I am a literary giant in Japan

In terms of fame, strength and plasticity, Keigo Higashino, who relied on his own efforts to become the top number one in Japan's modern mystery literature in his previous life, is obviously the strongest among Kitagawa Hide's four disciples.

Over the past three years, under the urging of Kitagawa Hide and his own persistence, and without the painful low period in the original history, Keigo Higashino's creative enthusiasm was high, and he actually "copied" all the masterpieces he could show off in his previous life.

The last time I wrote "The Convenience Store of Sorrow", it was the best solution that Kitagawa Hide came up with after racking his brains.

Moreover, Keigo Higashino has always had a dream of becoming a famous pure literature novelist.

It is not known whether it was his obsession since childhood or he was too influenced by his teacher Kitagawa Hide, but his dedication to pure literature far exceeded Kitagawa Hide's imagination.

Moreover, after the completion of "The Convenience Store of Sorrow" and its great sales, his confidence in writing pure literary novels increased several times.

However, what he didn't know was that according to the original historical trajectory, from now on, Keigo Higashino would enter a dark and gloomy road of "making money from royalties".

Kitagawa Hide was not sure whether he could finally free himself from the weird state of being a super god at times and a super ghost at times.

Because before Kitagawa Hide traveled through time, Keigo Higashino in the original world was still repeating that state, with no sign of coming out of it.

As a representative figure among the Kitagawa writers, Keigo Higashino is equivalent to half of Kitagawa Hide's reputation, and he absolutely cannot be dragged down in the confrontation with Nagai Kazukaze and others.

After much deliberation, Kitagawa Hide came up with three different plans and asked Higashino Keigo to choose one.

The first option: Although many of Keigo Higashino’s mystery novels are very bad and seem like they are deliberately made to make money, at least most of them have been successfully adapted into film and television dramas.

Kitagawa Hide selected several of them that received good responses, including "Naniwa Young Detectives", "Detective Club", "Transformation", and "Ryusei no Kizuna".

I plan to let him choose a book to "optimize" and see if he can use the idea of ​​"The Convenience Store of Sorrow" and the method of "mystery literature" + "pure literature" to attract readers.

The second option: Choose Keigo Higashino's best work in his later years, "Laplace's Witch", and at the same time show the combination of "superpowers", "reasoning", "physics" and the "soldier bodyguard + beautiful girl" that was very popular in the online literature world at that time to the current Japanese readers in advance.

The third option: play it safe.

Keigo Higashino's personal masterpieces are undoubtedly "White Night Walk" and "The Devotion of Suspect X".

The former seems like a masterpiece he wrote on a whim, while the latter is the second part of the classic series "Detective Galileo".

However, in this life, Keigo Higashino was so obsessed with learning how to write pure literary novels from Kitagawa Hide that he never considered developing a spin-off of the big IP "Detective Galileo".

This gives Kitagawa Hide a lot of room to maneuver.

With the success of "The Devotion of Suspect X", the popularity of the "Detective Galileo" series is foreseeable. Even if the quality is not good enough, it can still attract enough readers to pay for it.

According to the original history, this series has already reached the eighth part, which shows how popular it is.

After listening to Kitagawa Hide's suggestion, Higashino Keigo didn't think for much time and gave him a direct answer.

"Teacher Beichuan, maybe we can think from a different perspective."

"Change the angle?" Kitagawa Hide looked down at him.

Higashino Keigo nodded and said confidently: "These three options have their pros and cons. Personally, I am definitely more inclined to the first option that is closer to pure literature.

But the ideas you gave, Mr. Beichuan, don’t seem to be very good. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to slander you! "

Keigo Higashino, who was speaking fluently, realized that he was about to make trouble, so he quickly shut up and apologized.

Beichuan Xiu smiled and waved his hand: "It's okay, you are right, time is tight, the ideas that can be thought of are definitely not perfect, that's okay.

Every writer has his or her peaks and troughs, and I am no exception, and that’s normal.”

After saying these words, he couldn't help but complain about Keigo Higashino in his heart.

It turns out that you also knew that these works did not quite match your status in the mystery literature world at that time!

Looking at the second disciple who was scratching his head embarrassedly, Kitagawa Hide suddenly became curious about why Keigo Higashino suddenly started to eat dirty money in the original history?

