Tokyo Literary Godfather

As a practitioner in the film and television industry, Kei Fujiwara was well-read before time travel.

He is a believer in the profit-only theory, so whether it is a book, TV series, or movie, he deliberately selects some best-selling works to watch. As for those unsalable goods, even if they had won any international awards, he was not very interested in knowing about them.

As for "White Night Walk", the masterpiece of the best-selling king Higashino Keigo, he has watched it many times and is already familiar with it.

This book is one of the three masterpieces of the best-selling king Keigo Higashino, and it is also his most influential work.

Even many people who don't read mystery novels and don't even know much about Keigo Higashino himself have heard of this book.

Bai Ye Xing sold 2 million copies in Japan that year, which means that one out of every sixty people in Japan bought this book. People who have read it are even higher than this number.

The sales volume overseas is even more terrifying. In mainland China alone, the sales volume is nearly five million copies, and this number is still rising year after year.

Kei Fujiwara read this book when he was 15 years old. I remember that at that time, Guo Jingming, Jiang Nan and Zhang Jiajia were the most prominent places in the bookstore. Keigo Higashino was the only foreign writer in the bestseller section. Byakuyako is placed at the highest position in the Keigo Higashino display area.

In addition to its horrific commercial success, it also received near-unanimous acclaim in the literary world. If a senior reasoning fan were asked to choose the most classic tragic story in the history of Japanese mystery novels, then "Bai Ye Xing" must be on the list.

This book left a deep impression on readers by depicting "desperate love, distorted human nature". In addition, the "Holy Witch" Tang Zeyuho in the book is also called by the critics as the most outstanding novel in the history of Japanese literature. The image of the villain in the top three.

Kei Fujiwara shook his wrist while recalling the content of "Bai Ye Xing", leaving typefaces on the paper.

"My sky has no sun, it's always night, but it's not dark, because something replaces the sun, although it's not as bright as the sun, but it's enough for me..."

The sky gradually darkened, pulling the whole of Tokyo into night.

Since I already have the belly in my mind, I wrote very quickly. After writing two more chapters, Kei Fujiwara stood up, stretched himself in front of the window, and looked at the night view of Tokyo wearily.

"Oh, it's really not easy to survive..."

Fujiwara Kei couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Yes, it is not easy to survive in Japan, even more so in Tokyo, let alone in Tokyo in 1994.

And "Bai Ye Xing" also gave Kei Fujiwara a glimmer of light on this night of the Great Depression.

"I hope tomorrow will be smooth..." Kei Fujiwara murmured to himself, looking at the old Christmas trees standing on both sides of the entrance of a newly opened clothing store downstairs.

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Early the next morning, Kei Fujiwara woke up from his dream and looked out the window. It was already daylight.

He opened the curtains, stood in front of the window, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and looked at the green trees in the distance. His vision in this world is not bad, but he needs to take care of it.

There are already pedestrians on the road, most of them are office workers and students.

Office workers in Japan work very hard, living in places with cheap rent, but they go to work in busy areas, and spend long hours on the subway in between.

On some lines, the subway during the peak period is like a concentration camp. People are crowded, meat is next to meat, and sometimes people’s armpits are five centimeters away from the tip of the nose. .

Several coolly dressed housewives went downstairs to throw garbage, and one of them was particularly conspicuous.

After sorting the garbage, Mrs. Yoshiwara subconsciously glanced up at Kei Fujiwara's window, scaring him and squatting down quickly.

Kei Fujiwara is not an innocent man. In his previous life, he took many women to the hotel, and he also experienced the incident of throwing himself into his arms, but there are not many people who can make him so swaying, and Mrs. Yoshiwara is one of them.

Recently, when the administrator uncle went back to his hometown, Mrs. Yoshiwara's movements were obviously a little louder. Once, she stood drunk outside Kei Fujiwara's door and looked in through the peephole, which almost scared Kei Fujiwara to death.

Fujiwara Kei hurried to the bathroom to wash, and after washing, he put on his clothes and went to work, for fear that Mrs. Yoshiwara would come to deliver breakfast to him.

Today's temperature is still very low, Kei Fujiwara gritted his teeth and insisted not to wear the dirty coat, but wrapped it up and sent it to the dry cleaner. He folded two thick autumn clothes inside his coat, opened the door and left the room.

While waiting for the elevator in the hall, I happened to meet the neighbor woman on the same floor.

"Good morning, Fujiwara-kun." The woman held her handbag and nodded slightly towards Fujiwara Kei.

"Good morning, Miss Takeuchi." Fujiwara Kei returned the greeting with a smile.

"Isn't it cold to wear so little?"

"It's okay. I've been too inactive recently. I plan to go for a run on the road."

"That's great." The woman said with emotion, "Fujiwara-kun is really an energetic person, unlike me, who has spent all his energy in the company, and now he doesn't even have the mood to cook a meal for himself."

Fujiwara Kei smiled and then stopped talking, feeling a little mixed in his heart. Maybe the other person just sighed with emotion, but for Fujiwara, who didn't have a serious job, this sentence seemed to mean something else.

Although Kei Fujiwara knew that she was not the sarcastic type, he still couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

At this time, the woman suddenly realized that she seemed to have said the wrong thing, pursed her lips, and said no more.

The atmosphere suddenly became a little subtle, but the elevator room made a "ding" just right at this time, the elevator door opened, and there were still a few people on the upper floors in the elevator, the two of them walked in, and they both silently relaxed in their hearts. in one breath.

The conversation between neighbors is limited to this. After all, Tokyo is still an indifferent society. Only in Shinjuku and Roppongi at night, the people there will be a little enthusiastic.

Kei Fujiwara wrapped his coat tightly, trotted all the way into the subway station, took a train on the Kamideden Arakawa Line, and finally came to the gate of a publishing house.

The name of the publishing house is Chunqiu Co., Ltd., located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Their bimonthly "Spring and Autumn Literature Appreciation" is one of the most famous fiction magazines in Japan, with sales of more than 100,000 copies per issue.

The issue with the highest sales volume was during the serialization of the novel "Magician's Sign Language" by the famous writer Mika Miyaba, which set a sales record of 700,000 copies of literary periodicals, which has not been broken for four years.

In Japan, if a newcomer wants to debut as a writer, there are only two ways:

The first is to participate in New Humanity novel awards, such as the famous Ranpo Award. After you win an award, a publishing house will naturally ask you to write a manuscript, taking this as an opportunity to make your official debut.

However, the deadline for receiving manuscripts for the Ranpo Prize is at the end of January every year. When Kei Fujiwara came to this world, the deadline for submission had already passed.

Although there are many similar awards for newcomers in Japan, in the category of mystery novels, the only one that is suitable for the book "Bai Ye Xing" and has gold content is the Ranpo Award.

If you missed out on the Ranpo Award, it wouldn't make much sense to switch to other awards. In desperation, Kei Fujiwara had no choice but to choose the second way to debut.

That is to submit directly, to attack literary periodicals and magazines such as "Spring and Autumn Literature Appreciation" and "Wild Age".

Moreover, this "White Night Walk" is Kei Fujiwara's first work, even if he chooses to serialize it first, it will not affect Kei Fujiwara's competition for the new human award.