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The president sitting in the main seat glanced at the round-faced man and said, "That means, the copyright of "Suspect X" has nothing to do with us?"

The round-faced man shook his head and said, "No, Hiroto Akihara authorized him a work called "Memories of Murder", which is said to have not yet been published."

"Not yet published!"

The president was speechless, and even the others showed expressions of astonishment.

They wanted the rights to Suspect X because it had already been published and had a readership of millions, which would guarantee a good box office hit.

But for works that have not been published, there will be no reader support if they are filmed, right?

The round-faced man added: "Not only that, it is said that Hiroto Akihara also invested 1 million yen as the production cost of this movie."

After saying this, there was even a hint of sarcasm on his expression.

"It seems that Mr. Qiuyuan is unwilling to get the box office share, so he is trying to get a share of the movie market."

After hearing this explanation, everyone including the president laughed.

They also have a reason to laugh, a layman actually tried to enter the field they are most familiar with, and even invested in independent producers to shoot movies.

There is no doubt that this is a fool!

In the film industry, there are many people who are taken advantage of every year, and they basically quit honestly after paying a tuition fee.

Although Hiroto Akihara is a well-known writer, they don't think there are any exceptions.

"President," the round-faced man held back his smile, and continued, "I heard that the crew of this work is recruiting actors, do we want them?"

After saying this, he made a gesture.

As a big company, as long as there is a little wind, the independent producer will feel better.

The president shook his head and said with a smile: "There's no need to do this, we don't want to intervene in what is doomed to fail. When the box office of this work is poor, let's go and comfort Mr. Qiuyuan."

The round-faced man bowed slightly to show that he knew, but in his heart he was more sure of winning the copyright of "Suspect X".

When this work fails at the box office, it is estimated that the market will be even less optimistic about Akihara Hiroto's work.

At that time, if you come forward to talk with yourself, maybe you only need to pay a lower price!

Mr. Akihara, I hope your work will be a "big seller"!

[Chapter 260.259 "Rashomon" before and after]

Hiroto Akihara didn't know Dongying Yinghua's idea that he was "taken advantage of".

In fact, no matter what the box office of "Memories of Murder" is, he doesn't plan to hand over the copyright to Dong Ying Pictures anymore.

Because he hated some of their "big company diseases" from the bottom of his heart.

And even if you don't find them, you can find other big film companies to cooperate with, even if the conditions are worse.

After all, if there is no box office share, the difference in the signing fee is almost the same.

……

On June 6, Hiroto Akihara's high-end apartment.

Sitting in the study, Hiroto Akihara looked at a stack of traditional literary periodicals bought by Maki Satake, and asked, "Satake, tell me about the results of your investigation."

Maki Satake nodded, and then reported the results of his survey on publications in the field of traditional literature.

"Currently, the publishing houses still operating traditional literary periodicals, apart from some niche periodicals and school periodicals with a sales volume of only a thousand copies, there are only three major publishing houses: Toei, Jingfan, and Kejiaoguan. As for Mandanshe, The relevant journals have been abandoned in the past two years."

"The traditional literary periodical of Dongying Society is called "Gem", with a sales volume of about 2 copies; the traditional literary periodical of Jingfan Society is called "Yunuo", with a sales volume of about 3 copies; "Cultural Travel", the sales volume is about 1."

After listening to this set of data, Akihara Hiroto's expression became strange.

He knew that traditional literature was not liked by the public, but he did not expect sales to be so low.

Combined, the sales volume of these magazines is less than one-fifth of the current sales volume of "April Youth", right? !

It's no wonder that Mantansha gave up this field early, after all, they don't even look down on journals like "New" with a sales volume of less than 3 copies.

After Satake Maki's report was over, he asked suspiciously: "Akihara, are you planning to write traditional literature?"

Akihara Hiroto did not deny it, but opened the drawer, took out a stack of manuscripts and handed it over.

Satake Maki also got used to his style, didn't say any more, took the manuscript paper and read it.

And she looked at it, and was also addicted to the story.

"The story is about a servant who was kicked out by his master in a time of war, and he was struggling mentally between being a robber and starving to death.

At this time, he happened to come to a place full of dead bodies, that is, the place called Rashomon. He ventured to go in and find some belongings, but he found an old woman in rags who was walking from a young man. Hair pulled out from the woman's dead body.

He rushed forward and said that you, an inhumane person, don't even let dead bodies go.

The old woman explained that she just wanted to use the hair to make a hood for a living.

She said, "There used to be a woman who dried snake meat and sold it as dried fish. People who ate the dried fish thought it was delicious, and the woman was able to make ends meet. I don't think this woman did anything wrong. She and I It's all about survival!"

Then, the servant realized, since it is for survival, what else is wrong?

So he snatched the old woman's clothes and ran away, and no one has seen him since. "

This story is very short, less than 3000 words in total, and Maki Satake finished it in about 10 minutes.

Seeing her finish reading, Akihara Hiroto asked, "Satake, what do you think of the writing?"

Satake Maki felt that the story was very thought-provoking, but she couldn't think of the connotation in it.

After hesitating for a while, she decided to tell the truth: "Sorry, I don't know much about pure literature, so I can't comment."

Hiroto Akihara didn't expect that even Maki Satake, an editor who was originally from the industry, would say that.

He thought about it for a while, and found that it was not surprising.

Compared with the intuition of reasoning, traditional literature or pure literature is more difficult to evaluate and analyze.

Many core ideas and connotations often need to be interpreted by others before they can be recognized by the public and judged as good or bad.

Like this famous "Rashomon", it is actually a work of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's university days, and it sank quickly after it was published.

However, it was another work "The Nose" that he published in the following years that really made him appear in the literary world.

After Natsume Sakushi saw this work, he thought he was very talented and accepted it as status.