godfather of tokyo entertainment

As a practitioner in the film and television industry, Kei Fujiwara was well-read before time travel.

He is a believer in the profit-only theory, so whether it is books, TV series, or movies, he deliberately selects some best-selling works to watch. As for those slow-selling products, even if they have won any international awards, he is not very interested in knowing about them.

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As for "White Night Walk", which is the masterpiece of best-seller Keigo Higashino, he has watched it many times and is already familiar with it.

This book is one of the three masterpieces of the best-selling king Higashino Keigo, and it is also his most influential work.

Even many people who don't read mystery novels and don't even know much about Keigo Higashino himself have heard of this book.

Bai Ye Xing sold 2 million copies in Japan that year, which means that one out of every sixty people in Japan has bought this book. The number of people who have read it is even higher than this number.

The sales volume overseas is even more terrifying. In mainland China alone, the sales volume is nearly five million copies, and this number is still rising year after year.

Kei Fujiwara read this book when he was 15 years old. I remember that at that time, the most prominent places in the bookstore were Guo Jingming, Jiang Nan and Zhang Jiajia. Keigo Higashino was the only foreign writer in the best-seller section. White Night Walk was placed on the shelf of Keigo Higashino.

The highest position in the area.

In addition to its horrific commercial performance, it has also received almost unanimous praise in the literary world. If a senior mystery enthusiast is asked to choose the most classic tragic story in the history of Japanese mystery novels, "White Night Journey" will definitely be on the list.

This book left a deep impression on readers by depicting "desperate love and twisted human nature". In addition, the "holy witch" Karasawa Yukiho in the book was also praised by critics as one of the best in the history of Japanese literature.

The image of a villain who is in the top three.

Kei Fujiwara recalled the contents of "White Night Walk" while shaking his wrist and leaving type on the paper.

"There is no sun in my sky. It is always dark, but it is not dark because there is something that replaces the sun. Although it is not as bright as the sun, it is enough for me..."

The sky gradually darkened, pulling the whole of Tokyo into night.

Since he already had a copy in his mind, he wrote quickly. After finishing two more chapters, Kei Fujiwara stood up, stretched out in front of the window, and looked at the night view of Tokyo with some exhaustion.

"Oh, survival is really not easy..."

Fujiwara Kei couldn't help but sigh.

Yes, it is difficult to survive in Japan, especially in Tokyo, let alone Tokyo in 1994.

And "White Night Walk" also gave Kei Fujiwara a glimmer of light on this night of the Great Depression.

"I hope tomorrow will go well..." Kei Fujiwara muttered to himself as he looked at the old Christmas trees standing on both sides of the entrance of a newly converted clothing store downstairs.

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Early the next morning, Kei Fujiwara woke up from his dream and looked out the window. It was already broad daylight.

He opened the curtains, stood in front of the window, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and looked at the green trees in the distance. His eyesight in this world was not bad, but he had to take good care of it.

There are already pedestrians on the road, most of them office workers and students.

Japanese office workers are very hard-working. They live in places with cheap rents, but their jobs are in busy areas and they have to spend a long time on the subway.

On some lines, the subway during peak hours is like a concentration camp. People are crowded together, flesh is next to flesh, and sometimes someone's armpit is five centimeters away from the tip of the nose. There is a sour smell in the carriage, so it is also a hot spot for tram wolves at that time.

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Several coolly dressed housewives went downstairs to throw away trash, and one of them had an instant noodle head that stood out.

After sorting the garbage, Mrs. Yoshihara subconsciously glanced up at Kei Fujiwara's window, scaring him so much that he quickly squatted down.

Kei Fujiwara is not an innocent man. In his previous life, he also took many women to hotels and experienced things like throwing himself into his arms. However, there are not many people who can make him so coquettish, and Mrs. Yoshihara is one of them.

Recently, the administrator's uncle returned to his hometown, and Mrs. Yoshiwara's actions were obviously a bit louder. Once she stood drunkenly outside Kei Fujiwara's door and looked in through the peephole, which almost scared Kei Fujiwara to death.

Kei Fujiwara hurried to the bathroom to wash up. After washing, he got dressed and went to work, fearing that Mrs. Yoshihara would come to bring him breakfast.

The temperature was still very low today. Kei Fujiwara gritted his teeth and insisted not to wear the dirty coat. Instead, he wrapped it up and planned to send it to the dry cleaner. He folded two thick autumn clothes inside the coat, opened the door and left.

Room.

While waiting for the elevator in the hall, I happened to meet the neighbor woman on the same floor.

"Good morning, Fujiwara-kun." The woman held her handbag and nodded slightly towards Fujiwara Kei.

"Good morning, Miss Takeuchi." Kei Fujiwara returned the greeting with a smile.

"Isn't it cold to wear so little?"

"It's okay. I've been too lacking in exercise recently. I plan to go for a run on the road."

"That's great." The woman sighed with emotion, "Fujiwara-kun is such an energetic person, unlike me, who spent all his energy at the company, and now I don't even have the mood to cook a meal for myself."

Fujiwara Kei smiled and then stopped talking, feeling a little mixed in his heart. Maybe the other person just said a plain emotion, but for Fujiwara, who didn't have a serious job, this sentence seemed to mean something else.

Although Kei Fujiwara knew that she was not a mean person, he still couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

At this time, the woman suddenly realized that she seemed to have said the wrong thing, pursed her lips, and said no more.

The atmosphere suddenly became a little subtle, but the elevator made a "ding" sound at the right time. The elevator door opened, and there were several people on higher floors in the elevator. The two of them walked in, and they both relaxed silently in their hearts.

One breath.

The conversation between neighbors is limited to this. After all, Tokyo is still an indifferent society. Only in Shinjuku and Roppongi at night, the people there are a little warm.

Kei Fujiwara wrapped his coat tightly, ran all the way into the subway station, took the Jotoden Arakawa Line train, walked around several times, and finally arrived at the door of a publishing house.

The name of the publishing house is Spring and Autumn Co., Ltd., located in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. The bimonthly "Spring and Autumn Literature Appreciation" they publish is one of the most famous fiction magazines in Japan, with sales of more than 100,000 copies per issue.

The highest-selling issue was during the serialization of the novel "The Magician's Sign Language" by the famous writer Miyabo Mika. It set a literary journal sales record of 700,000 copies, which has not been broken for four years.

In Japan, if a newcomer wants to debut as a writer, there are only two ways:

The first is to participate in New Humanity's novel awards, such as the famous Ranpo Award. After winning the award, a publishing house will naturally ask you to write a manuscript, taking this as an opportunity to make your official debut.

However, the deadline for receiving manuscripts for the Ranpo Prize is at the end of January every year. When Kei Fujiwara came to this world, the deadline for submission had already passed.

Although there are many similar awards for newcomers in Japan, in the category of mystery novels, the only one that is suitable and valuable for the book "White Night Journey" is the Ranpo Award.

It would not make much sense to switch to other awards if you missed the Ranpo Award. In desperation, Kei Fujiwara had no choice but to choose the second way to debut.

That is to directly submit the article and launch an attack on literary journals and magazines such as "Spring and Autumn Literature Appreciation" and "Wild Times". Once it is appreciated by the editor, it will be serialized.

Moreover, "White Night Walk" is Kei Fujiwara's first work. Even if he chooses to serialize it first, it will not affect Kei Fujiwara's competition for the New Humanity Award.