Chapter 617: The Hermit Master

Luoyang's real identity is a Dragon.

Will the Japanese Edogawa Ranpo Award be awarded to a Dragon?

The answer is, it's not certain, although many people who see this will definitely think that Luoyang will not be able to win the Edogawa Ranpo Award if his identity is exposed.

But in fact, it's not certain, because in Luoyang's impression, there was a Chinese who won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's top literary award.

At that time, Luoyang felt it was incredible, thinking how could a Chinese win an award in Japan. Later, he searched for relevant information and finally confirmed the authenticity of the news:

The jury of the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's most authoritative pure literature award, announced in Tokyo on the evening of the 15th that the 139th Akutagawa Prize would be awarded to Yang Yi, the author of the novel "Morning Soaked in Time", a Chinese writer living in Japan.

Obviously, this is the first time that a Chinese has won this honor.

The novel describes the life experience and emotional experience of a man who traveled from rural China to Japan for more than ten years in a foreign country.

Yang Yi once won the Japanese Literature Newcomer Award from the Japanese "Bungei Shunju" magazine for his debut work "Xiao Wang", which also describes the living conditions of Chinese living in Japan, and was nominated for the 138th Akutagawa Prize. Unfortunately, he missed the grand prize as the second place.

This "Morning Soaked in Time" is another masterpiece launched by Yang Yi after "Xiao Wang", and finally won Japan's top literary award, the Akutagawa Prize.

The winner Yang Yi had previously worked in many Chinese media in Japan and published poems, essays and other literary works in various media. Later, she mainly worked as a Chinese teacher in Japan and wrote literature in her spare time. She is a very powerful person.

Therefore, there is no rule that these awards must be won by local people. There are also examples of foreigners winning awards in China.

It is just because of the rarity of such events that everyone thinks that there are no examples of foreigners taking away local awards. Of course, he doesn't care how the Edogawa Ranpo Award finally chooses Luoyang. He doesn't have much desire for this award.

Writing mystery is purely a kind of playing psychology.

He still prefers martial arts and science fiction.

After getting Luoyang's answer, the contact person of Kadokawa Publishing House was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Okay, Teacher Theking, we respect your choice."

Seeing this reply, Luoyang did not continue to chat with the other party. Speaking of it, the people of Kadokawa Publishing House are quite polite to Luoyang. Of course, this is not surprising. Whether it is "White Night Walk" or "The Devotion of Suspect X", or the recently released "Summer of Guhuo Bird", they have brought extremely gratifying sales to Kadokawa Publishing House, not to mention that Luoyang recently defeated Endo Ma and his status has been completely elevated to the ranks of Japan's top mystery writers.

For publishing houses, sales mean money, benefits and markets.

Therefore, as Teacher Theking, Luoyang is definitely a favorite of Kadokawa Publishing House. They must be crazy to offend Luoyang.

At this moment, not only will they not offend Teacher Theking, but they will also try every means to curry favor with Teacher Theking, because if Teacher Theking turns to the arms of other publishing houses, then their losses will be huge.

The person in charge of contacting Teacher Theking is the editor-in-chief Yoshino who is in charge of promoting Theking's works. Because of Teacher Theking, Yoshino has been living a very comfortable life recently.

When he saw that Teacher Theking refused to reveal his identity, Yoshino fell into deep thought: "Why did Teacher Theking refuse to reveal his identity? Is it because he is quiet and doesn't like to be disturbed by the outside world?"

He knew that there were many people in history who were indifferent to fame and fortune.

For example, there was a poet named Tao Yuanming in the history of Longguo. Teacher Theking kept a secret and should be such a hermit.

The deputy editor-in-chief said: "Is it possible that Teacher Theking has a secret, such as a bad appearance, too ugly, or a disability, so he doesn't want readers to know his true face. After all, he now has a very high status in the minds of readers."

These reasons are all possible.

On the Internet, some people who don't like Teacher Theking will use such reasons to attack Theking.

They say he is hiding his true identity and pretending to be mysterious. It must be because he is too sorry to the audience. Once his true identity is exposed, the readers' impression of him will be shattered. If he has the courage, he will stand in front of the public.

The thinking of trolls is always very weird and funny.

However, for these trolls, Teacher Theking basically does not need to do anything. These people will be beaten up by Teacher Theking's supporters, because for book fans, as long as Teacher Theking's books are good, it doesn't matter what he looks like.

Even if the writer is not good-looking, he is still worthy of respect.

In particular, when Teacher Theking's "White Night Walk", "Devotion of Suspect X" and "Summer of Guhuo Bird" are all classics, he has completely captured a large number of loyal readers and is a real trend writer. At this time, those who black Teacher Theking will be anal to death.

Yoshino thought about it and nodded, "It is possible, but such remarks cannot be spread!"

Generally speaking, if there is really something to hide, it is embarrassing to be guessed. Yoshino clearly understands the value of Teacher Theking, so he does not allow any remarks from Kadokawa Publishing to hurt Teacher Theking.

He even dared not to take the initiative to investigate Teacher Theking's identity.

Otherwise, once discovered, Teacher Theking would certainly be angry and would no longer cooperate with Kadokawa Publishing.

The deputy editor nodded and said, "Editor-in-chief, since Teacher Theking refuses to disclose the information, then the Edogawa Ranpo Award can only be rejected. It's a pity. In theory, Teacher Theking can definitely get the award if he wants."

The Edogawa Ranpo Award must get the winner's information.

If the winner knows nothing and only has the pen name of Theking, how can the award be presented?

Yoshino smiled and said, "Who said we should refuse? If Teacher Theking can still win the award without showing up, wouldn't it show the sincerity of our Kadokawa Publishing House? Teacher Theking will definitely continue to cooperate with us in the future, right?"

"Well, the Edogawa Ranpo Award..."

"There will naturally be people from the publishing house to negotiate. The most important thing now is that no one else is eligible to win the award except Teacher Theking!"

There is no absolute fairness in the world, such as the Nobel Prize and the Edogawa Ranpo Award. In short, things became increasingly strange without Luoyang knowing. When it was July, the Edogawa Ranpo Award announced the shortlist for this year's award.

Teacher Theking's works "The Devotion of Suspect X" and "White Night Walk" were on the list!