I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 294: Teacher Beichuan appears on the cover of Time Magazine!
Yumeko was still confused when she was suddenly notified to come to the vicinity of Tokyo Tower.

Seeing that the Tokyo Tower, which used to be crowded with people and couples every night, was now silent, she suddenly had a premonition of something and felt curious and excited.

The driver was Kinoshita, who really wanted to congratulate Yumeko, but in order not to ruin the ritual of such a grand proposal, he held back.

The Rolls-Royce Silver Thor parked properly. Shiro Dango and Keigo Higashino acted as the door openers and welcomed Yumeko, who was still dizzy.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the Tokyo Tower should have been flashing with all kinds of gorgeous neon lights, but at this time it was pitch black, like an iron rod suddenly sticking out of the ground.

There was no one around.

"Honey?"

Keigo Higashino and others around him suddenly disappeared at some point.

Mengzi looked at the darkness and saw a familiar figure slowly walking out.

She couldn't help but ask.

"Yuezi-chan." Kitagawa Hide was dressed in a suit and tie, and he had tidied up his appearance for once.

At this moment, he was holding a large bouquet of bright red roses, standing against the wind, smiling brightly, no less than the top movie and TV stars.

In a trance, Mengzi seemed to see the beautiful boy who had haunted her dreams in high school.

Then the scene changes, and the beautiful boy becomes an alcoholic young man who has given up on himself due to family changes and being abandoned by his first love.

The image of the alcoholic young man did not last long. After a blur, he turned into a handsome and confident writer who began to restrain his emotions and devoted himself to his writing career.

Countless images in her mind overlapped and finally intertwined to form the "number one" in the Japanese literary world who was walking towards her firmly step by step with a smile on his face and flowers in his hands!
The next second, a heart pattern drawn by candles on the ground lit up, and then beautiful fireworks bloomed in the night sky like a grand scene!
Faint cheers and exclamations could be heard all around.

Kitagawa Hide walked forward step by step. Although he had rehearsed this scene countless times in his mind these days, when the moment really came, he was still a little excited and uneasy.

But this slight feeling of uneasiness disappeared in an instant when he came in front of Mengzi.

He handed over the flowers in his hand and asked with the most sincere and joyful smile: "Mengzi-chan, will you marry me?"

The words fell.

The Tokyo Tower, which was originally pitch black, suddenly lit up.

Seven layers of gorgeous neon lights in different colors arranged the same Japanese words - Yumeko-chan, will you marry me?

At that moment, the thunderous cheers and blessings could no longer be covered up.

"Good! Good! Good!!!" Mengzi, who was holding the flowers, lost control of her emotions for once. She kept wiping her tears with her hands, and then threw herself into Kitagawa Hide's arms without hesitation!
Aso Mayumi, Saito Rena, Kawaide Shizuko and others who were not far away were all sighing with admiration.

Especially Reina Saito.

After seeing Kitagawa Hide and Yumeko finally get married, she felt a sense of relief as if an old mother had finally become a mother-in-law.

When I first met Kitagawa Hide, he was still a young security guard hanging around the door of the security room.

The film "Hear the Wind Sing" opens up two different and brilliant lives.

Then she and he moved forward step by step, and watched Yumeko and Kitagawa Hide step by step over their emotional barriers.

"Congratulations, Kitagawa."

Saito Rena said this to Kitagawa Hide many times.

But this time it's different.

It is no longer because of work or literature, but simply congratulations.

Kitagawa's grand proposal ceremony on May 5 has become one of the hottest topics among readers all over Japan recently.

Kitagawa's girlfriend, Ms. Yumeko, had been running the website for him and replying to readers' letters. She was even more famous among the fan community than Kitagawa himself!

They finally got together, which made book fans excited and moved.

Everyone likes to see and talk about beautiful things.

At a time when Japan's economy continues to decline and the social environment is becoming increasingly sluggish, such love is like a shot in the arm, allowing the people to regain a little hope in life.

Congratulations from all walks of life immediately arrived at Beichuan Xiu’s large flat in Qingshan Building.

The Mitsui family was even more generous and gave Kitagawa Hide a large villa owned by Mitsui & Co., located in the heart of Minato Ward as a "gift".

This large villa is sold on the market for approximately 10.8 billion yen and is one of the top properties in Japan.

Because it was backed by Mitsui & Co., its price showed no sign of falling even during the Great Depression, and even increased by tens of millions of yen in two years.

Those who want to give gifts give gifts, those who want to congratulate congratulate, those who want to take advantage of the popularity try to take advantage of the popularity, and those who are unlucky also suffer unlucky consequences.

