Tokyo Tycoon, Start as a Writer

Chapter 68 Those who want to run away run away, those who want to break the defense break the defense, no one can escape!
Tachibana Mihoko hates her sister.

This kind of dislike can be said to be innate, because she was born after her father remarried. From birth, she had a person who had nothing to do with her, but she had to call her sister.

In the Shimizu Tokugawa family, Masako was the object of everyone's praise.

The eldest daughter inherited the eldest lady's noble appearance and clever mind. She could do everything excellently and learn things very quickly. People in the mansion often praised her.

When Tokugawa Mihoko was just old enough to understand things, people around her instilled in her the idea that "you should learn from your sister."

Therefore, she began to take her sister as an example, imitating her in everything, learning from her, and trying hard to become a person as good as her sister in the eyes of others.

But there are huge differences between people.

No matter how hard she tried, Tokugawa Mihoko was not as good as her sister. She was defeated in all aspects, from appearance to intelligence.

So, the sentence "You can't do this, look at how your sister does it" frequently rang in her ears, constantly reminding her that she could never compare to her sister.

Gradually, little by little, Tokugawa Mihoko began to hate her sister.

She began to frequently frame her sister in front of their father, causing her father to scold her sister. However, her sister had an extremely strong personality and never admitted her mistakes. The relationship between father and daughter gradually became distant, and there is no sign of reconciliation until now.

She also took advantage of her young age to steal her sister's things.

Relying on the strong green tea properties, Tokugawa Mihoko has always had the absolute upper hand in the confrontations with her sister.

Even her life after marriage was ten thousand times better than her sister's.

Over the past twenty years, she has often used the Tachibana family's wealth to mock her sister's poverty and desolation.

That elder sister who was better than me in every aspect ended up in poverty and was humiliated by me to the point that she couldn't even say a word in rebuttal. How great it felt... Tokugawa Mihoko's biggest wish was to keep that elder sister under her feet for the rest of her life.

But now, it seems that my sister has a chance to turn the tables?
Everyone underestimated Kiyoaki Matsueda.

When she thought about her sister getting back on top in this matter, Tachibana Mihoko felt so angry that her chest hurt. Her originally pretty face was now distorted to look a little scary.

"Junxiong~"

"what's up?"

"Think of a solution quickly..."

"Shut up and stop bothering me..." Tachibana Toshio shouted angrily.

After being scolded by him, Tachibana Mihoko immediately shrank her neck and dared not speak anymore.

Although Tachibana Toshio is her nephew, his status in this family is higher than that of ten other people.

The Tachibana family currently has three generations. The old head of the family is nearly eighty years old and no longer takes charge of things.

The next generation had one daughter and two sons.

Tachibana Mihoko married the second son. Originally, her husband could have inherited the position of head of the family, but he was diagnosed with stomach cancer two years ago. It is hard to say how many years he can live, so it is naturally impossible for him to be the head of the family.

The only remaining heir is the third son.

And Tachibana Toshio is the eldest son of the three sons.

Tachibana Mihoko knew very well that her husband would not live long and she would soon become a widow. If she wanted to maintain her life of luxury, she must not offend any male in the Tachibana family.

Such a future parent is really unqualified... Naoto Oguri drank tea and looked at Tachibana Toshio.

The young master of the Chinese ethnic group, who originally exuded the aura of a "successful man", now had an anxious and distorted look on his face, and was in great trouble.

As he watched, Naoto Oguri felt nauseous and turned to look out the window.

The Tachibana family residence is located in Chiyoda Ward and is surrounded by lush trees.

The courtyard facing the teahouse was silent at this moment, as if it had been silenced by the scorching heat.

On the cracked land, the shadows of the trees and houses were pitch black. The cruel, colorless sunlight shone on everything without emotion, and there was not a trace of any living creature... Naoto Oguri vaguely wondered if this was a sign of the collapse of a family.
"No, we can't just sit there and wait for death..."

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Tachibana Toshio suddenly shouted and picked up his cell phone to make a call.

