A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 97: Xu Sanguan Selling Blood

Judging from the current literary circles, traditional literature seems to be dominated by works that depict themes of "truth, goodness, and beauty"?

But judging from the explosive popularity of "No Longer Human" in the Japanese market——

Isn't it true that literary works about suffering or depressing themes do not have a market?
In fact, Jiang Hai has also reflected on why "No Longer Human" has achieved such a huge response abroad.

But why is it not popular in the country?

Jiang Hai reflected for a long time, and finally came to a conclusion -

Not in line with national conditions!
On the surface, "No Longer Human" is about the protagonist Ohba Yozo's decadent and corrupt life, but in fact, it is telling the story of Yozo's decadent and corrupt life.
Restore the unique mental state of the Japanese people during that period after their defeat in World War II?
Do you think that "No Longer Human" is only about one Oba Yozo?
No.

In that dilapidated and barbaric period, there were actually thousands and thousands of Ōba Yezo!
However, Oba Ezo is the most typical representative among thousands of decadent young people!
He is the epitome of that era!
It is precisely because of this that "No Longer Human" became a hit in Japan!

The reason why "No Longer Human" became so popular in Japan is that it received mixed reviews in China.
Isn’t it just a lack of value recognition?

You let a Chinese person put himself in the shoes of a Japanese and try to understand their "corrupt" and "decadent" thoughts.
How can this be substituted?
The ideological cognition of the people of the two countries is highly different.

Frugality, hard work and diligence——

It has been a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation since ancient times!
You let a hardworking person who is used to working hard try to understand the worldview of a decadent lazy person.
How is this possible to understand?
It was also based on the response of "No Longer Human" in Japan that made Jiang Hai realize that——

There is a market for articles describing topics such as suffering!

It’s just that “No Longer Human” cannot arouse the empathy of the Chinese people!

"So," after this conversation with Jiang Hai, Kong Xi seemed to understand what Jiang Hai wanted to say, "No Longer Human describes the sufferings of foreign countries, so the next book you are going to write is about this."

"Just to describe the suffering in the country?"

If we say that "No Longer Human" describes a lazy man who fights against the world with his negative attitude.

Then, what Jiang Hai wants to write next is——

He is a hard-working person, but even if he has tried his best, he still cannot live a miserable life!

"It seems like you have some idea now." Kong Xi turned his head to stare at Jiang Hai beside him and asked seriously, "What is the title of the next book?"

"If it's convenient, could you please tell me?"

Jiang Hai slowly uttered a sentence:

"Xu Sanguan Selling Blood."

"Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" is also known as a representative work of "pioneering documentary literature"!
The so-called avant-garde documentary literature refers to a small group of artists and writers with a strong sense of self-awareness. Based on the principle of "continuous innovation", they break the recognized norms and traditions, constantly create new art forms and styles, and introduce neglected and taboo themes!

Their goal is to shock the readers' perception ability influenced by tradition and challenge the dogmas and beliefs of traditional culture!

Among them, the outline that pioneer documentary literature particularly values ​​can be simply summarized in six words:

Ink kills the heart, and the pen is a knife!

The so-called documentary is to describe in detail the sufferings of this world, the cannibalistic society and the bloody reality.
Without any embellishment!
It is to make people face the most terrible pain!

It is to make people realize this bloody reality!
Nowadays, most of the literary works on the market are those that extol peace and prosperity and extol the prosperous times.

However, in this whitewashed era of prosperity and peace——

Is it really true that corruption and depravity do not exist?
The purpose of avant-garde documentary literature is to warn people living in peacetime by depicting these corruption and darkness!

"I have a hunch." Jiang Hai became excited when he was asked about literature. "As long as I can publish this story smoothly."

“This will definitely be a very exciting work.”

Xu Sanguan selling blood?
To be honest, when Kong Xi heard the title of this book, he had a very bad feeling.

Although I didn't ask Jiang Hai about the contents of the book, just looking at the title
Xu Sanguan?
Selling blood?

A person's life is so miserable that he has to sell blood. Can this still be a healing and positive story?
Obviously, you don’t even need to read the content to know——

This is bound to be another extreme tragedy that cannot be more tragic.
"Jiang Hai, I actually have a question that I don't understand." Kong Xi raised his head and looked at Jiang Hai beside him with doubt, "You are so young."

“Why do you always love to describe and narrate suffering?”

"Wouldn't it be better for you to write something good about the world?"

"Why don't you write something happy to make everyone happy?"

"You have to make the readers cry their hearts out, feel miserable and want to die, and become depressed for days after crying and feeling miserable, right?"

"What on earth do you want to achieve by doing this?"

