As a practitioner in the film and television industry, Kei Fujiwara before crossing over can be regarded as well-read.

He is a believer in meritocracy, so whether it is a book, a TV series, or a movie, he deliberately picks some best-selling works to watch. As for those unsalable goods, even if they won any international awards, he was not much interested in learning about them.

And "White Night Walking", as the representative work of the best-selling king Keigo Higashino, he has read it many times and is already familiar with it.

This book is one of the three masterpieces of the best-selling king Keigo Higashino, and it is also his most influential work.

Even many people who don't read mystery novels, and who don't even know much about Keigo Higashino himself, have heard of this book.

Bai Yexing sold 2 million copies in the local area of Yueben that year, which is equivalent to one person out of every 60 people who bought this book. Those who have read it are even higher than this number.

Overseas sales are even more terrifying, with nearly five million copies sold in Chinese mainland alone, and this number is rising year after year.

I read this book when Kei Fujiwara was 15 years old, and I remember that at that time, the most prominent places in the bookstore were Guo Jingming, Jiang Nan and Zhang Jiajia, and Keigo Higashino was the only foreign author in the bestseller section. The White Night Walk is placed in the highest position in the Keigo Higashino placement area.

In addition to its terrifying commercial success, it has also received near-unanimous praise in the literary world. If a veteran mystery lover is asked to choose the most classic tragic story in the history of mystery novels, then "White Night Walking" must be on the list.

The book left a deep impression on readers by depicting "desperate love, distorted human nature", and in addition, the "holy witch" in the book, Yukiho Karasawa was also praised by critics as one of the top three evil women in the history of literature.

Kei Fujiwara shook his wrist while recalling the contents of "White Night Walking" and left lead letters on the paper.

"There is no sun in my sky, it is always night, but it is not dark because there is something in place of the sun, although not as bright as the sun, but it is enough for me ......"

The sky gradually darkens, and the whole of Tokyo is drawn into the night.

Since I already have a belly book in my head, I write quickly. After writing two more chapters, Kei Fujiwara stood up and stretched out in front of the window, looking at the night view of Tokyo with some weariness.

"Alas, it's not easy to survive......"

Kei Fujiwara couldn't help but sigh.

Yes, it was not easy to survive in Tokyo, not to mention Tokyo in 1994.

And "White Night Walking" also gave Kei Fujiwara a glimmer of light on this night of the Great Depression.

"Let's hope tomorrow goes well......" Kei Fujiwara muttered to himself, looking at the old Christmas trees that stood on either side of the entrance of a former clothing store downstairs.

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The next morning, Kei Fujiwara woke up from his dream and looked out the window, it was already dawn.

He opened the curtains, stood in front of the window and rubbed his sleepy eyes, looking at the green trees in the distance.

There are already pedestrians on the road, most of them office workers and students.

The office workers in Ben work hard, living in a place where the rent is cheap, but the place where they work is in a busy area, and they have to spend a long time on the subway in the middle.

On some lines, the subway during peak hours is just like a concentration camp, crowded with people, meat next to meat, sometimes five centimeters away from the tip of the nose is people's armpits, and there is a sour smell in the carriage, so it was also a high incidence area of tram wolves at that time.

Several coolly dressed housewives went downstairs to throw out the garbage at this time, and one of the instant noodles was particularly conspicuous.

After sorting the garbage, Mrs. Yoshiwara subconsciously glanced up at Kei Fujiwara's window, and frightened him into squatting down.

Fujiwara Kei is not a pure man, and he has taken many women to the hotel in his previous life, and he has also experienced the matter of throwing him into his arms, but there are really not many people who can make him twist like this, and Mrs. Yoshiwara is one.

Recently, Uncle Administrator went back to his hometown, and Mrs. Yoshiwara's movements were obviously bigger, and once she was drunk and stood outside Fujiwara Kei's door and looked inside through the cat's eye, almost scaring Fujiwara Kei to death.

Fujiwara Kei hurriedly went to the bathroom to wash, and after washing, he got dressed and went to work, for fear that Mrs. Yoshihara would come to bring him breakfast.

The temperature was still very low today, and Kei Fujiwara gritted his teeth and insisted on not wearing the coat that had already been dirty, but wrapped it up and planned to send it to the dry cleaners. He folded two thick autumn coats under his coat and opened the door to leave the room.

While waiting for the elevator through the hall, I happened to meet a neighbor woman on the same floor.

"Good morning, Fujiwara-kun." The woman carried her handbag and nodded slightly towards Kei Fujiwara.

"Good morning, Miss Takeuchi." Kei Fujiwara smiled in return.

"Isn't it cold to wear so little?"

"It's okay, I've been too inactive lately, and I'm going to run on the road."

"That's nice." The woman sighed, "Fujiwara-kun is really an energetic person, unlike me, my energy has been spent in the company, and now I don't even have the mood to cook a meal for myself." ”

Kei Fujiwara smiled, and then stopped talking, feeling a little mixed in his heart. Maybe the other party just sighed ordinarily, but for Fujihara, who doesn't have a serious job, this sentence seems to have something else.

Although Kei Fujiwara knew that she was not the kind of person who was snarky, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

At this time, the woman suddenly realized that she seemed to have said the wrong thing, pursed her lips, and said no more.

The atmosphere suddenly became a little subtle, but the elevator room made a "ding" sound just right at this time, the elevator door opened, and there were several people on the upper floors in the elevator, and the two walked in, and they were silently relieved in their hearts.

That's all there is to talk about neighbors, and Tokyo is still an indifferent society, and only at night in Shinjuku and Roppongi do the people there be a little more welcoming.

Kei Fujiwara wrapped his coat tightly, trotted all the way to the subway station, took the train on the Kamito Electric Arakawa Line, and finally came to the door of a publishing house.

The name of the publishing house is Spring and Autumn Co., Ltd., and it is located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Their semi-monthly magazine, Spring and Autumn Literature, is one of the most famous fiction magazines in the world, selling more than 100,000 copies per issue.

The highest-selling issue was during the serialization of the novel "Sign Language of the Magician" by the famous writer Miyaka Miyabo, which set a sales record of 700,000 copies of a literary journal, which has not been broken for four years.

In this book, there are only two ways for newcomers to make their debut as writers:

The first is to participate in the novel awards of the New Humans, such as the famous Ranbu Award. After winning the award, it is natural that a publisher will ask you for a manuscript and take this as an opportunity to make your official debut.

However, the deadline for receiving the Ranbu Award is the end of January every year, and when Kei Fujiwara came to this world, the deadline for submission had already passed.

Although there are many similar newcomer awards in this book, in the mystery novel category, the only one that is suitable for the book "White Night Walking" and has gold content is the Ranbu Award.

It doesn't make much sense to miss the random step award and switch to other awards, so in desperation, Kei Fujiwara had to choose the second debut method.

That is, to directly submit articles to literary journals and magazines such as "Spring and Autumn Literary Awards" and "Wild Times", and once they are appreciated by the editors, they can get serialization opportunities.

And this "White Night Walking" is Kei Fujiwara's first work, even if he chooses to serialize it first, it will not affect Kei Fujiwara's competition for the New Human Award.