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9 am the next day.

Hiroto Akihara came to the Mitsui Bank in Chiyoda District with the relevant contract signed by himself and Mandansha, as well as other documents.

After making an appointment with the financial manager in charge of the loan and communicating with him, he was informed of an unexpected news that he could not get the loan temporarily.

The reason is the distrust of his personal repayment ability and the issue of copyright ownership in terms of copyright.

The first aspect is easy to understand. As a signed writer, although he has published his own works on Mantansha’s "New Novel", he cannot prove that the best-selling of "New Novel" is because of himself. There are many other works serialized above.

In other words, the bank does not recognize him as a popular writer, even if there are public reports in newspapers, it is useless.

The bank can only analyze his repayment ability and risk tolerance based on his previous half-year turnover, and the final conclusion is that his repayment ability is relatively weak.

As for the second aspect, it is because the copyright of the "ZOO" series for the past three years is still represented by Mantansha, and the film copyright has also been temporarily delivered to Dongsheng Film Co., Ltd.

This means that if Hiroto Akihara fails to repay the loan in time within the loan repayment period, the bank cannot immediately dispose of the copyright of the "ZOO" series of works, and there will be some disputes over property rights.

Knowing that there was nothing to be done, Akihara Hiroto didn't get entangled, but went to several other large and small banks, but the final results were almost the same.

Even the best bank is only willing to borrow 300 million yen in the form of pledge, and the other attachment conditions are very strict, and the loan must be repaid within half a year.

For this condition of the bank, Hiroto Akihara naturally gave up as it should.

Walking out of the gate of the last bank, Hiroto Akihara looked up at the sunset sky and sighed. To be honest, he still underestimated the impact of the economic crisis.

According to a certain bank manager, before the economic crisis, Hiroto Akihara could easily get a loan of about 1000 million yen just by relying on the contract signed by his Mandansha.

But now that the economic bubble has burst, the Ministry of Finance and the central bank have both scaled back their fiscal and financial policies, causing the funds of the various banks below to become tense.

Coupled with the outbreak of bad debts of a series of enterprises, the banks were even more frightened and did not dare to lend money easily, and Yuuto Akihara was naturally affected by the disaster.

After knowing the truest reason, Akihara Hiroto couldn't help complaining in his heart.

How could I be so unlucky to travel to this era, I couldn't find a job before, and now it's so troublesome to even get a loan.

But it was useless to struggle, he quickly let go of his thoughts and began to think about other issues.

If the bank doesn't work, why don't you try to ask Mr. Seto for a loan, but in this way, the debt to the other party will be even greater?

He stood on the side of the road, watching the flow of people coming and going, thinking about it.

like.Don't necessarily need money to solve your current predicament?

Maybe, I can try to convince that President An Jiu?

[87.Chapter 87 is shocking]

"Father, my pocket money should be increased this month." Anjiu Haruna was wearing a school uniform, sitting cross-legged on the tatami, and complained: "I want to know about this Akihara-san's business, but I helped you get it."

If Akihara Yuto was here, he would recognize this woman as the female clerk he met on the first floor of Anjiu Bookstore.

On the other side, An Jiujin was just sitting in front of another table, with a stack of manuscripts in front of him. He looked at them carefully, while coping with his daughter's complaint: "That Akihara-san came to the door by himself."

"Yes, but he must have entrusted the business because of the beautiful female employees in this publishing house." Anjiu Haruna pouted unconvincedly, and complained: "Anyway, give me a little more pocket money, as long as 3 A thousand yen is fine."

An Jiujin just pretended not to hear, not because he was stingy, but mainly because he was worried that his daughter would learn bad things - if she was given an extra 3 yen, who knows if she would use it to dye her hair or do other things.

According to his discovery, recently, Haruna has become more and more fond of reading magazines about Shibuya hot girls.

He stood up, waved his hand, ignored his daughter's complaints, left the living room and returned to the study, made a cup of tea and sat at the desk, and then put the manuscript on the table.

According to the contract between him and Hiroto Akihara, this batch of manuscripts must be proofread as soon as possible, and a sample copy should be provided within 2 and a half weeks.

