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If you cut off the most important business in your hand simply because of fear, then this kind of behavior can be called dementia.

Moreover, when the cooperation with Akihara Yuto ends, the only one who gets hurt is Anjiu Bookstore itself.

After all, Hiroto Akihara owns the copyright, so as long as he pays, he can still easily find a publishing house with self-funded publishing business to cooperate with.

Now too many publishing houses are in poor business conditions. As long as they have money, who cares whether they will offend big publishing houses.

And "Suspect X" can still sell well with the accumulated readers and fans.

In the end, Anjiu Bookstore got nothing, and maybe in the eyes of others, it will gain the reputation of betraying its business partners.

For the neon society that attaches great importance to reputation, this reputation is no less than digging its own grave.

Sota Nishijima sighed, and then analyzed the pros and cons with his president.

An Jiujin just nodded while listening, and then couldn't help showing a wry smile.

To be honest, for what Nishijima said, in fact, Akutsu Goichi himself understood many things.

But he believes that these employees of his still don't know enough about the power of Mandanshe.

As one of the four giants in the neon publishing industry, Mantanshe has great power in the business, political and even cultural circles.

In many cases, Mandanshe can grab the throat of the enterprise in some unexpected places just by beckoning.

Just like now, the other party has banned Akihara Yuto in a substantial sense, but he has not heard any rumors.

He lowered his head, lost in thought again.

Having said that, just like Sota Nishijima said, do I really want to give up the heavy copyright of the book "Suspect X"?

You must know that even if the weekly sales volume drops to only 4000 copies, it can still sell 20 copies in a year, and depending on the potential, it can still be sold for many years...

Is this really embarrassing?

He lowered his head, lost in thought.

Seeing An Jiujin Gangyi's embarrassment, the others also fell silent.

For a moment, the entire office fell into silence.

At this moment, the phone rang suddenly, and Satake Maki saw that An Jiujin had no intention of answering the phone, so he took the initiative to answer the phone.

She received the call, listened for a while, and then let out an exclamation, which attracted the attention of everyone on the field.

Putting down the microphone, Satake Maki said a news that shocked everyone.

"Akihara-sensei, he was shortlisted for the Newcomer Award for Mystery Literature!"

[Chapter 136.135 "The Thief's Regret"]

Chiyoda District, Akihara Yuu's family.

"A Newcomer Award for Reasoning Literature?"

Akihara Hiroto looked at the letter on the table with a surprised expression.

Just this morning, as usual, when he opened the inbox at the gate of the courtyard and was about to take out the newspaper he subscribed to, he suddenly saw a white envelope with the words "Deduction Writers Committee" written on it.

When he got the envelope, he didn't care about the newspapers anymore, so he walked quickly all the way to the restaurant, opened the envelope, and saw the contents inside.

"Dear Mr. Akihara, congratulations on your work "Death by Negligence" for passing the preliminary screening of the Mystery Literature Newcomer Awards and entering the shortlist stage. The Mystery Writers Committee will be held at the "Bamboo Stone" kiosk in Kyoto at 11:25 pm on November 7th. The final awards ceremony will be held. You are specially invited to participate in this event."

After reading the contents of the envelope, Akihara Hiroto felt a little complicated.

How should I put it, I thought that my work would not have much hope of winning the prize, but it turned out to be shortlisted by accident.

This feeling is like losing a wallet, but accidentally found it on the side of the road, but you never know if there is money in it or not until you open the wallet.

But to be honest, he is still a bit psychologically shadowed.

I was afraid that I would be like participating in the award ceremony of the Mantanshe Literary Awards. I thought I would definitely have a gold award or a grand award, but I didn't expect that there would only be a silver award.

Forget it, I hope there will be a show this time, right?

Thinking of this, Akihara Hiroto couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

If I had directly put the works of Miyabe Miyuki or Matsumoto Seicho on top, I would definitely be stable, and I would not be as uneasy as I am now.

Akihara Yuto thought for a while, then called Anjiu Bookstore to inform him of the matter.

After all, if one can win a national-level award such as the "Newcomer Award for Reasoning Literature", one must take advantage of this hot spot as soon as possible to do a good job of publicity.

If he really won the award, can the Mantan Club not let his name appear in the newspaper?

If you do this, you will completely offend the Association of Reasoning Writers, and this association has taken over the vast majority of reasoning writers in the neon literary world, and has a pivotal position.

But to be honest, in the final selection of the awards, won't Man Tan Society be a hindrance?

Thinking of this, Akihara Hiroto couldn't help frowning.

While he was thinking, suddenly the phone rang.

Yuuto Akihara walked over quickly to pick up the microphone, "Hi, I'm Yuuto Akihara..."

"Akihara, I'm Asano, are you free tonight? I want to tell you something I learned recently."

Hiroto Akihara replied: "Then it's 7 o'clock in the evening. It's the same restaurant as last time. In fact, I just happen to have something I want to tell you."

"Well, so be it."

After saying this, Asano Aiko hung up the phone.

She lowered her head and looked at the drawer, and there was a document in it that read "Mandanshe Public Relations Bureau Work Report".

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Chiyoda Ward, Mandansha headquarters, "New" editorial department.

"Newcomer Award for Reasoning Literature..."

The door association Youzhen looked at the envelope on the table with an unexpectedly complicated expression.

Just this morning, his editor-in-charge, Matsushima Kazuhiro, called him and told him that the "Deduction Writers Committee" had sent him a letter.

After hearing the news, he immediately drove his car and arrived at the editorial office after spending 30 minutes.

Matsushima Kazuhiro, who was standing on the other side, looked at the nervous expression of Menxie Yuzhen, and said, "Mr. Menxie, why don't you take it apart and have a look?"

The door association Youzhen nodded, and picked up the envelope.At the same time, his heart was full of apprehension.