Judging from his current pursuits and personality, he doesn’t seem like the kind of writer I would seduce just because he has money.

"You are right. I have a deep understanding of this."

Higashino Keigo nodded frantically, and then continued speaking along the same lines.

"If we choose the first option, the new book will most likely not receive as good a response as The Convenience Store of Sorrow. I'm actually fine, but you and the president have said this is the day for a fight to the death between our Beichuan group and the conservative literati.
As for the other two options, as you said, option 2 has the best creativity and seems to have the greatest potential for breakthroughs, but at the same time, this innovation model may cause us to fall flat on our face.

Option three is purely for the sake of stability."

It can be seen that on the road of writing, Keigo Higashino obviously wants to pursue the crown of the pure literary novel hall.

As a second choice, he also prefers detective novels with a mystical touch rather than the most popular "honkaku detective" in Japan.

In other words, the Detective Galileo series might actually be a series of works he wrote later to make money.

This made Kitagawa Hide even more curious about the reason for his change of mentality during this process.

But now is not the right time to ask about this.

After hearing his words, Kitagawa Hide couldn't stop nodding.

Keigo Higashino's judgment of the current situation and the status quo is indeed more accurate, which is why Kitagawa Hide feels that he is more difficult to deal with than the other two disciples.

"So what do you mean by thinking from a different perspective?" Kitagawa Hide asked again.

Higashino Keigo looked up at him and said with a firm look in his eyes: "Since the plans have their pros and cons, and using any one of them alone may not necessarily produce good results, why not use them all together!"

Only children have to do multiple-choice questions, but as an adult I want them all?
Kitagawa Hide was stunned at first, then it suddenly dawned on him that what he said made sense.

Yes, since none of the three plans can meet their expectations, then running the three lines in parallel is just like Hidetsugu Kitagawa writing two novels, one for Japanese readers and the other for overseas readers.

Wouldn’t that solve the problem successfully?

And to be honest, these three plans are indeed somewhat complementary.

Just
Hearing this, Mayumi Aso and Shiro Dango, who were writing furiously, also raised their heads.

"Hey, Higashino, can you really finish writing it?" Dangui Shirou was worried that his friend's liver would explode.

In this way, he would be writing a pure literary mystery novel, "Laplace's Witch", and a work in the Detective Galileo series at the same time.

Write all three together.

This amount of typing is considered a considerable workload even among online writers in later generations.

In the current Japanese literary world, this is simply appalling.

Even before Kitagawa Hide did this, writers in the Japanese literary world only had to write less than 20,000 to 30,000 words a month, and they were very relaxed about it.

"I can do it!" Keigo Higashino glanced at Kitagawa Hide.

There are many things about Mr. Kitagawa that he admires.

One of them is his extremely high creative enthusiasm, his extremely focused creative state, and his unmatched creative speed. When he first saw Mr. Kitagawa's double opening, Keigo Higashino felt that the door to a new world was slowly opening before his eyes.

Since then, he has been wondering if he could learn these skills himself.

He actually has the creative passion, state and speed, like a younger version of Kitagawa Hide.

Maybe if I push myself this time, I might be able to see Mr. Kitagawa’s “tail lights”!
Since he has said so, Kitagawa Hide and the others will definitely not attack Keigo Higashino when he is most confident.

"Since you have chosen this, let's try it this way first!"

Kitagawa Hide patted his shoulder and gave Higashino Keigo an affirmative look.

1998 10 Month 15 Day.

"New Literary Image", which serializes new books by more than a dozen conservative literati, was released as scheduled.

Nagai Kazukaze, who was originally scheduled to publish his new book in this issue of "New Literary Image", suddenly "postponed" the readers' release.

His excuse was, "I found out the manuscript wasn't very good before it was published, and in order to achieve perfection, I would rather bear the blame of deceiving readers and go back to the drawing board to rework it!"

For this purpose, the editorial department of "New Wenxiang" and Nagai Kazufu specially held a brief press conference and bowed 90 degrees several times in front of the camera to apologize.

There are different opinions online and offline about Nagai Kazufu's "dove" behavior, but the overall trend is encouragement and acceptance.

Japanese readers are really tolerant towards writers.

Even Yomiuri Okamoto, who had previously stopped writing after various scandals, still has die-hard fans begging him to make a comeback, let alone "docking", which is an acceptable behavior.

