Tokyo Tycoon, Start as a Writer

Chapter 29 Strength is the best counterattack
The controversy over the New Trend Award continued to ferment in the following days.

The first half of "Eggs and High Walls" has been released, and its quality is on par with previous award-winning works, but not a single word of "The Dancing Girl of Izu" has been released yet.

One side has strong strength, while the other side is completely unknown. The online public opinion and reputation of the two works have gradually become one-sided.

The belief that there was a shady deal in the selection process and the indignation for "Eggs and Walls" became the mainstream public opinion starting from the 10th.

As for why "The Dancing Girl of Izu" won the award, the haters continued to dig up information and finally gradually put together a set of logically self-consistent explanations.

In order to stop the downward trend in sales, Shinchosha, together with the Waseda Literature Department, has selected a handsome new writer in this Shincho Award, and will subsequently market this person in the same way as an idol.

The ultimate goal of Shinchosha is to idolize the author, turn the readers into fans, and commercialize literature...

When this logic becomes widely spread, wider-scale questioning and criticism will begin to emerge.

The first to appear, of course, were colleagues from the publishing house.

For example, an editor of Kodansha, using a friend's account, yelled, "Shincho's move is an insult to literature."

An executive of Shueisha sarcastically mocked Shincho for getting anxious when it saw that its sales lagged behind its competitors and starting to play with the idol business, which really lowered the bottom line of the entire publishing industry.

Secondly, the writer group began to decline.

Some writers who have won the New Trend Award came out to mock, saying: "An award that can be won by a new writer has no value at all. Please take my award back."

Cultivate a handsome writer, and rely on his fame to drive a lot of sales and sell a lot of peripheral products.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this behavior is called making money, but it does not prevent the huge fan group from paying for the brother.

If this model is promoted, the people who will be most affected will of course be the serious authors who write diligently.

In the end, some highly respected literary predecessors also had to step out, expressing their doubts about the selection process either implicitly or explicitly, and unanimously conveying the message of resisting the commercialization of literature.

Under such overwhelming public pressure, it is not known whether the editor-in-chief of the Second Editorial Department can still smile. Matsueda Kiyoaki became famous much faster than he imagined, but he became a "black red".

These days, Matsueda Qingxian hasn't gone out much.

He is a trouble-averse person, so in order to avoid being recognized when going out, he simply stays at home and becomes a stay-at-home.

He didn't even go to Miss Arun's place.

I wonder if Miss Arun waited until all the flowers withered...

He continued to battle wits and courage with the two women, one big and one small, at home. Songzhi Qingxue also returned home to live. The four of them living together obviously added a bit of joy to the whole family, and the days passed relatively quickly.

Nearly half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

The sensation in the literary world caused by the New Trend Award and the abusive public opinion across the Internet reached its peak on the third day, and then has been slowly declining.

The curiosity and discussion about the new writer "Mishima" and the criticism of the shady dealings behind the New Wave Awards gradually lost their popularity.

After all, popularity is time-limited.

Life itself is busy and hurried, and there are so many strange things on the Internet. Of course, not many people will continue to pay attention to this matter.

Even though the Second Editorial Department has been buying promotions and traffic for Kiyoaki Matsueda, it has not been able to stop the trend of declining popularity.

Under this general trend, on July 7, Shinchosha’s official Twitter account posted two tweets.

The first one was posted in the morning, announcing that several works, including "The Wall of Eggs: Part 2", which were originally scheduled to be published in the August issue of Shincho, were postponed to September.

Outsiders naturally cannot understand this tweet.

But in the eyes of colleagues, it was tantamount to making the conflict between the two editorial departments of Xinchao public.

In response, the Second Editorial Department quickly responded.

Shinchosha’s official Twitter account released a second tweet in the afternoon, confirming that “The Dancing Girl of Izu” will be published in the August monthly magazine and publishing the first chapter in full.

Then, the editor-in-chief of Panasonic bought a hot search.

