I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 154: Kitagawa Hide is never satisfied
Shortly after Matsuyama Ken left, a large group of celebrities immediately approached Kitagawa Hide one by one. After asking for his autograph, taking photos, and exchanging business cards, they left satisfied.

The shy Izumi Sakai was also among them, but because she was an entertaining singer at the bottom of the contempt chain, when it was her turn, the entire venue was almost empty.

Kitagawa Hide signed autographs and took photos as usual, and even added a sentence at the end: "To Ms. Izumi Sakai, I wish you eternal youth and happiness, and that your records will sell well!"

He wrote this blessing because he suddenly remembered that Izumi Sakai was diagnosed with uterine fibroids in 01 and unfortunately passed away in 07.

I hope she can have a good ending in this world line!
"Thank you, Mr. Kitagawa! I will treasure this copy of "Border"!" After seeing the extra blessing written by Kitagawa Hide, Izumi Sakai was so excited that he kept bowing and thanking him.

The person in charge of B-GRAM RECORDS standing next to her took the opportunity to hand over his and Izumi's business cards and said with a smile: "Thank you Mr. Kitagawa for your encouragement to Izumi. I hope to have the opportunity to work with you in the future!"

"No problem." Kitagawa Hide nodded with a smile. After "Lost Paradise" is made into a movie and a TV series, she will definitely invite Quanshui to compose the theme song. She also has a song "Turning the Wheel of Fortune" that has not been released yet.

If I have the chance, I can also help her write some lyrics or something.

Japan has very strict protection for the copyright of such creations.

Next door, after a song is released and becomes a hit, the biggest beneficiaries are the singer and the company behind him. Those arrangers, composers, and lyricists can only get a pitiful amount of income and do not get any benefit from the fame.

There are probably only two well-known lyricists that Kitagawa Hide can still be named: Fang Wenshan and Lin Xi.

But in Japan, lyricists earn very considerable income. Not only can they continuously obtain profits from song copyrights, but they can also sign long-term contracts with certain record companies and get a fixed guaranteed salary.

Literary masters like Hide Kitagawa are the lyricists that record companies most want to work with.

If you write any decent lyrics and put your name to them and are willing to let them promote it heavily in their album, record companies will often pay you hundreds of thousands or even millions of yen for a copy of the lyrics.

Because they feel they are marrying up to famous literary figures!
After a fan meeting with a group of celebrities, Kitagawa Hidekazu Yumeko was arranged by the hotel manager to sit in front of the autograph table on the stage.

It was already 5:20 p.m., and in another 40 minutes, a large number of ordinary readers would come to buy the signed copy of "Border".

The female manager of the hotel and a group of staff were serving Kitagawa Hide. After a while, they asked them if they wanted to smoke, and brought two ashtrays without waiting for his answer.

Soon, exquisite snacks and desserts were brought in. If she was allowed to drink, she would probably have prepared a few bottles of high-end sake to quench the thirst of Kitagawa Hide and the others.

The third part of the book signing event was similar to what Kitagawa Hide had seen on TV before. He sat in front of the stage, smiled and chatted with fans, returned the signed books to them, and if fans wanted to shake hands and take photos, he would satisfy them one by one.

However, according to the rules of the book signing event, you can only do what the ticket you purchased determines.

Shaking hands, taking photos, chatting, the prices are all different!

Mengzi sat next to him, responsible for handing him books, pens and paper, and helping to deal with emergencies.

The third part was originally scheduled to last about an hour and a half, but the organizers obviously underestimated the enthusiasm of Kitagawa Hide's fans. The reserved tickets were sold out early, and some of the emergency tickets left on site were sold out in less than ten minutes after the opening.

But about a hundred people gathered outside the hotel and were stamping their feet in anger because they were unable to buy tickets for the autograph session.

Kitagawa Hide was also doing this for the first time, and he found it quite novel and interesting, so he asked the organizer to release another batch of temporary tickets and extended the signing session by half an hour.

After seeing off the last book fan, Kitagawa Hide couldn't help but stretch himself, and turned around to smile at Mengzi who had also been busy all day.

It was also the first time that Mengzi realized that Xiujun was so popular in Japan!
Many book fans traveled thousands of miles from remote places like Shikoku Island and Aomori Prefecture to attend the book signing event, just to see Mr. Kitagawa in person and say a few words to him!

Although she was very tired, she felt that today was very fulfilling and was proud of Xiujun from the bottom of her heart!
"Teacher Beichuan, you have worked hard. Dinner is ready in the restaurant. If you and your wife are not in a hurry to go home and rest, you can stay in the room we have arranged for you for a few nights." The hotel manager ran over with tea.

As a middle-level manager in the hotel, she hasn't served tea and water like a waitress for many years.

Usually, when there is such a job, she assigns it to the newcomers under her.

But today our service target is Kitagawa Hide, a new and emerging writer who has exploded like a supernova in the Japanese literary world in the past two years!
The hotel management had told her long ago that she must provide good reception for Kitagawa Hide and his girlfriend.

It would be unbelievable for such a great writer to hold a book signing event in his own hotel!
"Thank you, we will go back after dinner. Thank you for your kindness." Kitagawa Hide smiled and declined the hotel's kindness.

No reward for no merit.

The Imperial Hotel Tokyo is not an ordinary hotel. The most luxurious room here costs 20 yen a night. If you stay here for a few nights, you will definitely pay them back double in the future.

Moreover, Kitagawa Hide was in a hurry to go back and continue writing "Paradise Lost".

He took three days to steady Ken Matsuyama, partly to avoid agreeing too quickly and appearing impatient and cheap, and partly to allow him to write more so as not to fall behind in the serialization progress in the future.

