Tokyo Tycoon, Start as a Writer

Chapter 62: Qingye is at full firepower, and no one in the literary world dares to confront him head-on.

Opposite Xinchao, there is a cafe.

Sitting by the window, Editor Kobayashi was holding his cell phone, with serious wrinkles forming between his brows from time to time.

From the perspective of Kiyoaki Matsueda when he just walked in, she was wearing a black skirt. She was still a college student, but her eyebrows and eyes still had the youthfulness of a high school student, and her short chestnut hair gave people a neat and neat feeling.

"Matsueda-kun~" Kobayashi Midori noticed him and waved quickly.

As soon as Kiyoaki Matsueda sat down, she handed him the newspaper and motioned for him to look at the literature page.

The newspaper is Asahi Shimbun, one of the three major newspapers in Japan, and the commentator is Keisuke Takahashi.

The content of the review is well-organized, and the wording is sharp and accurate. It is obvious that it was written by a professional literary critic.

He did not start by discrediting the work, but instead praised "The Dancer" and praised its writing style highly.

Then he immediately changed his tone and criticized its thickness, and then slowly moved on to Mishima as the author.

Keisuke Takahashi believes that Mishima is a marketed author and a product of commercial deification.

The emergence of Mishima has tarnished the character of literati and desecrated the purity of literature. He should be kicked out of the circle of authors.

In the end, Keisuke Takahashi raised the banner of morality and directly pushed Mishima to the opposite side of all authors who wrote seriously and diligently.

This wave of public opinion was extremely overwhelming. Anyone who spoke up for Mishima would be labeled as a die-hard fan of Mishima and become the object of public ridicule.

"It must be said that this old man's choice of words is really sharp." Kiyoaki Matsueda said admiringly.

Kobayashi Midori said with a sad face: "How can you still be in the mood to talk about this at a time like this..."

"Even if he is an enemy, you have to admit his strength." Kiyokatsu Matsueda returned the newspaper to her with a calm expression.

"Does Matsueda have any way to deal with this?" asked Midori Kobayashi with a glimmer of hope.

"Do you think that I, a newcomer to the literary world, can fight against more than half of the old guys?" Kiyokatsu Matsueda asked back.

This question made the editor wilted. He lay down on the table listlessly and sighed, "Damn it, damn it, why are there so many annoying old things in this world? I'm so angry..."

She was so angry that her teeth were itching, but there was nothing she could do.

Everything was apparently moving in a good direction, but suddenly, in just one day, it turned into a terrible situation where we were hostile to the whole world.

“Are we just going to let them slander us?” The editor looked at the other side eagerly.

"Don't worry, you don't have to worry about these things if you have the ability. At most, the early sales will be affected a little." Matsueda Kiyoaki was still very calm, and comforted him in a soft tone, "After all, the competition between literary works is still about quality. Good works can't be bad, and bad works can't be good. After this public opinion passes, when everyone calms down and re-examines it, "Chao Sao" will still be a big seller."

The editor said angrily: "But I still don't accept it..."

Of course, Kiyoaki Matsueda also felt unconvinced, but all he could do was wait for the sales data.

A single volume is not like a serial in a magazine. It does not have the reputation of the publishing house to support it. It relies entirely on the author's own strength and fame.

One copy sold is one copy, ten thousand copies are ten thousand copies, the data will not lie.

In the face of powerful sales data, all conspiracies will be self-defeating.

On this point, Kiyoaki Matsueda is still very confident.

"Chaosao" became popular before it was published, and with so much publicity in the early stage, it had already attracted a group of potential readers. In addition, the impact of last month's monthly sales of one million is still there, so as long as the quality is good, there is no possibility that the sales of "Chaosao" will suffer a Waterloo.

Besides, he is optimistic that as long as he has the strength, the black and red traffic can be turned into positive traffic.

After all, he has experienced the era when traffic was king, and his views on network traffic are several years ahead of people in the current 3G network era.

Unfortunately, the editor doesn’t think so.

Kiyoaki Matsueda comforted the young editor for a long time, but she was still unhappy.

After having lunch in the cafe, she had no intention of going back to the company. She held her phone and argued with the haters on Twitter. But how could she win over thousands of haters alone? After being attacked by the group, she was so angry that her face turned red.

"These bastards don't have the ability to think independently. They are rubbish..."

The young editor clutched his phone tightly, staring at the insults on the screen. His body trembled constantly, his breathing became more and more rapid, and the fullness of his chest trembled with the rise and fall of his chest.