Moreover, Nagai Kazufu was very cunning and said that it was for the purpose of writing better works, which made the readers instantly feel more able to accept this matter.

Without Nagai Kazufu’s new book, the November issue of “New Bunxiang” obviously wouldn’t be as popular as imagined.

However, the fact that more than a dozen conservative writers published new books at once attracted a large number of curious readers and also brought back to life the "New Literary Image", whose sales had been gradually declining.

Regarding this cunning behavior, the experienced and sharp-minded Kawaide Shizuko bluntly stated that this must be a "hunger marketing strategy" given by the two major conglomerates.

As long as this behavior does not really anger the readers, once the anger dissipates, everyone will have higher expectations and curiosity about Nagai Kazukaze's new book.

In this way, when the book is officially released next month, the first-day data will definitely be better than this time.

This marketing strategy is also a trick that Mitsubishi and Sumitomo always like to use.

Kitagawa Hide has seen many similar tricks in his two lifetimes and doesn't care at all.

Literary creation is a very special thing.

Literary works are also different from ordinary commodities.

What really determines success or failure must be the quality of the work; everything else can only serve as icing on the cake.

On November 11th, Beichuan Entertainment’s flagship magazine “Beichuan” was also released.

This issue of "Beichuan" also attracted a large number of readers.

The reason is simple: "Asakusa Red Ball" written by Hide Kitagawa will officially end in this issue!

In the original work by Yasunari Kawabata, the ending of "Asakusa Red Circle" is very bad.

From my perspective, people living near Asakusa Park were heading towards destruction one after another. Some of them became real scum, while others were taken to the police station and became criminals.

Those who symbolize beautiful visions, such as the girl playing the piano, were also abducted by the bad boy group and never heard from again.

Asakusa has ultimately become a symbol of the memory of an era, but whether it is good or bad is difficult to find a satisfactory answer to readers in Kawabata Yasunari's original work.

This is also the main reason why this original work received mixed reviews in the original history.

Kawabata Yasunari's early writing style and writing were already very good, which was an ultimate enjoyment for readers.

But as the story goes on, the final ending makes the readers feel like they have eaten shit, which instantly clears out all the goodwill that had been accumulated before.

Kitagawa Hide, who has already mastered the readers' G-spots, will definitely not make similar mistakes.

Moreover, the novel "Asakusa Red Falcon" he wrote was inspired by the real Red Falcon Group.

It is said that the old members of the Red Falcon Group have been getting back on track one by one.

Even Ono Satoko and Sato Tsuyoshi, who had originally wanted to blackmail him, have become serious people.

At this time, they must be staring intently at the ending of "Asakusa Red Pirates".

Give them hope, give readers hope, and also give yourself hope.

So Hide Kitagawa spent a lot of time rewriting the original ending.

This time, he no longer worried about whether the novel would die suddenly or become incoherent because of his arrogant revisions.

He just hopes that this new ending can warm everyone's heart, that's all.

That afternoon.

Sato Tsuyoshi, who had just returned from work at the construction site, ran to the bookstore and bought two copies of the latest issues of "Kitagawa" without even having time to change his clothes.

Fortunately, bookstores nowadays don’t care about the appearance of their customers. In times of economic downturn, consumers are king.

Sato just came out of the bookstore and felt the wind outside was a bit cold. He tightened his collar and walked quickly towards the nearby rental house.

His motorcycle has been sold, and Ono Satoko's pile of brand-name bags have all been disposed of at low prices.

Without this money, they would probably have to sleep on the streets or return to Asakusa and Kabukicho and continue to be prostitutes and gangsters.

Actually, he doesn't care.

Anyway, the person is already rotten, so it doesn’t matter if he becomes more rotten.

But Satoko suddenly didn't think so.

No matter how much she wants to get rid of her previous life, it has nothing to do with Sato Tsuyoshi.

What finally motivated him to go to the construction site and move bricks was a remark that seemed insignificant to Satoko.

"Even a fellow like Meggie can write novels and live like a normal person, so why can't we?"

This seems to be Satoko's complaint after watching "We Living in Asakusa", but it also seems to be her talking in her sleep.

It doesn't really matter what it is.

The important thing is that Sato Gang felt that he really shouldn't be suppressed by that guy Meggie!
Men, this damn desire to win! (End of this chapter)