Zongman: My days as a chaebol in Japan

After briefly reading one-third of it, Editor Kasuga put down the manuscript and sighed, "I am personally very satisfied with Kasumi Shiko's work this time. I have passed the test here, but due to the style, it may not be able to surpass the previous record in terms of publishing, so I suggest that you can choose the electronic text this time."

At Sakura, after writers sign a contract for their works, they can choose between physical books and e-books. Due to the development of Internet technology, the physical book market has been greatly impacted. Fuzugawa Books has begun building an e-book network, and editor Kasuga wants to use Kasumigaoka Utaha's works as the forerunner of Fuzugawa Books' e-books.

However, there are many uncertainties in the distribution of e-books. Generally speaking, Fuzugawa Bookstore is not a very large publishing house. Moreover, due to the impact of the rise of e-books on physical books in recent years, Fuzugawa Bookstore now needs to carefully consider which channel to place its contracted works.

"Kasumi Shiko, among the physical books currently published by Fuzugawa Books, the style of your new work is relatively novel, but the market for physical books has been feeling a bit of a sunset, so I recommend that you publish it through the e-book channel." After mentioning the two models of physical books and e-books at Fuzugawa Books, Editor Kasuga gave his suggestions.

"Is that so?" Kasumigaoka Utaha closed her eyes and thought for a while, then turned her gaze to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan felt Kasumigaoka Utaha's gaze, and when they looked at each other, he saw the question in the gaze. Li Xuan pondered for half a second, and then asked Editor Kasuga, "Editor Kasuga, from what you said just now, Fuzugawa Books is currently planning to start testing the e-book market. As for why they dare not make drastic moves, I think it is because of the limitations of Fuzugawa Books itself, right?"

Editor Kasuga saw that although she didn't say it out loud, she was able to analyze the current situation of the Busei Bookstore with just a few words, and admiration welled up in her eyes, but she couldn't show it, after all, she still worked at the Busei Bookstore.

"You can rest assured about the strength of Fuzugawa Books. Although it is not the number one publishing house here in Sakura, it has no problem entering the top ten. As long as Kasumi Shiko's works are published here, the channels are guaranteed," Editor Kasuga changed her words. She didn't want Kasumi Shiko to be disappointed with Fuzugawa Books.

"Understood, I know, wait a moment," Li Xuan said nothing more, took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Gurefia.

After dozens of seconds, looking at Editor Haruhi who was looking at him with curiosity, Li Xuan pointed at her cell phone and said, "Editor Haruhi, someone is looking for you."

Editor Kasuga was a little confused because there was no new message alert on her phone. The next second, the phone rang, and it was the special ringtone she set. It was a call from her biggest boss, the editor-in-chief and boss of Fuzugawa Books.

Looking at Li Xuan in surprise, could this person be related to the editor-in-chief? Editor Kasuga answered the phone, "Hello, this is Kasuga."

As soon as the phone was connected, a middle-aged man's voice came from the other end of the line, "Editor Kasuga, you reviewed the work of a writer named Kasumi Shiko today, right? This work will be the first of the Fuzugawa e-books, and it will be promoted vigorously through both physical and e-book channels. You don't need to consider other issues..."

"That's it. All the works of this writer are given the green light. If you have any troubles, please come to me. Thank you for your hard work, Editor Kasuga."

Editor Kasuga didn't say a word during the whole conversation, and Editor-in-Chief Busei hung up the phone after he finished speaking.

Editor Kasuga came to her senses after hearing the strange sound of the phone being hung up. She was even more surprised, but she was not a person who liked gossip. In addition, she really approved of Kasumigaoka Utaha's work, so she no longer had any concerns and readily took out the contract and signed Kasumigaoka Utaha's latest work, Love Symphony.

"It's a pleasure working with you, Kasumi Utaha. I look forward to your more wonderful works in the future." After completing the contract signing, editor Kasuga sent Kasumigaoka Utaha and Li Xuan out of the Fuzugawa Bookstore.

Seeing Kasumigaoka Utaha and Li Xuan leaving in a car she had never seen before, but whose design showed that they were of extraordinary worth, editor Kasuga's eyes flashed with a thoughtful look, and then she turned around and went back into the bookstore.

In the car driven by Ram, Kasumigaoka Utaha was leaning on Li Xuan, with a happy smile on her face that was about to overflow.

"Xuan-kun, thank you for what you did just now, 啾", Kasumigaoka Utaha tapped Li Xuan on the face and then spoke. She knew of course that the reason why editor Kasuga agreed so readily was because of the information Li Xuan had just sent out. With Li Xuan's size, the Fuzugawa Bookstore could be easily controlled. She was happy that Li Xuan did not treat her as a canary like in those rich family skits she had watched.

