Chapter 318: Follow-up Impact

As soon as the voice fell, the whole audience applauded, and the reporters not far away continued to shoot with long guns and short cannons.

In the flash, Akiwara Yuto stood up, bowed to the back with grace, and then walked slowly to the podium.

On the podium, the old writer who gave the speech took the award and book from the female host, and then handed it to Akiwara Yuto.

Akiwara Yuto took it and bowed slightly to express his gratitude.

Then he stood up straight facing the audience, facing everyone's sight.

At this time, he was holding the award in his left hand and the book *All She Was Worth* in his right hand, looking exceptionally temperamental.

The applause from the audience was even more enthusiastic, and the reporters also walked quickly to the stage according to the arrangement of the venue, continuing to press the keys to shoot wildly.

After a full minute, the applause slowly faded.

"Teacher Akiwara, please deliver your speech," the female host walked up and handed him a microphone.

Akiwara Yuto put everything in his left hand, took the microphone with his right hand, first bowed to the audience, and then said politely.

"I am very honored that the judging committee can award me this honor, but besides honor, I can't help but feel a trace of panic."

Hearing this, the audience nodded.

In their view, although Akiwara Yuto won the award, his seniority is still a young writer, so "self-humility" is also appropriate.

But they didn't expect that Akiwara Yuto's next sentence directly broke their thoughts.

Only hearing him say: "Some older generation writers, such as Teacher Wada Shin, won the award through tireless struggle in the literary world. But I am not even 30 years old, and I have already won this award,"

"So sometimes I will consider, is this really appropriate?"

Hearing this, most people subconsciously looked at Wada Shin, who was sitting not far away in the second row, and expressed different meanings in their eyes.

Everyone at the scene had intricate relationships with the industry.

So they knew that Wada Shin had a great "unpleasantness" with Akiwara Yuto because of the struggle of the school for a long time before.

And Wada Shin's face turned blue and white when he heard this sentence.

He won the award when he was over 50, and he was able to win the award because of the Honkaku school.

Akiwara Yuto's age of winning the award was a full 20 years younger than him.

This is clearly mocking himself by turning a corner.

Akiwara Yuto smiled lightly and continued.

"Although panicked, I also have the preparation to do all this."

He paused, his voice became high,

"The so-called writer is a group that creates spiritual food called literature,"

"But as a writer, everyone is very lonely, or lonely,"

"After all, he has no companions and can only rely on his own pen and thoughts"

After finishing these words, he looked at the camera that was broadcasting live,

"In short... I hope all writers will continue to persist. Okay, my speech is over, thank you everyone."

After finishing these mediocre words, he bowed again and walked off the stage in applause.

Next, he has to participate in a press conference with the judging committee.

As Akiwara Yuto walked off the stage, his disciple Miho Toyama was sitting in front of the television, watching his every move, revealing an expression of being deeply moved.

Because these words of Akiwara Yuto hit her heart.

A year and a half ago, she successfully apprenticed to Akiwara Yuto and won his praise.

And after her debut work was released, she won a newcomer award.

At that time, she felt that her future was bright, and even felt that she might reach or exceed her teacher's status one day.

But she didn't expect that in the following year, her submissions were repeatedly rejected,

Not only that, her talent seemed to have dried up, and she often sat at the desk for half a day without writing any words.

Even if she wrote it out, she would feel that it was not a qualified work no matter how she looked at it, and tore it up angrily.

Because of these blows, Toyama Miho was disheartened, and even deliberately avoided Akiwara Yuto's lectures, not daring to show him her works.

During that time, she was very afraid of seeing her master, that is, Akiwara Yuto's disappointed eyes.

She even thought, what if the other party kicked her out of the school because she couldn't write any excellent works?

In short, under the torture and pressure of these pains, she once considered giving up becoming a writer.

And this Uemura Prize award live broadcast, she was also watching with a complex mood.

On one side is the worship and longing for her teacher, and on the other side is the hatred and helplessness for her own incompetence.

But she didn't expect that her teacher actually said these words during the acceptance speech.

"Writers are very lonely, or lonely, he has no companions," "Hope to continue to persist!"

She muttered, and her heart felt different, and the light in her eyes increased.

The teacher is right, writers are lonely, but they must rely on the pen to fight on!

So I should try again!

This weekend, I should take out a manuscript and show it to the teacher!

She made up her mind and turned off the TV.

Then she walked to the study and continued to take out paper and began to write hard!

Akiwara Yuto didn't know about the change in his disciple's mentality.

After the Uemura Prize award ceremony ended, he started "non-stop" interpersonal work again.

In the entire detective literary circle, or literary circle, basically no one is more concerned than him.

After the press conference ended, many reporters stopped him outside to interview him, asking many miscellaneous questions, including how much his net worth is, whether he has a spouse, and his choice of spouse.

Akiwara Yuto was helpless, and couldn't do anything to this group of uncrowned kings, so he could only pick a few questions and muddle through.

And on the third day, something that gave him a headache happened.

A gossip magazine published an article, listing him as the second most wanted man for Japanese women to marry, second only to a popular artist.

And the reasons included wealth, unmarried, talent, etc.

But this is not over yet, some other gossip newspapers and magazines also began to publish some exaggerated remarks about his net worth.

The most exaggerated one even calculated him to be more than 10 billion yen, three times more than his current deposit balance.

Akiwara Yuto was speechless, but had no chance to clarify himself. After all, the industries under his name are not public now, and it would be more troublesome if he really cared about it.

In the end, he could only put those magazine media on the interview blacklist.

At the same time, with the gradual fermentation of the Uemura Prize, the sales of *All She Was Worth* and other works began to climb steadily.

Facing Tsutaya Bookstore's increasingly high market share, some people couldn't sit still... ===== CHAPTER 319 =====