The Goddess Shines on America

"Ying's youngest youth suddenly shatters like glass.

When the beautiful, pure, and real things are destroyed, and the reappeared memories and dreams are shattered, hatred begins to germinate and spread wantonly...

In this Tsinghua Girls' High School, some people like me and some people hate me.

On Saturday morning, on the platform of the station, someone suddenly bumped into me from the side, and I almost fell off the rails;

After school on Monday, I went into the shower after swimming, and almost died of electrocution;

After school on Tuesday, a pot of blue sunflower fell from the third floor of the teaching building until it hit the top of my head;

A teacher was poisoned in my usual locker room after school on Thursday, did he die for me?

Only then did I realize in horror that I seemed to have no way to escape. "

The above is a brief introduction to the story written by the author himself. After seeing the title of the book "After School" and reading such a summary, the editors in the conference room fell silent.

"Alice-Wang, a writer from Los Angeles, USA who came from thousands of miles away, with a typical Chinese-American name, this combination... as far as I know, only one person matches."

Qingzhi, who has been in the industry for five years, has a pair of dark circles under his eyes and a tired face. Under the gaze of everyone who wants to laugh but dare not laugh, he said seriously to everyone: "It's the Alice-Wang. .”

Tsukamoto was not happy, he patted the table: "Which one? Qingzhi, you can't understand what you say."

Qingzhi thought for a while, and said, "A cutting-edge best-selling author in the United States, the author of "Jurassic Park" and "Blood Fairy Tale", this is the closest to our industry."

"Ah, that one!"

With Qingzhi's words, Chunzi also suddenly realized, but then she was confused again: "But...is this identity? I don't care much about the American book market, are you sure this Ellie Si-Wang is already outstanding in the American literary world?"

Qingzhi looked at Chunzi innocently: "Is there a second one?"

Junzi is forty years old, when she frowned because of doubt, she had more forehead lines than Qingzhi: "But the Alice Wang I remember is the director of "Ghost Story"! "

"Ah, yes!"

At this time, Hongzhi also thought of something, and clapped his hands: "The boss of Cisco! Shareholders of Microsoft, have you seen the press conference after Microsoft went public? She was there!"

Chunzi looked confused: "What Cisco...Microsoft? I don't have anything to care about the press conferences of those big companies?"

Several conversations with his colleagues completely confused Tsukamoto, he looked at everyone with a confused face: "I said you, it seems that this name has not spread to John Smith or... or Tom, Harry and Jack You are both a writer and a director, and now even the boss of the company has come out, so there should be a limit to duplicating names, right?"

Yamamoto, who had been silent all this time, spoke silently.

"So, they are all alone."

As he spoke, a magazine was photographed on the table by him.

Undoubtedly, it is the American edition of Time magazine.

Although it is not the person of the year, the cover of this magazine a few months ago does have an Asian girl in a white suit printed on it.

"Nani!?"

"Hey, hey, don't be so surprised, okay? Sit down and put your heads back."

Among the core editors, Yamamoto, whose seniority was only lower than that of editor-in-chief Tsukamoto, waved his hand at ease, which made everyone at the table, including Tsukamoto, sit back.

Tsukamoto stared straight at the cover of this magazine: "So, the situation is... an American genius is going to enter our Japanese market?"

Chunzi was also really confused. She picked up the "Times" and flipped through it. When she opened the relevant pages, she immediately froze.

Qingzhi looked at her eagerly: "How is it, Chunzisang?"

Junko’s eyes are as wide as a bull’s-eye, and her mouth is like a hippopotamus: “The first novel and the second book have been on the New York Times bestseller list for a long time, and have been at the top for a long time. At the same time, it is also the most profitable in history. Movies, writer, director and producer of Dreamworks' Ghost Story, Cisco and Microsoft's... Is this girl a monster!?"

"I think that's it, Tsukamoto-san."

Yamamoto stood up and put the magazine away from Junko. Seeing that the editor-in-chief was still in a daze, he shook the manuscript and said, "Look, how about we read the story first? It's rare that the other party has two top-level books in a row The author of the best-selling book actually published a book to our Japanese reasoning literature circle, surely he will not disappoint everyone?"

