I am a literary giant in Japan

It was after careful consideration that Kitagawa Hide finally decided to combine these three works into the "New Year's King".

If we separate the three of them, any one of them alone would not be strong enough to fight against the charity group of Maehara Seiji and Shiroyama Saburo.

"A Wonderful Journey" or "Beautiful Journey" is a medium-length masterpiece written by Yasunari Kawabata in 1940 during the war after he visited various schools for the blind and deaf in Tokyo and was deeply moved.

Because it was a critical period of World War II, Japanese militarists wanted to expand the number of troops to go to war, and they were even shameless enough to take their soldiers to such schools for the disabled to recruit soldiers.

At that time, the Japanese military's ridiculous and absurd behavior made headlines in major newspapers and magazines.

The famous literary magazine "New Trends" also specially invited the well-known painter Koga Harue to draw a small cartoon mocking the Japanese military. It tells the story of the Japanese military recruiting a bunch of blind people into the army, and then letting them learn to fire artillery to bombard the enemy. Unexpectedly, the blind people couldn't tell the difference between east, west, south and north, and they fired one artillery after another, all at their own barracks!
It was in this cruel yet humorous era that Kawabata Yasunari visited schools for the deaf and mute many times to collect materials, and finally completed "A Wonderful Journey".

In terms of sales and commercial value, "A Wonderful Journey" can't even reach the level of "The Dancing Girl of Izu".

The latter was adapted into film and television dramas as many as five times during the era of Yasunari Kawabata. Kawabata Yasunari was in Japan at that time like Jin Yong in Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s, and was the darling of the film and television drama adaptation industry.

In terms of depth and literary value, it is completely inferior to Kawabata Yasunari's masterpieces such as "The Old Capital", "Thousand Cranes" and "Snow Country", which are the epitome of Kawabata Yasunari's aesthetics.

Just like "Asakusa Red Ball" he wrote when he was young, "A Wonderful Journey" is a product of the times and has its special value and significance. Under normal circumstances, it would not be considered a bombshell in the Japanese literary world of any era.

But its plot about the deaf and mute and its depth of thinking perfectly met Kitagawa Hide's needs this time.

Especially in the novel, the support that the deaf-mute siblings provide to their friend's family far away in the suburbs, and their intention to encourage their friend to leave the world of the deaf-mute and seek education and life in big cities, will inevitably have a great impact on the deaf-mute children in this world.

In any era, this special group of people needs a "weather vane" to guide them to find hope and direction in their confused lives.

"A Wonderful Journey" is obviously the most suitable work for them and also the most suitable work for Hide Kitagawa.

The problem is that its popularity is not even as high as that of "Asakusa Red Circle", and the original novel describes a lot of war-era Japan, and its world view background is actually somewhat incompatible with modern Japan.

Since the creation of the work, Kitagawa Hide has deeply understood that if he simply transfers the content of the original work to the present Japan to save time, it will inevitably produce a large number of unexpected contradictions and bugs.

Since I have been pushed to the position of "the best in the world" in the Japanese literary world by my readers, I should at least write something decent instead of simply modifying and copying and pasting.

That kind of plagiarism model is too tasteless and uncouth.

However, if the background of "A Wonderful Journey" is modified significantly, it will affect the presentation of the original plot.

Therefore, although this work is said to be plagiarized, in fact, more than 50% of the content may have been written by Kitagawa Hide himself.

For him, this is the biggest challenge since plagiarism, no doubt about it.

Taking all these factors into consideration, if he only serialized "A Wonderful Journey", he was really worried that it might fail, or that it might not have enough influence to fully expose the atrocities of the Charity Group.

So Kitagawa Hide simply put together a "New Year's King Bomb" combination, which also gave his 1999 literary creation journey a good start.

Two other works.

"The Crucible" is famous enough that after the film premiered in South Korea on September 2011, 9, less than a year after its premiere, it triggered a petition signed by millions of people to bring up the old case again.

After the investigation of the prototype case of the movie was reopened, the relevant criminals were sentenced to 12 years in prison after retrial, and the prototype school was forced to close.

In the same year the film was released, the 208 members of the South Korean National Assembly who attended the meeting passed the "Partial Amendment Bill to the Special Act on Punishment of Sexual Violence Crimes" with 207 votes in favor and 1 abstention. This law, also known as the "Meltdown Law", is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in South Korea.

