Tokyo Soft Rice King

Because of her generous and kind father, the Asato family has never set any life goals for Asato Hitomi. Her mother's plan to train her to be a good wife was put on hold indefinitely after she was severely reprimanded by her father.

Anri Hitomi herself doesn't have any goals that can be called dreams.

But she has it now.

The key should be the ability to make money.

Moe Aisono is very good at drawing, so Kuroba Akira wants to use her talent to publish light novels and get high royalties... Kuroba Akira's intention is easy to guess.

In other words, as long as he had the ability to make a lot of money, a lot of money, enough to make Hei Yuming dumbfounded...

He will be more interested in himself.

Chapter 93: Genius is a genius wherever he goes

In the afternoon class, Kuroba Ming took out his printed outline and put it in the desk pocket, then concentrated on writing the main content of "Sisters' Journey" in his exercise book.

No one disturbed him during class, and during the break after class he just chatted with Fuji Michio who was sitting behind him. The rest of the time was spent on writing, and he finished the prologue and half of the first chapter in just one afternoon.

Of course, this is just a draft, and the content will need to be modified and adjusted later, but even Hei Yuming himself was surprised that the opening content could be completed so smoothly.

My ideas are flowing! I'm writing furiously! The bonus of "A-level" is too strong!

You should know that this prologue and half of the first chapter are not as short as a chapter in an online novel, but 1.5 chapters in a volume of a serious light novel.

There are many different ways to divide chapters in light novels, but generally speaking, a volume of a light novel will not have more than ten chapters, usually 5-8 chapters, which also includes the prologue and epilogue.

In terms of word count, a volume of a light novel is about 8 to 12 words. If you write too much, the editor will order you to reduce the length. Because with more pages, the publishing cost will also increase, and the content will be more scattered.

The outline of Kuroba Akira's novel is divided into seven chapters per volume, which includes a prologue and an epilogue. One is used to write gimmicky content to arouse readers' desire to read, and the other is to set a hook at the end to make readers look forward to the following content. Neither the beginning nor the end will be too long.

In terms of word count, Hei Yuming wants to write a little over 100,000 words, which is moderate and will not leave readers unsatisfied, nor will the editor complain that it is too much.

So I finished writing the prologue and half of the first chapter in one afternoon, which actually amounted to about 12,000 words.

This is really exaggerated. In the past, even if Hei Yuming used a keyboard to type, he could only type 5,000 words at most in four hours. Now, using his not-so-skilled handwriting, he can actually reach an output speed of 3,000 words per hour... His efficiency has more than doubled!

If I had been this efficient before, how could I have died suddenly?! Isn’t it just a drop in the bucket when I get all the performance appraisals and year-end bonuses?

No, he should just quit his job and go back to being an online novel writer, updating 20,000 words a day and feeding the readers. Anyway, with a large amount of updates, the results won't be too bad.

Alas... Hei Yuming sighed, and his heart was once again filled with envy and jealousy of the talented people towards the talented ones.

I can only say that the squad leader's talent is really too imba. Not only is it highly versatile, but the effect is also quite powerful.

The "Academic A" talent's bonus to concentration and thinking ability is very suitable for clerical work.

It allows creators to concentrate on their creation without any lag caused by mental exhaustion. It is more powerful than a shot of chicken blood.

If everything goes well later, I will probably be able to finish writing one volume this week, and make revisions and adjustments on the weekend.

This is too scary...

Hei Yuming grasped his right wrist, trembling all over, wanting to shout, "I'm going to release the power sealed in my right hand!"

Originally, Hei Yuming thought that he would have to work for at least two weeks to finish the main content, but now the time has been shortened by half, and he can use the remaining three weeks to think of other backup plans.

Although Kuroba Akira is very confident about his work "Sisters' Game", he also knows that obtaining publishing qualifications is a very difficult and mysterious thing, so he still has to think about what to do if this work fails to pass the manuscript.

However, Kuroba Akira is not planning to prepare a second work. Opening two games at the same time is a bad move, and Kuroba Akira does not think that he can come up with another work of the same level as "Sisters" in a short period of time.

A work that lacks polish will never be appreciated by the editor no matter how much you write. It is better to spend more time to perfect a work.

I have to calm down. Speed ​​is a good thing, but it disrupts my rhythm a bit.

"Kuroba-kun, it's time for club activities."

"Well, here we go."

Hei Yuming put away the part he had written today, preparing to input it into the computer after returning home, and correct any errors by the way. After finishing the rest of the first chapter, today's task would be completed.

After class, Kuroba Akira and Asato Hitomi went to the activity room of the Arts Club together.