Kiyoaki Matsueda noticed her anxiety and secretly analyzed his biggest weakness.

He debuted a short time ago, has insufficient fans, has no connections in the industry, and lacks channels to express his opinions... None of these problems can be solved in a short time. He can only remember the lesson this time and work hard to make up for this shortcoming in the future. "Huh?"

Suddenly, Kobayashi Midori's eyes widened.

"Matsueda-kun, look at what this is?" She handed over the phone, her expression gradually getting excited, "It's Mr. Kiyono. Mr. Kiyono opened a Twitter account and blasted Takahashi Keisuke."

The old-fashioned and upright professor of Waseda University just opened a Twitter account and posted a post under his real name to diss Keisuke Takahashi.

Kiyoaki Matsueda spent some time browsing on his phone before he understood what was going on.

This Takahashi Keisuke is somewhat similar to a Chinese author named Zhen Qiaotu.

His works often contain elements of sexual violence and are often long and detailed, earning him the nickname "rogue writer."

In addition to his controversial works, he also used his status in the literary world to help his daughter, who had mediocre literary talent, become the winner of several literary awards.

In addition, Keisuke Takahashi was the dean of the Graduate School of Letters at Kyoto University. He used his power to get his daughter into Kyoto University as a tutor.

I don’t know if the title of his daughter’s paper was “My Dean Father”.

Professor Kiyono, who is an upright and old-fashioned man, brought up this matter as soon as he got off the stage, and bluntly said that a literary scum like Takahashi Keisuke was not worthy of being a writer, not worthy of teaching and educating people, and even less worthy of commenting on others from a high position.

As soon as this article came out, the entire Internet was in an uproar.

Please, a professor from Waseda University tore apart the president of Kyoto University. Who wouldn’t want to be at the forefront of such a big scene?

The hot search list on Twitter in Japan was quickly dominated by entries related to this incident.

With Professor Kiyono taking the lead, people began to expose Keisuke Takahashi's negative information on hot searches. Not to mention the abuse of power for personal gain, all the negative information about him, such as sexually harassing students, was dug out, and he quickly became the target of public criticism.

Keisuke Takahashi did not respond directly, but did two things.

First, people launched a large-scale counterattack against Professor Seino online using the excuse that "Mishima was a student of Waseda University, and you, Seino, jumped out to slander Takahashi Keisuke at this time just to exonerate your own student."

Second, directly contact the president of Waseda University and apply offline pressure.

In response to this, Professor Kiyono's response was very simple and crude.

On Twitter, he directly posted a literary journal from two years ago, which recorded an incident in which he criticized his daughter's debut work to pieces. He did this to remind netizens: When I get ruthless, I will even criticize my own daughter, and I will never slander others for the sake of a student.

Offline, in the principal's office.

Facing the speechless principal, Professor Qingye stood up straight with a gleaming look in his eyes: "Principal, even if you come forward, I won't delete it. I have been annoyed with that sanctimonious bastard for a long time, but I just never had a good opportunity to expose him before! Don't persuade me, it's useless. This time, I must let the world know his true face!"

"...but you also have to pay attention to the impact." The principal was very troubled.

"Mishima is our student!" Professor Kiyono said faintly.

headmaster:"……!"

Now that things have come to this, what can he do as the principal?
He couldn't just fire his own professor in order not to offend the dean of Kyoto University. If it got out, people would think that Waseda was afraid of Kyoto University...Besides, Mishima was still a senior student at Waseda. How could he not protect his own family?

Without the pressure from above, Professor Kiyono went all out.

The best piece of meat is the one without any weaknesses.

He wasn't very popular in the circle, and he didn't need to save face to pave the way for his daughter, so he just let himself go on Twitter.

Whenever he sees someone he doesn't like, he starts to criticize them. The four Akutagawa Prize judges who instigated this public opinion were criticized from head to toe by him, and their bodies were completely destroyed with his sharp words.

This time, Professor Kiyono vented all his usual dissatisfaction with the chaos in the literary world and the various unspoken rules.

Kill like crazy!
No one in the entire Japanese literary world dared to confront him head-on.

Netizens who had no opinions of their own just followed him and criticized whoever he criticized, which soon made the whole thing become weird.

The original criticism of Mishima turned into a large-scale criticism meeting of the dirty things in the literary world, and unsurprisingly once again became a national topic known to everyone.

As one of the protagonists, Kiyoaki Matsueda would certainly not miss this rare opportunity. He asked the editor to contact the editor-in-chief Matsushita and harvested this huge wave of traffic the day before "Chaosao" went on sale.

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