In fact, this movie is adapted from the novel of the same name by Kong Ji-young, a famous female best-selling author in South Korea. The reason is that when the leading actor and director Kong Liu was discharged from the army, his superior sergeant gave him a copy of "The Crucible". He was shocked after reading it, and as soon as he left the army, he raised funds everywhere, hoping to remake this story into a movie.

"The Crucible" and "Hope" are top works that must be mentioned in the history of Korean films, and their influence has even spread to neighboring countries such as Japan.

The problem is that the original work of "The Crucible" is actually very mediocre, not to mention its literary quality. It is completely inferior to "Confessions", which also became a hit after being adapted.

If I have to say, the positioning of "The Crucible" is a bit like "The Villain". It also sparked public opinion, performed well in film and television, and the original novel was also poor.

Therefore, just like "The Villain", it does not meet the standard of a king bomb when taken alone.

Fortunately, when writing "The Villainess", Kitagawa Hide had accumulated enough experience in adapting film and television scripts into pure literary novels. Later, when he wrote "Hanzawa Naoki" and "White Tower", he also deepened his experience in this regard.

So even though "The Crucible" is a novel set in South Korea, Kitagawa Hide is not worried that he will not be able to adapt it well.

The last one, "Children of the Dark", is less well-known than the first two, and probably only people who are familiar with Japanese movies will know it.

As we all know, apart from Japanese anime movies, Japanese domestic movies are indeed a bit disappointing. No matter how they change, they can't get away from the template of campus youth romance.

However, "Children of the Dark" is an outlier among Japanese films.

Among the many lists of child abuse movies, this one, which is said to be the most controversial work in the Japanese film industry, is rarely mentioned.

It was even thought that the film would not be able to be adapted to the big screen because the subject matter was too dark, involving topics such as human trafficking, underage prostitution, and illegal organ transplantation.

However, such a work was brought to the big screen by director Shunji Sakamoto.

Although the film was ultimately taken off the shelves after being shown in theaters for less than a week, it still became a controversial masterpiece that was mentioned from time to time in the Japanese film industry over the next decade.

Even if, like "The Convenience Store of Sorrow", the theaters are unwilling to release the film, Kitagawa Hide has plenty of ways to get single-theater theaters to schedule the film, and he has plenty of money and people to shoot it.

Therefore, Kitagawa Hide's final decision was to serialize "A Wonderful Journey" directly in the January issue of "Wenyi" in 1999, and then serialize the novel version of "The Crucible" in "Dazhong" which was more in line with the tastes of general readers, and then serialize the novel version of "Children in the Dark" in "Kitagawa", which took into account both literary and commercial aspects.

The three works began to be serialized together, strongly declaring that he would completely dominate the Japanese literary world in 1999 and make Seiji Maehara and Saburo Shiroyama's charity group pay the price!
In fact, after Kitagawa Hide and Machimura Nobutaka had a phone call and received the implicit support of the Prime Minister's Cabinet and the Diet, Maehara Seiji received the message and discussed countermeasures as soon as possible.

On the last day of 1998, December 12st, a Japanese bank holiday, an anonymous cash check for 31 million yen suddenly appeared in the milk box of the Kitagawa family.

Along with the check came a short anonymous letter, all typed out on a typewriter. Even the signature and date were printed, so its origin could not be seen.

The content of the letter was very simple. The other party, in the name of the New Democratic Party Foreign Literature Association, sincerely invited Kitagawa Hide to a New Year's banquet on January 1 to celebrate the establishment of the New Democratic Party. The 1 million yen was their "appearance fee" and "literary guidance fee" for Kitagawa Hide.

This was 1998 million yen in 1, which is nearly 100 million US dollars. The average Japanese citizen might not be able to save this much money even if they saved for several generations or hundreds of years.

And this is just the "appearance fee" given by the New Democratic Party to Kitagawa Hide. If they want him to keep his mouth shut about this matter, Seiji Maehara and others will definitely give him a huge "hush money."

According to the profitability of the Ci Ai Group, it is possible that they could give Kitagawa Hide 10 billion yen in one go.

Unlike those literary masters who were always ready to fight with Kitagawa Hide and always talked about "determining the superiority and the life and death".

The tactics of politicians such as Seiji Maehara seem to be gentler and more pervasive.

