Chapter 326: Akiwara Yuto's Ghostwriting Scandal

The next morning, Akiwara Yuto had just woken up and was preparing to check the information of Tokyo Movie Co., Ltd. through his computer when he heard the phone.

He picked up the receiver and found that the caller was Asano Aiko, who said hurriedly, "Akiwara, it's not good, look at the news in the newspaper quickly."

Akiwara Yuto was a bit puzzled, so he asked, "Which newspaper?"

"Any of the five major newspapers... no, look at all of them!"

Hearing the anxiety in her words, Akiwara Yuto didn't hesitate and hurried to get the morning paper of the day, spread it on the table, and started reading.

After seeing the news on the front page, he immediately understood what Asano Aiko wanted to say.

On the front page of the "Yomiuri Shimbun," a newspaper with a huge circulation, there was a piece of news closely related to himself, and the title was "Does Akiwara Yuto Hire a Ghostwriter?"

Akiwara Yuto's face became solemn, and at the same time, he carefully read the content of this article.

"... The great writer Akiwara Yuto, who has recently gained national heated discussion, has won the Uemura Award, the highest award in the detective literary world, in less than 3 years since his debut, and was also shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award."

At first glance, Akiwara Yuto is undoubtedly a talented writer, and everything about him can be called a miracle. But if you think about it carefully, is his miracle really true?

... Akiwara Yuto debuted in the middle of 1992, and his debut work was the "ZOO" series, but the style in this work is full of the ideas of the change-style school.

But by 1993, the "Suspect X" he published had completely become the social school, and the writing style was far from his previous works.

Later, there were works of different detective schools such as the new honkaku school's "Astrology Murder," the social school's "All She Was Worth," and the change-style school's "D-Slope Murder Case," etc.

But is there really anyone in this society who can master so many schools of works at the same time and write works with different writing styles?

Akiwara Yuto finished reading this part and turned his gaze to the reason part below, finding that it brought out his high school education and age of less than 30 years old for a while.

To summarize simply, this so-called "expert" believed that he used a lot of money to dig up frustrated newcomer writers from all over Nihon and let them ghostwrite for him.

And he published their works, thereby creating a "talented writer" image and gaining a large amount of profit through the big sales of the works.

Seeing the other party's explanation, Akiwara Yuto felt a bit speechless in his heart; this imagination was a bit too rich.

Immediately after, he picked up the receiver again and said to Asano Aiko, "I read the news, I already know."

"Akiwara, should we file a lawsuit in court and sue that expert for defamation?" Asano Aiko said anxiously.

"Collect information first, don't rush to sue immediately," Akiwara Yuto replied.

"Why?"

Asano Aiko was very puzzled; in her view, the more this matter fermented, the more damage it would do to Akiwara Yuto's writer image. If it dragged on, even the sales of all his works would plummet.

"Asano, that expert named Shimochiku Kazuo did this, it must be because the Keihan Society is pushing it behind the scenes. Since that's the case, even if we go to court, the Keihan Society will provide funds to the other party."

After a pause, he continued, "If this lawsuit falls into a quagmire, it might just play into the hands of the Keihan Society."

"Then Akiwara, how should we solve it? Why don't you write a rebuttal article, and I'll contact the newspaper to publish it?" Asano Aiko suggested.

"No, Asano," Akiwara Yuto comforted, "Help me arrange a press conference, set it for 3 days later."

"3 days, why so long?"

In Asano's view, this kind of thing must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise it would only ferment more and more seriously.

"Listen to me, I have a way to solve everything," Akiwara Yuto said in a calm tone.

Asano Aiko was very puzzled, but she couldn't beat Akiwara Yuto, so she could only agree, hung up the phone, and started arranging the press conference.

"Sigh, it really turned out like this," Akiwara Yuto stood by the balcony, looking at the traffic and people below, and said to himself.

In fact, when he chose to "move" works of different types, he had already realized this one thing, which was that the schools, styles, and writing styles of these works were vastly different.

So even if this person named Shimochiku Kazuo hadn't jumped out, sooner or later someone would jump out and accuse him of "plagiarism" or "ghostwriting."

But having said that, the "ghostwriting team" matter claimed by that writer named Shimochiku Kazuo had a basis that was still a bit untenable, and it was even not as good as Fang Zhouzi accusing Han Han in his past life.

Akiwara Yuto closed his eyes and started to recall the ins and outs of the "Han Han Ghostwriting Scandal" back then, as well as the farce ending.

In 2012 in his past life, the well-known blogger Mai Tian published an article called "Artificial Han Han," and then Fang Zhouzi joined the battle, publishing a series of articles accusing Han Han of ghostwriting.

In that "Artificial Han Han," Mai Tian published a lot of evidence that looked sharp even now.

The first point, Han Han's "New Concept Composition Competition" experience.

At that time, Han Han didn't receive the notice for the semi-finals, so the organizer decided to give Han Han a make-up test, and the examiner and editor-in-chief Li Qigang set a separate test question for him—putting a piece of paper into a water cup.

Han Han wrote "Peering at People in the Cup" based on this test question and became famous because of it, and subsequently published his debut work "Triple Gate."

But regarding this point, Mai Tian hinted at a lot of special places in the content.

First of all, Han Han's father Han Renjun and the examiner Li Qigang were in the same class at East China Normal University and were in the same major. And after graduation, they were both engaged in cultural work in Shanghai, so they undoubtedly knew each other.

Secondly, Han Han's father Han Renjun had the experience of publishing articles, and his pen name was "Han Han."

After Mai Tian, Fang Zhouzi and other netizens also joined the battlefield and raised various reasons, such as "Triple Gate" containing a large amount of foreign culture, but Han Han claimed in an interview that he never read foreign classics.

And "Triple Gate" involved content about tutors and professional courses, so it was more like it was written by someone with university experience; one had to know that Han Han was only a middle school student.

In order to prove his innocence, Han Han had to take Fang Zhouzi and others to court, while taking out the manuscript as evidence. At the same time, he constantly participated in various programs to prove that his father did not participate in ghostwriting.

But in fact, "ghostwriting" was very difficult to clarify.

Even if the manuscript Han Han took out was absolutely true, as long as there was intent, one could still find many loopholes.

And it was also difficult to clarify the method of his father.

Besides that, Han Han's own poor academic performance was also a real existence.

And according to the thoughts of many people at that time, there must be something fishy behind this.

So even before Akiwara Yuto transmigrated, there were still many people who believed that Han Han really had ghostwriting.

Akiwara Yuto went through this matter in his mind and then organized his thoughts.

The accusation of this expert named "Shimochiku Kazuo," compared to the accusation at the time of Han Han, was undoubtedly much weaker.

After all, although his education was also very low, his family background was not wealthy, and he didn't even have parents.

As long as he grasped this point, he could also prove that he didn't have the money to hire others to ghostwrite for him at the beginning.

However, he didn't intend to do this, and he didn't want to get into a war of words with the other party.

To tell the truth, he had actually prepared an emergency plan long ago.

A plan that could explain why he could master so many detective schools and writing styles!

Everything, just wait for the press conference 3 days later! ===== CHAPTER 327 =====