【Strength is the best counterattack! 】

Because of this wave of operations, the heat that was about to die down was stirred up again.

With an attitude of evaluation, questioning and criticism, countless people turned on their phones to watch, just to see whether the newcomer that Xinchao is promoting this time will make a big joke.

The result was a hard slap in the face for them.

In the Maomudong Bar, Arun pouted with a somewhat resentful expression.

She has been very resentful these days.

The young man told her to squat and watch the live broadcast of Xinchao Shang, and she watched it.

I thought he would come the next day...

As a result, half a month passed and she didn't even see him. She was a little upset.

These days, the customers in the store are all discussing Mishima.

Arun listened to their doubts and speculations. Sometimes she encountered some excessive insults, which made her feel uncomfortable. She wanted to argue, but she couldn't say even a word to help Matsueda Kiyoaki.

After all, no matter what she said, someone would just say, "Why don't he show his work to people?"

Of course, she would be in a bad mood if a little guy she admired very much was insulted and slandered every day.

Because of this, she started to suffer from insomnia these days.

The blame must be borne by the real person.

On the 20th, when Arun heard that Shinchosha had released the first chapter of "Dancing Girl", he immediately picked up his phone.

Her mother was also a dancer, so she had a strong desire to read this book.

Open Twitter and go to Trending Search.

That’s the first tweet.

[The road becomes narrow and winding. We should be close to Amagi Ridge. Just as I was thinking this, I saw the rain turning white...]

At the beginning of the story, the sense of picture hits you.

Following closely, a mist filled with a faint sadness enveloped her.

Rain, lots of it, really heavy rain, making everything around wet and sticking the chill of the Indian summer weather to the skin.

The writers in the store are also reading this article.

"Oh my god, what beautiful words..."

"What a beautiful writing style. The artistic conception gives me a feeling that I will never be able to write in my lifetime..."

"Damn it, why is there only one chapter?"

"Can a new author write this? I don't believe it!"

"Damn it, damn Shinchosha, I want to see the full text now!"

"From the completely different attitudes of the teahouse granny towards the protagonist and the dancer, their identities are very different. There is also a faint sadness in the writing style, so it should be a tragic ending. But you see, the ending of this first chapter seems to give people hope..."

"When I saw the words 'A faint light appeared at the exit to Minami-Izu', do you know how my emotions were pulled straight out of the valley? I really want to know what happens next, and I really want to know the ending of the protagonist and the dancer..."

Listening to the guests' discussion, Arun covered his rosy little mouth in surprise at the bar.

Staring at the words on the screen, her beautiful eyes sparkled.

The level of the first chapter of "Dancing Girl" was completely beyond her expectations.

She knew that the novel that won the award must be a very good one, but she didn't expect that the level presented in the first chapter was completely comparable to the works of famous authors...

At the end of the first chapter, the exit leading to Minamiizu showed a glimmer of hope, which gave her a sense of urgency.

I want to enter the steamy Izu Peninsula and experience the ending of the story myself.

As expected, the hot search bought by Editorial Department 2 went viral.

A few days ago, I was questioned, abused, and slandered by the entire network. After enduring for half a month, I finally waited for a Jedi counterattack.

The excellent quality of an article is like a earth-shattering iron fist that smashes all the ridicule and slander.

Japanese people like this kind of passionate plot.

As a result, Shinchosha’s phone was flooded with calls.

The Japanese customer service did not throw the phone aside and ignore the customer's behavior. The poor customer service ladies could only hold the phone in their hands and keep bowing and apologizing to the readers who urged for updates.

"Hello, everyone!" They said it over and over again. Apart from this sentence, these low-level customer service staff couldn't say anything practical.

The heat has reached an overwhelming level, but it is not over yet.

This is just the beginning.

The layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

After the first chapter of "The Dancer" directly shattered all doubts, literary critics began to rush out.

But this time is different from the past, no one on the Internet is pessimistic...

This grand occasion is unprecedented and it is estimated that there will be no similar event in the future.

(End of this chapter)