That's for sure, and there are not many people who can be editors who don't like to read books. After knowing Alice's achievements, who can say that she is not interested in her first mystery novel?

You know, these are two whole novels that have become bestsellers in the United States, and it is the first novel and the second one after that, which have been on the bestseller list in a row, and they all stayed on it for several weeks!

And most importantly, these two novels are in different fields!

"Time" is not something that Yamamoto says can be put away, especially the editor-in-chief Tsukamoto is interested in this girl.

"Sci-fi thrillers, and fantasy vampire romance thrillers... Hehe, it's such a long category name, isn't it, everyone, what do they all have in common?"

"Thriller and suspense."

Qingzhi opened his mouth and said, "Especially this "Blood Fairy Tale", which describes the process of Harken's crime in a very serious and detailed manner, and the policeman's case, which is obviously for creative reasoning. Let’s prepare for the novel. Everyone said, did this Alice want to contribute to us a long time ago?”

"My main concern right now is... Alice-san's specific plans."

Tsukamoto thought about it a little more: "It is indeed a natural advantage for overseas writers to publish books in Japan from the perspective of publicity. In particular, we can also publicize her achievements in the United States. The point is...every This book is a new category, and each book is particularly popular, so even if it is the first time to create a mystery novel, it will definitely not disappoint everyone!"

This "everyone" naturally refers to the readers, and the editors deeply agree.

"But she's still a big boss after all... What plans does she have?"

However, Tsukamoto only spoke half of what he said. He flipped through the introduction of Alice's career in "Time", as if he was telling everyone, and he seemed to be telling himself: "There are indeed many European and American capitalists investing in Japan. Is the little girl planning to intervene too?"

"The editor-in-chief..."

Hongzhi lay on the table, tapping his fingers on the tabletop: "Work, work, let's read novels together, whether it's investing or doing business, it has nothing to do with us, right?"

"Well, it makes sense, then gentlemen, let us see what kind of work Alice has brought to the Japanese people!"

So, after a passionate mobilization speech, more than a dozen editors in the conference room, each with a copy, began to carefully read the first reasoning work of this remarkable girl.

"After school"……

This is Alice copied from the famous debut novel of Higashino Keigo, a famous contemporary Japanese mystery novelist, a work that should have won the Edogawa Rampo Award in 1985.

After a year and a half, Alice had already quietly launched an investigation into the Japanese reasoning circles. Undoubtedly, the originator of Edogawa Conan-kun exists, and some senior writers are also busy in the industry all day long, but this Keigo Higashino, not to mention this "After School", even 84 "Magic Ball", which was shortlisted for the Ranpo Award in 2018, does not exist.

She couldn't help but not be tempted. If she had to choose to copy a few famous novels to make herself a fan of a literary girl, with Daming Conan, she would never let go of Japanese mystery novels. Well, since you want to copy the mystery novel, since the opportunity is right in front of you, there is no way that the name of Keigo Higashino will not let it go...

After all, as a writer who should have started writing books in 1985, each of his books is not only in line with the times, but also in line with Alice's life...

For the Kodansha editors present, this "Plagiarized Edition of Keigo Higashino's Award-Winning First Work" imported from the United States immediately brought them a novel experience.

First of all, like many Japanese novels, especially mystery novels, this novel is written from a first-person perspective.

Moreover, at the very beginning of the book, a strong dose of medicine is given to all readers: "After school on Tuesday, a pot of blue sunflowers fell from the third floor of the teaching building until it hit me on the top of my head" in the introduction. The segment was staged.

"What a straightforward method!"

Tsukamoto nodded in satisfaction, secretly lamenting the cleverness of Alice's technique.

You know, any reader must read the introduction before reading the book, and the introduction offered by Alice is particularly charming. After reading such an introduction, the vast majority of readers will firstly keep in their minds the idea of ​​knowing when the accidents listed here will happen.

Then, it happened immediately!

Just in the first two natural paragraphs of the book!

Clean and neat!

The next short episode was also very tight. "I" who was almost hit by a flowerpot hurriedly ran up to the third floor to find out, but after checking the two only classrooms with people in a row, "I" found nothing.

Tsukamoto raised his head and interjected: "Two classrooms, six students, do you think the murderer will be among them?"