After Ichiro Tanizaki issued a "surrender declaration" at the literary exchange meeting that day, he was basically in a semi-retired state.

The battle for "Number One in the World" officially came to an end, and officials from the Ministry of Education, led by Nobutaka Machimura, also began to strike hard.

Ichiro Tanizaki, Shozo Uchida, Sadatsugu Ichiko and others were suspected of abusing their power for personal gain and stealing the nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The case was reopened and everyone except Sadatsugu Ichiko who had already passed away was summoned by the Metropolitan Police Department.

Just as Shizuko Kawaide said.

The literary battle between Kitagawa Hideki and Tanizaki Ichiro was not only a competition for the title of "number one" in Japanese literary circles, but also a fight between conservatives and reformists.

There is no simple win or loss in this game.

There are only big winners who win everything if they win, and big losers who lose everything if they lose!

Ichiro Tanizaki, who gave in at the last moment, can still have a good end, but the conservatives led by him will inevitably disappear in the history of Japanese literary world.

The Japanese literary world was shaken, a time of reckoning, with numerous scandals and gossip flying around, and many old men who had disappeared for a long time were dug out and criticized. The publishing industry also realized that Shinchosha was doomed, and they all turned to Kawaide Shobo, treating this publishing house, which was still a younger brother two years ago, as the only leader in the industry.

Shizuko Kawaide was not pretentious. She took over the "dragon head stick" generously and acquired a large number of small and medium-sized publishing houses, expanding the company's territory once again, making Kawaide Shobo the No. 1 in the Japanese publishing industry.

In just these few days, the total assets of the Kawaide family have skyrocketed by 30%, and Kawaide Shizuko's personal net worth has skyrocketed from 1200 billion yen to 1900 billion yen, approaching the 2000 billion mark!
Time, the most authoritative news weekly in the United States, has sent us an invitation. They have decided to feature Shizuko Kawaide on the cover of next week’s Asian edition!
And next week’s international edition of Time magazine will feature Kitagawa Hide on the cover!
The last time Japan was featured in Time magazine was in 1945, but that was nothing to brag about.

On the cover of Time magazine on August 1945, 8, Japan was marked with a large black cross and an eye-catching headline: The Decline of Japan.

After more than 51 years, Japan once again appeared on Time magazine with a positive image, which made the people excited.

5 month 15 day.

The latest issues of "Group Portrait" and "New Trend" are on sale at the same time.

The former achieved another "great success", selling 3211 copies on the first day of publication, and is almost falling from a second-rate pure literature magazine to a third-rate one.

The latter had to suspend updates of "The Foolish Love" for a month due to the interrogation and investigation of Ichiro Tanizaki. Readers and companies that bought the copyright were all furious, and sales on the first day plummeted to 2.1 copies, barely keeping the bottom line.

No one can guarantee whether Ichiro Tanizaki can finish writing "The Foolish Man's Desire". If he really stops writing, the loss of this book will be worth hundreds of millions of yen!

On the other hand, the literary exchange group from the University of Paris finally met their idol, Mr. Hide Kitagawa, thanks to the introduction of Takeuchi Osamu.

Olivia was the most excited and insisted on taking a photo with Kitagawa Hide and Yumeko. She was petite, looked childish, and a bit like an Oriental. When the photo of the three of them was developed, they looked like a family of three, which made Kitagawa Hide laugh and cry.

Kitagawa Hide's victory also brought huge profits to the Chanel Group, and the contract between the two parties was directly extended from 2 years to indefinitely.

The University of Paris Press, which was the sole agent for "Remembrance of Things Past (French translation)", suddenly became a first-class commercial publisher in France from an academic publisher. For this reason, the board of directors of the University of Paris specially gave Kitagawa Hide 1.5% of the original shares.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet discuss the sequels to At World's End and Hard-Boiled Wonderland, and the demand for Remembrance of Things Past (Japanese version) is also terrifyingly loud.

5 month 18 day.

The May 1997 issue of "Wenyi" finally came out after much anticipation.

"Remembrance of Things Past (Japanese Edition)" is also on sale at the same time, and readers can purchase it online or offline in bookstores.

A magazine and a physical book have reignited the atmosphere in Tokyo, which had just become somewhat quiet.

"Remembrance of Things Past (Japanese Edition)" even set a terrifying record of 30 online pre-orders.

Oricon had predicted a few days ago that they believed that "Remembrance of Things Past (Japanese version)" might set a shocking record of selling over 80 copies on the first day of printing!
This is an amazing achievement that even "The Dancing Girl of Izu" could not achieve!
Who says Japanese people don’t like to read works with overseas literary backgrounds? As long as the writing is good enough, everything is fine!

