishing House also admired Beichuan Xiu's "ugly face".

Everyone was in high spirits, prepared melon seeds, fruit plates and beer, and then
I didn't eat the fruit plate, nor did I drink the beer. I did crack a lot of melon seeds, but I didn't feel any joy from eating the melon at all.

I thought this was Kitagawa Hide's most embarrassing moment overseas, but I didn't expect it to be his most glorious moment!
Seeing one world celebrity after another, whom they could name, standing up to read the preface for Kitagawa Hide, Nagai Kazufu, who was watching the video, felt his blood boiling!

Damn it!
Why does he receive such great love from the overseas literary world!
Before Nagai Kazufu's sourness had worn off, another bombshell exploded on him.

"Kafka on the Shore" received a very good response in the Western world, and the copyright was purchased by the Greek government for 1.8 million euros + 15% of the profits.

Such a high overseas copyright price directly broke the overseas copyright sales record of Japanese literary works. I believe that for a long time, it will be difficult for other writers to reach this height.

After all, in the overseas copyright sales price rankings of Japanese literary works, the top ten are all monopolized by Kitagawa Hide!

Whether he is the "best in the world" in Japanese literature is still a little controversial in the literary world.

But Kitagawa Hide was the first Japanese to go overseas, and no one will or can refute this.

And just now, after sending away a bunch of new Wenxiang executives who wanted to have fun but ended up becoming the fun themselves, Nagai Kazufeng received three new pieces of news from his secretary.

News 1: "Kafka on the Shore" won the World Fantasy Award and the Franz Kafka Award.

Moreover, it sold a million copies in Japan in just one day after its publication. On the literature page of the Asahi Shimbun, it was specially written in large bold font that "In just one day, "The Sea" sold over 105 million copies in the country."

On the cover of the famous overseas book review magazine "Da Vinci", the words "Written to Mr. Hide Kitagawa" were printed in large vertical fonts, and a special article was compiled and published.

The New York Times has already rated it as one of the "Top Ten Best Books of 1998"!
News 20: "The Little Shop of Sorrow", which was blocked by the cinema chains controlled by two major conglomerates, received extremely good responses after its release in many single-theater cinema chains. The box office exceeded 50 billion yen in the first week, and it is predicted that the box office in the first month will exceed 80 billion yen, and the final box office is expected to exceed billion yen!

This is the result of a large number of theaters not showing the film.

If it is screened in multiple channels like other big-budget movies, it will not be a problem for "The Little Match Girl" to break 200 billion yen in total box office!

News three: Hide Kitagawa is back.

These three pieces of new news were like heavy punches one after another, hitting Nagai Kazukaze hard on the head, making him and his supporters behind him dizzy and feeling that they had already lost before the fight officially started.

At the same time, these things were also spread wildly by netizens on the Internet, and Kitagawa Hide's reputation, which had just declined, suddenly rose again.

Many Japanese readers are not familiar with the two awards won by "Kafka on the Shore".

After all, for most casual fans, they have only heard of top awards such as the Nobel Prize and the Goncourt Prize.

But Kitagawa Hide's die-hard fans were very enthusiastic in educating them about the importance of these two overseas awards.

There is no need to say much about Franz Kafka.

This famous modern literary master will be remembered forever by the world literary community with just one book, "The Metamorphosis".

The World Fantasy Award is also the highest award in the field of fantasy literature.

The reason why it is very famous overseas is thanks to the big trophy officially produced by the award.

The golden trophy lying quietly in Kitagawa Hide's suitcase at this moment is a bust of the late famous supernatural horror novelist HP Lovecraft.

HP Lovecraft, Howard Philip Lovecraft, maybe you haven't heard of his name, but you must have heard of the name of the series of horror novels he created -

"Cthulhu Series".

The World Fantasy Award is not awarded every year, but the jury will only award it to a suitable work in a particular year.

The last author to win this honor was the famous American fantasy novelist Peter Stauber, for his work "Koko", which was won in 1989, nine years ago.

It is worth mentioning that Peter Stauber was also invited to attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony and was one of the people who stood up to read the preface for Hide Kitagawa.

The simultaneous popularity at home and abroad allowed Kitagawa Hide to silently fight back against the Arnault couple and the Western literary forces they controlled.

The exposure that Nagai Kazufu had finally gained by selling out his old face was suppressed in an instant.

"Kafka on the Shore" is a hot topic both online and offline.

And he is not much different from the clown-like Arnault.

The second piece of news also annoyed him.

However, the most annoyed and depressed people are probably the top executives of the two major conglomerates.

In order to attack Kitagawa Hide and Kitagawa Entertainment, they spent a lot of money to discredit Jabara Rei, completely erasing a rising star in the Japanese entertainment industry. With a large amount of capital operation, Jabara Rei has long fallen from a national goddess to a violent woman who only beats minors.

Under the capital resistance, the big production of "The Convenience Store of Sorrow" seems to be in vain.

But somehow, it came back to life!

This is still a work by Keigo Higashino, not a novel written by Hide Kitagawa himself!

The two major conglomerates used all means and resources from the entertainment industry, but they couldn't even defeat Kitagawa Hide's disciples and the woman kept by the film and television company (the entertainment industry generally believed that Jabami Rei was Kitagawa Hide's lover)!

What a shame and humiliation!
The explosive popularity of "The Convenience Store of Sorrow" has once again ignited the popularity of Keigo Higashino's other novels.

