In Shimizu Toru's expectation, he can have a rare rest time after completing the interview for the protagonist of "Sea Girl".

But as if she was ready, the day after the interview, the weekly magazine "Friday" of Kodansha's subsidiary published the news that Reina Nonian was identified as the heroine. By the way, her relationship with her was also described in detail. In the end, she raised questions about her favoritism during the interview.

In other words, Friday tries to explain her relationship with Reina Nonian as the only reason why she was chosen as the heroine.

This level of slander did not exceed Kiyomizu's initial expectations. But within a few days, not only Friday, but some newspapers and magazines that were not related to Kotanshe began to follow up. There was also a discussion on this matter on the TV station's midday program, and the Internet was even more infuriating.

Faced with this situation, those who originally planned to wait until the reporters' meeting officially announced the candidates for "Sea Girl" had to take some action in advance. First, they firmly denied it openly, and at the same time communicated with various media privately. Some of the videos of Nian Lingna's interview were released on various platforms, which finally avoided the one-sided situation.

Just when the outside world was quarreling about this incident, Shimizu Tetsu took Nanami Nanami to Hayami's study and found Masaaki Kishida, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Oh, Shimizu, you are a famous person now. I can hear someone discussing you on the tram when I get off work."

After finding a chair to sit down, Kishida Masaaki still looked like a sloppy bachelor in his forties. Kishimizu Tetsu smiled bitterly and shook his head, "It's obvious that they are scolding me, so Kishida Sang doesn't need to cover it up."

"Hey, to be honest," Kishida raised his eyebrows, leaned closer to him, and carefully lowered his voice, "Do you and Noinian have any..."

"No!"

After a decisive answer, Shimizu Tetsu glanced at Nanami Nanami on the side and said seriously: "Kishada, I want to discuss the new book today."

"Yes, haha, haha," realizing something, Kishida Masaaki laughed dryly and turned into a serious look, but his wrinkled shirt still looked like he had just come out of the PR club.

"I have read the outline of your new book about Qingshui, and there is no problem as a whole. The first chapter is also well written. Although there are no major ups and downs, it has a magic that attracts people to read it quietly. I have to say that you have made progress again."

After skipping such a long period of praise, Shimizu Tetsu was waiting for his turn.

"but…"

"But what?"

"The market reaction is hard to judge." Subconsciously, he took out the cigarette box, noticed that Nanami was present, and regretfully took it back. Since Aya Uei moved to the third floor, Masaaki Kishida has no restrictions on smoking in his office after get off work.

Tsk to his lips, Kishida continued: "Qimizu, you have been writing about a more delicate subject, which is fine, but there are always some particularly eye-catching key points that can string the whole book together. For example, the hiking activities in "Night Hiking" and the dictionary writing in "Embroidering the Boat" are all very clear main plots, and everything else revolves around this core."

"But in your new book, oh, it's the book "Haijie Diary". After reading the entire outline, there are basically only daily life between the heroine and several sisters, and there are no key clues. The only things that can promote the plot are the seasonal changes and the protagonist's admission process. This is no longer like a long story, but more like a short story collection. To put it another way, just like the name of this book, it's almost a diary."

"Is there any problem with this?" Shimizu Tetsuya was still puzzled.

"It's a big problem!"

Seeing that he had won the Naoki Prize but had not made any progress in his judgment on the market, Kishida Masaaki couldn't help but want to light a cigarette.

After barely restrained, he licked his dry lips and said, "This kind of book needs to be read carefully, but in this society, how many people can read a book seriously? I know why comics and various fashion magazines have the best sales, because they don't need to use their brains, and you can understand it at a glance. Your writing style is popular almost a hundred years ago, but now it is the Heisei era, and this set has long been unworkable."

"But this book is planned to be serialized in a magazine first. If it is one article per month, it should be considered a short collection."

"It's OK, but I don't know how accepting the readers are. I have been an editor for so many years and have never seen a few such books in my hand."

Unlike Masaaki Kishida, who was worried about sales, Shimizu Tetsu looked relaxed, "No matter what, I am a little famous now."

He said and smiled again.

"Although it is mostly infamous, it should attract people to buy it, right? The sales should not be worse than the first one."

"Even if it's not worse than the first one, "Editor Zhou Ji" has already bought 50,000 or 600,000 copies. If you sell this book for 30,000 or 50,000 copies, do you know what the outside world will evaluate you? At that time, you brag about how hard you put in, the more mean you will be!"

"Anyway, there are many people scolding me now," Shimizu Tetsu shrugged indifferently, "No one can sell all his works, right?"

"That's right, but...ah, whatever you want, whoever asked you to win the Naoki Prize is considered to be qualified to make a mistake."

"Then this book will bother Kishida Sang."

"Don't rush to say good things. If this book is not sold well, the next book must not be written like this! Qingshui, even in the literary world, the more famous the person is, the less chance of making mistakes. From a best-selling writer to a book that cannot be sold, sometimes only one work is needed, and I have seen a lot of this kind of thing!"

Faced with such sincere persuasion, Shimizu Tetsu had to accept it, "I understand, thank you Kishida Sang."

"That's it. We will start serializing next month. The royalties will be calculated for you according to the standards of becoming a famous writer," Kishida Masaaki sighed, and the cigarette in his hand finally lit up. "By the way, I'll contact the people from Shueisha and will be here soon. I'm my classmates from college, so you don't have to be too nervous."

Even though he is well-known because of his confrontation with Kotanshe and the publication of "The Legend of the Boat", Hayami Shufang is still a small publishing house and has no comic distribution business. If you want to make Nanami Nanami's paintings smoothly publish, you still have to find a professional publishing house. Therefore, Shueisha, which has a strong business ability and is almost the best choice in the comics field, is the best choice.

After many reviews, Shimizu Tetsu lost tension about this scene. But when he looked at Nanami, he found that although her face was normal, her blinking frequency had somehow increased much faster, and her toes were unconsciously clicking on the ground, shaking slightly.

Perhaps she didn't want to be seen, so she hugged the paper bag containing the original manuscript in front of her and said first: "Qingshui, what's wrong?"

"nothing."

Withdrew her gaze, Shimizu Tsuku knew that what she needed was not a way to comfort and take care of everything.

Just wait with her quietly.

Kishida Masaki got up and went to the window to smoke. The light that fell on the overlapping hands of the two people suddenly slowed down.

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