I really just want to grind for entries related to crossover anime/manga.

He believed.

Jenny Studios must be getting restless now.

Volume One: The Shining Morning Star: Chapter Thirty-Two: Those Blooming Flowers

Inside a small meeting room at Jenny's firm.

The assistant projected the screen from the tablet onto the large screen, which displayed the lively comment section under Genkawa Yu's tweet, looking particularly jarring at that moment.

"He's going to publish a book?!"

Ryo Mizushima had been waiting for a long time, but he didn't get Hoshino Advisors to quickly back down, nor did he get Yu Genkawa's desperate surrender call.

But today, he received a new message that filled the man's voice with unbelievable rage.

"Could he really write novels? Didn't you say he was just an ordinary actor when you were gathering information about him?!"

The assistant, pale-faced, stood to the side, his fingers flying across the phone: "I'll investigate right now! This might just be a publicity stunt by Hoshino Agency to grab attention..."

Half an hour later, facing the gloomy-faced Mizushima Ryo, the assistant received the latest news, and his voice even trembled as he explained it.

"Director Mizushima, it's true! Shinazugawa Shoten and Kodansha have both confirmed the release information; the first print run is 50,000 copies!"

"I also contacted the East Boundary Printing Factory, with whom I had previously made contact, and they said that the book started printing a long time ago and will be delivered to major bookstores tomorrow morning!"

"You bastard!!!"

Ryo Mizushima suddenly stood up, his expensive suit jacket torn and deformed. "You can't even find out about something like this! How can an artist we've blacklisted still cause such a commotion!"

He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the bustling traffic below, his eyes filled with a terrifyingly sinister glint.

"What should we do now?" the assistant asked nervously from the side.

Since the announcement of the "ban" on Yu Genkawa, the news has spread widely in the entertainment industry. Actors and top agencies of similar size to Jenny Entertainment have all heard about it.

If Genkawa Yu does manage to turn things around and return to the forefront, Jenny Agency will definitely become a laughing stock for everyone.

After all, if they can't even blacklist a newcomer, it will severely damage the authority of Jenny Entertainment.

"How to do?"

Ryo Mizushima sneered again, his eyes filled with ruthlessness as he turned away.

"Have our online army intensify their efforts! Cause a ruckus in the comment sections of Shinazugawa Publishing and Kodansha, accusing them of having no bottom line when it comes to making money! Hire marketing accounts to release press releases questioning whether Yu Minakawa's 'Love Letter' was ghostwritten! I want everyone who sees this book to remember his scandals, and let those 50,000 copies rot in the warehouse!"

He pointed to the ever-increasing popularity of the topic on the screen, his tone icy.

"Pass the word: keep spreading these negative rumors until the release date tomorrow. I want to see if he can turn the world upside down with a lousy book!"

The assistant nodded repeatedly, then turned and hurriedly left.

At eight o'clock on Sunday morning, the winter wind blew on Genkawa Yu's face, making him even more awake.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, and a new notification popped up on the system screen.

[Production Sequence 1: Long-Distance Running Expert]

Experience points: 75/100

Experience points: 76/100

Experience points: 77/100

"This entry will be produced soon. I'm really looking forward to the upgrade of the [Entry Library]."

Genkawa Yu currently has 8 entries. Once he produces the "Long-Distance Running Master" entry and synthesizes it into the "Athlete (Green)" entry, he will have 10 entries.

"Ding-dong-"

My phone vibrated; it was a message from Kazuya Nakahara, along with a photo: it was the bestseller section of the Jimbocho Bookstore, where "Love Letter" was prominently displayed. Its pale white spine stood out among the colorful covers, and next to it was a small sign that read "A sincere work by new author Yu Genkawa."

The young man took a deep breath and went to Twitter to browse the exciting developments of the day.

The comments section was still as lively as a morning market, with online trolls relentlessly launching repeated attacks, piling up one comment after another.

"Anyone who buys a book by a disgraced celebrity is being ripped off; it must have been ghostwritten, right?"

"Boycott celebrities with tainted reputations! Don't let capital treat readers like fools!"

These sharp voices have been flooding social media, but unlike the numerous scandals that followed him after he was kicked out of the "49" production team, this time, after the release of the trailer for "Love Letter," many people who don't follow the entertainment industry have started browsing Yu Genkawa's updates, with a completely different perspective.

Of course, some of them are genuine fans of Genkawa Yu.

They have been working hard to promote the book and constantly engaging in online battles with paid trolls. Although the number of trolls is not large, it has resulted in more and more lively responses in the comments section.

After glancing at these comments, a comment with a pink heart suddenly popped up at the top.

[Supporting Genkawa-sensei! I just bought it at the bookstore, the cover feels amazing!]

In the accompanying picture, a girl wearing a mask holds up a copy of "Love Letter" with a smile on her face. The plain white spine of the book is decorated with cherry blossom commemorative stickers from Shinazugawa Bookstore, and the sunlight shines on the pages with a delicate luster.

Below is another popular comment: [I passed by a bookstore and flipped through the sample chapters... The part where Hiroko Watanabe lies in the snow sending a letter is so vivid; she even described the feeling of snow falling on her eyelashes. I've already bought it!]

