Chapter 354 Are you 9 years old?

Chapter 354 Are you 9 years old?

Chapter 354 Are you nineteen years old?

To describe it in a comic way, President Inoue walked into the editorial office. There seemed to be black anger around him, swirling and twisting. Everyone at the scene, whether it was Tsuge, Takeda, long-haired, wigged, or Katsura...

His eyes were like X-rays, sweeping across everyone, and the president walked into his office. His eyes were like stones that could turn into substance, hitting people and causing them to feel a dull pain.

Soon after, the phone on Zhecheng's desk rang throughout the space, like the cry of a crow. It was not a good sign. As expected, Zhecheng was called into the office by the president.

"Have you seen the works of the Chinese?" President Inoue had his back to him, facing the floor-to-ceiling window, with a bird's eye view of Tokyo Bay and the Tokyo Skytree.

How to respond? Zhecheng was confused at first, but then he realized that he would be killed anyway.

"I have seen it." Zhecheng decided to tell the truth.

"How is it?" President Inoue asked in a low voice.

"It's a wonderful work," Zhecheng said. "It seems like this book was written especially for our Japanese book market."

"I agree with you, so its sales will be unstoppable regardless of our early publicity." President Inoue suddenly said.

Eh? Aren't you going to put the blame on him?

Zhecheng was overjoyed and responded immediately, "I think so. I have done a detailed study of Gu Lu's writing style. He is often called a genius, but it is more appropriate to call him a ghost of change. He can completely change his writing habits, leaving only a few traces of words at most. This is to suit the subject matter. I suspect that he has been studying the works of Mr. Matsumoto Seicho for five years. The articles are full of social concerns in the form of Matsumoto Seicho, focusing on marginalized people and domestic violence. But he also deeply realized that social reasoning has no market, so he increased the proportion of orthodox."

I am lying with my eyes open. If Kadokawa had not caused trouble in the early stage, the current sales volume would have been reduced by at least a quarter.

However, Tsuge is indeed qualified to look down on Takeda who "got a backdoor deal", and his career vision is really accurate. The best-selling book on earth himself admitted that his writing career was influenced by Seicho Matsumoto.

Hearing that it took five years to research, President Inoue felt a little better. "Not bad, publish a few similar works. We at Kadokawa Shoten need to consider our readers and fill the vacant market."

Kadokawa Shoten is such a large publishing house with so many writers, so it is very easy for them to follow suit.

"Spread your previous reasoning." President Inoue said again.

Just let yourself do things, at least it means you won't be fired or demoted before the work is done. The moment the president's office was closed, Zhecheng felt like he had survived a disaster, and leaned against the door to rest for a while.

The next moment, a series of sounds were heard: "Snap, splash, splash..."

Zhecheng guessed that the president had broken his favorite fish tank, so it was not advisable to stay here for long.

The previous arrangement was Inoue's rationality as the president, but seeing Gu Lu making money and easily surpassing "Shooting a Bullet at the Sun" made him feel more uncomfortable than him losing money!

Despicable foreigners!

This is just the beginning. The more uncomfortable things are yet to come.

On the third day, 31 copies were sold.

As soon as Billboard released its daily book market data, "The Devotion of Suspect X" once again shook up the sluggish physical world.

This is very unscientific and violates the rules of the book market!
There were even TV reporters who conducted street interviews. They said street interviews, but in fact they were blocking the entrance of bookstores and interviewing anyone they saw buying.

The interviewee was a man who looked to be about thirty-four or thirty-five years old. He had wheat-colored skin and his skin was in very poor condition, as if it had been damaged by sandpaper.

"When was the last time you bought a book?" the reporter asked first.

"Leaving aside light novels? I have always had the habit of buying light novels."

“It’s not a paperback edition,” the reporter responded.

As light novels have developed, the distinction between them and popular novels has become increasingly blurred. In terms of the definition of Japan, due to the problems of publishing organizations, light novels are mostly sold in paperback format. Paperbacks are made of yellowed paper and are relatively light in size, making them very convenient to carry.

"That's about three years."

"May I ask why you bought "The Devotion of Suspect X"? " the reporter asked again.

"Because I've been watching Gu Lu's works since I was in junior high school. I happened to know that Gu Lu was back, and I saw many people praising him on the Internet, so I bought it."

"Excuse me, sir, Mr. Gu Lu's work should have been published five or six years ago, in junior high school?" The reporter found a loophole in the words.

"How rude! I'm only nineteen now! Six years ago, I was only two."

This guy is nineteen years old?

When the interviewee saw that the other party did not believe him, he immediately took out his driver's license to prove that what he said was true.

Subsequent interviews were conducted in this format, and most of the interviewees had not bought books for one to two years. The reasons for buying Gu Lu's books were varied.