"Remembrance of Things Past" also set a series of amazing records in France. Compared with it, the previous "Paradise Lost" and "The Dancing Girl of Izu" are nothing compared to it.

This is also the reason why the American "Time" magazine invited Hide Kitagawa to be the cover character.

This is probably the first writer in the history of world literature who became famous by writing novels set in other countries.

On May 5, the sales results of the previous issue of "Wenyi" were also released.

As expected, the April 1997 issue of "Wenyi" surpassed the issue of "Xinchao" that serialized "The Devil's Tattoo" with a monthly sales volume of 4 million copies, becoming the first in history!

Kitagawa Hide indeed surpassed Tanizaki Ichiro in all aspects and became the undisputed "number one in the world" in Japanese literary world.

On May 5, an exciting insider news was revealed.

Kitagawa Entertainment Co., Ltd., which has been silent for a long time after filming "Long Vacation", is about to release a big move again!
The filming crew headed by Shunji Iwai will join forces with well-known TV actors such as Takuya Kimura and Rei Jabami to shoot a romantic TV series called "Tokyo Love Story."

Although Shunji Iwai is the director, producer and screenwriter, everyone knows that just like in "Long Vacation", Mr. Kitagawa is definitely involved behind the scenes!
I thought Mr. Kitagawa, who was writing two books at the same time, would "shut down" for a while, but I didn't expect that even though he had been promoted to "the best in the world" and had a beautiful wife, he was still so hardworking and did not forget his large number of TV viewers.

Tsuburaya Productions also sent someone to ask Kitagawa Hide's opinion, hoping that he could continue to help write some special effects dramas - if he really can't write, he can participate in the production!
Kitagawa Hide only had feelings for "Ultraman Tiga" and decisively declined the blank check from Tsuburaya Productions. He only vaguely promised that if there was a chance in the future, he would help produce the next Ultraman Tiga movie.

Tsuburaya Company was also very happy to receive this promise. Although Mr. Kitagawa did not want it, the gift was still delivered and the money was naturally not reduced by a penny.

The May issue of "Wenyi" is popular again. The subsequent plots of "The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland" are getting more and more exciting. Kitagawa Hide's unique "Kitagawa Hide style" makes readers unable to stop. Many people deliberately changed the signatures of their social accounts to classic quotes in the magazine.

I don't want to disappear from this world. When I close my eyes, I can clearly feel my heart swaying. It is an ups and downs that go beyond sadness and loneliness, and shake my existence to its very foundation.

The ups and downs continue.

I put my arms on the back of the chair and endured the ups and downs. No one saved me, no one could save me, just like I couldn't save anyone.

Even if my disappearance is not enough to make anyone sad, to bring emptiness to anyone's heart, or to be ignored by anyone, it is my own problem. I have indeed lost too many things. Now I almost no longer have what I have lost, but there is still a trace of the lost things in my body like sediment, and it is him who has kept me alive until now. 】

[There are probably countless trees, countless birds, and countless raindrops in the world, but I can't seem to understand even a camphor tree or a raindrop, and I will never be able to understand it.

Perhaps I will die of old age in this situation where even a camphor tree or a raindrop cannot understand me.

Thinking of this, I felt hopelessly lost, and cried alone, hoping that someone would hug me tightly, but there was no such person, so I could only cry alone on the bed. 】

Similar self-pitying statements emerged one after another, filling the social accounts of countless people, making Kitagawa Hide feel as if he had returned to the 2000s and seen countless non-mainstream QQ signatures.

History is indeed a big cycle!
Kitagawa Hide is very busy here.

After the successful proposal on May 5, he and Mengzi immediately started organizing preparations for the wedding banquet.

Notifying the elders, choosing an auspicious date, booking a hotel, arranging a wedding celebration, making invitations, taking wedding photos, etc., a lot of things that make people happy and worried came one after another, making them busy and overwhelmed.

In addition, after deciding to go abroad for his honeymoon, Kitagawa Hideya also had to prepare for air tickets and other related matters.

Fortunately, most of these problems can be solved with money.

Near the end of May, along with the sample of Time magazine sent from the United States, there was also good news from Senhara Masato -

Under the guidance of Hide Kitagawa's ideas, Kitagawa Investment Co., Ltd. has successfully completed several investment projects of considerable value.

Today, there is 78 billion yen in cash quietly lying in Kitagawa Hide's bank account. Taking into account all his wealth, his total assets are close to 200 billion yen!

On par with Japan’s legendary entrepreneur Kazuo Inamori who just retired!
(End of this chapter)