They were very humble, showed great sincerity, and took into consideration every aspect of Kitagawa Hide's family.

In the letter, the writer even mentioned Jabara Rei's charity work, and made it clear that as long as Kitagawa Hide let them go, they would use the power of the New Democratic Party to help Jabara Rei get the "No. 1" in the Japanese film and television industry, and assist her in building all the charity schools.

The writer expressed his repentance in a humble tone, and it sounded really like the truth.

Especially when he said that he was willing to use the power of the New Democratic Party to help Jabami Rei with her career, it was the first time that Kitagawa Hide had seen such a politician helping an actor to turn the tables.

If this is true, regardless of success or failure, Jabami Rei will be able to keep her name forever in the Japanese film and television industry.

Whenever she attends any event in the future, she can just casually say, "The largest opposition party in the country fully supports me," and probably no star will dare to confront her head-on.

The writer of the letter also stated that all the benefits and all the fame could be given to Kitagawa Hide and others.

I have to say, these politicians are pretty good at psychological warfare.

As Kitagawa Hide read on, he was almost convinced!

How could I possibly be convinced by such a person and such words!

Putting aside whether these things are true or not, let’s not talk about whether the New Democratic Party will really implement these benefits.

Just thinking about the dirty things that the Charity Group has done in the past, anyone who knows a little about it would not be able to accept this kind of "settlement" against their conscience.

Unless you are someone who has no conscience at all.

If Seiji Maehara and Saburo Shiroyama could fight him fair and square, even if they knew they were wrong and had been discovered, they would still be stubborn and fight Kitagawa Hide to the end.

Kitagawa Hideoki might even take a look at such a politician and writer.

But such twisted behavior, such "smooth" and shameless way of handling the matter, directly made Kitagawa Hide feel disgusted and nauseated from the bottom of his heart.

If everything can be easily exposed with a letter and a little money, then what about the patients and deaf-mute children who were killed by them and whose fresh organs were taken out and sold?

"In their eyes, human life is no different from grass?"

At this moment, Kitagawa Hide finally realized the perversion and disgusting nature of the Japanese militarists.

Not treating others as human beings, nor treating yourself as a human being.

It's pure beast!
"It is God's business to forgive you, and my mission is to send you to see God."

Kitagawa Hide wrote a sentence directly by hand, and then printed his signature on it with dignity. He then gave it to Mengzi and sent it directly to the office building of the New Democratic Party!

After finishing this, Kitagawa Hide put all his energy into writing a new book.

Due to urgent matters, he was originally going to eat mustard noodles with Mengzi, the two little ones, and a group of friends tonight, and go to the temple to ring the bells and worship the gods, but now these plans have to be cancelled.

Including tonight's New Year's Eve Hatsumode event, it seems that it cannot be carried out.

At this time, Kitagawa Hide, who was writing furiously in the study, heard someone knocking on the door, so he put down his pen and shouted to the outside, "Come in."

Mengzi, wearing an apron and dressed like a virtuous wife, walked in with a bowl of old hen soup.

"Honey, I made you some chicken soup, drink it while it's hot ~ you're definitely going to stay up late again tonight."

After learning the whole story of the Ci Ai Group incident, Mengzi wholeheartedly supported Kitagawa Hide in doing things, and did not care at all that she would have to spend the end of 1998 in the study at home.

And in her eyes, as long as it is something Kitagawa Hide wants to do, she will support him unconditionally without even blinking an eye.

"Thank you for your hard work, Yumeko-chan. I'm sorry, I was supposed to take you and the kids to the Asakusa Shrine Hatsumode tonight, but these books are too important and too urgent."

Kitagawa Hide didn't want to use too many excuses to cover up his behavior of neglecting his family, and he also knew that there was not much point in explaining, so after he finished speaking, he sincerely asked Yumeko for understanding and support.

"It's okay. As for Hatsumode, we can just ask Rei-chan or Reina-san to take us there in the evening. It's just a small matter.

My dear, you must focus all your energy on these three new novels.

This time, I really want to see the sentence you wrote come true in real life. "

Mengzi approached him and for the first time showed an expectant look in his eyes.

She rarely asked Kitagawa Hide to do anything, but this time, she seemed to have expectations of him.

"Which sentence?"

"It is God's business to forgive you. My mission is to send you to see God!" (End of this chapter)