Chapter 52 Keigo Higashino
Chen Linfeng's goal is to be a director and a director. He will not give up on the actor side. If he really enters the Film and Television Academy, he will just take more acting classes at school.
Chen Linfeng has also fully considered his own conditions. Now that he is close to 14 years old, he already has a general outline of his future adult appearance.
He stood in front of the mirror and looked at the appearance in front of him: the facial lines were strong and clear, the facial contours were three-dimensional and harmonious, and the overall skininess was greater than the fleshiness, making him appear heroic.
To use the language of the novel to describe it, it is that the sculpture-like outline is very handsome, with high eyebrow bones, a high nose, sword-shaped eyebrows on the temples, phoenix eyes that are powerful, and the brows show the heroic spirit of a young man.
Overall, Chen Linfeng's appearance is more inherited from his mother's. His facial features are exquisite and he has the handsome outline of a man. He is a typical celebrity face of this era, similar to Bai Gu and Jiao Enjun.
Such a face would be wasted if you don’t become an actor.
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Neon Kodansha.
Noma is reviewing Chen Linfeng’s new novel.
Mr. Qilin’s first few novels tended to be in the light novel genre, focusing on plot and story, not on literary or ideological aspects.
"Jie You" is obviously different. It brings some humanistic thinking and is more suitable for publicity and sales in the way of traditional literature.
Noma took a quick look at some of the descriptions and thought they were written by a neon writer.
However, if we look closely at the events and characterizations, it clearly bears the characteristics of China.
“This is the commonality of East Asian cultural circles,” Noma sighed in his heart.
Noma was born into a family in the publishing industry, and he appreciates works with a literary flavor.
He likes the novel "Jieyou" very much. He thinks it is an extremely excellent work and is extremely optimistic about it.
In this case, the promotion strategy for this work needs to be changed.
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Maybe it’s because I got a taste of the sweetness from the last competition with Kadokawa Shoten, which was both real and fake.
The publicity strategy formulated by Kodansha this time is still to find a famous writer to compete in the arena with.
They have already chosen the candidate, and it is Higashino Keigo. He has just recently released a new book "Unrequited Love" for sale.
If Chen Linfeng knew about it, he would definitely not agree. Isn't this fake Li Gui meeting the real Li Kui?
Although reborn people are generally very thick-skinned, they are not embarrassed to use the books they wrote later to compete with themselves.
However, this time only Sister Mei and the translator are here, and they don’t know who Keigo Higashino is.
Sister Mei listened to Kodansha's brief introduction to the author's general deeds. She knew that this author had won the Edogawa Ranpo Award and had been shortlisted for the Naoki Award many times. He was indeed a powerful character.
She thinks this is a healthy competition. Even if Chen Linfeng doesn't compete with the other party, it won't be embarrassing.
So I readily agreed to Kodansha’s publicity strategy.
Kodansha’s propaganda machine was quickly activated, and many people in Neon knew the news.
The talented Chinese writer who won the sales competition last year is challenging again. This time his target is directly at the famous neon mystery-Higashino Keigo.
Keigo Higashino is no longer a fan of books, how dare a light novel author come to try his luck?
One of Higashino's famous works, "White Night Walk", was just released two years ago.
This type of traditional best-selling book has a long sales period. Now it is at its peak, and his fans are in a state of looking down on the world.
A writer who was famous in the field of light novels suddenly appeared and dared to challenge him. Isn’t this a big deal?
Many book fans posted comments on the Internet, expressing their disdain, saying that light novels should not be used for trouble, as they cannot afford to embarrass that person.
This hit a lot of people, and many light novel readers felt like they were being laughed at.
Especially since the release of "Destiny", there have been many Destiny fan clubs and fan clubs, and many people have made secondary creations of the work, and many of them have benefited from it.
The light novel reader circle speaks highly of this novel, including the later released "Book of Life and Death". Even those who have not read it know that the novel should be very good.
Chen Linfeng also has many book fans, and most of them are young people, the main group of people who surf the Internet, and they fight back everywhere on the Internet. The debate between the two parties created a lot of momentum.
There has been constant discussion about this in newspapers. Many critics believe that this young Chinese writer has taken the wrong path and has rashly changed his career path, which is likely to end in a disastrous failure.
It is against this background that "Jieyou Commissary" is officially released.
Keigo Higashino has recently noticed the turmoil in the news and public opinion. As one of the parties involved, he should have been very angry, or at least dismissive of his challenger's new book.
However, he still disguised himself and went to a nearby bookstore to buy a copy of "The Worry-Relief Shop".
Higashino Keigo has actually watched Kirin-sensei’s previous work "Book of Life and Death".
As a mystery novelist, he greatly appreciates the plot of the battle of wits in the book. He feels that it has a different beauty than mystery novels, but has the same purpose.
So, he wanted to see with his own eyes what a new book written by an author he admired that claimed to challenge him was like.
After Higashino Keigo bought the book, he found a nearby cafe, ordered a cup of coffee, and sat down to read slowly.
While he was watching, he felt a deep resonance in his heart.
After seeing it, for some reason, his eyes gradually became moist.
"What a great work." Keigo Higashino sighed longly.
Having written about the dark side of society for a long time, he occasionally wants to get in touch with the sunshine. When reading this book, it seems that his heart has been purified.
Keigo Higashino sat motionless in his seat, immersed in the emotions that kept rising in his heart after reading the novel.
“Such a good work cannot be buried!”
After Keigo Higashino returned home, he typed furiously on the computer and finally typed out a long review of three thousand words.
In the comments, he described in detail various details and exquisite plot arrangements in the article.
I also highly appreciate the human touch of each character in the novel and the importance they pay to others, believing that this is what is lacking in the neon modern indifferent society.
Finally, he talked about his viewing experience, calling it a time when "Teacher Kirin allowed my dark soul to receive sunshine."
Keigo Higashino first gave a long review Publish it online, and the next day, submit it to a newspaper for publication in the newspaper.
Book fans were completely confused by his operation.
The ministers are about to fight to the death, why does Your Majesty surrender first?
Chen Linfeng’s fans were laughing so hard, it turned out that his opponent was the biggest critic.
The various professional evaluations in the long review really need to be made by professionals. Ordinary people cannot write rainbow farts with such good writing skills.
Some die-hard fans insist on their own opinions and just think that Mr. Higashino is crazy. If they close their eyes, nothing will happen.
There are also some fans and ordinary passers-by who bought "Jieyou" because of this long review. They are also curious about this novel that convinced their opponents.
The sales of novels are rising steadily, which is not like the sales curve of literature-oriented bestsellers.
In the first month, Neon’s sales exceeded 300,000 copies, which was even more exaggerated than Chen Linfeng’s first two novels.
This is only secondary, the professional reputation of "Jieyou" is the key.
After Keigo Higashino, a large number of authors in the industry expressed their appreciation for this book, and there are already voices saying that "Relief of Worry" will be nominated for the Naoki Award.
However, this should be Kodansha’s publicity strategy. The Naoki Prize will not be awarded to foreigners.
However, the presence of such a voice and the fact that it is not questioned is already very representative of the problem.
In short, Editor-in-Chief Noma once again proved his foresight.
The initial push to sign Mr. Qilin was a stroke of genius, and he will soon be promoted as a result.
After all, his surname is Noma, he is a member of the Kodansha family, and he has made commendable achievements, so of course he needs to be promoted out of the ordinary.
(End of this chapter)