[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-literary-master-of-tokyo":3,"chapter-literary-master-of-tokyo-literary-master-of-tokyo-chapter-28":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},2354877,4607,"Chapter 28: Self-Promotion","literary-master-of-tokyo-chapter-28",28,"\u003Cp>After leaving the family restaurant, Akiwara Yuto did not head straight home; instead, he took a detour, intending to find an internet cafe to go online.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Japan of his past life, the novelty of internet cafes had yet to emerge, as the internet only began commercial promotion in Japan in 1991, making it a fresh concept for the average person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in this world, IT development seemed to be a few years ahead; not only had some specialized websites appeared, but the number of internet users had even reached several hundred thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto searched along the street for a long time before finally finding an internet cafe named \"Internetcafe.\" After paying at the counter, he walked inside, found his cubicle, and sat down. He pressed the power button, and the monitor lit up with a blue glow in the dim environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, he heard a strange sound, likely coming from a \"long-term resident\" in the adjacent cubicle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides providing internet access, Japanese internet cafes also served as lodging. The cubicle he was currently in even had a bed where one could lie down and sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If needed, one could even use the public shower room inside the internet cafe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such full-service amenities were quite comparable to a hotel, yet the costs here were extremely low compared to a hotel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cost for one night was about 2,500 yen, which converted to roughly 164 yuan—nearly more than half as cheap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was precisely because of this low price and good value that internet cafes became a place of refuge for many, attracting numerous \"long-term residents.\" In his past life in Japan, a film was even specifically made to describe these \"internet cafe refugees.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just now, as he walked in, he had seen quite a few people who appeared to be from this demographic: a single mother with her daughter, a young corporate slave in a suit, and a middle-aged man suspected of being there for \"JK walks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But these things had nothing to do with him. His purpose for coming today was to see if he could find some scripts online for reference; after all, much of the material could not be found in the library, so he could only see if there were any paths or channels online.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared at the screen and began typing on the keyboard, then gripped the mouse and clicked on a forum—it had many posts, somewhat similar to the Shui Mu BBS of his past life...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He finally found the search box and entered the keyword \"script.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, the website froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time he was so impatient he wanted to smash the table, the webpage finally loaded slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he had thought, there were some stage play enthusiasts online discussing related content, but most were just debating which stage plays were good or boring, with only a very small number offering professional insights into stage plays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He studied for a while and silently committed these contents to memory, so as to avoid making mistakes when writing his own scripts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing, he held the mouse and scrolled down, only to find there was nothing left... He felt a bit speechless; compared to his past life, this was like a desert of the internet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget it, let's look at other discussion content.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He entered \"New Novel\" to search again, and after the results page loaded at a snail's pace, he looked at it carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result left him a bit disappointed; there were only a meager 20-plus related posts, basically all sarcastic remarks mocking when it would stop publication or change to a monthly magazine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt a bit stifled reading it, but he had no intention of becoming a keyboard warrior. Even if he cursed these people to high heaven online, it wouldn't change the current sales of \"New Novel,\" and some of what they said was indeed reasonable, such as the point that many articles were too boring...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, he suddenly saw a post that read, \"Highly recommend 'Little Ornament and Yoko'.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clicked on it immediately and found there were a full hundred or so related comments. He was somewhat surprised and carefully read through them from top to bottom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The title of this post was edited by a user named \"ArrayCats.\" Judging by the name, it felt like a female. The content of the post she published basically summarized the entire story of Little Ornament and Yoko.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, she strongly recommended that everyone buy \"New Novel,\" saying the original content was even more thrilling and terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The replies below were quite varied—some replied that they had read the original version and it was indeed very good, some were puzzled as to why the author's imagination was so wild, some hoped this story would be adapted into a film or television drama; however, some also questioned if the author was a psychopath...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the reply calling him a psychopath, Akiwara Yuto was a bit speechless and could only console himself that this could be considered another level of recognition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But by the time the story \"Seven Rooms\" was published, he estimated that even more people would be calling him a psychopath...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pondered for a moment and decided to do some promotion for himself, so he registered an account named \"Maple\" and began \"shamelessly\" promoting himself, claiming that the article \"sofar\" in \"New Novel\" was very good, and strongly urged everyone to buy the next issue of \"New Novel.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After posting this, he prepared to write a short essay to attract more fans, so he switched to another alias called \"Ichijo Manrika,\" claiming to be a high school classmate of Akiwara Yuto, and posted one of the other's articles, \"Mystery Taxi,\" for everyone to see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately after, he typed for nearly 5 hours and put the entire text up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing all this, he felt a bit tired, stood up, pressed the power-off button, and left...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he didn't know if these actions were useful or not, trying them didn't take much energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any case, he hoped to increase sales a little bit, more or less.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Akiwara Yuto was shutting down the computer and leaving, Uesugi Sonoko was sitting in front of her computer, browsing the same page.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was a student in the Literature Force at Yokohama National University, and due to academic requirements, she often browsed various magazines and book reviews on the market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During a club activity, she was recommended Akiwara Yuto's \"Little Ornament and Yoko\" by a classmate. She took a copy to read with half-belief, but was shocked after finishing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had never thought that a novel could be written like this; she read it three or four times in a row and became completely addicted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After this, she became a fan of Akiwara Yuto, not only highly praising his articles in reality but also sparing no effort to post and promote them on the internet. The post Akiwara Yuto saw was exactly the one she had published earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, she was browsing the post she had made when she suddenly received a site notification of a new reply. She felt a bit happy for a moment, thinking that another \"fellow fan\" who liked Teacher Akiwara had been added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn't wait to click on the reply content and read it, but the content surprised her a bit. This user named \"Ichijo Manrika\" was a high school classmate of Teacher Akiwara? This was truly a low-probability event?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this article called \"Mystery Taxi\" was also written by Teacher Akiwara?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She clicked the mouse, scrolled down to read it, and the more she read, the more surprised she became; she was completely addicted to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As expected of Teacher Akiwara, to think he could write such an article!?\u003C\u002Fp>",1308,"2026-06-21T03:58:01.347Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","4d78fe77a7c47bbafc376165f75fd0362c101caf74da4e4a05eda840ff89105c","literary-master-of-tokyo-chapter-29","literary-master-of-tokyo-chapter-27",334,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fliterary-master-of-tokyo-cover.jpg"]