Li Xuan lowered his head in response, hugged Kasumigaoka Utaha's slender waist, and said softly, "Well, I received the thank-you gift and I'm very satisfied. However, if you decide to go on this path, you can't relax. You need to put in 120% effort. You are very talented, and only with 120% effort can you have the opportunity to stand at the top."

Kasumigaoka Utaha clenched her fists and said in a firm tone, "Of course, I am determined to become the most popular writer, and I am working hard with the dream of creating Sakura's best-selling novel."

After a while, the car drove to a small detached villa, where a quiet girl wearing a white dress, pink jacket and beret was already waiting.

"Megumi! My latest work has been successfully signed," Kasumigaoka Utaha opened the car door, hugged Kato Megumi immediately after getting out of the car, and shared the news of her successful signing.

When Kato Megumi heard the good news from Kasumigaoka Utaha, a happy smile appeared on her face as well, "Congratulations, Utaha, I have always believed that you will become the most famous writer in Sakura and fulfill your dream of being number one on the bestseller list."

"Hehe, it's too much to say now, but with you and Xuanjun supporting me behind the scenes, I think this goal is not far away." After being praised by Kato Megumi, Kasumigaoka Utaha became a little shy.

-Kasumigaoka Utaha

Chapter 336: Ying Lili, You Are So Bold

"By the way, why are you alone here, Megumi? Where's Eriri?" After Kasumigaoka Utaha's excitement wore off, she looked around and found that only Kato Megumi was here. Eriri, as she had agreed to do, was not here, so she asked.

"It seems that Eriri stayed up late again last night. I called her just now but no one answered. Let's go find her directly." Kato Megumi was also puzzled, because they had made an appointment yesterday that the three of them and Li Xuan would go to the amusement park together today, but now it seems that Eriri is late, and Kato Megumi guessed that the reason was that she stayed up late again.

Ying Lili originally had the habit of staying up late to paint. After meeting Li Xuan, she stayed up even more late.

"Okay, let's go find Eriri," Kasumigaoka Utaha took the hands of Kato Megumi and Li Xuan and walked towards Eriri's residence.

...

"Ding Dong, Ding Dong", the three of them came to Eriri's residence. The doorplate here was written as Sawamura House. Kasumigaoka Utaha walked up and rang the doorbell.

"I'm here. This is the Sawamura residence. Who are you looking for?" a female voice sounded from inside the door.

When Kasumigaoka Utaha heard the female voice, she immediately spoke, "Auntie Sawamura, I'm Eriri's friend Utaha. I've been here a few times before. Is Eriri at home? She and I made an appointment to go shopping today."

"It's Shiyu, wait a moment, I'll open the door." The door opened, and a middle-aged woman in home clothes and long golden hair appeared in front of the three people. She was about 60% similar to Eriri. Although she was already at a certain age, one could vaguely tell that she was also a great beauty like Eriri when she was young.

"Welcome, Shina and Megumi. Eriri is in her own room upstairs. You can go find her," Mrs. Sawamura opened the door and saw Kasumigaoka Shina and Kato Megumi. She smiled and told Eriri's location. Then she exclaimed because she saw the boy behind them.

"What a handsome boy. And you look so familiar. I seem to have seen you somewhere before," Mrs. Sawamura looked thoughtful as she searched her memory.

Li Xuan smiled and stretched out his hand, "Hello, Mrs. Sawamura, my name is Li Xuan, and I'm from the Xia family of Daxia."

Mrs. Sawamura, who was originally deep in thought, heard Li Xuan's words, and her memories were instantly evoked, and she immediately remembered Li Xuan's identity.

"Master Li Xuan!" Mrs. Sawamura was shocked. She didn't expect that it was the young master of the Xia family who came to her in person.

You know, her husband, a diplomat, was fortunate enough to be invited to Li Xuan's birthday party. After he came back, all his competitors who were still competing with him were silenced the next day. It was also at that time that she brought Eriri, who was only a few years old, to meet the young Li Xuan.

Mrs. Sawamura took a few seconds to recall the past, then came to her senses, stretched out her hand to shake hands with Li Xuan, then bowed respectfully, then stepped back and turned sideways, "Welcome, Master Li Xuan, to my humble home, please come in."

After coming in, Mrs. Sawamura spoke with a slightly embarrassed tone, "Shiyu and Hui, could you please go upstairs and call Eriri down for me? She has been a bit too lazy to stay in bed today. I'll go prepare tea for you."

Kasumigaoka Utaha and Kato Megumi agreed and went upstairs.

"Master Li Xuan, this is not a fancy tea. Please forgive me for my poor hospitality." Mrs. Sawamura placed the prepared tea in front of Li Xuan and then stood aside.

