Chapter 282: The Recommendation of the

Refuse to become a director of the association?

After hearing this answer, Jin Shang's expression became solemn, and the others in the association showed stunned expressions.

In the traditional literary world, the status of the Classical Literature Association could be said to be second to none, and the status of an association director could undoubtedly allow him to obtain a large amount of connection resources and other additional benefits.

For Akiwara Yuto, as a newcomer writer in traditional literature, being given such an invitation was already a big concession on the association's side.

But such an invitation was actually refused.

The atmosphere was silent for a while, and Akiwara Yuto bowed deeply and said in a sincere tone.

"Jin Shang-sensei and seniors, as a part of the literary world, I think my interest is just purely creation. If my works can be appreciated by more readers, then I can still play the role of promoting traditional literature."

"Since that is the case, whether to join the association, I think there is no need."

Actually, this refusal was the result of Akiwara Yuto's deep deliberation.

In the traditional literary world, he was after all just an "outsider," and his academic qualifications and identity as a detective writer had caused some people's contempt or hostility.

Now this director position was completely the result of Jin Shang's personal reputation recommendation.

But the latter's health was deteriorating day by day and might withdraw from the association in a few years.

By that time, his biggest supporter would also be gone.

In that case, even if he joined, he might not have many benefits and instead might have to bear many obligations.

Compared with that, it was better to put his energy into the Detective Writers Association.

In the Detective Writers Association, although he was not an association director, because of the support of people like Hehe Xintai, he completely enjoyed more benefits and bore fewer obligations.

Seeing Akiwara Yuto refuse with such "pretty words," Jin Shang opened his mouth but didn't say anything in the end, just patted his shoulder lightly to indicate acceptance.

As for Guanye Tuolang, his expression was complicated; after Akiwara Yuto refused, he could undoubtedly be nominated to become a director.

But what he didn't expect was that the thing he had always wanted was actually obtained in this form that the other party didn't want.

As for other writers, most expressed it didn't matter.

After all, the writer group was originally strange, and it was normal for some writers to refuse to join the association out of personal character.

"Akiwara, come to my place tomorrow," Jin Shang said this and left.

As for other new and old writers, they bowed and shook hands with Akiwara Yuto and exchanged business cards.

Although some people might still have other thoughts in their hearts, Japanese people's surface work is often done quite well.

And judging by the book sales in the last half year, Akiwara Yuto was solidly ranked first in the traditional literary world.

The next afternoon, at Jin Shang's invitation, Akiwara Yuto came to his home again.

The two sat on the tatami and chatted while drinking tea.

Jin Shang took out the manuscript of *A Personal Matter* and returned it to Akiwara, who asked his own question after taking it: "Jin Shang-sensei, how do you think this manuscript is written?"

Jin Shang smiled and said: "After reading this work, I feel my evaluation is no longer important. Or, do you not have confidence in your work?"

Akiwara Yuto thought for a moment and discovered that this sentence meant satisfaction. Just then, Jin Shang put down the tea cup in his hand and asked a question in a serious tone.

"Akiwara, does the creative motivation of this work of yours have anything to do with a junior suffering from some illness?"

After reading this work, Jin Shang discovered that it was filled with various life pressures and dissatisfaction with life, and the sorrow and pain regarding the disabled offspring were written to the bone.

But with Akiwara Yuto's current status and wealth, no matter what, he shouldn't be able to come into contact with these.

So he privately suspected whether Akiwara Yuto had an illegitimate child, and that illegitimate child had also suffered from extremely serious disability problems.

Akiwara was stunned and didn't know how to answer for a while.

However, he thought for a while and quickly connected it to Oe Kenzaburo's personal background.

Oe Kenzaburo had won the Akutagawa Prize at the age of 23 before creating this work, breaking the youngest record for Akutagawa Prize winners at that time, which could be said to be proud and successful.

But when he was 27, his eldest son, Oe Hikari, was born, with an abnormal skull and brain tissue overflow.

After surgery, it couldn't reverse the decline of his brain development, and his son became a "mentally disabled patient" in the secular sense.

So after his trip to Hiroshima, he combined his thoughts on the deformed children caused by war he saw with his own personal sorrow and wrote them into this work.

So this book of his, *A Personal Matter*, could be said to have written the darkness deep in his own heart—abandoning the child and escaping to another world.

But this reason was clearly not suitable for himself, so Akiwara Yuto hesitated for a while and made up a reason.

"It's not like that, I just took a trip to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and saw the introduction of those deformed children caused by radiation, so I wrote this work with emotion."

Oe Kenzaburo was silent for a while and then asked: "What is your view on that war?"

"We should reflect and be honest about our own mistakes," Akiwara Yuto gave his real thoughts.

This era was the same as his past life; the literary world of Japan was still occupied by left-wing writers as the mainstream, but in public opinion and political circles, the influence of the left wing was getting lower and lower, and the right wing began to raise its head.

Even in the later literary world, anti-defeatism once replaced anti-warism, and a large number of works appeared that believed the atomic bomb should not have been dropped, or only reflected the pain of the atomic bomb victims.

These works even appeared in countries around the world under the name of "anti-war," making readers in other countries feel sympathy for Japan.

As for their own "original sin" situation, it was completely skipped over.

Jin Shang, as a left-wing writer, held almost the same thoughts, so he nodded to indicate acceptance.

Then he ordered someone to fetch a stack of manuscript paper and handed it to Akiwara Yuto: "This is the preface I wrote for this work."

Akiwara Yuto didn't expect to be written a "preface," so he started reading it after taking it.

The so-called preface is an article placed before the main text of a work, and the content mostly introduces and comments on the thought content and artistic features of the book.

The one written by the author himself is called "self-preface," and the one written by someone else is called "preface by another."

But the meaning of "preface by another" often also indicates this writer's recommendation of this work.

Akiwara Yuto finished reading everything quickly and discovered that this preface highly evaluated the work *A Personal Matter*, believing it was a work very worth reading.

After reading it, Akiwara Yuto expressed his thanks: "Thank you very much."

As far as he knew, Jin Shang hadn't written a preface for others for many years; he estimated that when it was released, quite a few people in the industry would be surprised by it.

Pushing it further, he might be able to create a new sales achievement in traditional literary works.

But what he didn't know was that just when he himself was happy.

Jingfan-sha, however, started a serious discussion meeting regarding the sales problem of Akiwara Yuto's works... ===== CHAPTER 283 =====