I am a writer in Tokyo

"I was thinking, reading is such a happy thing." Mrs. Yoshino was still thinking about the feeling before going to bed at night. She stretched out her hand to grab the light from the top. However, even if the light was blocked by her palm, it would not be completely restrained.

After watching Mrs. Yoshino playing there for a while, Mr. Yoshino asked tentatively: "Then try to read these books in the future?"

He really enjoyed this time of reading together. Mr. Yoshino might be a bit greedy. He not only liked physical intercourse, but if there was also spiritual intercourse, it might make him even more crazy. So this time he saw hope.

In response to Mr. Yoshino's question, Mrs. Yoshino pursed her lips and pretended not to want to answer.

But looking at Mr. Yoshino's burning eyes, her body instantly went limp. All her thoughts of teasing her husband melted away in an instant. All she could see was a few blushes quickly climbing up her cheeks under the dim light, and then she answered in a very low voice: "Let's take a look."

Hearing this, Mr. Yoshino instantly became excited. He had finally waited for this sentence, and he couldn't help but start to talk nonstop: "Then if you have the chance later, you can read Xiaoyuan Yishu's book."

Then he began to whisper in Mrs. Yoshino's ear about Koin Kazuki, especially the books he had written.

"I heard that this book was used to snipe at Koin Ikki?" Mrs. Yoshino pointed to the book "The Story of the Boat" that they had placed on the table. After receiving a positive answer, Mrs. Yoshino asked again, "So was it successful?"

This was a very good question. Mr. Yoshino's intended long speech was interrupted. He only realized the problem now.

Yes, from this point of view, "The Compilation of the Boats" is very good, and even made his wife, who doesn't read books, indulge in the text; when he thinks back, it seems that when he goes to buy books, most people will also buy "The Compilation of the Boats" home. This book is like the shadow of "The Passion", lurking...

Seeing that her husband didn't say anything, Mrs. Yoshino asked again softly, "Is it successful?", but Mr. Yoshino replied, "I don't know."

"I don't know, dear, haven't you read Xiaoyuan Yishu's book?"

“It’s hard to describe the feeling. From a literary perspective, Xiaoyuan Yishu’s book is definitely a very good work, without a doubt.

But... The Story of the Boat Compilation seems to be very good too. It makes people feel free to read and feel it easily without any barriers. "

As he said this, Mr. Yoshino smiled at his wife and said, "It's like someone like you who doesn't like reading books would also be willing to read it. So if we talk about the market, maybe this book will attract readers who want to give it a try."

At this point, Mr. Yoshino said several times that he couldn't understand it.

This is a bit like the difference between those popular commercial films and art films. It is impossible to say which one is good or bad because they cannot be generalized.

Commercial films are more popular and can create higher commercial value; however, the content of art films makes people admire and amazed.

Mr. Yoshino smiled bitterly. He had always been supportive of Koin Kazuki and was impressed by his ideas. Every time someone proposed to challenge Koin Kazuki, he thought it was an irrational thing to do because they didn't know the gap at all.

But now, Mr. Yoshino is not sure.

Perhaps, he might be defeated by Bungeishunju's unconventional tactics, but there was no problem at all, or he began to admire the leader of Bungeishunju.

Avoid what you do best, then beat you with what I do best.

Mrs. Yoshino didn't know why her husband had to think for so long because of her words. Seeing that there was no movement for a long time, she gently pushed her husband and said, "So, who of them has finished writing?"

Mrs. Yoshino has not read "The Passion". In her opinion, "The Adventures of the Sailor Moon" is already a masterpiece. However, as an outsider, it seems normal to compare which one is better. So she really wants to know the level of the writer who is highly praised by her husband.

Mr. Yoshino did not hesitate at all for this question. He did not even need to spend too much time thinking. He blurted out a sentence: "It must be Xiaoyuan Yishu."

"Is he really that powerful?"

When Mr. Yoshino talked about Koin Kazuki, his eyes were full of admiration and respect: "I have never seen a person write like that."

He sighed deeply: "The Boat Trip is very good. In the author's writing, there is a group of people fighting for their ideals. But in Xiaoyuan Yishu's writing, it is a type of people, or everyone.

In his view, there is no difference between all people in the world. The so-called commonalities and differences determine our respective lives. We will experience things that we have not experienced and will never experience in the characters he writes about, and we can also see our own shadows.

No one can escape from Xiaoyuan Yishu's pen. Wherever his pen goes, it turns into a whole neon."

After saying this, Mr. Yoshino's body was trembling slightly, but his wife didn't seem to understand his reaction. In her opinion, it was a bit strange.

After a moment of silence, accompanied by a soft whisper in the darkness, the room fell into silence...

As Mr. Yoshino said, "The Adventures of the Wanderer" became the shadow of "The Passion".

This book caused a huge fluctuation in Bungeishunju's data line, which had originally been flat. The steep rise seemed to become a two-dimensional Mount Everest. After seeing this data, the people in the editorial department were filled with extreme joy.

They had never seen such data before, even during the peak period of Bungeishunju. This change made them begin to wonder if they were dreaming.

"The editor-in-chief's decision was really amazing. This move looks like a resurrection from the dead."

"What are you talking about? Even during the heyday of Bungeishunju, there wasn't this much data."

"Looking at it this way, the previous Xinchao data was terrifying."

The words of an editor suddenly froze the originally heated atmosphere. After everyone thought about it carefully, they couldn't help but gasp. This was indeed the truth.

