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So that's it, this guy is a gambler.

Owada Kanmasa stared at Fujiwara Kei's face and thought to himself.

Young, talented, and addicted to gambling... If this person were placed in troubled times, he would definitely be a hero.

And now Kei Fujiwara sat down at the gambling table in front of Owada Kanmasa, looked at him with burning eyes, rattled the chips in his hand, and asked him if he dared to bet.

Don't tell me, Owada Kanmasa really didn't dare. Before coming, station director Yoshida Kafumi said that if Fujiwara Kei made a request that exceeded Owada's authority, he should not refuse in a hurry and come back to inform him.

But now Kei Fujiwara's request is more or less beyond his authority, and he must go back to the reporting station.

Owada Kanmasa coughed, "I understand, the income sharing is determined by grades... It seems that Mr. Fujiwara is really confident. However, I still need to inform Taili about this matter, and I will give you an answer after some time."

Fujiwara Kei nodded: "It doesn't matter."

Owada Kanmasa seemed a little worried and left. Mizuhara Yui and others watched him leave, and at the same time they also looked at Fujiwara Kei with even greater admiration.

It seems that in order to keep him, even the senior executives from the headquarters came to talk to him personally. How have they ever received such treatment...

Is this what it means to be a best-selling author? How about we write novels too!

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The organizers of the Naoki Awards announced the shortlist. There are a total of five works that have entered the finals, namely: "White Night Walk", "Aurora Murder", "Summer of the Bird", and "The Magical Adventure of Waka Kaka"

", "Winter Girl's Warm Sun" five works.

Among them, Kei Fujiwara, the author of "White Night Walk" and "Waka Kaka", are shortlisted for the first time, and Kei Fujiwara is a complete newcomer.

Among the other authors, Kyogoku Shunpei, the author of "The Summer of the Bird", is undoubtedly the most famous. He is as famous as Mika Miyamoto and Junzan Hattori, and is a representative author of Japanese monster novels.

The Naoki Award is the highest award for popular literature in Japan. It is not only awarded to mystery novels, but judging from the situation in previous years, it is indeed mystery novels that win the most awards.

This year, among the five shortlisted works, there were only two mystery novels. This made the public wonder whether the taste of the works selected for this year's Naoki Award had changed, and it also became more suspenseful.

As for who will finally win the Naoki Prize, there are different opinions in the media and on the Internet. Everyone has their own opinions and the quarrel is intense.

"Spring and Autumn Literature Appreciation" also gave its predictions, ranking the five shortlisted authors according to their probability of winning.

Among them, the one most likely to win is Ikema Watanabe's "Aurora Murder 1", the second is Kyogoku Shunpei's "Summer of the Bird", the third is "White Night Journey", the fourth and fifth is ""

"Wow Kaka" and "Winter Girl".

In fact, this ranking is not objective. Chunqiu Sha has a lot of private goods. Two of the top three are authors of Chunqiu Sha. If it were not for the fear of being too ugly, Kyogoku Shunpei was promoted to the second position.

, otherwise in the ranking of "most likely to win the Naoki Prize", the top two would have to be authors from the Spring and Autumn Society.

This year's Spring and Autumn Society has made a lot of money. First, it recruited Ikema Watanabe, and then it found the big treasure Kei Fujiwara from nowhere. Although "Aurora 2" received a mediocre response, due to the influence of the first part, the sales volume was not high.

It's not bad, it just does some damage to Ikema Watanabe's reputation.

Not to mention "White Night Journey", it can be said to be the biggest dark horse in the Japanese mystery literary world in the past three years. It is even worse than last year's dark horse "Aurora 1".

What's more, Kei Fujiwara is still a pure newcomer, which is even more shocking. He shocked the world as soon as he made a move. How bright will this person's future be?

The editors of other publishing houses were almost crying, and among the envious gazes, several publishing houses were swallowing their bitter taste.

For example, take "Scream! Cheer" magazine. Fujiwara Kei once submitted "White Night Journey" to this magazine before. Even the editor who received him, Miss Hanayamain, admired the novel. However, at the serialization meeting, he was directly dismissed by the magazine at that time.

The deputy minister rejected it without even reading it.

After "White Night Walk" became a hit and even topped the best-seller list for many weeks, the position of deputy director changed hands not long after. It was a serious dereliction of duty to reject a masterpiece based only on its subject matter without looking at it!

There is also Asakawa Bookstore. When Fujiwara Kei came to this bookstore to submit a novel, the editor who received him was in a hurry to go to a nightclub to have fun, so the novel was directly stuffed into a corner and no one cared about it. Their editorial director accidentally saw it

, immediately asked to sign a contract with Kei Fujiwara, but at that time Fujiwara Kei had already signed the contract with Chunqiu Society.

After "White Night Walk" became a hit, the director of the editorial department of Asakawa Bookstore was so angry that he had nosebleeds for three days. The previous editor was also assigned to a women's magazine. I heard that it was difficult for that magazine to sell more than 1,000 copies a month.

As time goes by, the sales of "White Night Journey" are still strong and have not shown any signs of decline.

Although Kawaguchi Nobu was overjoyed at this moment, he could not help but feel a little regretful. He regretted that he should not have signed the gambling agreement with Kei Fujiwara.

When we signed an agreement with Kei Fujiwara, if the volume exceeds 500,000 copies, the royalties will be calculated at 10%. According to this trend, the sales volume of 500,000 copies will not be a problem at all. If the sales volume exceeds 600,000 copies, the extra part will be calculated.

The calculation will be based on a 12% royalty rate.

In other words, if "White Night Walk" can sell one million copies, 400,000 of them will be paid a royalties of 12%.

Although one million sales may seem unbelievable, given the market's current popularity for "White Night Walk", this number may not be unachievable.

I wish I had promised him 10% directly... Now I have to give him tens of millions more yen in royalties...

Although he regretted it a little, Nobu Kawaguchi secretly admired that a new author dared to propose such a betting contract. His courage was really extraordinary!

As "White Night Walk" becomes popular in the book market, the ratings performance of "Anthropology" is also getting better and better.

The royalties and performance bonuses from the TV station were paid into Kei Fujiwara's account at almost the same time.

At this time, there were no smart phones, so you could check your account balance anytime and anywhere. After receiving the money, Kei Fujiwara deliberately went to the bank to check the account balance. Looking at the account balance of tens of millions of yen, he suddenly felt a great sense of happiness.

Plans that were temporarily shelved due to lack of money can now be gradually implemented, including buying mobile phones, buying a car for transportation, and changing to a larger house...

Wait. Fujiwara Kei suddenly thought of something and suddenly raised his forehead.

Tax... Before that, you have to file your taxes first, and you need to find a tax lawyer to help you sort it out first.

While Kei Fujiwara was busy dealing with financial troubles, he also took the time to move to a place closer to the TV station and company. While he was busy, time gradually passed through the new year and arrived in 1995.