“My favorite cartoonist recommended this book, and it was the one that was serialized this week,” “No special reason,” “I was introduced to it by a sentence on the forum, ‘The ultimate love is devotion,’ and I like reading pure love books,” “My friends around me are all buying them, so I’ll buy them too”... It seems that Gu Lu is not in the right place at the right time, but if you think about it carefully, does that thing make sense for a wall hanger?
The enemy was not expecting this, and our own people were also confused. The latter's emotions can be satisfied with one sentence: "Fuck, you can win like this?!"

Sato, the president of the book publishing company, is happy and sad at the same time.

Being happy is a must.

Eight hundred thousand coins were sold in three days, which was extremely exaggerated even in the 1990s.

The 800,000 copies are sold online, including Amazon books and Yahoo. However, the books are not available offline, let alone online. Therefore, the more than 200,000 copies sold online have not been shipped yet. We will print the second copy as soon as possible.

Not to mention the relatively young Shiratōsha, even Shodensha, which was founded in the 1980s before the merger, has a record-breaking record with "The Devotion of Suspect X". The whole company is happy about this. President Sato and the company staff said that everyone will be rewarded for working overtime during this period.

So what is sadness?

On the one hand, he believes that the most beautiful moment of a genius is the decline at the peak of his career. On the other hand, he insists that his publication of the science fiction short story collection "The Wandering Earth" was the reason why Gu Lu retired from the literary world. Sato is still very proud to have an intersection with such a genius.

Now the intersection has been cut off...

"Go all out to promote "The Devotion of Suspect X." Although he felt slightly depressed, it did not affect his judgment. Sato knew that this might be the peak of their Baitongshe.

Compared to Sato, Yao Xiaoju, as one of them, is simply happy.

"It's a step backward in history. This sales volume seems to be the heyday of 20 or 30 years ago." Yao Xiaoju is in London at the moment.

He just flew from Tokyo to London today. He had been involved in the promotion in the early stage, and only left when the product became a hit after it was launched.

The industry in the UK is much bigger than that in Japan. After five years, Gu Lu's title in the English writer area is "the best interpreter of Sherlock Holmes" and "the genius who wrote the most special fairy tales." It cannot be said that he has conquered the entire English world, but he is only a little famous. Even so, he is one of the best Chinese writers in Europe and the United States.

Gu Lu currently has a huge flaw in the European and American markets. If this cannot be resolved, it will be very difficult to make further progress...

"Bang bang——" The sound of knocking on the door interrupted Yao Xiaoju's thoughts.

It must be pointed out that Yao Xiaoju is currently working in the general manager's office of "Little Prince Cultural Communication Company". That's right, a company has been established overseas, and it is conceivable that the European and American copyright operations are very good.

The front desk clerk called to say someone was visiting, and Yao Xiaoju said, "Come in."

The man was a white man in his mid-thirties, with slightly curly hair and glasses that looked precarious on his nose.

The secretary brought the person in, closed the door and left. The person sat down without any courtesy.

"Mr. Kane, why are you here today?" Yao Xiaoju moved his chair back a little distance without leaving a trace.

The person who came was Kane Vanzestone, the reporter of The Sun five years ago!
However, Kane is no longer a journalist. Four years ago, he transformed himself into a writer, a well-known writer in the UK.

"Mr. Gu Lu re-created it?" Kane went straight to the point.

"Huh?" Yao Xiaoju was surprised. Did the news spread so quickly? It seemed that in the Internet age, the news in Blue Star Village was shared among all villagers. But in fact, the news from the Japanese literary circle was basically invisible in the UK.

"Gu Lu, the creator of the Weymouth series, has released a new book, and Neon has no rivals"

Kane turned to the second page of the Guardian and saw the headline in front of Yao Xiaoju.

"The Cthulhu series is the most watched horror series,"

The Cthulhu series does have a high level of popularity, and the popularity accumulated in the early stages came from Gu Lu's short story series, but a few short stories certainly cannot sustain the popularity for several years.

The later popularity came from the credit of the second creator, and that second creator was Kane!

Five years ago, Kane resigned from The Sun in a high-profile manner. When he was interviewed by other newspapers, he shouted: "No one knows Gu Lu better than me, and no one understands Cthulhu better than me."

Yao Xiaoju still remembers the photo in the newspaper. Kane looked crazy and serious.

Seriously, no kidding.

Kane read Dagon, Weymouth Asylum, At the Mountains of Madness, The Gloom at Weymouth, Portsham Horror, The Necronomicon, etc. over and over again, and he could even recite the entire text. He also read all the Chinese short stories written by Gu Lu, even though he didn't know Chinese, using a translator.

Gu Lu is a true genius, even as talented as Shakespeare and Bacon! At the age of sixteen, his writing range is so exaggerated. Other stupid British people don't understand at all.

He knows a lot, so he understands!

So, Kane began to create the Cthulhu series, and even constructed a complete mythology system based on Gu Lu's short stories, creating works such as "The Clay of Weymouth", "The Dark Brotherhood", and "The Thing in the Woods".

(End of this chapter)