To put it bluntly, they are sniping this time. In fact, they are not trying to grab a certain market share or become a shadow to see what the market share of Xinchao is like. The results presented by the data make them feel desperate.

This terrifying market share makes them feel suffocated. No wonder Xinchao usually doesn't consider the time of publishing books at all, because some obstacles seem like trivial things to them.

All they need to do is put the books on the tree in the courtyard.

Then?

And then just push forward all the way.

"So, now it seems that we should have succeeded." Takao Hiroyuki looked at the data in his hand, and the voice of the editor next to him came into his ears.

He smiled, then flicked the paper with his fingers and said, "I guess so. We have succeeded one step. We just need to take our time. It turns out that our idea is correct. It just takes a little time."

"What's next?"

"The next step is not something we can decide. At least we have completed some of the construction required in the early stage." Chief Editor Haoyuan scratched his hair and said, "No matter how the layout is, the most important thing is whether this book can be popular. But I believe in "The Story of the Boat"."

Perhaps it was the saying that the world has suffered from Qin for a long time, but after the emergence of Xiaoyuan Yishu, its almost terrifying dominance over the book market made life difficult for other publishing houses.

At first they were still planning how to seize the market, but after repeated failures, they changed their thinking and began to think about how to bring down the small tree in the yard.

"The Boat Compilation" gave them hope, an extremely strong hope, just like the rising sun in the dark night.

They don't care who wins this market, they just hope that the giant will fall. After the giant falls, it will rot and die, and then become a devastated ruin. It doesn't matter, because there will always be a place that belongs to them above the ruins.

Therefore, other publishing houses started to use all their resources to help "The Boat Rider" like crazy.

For a moment, the entire neon sky seemed to be woven into a huge ship, crushing fiercely towards the guy named Xiaoyuan Yishu.

And as time goes by, the words will always exude their own unique flavor.

"The Adventures of the Captain" has become the favorite reading material of all bookstore clerks. This list was made by Bungeishunju, which aims to tell everyone a truth. Since bookstore clerks all like "The Adventures of the Captain", and they never mention "The Passion", the implication is that "The Adventures of the Captain" is better.

I don’t know whether it was Bungeishunju that selflessly spread this idea, or whether other publishing houses that were overwhelmed by the new trends suddenly had an epiphany and launched different lists one after another.

It seems that "The Passion" is not on the list they released.

Oshima Kazuya complained a lot about this. He thought that those publishing houses that came out with some weird lists on their own were crazy.

"What qualifications do they have to judge? Some publishing houses don't even have a decent editor-in-chief." Oshima Kazuya's face turned red with anger, but he seemed to have no effective way.

If he also released a list, such behavior would seem too ridiculous, and it seems that there is no need to think about what would be on his list, and it must be just the word "suffering".

He couldn't bring himself to brag about himself, and Xinchao naturally couldn't bring himself to do so either.

"Should we do something?" Oshima Kazuya wanted Editor-in-Chief Kashiwagi to make a decision.

But Editor-in-Chief Kashiwagi shook his head and refused to do anything more.

"Why?" Oshima Kazuya didn't quite understand.

"They are not of the same nature, how can they do anything?" By the time Editor-in-Chief Kashiwagi realized the problem, it was too late.

He also bought a copy of "The Book of the Boat" at that time, and after reading it for a while, he knew what Takao Hirogen was planning.

"He's very good." Kashiwagi praised his opponent. Seeing the angry Oshima Kazuya, he couldn't help but laugh: "Don't you have confidence in Koin Kazuki?"

"Of course there is, but this..."

"What he did was very cunning. On the surface, it surpassed our data." He pointed to the paper covered with winding line graphs, and then continued: "But you need to know one thing, is there any difference between our data and the previous ones?"

Oshima Kazuya also had this piece of paper. After taking a look at it and comparing it, he found that there was not much difference. Although the data this time was much higher than before, it was still within the fluctuation range.

"Then it means that we have not failed. We have always firmly grasped the market we want to control, and this part will not be lacking." Editor-in-Chief Kashiwagi wrote a paragraph on the paper with a pen: "What we have to do is very easy, it is nothing more than expanding outward."

"They have a lot to do. They have to seize our market, expand the market, and then consolidate the market. If they do too many things, it will be very messy. It is very likely that they will not do any one thing well, or they may all be mixed together and cannot be sorted out."

Editor-in-Chief Kashiwagi tapped the table and said, "It's true that they chose to take another path. It's a good idea, but it also has big problems."

"This means that they have dragged many outsiders into the dispute. They are coming for the Book of the Boat, but can they guarantee that the next book will also be the Book of the Boat?"

Oshima Kazuya understood.

He instantly understood what Editor-in-Chief Kashiwagi meant. This was a game, and also a very risky gamble.

Just like they were afraid before that there was only one Snow Country in the world, they wondered if Kitajima Koma was just a flash in the pan. They worried about this for several nights.

But it is obvious that the tree in the courtyard is not just a momentary thing, but forever...

Then Editor-in-Chief Kashiwagi chuckled and continued, “It is very likely that they spent a lot of effort to find this very good book on boat compilation, but that doesn’t mean they can find the next one.

What about us?"

Yeah, what about us?

This question is actually easy to answer.

Oshima Kazuya also laughed.

"Yeah, they may not be able to find it, but our books are better than the previous ones."

“So, this is God’s blessing on us. What we need to do is to develop these markets and then consolidate them.

Make this an unbreakable kingdom of God, a kingdom of God that belongs to Xiaoyuan Yishu." (End of this chapter)