Li Xuan waved his hand and said, "You're welcome, Mrs. Sawamura. Please sit down. Eriri and I are friends. She has inherited your beautiful and elegant genes very well."

After listening to this, Mrs. Sawamura sat down on the other side and asked curiously, "Master Li Xuan, are you here to travel to Xiaoyingsakura?"

Li Xuan shook his head and said, "No, I'm currently studying at Kyoto High School. I met Eriri at a concert in Akita Prefecture before."

"It turns out that the person Eriri mentioned before, whom she had known for a long time, was Master Li Xuan," Mrs. Sawamura remembered one night when her daughter came back very excited and told her that she had met someone she had known for a long time. At the time, she thought that Eriri had met her old friend in England, but she didn't expect that the person she was talking about was Li Xuan.

The two chatted for about ten minutes. Mrs. Sawamura saw that Eriri still didn't come down. Instead, Kasumigaoka Utaha and Kato Megumi, who went upstairs to call for help, didn't come down either. A big question mark appeared in her mind. Then she smiled and said to Li Xuan, "Master Li Xuan, I don't know what the three of them are doing upstairs. Please wait a moment, I'll go up and take a look. This is too outrageous."

Li Xuan stretched out his hand to stop Mrs. Sawamura, "Mrs. Sawamura, let me do it, you just continue with your own things. I have an appointment with Eriri and the other two to go out and play today."

"Then I'll trouble you, Young Master Li Xuan," Mrs. Sawamura bowed and left with the tea tray.

Following the route that Kasumigaoka Utaha and Kato Megumi had taken just now, Li Xuan also came to the door of Eriri's room on the second floor. Just as he was about to knock on the door, he heard Kasumigaoka Utaha's screams and Eriri's wails from inside the room.

"Eiri, how dare you? This is Xuanjun, this is you, and, I'm also in there?" This was the exclamation of Kasumigaoka Utaha.

"Shiyu, give it back to me, don't tell anyone. My best friend actually found out about this. Lady Eriri is too embarrassed to face anyone. Wuuuu~" This is Eriri's wailing.

The sound of shuffling papers.

Then, Kasumigaoka Utaha's voice appeared again, but this time with a hint of shyness, "Eri, I didn't expect your painting skills to be so delicate. The portrayal of Xuanjun is so lifelike. I won't give it to you because it's a little small. I have measured it."

"Wow, Shiina, you are a real gentleman. You have been hiding your true identity until now," Eriri said in surprise as if she had just met Kasumigaoka Shiina for the first time.

"Don't...don't look at it, Hui, please stop Shiyu. Wow, Hui, how come you flip faster than Shiyu?"

Hearing Eriri's very loser tone, Li Xuan became a little curious and reached out to knock on the door, "Shiyu, Hui and Eriri, I'm coming in."

After saying that, he pushed open Eriri's door and saw the three girls who were hurriedly hiding the drawing paper and drawing board in their hands.

"Xuanjun, get out quickly. I haven't agreed to let you in yet. It's impolite. I'm still wearing pajamas," Ying Lili immediately found an excuse.

However, Li Xuan didn't care about this. Instead, he curiously came to the three girls with blushing faces, and then made a feint to the east and attacked in the west, and got the dozen or so pieces of drawing paper hidden behind Kasumigaoka Utaha.

"It's over, it's over. Xuan-kun has seen us. Lady Eriri is completely finished." Eriri saw that Li Xuan had taken the drawing paper from Kasumigaoka Utaha's hand and started looking at it. She suddenly felt that her life had lost all color. If there was a background, it would definitely be grayish white.

- I'm done

Chapter 337 Steel Dragon Roller Coaster

"Hmm? The style and content of this painting." Li Xuan opened the paper and saw the content on it.

Although he already knew that Eriri was a genre painter, Li Xuan's eyes still lit up when he saw her, especially when the characters Eriri drew were herself and Li Xuan himself, and even in the following pages there were Kasumigaoka Utaha and Kato Megumi.

"Xuan...Xuan Jun, can you forget what you saw?" Ying Lili looked at Li Xuan with a tearful expression.

Li Xuan touched his chin and nodded, "Then as a price, how about Ying Lili giving me the other paintings? Don't be shy, I'm just looking at them with an artistic eye."

"No way ×3," Eriri, Kasumigaoka Utaha and Kato Megumi rejected in unison.

Kato Megumi folded the drawing paper in half and put it in her pocket.

At this time, Kasumigaoka Utaha also reacted, and rushed to Li Xuan, taking back all the papers in his hands that he had finished reading, then pushed Li Xuan's back with a red face and pushed him out of the door.

"Believe me, I really am just looking at it from an artistic perspective. Art has no borders, long live art," Li Xuan was still shouting when he was pushed out.

