A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 86 Your poison is my treasure!
In fact, the "sorrow culture" has always existed in Japanese society for thousands of years.

It has long been deeply rooted in the bones of the people!

However, before the appearance of "No Longer Human", this kind of "sorrowful culture" had never been understood by the world.

Under the influence of traditional literature, or in other words, Japanese orthodox literature, everyone is trying to convey a thought to people:

“We must love life!”

"We must try to reconcile with ourselves!"

"This world is a beautiful place. We should be kind and learn to be grateful."

However, it was only after the appearance of No Longer Human that people realized——

Why should we be hopeful about life?
Why should we be grateful to the world?

The true face of human beings is selfish and hypocritical, decadent and hateful!
Wouldn't it be better to be frank?

Wouldn't it be nice to face your own nature?

Why should we, like Ōba Yozo, wear a hypocritical mask when interacting with others in interpersonal society?

We don’t want to be grateful to anyone!
We just want to be our purest and most authentic selves!

It is precisely under the guidance of this extreme "sorrow culture" that Kenshichi Takebayashi's suicide was not only not labeled as a "cowardly act", but even under the exaggerated narration of fanatical book fans, Kenshichi Takebayashi——

Directly given the reputation of [dying for the sake of righteousness]!

The emergence of "No Longer Human" has had an extremely huge impact on mainstream Japanese literature!

Even in the forums of various universities in Japan, there are quite a few fanatical fans who support "No Longer Human". They claim to the outside world that they are -

Lost army?
It is precisely because of this group of fanatical book fans, the "Sad Family Army", who spared no effort in promoting "No Longer Human" that it is on the [Japanese Reading Ranking] list.

Far ahead of the second place Yayoi Kusama!

Fault number one!

The slogan used by the Lost Family Army for No Longer Human is also very intimidating:
"This is a book that can drive people to suicide. Be careful!"

“Want to liberate your nature and be your true self? Then read No Longer Human.”

“The greatest work of the 21st century, bar none!”

“This is definitely the most soul-stirring work I have ever read.”

I watched Jiang Hai rush up the [Japanese Reading Rankings].

Not only the Japanese Ministry of Education was confused, but also the literary league that had been prepared for so long——

Did someone accidentally rob your house?

The Chinese Ministry of Education is also confused!
Seeing their top players fall from grace one after another, being defeated by Japanese students, as the competition for the domestic rankings entered a fierce stage, the leaders of the Ministry of Education looked back.
Jiang Hai has already rushed to the opposite high ground with "No Longer Human"? ? ?

One against nine!

A cliff-hanging lead!
And it ranks first!

Currently, Jiang Hai's "No Longer Human" has a vote support rate of 25.43% on the [Japanese Reading Ranking]. This vote support rate even exceeds that of Yayoi Kusama, who ranks second, by nearly 12 percentage points?

The domestic elites were blasted away by contestants from Japan on the country's reading rankings!

Even seven of the top ten seats were taken away by others!
Turning around and looking -

On our side, the player who had never been given any hope was directly hanging up and beating the Japanese player who had defeated the domestic elites?

what is this?
If you plant flowers intentionally, they will not bloom, but if you plant willows unintentionally, willows will provide shade?

However, although this situation was not expected to happen, it must be said that Jiang Hai dominated the [Japanese Reading Ranking] -

It still saved some face for Chinese students!

If it were me, not only would my ranking be dominated by others in China, but I would also be criticized on the foreign rankings.
Wouldn't this [Asian University Literature League] be a disgrace to the country? However, what puzzled the leaders of the Chinese Ministry of Education was that -

Whether it is the [Chinese Reading Ranking] or the [Japanese Reading Ranking], the books on these two rankings -

Everyone can see each other!

In other words, apart from the language difference, the works of each other's students can be seen on both sides' lists!

For example, Yayoi Kusama, who is currently ranked first on the [Chinese Reading Rankings], ranked first in China with her philosophical work "The Heart". Even though she was suppressed by Jiang Hai, she still ranked second on the [Japanese Reading Rankings]!
But looking back at this river and sea——

His "No Longer Human" has already topped the [Japanese Reading Ranking] list, and even ranked first!

But there is no trace of "No Longer Human" on the [Chinese Reading Ranking] list?

What is this scenario?
You can't say that a book that ranks first in Japan is a big hit.
It doesn't even make the top ten?

Liu Yutang, president of Tsinghua University and general manager of the Asian University Literary League, felt something was wrong when he saw this bizarre scene.

"This" When Liu Yutang saw that "No Longer Human" dominated the charts in Japan, he quickly began to search for this book in China.

If you don’t search, you won’t know. Once you search,

I was stunned by what I saw!
In Japan, No Longer Human is ranked first, and in China, it is ranked
He was actually ranked outside the top 200.

Two hundred and thirty-four?

You are killing it in foreign countries, dominating the charts and ranking first with a huge margin!

Once you get to China, let alone the top ten, you can’t even make it into the top 200?

When Liu Yutang saw this scene, he was completely puzzled:
“Why did this happen???”

Liu Yutang clicked on the book review section of No Longer Human and found that the comments from domestic readers on this book were generally quite extreme:
"This author's writing style is very good, definitely one of the best in the country, but the whole book is too depressing and depressing to read! I dare not continue reading it"

“Wow, it’s good, but I still haven’t recovered from it after reading it. This is the first time I’ve read a book that made me want to die. I don’t want other readers to read such a negative book. One-star review.”

"I came here for the title of the book. I thought the title of No Longer Human was quite literary and I thought it was a healing story about the philosophy of life. Who would have thought that this is not a healing story, but a depressing one."

"Honestly, I don't understand what the author wants to write. A scumbag who smokes, drinks, has promiscuous sex, takes drugs, and has an absurdly distorted outlook on life and values. How can such a person be the protagonist???"

"I admit that the author's writing is indeed very strong, but the protagonist's values ​​are not right. They should be the author's values. I really can't praise them."

On one side, there are Japanese readers who regard the book as a classic and love it so much that they can’t put it down.

On the other hand, there are Chinese readers who don’t understand the story at all, and some even directly criticize the protagonist’s values.

This kind of reversal of reputation made Liu Yutang stunned:

"What the hell is going on???"

Without much hesitation,

Liu Yutang directly called his assistant,

Song Shiqing is also the student representative from Tsinghua University in this [Asian University Literary League].

Song Shiqing looked at the principal in front of him and asked respectfully:
"Teacher, did you call me?"

Liu Yutang got straight to the point: "Shi Qing, can you help me check Jiang Hai's personal information? This person should be a student of Chengxi Opera? Act quickly, the faster the better!"

Hearing the name 'Jiang Hai', Song Shiqing was stunned for a moment.

River or sea?

Why does it sound familiar?

Liu Yutang looked at Song Shiqing who was motionless and was somewhat puzzled:
"What, do you know me?"

"Uh, no!" Song Shiqing reacted and immediately responded to Liu Yutang's words, "Teacher, I'll go right away!"

(End of this chapter)