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After confirming, he relaxed, then walked to a nearby post office and sent a letter he had written at home.

The recipient of this letter is Aiko Asano, and his purpose of sending the letter is to let the other party understand that he still wants to work hard together.

To be honest, I did this out of helplessness. After all, I couldn't contact the other party no matter whether it was a phone call or a message.

I hope the other party can understand what I mean from the content of the letter.

After sending the letter, he hurried back home.

Next, he had to consider which work to write.

……

After returning home, Hiroto Akihara simply ate a bowl of instant noodles, then sat at the table, spread out the paper, held a pen and began to think.

Before that, his purpose was for serialization, so it was always better to write a collection of short stories or a long story.

But now if you want to publish at your own expense, don’t worry about it. It must be based on novels, and it must be based on books that have been bestsellers in Neon before.

After all, adapting foreign works not only requires a lot of time and energy, but also I don't know if I will encounter symptoms of acclimatization in the neon market.

Hiroto Akihara thought for a long time, and wrote "Train", "Devotion of Suspect X", "White Night", "Astrology Murder Case" and "Jukakukan Murder Case" on paper. After thinking for a long time, He crossed out the names of most of his works, leaving only "Train" and "Suspect X".

Leaving these two works, he naturally has his own thinking.

"Train" is Miyuki Miyabe's work. It was released in 1992, which is not much different from the current time, and has received high praise.

"The Devotion of Suspect X" is the work of Keigo Higashino. Although it was released in 2005, the background he depicts is in the 20s, so readers don't have to worry about it being abrupt.

So these two works can sell well.

But then again, which of the two is better?

Hiroto Akihara thought about it for a while, and finally decided to write "The Devotion of Suspect X". After all, in terms of economic interests, although "Train" also has film and television, its box office and remakes are far less than "Suspect". A small income.

Recalling the contents of the books he had read in his previous life, Akihara Yuto stumbled and began to write.

"At 35:[-] a.m., Ishigami left the apartment as usual. Although it was March and the wind was still quite cold, he stepped out with his chin buried in his scarf. Before walking onto the road, he glanced at the bicycle parking lot. There There are a few cars, but no green bikes that he cares about."

Hiroto Akihara continued to recall while writing. After all, his memory was a bit long ago, so he could only imitate a rough idea, and some plots were supplemented by the content of the movie version.

By the next morning, he had written almost 1 words. According to this progress, he would need about two weeks to finish writing the entire "Devotion of Suspect X".

In order to facilitate his "retreat", he rejected all invitations to go out, making the outside world think that something happened to him when he came out, and even Seto Yuzhi called to comfort him, making him dumbfounded for a while.

……

At 8 o'clock in the morning, at Asano's house.

Mrs. Asano looked at her daughter who was having breakfast, hesitated to speak, and there was a hint of worry in her eyes.

During the recent period, my daughter seemed to be a different person. She became silent a lot, and she didn't even talk much, as if she had encountered some problem.

Could it be that the relationship with Qiu Yuan has encountered a setback?

You must know that the other party has been calling recently, but Aiko has been finding reasons to avoid answering.

Oh, what should I do?

Mrs. Asano thought for a long time, but she gave up the plan to comfort her. After all, let the person concerned think about this kind of thing.

Just when she was in a state of uncertainty, there was a sound of bicycle bells outside, followed by a "boom".Mrs. Asano knew that it was the sound of the mailbox cover being opened at the door of her house.

She was a little confused for a moment, didn't she receive all the newspapers she ordered today?Why do postmen still deliver things?

She walked out the door, opened the mailbox, and was surprised to find that it was a letter addressed to Aiko Asano. On the sender column of the envelope, the words "Yuto Akihara" were clearly written,

Holding the letter, Mrs. Asano fell into confusion for a moment.

Why did Akihara-kun write a letter?

Shall I show it to Aiko?It seems that she doesn't want to contact Akihara-kun recently~

On the other side, Asano Aiko finished her breakfast, packed up the tableware, walked out the door, and saw her mother holding a letter in confusion, she wondered, "Mom, who is this letter from?"

Mrs. Asano hesitated for a moment, but still handed the letter to her daughter, "Aiko, this is a letter from Akihara."

After saying this, she went back into the house, and at the same time sighed in her heart: Forget it, let the young people solve their own affairs.

Aiko Asano took the letter and saw the name "Yuto Akihara" on the envelope, and a complex emotion suddenly surged in her heart.

After what Takei Kohei said, she has decided not to be a "burden" to Akihara Hiroto, so she hung up the phone after telling the other party the truth she knew, and here After that, the contact with Akihara was severed.

But to her surprise, Qiu Yuan not only didn't mind her behavior, which could be regarded as a bit of "betrayal", but instead called her every now and then.

Although the entrusting mother declined all these calls, she had to admit that her heart was quite touched.

Even so, she still insisted on her own ideas - if she didn't have herself, Qiu Yuan would definitely be able to climb higher in the literary world!

Asano Aiko stood tangled for a while, and after a long time, she opened the letter and read it.

In this letter, there are only two short lines of text:

"Darkly thundering, cloudy sky, but I hope that the wind and rain will come, so I can stay here; faintly thundering, cloudy sky, even if there is no rain, I will stay here."

It's just such a simple sentence, Aiko Asano read it several times, and couldn't calm down for a long time...

[85.Chapter 85 Anjiu Bookstore]

Time passed quickly, and two weeks passed in a blink of an eye. Hiroto Akihara stood up and put the manuscript of "The Devotion of Suspect X" that had been written on the desk into the manuscript bag completely. The entire content was about 15 words Left and right, a total of 375 pages.

In addition to writing manuscripts during this period, Mandansha's "New Novels" also sent a new male editor to ask me when I could serialize new works.

Regarding this request, Hiroto Akihara prevaricates it because he lacks inspiration.

The male editor didn't say anything. After all, it's common for writers to lack inspiration. He just asked Akihara-sensei to contact him as soon as possible if he has a new work.

Hiroto Akihara nodded yes, and learned some latest news about Mandansha from the other party through side-talking.

Because Kikuchita was transferred, the new editor-in-chief of "New Novel" became Matsushima Kazuhiro, who was originally the deputy editor-in-chief.

In addition, the sales of the recent issues of "New Novel" have dropped significantly.

In "Tokyo Literature", the rumors that troubled Takei Kohei are still circulating between the editorial department and the publishing bureau, but it seems that Daigo Kihara has spoken in private, asking all departments not to discuss related content.

But the more this happened, the more people believed in the authenticity of the rumors.

Akihara Hiroto cleared his mind, changed into the clothes he was going out, and walked out with the file bag.