After dreaming of getting rich, I dressed up as a collapsed idol

As the sun sets, the afterglow of the sunset shines on the glass curtain walls outside the high-rise buildings in Tokyo, reflecting an orange light.

Shinichiro Inomata spent an entire afternoon reading the entire novel.

The old editor, who had been in the industry for forty-five years, let out a sigh of relief. The last time he read a mystery novel that amazed him from the bottom of his heart was forty years ago.

I first saw it in "Eight Tombs Village" by Seishi Yokomizo.

As one of the representative authors of the Evolving School, she saw for the first time the reasoning that was different from that of orthodox writers of the Traditional School. The eerie and strange atmosphere, the absurd and bizarre atmosphere, had a different kind of romance under the writing of this master.

From that time on, Inomata Shinichiro fell in love with mystery novels.

It's just that he wasn't good at writing, so he had to rely on his rich reading history and understanding of detective novels to become an editor of a mystery magazine.

But as I read more, the initial feeling of being moved when reading those mystery novels has long disappeared.

The more you read, the higher your requirements for novels become.

According to Shinichiro Inomata, the book "Astrology Murder Magic" still has flaws, such as the writing style is definitely not top-notch. Of course, this may also be a translation problem.

The beginning wasn't interesting enough and the middle was a bit bland.

But none of this can conceal the fact that this book is a mystery novel. After the protagonist finally reveals the truth, the readers are stunned by the unexpected mystery.

The feeling of reading a satisfying story and being unable to put it down is the reason why he initially fell in love with detective novels.

It's really wonderful.

The only thing that found it incredible was that this book was actually written by a Chinese writer.

While reading, he forgot about this matter for a while.

The book is definitely a good one. As Yamada said, it is a book that subverts the existing pattern of mystery novels.

It is not as orthodox as the orthodox reasoning, but it is bold in innovation, breaking away from the old rules and finding another path; but it is not as unorthodox as the avant-garde reasoning, it still takes reasoning as the core and deepens it.

From a story perspective, this is certainly wonderful, but not everyone can accept this change.

Especially since this writer is a Chinese.

He lowered his head and thought.

dong dong!

There was another knock on the door outside, and Zhugu woke up in shock. He knew who it was without having to guess.

"Editor-in-chief."

"Yamada-kun, come in, I have something to talk to you about."

Kumata Yamada closed the office door, walked over to him, bowed, and then sat down.

"Yamada-kun is related to the author of this book, right?"

"Hi, I was so shocked after reading the book that I took the liberty to visit Mr. Lu."

Yamada answered respectfully.

"Then can you discuss with them and have this teacher use a Japanese pen name when his work is published in Fuso?"

"Hey?"

Yamada was so stunned that he didn't even use honorifics.

"Why, Editor-in-Chief?"

Zhugu didn't care about this matter, but answered it patiently.

"I've carefully read the manuscript recommended by Yamada-kun. As you said, it is indeed a remarkable novel, but I believe you have also seen the problems with this book."

"Because it's different from current mystery novels, it will cause a lot of controversy. If the author is Chinese, it might even be boycotted."

Yamada thought about it and found that it was possible.

It sounds a bit funny, but as a developed country, Japan is actually very conservative in nature, and the overall social environment hates change.

So today, when other developed countries in the world are already promoting paperless offices, large companies in Japan are still using fax machines and floppy disks.

Not to mention those conservative old-fashioned people in the cultural world.

Inomata Shinichiro continued.

"You're well aware of the magazine's situation. During today's meeting, the president made it clear that if the magazine's sales don't improve, everyone might be laid off."