Ever since "Shiosao" became a big hit on the 10th, he could not sit still for a moment. He frequently visited his literary predecessors and called his old literary friends, hoping that these people would throw some dirty water on Mishima and affect the sales of "Shiosao".

However, all these people closed their doors and refused to see him.

Those who were able to get through on the phone were all vague and kept delaying his requests.

We are not blind, and those who can make a name for themselves in the literary world cannot be stupid.

Seeing that he is about to become a stepping stone for Mishima to become a god, who would dare to help Tachibana Toshio at this time?

The circle that Tachibana Toshio had carefully built and the connections that he had spent a lot of money to build were all gone overnight.

At this time, those who are still willing to contact him are all shameless people who only care about money, book reviewers and second-rate tabloids who will say anything for money... But it is useless to buy black traffic from such channels, as they have no credibility at all.

He is not reconciled!
Especially to the four judges of the Akutagawa Prize, he gave a gift of 500 million yen to the least talented one.

How can these people take money and not do their job?

Tachibana Toshio called again and again and finally got through to Takahashi's house. However, the maid told him directly that old man Takahashi had gone abroad for vacation and told him not to call for a while.

This is just kidding!

"hateful!"

Tachibana Toshio was so angry that he reached out and swept everything off the tea table.

The other few people were startled and stared at him, watching his loss of composure.

"I'll ask some more people!" Tachibana Toshio said gritting his teeth and continued to make the call.

The people I contacted were still those professional book reviewers, hoping that they could throw some dirty water on Mishima...

But those book reviewers are also very clear that Mishima is now completely on the rise and cannot be suppressed by simple and mindless pulling down and criticizing.

If they criticize Mishima at this time, their credibility will probably be backfired, and it will be questionable whether they can continue to work in this industry in the future.

To put it simply, this job cannot be done!

Unless you add money!

How much extra money?
The price should be high enough to make the reviewer abandon his current accumulation and start over with a fresh start.

"3000 million yen!"

"5000 million yen!"

"20 million yen!"

"Really?"

"20 yen per word!"

"..."

As he listened to the quotation on the phone, Tachibana Toshio's hands were shaking.

When it comes to throwing dirty water, one or two people will definitely be useless. It will take dozens or even hundreds of people to do it together... When you think about it, no matter how rich the Tachibana family is, it is impossible for him to spend it like this.

"Call me when you have money, that's all, bye~"

The last call was also hung up.

Tachibana Toshio collapsed on the tatami, his eyes empty and confused. Editor-in-Chief Yamada, who was looking at his phone, suddenly twitched his eyes and looked at Tachibana Toshio: "There is something..."

"What?" Tachibana Toshio looked over weakly.

"Teacher Takahashi and three other teachers have issued statements and withdrawn from the jury of the Akutagawa Prize..." Editor-in-Chief Yamada said with great difficulty.

Five days ago, they had vowed together to plan against Mishima.

At that time, they could never have imagined that they would be defeated so thoroughly...

"Hahaha~~"

Tachibana Toshio laughed like crazy.

With a distorted face, he turned his head and looked at his aunt viciously: "Go and seduce Mishima for me, and make him promise not to participate in the selection of this year's Akutagawa Prize..."

"...?"

The three trendy editors in the tea room all had question marks over their heads.

Tachibana Mihoko was stunned for a moment before she realized what was going on. Her face turned blue and red. She felt unbelievable and ashamed. She shouted in a sharp voice: "Toshio, are you crazy? I'm your aunt..."

"Shut up!"

"you can not do that……"

"Why are you still pretending now?" Tachibana Toshio had a gloomy face and ferocious eyes, "How can I not know how much of a bitch you are? Which of your sister's things have you not snatched away to play with? Now I ask you to snatch her son-in-law, and you're not happy..."

"How could you say such a thing!"

A woman's instinctive shame rose in her chest, and Tachibana Mihoko raised her hand and slapped her nephew.

As a result, this slap aroused even greater malice from the nephew. He slapped her back hard, knocking her down on the tatami, and roared angrily, "I'm telling you, if you don't complete this task, I'll kill you, you slut..."

Lying on the tatami, Tachibana Mihoko covered her burning cheeks.

