Tokyo: The life of a literary giant begins with home self-defense!

Chapter 269 Father-in-law meets son-in-law

Longchuan Che had the illusion that he went to his female classmate's house and was suddenly blocked by her parents.

Listening to the voice of Imamura Yukawa outside the door, Ryukawa Toru turned his gaze to the eldest lady and gave her an innocent look, wondering what to do.

"Room on the left, stand behind the door, and don't touch my things."

Natsuko Imamura rubbed her nose bridge and obviously felt a headache. Her father was already unhappy with Longchuan, and he would definitely be furious to see him so late.

After bowing to the eldest lady to express his gratitude, Longchuan Che turned and walked into the door on the left.

The girl’s room is not big, and the white light on the bedside emits a warm glow.

Outside the room, the voice of Imamura Yukawa asking if Ryukawa Toru was still there was a little faint. The boy leaned against the wall and recalled what the young lady had just said.

If he wants to return to the Kujo family, he has to marry the eldest daughter, and the reason why his mother left the Kujo family becomes even more confusing.

What was the reason that even Kujo Fujitaka couldn't let him go back openly?

Should he marry the eldest daughter in order to get back his mother's legacy, the Kujo family?

The two problems gave Longchuan Che a headache.

Outside the door, Imamura Yukawa didn't seem to have any intention of coming in to check his daughter's room. Ryukawa Toru sighed and sat down on the desk beside the eldest lady's bed.

If he remembered correctly, the eldest lady once said that she had better inspiration at night.

There are finger gloves, Parker pens and other writing tools on the desk.
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"An Alternative History of Japanese Culture" further explains that the ultimate meaning of Yugen is Japan's "Ma" culture, that is, a kind of blank space, a meaning of "empty and profound", which implies "something like origin that people cannot obtain through rational knowledge."

There were a lot of excerpts of information about Xuanyou on the eldest lady's desk. Most people couldn't write something down like Longchuan Che could.
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"As the sun sets, when we look out the train windows at the countryside, we can always see the thatched-roof farmhouses, with the shadows of old-fashioned electric lights shining through the paper doors." This dark "sense of depth" in "In Praise of Shadows" is the fourth meaning of mystery summarized by Da Xikeli.
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This sense of depth is not only a sense of distance in time and space, but also has a special spiritual meaning. "It often means some profound and difficult thoughts contained in the object."
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The story in "In Praise of Shadows" describes a friend of "I" who, when decorating his new home, did not want to put glass on the windows and wanted to use paper instead. This aesthetic, which requires shadows to be visible through the paper on the doors or windows to let in the bright light from outside, is a typical example of "mystery".

The girl's handwriting was very beautiful. Longchuan Che seemed to see her writing on this desk every day in order not to lose to himself.

Natsuko Imamura likes diverse creations very much. Ryukawa Toru remembers that she once wrote mystery novels for a period of time.

She has lofty ideals and believes that both pure literature and popular literature are artistic creations that serve people, but now in order not to lose to Ryukawa Toru, she begins to continue on the path of creating pure literature.

The eldest lady’s new book is called “Distant Hills and Pale Shadows”.

It's a quiet story with a hint of suspense.

Etsuko, a Japanese woman living in the UK, lost her daughter to hanging herself in her room a few days ago.

This is the beginning of the story that Ryukawa Tetsu saw on the eldest lady's desk.

Suspense elements and mysterious techniques.

The eldest lady's writing skills are terrifying.

"I told you not to touch my things."

Two minutes later, Natsuko Imura pushed the door open and sighed as she looked at Toru Ryukawa drawing on her desk.

He is both fickle and dishonest.

How could I marry such a person?

Not knowing that he was labeled as a bad match by the other party, Longchuan Che raised his eyebrows at the other party.

"The conspirator is gone?"

Ryukawa Toru had just heard Imamura Yukawa's entire plan in the room. The other party's plan of killing the enemy and harming himself was really cruel.

Ryukawa Tetsu finally made the literary world have the current literary form, and now that Ryukawa Tetsu has fallen, Monk Hongping should be happy again. Not everyone can be the founder of a school of thought, and there is no second copy of "Snow Country" and "Sketch from Life".

"Now that you know it, go back."

The eldest lady leaned against the edge of the door frame, her beautiful face looking a little tired.

At this point, she and Longchuan Tetsu have finally come clean. As she said, they have irreconcilable conflicts.

Putting aside the question of whether she was interested in the power of the Kujo family, the girl could not accept being given to Ryuukawa Toru like a vassal.

"it is good."

Longchuan Che put down his pen and put the cap back on.

This was the first time that the young lady acted so indifferent.

The other person has always had a very calm personality, and this kind of cold and sarcastic attitude is the first time Longchuan Che has seen it.

He got up and went out, taking the two lunch boxes with him.

When Longchuan Che went out, the eldest lady sighed weakly.

Originally, her father didn't need to be so anxious, but the old man's health seemed to have suddenly deteriorated recently.

Everyone knows what it means for one's health to deteriorate at an advanced age.

Kujo Fujitaka will decide on the successor as soon as possible.

Ryukawa Toru had just pioneered the life-drawing method and his position in the literary world was unshakable, so Imamura Yukawa had no choice but to use this method to drag him into it.

"I'm sick!"

After kicking the chair where Ryukawa Toru had been sitting, Natsuko Imamura took the book and looked at what Ryukawa Toru was drawing on her work.

Surprisingly, the book does not contain various comments on his own works but some of Ryukawa Toru's personal analysis of mysterious aesthetics.
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Mysterious also refers to a kind of soothing and elegant attitude that does not seek to get to the bottom of things and does not require everything to be explained clearly.
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However, the content of the mystery itself is not just implicit, obscure, and difficult to understand, but rather an infinite "fullness" gathered and condensed in the mystery.
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Chan Zhu's "Essentials of the Ultimate Way" says that some people think that being embellished, having beautiful words, and being sad and weak is "mysterious", but this is not the case.
The light in the fields in summer, the sweet fragrance of sugar-boiled chestnuts in autumn, and the dim light that shines through the sliding paper on the snow outside the window in winter.

Regardless of whether Ryukawa Toru is a good or bad person, Natsuko Imamura was also amazed by the other party's profound knowledge.

It seemed like the other party had his own library and could answer any question.

The other party finally suggested that he could read the ancient Chinese strange story novel "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". The aesthetic archetype of ghosts in that novel has something in common with Tanizaki Junichiro's "In Praise of Shadows".

Closing the book, Natsuko Imura sighed.

Even she had to admit that Ryukawa Tetsu's disassembly was useful to her.

In fact, she didn't hate Longchuan Tetsu, but no girl would be happy being forced into marriage.

I closed the book and prepared to see if Longchuan Che had gone far, and by the way, I wanted to apologize for my attitude just now.

Just stepped out the door.

The young lady saw the figures of two men.

One is her father, and the other is Longchuan Toru.

It was unknown what the two were talking about.

Imamura Yukawa's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

(End of this chapter)