[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-literary-master-of-tokyo":3,"chapter-literary-master-of-tokyo-literary-master-of-tokyo-chapter-103":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Literary Master of Tokyo",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2354952,4607,"Chapter 103: First-Day Sales","literary-master-of-tokyo-chapter-103",103,"\u003Cp>October 8, Anjiu Bookstore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto stepped on the \"creaking\" stairs and walked into the second-floor office, where all the employees, including Anjiu Jin Yigang, had already arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that Akiwara Yuto had also arrived, Anjiu Jin Yigang announced the start of the routine meeting; he coughed once, preparing to announce the first-day sales of \"The Devotion of Suspect X.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people in the room were all a bit nervous for a moment; after all, whether this book sold well was related to the operations of Anjiu Bookstore, and even more so to everyone's salaries and bonuses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto looked around and noticed that the two female employees, Satake Maki and Itakura Naka, had their faces tightly drawn, Oka Yuisho and Nagao Teppei were swallowing hard, and even Nishijima Sota, who usually looked quite steady, had his eyes narrowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anjiu Jin Yigang did not keep them in suspense; he opened a drawer, took out a piece of paper, took a deep breath, and then read out: \"According to feedback from direct-sale bookstores and distributors, the first-day sales are 1,200 copies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying this, he bowed: \"Thank you all for your hard work during this period!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anjiu Jin Yigang's heart was not entirely calm; after all, although he had judged that this work by Akiwara Yuto had the potential to be a big hit, a judgment was just a judgment, and it was hard for him to set his mind at ease before seeing the actual sales figures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that the data was out, it proved that his own eye for talent was not wrong!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this result, the people in the room also let out a sigh of relief; Akiwara Yuto smiled, the expressions of Satake Maki and Itakura Naka relaxed, Oka Yuisho and Nagao Teppei looked at each other, and Nishijima Sota clenched his fists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The office was quiet for a moment, followed by a burst of applause and cheers!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First-day sales of 1,200 copies meant that this book would not suffer from a large number of returns like the previously published books; in other words, no one had to worry about facing pay cuts or layoffs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anjiu Jin Yigang straightened his body, revealing a smile; he clapped along for a moment, then said: \"The first-week sales won't have results until next Monday; before then, I hope everyone will still do their own work well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, he announced the meeting was adjourned, but then turned his head and said to Akiwara Yuto: \"Teacher Akiwara, please stay for a moment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto nodded; in his heart, he actually also had questions he wanted to ask the other party.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five minutes later, only the two of them were left in the office; Anjiu Jin Yigang opened the drawer again, handed a document to Akiwara Yuto, and said in as steady a tone as possible: \"According to channel statistics, sales in Tokyo are 900 copies, while sales in the surrounding areas of Tokyo are 300 copies, with the majority of the purchasing demographic being young and middle-aged men.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, Anjiu Jin Yigang could not suppress his excitement, losing the steadiness he had in front of his subordinates, and said joyfully: \"Teacher Akiwara, we succeeded.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how one looked at it, according to the current sales trend, the first printing of 30,000 copies could be sold out smoothly; for Anjiu Bookstore, everything after that was pure profit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto nodded; although he was a little happy, he was not as excited as Anjiu Jin Yigang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, from his time at \"New Novel,\" weekly sales were calculated in the hundreds of thousands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This little number now, what could it even count for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto scanned the data and asked a question: \"President Anjiu, what is the estimated weekly sales volume?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anjiu Jin Yigang thought for a moment and replied: \"It should be around 3,500 copies or so.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto began to ponder; according to the experience he gained at \"New Novel,\" generally speaking, the first-day and first-week sales of a single volume were undoubtedly the highest, but in the following weeks, the readers' sense of novelty would undoubtedly pass, which would cause the sales of the single volume to gradually drop to a stable level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that were the case, perhaps the first-month sales might only be 7,000 copies... and it would continue to decline...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sales volume actually could not be considered low; according to the trend, it might take about half a year to sell out the first 30,000 copies and then reprint, but if that were the case, wanting to sell 100,000 copies might take 1 or 2 years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This number, no matter how he thought about it, felt like it did a disservice to the work \"The Devotion of Suspect X,\" as it had become a big hit very quickly in his previous life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, he still needed to find other channels to do some promotion; he could not rely solely on recommendations between readers, as this speed felt too slow no matter how he looked at it...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he did not share these thoughts with Anjiu Jin Yigang; after all, the other party was still happy, and it would not be good for him to pour cold water on that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would be better to wait a few days, and once he had come up with a plan or something, then he would offer his suggestions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time quickly reached noon; after Akiwara Yuto finished the bento that Satake Maki had brought him, he left Anjiu Bookstore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took the train to an internet cafe near his home, paid at the front desk, and found a cubicle to sit down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto turned on the computer, prepared to log into the forum he had looked at before, but found that he had forgotten his account. He thought for a moment, then registered a new account called \"Secretary Fujiwara,\" and only then logged in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let's take a look at the online feedback for \"Suspect X\" first?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He made his decision and quickly entered the keywords into the forum's search box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After waiting for more than 10 seconds, the webpage finally loaded the results he wanted; there were only 5 in total.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed a bit bleak...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the book had only been released for one day, so having this result was normal; he should wait a bit longer...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto set his mind at ease and then opened the first search result to read it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The title of this post was \"A Pitiful Murderer,\" and inside it was written thousands of words, roughly outlining the plot of the story; at the end, it strongly recommended that all netizens buy a copy of \"Suspect X,\" saying the content was unimaginably brilliant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto nodded with satisfaction; as expected, there were still readers who would recommend it, and in this way, it should be able to drive a batch of sales.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dragged the mouse and continued to look down, finding that there were a dozen replies, mostly things like \"looks quite interesting,\" \"planning to go buy a copy later,\" and \"hope the original poster isn't exaggerating.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He closed this post and opened another one, but the content of this one made him feel quite surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Regarding the protagonist of \"Suspect X,\" Ishigami, I express my heartfelt disgust. The reason is simple: because what he was thinking about was not protecting the mother and daughter at all, but wanting to bind the two of them to his side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After killing the ex-husband, the mother and daughter could have surrendered immediately; because of the ex-husband's blackmailing behavior, the two should only have been judged as self-defense, so they wouldn't have been sentenced to many years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Ishigami, he committed murder and hid the body, instead causing the lives of the mother and daughter to fall into an abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this what he thinks is love?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto was speechless after reading it; he didn't expect a hater to appear so quickly. But he thought about it, if he didn't explain, it might affect the book's sales, so he started typing on the keyboard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[There were two wounds on the ex-husband, one was a blunt force trauma to the back of the head (the sound was loud enough for Ishigami next door to hear), and the other was a ligature mark on the neck. Furthermore, no one could prove that the ex-husband came over to blackmail them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So even if the mother and daughter had surrendered, the high probability is that it would have been judged as premeditated murder rather than self-defense.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing the reply, Akiwara Yuto closed the webpage; after all, there are haters every year, and it wasn't worth spending too much energy on it. But having said that, he wondered if he should specifically find an assistant to be responsible for managing online public opinion later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto thought about it and decided to consider it slowly when he got back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He checked the time and found it was still early, so he entered another keyword, \"New Novel,\" into the search box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The related results that followed immediately left him surprised...\u003C\u002Fp>",1527,"2026-06-21T03:58:01.347Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","53fb4765f3460fa3da2a7758f5d87a09fa8c0996c66e25565c394ef4b0aca0f4","literary-master-of-tokyo-chapter-104","literary-master-of-tokyo-chapter-102",334,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fliterary-master-of-tokyo-cover.jpg"]