Seeing Li Xuan's righteous look, Kasumigaoka Utaha rolled her eyes at him, put her arms around his neck, tapped the corner of his mouth, then let go and said, "Mr. Xuan, wait here, we'll be out soon."

After saying that, Kasumigaoka Utaha walked back into the room and closed the door. Then there was the sound of packing up, and Eriri's weak resistance as she was reluctant to get up.

Guanghui Amusement Park is a relatively famous theme park complex in Xiaoyinghua in recent years. It is divided into above-ground and underground projects. The style of the above-ground project is similar to that of the Big Ear Mouse Park, while the underground project is a unique comic character boxing match and survival challenge.

Li Xuan, Kasumigaoka Utaha and the other two came to Guanghui Amusement Park. Kato Megumi, who was usually very quiet, suggested riding the Steel Dragon Roller Coaster, which has a total length of nearly three kilometers, a vertical drop slope of more than ten hundred meters, and requires a disclaimer to be signed before riding.

Kato Megumi made this suggestion calmly, which scared the scheming girl Kasumigaoka Utaha and the bold Eriri. Kasumigaoka Utaha's brows twitched wildly, while Eriri had already hugged Li Xuan's arm and began to beg.

"Shiha, Eriri, you are my best friends, and now you are even better sisters. Let us feel the excitement of escaping from gravity," Kato Megumi smiled and reached out to hold Kasumigaoka Shiha and Eriri who were already beginning to want to retreat.

The iron-like strength in Kato Megumi's hands made it impossible for Kasumigaoka Utaha to break free. Eriri grabbed Li Xuan's arm and made a final struggle.

"Mr. Xuan, let's go." Kato Hui had no intention of leaving Li Xuan behind. Of course, for Li Xuan, this level of descent made it impossible for him to cheer up.

Kato Megumi pulled Kasumigaoka Utaha and Li Xuan pulled Eriri, and after signing the disclaimer, they were led by the staff and sat on the seats of the Steel Dragon roller coaster. There were already more than a dozen people sitting on it before Li Xuan and his group, and human curiosity can never be stopped.

"Ah!!!" At the first steep downhill slope of nearly 60 degrees, Kasumigaoka Utaha, Eriri and those who were a little less courageous could not help but shout out. The violent process of getting rid of gravity makes it difficult to control one's emotions.

In contrast to the people who were shouting, Kato Megumi was very quiet, and one could even see a hint of excitement on her slightly flushed face.

Li Xuan even yawned. When he was at the fifth big downhill, something seemed to fly past him. Li Xuan stretched out his hand to catch the thing flying from the front. He took a closer look and found that it was a black long-eared rabbit doll.

The Steel Dragon roller coaster, which had been flying rapidly in the sky for nearly ten minutes, slowly stopped. Kato Megumi calmly unbuckled her seat belt and helped up Kasumigaoka Utaha (whose legs were weak) beside her. Li Xuan then picked up Eriri, who was holding him tightly with both hands.

Li Xuan reached out and gently tapped Ying Lili's forehead, then spoke softly in Ying Lili's ear while her eyes were closed, "Ying Lili, we've arrived at the final stop."

After hearing Li Xuan's words, Ying Lili slowly opened her eyes, screamed loudly, then threw herself on Li Xuan and hugged his neck.

With the comfort of Kato Megumi, Kasumigaoka Utaha quickly recovered. Seeing that Eriri was still a little frightened, she opened her mouth and said, "Haha, Eriri, it seems that you are just average in courage. A mere roller coaster can scare you like this."

Ying Lili, who was a little frightened in Li Xuan's arms, recovered quickly. Supported by her tsundere mood, Ying Lili immediately retorted, "Huh? I saw someone being helped down, but I won't tell you who it was."

The two people who mocked each other, under the instigation of Kato Megumi, actually took another roller coaster ride, which was beautifully named - the Trial of the Bold King. As the referee, Kato Megumi naturally sat on the seat of the roller coaster again. After Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri signed the waiver agreement again, they came to their senses and looked at Kato Megumi with a smile on her face.

It's over, completely over.

After another round of roller coaster ride, Li Xuan, Kato Megumi and the other two left the Steel Dragon roller coaster. At this time, Kasumigaoka Utaha put her hands on Kato Megumi's shoulders and was almost dragged away, while Eriri was directly carried on Li Xuan's back.

The two no longer had the energy to argue.

The four of them were going to the Water Kingdom project next. After walking for dozens of meters, Li Xuan paused. He saw a girl with waist-length white hair in front of him, looking around as if looking for something. Next to her was a handsome young man who Li Xuan and Kasumigaoka Utaha had met in the morning, Kasuga, the editor of Fuzugawa Books who was responsible for signing Kasumigaoka Utaha's new book.