Not long ago, he frantically serialized three novels, and single-handedly competed with "Wenyi" and "Xinwenxiang".

Kitagawa Hide's three major disciples worked together to put the conservative literati under great pressure.

Now his new books have been adapted into film and television, completely solidifying his title as the "Newcomer King" in Japanese literary circles.

Jabami Rei also made a comeback with her wonderful performance in "The Little Shop of Sorrow", and it seems that she has received some film offers and advertising invitations from some luxury brands that dare to take the plunge.

Of course, among the three pieces of news, the one that frightened Nagai Kazufeng the most was the third and shortest piece of news.

He is back!

The man came back with countless honors!
He is going to write a new book and compete head-on with himself!

Nagai Kazufu's hands holding the manuscript began to tremble.

Now over sixty years old, he once again experienced the fear that Ichiro Tanizaki and others had felt at the time.

Is a young man who is only 26 years old really that amazing?
He gritted his teeth, refused to believe it and refused to accept it, and decided to risk his reputation for marketing.

"Lianzi, please arrange a press conference for me to promote my new book right now."

After closing the newspaper and putting down the manuscript in his hand, Nagai Kazufu's eyes flashed with determination.

He asked his female secretary to bring him the suit jacket he had worn when he was promoted to the "best rank in the world", and then he tidied himself up in front of the mirror.

The girl named Reiko seemed to sense something and looked at Nagai Kazufu with some melancholy.

Fifteen years ago, Nagai Kazufu won the title of "Tenka No. 1". In the past fifteen years, his fame is not as loud as Arima Yoshiyoshi, not as popular overseas as Hyakuta Naoki, and not as stable as Tanizaki Ichiro.

But among the seven, he has the greatest appeal and the most stable fan base.

Eight years ago, Reiko, who was only sixteen years old, fell in love with him. Nagai Kazufu even divorced his wife and left the house for Reiko.

For the past eight years, Reiko, who has always been with him, has been looking forward to seeing Nagai Kazufu have the opportunity to continue to move up step by step.

After finally waiting for Ichiro Tanizaki to fall from the throne, he received support from two major conglomerates.

"With the right time, right place, and right people, Mr. Nagai will not lose!"

"Keep working hard! Mr. Nagai!"

"Don't give up!"

Lianzi shouted this in her heart.

Nagai Kazufu's new marketing strategy is simple.

He wants to tell everyone that "Flowers of Hell" is not only his best work, it will also become his representative work and his last work!

He wanted to use the greatest enthusiasm of stopping writing to completely eliminate the influence brought by Kitagawa Hide.

"cheers!"

In a welfare home in Nerima Ward, Tokyo.

Jabami Rei raised her glass high and shouted excitedly to the group of boys, girls and children surrounding her.

"Ahhh."

The group of deaf-mutes, led by Akiko and Tatsuo, also happily raised their glasses. Although they could not speak, they tried their best to make various sounds to express their joy.

Their beloved sister Jaburi Rei has finally regained her spirits!

The two major conglomerates had previously slandered and besieged her, which had once made these kind-hearted deaf-mute people so angry that they almost took up weapons and knocked on the door of the Tokyo governor's house.

Fortunately, things are moving in the right direction.

Sister Jabami Rei's work is stable again, and the new movie she is filming is also selling well, and is expected to become a new milestone in her career!

Previously, they were worried that "The Little Match Girl" might not be a success, so Akiko and Tatsuo secretly organized a group of deaf-mute people in Nerima District to go to the cinema to watch the movie, hoping to do their part to support Jabami Rei.

Anyway, it’s great that things have a happy ending!
Mingzi in the crowd thought so.

The only regret is that Hanako's family, who live far away in Yamanashi Prefecture, cannot come here to share this joy.

Hanako's family is also deaf-mute, and they are "the same kind" that Akiko and Tatsuo met by chance when they went to Yamanashi Prefecture.

They are hospitable and sincere, completely different from the cunning "Tokyo people".

It was also because of Hanako's family that Jabami Rei paid attention to the deaf-mute community in Yamanashi Prefecture.

However, the distance is too long, and the life of the deaf-mute community in Yamanashi Prefecture is even more difficult. Now they are busy building the new school that Jabari Rei has worked so hard to build, so they cannot come to Tokyo to congratulate.

Looking at the deaf-mute people around her, Jabami Rei remembered what Kitagawa Hide said and what she had been doing, and felt extremely excited and happy.

It seems that it won't be long before she can officially do charity work as an actress!

In this way, everyone in Nerima Ward and Yamanashi Prefecture will be noticed by all walks of life.

This is much better than her fighting alone!
Wait until he returns to Tokyo and share this good news with him!

Jabami Rei thought so, feeling very happy. She then opened the piles of cardboard boxes behind her and distributed the brand new copies of "Kafka on the Shore" to everyone.

She was very grateful for Hide Kitagawa's efforts and hoped to help him in some way, so she bought all of Hide Kitagawa's novels and shared them with these deaf-mute people.

Although many of Kitagawa Hide's novels are filled with tragic endings and sentimental elements, the overall intention is positive and can greatly encourage young people who are confused due to physical defects.

Jabami Rei didn't know whether doing this would help that annoying guy or not, but she would keep doing it and try to help him silently.

"Xiujun, one day, you will become a world-famous writer!" She said firmly while holding the glass. (End of this chapter)