Chapter 458: Why is the winner of the Best Novel Award still Ye Xuan?

At this moment, Moriyama Yanjin's mood was no longer as confident as it was at the beginning.

The original confidence now had a bit more anxiety and doubt.

The strength of his clenched fists tightened, and his fingernails penetrated into his palms, but he didn't feel any pain at all, staring at the screen in front of him without blinking.

He saw the blonde, red-lipped host excitedly announce the next award.

"The mystery novelist who won the Best Novel Award this time is—"

Moriyama Yanjin saw that the host even deliberately dragged out the tone, selling a suspense, and felt his breathing stagnate, his heart almost jumping out.

He started to cheer himself up, and from the shape of his mouth, it could be seen that he was already chanting his own name.

"Moriyama..."

"Yanjin..."

……

And the crowd standing beside him, seeing his actions, also reacted one by one.

Some picked up the champagne they had prepared just now, but didn't immediately prepare to pull out the cork.

Some also set up their violins, but the bow was not held high.

And many people who were ready to applaud and cheer just now looked at each other, seeing the hesitation and entanglement in each other's eyes.

At this moment, where did everyone have the confidence they had at the beginning?!

What everyone said just now was not a lie.

The gold content of the Best Novel Award is indeed much higher than that of the Best Novella Award.

But at the same time, the difficulty of winning is also suddenly raised.

If Moriyama Yanjin didn't even win the Best Novella Award, how could he talk about the Best Novel Award?!

But how many people dared to say this unpleasant truth in front of the short-tempered Moriyama Yanjin?!

The atmosphere of the entire writer party was no longer as cheerful as it was at the beginning, but rather deep and heavy.

Everyone's eyes swept intentionally or unintentionally toward Moriyama Yanjin, who was standing in the center, and saw that Moriyama Yanjin also lost his initial high spirits and radiance.

He was frowning tightly, his expression tense, as if he hadn't noticed others looking at him, still staring at the screen in front of him.

He saw the host on the screen, after maintaining a tone of selling suspense, finally said the winner with a look of surprise.

"Let us congratulate the Chinese writer Ye Xuan again. "Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection" won this Best Novel Award.. ．｀."

This sentence was like a thunderbolt, exploding in everyone's ears.

Everyone at the party looked at Moriyama Yanjin in unison.

They saw his expression gradually stiffen, and even the muscles on his face seemed to be twitching faintly.

The person closest to him could already see that the knuckles holding the wine glass were forced to the point of turning white.

At this moment, Moriyama Yanjin, who was watched by everyone, swallowed his saliva, his Adam's apple rolled up and down, and his voice was dry and hoarse.

"Still a Chinese author?!"

In this instant, as if he had just reacted, his eye sockets turned red, and he slammed the wine glass in his hand out.

The shattered glass was like his scattered reason.

"How could it not be me?! How could it be a Chinese writer?!"

A party that was originally intended to celebrate his winning the award in advance, now fully witnessed his embarrassment.

……

At the same time, the translator Aier Ya, who was also watching the live broadcast of the Edgar Award, was full of surprise.

Although she had guessed before that Ye Xuan would win both awards at the same time, when reality really appeared in front of her, she still couldn't suppress her excitement.

This is Ye Xuan!

The person who can always bring miracles!

No!

He is the miracle himself!

Just as Aier Ya couldn't wait to tell Ye Xuan the good news, she saw the Weibo keyword pop up on her phone screen.

The news 【Ye Xuan won the Edgar Award for Best Novella and Best Novel】 had already landed on the Weibo trending search list.

As soon as the keyword came out, it didn't cause much of a splash at first.

After all, there is not much attention to the Edgar Award in the country.

And the first to cause a sensation were a crowd of mystery novel fans.

This, this, this...

But this is the Edgar Award!

The highest honor for mystery novels globally!

Mystery novelists all over the world take pride in winning this award!

Mystery novel fans all over the world take the winning works as their reading guide!

Previously, a crowd of mystery novel fans had already given high praise to the "Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection."

But never expected that this praise could be even higher!

The relevant bars, forums, and group chats where mystery novel fans are active were already dizzy from this news.

A crowd of fans screamed and rolled on the spot.

"Holy crap?! Isn't this the Oscar of mystery novels?!"

"This is what Holmes deserves!"

"If even Holmes can't win the Edgar Award, I don't think any novel can win it!"

"It still has to be the dog author, how can he be so awesome?!"

……

Just as a crowd of fanatical mystery novel fans were giving one rainbow fart after another to Ye Xuan and Holmes, a netizen whose IP showed Japan suddenly posted a video.

The title immediately attracted countless people's attention.

【Japanese writer Moriyama Yanjin's Edgar Award turns from expectation to disappointment! Forgive me for gloating for three minutes...】

It turned out that Moriyama Yanjin's party also had some media reporters.

These media reporters originally wanted to get the first-hand information about Moriyama Yanjin winning the Edgar Award, but didn't expect to record the scene of Moriyama Yanjin turning from expectation to disappointment.

As soon as the video opened, Moriyama Yanjin was seen acting like a madman, knocking over everything prepared for the lawn party.

Seeming to notice someone filming, he angrily slapped the camera to the ground.

With a "｀ ˇBaka Yaro," the screen ended at this moment.

"In other words... Moriyama Yanjin was squeezed out by Ye Xuan?!"

"Who told this guy to mock our China for not having good mystery novels before, he deserves it!"

"This guy was even preparing to celebrate in advance?! Let me gloat for a while, hahahaha..."

"I laughed so loudly, I already pulled the whole class to watch this video together...."

Under the discussion of the crowd, the forwarding volume of the video continued to climb. ===== CHAPTER 461 =====