I see, this guy is a gambler.

Owada Kanmasa stared at Kei Fujiwara's face and said in his heart.

Young, talented, and addicted to gambling...... If this person is placed in troubled times, he must be a hero.

And now Kei Fujiwara sat down at the table in front of Owada Kanmasa, looked at him with burning eyes, fiddled with the chips in his hand, and asked him if he dared to bet.

Don't say it, Owada Kanmasa really doesn't dare. Before coming, Director Yoshida Kashi said that if Fujiwara Kei made a request beyond Owada's authority, he should not be in a hurry to refuse and come back to inform him.

And now Fujiwara Kei's request is more or less beyond his authority, and he has to go back to the reporting platform.

Owada Kanmasa coughed, "I understand, the income is decided by the grades...... It seems that Fujiwara-sensei is really confident. However, I still need to report this matter to the station, and I will be able to give you an answer after a while. ”

Kei Fujiwara nodded: "It doesn't matter. ”

Owada Kanmasa looked a little preoccupied and left, Yui Mizuhara and others watched him leave, and at the same time, they were even more impressed by Kei Fujiwara.

It seems that in order to keep him, even the high-level special officers of the headquarters came to talk to him in person, how could these people have such treatment......

Is this the gold content of best-selling authors? Why don't we write novels too!

……

The organizers of the Naoki Award announced the shortlist, and a total of five works entered the finalists, namely: "White Night Walking", "Aurora Murder Incident", "Summer of Gu Won Bird", "Wow Ka Magical Adventure", "Winter Girl's Warm Sun" five works.

Among them, Kei Fujiwara, the author of "White Night Walking", and the author of "Wow Ka" are shortlisted for the first time, and Kei Fujiwara is a pure newcomer.

Among the other authors, Kyogoku Haruhei, the author of "The Summer of the Birds", is the most well-known, he is the author of the same name as Mika Miyamoto and Junzan Hattori, and the representative of the author of the Yokai novel.

The Naoki Award is the highest award for popular literature, and it is not only awarded to mystery novels, but judging from the situation in previous years, it is indeed mystery novels that have won most awards.

And this year, among the five shortlisted works, there are only two mystery novels, which makes the public wonder if the taste of the works selected by Naoki Award this year has changed, and at the same time, it is more suspenseful.

There are also different opinions in the media and on the Internet about who will win the Naoki Award in the end, and everyone has their own opinions, and there is a lot of arguing.

"Spring and Autumn Literary Awards" also gave its prediction, ranking the five shortlisted authors according to the probability of winning the award.

Among them, the most promising award is "Aurora Murder 1" by Watanabe Ikema, "Summer of the Bird" by Kyogoku Haruhi in second place, "White Night Walking" in third place, and "Wow Ka" and "Winter Girl" in fourth and fifth place.

In fact, this ranking is not objective, the Spring and Autumn Society carries a lot of private goods, and two of the top three are authors of the Spring and Autumn Society. If it weren't for the fear that the food would be too ugly, he raised Kyogoku Haruhei to the second position, otherwise the top two in the ranking of "Most Likely to Win the Naoki Award" would have to be the author of the Spring and Autumn Society.

This year's Spring and Autumn Club can be said to have made a lot of money, first recruiting Watanabe Chi Ma, and then I don't know where to dig up the big treasure of Fujiwara Kei. Although the response to "Aurora 2" was mediocre, due to the impact of the first part, the sales would not be bad, but it was a little damaging to the reputation of Watanabe Ikema himself.

Not to mention "White Night Walking", it can be said to be the biggest dark horse in the world of reasoning literature in the past three years. Compared with last year's dark horse work "Aurora 1", it is even better.

What's more, Kei Fujiwara is still a pure newcomer, which is even more shocking, as soon as he makes a move, he shocks the world, how broad should this person's future be?

The editors of the other publishing houses were about to cry, and in the midst of the envious gaze, there were so many publishing houses, swallowing bitter water in one gulp.

For example, Scream! Cheer" magazine, before Fujiwara Kei had submitted "White Night Walking" to this magazine, and even the editor who received him, Miss Hanayamain, still admired this novel, but it was directly rejected by the deputy minister at the serialization meeting, and he didn't even read it.

After the popularity of "White Night Walking" and even topped the best-selling list for many weeks, it didn't take long for the position of deputy minister to change hands. Without looking, it is a gross dereliction of duty to veto a masterpiece based on the subject matter alone!

There is also Asakawa Shoten, when Kei Fujiwara came to this bookstore to submit his manuscript, the editor who received him was in a hurry to go to the nightclub to have fun, resulting in the novel being stuffed directly into the corner and no one cared about it. Or their editorial department saw it by chance and immediately asked to sign a contract with Fujiwara Kei, but at that time Fujiwara Kei had already signed a contract with the Spring and Autumn Society.

After the fire of "White Night Walking", the head of the editorial department of Asakawa Bookstore was so angry that he suffered a nosebleed for three days, and the previous editor was also assigned to a women's magazine. I've heard that it's hard to sell more than 1,000 magazines a month.

Time passed day by day, and the sales of "White Night Walking" were still vigorous, without showing any decline.

Kawaguchi Shin was happy at the moment, but he also inevitably had some regrets. He regretted it a little, and he shouldn't have signed that gambling agreement with Fujiwara Kei.

At the beginning of the agreement with Kei Fujiwara, if the number of copies is higher than 500,000, the royalty will be calculated at 10%, and according to this momentum, the sales of 500,000 will not be a problem at all. If the number is higher than 600,000 copies, the excess will be calculated at 12% royalty.

That is to say, if "White Night Walking" can sell 1 million copies, of which 400,000 copies will be paid at 12%.

Although the sales of one million may seem incredible, this number may not be unachievable based on the current popularity of "White Night Walking" in the market.

If only I had known that I had promised him 10% directly...... Now I have to pay tens of millions of yen......

Although he regretted it a little, Kawaguchi Shin also secretly admired in his heart that a rookie author dared to propose such a gambling contract, and his courage was really unusual!

With the popularity of "White Night Walking" in the book market, the ratings of "Human Observation" have become better and better.

The remuneration and the performance bonus of the TV station were transferred to Kei Fujiwara's account at almost the same time.

At this time, there are no smartphones, and you can check your account balance anytime and anywhere, so Fujiwara Kei deliberately went to the bank to check the account balance after receiving the money, and looked at the account balance of tens of millions of yen, and suddenly felt a great sense of happiness.

Plans that were put on hold because of lack of money can now be implemented gradually, buying a mobile phone, buying a car to get around, and changing to a larger house......

Wait a minute. Fujiwara Kei suddenly thought of something, and suddenly held his forehead.

Tax...... Before you do that, you have to file your taxes first, and you have to find a tax lawyer to help you sort it out.

While Kei Fujiwara was busy dealing with financial troubles, he also took the time to move closer to the TV station and the company. In the busyness, time gradually crossed the year and came to 1995.