In the comments section, people pressed for details, and a discussion thread with dozens of floors quickly sprang up.

Similarly, neutral voices are gradually increasing.

[I'm not a fan, but I'm a bit curious. Books from Shinazugawa Publishing are generally of good quality. I'm looking forward to reading some genuine reviews.]

[Buy it and give it a try, it's not expensive anyway, only 550 yen per book.]

Upon seeing these sincere words, Genkawa Yu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

He clicked on the girl's profile page and found that she had posted several photos taken in a bookstore. "Love Letters" was displayed on the bestseller stand, surrounded by several readers who were all looking down at the book with gentle expressions.

"not bad."

After whispering something, Genkawa Yu prepared to go to the agency. His manager said that the data website for Shinazugawa Bookstore was ready, and they could learn about the specific sales situation.

But before that, his fingertips danced lightly on the screen, and a faint smile involuntarily crept onto his lips.

Opening his Twitter account, the young man typed a line on the keyboard, revising and editing it until it finally settled into a simple sentence.

"Thank you for your support. May 'Love Letter' accompany you through this winter."

Volume One: The Shining Morning Star, Chapter Thirty-Three: The Celebrity Effect – Sales Officially Explode

On Sunday, the streets were bustling with people, and thanks to the vigorous promotion by Shinazugawa Bookstore and Kodansha, major bookstores in Tokyo had set up sales booths for "Love Letter".

Despite the massive online trolling, many young people have developed a great deal of curiosity about "Love Letter".

A crowd had gathered in front of the Love Letter booth at Shinjuku Bookstore.

A girl with a ponytail was engrossed in reading a sample copy, her finger unconsciously tracing the paragraph that read "Hiroko Watanabe received a reply."

Her friend nudged her, "So? Want to buy it?"

The girl's eyes sparkled as she looked up. "Buy it! Not only is the beginning captivating, but the writing style is also very delicate. I really want to know what happens next!"

Not far away, two men who looked like office workers were hesitantly flipping through the spines of books, discussing in hushed tones.

"I heard the author is a male actor who's been getting a lot of dirt dug up on him online lately?" one of the men said. "Could it be a book with more hype than substance?"

Another person turned to the author's biography on the title page, which featured a photo of Yuuichi Genkawa, wearing a simple white shirt with clear and bright eyes.

"But Shinazugawa Bookstore rarely publishes bad books, right? And the writing in the sample passage was really good, why don't we buy a copy and take a look?"

"Okay, let's give it a try."

Readers were already queuing at the cashier with copies of "Love Letters" in their hands.

The cashier couldn't help but glance at the barcode a couple more times while scanning it, muttering, "A lot of people are buying this book today; we just restocked it this morning."

The girl in line smiled and shook the book: "Because it's really well written!"

Of course, not everyone in the bookstore was willing to buy it on the first day of its release.

A middle-aged man in the corner of the booth flipped through a few pages of the sample reading material, then frowned and put it down. "It's just another one of those young people's unrequited love stories. Nothing new."

The aunt next to her chimed in, "Let's wait for the word out before making a decision. What if it's just a ghostwriting service, like what's said online? We'd be losing out if we bought it."

Many people like them chose to wait and see, their eyes filled with hesitation as they looked at the bustling exhibition booths.

At Hoshino Architects, Yuu Genkawa and Kazuya Nakahara sat in a small office.

The agent had a laptop in front of him, and he was browsing online reviews, while another page displayed the current sales data for "Love Letter".

"There are still a lot of people complaining..."

Kazuya Nakahara scrolled through the comments, his tone somewhat dejected, "Some people still believe the claims about ghostwriting, which might really affect my public image."

Genkawa Yu sighed softly and comforted her, "That's normal. Jenny's Agency won't let them stop."

He glanced at the sales data on his computer. Of the initial print run of 50,000 copies, only a little over 3,000 had been sold so far. There were still many comments under the tweet from Shinazugawa Bookstore saying "wait and see" or "waiting for word-of-mouth".

A few hours later, I don't know when it started, the data on the computer screen suddenly started to change drastically, and after refreshing it, it increased by more than a hundred books.

"Hey, what's going on here?"

Genkawa Yu looked up with some confusion, only to find his manager staring at his phone with a look of surprise on his face.

"what happened?"

"Dean Onishi recommended your book!"

"Who?"

"Dean Onishi, Keishi Onishi, the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo!"

Kazuya Nakahara was incredibly excited; his face flushed red, and he jumped up from his chair.

"Look!"

Genkawa Yu took the other person's phone. In the tag #GenkawaYu's Love Letter Release#, there was a tweet that had been retweeted many times and quickly rose to the top.

"I happened to read Mr. Yuanchuan Jiuqi (six) (nine) Yingshan Ba ​​Liu You's Love Letter, and I haven't been so moved by a book in a long time."

"The book captures the details of unrequited love with breathtaking precision. The writing is as clean as the first rays of sunlight on a snowy field, yet the emotions are as deep as an ancient well. Such a work deserves to be seen by more people."

"It's been a long time since we've seen a work like this in Japanese literature. If Mr. Genkawa Yu wants to participate in next year's Naoki Prize, you can click this link..."