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Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of the door being closed.

Kawada Keiji stood up, walked to the desk and sat down again, he put down the book, and looked at the black cover of the book, on which was written the title "Devotion of Suspect X".

Below the title, there is a long staircase outlined in white lines.On this ladder, 1 person goes down, and the other 2 people go up...

He nodded, thinking that the cover was well done.

Immediately afterwards, he opened the book and began to read it.

President Anjiu, let me see how confident you are, and entrust me to write this book review!

[124.124. Can chapter [-] be published? ]

Keiji Kawada was about to open the "Devotion of Suspect X" on the table when he suddenly saw the name "Yuto Akihara" under the title.

Hey, does this name seem familiar?

After thinking about it, he stood up and walked to the bookshelf, opened the drawer below, took out a large stack of newspapers from the past few months, and began to read.

After reading for a long time, he finally found a bunch of related reports, including "The Writer's Redemption, A Little Boy in Iwate Prefecture", "A Story from Pain to Rebirth", "ZOO: Death and Reality" and so on.

Keiji Kawata took a quick glance, and found that Hiroto Akihara was mentioned many times in it, and there were even a few articles calling him a "thriller genius".

There was even a well-known book reviewer named Yosuke Miyagawa who highly praised him, believing that he would have a place in the neon literary world in the future.

After seeing all this, Kawada Keiji sorted out all the information he had just seen in his mind, and couldn't help being surprised, but after the surprise, he fell into deep confusion.

Why does such an author not continue to cooperate with Mantanshe, but publish his work in Anjiu Bookstore, which makes people a little confused.

And why didn't other book reviewers report on it during the time the book was released?

Kawada Keiji thought for a long time and still couldn't get along with the answer, so he gave up looking into it.

Forget it, it seems that the book I commissioned to write a book review this time may not be what I imagined.

So, I'd better take a closer look.

After making this decision, Keiji Kawata went to the toilet, washed his hands carefully, and then made a new cup of tea and put it on the desk.

After finishing all the preparations, he sat down, opened the book, and began to read carefully.

As time went by, the expression on his face became more and more surprised...

……

At 10 am the day after tomorrow, Chiba City, the editorial office of "Chiba Daily News".

"Editor-in-chief, I hope to publish a book review for this book." Keiji Kawata walked to the editor-in-chief's room and placed a manuscript in front of a man in a suit, who was the editor-in-chief of the editorial department.

After confirming the authorship of "Suspect X" the day before yesterday, he spent almost a day and a half reading the book carefully, and then spent half a day writing a book review article of about 1 words .

The man in the suit was working with his head down, and was startled when he saw the manuscript on the table.

He looked up and found that it was Kawada Keiji, and complained: "Kawada, don't be surprised every time. How about this, you leave the manuscript first, and I will see when it is appropriate to send it out."

Kawata Keiji responded, then turned and left.

Although the behavior just now was a bit rude, he knew that his editor-in-chief would not care.

After he left, the man in the suit picked up the manuscript on the table, first read the title "Perfect Deception" on the manuscript, then moved his eyes to the bottom, and read it carefully.

At the beginning of this manuscript, I first explained the disputes between the Benge faction and the Socialist faction in recent years, and then explained the complexity of the Benge trick design techniques, and then changed the sentence to question whether such complicated techniques are really needed.

After arousing the appetite of readers, the article began to discuss human nature and the bonds between people.Explain if anyone would give up their life for someone else?

At the end of the article, I recommended a book "The Devotion of Suspect X".

After reading it, the man in the suit put the manuscript on the table, and then read two lines of the title.

Then, he stood up and walked to Kawada Keiji's workstation.

This subordinate of his was holding a newspaper at the moment, reading it with gusto, and had no intention of working at all.

The man in the suit sighed, and asked, "Kawada, which publishing house published this "Suspect X"?"

Kawada Keiji put down the newspaper, raised his head, and replied, "It's a small publishing house called Anjiu Bookstore."

"Anjiu Bookstore," the man in the suit read a few words silently, and then asked, "Then is the author of this book Yuuto Akihara?"

"Hey, editor-in-chief, you actually know." Kawata Keiji was a little surprised, after all, even he only knew about this writer after reading the previous newspapers.

The man in the suit frowned, "Sorry, this book review cannot be published."

"Why?!" Kawata Keiji didn't expect to hear this answer, he stood up suddenly, "Is there any problem with my article?"

He didn't understand it. It stands to reason that he has worked in the newspaper for so many years, so he knows what to write and what not to write.

As for this book review, he also analyzed it from an objective point of view, and did not exaggerate much.

But such an article could not be published, he really couldn't figure it out.

"Don't get excited. Let me explain." The man in the suit explained.

He waved his hands around, telling some colleagues who were surprised by the sound to go back to work.

"There is nothing wrong with your article, but the problem lies with Akihara Yuto and Anjiu Bookstore."

The man in the suit brought a chair, sat next to his subordinate, and explained patiently.

Kawata Keiji realized that the problem was not with him, so he calmed down a little, "Editor-in-chief, please explain."

The man in the suit coughed and started talking, "You should know the background of this Mr. Qiuyuan."

Kawata Keiji nodded, "The other party turned out to be a writer who debuted in "New Novel" and published a series of serialized works."

"That's the problem." The man in the suit tapped his finger on the table, "The other party made his debut in "New Novel", but he didn't publish a booklet through the mantan agency behind "New Novel". Instead, he found a small publishing house. You Don't you find it strange?"

Kawada Keiji also frowned, "Could it be a faction struggle?"

This is not surprising. Neon’s companies are particularly good at internal fighting, especially the larger the company, the more serious the internal fighting.From this point of view, it is normal that Hiroto Akihara did not choose Mantansha to publish.

The man in the suit shook his head, "I don't know the specifics, I only know that the original editor-in-chief of "New Novel" was transferred to Shikoku, and this Mr. Akihara originally hoped to win the gold award, but only received a consoling silver award .”

Keiji Kawata was still puzzled, "But what does this have to do with the fact that this book review cannot be published?"

The man in the suit replied: "Mantansha's PR Bureau has contacted various media outlets around Tokyo, and hopes that our media will not publicly comment on Hiroto Akihara's works. In fact, as far as I know, some newspapers originally wanted to publish book reviews. , it was suppressed."

Hearing these words, Kawada Keiji suddenly understood.

As one of the four giants in the publishing industry, Mantanshe has a considerable influence on the cultural world, and has a lot of business cooperation with newspapers in and around Tokyo.