"Good luck, you lucky boy!"
"Not only does he look like Moro Hoshito, he is also as lustful as that guy!"
"I asked you why you were so--so cruel to me. After meeting my sister, you felt like a different person!"
"It turns out that you are interested in my sister's beauty and have no good intentions from the beginning!"
Erumimei pointed angrily at Kyousuke Maijo, as if Kyousuke Maijo had kidnapped her sister.
Ambiguity is a special kind of radio wave. Once the connection is disconnected, the feeling at that time can never be regained.
The situation was disrupted by this stinky kid Erumimea.
Erumei could only cover Erumimei's mouth, sit back in her seat, take a sip of sake and show an embarrassed smile to Maijo Keisuke.
Maijo Kyousuke also grabbed the food and stuffed it into his mouth, as if nothing just happened.
"Speaking of short mysteries about love..."
"Teacher Wucheng, do you have any ideas?"
"I'm curious...what kind of story will you give to the world?"
Jiang Liumei put the wine glass filled with ice cubes close to her hot face, trying to explain what had just happened with her work.
Maijo Kyousuke was obviously disturbed by Eryu's beauty just now.
Hearing Jiang Liu's beautiful words at this moment, he remembered that he had agreed to the manuscript in a daze.
What a huge mistake!
But Maijo Kyousuke doesn't blame himself for not living up to expectations.
I wonder which man in the world would reject a girl who has eyes full of him?
"Is there a story about love?"
Maijo Kyousuke tapped his fingers on the table rhythmically, looking at Eryumei, whose face was red but still showing admiration to him.
Inexplicably, it reminds me of a very famous love story:
"Miss Jiang Liu, have you ever heard of the story of Eight Hundred Houses and Seven Girls?"
Eryumi was stunned for a moment when she heard Maijo Kyousuke's words, and then asked:
"Teacher Wucheng is talking about the legendary Miss Yu Qi who set fire for love?"
Maijo Kyousuke smiled and nodded:
"That's right, it's the girl Yu Qi who set fire for love."
"Actually, this is not a legend, but a true story. In the second year of Tenwa (1683), the Tenwa Fire broke out in the Edo area."
"Girl Yu Qi, who helped her parents take care of the Eight Hundred Houses, which is the fruit and vegetable shop, fled to Encheng Temple with her parents in order to take refuge."
"In Enjoji Temple, Miss Yu Qi, who had just begun to fall in love, fell in love with the temple servant Ikuta Sonosuke at first sight and fell deeply in love with him."
"Later, Miss Yu Qi returned to her new home, but she was obsessed with Nosuke Igashi and couldn't help herself. Deep in her love, she actually had the crazy idea that 'we can meet each other as long as there is another fire' in her mind!"
"In the end, Yu Qi, who lost his mind because of love, committed arson and was caught. In the end, he was burned alive!"
"Throughout the ages, the haiku poet Ihara Saikaku used this as a prototype for his story and wrote "The Story of the Green Vegetable Shop Owner's Family"."
"The original genius Keikichi Osaka, who died young, used this as a basis to write "Funeral Locomotive" that shocked the world."
"The recent sensational comic "Glass Mask" also told this story."
"So, I wanted to use this theme to write a similar but different mystery novel."
Maijo Kyousuke took a sip of wine, looked at Eryumei who was sitting opposite, and said with a solemn expression:
"Miss Jiang Liu asked me before, what is love?"
"I'm not a philosopher or a scientist, I'm just an author who can write some mystery novels."
"I will not use those weird philosophical and scientific remarks to explain what love is."
"Because to me, love means being willing to be stupid for the one you love regardless of anything!"
"I admit that what Miss Yu Qi did was indeed excessive and pitifully stupid."
"But if she hadn't fallen in love so deeply and longed for Ikuta Sonosuke that she nearly collapsed, how could she have done such a ridiculous thing?"
"If she wasn't so in love that she couldn't extricate herself, how could she have chosen a path to end in darkness?"
Maijo Kyousuke's words had a long aftertaste, and Jiang Liumei was first moved by the passionate love of Miss Yu Qi.
