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Luoyang's true identity is from the Dragon Kingdom.

Will Japan's Edogawa Rampo Award be awarded to a person from the Dragon Kingdom?

The answer is, it’s not necessarily true. Although many people see this, they must think that Luoyang will not be able to win the Edogawa Ranpo Award if his identity is revealed.

But in fact, it’s not necessarily true, because in Luoyang’s impression, there was once a Chinese who won Japan’s top literary award, the Akutagawa Literary Award——

At that time, Luoyang thought it was incredible, wondering how a Chinese could win an award in Japan. Later, he went to search for relevant information and finally confirmed the authenticity of the news:

The jury of the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's most authoritative literary award, announced in Tokyo on the evening of the 15th that the 139th Akutagawa Prize would be awarded to the author of the novel "Morning Soaked in Time" and a Chinese traveler. Japanese writer Yang Yi.

Apparently, this is the first time a Chinese has won this honor.

This novel describes the life and emotional experiences of a man who traveled from rural China to Japan for more than ten years in a foreign country.

This Yang Yi once won the Japanese Newcomer Award for Literature from Japan's "Literary Spring and Autumn" magazine for his debut novel "Little King", which also described the living conditions of Chinese in Japan, and was nominated for the 138th Akutagawa Award. Unfortunately, he ended up with the 138th Akutagawa Award. The two winners just missed out on the grand prize.

This "Morning Soaked in Time" is another masterpiece released by Yang Yi after "Little King", and finally won Japan's top literary award, the Akutagawa Literary Award.

The winner, Yang Yi, had previously worked in many Japanese Chinese media and published poetry, prose and other literary works in various media. Later, she mainly worked as a Chinese teacher in Japan and created literary works in her spare time. She is a quite great people.

Therefore, there is no requirement that only foreigners can win these awards. Even in China, there are examples of foreigners winning awards.

Just because of the rarity of such events, everyone thought that there were no examples of foreigners taking home awards. Of course, he didn't care how Luoyang was chosen for the Edogawa Ranpo Award in the end. He didn't have much desire for this award.

Writing reasoning is purely a kind of fun mentality.

What he prefers is still martial arts and science fiction.

After getting Luoyang's answer, the contact person from Kadokawa Publishing House was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Okay, Teacher Theking, we respect your choice."

After seeing this reply, Luoyang did not continue chatting with the other party. Speaking of which, the people at Kadokawa Publishing House were quite polite to Luoyang. Of course, this is not surprising, whether it is "White Night Journey" or "The Devotion of Suspect X" , or the recently released "Summer of the Bird", which have brought extremely gratifying sales to Kadokawa Publishing House, not to mention the recent defeat of Endōma in Luoyang, which has completely elevated his status to one of Japan's top mystery writers.

For publishing houses, sales mean money, profits and market.

Therefore, Luoyang, who is the teacher of Theking, can definitely be regarded as the favorite of Kadokawa Publishing House. They only offend Luoyang if they are crazy.

At this moment, not only will they not offend Teacher Theking, they will also try every means to curry favor with Teacher Theking, because if Teacher Theking switches to other publishing houses, their losses will be huge.

The person responsible for contacting Mr. Theking is Yoshino, the editor-in-chief who is responsible for the promotion of Theking's works. Because of Mr. Theking, Yoshino has been enjoying a good life recently.

When he saw that Mr. Theking refused to reveal his identity, Yoshino fell into deep thought: "Why on earth did Mr. Theking refuse to reveal his identity? Is it because he has a quiet personality and doesn't like to be disturbed by the outside world?"

He knows that there are many people in history who are indifferent to fame and fortune.

For example, in the history of the Dragon Kingdom, there was a poet named Tao Yuanming. Teacher Theking remained mysterious and he must have been such a hermit master.

The deputy editor said at the side: "Is it possible that Teacher Theking has something to hide? For example, his appearance is not good, too ugly, or he has a disability, so he doesn't want readers to know his true face. After all, he has a very high status in the minds of readers." status.”

These reasons are all possible.

On the Internet, some people who don't like Teacher Theking will use this reason to attack Theking.

It is said that he hides his true identity and pretends to be mysterious. It must be because the real person is too sorry for the audience. Once the true identity is exposed, the readers' impression of him will be shattered. If you have the courage, stand up to the public. So much in front of me.

The thinking of trolls is always very weird and funny.

But for these trolls, basically there is no need for Teacher Theking to take action. These people will be hung up and beaten by Teacher Theking’s supporters, because for book fans, as long as Teacher Theking’s books are good, it doesn’t matter what he looks like. .

Even if a scholar is not good-looking, he is still worthy of respect.

In particular, Teacher Theking's "White Night Walk", "The Devotion of Suspect At that time, anyone who cheated on Mr. Theking would be fucked to death.

Yoshino thought for a while, nodded and said: "It is also possible, but such remarks cannot be spread!"

Generally speaking, if there is something really unspeakable, it would be very embarrassing to be guessed. Yoshino clearly understands the value of Teacher Theking, so he does not allow any comments from Kadokawa Publishing House to hurt Teacher Theking.

He didn't even dare to take the initiative to investigate Teacher Theking's identity.

Otherwise, once discovered, Mr. Theking will definitely be angry and will no longer cooperate with Kadokawa Publishing House.

The deputy editor nodded and said: "Editor-in-chief, since Mr. Theking refuses to disclose the information, the Edogawa Ranpo Award can only be refused. It is a pity. Logically speaking, as long as Mr. Theking is willing, he can win the award. of."

For the Edogawa Ranpo Prize, you definitely need to get information about the winners.

If you don't know anything about it and only have the pen name Theking, how can you award an award?

Yoshino said with a smile: "Who said we have to refuse? If Mr. Theking can still win the award without showing up, wouldn't it show the sincerity of our Kadokawa Publishing House? Mr. Theking will definitely continue to cooperate with us in the future. Bar?"

"This, over to the Edogawa Ranpo Prize..."

"Of course there will be people from the publishing house to negotiate over there. The most important thing now is that except for Teacher Theking, no one else is qualified to win the award!"

There is no absolute fairness in the world, as is the case with the Nobel Prize, and the same is true with the Edogawa Ranpo Prize. In short, without Luoyang knowing about it, things developed gradually strangely, and when the time came in July, the Edogawa Ranpo Prize The Step Prize has announced the shortlist for this year’s award.

Teacher Theking's works "The Devotion of Suspect X" and "White Night Walk" are among the list!