I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 22: Boomerang. Snap, hit her on the forehead

Holding two bags of unfinished fried squid in his hands, Kitagawa Xiu walked quickly on the deserted street, facing the chilly evening breeze.

It is already the beginning of May, but the lowest temperature in Tokyo at night often drops below 10 degrees.

For Kitagawa Hide, who was only wearing a thin security uniform, the evening breeze was a bit too cold.

I'm still thinking about what to say when I go to Kodansha tomorrow.

The scum in the Ministry of Education tried to take away most of his first pot of gold, but Kitagawa Hide, who finally saw hope of a quick turnaround, would never agree!

But no matter how angry you are, you still need to calm down quickly and find the best coping strategy.

What is your greatest reliance now?
There is no doubt that "Hear the Wind Sing" verified the feasibility of making money by plagiarizing and becoming a literary giant.

In this case, the mountains of famous works by famous writers in his mind will surely turn upside down the Japanese literary world, which has been silent for a long time and where many literary masters have disappeared inexplicably.

The officials of the Ministry of Education dared to propose such an impolite plan because of their relationship with the top management of Kodansha, their arrogance as superiors, and their contempt for the inferiors;

First, they did not think that Kitagawa Hide, a new writer, would be able to burst out with enough strength to resist them in the future, such as becoming a literary giant who could influence the Japanese and even world literary circles.

But it is precisely this point that Kitagawa Hide is more certain than anyone else. As long as he continues to write like this, he can definitely become a literary giant in Japan, if not a world-class one.

Time is on his side.

So there is no need to worry and be afraid.

After figuring this out, Kitagawa Hide's thoughts suddenly became much clearer.

Tomorrow we will have a talk with the top management of Kodansha and try to get as much as we can.

If Kodansha is really willing to give up on itself as the winner of the Newcomer Award in order to curry favor with the Agency for Cultural Affairs, that's fine. There is more than one pure literature magazine publisher on the market, Gunzo.

He believed that if he wanted to change jobs, there would always be someone who would be willing to take on the job and give it a try despite the pressure from the Ministry of Culture.

This is why being in the literary world is better than being in the entertainment industry.

If you are banned in the entertainment industry, no one will come to save you even if you scream at the top of your lungs.

But in the literary world, if you want to abuse your power to suppress a future literary giant, you have to ask a group of powerful people, including the old pedants in the university, the living fossils of the literary world from the pre-war era, the top critics who dare to criticize anyone, and the consortium families behind the major publishing houses, whether they agree or not.

The Japanese people's fanatical worship of literary masters is no less than their religious worship, and may even surpass it. The national power brought about by their fanatical belief is so great that even the government machinery cannot underestimate it.

Thinking about what to say during tomorrow's interview, Beichuan Xiu walked with his head down. Suddenly, he heard a voice exclaiming in his ear: "Xiujun, what a coincidence! I didn't expect to see you here!"

It has been more than two months since Kitagawa Hide came here through time travel, and the most common name he hears is "Kitagawa-san, Kitagawa". Only his little wife Yumeko at home calls him "Hide-kun", but this sweet voice is obviously not made by Yumeko.

Time: After 11pm.

Location: A run-down street lined with rental houses in Adachi Ward.

Environment: The temperature felt below 10 degrees, the streets were empty and the wind was howling.

He shuddered, wondering if he had run into something unclean! After all, in the Japanese novels he read in his previous life, urban legends appeared quite frequently.

If the woman who was shouting had not immediately jumped out from the corner, and had not happened to have a face that Kitagawa Hide recognized, he would have almost dropped the fried squid in his hand.

"Xiujun, why are you ignoring me?" Tanaka Aoi patted his rather majestic chest with her hand, trying to force a sweet smile, and spoke to him in a coquettish tone.

At this time, Kitagawa Hide was still looking at her. He had an impression of this woman, the little follower of Deputy Editor-in-Chief Yasuhara Ken who had improper intentions towards Saito Rena's body.

One time, when I had just finished signing a contract and was leaving Kodansha, she inexplicably gave me a look of disgust.

Once, when she was getting off the elevator with Saito Rena, she happened to run into her and Yasuhara Akira. Yasuhara Akira was using his seniority to teach Saito Rena a lesson, and she stood by and gloated, and continued to hate Kitagawa Hide.

The only memory of this woman left in his mind was that it made Kitagawa Hide begin to doubt his own appearance.

Beichuan Xiu doesn't have the habit of trying to please others. If the other person hates her, she will stay away from him and have nothing to do with him.

But what is going on in this situation?

In Japan, only people who are very close to each other will call each other by their names.

Her calling me that is no less disgusting than calling myself "baby" directly.

Even if you are a beautiful woman, you are sexually harassing me!

In the cold wind, Tanaka Aoi took in his puzzled and unhappy look, but even though she was unhappy in her heart, she could only force out a smile and continued to act coquettishly, "Xiujun, why are you ignoring me? Did Aoi-chan do something wrong to make you angry?"

"Wait a minute. Miss Tanaka, let me think about it."

Although the other party behaved like this suddenly, Kitagawa Hide didn't think that Tanaka Aoi would be shameless enough to call a man she had only met a few times like this.

