Chapter 120: You Misunderstood Me

Hearing Asano Aiko's "refusal," Akiwara Yuto wasn't very surprised.

In his view, although Asano Aiko was transferred to the Proofreading Department, she was still a part of Mantanshe. And Mantanshe is still one of the four giants in the Japanese publishing industry.

In this era of economic downturn, having such a job is extremely rare.

Besides this point, because Japanese society follows the lifetime employment system, most people will not change jobs or resign.

Just like in "Hanzawa Naoki" he watched in his past life, many employees were transferred away, and no matter how down-and-out the work was, they would rather cry bitterly than mention resignation.

Because once they resign, it means all their previous efforts will be in vain, and other companies might not be willing to accept an employee who is not very loyal, even if the other party's ability might be very strong.

Akiwara Yuto thought for a while and decided to say two more words.

"Asano, don't consider it more? Since we were able to let 'New Novel' sell from 30,000 copies to 200,000 copies together, now even if I leave Mantanshe, I have the confidence to create a few more big-selling works."

Hearing this, Asano Aiko said with a smile, "Akiwara, you misunderstood my meaning."

"Misunderstood?" Akiwara Yuto was a bit puzzled.

"Akiwara, I just refuse to leave immediately now."

Asano Aiko paused and said in a firm tone, "Although you don't attach importance to the rumors within Mantanshe, I think I still need to further understand the situation and inside story."

Akiwara Yuto understood her meaning, which was to continue staying inside Mantanshe to obtain intelligence, and then come out at an appropriate time.

He felt it wasn't necessary. Compared to intelligence, it was better to do his own work well and let the existing books sell well.

But when he wanted to persuade her, he unexpectedly saw Asano Aiko's eyes without any wavering.

Akiwara Yuto opened his mouth but didn't say anything, just sighed, "Asano, I understand. But you have to promise me that when I need it, I hope you can come out to help me immediately."

Asano Aiko smiled, revealing shallow dimples. She no longer had the knots of the past.

After hearing Akiwara Yuto's request, she immediately replied with a smile, "I understand, Mr. Akiwara."

Akiwara Yuto found that Asano Aiko no longer had the estrangement when she came, and joked, "Are you not worried that I will only pay you a very low salary?"

Asano Aiko shook her head and replied, "My ideal is to be able to create big-selling works with you. As for the rest, I don't particularly care."

Looking at the other party's serious expression, Akiwara Yuto couldn't speak for a while.

He nodded with a smile and said silently in his heart.

Don't worry, Asano, we will definitely be able to create big-selling works!

……

After dinner, Akiwara Yuto suggested sending Asano Aiko to the station, but was refused by Asano Aiko.

After seeing her off, Akiwara Yuto walked a distance, went to his internet cafe, entered the designated cubicle after paying, and turned on the computer.

Soon, he logged into the post of "Death of a Mystery Novelist" with the account "Secretary Fujiwara."

As he expected, after ending the serialization of the fourth issue and leaving the suspense of "She is innocent," the number of replies to the post increased a lot. A rough count showed at least a thousand.

He clicked the mouse and started browsing from top to bottom, finding that compared to the large number of comments urging updates before, there were now many professional viewpoints.

A netizen clearly named "Conan" also followed up and published a related post titled "From the Distribution of Inheritance, I Saw Human Nature."

Akiwara Yuto clicked on this post and read it.

"In the serialization of the previous issue, the author wrote that the mystery novelist left a large amount of inheritance before his death, but he didn't choose to leave any of it to his family, choosing instead to hand it over to a female caregiver who is an Ainu from the Kuril Islands."

"Regarding the reason behind it, I think it's because the mystery novelist felt his family was too ugly: the eldest son-in-law's cheating, the daughter-in-law's not working properly, and so on. In this case, if the inheritance is left to them, it will instead increase their laziness, making them continue to move forward on the wrong path."

"And the female caregiver, as an Ainu, although always discriminated against by mainstream Japanese society, has always adhered to her own kindness, and even vomits whenever she lies."

"However, in the final result, can the caregiver really get this large sum of assets? Hope the author updates the next issue early."

Akiwara Yuto supported his chin with his hand and pondered.

This work "Death of a Mystery Novelist" was adapted by him based on "Knives Out," and many parts of it adopted local Japanese elements.

But in terms of human nature and greed, no matter which society it is, it is exactly the same, so there was no situation of being unacclimatized.

He closed this post and then simply looked at other replies, finding that some replies said they had already purchased "The Devotion of Suspect X" and thought it was a good book.

Akiwara Yuto nodded with satisfaction. Although the traffic of the forum in this era is not large, it wins in persistence. As long as it is a long stream, it can still help sell quite a few books.

Alright, let's start doing business now.

He clicked the mouse, pressed the "Edit Post" button, and started typing the content of the fifth issue of "Death of a Mystery Novelist."

……

When everyone thought it was the caregiver who killed the mystery novelist and accused her, the detective suddenly said, "She is innocent."

Immediately after, he took out the blood report handed to him by the caregiver and read the result aloud, which proved that the old man had not been injected with morphine at all.

The caregiver was stunned. In her memory, she clearly injected the medicine bottle labeled "morphine" into the mystery novelist. Could it be that she remembered wrong?

On the other side, the eldest grandson who came to the scene had a changing face.

One day before the mystery novelist died, he was told that he had not obtained the right to inherit the inheritance, and all the inheritance was divided to the caregiver. So he made up his mind to kill his grandfather through the caregiver's hand. In this way, the caregiver would lose the right of inheritance because of murder.

So, on the night of the party, he climbed to the third floor with the help of the outdoor ladder, and through special means, swapped the labels, replaced the real medicine with morphine, and took away the antidote to morphine.

But what was unexpected was that because the mystery novelist pushed away the shogi board, the two bottles of medicine were mixed together.

And the caregiver, relying on her excellent quality as a nurse and her knowledge of medicine, found the real bottle of medicine and injected it into the mystery novelist.

So, the mystery novelist just died of suicide, and the caregiver is innocent!

Just when everyone thought it was settled, a phone call from the hospital rang……

……

After entering this part of the content, Akiwara Yuto set it to be released at a scheduled time and left the internet cafe.

While walking home, Akiwara Yuto looked at the lights lit up in the city in the distance and couldn't help but think about the first call he received this morning.

In that call, Anjiu Jin Gangyi indicated that he would contact a book reviewer in the near future.

If a book review could be published, the remaining books should be sold out soon, right?! ===== CHAPTER 121 =====