To be honest, although Akutsu Goichi has a good attitude, he actually looks down on self-funded publishers like Akihara Yuto from the bottom of his heart.

As the president of a publishing house, although there are only 5 employees in the whole company, he has always believed that he can publish works that are really popular and sell well in all neon.

Therefore, he once had very high requirements for the quality of published books: works that are too kitsch will not be published; works that are too difficult to understand will not be published; works that are not smooth in writing will not be published!

Under such a business philosophy, the Anjiu Bookstore Co., Ltd. he runs has indeed published two books with a sales volume of more than 2 copies, which has gained a certain reputation in the industry.

But the good times didn't last long. With the advent of the economic crisis, the Nihong family's pockets tightened.In this case, many people began to prefer TV programs instead of going to bookstores to buy books.

After all, one is free and the other has to be paid.

When the tide goes out, you don't know who's been swimming naked.

As the economic recession became more and more obvious, the sales of books in the neon publishing industry began to plummet, which brought a head-on blow to all small and medium-sized publishing houses, and his publishing house was no exception-the sales volume of the two books had been The best-selling book that broke 2, the recent monthly sales have begun to fall to a pitiful level, not to mention other published books.

Forced to do so, An Jiujin had no choice but to implement the half-pay working system, that is, working half the time a week and getting half the salary.After all, only in this way can he barely maintain his income and expenditure without layoffs.

In addition, he also started the self-publishing business that he didn't like before, and started to compete with his colleagues for business.With his rigorous work attitude, he has also won praise from many people and introduced many new customers.

Everything seems to be developing for the better, but deep in his heart, there is still a strong sense of unwillingness. Could it be that he will only be able to publish these bad books in his next life?

In his eyes, most of these self-published books are bad books that he would never have read before.And those guests who publish books at their own expense are either college teachers trying to gain fame, or financial scammers who lack titles, or arty presidents.

These people publish books just for the title of book author.

As soon as An Jiujin thought back to Akihara Yuto who came to entrust the business this time, he had a different feeling.Although he felt that the other party's temperament did not look like someone who needed that kind of title, but the other party was also seeking a channel for self-publishing after all, so maybe he took it for granted.

He sighed, then lowered his head, ready to seriously read the manuscript on the table - from the bottom of his heart, he didn't think that a person who needed to publish a book at his own expense could write any excellent manuscript.

If it was really well written, it would have been signed by a big publishing house long ago, with very high conditions, right?

But when he looked at it, he was surprised by the contents of the book.

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(Those who have read the original can skip the following)

The story happened to a mathematics teacher named Tetsuya Ishigami. Because his mathematics research encountered a bottleneck, he felt very painful and decided to leave this world.But just as he hanged himself, the doorbell rang.

He opened the door and found that outside the door were new neighbors—a mother and daughter named Yasuko Hanaoka and Misato Hanaoka.

The mother and daughter introduced themselves enthusiastically and handed over a small gift. At that moment, Shishen felt another ray of sunshine shot into his dim life, and he had the strength to live again.

After that, Ishigami would often go to the breakfast shop where Yasuko Hanaoka was, and buy a breakfast, just to catch a glimpse of each other.

On this day, Yasuko Hanaoka was cooking at home when the doorbell rang suddenly. She thought it was her daughter who came back, so she opened the door directly.But after opening the door, she found out that the person who rang the doorbell was her ex-husband Fu 樫.

Fu 樫 is an idler, not only does not do his job, but also often domestic violence against his mother and daughter.For her daughter Misato, Yasuko Hanaoka resolutely chose to divorce.But what I didn't expect was that even after the divorce, Fu 樫 was still entangled.

Fu 樫 walked in carelessly, and said bluntly that he came to ask for money. Because he was worried about affecting his daughter, Yasuko reluctantly gave the other party a sum of money and asked him to leave as soon as possible.

Fu 樫 got the money, smiled slyly, and teased Misato who came home after him, saying that he would sell her to work in a nightclub.Then he said to Jingzi: "You mother and daughter will never want to leave my control for the rest of your life."