At this moment, there was only one thing in her mind - although her sister was poor, she would never suffer such humiliation.

■

At the same time, Kitajima Isao opened the book "Tide of Waves" at home.

He is a professional book reviewer who mainly reviews various novels and authors in newspapers, magazines and on the Internet. He also expresses his personal opinions and purchase recommendations to help readers quickly screen suitable novels.

He is certainly not 100% impartial.

If Party A invests money, he will also comment according to Party A's wishes.

For example, when "Dancing Girl" was released last time, someone invested money to let him publish negative articles.

This time for "Tide of Sorrow", that person came to him again and asked him to slander Mishima and the new book.

"This won't do. Now that I'm in Black Island, it's like ruining my future. Do I still have to uphold my professional ethics?"

'You have professional ethics?'

"I mean, you have to pay more!"

The quotation after adding the money scared the other party away.

This is also a good thing. I don’t have to take the risk of criticizing "Chao Sao" and can carefully savor the charm of this book.

Kitajima Isao read the book carefully and gave the best review.

[As I get older, I feel that I am becoming more and more anxious and utilitarian. Take reading for example. In the past few years, I have read a lot of books on growth, psychology, and career. Even if I read other types of books, I always want to learn something from them, but in the end I didn’t learn anything. It was a complete waste of time.]

[Mishima's book "The Sound of Tide" is not a book for you to learn or teach you anything. This book is just a praise of life, nothing more.]

【Pure, sincere, passionate, hardworking...】

[When I read it, I rediscovered the joy I had reading children's books when I was a child. ]

【This is the meaning of reading! 】

【Highly recommended to buy! 】

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Three o'clock in the afternoon, Shinchosha headquarters.

In the meeting room of the Second Editorial Department, Kiyoaki Matsueda was drowsy.

Kobayashi Midori held her cell phone and kept turning down the bookstore's request to invite Mr. Mishima to meet with her in the afternoon.

"Everyone, the meeting results are out..."

The editor-in-chief of Panasonic, who had just finished a meeting with senior management, pushed the door open and walked in, his face flushed.

He had never been so proud after working at Xinchao for more than ten years. After entering the door, he looked at the seven editors of the second department and Kiyoaki Matsueda who was yawning due to sleepiness. He took a deep breath to calm his excitement, and then slowly bowed to everyone.

"The 20 copies of the second reprint of Tide Sao were all sold out before noon today!"

"Eh?"

Everyone was stunned.

I expected it to sell out, but I didn't expect it to sell out so quickly.

Kobayashi Midori looked surprised: "Are you sure the sales statistics are correct?"

"Of course we are sure, because they are all sold out, there is no need to count!" Editor-in-Chief Matsushita laughed and said proudly to everyone, "Yesterday, the editor-in-chief and I visited the heads of major public libraries and campus libraries, and worked hard to promote the entry of "Chao Sao" into libraries. As a result, it came out today, and major libraries across the country purchased "Chao Sao" in bulk, so we ushered in a wave of sales peaks this morning."

The smile on the editor's face could not be hidden at all.

The editors under him also laughed and turned to look at Kobayashi Midori and Matsueda Kiyoaki.

"Congratulations to Mr. Mishima and Editor Kobayashi."

"You have worked hard."

"Please accept my sincere greeting..."

"Ah~"

Kiyoaki Matsueda yawned lazily, not looking excited at all.

Given the huge popularity of the new book, he had expected the sales to explode, so there was no need to be too surprised.

It’s just one book that made him famous.

Judging from the current momentum, it is a foregone conclusion that the sales of "Chao Sao" will exceed 100 million copies before the end of the year.

In this era when paper books are declining, selling 100 million copies in just three and a half months is an absolute masterpiece.

What is more gratifying than the sales volume is that after experiencing two periods of popularity, Kiyoaki Matsueda's fame has gone beyond the literary circle.

A large number of people who are not literature lovers also remember his face and know his deeds.

If only a small number of these people could become his fans, given the huge base, other authors would become rich and famous beyond their dreams.

(End of this chapter)