Tokyo Tycoon, Start as a Writer

Chapter 35: "Dancing Girl" is published, and sales explode

"Sister, can't you please drive him away quickly?"

"I don't understand why you are so hostile to him."

"We were a family of three and we were living well, but suddenly there's a man here. How can I bear it?" Matsueda Luming walked into the locker room and said as he took out the key to open the locker. "Admittedly, the food he cooks is delicious and his writing seems to be good, but that doesn't make me accept him."

"Then how can you accept him?" Matsueda Kiyoyuki asked with a smile.

"Never!" Songzhi Luming smiled contemptuously and said as if making a final conclusion, "Only insects that have not evolved completely will accept him, and I am a genius beauty that only appears once in a thousand years. I will never pay attention to insects."

"You're being too absolute. Be careful that you turn into the chirping of insects on pine branches in the future." Songzhi Qingxue laughed.

The two sisters took out their clothes from the lockers and arrived at the dressing room. There was only one door closed in the entire row of dressing rooms.

"Mom, are you in there?" asked Songzhi Qingxue.

The cubicle door was closed and no one answered.

"She should have changed her clothes and is waiting for us outside. Let's hurry up." said Matsueda Luming.

"Snapped!"

"Ok?"

"Who's in there?"

"……I!"

Songzhi Luming looked puzzled: "What are you doing in there?"

"Mosquito, hiss, the mosquito is biting me..."

"Snapped!"

“Are there so many mosquitoes?”

"Yes, yes..."

"Snapped!"

"And he's so fierce..."

I swatted the mosquito ten times, and it seems to be really fierce.

After changing their clothes, the three of them came out together.

The two sisters subconsciously looked at their mother, only to see that her skin was flushed and her brows were angry.

"Mom, how about your foot?" Songzhi Qingxue looked at her knee and found that there was indeed a bruise on it.

"It's okay, let's go back!" Matsueda Shinsako pretended to be calm and walked forward.

After leaving the stadium, Kiyoaki Matsueda was waiting at the fork in the parking lot.

The moment she saw him, Matsueda Shinsako's eyes became as sharp as a knife, and she wished she could cut him into pieces.

"Asshole..."

She was the proud mistress of a large family, born into a noble family, a beauty like a phoenix... and yet she was treated like this!

Oh, what a shame!
On the way home in the car, Matsueda Shinsako bit her back teeth and swore secretly - she would definitely teach him a lesson in the future!

Songzhi Qingxue was driving the car, occasionally glancing at Songzhi Qingxian who was sitting in the passenger seat.

His performance on the court today caught her off guard.

The high spirits and strong learning ability that were revealed in an instant, combined with his previously taciturn personality... a bold guess gradually emerged in Matsueda Kiyoyuki's mind.

Kiyoaki Matsueda is a man who is not annoying in the way he speaks and does things. His talent is higher than expected, and he is gradually showing his excellent side in other aspects... Even his personality has changed a lot.

Could it be, could it be that his forbearance was just an act!
His real idea was to catch her off guard and tame this restless woman... Thinking so in his heart, Songzhi Qingxue was actually looking forward to it.

She is a genius.

I feel eager to try challenging things.

Let’s see who tames whom... When driving to the door of the house, Songzhi Qingxue smiled softly.

It was a very private laugh, and the other three people didn’t notice it…

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The third day after playing tennis was August 1st.

The August 2010 issue of Xinchao, which everyone has been eagerly awaiting, has been placed in the most prominent positions in major bookstores and convenience stores as expected.

8:30 in the morning.

The door of Kinokuniya Shinjuku store slowly opened.

Countless customers who had been waiting outside the door rushed into the store as soon as possible to grab the first batch of "New Trend" on sale.

Such a grand scene was also taking place in other Kinokuniya stores. Every branch of another bookstore chain, Tsutaya Books, was flooded with people the moment they opened for business.

Today, when traditional literature is declining, the fact that a magazine can be launched with such a grand ceremony is inseparable from the joint efforts of many parties.

First, Xinchao did a lot of promotion for "Eggs and High Walls", making people almost think that this book would definitely win this year's Xinchao Award. However, the result after the award ceremony surprised everyone - the winner was actually a blank slate writer?

Now the entire literary and publishing circles were in an uproar.

Around this selection, people from all walks of life came on board one after another, constantly adding heat to the whole thing, and finally raised what was already a niche literary awards event to a level that everyone knows about.

This is how it is in the Internet age. As long as the popularity is high enough, a person can become famous all over the country in just one day.

If you don't pay attention to this matter, you won't know how to chat with your friends at work or school.

"Hello, please give me the August issue of New Wave!"

"Sorry, the store's stock has been sold out. Please come back this afternoon!"

The influx of customers bought out all the copies of Xinchao in bookstores across the country, making this conversation repeated in every bookstore and every convenience store.

Even passersby who were not the target audience were also driven by the excitement and joined in the buying craze.

Shinchosha is also prepared for this wave of popularity.

In order to cope with the rush to buy on the first day, they printed an additional 5 copies on top of the original 5 copies.

But he never expected that 10 copies would be sold out before noon...Matsushita, the editor-in-chief of the Second Editorial Department, spent the entire afternoon in the office of the director of the Distribution Department, and did not do any other work except urging the Distribution Department to print more copies.

In the first three days of its release, sales of "New Wave" exceeded 30 copies.

In comparison, the July monthly issue of Eggs and Walls, Part 10 sold 45 copies in three days and copies for the entire month.

In the face of the actual sales volume, both fans and haters have understood one thing: no one can stop "The Dancing Girl of Izu" from becoming a huge hit.

The suspense now becomes whether it can break the historical sales record.

That was a sales record of 896050 copies set in the golden age of traditional literature, before the Internet became popular and smartphones appeared.

If we can access historical records, it means that in this era when traditional literature is declining, a superhero has appeared who can save the collapsing building, turn the tide, and go against the trend of the times!

(End of this chapter)