What I felt next was the desolation hidden under this story.
Pursuing the longing for love at a price that is unreasonable and close to destruction is a twisted love.
Although this kind of twisted love is difficult for ordinary people to understand.
But for Miss Yu Qi, who is desperate for love, is it not a kind of death?
Jiang Liumei recalled this twisted story of extreme evil and beauty, and suddenly realized it.
In just a few minutes, Maijo Kyousuke burst out with such top-notch inspiration!
If it is based on this poignant story, coupled with Maijo Keisuke's personal strong emotional resonance ability.
Jiang Liumeili couldn't even imagine what kind of disturbance her magazine would cause in the Japanese literary world once this article was published!
Thinking of this, Eryumi's admiration for Maijo Kyousuke became even stronger!
I wish I could take out a pen and paper from my bag right now and let Kyousuke Maijo write this story on the spot!
However, this can only stop at imagination.
Jiang Liumei is not stupid enough to actually do this.
"Teacher Wucheng, to be honest, I have made appointments with many writers before I met you."
"But when it comes to the grand theme of love, almost all writers are a little timid."
"It's not that they can't write it, it's just that... what they write is always a little unsatisfactory."
“I can’t afford the best section of a magazine at all!”
"Now, I finally don't have to worry about it!"
"Because just listening to Teacher Wucheng's dictation made me look forward to this story!"
"The best page is your story!"
After Jiang Liumei finished speaking, she immediately took out the calculator from her bag, lowered her head and started tapping quickly.
"Teacher Wucheng, since my magazine is a short mystery magazine, there is a certain limit on the number of words."
"So it's best to control it to 20,000 words..."
In the middle of Eryu's beautiful words, she raised her head and looked at Maijo Kyousuke:
"Teacher Wucheng, although your talent and ability are obvious to all Mr. Ushan and I."
"But, you are a newcomer after all, and I still want to introduce some things to you clearly."
Seeing Maijo Kyousuke nodding in agreement, Eryome took out two pieces of manuscript paper with different specifications from her bag and placed them in front of Maijo Kyousuke.
"Teacher Wucheng, these two sheets of paper are standard manuscript papers in the Japanese publishing industry."
"The smaller manuscript paper has about 300 to 400 words per page, which is suitable for magazine short stories."
"The larger manuscript paper has about 500 to 600 words per page."
"Japanese manuscript fees are uniform. Whether it is mystery novels, folklore novels, or science fiction novels, no matter who writes them, they are basically of the same level."
"The manuscript fee is calculated based on the manuscript paper. An article is roughly 4,000 yen to 5,000 yen."
“This is not only fair, but also makes it easier for our editors to request manuscripts, eliminating the need to negotiate prices.”
"Of course, this is not completely absolute."
"If Mr. Wucheng becomes a top writer, he will naturally receive higher remuneration."
Eryomei quickly tapped the calculator, and then placed the calculator in front of Maijo Kyousuke:
"In order to show my greatest sincerity, I will give Mr. Makiro a fee of 6,000 yen per piece of manuscript paper."
"Twenty thousand words requires about fifty sheets of manuscript paper, and the total is a manuscript fee of three hundred thousand yen!"
"If Mr. Maicheng wants to publish the story in a volume in the future, he can entrust Mr. Uyama to publish it again."
"At that time, royalties will be extracted based on the number of books printed."
“It’s important to note that for a book like ‘Astrological Killing Magic’ that has never been published, royalties are around 12 to 14 percent.”
"And if it is published in a magazine and then compiled into a book, the royalties are about 10% to 12%."
"Teacher Wucheng, do you understand?"
Seeing Maijo Kyousuke nodded slightly, Eryome smiled and took out a stack of bank cards from her bag, took out one card and handed it to Maijo Kyousuke.
"Teacher Maucheng, there are 300,000 yen in this card, please accept the royalties."
From Eryu's beautiful words, Maishiro Kyousuke learned the rules of the entire Japanese publishing house, and gained a new understanding of the entire Japanese publishing industry.
The moment I took over the royalties from Jiang Liumei.
Kyousuke Maijo has truly embarked on the path of being a writer!