I came early today, and Moe Aizono and Shiori Shirai haven't arrived yet.

Since he had nothing to do, Hei Yuming got up and started looking at the books in the literature and arts department. He didn't have a chance to take a good look at them yesterday.

The literature and art department also has a lot of books. Although not as many as the library, it has many popular works and entertainment works.

You can see if there are any suitable works and take them home to show to Zi Zhigong. Hei Yuming himself also wants to learn more about the pan-entertainment works in this world.

When I read books in the library before, I didn’t have the opportunity to learn about popular works, because the books in the library were all traditional classic literary works and popular science books, as well as reference books for study. There were relatively few comics and light novels, only comics such as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms comic version that were both popular science and entertainment.

In his previous life, Kuroba Akira had also read this famous manga created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. It was extremely famous in Japan, almost to the point where everyone knew it, but it was a very unpopular manga among flower growers.

By the way, Japan's Records of the Three Kingdoms = Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so many Japanese people believe that the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the official history and the translator is to blame.

For Chinese people, the knowledge of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is probably gained through watching the old TV series. Few people would actually read the original novel. There are only a few related texts in the Chinese textbooks, such as Borrowing Arrows from a Thatched Boat.

It was precisely because of seeing this comic that existed in both worlds that Kuroba Akira realized that perhaps the works he had seen in his previous life had simply not yet been born in this world, or had missed the opportunity to be born... but that did not mean they were truly gone.

Hei Yuming glanced at the novels and comics on the bookshelf. Some of them were works he had read in his previous life, some had similar names but slight changes, and some were unfamiliar works that he had never read at all... This part was quite a lot, accounting for more than half.

These works are from different eras and the names of the authors vary, so there is no pattern to be found.

The impact of world line changes is beyond the comprehension of mortals. I am afraid that countless fate parameters have changed.

However, Hei Yuming was quite happy. He had so much new "spiritual food" that he could feast on spiritually.

"Are these novels and comics originally owned by the Literature and Art Club?"

"No, they're all cute comics. She also brings the serialized comic magazines. She buys every issue of Weekly Shonen Boom as soon as it's available."

"Oh wow, what a surprise! Aiyuan-san actually likes to read boys' comics..."

Shonen BOOM is the Shonen Jump of this world, and it is also the best-selling manga magazine in Japan. Kuroba Akira has read it for free at convenience stores before, but because they are all serialized works, he can't understand them at all by reading them in the middle.

However, he did know the three mainstay comics of the day, mainly because the titles were too recognizable, and Kuroba Akira had actually already "finished" them all: "One Piece," "Kaikai," and "Naruto"...

As expected, these three giants will become super popular cartoonists no matter which world they are in.

The brilliance of a super genius cannot even overshadow the fate shift brought about by the change of world lines... A true genius is a genius no matter where he goes.

I really want to see what their talents are.

Chapter 94: Her life began to go astray

It seems that we are now in the golden age of shonen manga serialized in the three major popular manga series.

The "migrant workers" in migrant workers comics refer to the popularity of the works to the extent that even migrant workers who have no spare time know about them.

The characters of the three major comics have not changed much, but the general plot and development are very different, and it can be said to be another work.

But being able to watch it again, and having the feeling of watching the IF line of the original work, made Kuroba Akira even more interested.

"Can I take these comics home to read?"

"Of course, Mengmeng just wants to share her favorite works with everyone, so she brought so many comics to school little by little. Unfortunately, there are only three people in the literature club, and Shiori and I don't read comics much... If Mengmeng knew that you, Kuroba-kun, were interested in comics, she would definitely be very happy."

"Okay, I won't hold back then. I'll talk to Aiyuan when she comes over."

Anyway, I'll just bring ten books today so I can read the first volumes of some comics that I'm interested in.

After searching for comics, Hei Yuming set his sights on the novels on the next shelf, as half of his backpack was still empty.

"These novels were brought by Shirai-san, right?"

"Yeah, can you tell?"

"Yeah, very much her style."

A hint of literary youth flavor... I mean, the proportion of youth pain literature is too high, as high as half.

Hei Yuming had no interest in these works, which were full of gorgeous words and rich descriptions but empty in content and unremarkable, and simply skipped over them.

Below are some works by particularly famous local authors, such as Dazai Osamu, Mishima Yukio, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Kawabata Yasunari, etc., all of which are familiar names.

There are also many works by foreign authors, such as Zhou Shuren, Hugo, Camus, Hemingway, Tagore, Dostoevsky... Hei Yuming had also read these masterpieces in his previous life. He not only remembered the content, but even the feeling he had after reading them.

