[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-literary-master-of-tokyo":3,"chapter-literary-master-of-tokyo-literary-master-of-tokyo-chapter-318":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},2355167,4607,"Chapter 318: Subsequent Impact","literary-master-of-tokyo-chapter-318",318,"\u003Cp>As the voice fell, applause erupted throughout the venue, and the reporters not far away continued to film one after another with their long lenses and cameras.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the camera flashes, Akiwara Yuto stood up, bowed gracefully toward the back, and then slowly walked onto the podium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the podium, the elderly writer giving the speech took the award and books from the female host, then passed them to Akiwara Yuto.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After receiving them, Akiwara Yuto bowed slightly to express his gratitude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he stood straight facing the audience, meeting everyone's gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, he held the award in his left hand and the book *All She Was Worth* in his right, his entire demeanor appearing exceptionally refined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The applause from the audience grew even more enthusiastic, and the reporters, following the venue's arrangements, walked quickly to the front of the stage one by one, continuing to snap photos frantically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a full minute, the applause slowly died down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Akiwara-sensei, please deliver your acceptance speech,\" the female host said as she walked up and handed him a microphone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto placed his items in his left hand, took the microphone with his right, bowed to the audience first, and then spoke politely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I feel very honored that the judging committee has bestowed this honor upon me, but beyond the honor, I cannot help but feel a trace of trepidation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing these words, the people in the audience nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their view, although Akiwara Yuto had won the award, he was still a young writer by seniority, so \"humility\" was expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they did not expect Akiwara Yuto's next sentence to directly shatter their assumptions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said: \"Some older generation writers, such as Wada Shin-sensei, won this award through tireless struggle in the literary world. But I am not even 30 years old yet, and I have already received this award.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So sometimes I wonder, is this really appropriate?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, most people subconsciously looked at Wada Shin, who was sitting not far away in the second row, their eyes revealing a different meaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone at the venue had intricate connections within the industry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So they knew that for a long time, due to factional strife, Wada Shin had had significant \"unpleasantness\" with Akiwara Yuto.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when Wada Shin heard this, his face turned from pale to flushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He himself had only won the award at the age of over 50, and he had only won it because of the orthodox school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The age at which Akiwara Yuto won the award was more than 20 years younger than his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was clearly a roundabout way of mocking him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto smiled faintly and continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although I feel trepidation, I am also prepared to handle all of this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He paused, his voice rising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So-called writers are a group that creates the spiritual food known as literature.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But those who are writers are all very lonely, or solitary.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all, they have no companions and can only rely on their own pens and thoughts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing these words, he looked at the camera that was broadcasting live and said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In short... I hope all writers will continue to persevere. Alright, my speech is finished, thank you everyone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing these standard remarks, he bowed again and walked off the stage amidst applause.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, he had to attend a press conference with the judging committee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Akiwara Yuto walked off the stage, his disciple Toyama Miho was sitting in front of the television, watching his every move, her eyes filled with deep emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Akiwara Yuto's words had struck a chord with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A year and a half ago, she had successfully become Akiwara Yuto's disciple and earned his praise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, as soon as her debut work was published, she won a newcomer award.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, she felt her future was bright, and perhaps she might even reach or surpass her teacher's status.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she didn't expect that in the following year, her submissions would be repeatedly rejected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only that, her talent seemed to have withered; she would often sit at her desk in a daze for half a day without being able to write a single word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if she did write something, she would feel it wasn't a qualified work no matter how she looked at it, and would tear it up in anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of these blows, Toyama Miho became disheartened and even deliberately avoided Akiwara Yuto's lectures, afraid to show him her work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During that time, she was terrified of seeing her Master, Akiwara Yuto's, look of disappointment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She even wondered if he would kick her out of the school because she couldn't write anything excellent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, under the torture and pressure of this pain, she once considered giving up being a writer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she was watching this live broadcast of the Uemura Award ceremony with complex feelings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one side was her admiration and longing for her teacher, and on the other was hatred and helplessness regarding her own incompetence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she didn't expect her teacher to say these words during his acceptance speech.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Writers are very lonely, or solitary; they have no companions.\" \"I hope you continue to persevere!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She muttered to herself, feeling something different in her heart, and the light in her eyes increased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Teacher is right; writers are all lonely, but they must rely on their pens to keep fighting!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I should try again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This weekend, I should produce a manuscript and bring it for Teacher to see!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She made up her mind and turned off the television.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she walked to her study, took out paper, and began to write furiously!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto was unaware of the change in his disciple's mindset.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the Uemura Award ceremony ended, he began his \"non-stop\" social networking work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the entire mystery literature world, or the literary world at large, basically no one was more in the spotlight than him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the press conference ended, many reporters stopped him outside to interview him, asking many miscellaneous questions, including his net worth, whether he had a spouse, and his criteria for choosing a partner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto felt helpless, but he couldn't do anything to these \"uncrowned kings,\" so he could only pick a few questions to brush them off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And on the third day, something that gave him a headache happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tabloid magazine published an article ranking him as the second most desirable man for Japanese women to marry, second only to a popular celebrity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reasons included his wealth, his single status, his talent, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that wasn't the end of it; other gossip newspapers and magazines also began to publish exaggerated claims about his net worth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most exaggerated one even calculated it to be over 10 billion yen, three times more than his current bank balance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Akiwara Yuto was speechless, but he had no opportunity to clarify; after all, the businesses under his name were not public, and it would be more troublesome if he took it seriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, he could only blacklist those magazine media outlets from interviews.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, as the Uemura Award gradually gained traction, the sales of *All She Was Worth* and his other works began to climb steadily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing the ever-increasing market share of Tsutaya Bookstore, some people could no longer sit still...\u003C\u002Fp>",1226,"2026-06-21T03:58:02.196Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","a4db290e50cf2ab0bc9a457cd549757fb421c20f60cbca79cf48df902fd1fe28","literary-master-of-tokyo-chapter-319","literary-master-of-tokyo-chapter-317",334,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fliterary-master-of-tokyo-cover.jpg"]