When the hotel manager heard that they would not stay, a trace of disappointment flashed across her face, but she soon happily took them to the restaurant.

After eating and drinking, it was already 10 o'clock in the evening when Kitagawa Hide and his friend got into driver Kinoshita's car and returned to the cafe.

After a tiring day, Mengzi went to the bathroom to help him run the bath water and prepare some clean clothes.

Kitagawa Hidenori held Pete in his arms and sat back in front of the computer. As usual, he read today's newspaper and forum posts. In this day and age, one must always remain sensitive to information.

There hasn't been any interesting news recently. The death of Muramatsu Tomomitsu, deputy editor-in-chief of Gunzo, a magazine under Kodansha, did not cause any waves in society - even if there were, it was suppressed by Kodansha's public relations department.

The biggest thing now is that the United States has begun to suck the economic blood of its little brother Japan again.

After Tomiichi Murayama stepped down in January, his unlucky successor, Ryutaro Hashimoto, had barely even gotten comfortable in his seat when the US government urged him to hold the third round of US-Japan talks.

At this time, the United States was urging Japan to open up multiple markets, mainly auto parts, due to its low domestic employment rate, so that they could smoothly suck blood and replenish nutrients.

The Japanese government, which has been kneeling for a long time, naturally agreed unconditionally. Behind the Hashimoto cabinet is the Liberal Democratic Party, a puppet party supported by the United States.

But the economic situation is so bad now. The Japanese government agrees, but the conglomerates that truly control the country's economic lifeline disagree!
Then the trade between the two countries got stuck at this stage.

Seeing that the consortium had not taken any action in the past few months, the American dad finally got angry and launched trade sanctions in early April, announcing a unilateral increase in tariffs on Japan and threatening to impose aviation controls on Japan!
A country's territory is divided into three parts: airspace, territory, and territorial waters. The United States' threat to Japan is like saying that the airspace above your country belongs to us, not you.

This would probably only happen between the United States and Japan and South Korea. If he did this to another country, it would be a clear declaration of war.

Don’t think that the United States is just talking casually. They can station troops, set up military bases and conduct military exercises within your territory. If you really go against their wishes, one day Japanese planes may be shot down by the enemy’s anti-aircraft guns shortly after taking off!

This matter has been hotly discussed online.

After all, it sounds outrageous.

I will set up my anti-aircraft guns on your country's land, and then boom, I will shoot down your country's planes in your airspace!
No matter how outrageous it was, the Japanese government and financial groups had no choice but to obey, open up the trade market, and let the American dad come in and wreak havoc.

The economy is collapsing again, and the stock market is still falling, as if there will never be an end.

As the new prime minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto did not stand up for himself when he encountered the first major issue after taking office. He even went to beg for mercy from the US government.

At this point, public opinion exploded. Today's Internet users are not much different from those of decades later. Their favorite thing is still "establishing a government." Looking at the large number of political posts, Kitagawa Hide was speechless.

However, the literature section of Yahoo Japan has basically become his own private territory.

The book signing session just ended today and the live broadcast post went viral online.

Everyone is discussing what kind of book "Paradise Lost" will be, and whether Mr. Kitagawa is really disappointed with the Japanese literary world and plans to try his luck overseas.

Some people also brought up the political situation, hoping that Mr. Kitagawa could write a book to criticize the new prime minister's cabinet, which is like a wimp.

Kitagawa Hide has no intention of directly scolding the Prime Minister for the time being. Even if he wants to scold him, he has to wait until Hashimoto Ryutaro visits the Yasukuni Shrine before he can scold him properly.

He closed all the web pages and continued typing.

With sufficient preliminary preparation, Kitagawa Hide wrote faster and faster, and it seemed that he had regained the efficiency he had when he was plagiarizing before.

The overall plot and rhythm of "Paradise Lost" do not need to be modified, except for adding a new story about Muramatsu and Tomokazu, and making some fine-tuning to the details.

While Yumeko was preparing toiletries and clothes, Kitagawa Hide quickly finished writing most of the third chapter "Good Night", and then started the fourth chapter "Short Day" when the cell phone next to him rang.

The person calling was Senhara Masato, whom I hadn't seen for a long time.

With the recent economic downturn, the banking industry has been the biggest impact.

He came specifically to inform Kitagawa Hide that Kawaide Shobo had paid the 2.5 million yen copyright fee for "No Longer Human" in advance.

After deducting taxes, the total amount was about 1.8 million yen. It was paid from the public account of Kitagawa Entertainment Co., Ltd., so the tax was a little less.

With this money, Kitagawa Hideya, who had just purchased a luxury house, breathed a sigh of relief.

After two days, other income will come in gradually, and it is estimated that there will be 220 to million yen left after tax. The monthly mortgage of million yen for the luxury house will be a piece of cake.

Of course, he would definitely not be satisfied with just this.

Now that you have a mansion, you can arrange more luxury cars, watches and other luxury items, even helicopters, yachts and so on as soon as possible.

Later in the conversation, Senhara Masato began to complain about the merger of Industrial Central Bank and Tokyo First Bank. These two largest banks in Japan have been forced to stick together due to their extremely high debts.

This incident reminded Kitagawa Hide of the TV series "Hagane Naoki".

He casually typed it into his notebook, hoping that he would have the chance to instruct his apprentices to write an original novel in the future. The original work of this book was pure popular literature, and with his current status in the literary world, he would not earn much fame by writing such a book.

But good things should be kept within the family.

If he doesn't write it, you can still give Keigo Higashino, Mayumi Aso and Shirou Dango a try.

After hanging up the phone, Kitagawa Hide was about to continue writing his book when Mengzi, who was only wearing a bath towel, suddenly poked her head out and waved at him with a smile.

(End of this chapter)