After watching it, I was shocked. An inexplicable sense of fear climbed up my spinal cord and spread in my brain, simply because their works analyzed human nature so thoroughly and portrayed it so deeply.

A work of this level is definitely not something I can write at my level, I don’t even dare to think about it.

The reason why classics are classics is that the ideological depth of these works has surpassed the times, and their writing techniques often set precedents, and even have a profound impact on "civilization". They are the common wealth of all mankind.

What surprised Hei Yuming the most was that there were actually quite a few works from flower growers. Although they were works and authors he had never heard of, since they could be put together with the books of the previous authors, they should all be quite famous authors.

After all, the rise of this world's mysterious Eastern superpower is quite exaggerated, and its cultural achievements are likely to be even more brilliant than in the previous life.

And some of them are actually original novels that haven't been translated yet... Isn't that a coincidence? Chinese translation is one of the few things that Kuroyu Akira is "born with a talent for"!

"Can I take these novels as well?"

"You'd have to ask Shiori about that. After all, she treasures these books so much that she even wears gloves when she reads them. She treats them like her husband."

"I don't think she would be so attentive to her husband..."

If Shiori Shirai were asked to choose between spending her life with a book or with a handsome guy, she would definitely choose the former without hesitation.

Kuroba Akira thought that she already hated him, so it didn't matter if he hated her even more, so he started searching through Shirai Shiori's collection of novels with an evil smile.

"Anyway, since these books are kept in the Arts Club, they're its public resources. As a member of the Club, I'm also entitled to use them. Isn't that right, squad leader?"

There was a hint of helplessness and indulgence in Anri Hitomi's expression. It was as if she was looking at her own naughty child whom she couldn't bear to blame, with a little pampering and compromise.

"I really can't help you... If Shiori is really angry, I'll plead for her again."

"Hey, don't worry, squad leader, I will handle it myself."

Hei Yuming took eight more books from the novel bookshelf, mainly domestic novels. He was really curious about the current level of flower-growing novels.

"By the way, aren't there any books here that you, squad leader, contributed?"

"Um...I bought the bookshelf."

"Great! You are indeed the cornerstone of the Arts Club, Minister."

"Really, Kuroba-kun, you think I'm an idiot."

"As the last in the grade, I have no right to laugh at the top class monitor."

"Don't flatter me like that. I know I haven't read enough extracurricular books, but it's not that I don't like reading. It's just that I spend more time on reference books for study and less on works that can cultivate my sentiments."

"Class monitor, you really love studying."

"It's just that Mother said that I'll have free time to watch these good works in the future, but I should still focus more on my studies during my student years. Every age group has its priorities. I think what Mother said is right, so I'll still focus more on my academic performance..."

The class monitor is a mama's girl, but she is not the kind of mama's girl who is a puppet without her own ideas.

Rather, it was the mother's words that subtly influenced the class monitor's personality.

It should be said that the squad leader's mother is really "shrewd". She did not force her child to do things according to her own requirements. Instead, she used reason and facts, and used "positive arguments" and "real examples" to guide the smart squad leader to understand the "correct path".

Then she told the monitor, 'You choose for yourself,' but did she really want the child to choose?

You already know the right path to take, but you still insist on going down the wrong path?

As long as the monitor is still a 'smart kid', she won't be able to make the 'wrong choice'.

This is the invisible pressure and another manifestation of the class monitor's mother's desire for control.

If this continues, the class monitor's rebellious period will probably not come until she reaches adulthood. She will always be a "good girl who listens to her mother", and finally become a personality-less girl who "has no ideas of her own" and only knows "correct ideas".

It always feels a bit regrettable... Hei Yuming still hopes that the class monitor can find "what he wants to do" rather than "what he should do".

This was out of concern for a good friend, so he rarely tried to persuade him.

"Well, it's true that a student's duty is to study, but they should also enjoy themselves. Some works are suitable for viewing at this age. When you watch them again when you grow up, you won't have the insights that are unique to that age."

"I see. What Kuroba-kun said makes sense. I'll try to read these extracurricular books from now on... Does Kuroba-kun have any recommendations?"

"Not yet... I'll give you a recommendation after I finish reading these."

"Okay, then it's settled. I'll wait for Kuroba-kun."

Anri Hitomi accepted it with a smile, her heart full of anticipation.

Hei Yuming was also very pleased. It was not too late to start from now on. Let the class monitor start to ask his own heart. Just like wanting to save the literature and art club, do what you want to do.

What Kuroba Ming didn't know was that because of him, Anri Hitomi had found a new goal in life.