Picture what?
Good question!
"Actually, if you ask me what I want to achieve, then I might feel..." Jiang Hai was a little excited when he mentioned this topic, "I don't know why, but when I think of readers crying their eyes out while reading my book, I feel this way." "It feels so good for no reason?"

You kid has some sadistic traits in you!
When I think of you crying, I get so excited that I can't help but laugh?

I don’t know why, but when Kong Xi heard Jiang Hai’s words, he actually had the urge to punch him to death?
"so."

“You felt the same way when you were writing “Poor Ghost”, right???”

In fact, Jiang Hai did not want to hide his true state from Kong Xi:

“To be honest, although I was indeed depressed when I wrote “Poor Ghost”, after I recovered and got rid of the depression...”

“I still feel so good!!!”

The excitement and excitement in Jiang Hai's eyes did not seem to be fake.

He said he felt good, which might be because he felt happy after writing these "depressing" plots.
He is so cool???

When I think of myself hiding in my room and crying my eyes out while reading "Poor Ghost", Jiang Hai, the author who started it all, is sitting in front of the computer, looking at the screen happily:

"Hey, write this to death!"

"Hey, write that to death too!"

"It's so cool, so cool. None of you characters can escape. You all have to die."

I don’t know why, but when Kong Xi thought of this scene, he had an urge to grit his teeth and punch him to death?
"I can't wait any longer." Jiang Hai's eyes flashed with unprecedented brilliance when she mentioned this. Her voice was even trembling with excitement. "If you give me a keyboard and a notebook now..."

“I feel like I could type 100,000 words in one breath without stopping.”

Just when Jiang Hai was immersed in his own fantasy and couldn't extricate himself.
Kong Xi stared at him with an extremely dangerous look:
"I really want to punch you to death."

It is difficult to compare the words "depressing", "suffering" and "sorrow" that are used to describe tragedies with a person like Jiang Hai.
A cheerful optimist?
I don't know if this guy really has some sadistic attributes or something else, but when he mentioned these operations to torture readers, he suddenly changed from the dull
Switch to being a chatterbox in a second?

"When I wrote about the death of Bai Qi and the First Emperor, I knew you would be upset, but what does it matter if you are upset? At least I am happy."

"Also, when I was describing the relationship between Ye Zang and his 'stepmother', I knew you couldn't accept it, but I still wanted to write it hehehehe"

"What? The scene where Gu Nan cries at Bai Qi's grave? Actually, I felt really bad when I was writing this scene, but I don't know why, when I thought that you might feel worse than me, I didn't feel so bad."

"No, no, I need to calm down. I'm really excited now. My hands are shaking with excitement."

It would have been fine if he didn't know Jiang Hai. As soon as he knew Jiang Hai, Kong Xi immediately felt -

This guy might be recognized by a fanatical book fan on the street one day
Then hacked to death!

Could it be possible that he wasn't innocent at all?

So our readers’ source of pain is your source of joy?

He abused us readers like this, but he himself laughed so happily.
So the lives of us readers are not lives???

"Let's stop talking about this!" Kong Xi waved her hand, signaling to end the topic immediately. "I don't really want to know about your strange personal habits! I just want to know..."

"The online novel you mentioned that you want to write next, is it also a work similar to "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" that is full of bitterness and hatred?"

Kong Xi doesn't care about traditional literature because she doesn't read it anyway.

But online writing
This is very crucial!
As the number one fan of "Poor Ghost", this is something she really wants to read!
"The next online novel you want to write, could it be a historical novel similar to "The Poor Ghost's Two Thousand Years"?"

For historical texts, it is enough to write one book.

What’s the point of always writing so many novels of the same type?
Since the last online novel was about ancient wars, the next novel I’m going to write is——

It seems interesting to talk about the love between men and women in modern cities.
For Jiang Hai, the works of traditional themes are too short, so while copying the works of traditional themes, he also took the time to serialize these long online novels.
There's no pressure.

"I probably won't touch novels with ancient themes anymore, but I can assure you that the next online novel I'm going to write is—"

"I promise you'll enjoy it."

Although it is true that a writer can write online articles part-time while creating traditional literature, this kind of operation.
It is indeed a bit hard to understand.

However, if this kind of strange operation is put on a strange person like Jiang Hai, it seems...
It doesn’t seem that strange?
Because I am the host, the guests come to my school, and as the host——

Is it normal to treat others to a meal or a drink?
The two of them walked all the way from the boys' dormitory building to the north gate cafeteria while chatting.

Arrived at the cafeteria entrance.

Kong Xi looked at the sign of [Mixue Ice City] at the entrance of the cafeteria and immediately fell into deep thought:
"Is this the feast you said you would treat me to?"

(End of this chapter)