Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 52 Higashino Keigo
Chen Linfeng's goal is to be a screenwriter, director and actor. He will not give up on acting. If he really enters a film and television academy, he will just take more acting classes in school.

Chen Linfeng has also fully considered his own conditions. Now that he is almost 14 years old, he already has the general outline of his future adult appearance.

He stood in front of the mirror and looked at himself: his facial lines were strong and clear, his facial contours were three-dimensional and harmonious, and he looked more bony than fleshy, making him look very heroic.

To describe it in the language of novels, he has a very handsome, sculpture-like outline, with high brow bones, a straight nose, sword-like eyebrows, majestic phoenix eyes, and a youthful heroic spirit between his brows.

Overall, Chen Linfeng's appearance is more inherited from his mother, with delicate features and a masculine outline. He has a typical star face of this era, and is similar to Bai Gu and Jiao Enjun.

It would be a waste if you don't become an actor with a face like this.

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Neon Kodansha.

Noma is reviewing Chen Linfeng's new novel.

Mr. Qilin’s previous novels were more like light novels, focusing on the plot and story rather than literary or ideological quality.

"Jie You" is obviously different, with some humanistic thinking, and is more suitable for promotion and sales through traditional literature.

At first glance at some of the descriptions, Noma thought they were written by a Japanese writer.

But if you look closely at the events and character portrayals, you will find that they clearly bear Chinese characteristics.

"This is the commonality of the East Asian cultural circle," Noma sighed in his heart.

Noma's family is in the publishing industry, and he appreciates works with a literary flavor.

He likes the novel "Jie You" very much and thinks it is an extremely excellent work and is extremely optimistic about it.

In this case, the publicity strategy for this work needs to be changed.

……

Perhaps it was because they tasted the sweetness from the last real and fake competition with Kadokawa Shoten.

The publicity strategy prepared by Kodansha this time is still to find a famous writer to compete with.

They have already chosen the candidate, it is Keigo Higashino, who recently released a new book "Unrequited Love" on sale.

If Chen Linfeng knew about this, he would definitely not agree. This is like a fake Li Kui meeting the real Li Kui.

Although those who have been reborn are generally thick-skinned, they would not dare to use the books written by others later to challenge the person himself.

However, this time only Sister Mei and the translator were here, and they had no idea who Keigo Higashino was.

Sister Mei listened to Kodansha's brief introduction to the author's life and learned that he had won the Edogawa Ranpo Prize and had been nominated for the Naoki Prize many times. He was indeed a great figure.

She felt that this was a healthy competition, and even if Chen Linfeng didn't win the competition, it wouldn't be embarrassing.

So he readily agreed to Kodansha's publicity strategy.

Kodansha's propaganda machine quickly started working, and many people in Japan knew the news.

The talented Chinese writer who won the sales showdown last year is back to challenge again, and this time his target is the famous Japanese mystery writer - Keigo Higashino.

Keigo Higashino's book fans are not happy. How dare a light novel author come to challenge him?

One of Higashino's famous works, "White Night Walk", was just released two years ago.

This type of traditional bestseller has a long sales period and is now at its peak, and his fans are looking down on the world.

Suddenly, a writer who was previously famous in the field of light novels dared to challenge. Wouldn't this cause an uproar?
Many book fans made comments online, expressing their disdain, and asked light novels to stop trying to make trouble for others, as they could not afford to lose face.

This has lumped together a lot of people, and many light novel readers feel like they are being laughed at.

Especially since the release of "Destiny", there have been many fan clubs and interest groups for Destiny, and many people have made secondary creations of the work and promoted it to the outside world.

The light novel reader circle has given high praise to this novel, including the later released "Book of Life and Death". Even if some people have not read it, they know that the novel should be very good.

Chen Linfeng's book fans are not small, and most of them are young people, the main group of people who go online, and they fight back everywhere on the Internet. The debate between the two sides has created quite a stir.

There has been a lot of discussion about this in the newspapers, and many critics believe that this young Chinese writer has taken the wrong path and that a rash change of track will likely end in a disastrous failure.

It was against this background that "The Convenience Store of Sorrow" was officially released.

Keigo Higashino has recently noticed the storm in the news media, and as one of the parties involved, he should be very angry, or at least dismissive of his challenger's new book.

However, he still disguised himself and went to a nearby bookstore, ready to buy a copy of "The Convenience Store for Sorrow".

Keigo Higashino has actually read Kirin's previous work "Book of Life and Death".

As a mystery novelist, he greatly appreciates the battle of wits in the book, feeling that it has a kind of beauty that is different from mystery novels, but has the same effect.

Therefore, he really wanted to see with his own eyes what the new book written by the author he admired, which claimed to challenge himself, was like.

After buying the book, Keigo Higashino found a nearby cafe, ordered a cup of coffee, and sat down to read it slowly.

As he watched, he felt a different kind of resonance deep in his heart.

As he watched, for some reason, his eyes gradually became moist.

"What a great work." Keigo Higashino sighed deeply.

After writing about the dark side of society for a long time, he occasionally wanted to get some sunshine. When he read this book, he felt as if his heart was purified.

Keigo Higashino sat in his seat, motionless, immersed in the emotions that kept welling up in his heart after reading the novel.

“Such a good work cannot be buried!”

After returning home, Keigo Higashino typed frantically on his computer and eventually produced a long review of three thousand words.

In his comments, he described in detail the various details and exquisite plot arrangements in the text.

He also highly praised the humanity of the characters in the novel and their emphasis on others, believing that this is what is lacking in Japan's modern and cold society.

Finally, he talked about his viewing experience, calling it a time when "Teacher Qilin allowed my dark soul to receive sunlight."

Keigo Higashino first posted the long review online, and the next day he submitted it to a newspaper for publication.

The book fans were all confused by his actions.

The ministers are about to fight to the death, why does Your Majesty surrender first?
Chen Linfeng’s fans were laughing like crazy, it turned out that his opponent was the biggest fan of the book.

The various professional evaluations in the long reviews really need to be done by professionals. Ordinary people cannot write such good flattery.

Some die-hard fans insisted on their own opinions and thought that Mr. Higashino was crazy and just closed his eyes as if nothing happened.

There were also some fans and ordinary passers-by who actually bought "Solving Problems" because of this long review. They were also curious about this novel that defeated its competitors.

The sales of the novel are rising steadily, which does not look like the sales curve of a literary bestseller at all.

In the first month, Neon’s sales exceeded 30 copies, which was even more exaggerated than Chen Linfeng’s first two novels.

This is only secondary; the professional reputation of "Solving Problems" is the key.

After Keigo Higashino, a large number of authors in the industry have expressed their appreciation for the book, and there have been calls to nominate "The Concealment of Sorrow" for the Naoki Prize.

However, this should be Kodansha's publicity strategy. The Naoki Prize will not be awarded to foreigners.

However, the fact that such voices have emerged and are not questioned is already representative of the problem.

All in all, Editor-in-Chief Noma has once again proved his foresight.

It was a stroke of genius to insist on signing Mr. Qilin in the first place, and he will be promoted soon because of it.

After all, his surname is Noma, he is a member of Kodansha, and he has made great contributions, so of course he should be promoted out of the ordinary.

(End of this chapter)