He began to actively search his mind.

Finally found this woman from the fragmented memory.

It turned out to be the ex-girlfriend who had been dating the original self in high school, but decisively abandoned the original self who was exploited and had no further use after the bubble burst!

Tanaka Aoi, an intern in the editorial department of Gunzo, her ex-girlfriend, no wonder she looked so weird when she saw me before. Everything fits together!
But I couldn’t blame Kitagawa Hide for not recognizing her.

After leaving school, Tanaka Aoi shook off her previous image of a good girl, permed her hair into big wavy waves, wore low-cut clothes, put on heavy makeup, and looked extremely coquettish. She was completely different from the pure white girl with a filter in his memory.

Secondly, after traveling through time, Kitagawa Hide did learn about his original body's unfortunate experience, but the other party left him only this body, a pile of debts, and inseparable interpersonal relationships.

All his emotions, thoughts and so on were replaced by this time traveler - otherwise, if his obsession and despair when he committed suicide were really affected, it is possible that Kitagawa Hide would have committed suicide several times again by now.

So although Kitagawa Hide felt very sympathetic and emotional for the original body, he did not empathize with him, but chose to simply throw the past away.

After all, that is your unfinished life and it has nothing to do with me!
Now I have to focus on paying off my debts. Who has the time to continue feeling sad for you?

Because of all these things, such a big mistake happened.

But it doesn’t matter.

After the breakup, Tanaka Aoi left without looking back, completely disregarding Kitagawa Hide's life or death, nor did she care at all about the old relationship where he had worked hard to support her studies.

When they met again twice afterwards, she looked as if she was afraid of having anything to do with Kitagawa Hide.

Isn't this great?
Why did it suddenly come up again?

Eh, could it be that because I became famous by writing books, he’s planning to renew our relationship and continue to exploit my life?
Realizing that the other party was a "habitual offender" with a criminal record, Kitagawa Hide immediately took a step back vigilantly and placed the bag of fried squid in front of his chest in a cross shape: "It's so late, what do you want to talk to me about, Miss Tanaka?"

"It's nothing, it's just a coincidence that I ran into you here." Tanaka Aoi tried her best to keep a smile on her frozen face and slowly approached him, "Why are you so distant all of a sudden? You always called me Aoi-chan before, but I actually like hearing you call me that."

Tanaka Aoi said as she moved closer.

Met by chance?

Do you think I'm an idiot, woman?
He looked as if he was about to freeze to death, and it was obvious that he had been squatting here for a long time.

And the strong perfume, the exquisite makeup, the V-neck sweater that reveals a large area of ​​white and tender skin, and the miniskirt that barely covers the buttocks.
This is clearly an ill-intentioned plot!

Beichuan Xiu was silent for a while, not wanting to communicate with her too much, and said directly: "If there is nothing else, I will leave first, and someone is waiting for me at home."

What a cold reply!

And it doesn’t look like it’s fake.

She suddenly found it difficult to adapt to Kitagawa Hide's changes.

In her memory, Kitagawa Hide is still the former rich second-generation who obeys her every word, falls behind in family circumstances, constantly pesters her for a reconciliation, and even tries to attract her attention by submitting articles.

Wait, submit.
Tanaka Aoi's face turned even darker.

But now she had no way out.

Before this, she always thought that An Yuanxian was no different from those men who knelt at her feet.

With her intelligence, beauty and figure, she could make a name for herself in Kodansha even though she only graduated from a Japanese university.

Then everything was ruined by the article "Hear the Wind Sing".

Yomiuri Okata, who was recruited by Yasuhara at great expense of his money and even his body, did not win the award.

This wave of heavy losses turned him into a completely different person.

The previously agreed-upon promotion became “pending evaluation”, and the interpersonal relationships that I had worked so hard to build also collapsed.

No one dared to continue to interact with her, an intern who was at odds with Saito Rena.

It seems that I will become the person who will be optimized by the company.

Tanaka Aoi was completely panicked.

Just then, before getting off work today, An Yuanxian suddenly called her to the office and proposed a final solution.

"No matter what method you use, if you can convince Kitagawa Hide to agree to the Cultural Affairs Bureau's plan, I will let you stay. Otherwise, you don't have to come to work tomorrow."

An Yuanxian's cold words were still lingering in his mind.

I didn't do anything wrong, why did I suddenly become so miserable?

She couldn't help sobbing, and when she looked up again, she was shocked to find that Kitagawa Hide was gone!
Kitagawa Hide, who was walking quickly in front, looked like he had seen a ghost and just wanted to run as far as he could.

What is all this about?

When someone becomes famous by writing a book, money, beautiful women, luxury cars and mansions come to him one after another as if they had wings.

As for me, first I had to deal with the scum in the Ministry of Culture, then my inexplicable ex-girlfriend, and I don’t know when I will get the bonus I’ve been dreaming of.

No, I have to add one more point during the conversation tomorrow - the bonus will be paid in advance!
Thinking of this, Kitagawa Hide quickened his pace, but the sound of high heels behind him came back like a leech.

"Xiujun, Xiujun, wait for me~ I've been really busy lately, I just want to ask you to do me a small favor, is that not even possible?"

(End of this chapter)