Tokyo is the world's top metropolis.

There are twenty-three districts in total.

Of course, this is a traditional saying. In recent years, many places have also been considered the Tokyo Circle.

For example, Hachiozi City.

But the core is still these twenty-three areas.

Chiyoda District, this is where many people look up to it.

Tokyo's per capita income is more than 3 million yen, but this is also divided into different levels.

The highest area, that is, the Hong Kong area, has an average income of 9 million yen, which is a terrifying feeling.

And the second place is Chiyodaku.

The per capita income in this area is 7.8 million yen, and there is a reason why the income here is high.

The income in Hong Kong is high because most of the areas are emerging industries, IT industries, as well as well-known Roppongi, and various foreign institutions.

Chiyoda represents the old-fashioned high income, and there are many publishing houses here.

The famous Kakugawa Bookstore also has the famous "Ichibashi Group", namely Primary School Pavilion, Shueisha, Baiquan Club (which originally belonged to Primary School Pavilion, and were all on Yiqiao Road), etc., and its headquarters are in this district.

Literary and artistic spring and autumn, this is a magazine in RB, but at the same time, it is also a well-known publishing house.

Moreover, this publishing house is also related to many well-known awards.

Masao Kuki is an employee of the Wenyi Spring and Autumn Club.

The position is editor, and he is 42 years old this year.

Literary Spring and Autumn itself is a publishing house, so of course, it mainly focuses on publishing.

And it is the publishing of traditional literature.

But these days, traditional literature has not been easy.

It should be said that this is a trend. From a global perspective, traditional literature, or simply serious literature, is on the decline from a business perspective.

Today's RB is popular with comics, light novels, and even various derivative things.

For example, Kakugawa Bookstore, the rival of literary and artistic spring and autumn, is of course also published, but now, it has followed the trend and made light novels, comics, etc.

Literary and artistic spring and autumn.

Fortunately, this publisher originally had flagship products, namely the monthly magazine "Literary Spring and Autumn" and the weekly Wenchun.

But, the situation is getting worse and worse.

Especially in monthly magazines, the circulation volume is getting lower and lower.

Fortunately, "Weekly Wenchun" is still very strong, and it is not wrong to say that it is the number one weekly magazine of RB.

When it comes to mention it, Jiumu blushed. "Weekly Wenchun" is now a complete gossip magazine.

Almost all gossip except literature.

It won’t work if you don’t do it, otherwise wouldn’t such a big company be done?

You know, this is Chiyoda, with an average income of nearly 8 million yen, and it is a big expense just for labor.

This is all we can do. Besides, "Weekly Wenchun" works in another place.

As an editor, Jiumu often shows his attention to those well-known authors.

Otherwise, there is no manuscript to get it.

It's really bitter, very bitter.

On this day, Jiumu, who arrived at the bridge early, found a bag appeared on his desk.

"This is?"

“There are newcomers to contribute.”

"ah?"

"What's there to be surprised?"

"Where are people?"

“Email from Okinawa.”

Jiumu asked his colleagues and then he figured it out.

It’s not that there is no new press release, but it’s just that it’s uneven now.

Especially young people, most talented people develop in comics and light novels.

Then, when older authors write this kind of traditional literature, most of them will be more formal and come to deliver manuscripts in person.

But when I saw that the bag was written on it from Okinawa, I felt relieved.

After all, it is too far away, so it is normal not to come here in person.

Since the author did not come here in person, he was still a newcomer. Jiu Mu was not in a hurry, and his main job was to focus on famous writers.

However, what he noticed was that his name was written on the outside of the bag.

It is rare for newcomers to contribute specifically to yourself.

"It's a meeting." The editor-in-chief was already shouting, this is a routine morning meeting.

Like many publishing houses, Literature and Art Spring and Autumn do not set up private offices.

"Yes, I'll come now."

Kuki got up and headed to the conference room.

"Today, you must get Mr. Murakami's manuscript! Or you'll get out of here!"

"But……"

"Nothing but! You must never let Kakugawa Bookstore snatch it! By the way, what is Mr. Murakami doing? You are with him! We must implement the all-weather-foot-marking tactic!"

"He? He should be running."

"Then go run with him!"

"What?"

"What's the problem! Go quickly!"

Jiumu was trained by the editor and was very immense.

Run with Mr. Murakami?

Who doesn’t know the Murakami marathon runners?

...

At night, Jiumu, who had not received the manuscript, returned to his desk a little depressedly.

He knew that his boss was a little embarrassed, and even knew that he might not really let him get out.

Writing books is not that easy, especially traditional literature.

Very depressed and has no results in work, this kind of mood is right.

Since there is no result, you have to act like this.

Although he probably won't let him get out, he must also eliminate this possibility.

There is no way, he is at RB at this age and must not be unemployed.

Or, if you are unemployed, just die.

I made a cup of coffee and prepared to work overtime to show my diligence.

At this moment, he saw the bag.

"Look, this newcomer contributes..."

In fact, there is no overtime pay for this kind of overtime. It is just to show an attitude, and there is nothing to do. Many companies have this situation. If you don’t do a good job, don’t go home. At least the scolding from above is not so fierce.

There is one advantage in the publishing industry, that is, you can use such unpaid overtime to read books.

“After school?”

It is no different from the manuscripts I usually see, and even the name of this novel does not surprise Ju Mu too much.

Today, there are too many such youth campus novels, and it is not uncommon to write such topics after school.

The beginning of "I" made Kuki confirm that this is a traditional literary work.

Traditional literary works have a characteristic, that is, most of them use "I" as the protagonist, description and narrative.

It should be said that the protagonist in the book is definitely not a reader, and the protagonist has a name, a surname and his own personality.

But reading this feeling, readers will naturally be replaced by the characters in the book, especially the protagonist. Of course, there are risks here. For example, the protagonist in the book is not very compatible with the readers, so this book may not be liked by that reader.

This is slightly different from more concrete art such as comics and films and TV series.
To be continued...