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Chapter 314 'Norwegian Woods'

When "The Young Girl" entered the early stage of serialization, the sales of the Youth Comics Weekly magazine "Weekly Comics Times" grew rapidly at a snowball-like speed, and the growth rate did not slow down significantly until it was 600,000.

In addition to "The Girl of Light" indeed attracting many comic fans, the most important thing is that Zhao Chen's huge fame is taking effect. As the best-selling and most popular cartoonist at present, Zhao Chen has absolute appeal in the island country.

Just like some famous cartoonists who have completed their famous works, the quality evaluation of the next comic can only be considered average, but the single-line book is often no worse than the previous one. This is because of its own background and fame, and it is also the reason why comic fans have already developed a habit. Even if they are not well drawn, they will have preconceived ideas to improve it to a higher level, and they also call it a problem with others' vision.

This kind of speechless thing is not nonsense, but rather a very common thing. Of course, except for the real problem with your eyes, the rest are often die-hard comic fans of a certain cartoonist.

For such comic fans, you really can't say bad things about the comics he likes and his works, otherwise the consequences will be very serious, at least the red face and red ears of the debate are indispensable.

Not long after "Qingyin Girl" was serialized, the three major associations felt more and more anxious. Zhao Chen's actions were too big before. Not only did he acquire the two major comic clubs in one go, but he also serialized "Three Kingdoms" and "Qingyin Girl", which made the world club have two major publications again. If this continues, it will be difficult to deal with the two major comic books, the world club, when the two major comic books, have gained a foothold, then it will be difficult to deal with it.

As a result, the three major societies have increased their actions again and started to use various connections at any cost. Of course, a lot of money and gifts have been spent to win over relevant officials to prompt the proposals for the integration of the three major societies to pass as quickly as possible.

However, the integration of the three major societies has a monopoly nature. Even if the three major societies have a wide network and more money to manage, it also takes some time. Just filing various cases, investigations will take secondary time, even if these are just scenes.

The actions of the three major societies were immediately spread to Zhao Chen, and Zhao Chen did not stop the integration of the three major societies. It was because of the fact that human power was sometimes exhausted. Although he had some connections, he was not from the island country after all. At this time, he was blocked. He was undoubtedly a man who was a man in a car, and even though he knew he would fail, he would waste a lot of manpower and material resources. This is not a wise man.

Therefore, what he has been doing recently is how to expand the world society. However, after acquiring the two major societies, it takes a lot of time to digest the world society, otherwise it will damage the foundation. As for comics, Zhao Chen has achieved the ultimate goal. Today, the world society has a total of six major comics, which is not a normal number, because even in the elementary school hall, Shueisha has only two or three comics that have achieved such sales.

These six comic books have also reached the limit of the current Tianxia Society. The main reason is that Tianxia Society is a powerful cartoonist, so it can barely support the serialized works of the six publications. No matter how many of them are, there are really no good cartoonists to use. If you want more and more cartoonists, you will need to train novice cartoonists through a lot of time, but this is undoubtedly not a quick process.

Thinking of this, Zhao Chen couldn't help but feel a little distressed, but he quickly made a decision. Since he could not enhance the comics in a short period of time, since this is the case, it is better to take advantage of the opportunity to strengthen the novel while there is still some time.

You should know that the current World Club has indeed become the number one comic club in the island country. Of course, it is only at present that as long as the three major clubs successfully merge, the first one will miss the World Club. If you want to get the first place again, it depends entirely on the situation.

But this is just a comic club, but if it comes to the Island Country Press, the World Club will be barely in the top five, and it is probably worse than the Shuyingshe. If it is compared with the first and second Kotanshe, the Primary School Pavilion is even more pale, mainly because the gap in novels is too big.

As long as the three major associations merge, the title of Kotanshe, the first publishing house, must also give way. At that time, the original development of the world society novel part will not be completely suppressed. At that time, I am afraid that the light of day will never be seen from now on. Instead of doing this, it is better to take advantage of the time left to strengthen the ability of the novel layout as soon as possible.

Among them, the most effective method is to plagiarize major works in the world that have not been published yet, and the other is to poach people.

Although Zhao Chen was a comic assistant in his previous life, he had read some world famous works and remembered them. However, he really didn't know many novelists from the island country, and there is only one active in this era, that is, the writer Murakumizuki, who wrote the book "The Forest of Norway".

Zhao Chen had very little information about Murakami Muraki in his mind. He only knew that his works belonged to the European and American style, with a light tone and light Japanese post-war gloomy and heavy writing atmosphere. He was called the first pure post-World War II writer, and in later generations he was and was known as the literary flag bearer of the island country in the 1980s.

Thinking of Murakami, Zhao Chen immediately asked his men to find the information about Murakami. He only remembered this name of Murakami, but did not know very well. He also did not know the specific time of the book "Norwegian Forest".

Tianxia Society is a giant publishing house after all. Although novels are just an accompanying industry, there are still specific information about Murakami Muraki in the publishing house.

Haruki Murakami is now in his thirties. He was born in Fushimi District, Kyoto. He graduated from the opera-acting department of Waseda University's First Literature Department and is good at translating American literature. He once worked in a record store, a café, and even opened a bar.

Of course, these are the early work of Murakami Murakami. It was not until Murakami Murakami that she had the idea of ​​writing novels when she was 29 years old. Then she kept writing on the dining table every night and submitted it to the group portrait newcomer award review committee. The reason for submission is that there is a word limit.

Murakami's first work "Listen to the Wind" was awesome. At that time, he won the 23rd Island Country Newcomer Award. Although this is just an unknown novel award, it is also rare for Murakami. The most important thing is that it gave him enough confidence. For writers, confidence is very important. If you don't even have confidence, then what else can you create. So those who have confidence are not necessarily the best-selling writers, but the best-selling writers must have enough confidence, especially the novels they have created.

However, even though the first work was successfully awarded, Murakami Muraki, who had rich experience, still cautiously operated a bar while engaged in creation.

It was not until 1981 that Murakami Chu finally made up his mind to engage in professional creation and transferred the bar to others. In March of the year, he published "The Tragedy of the New York Coal Mine". In April, he published "The Day of Kangaroo", and he published a series of short stories in the journal until 1983. In the same year, he began to participate in the editing of "Weddah Literature" as an editorial board member for a year and a half.

During this period, he also created a novel called "The Adventures of the Sheep", but the sales of this novel can only be considered ordinary and did not make him a well-known novelist.

In other words, Murakami Kura is just a famous novelist. If this is the case alone, Zhao Chen will immediately take action. Unfortunately, he still has a layer of concern. After all, this information shows that Murakami Kura is a signed writer from Kotanshe.

If it is from the three major societies, it would be fine. Anyway, they are all enemies who will be jealous when they meet, and they will feel more happy when they dig it out. But Kaandanshe is different. Kaandanshe is not only the number one publishing house in the island country, but also has an oral alliance with Zhao Chen to resist the "sacred alliance" of the three major societies!

In other words, if you want to dig Murakamikuraki this time, you have to poach people from your allies. This will undoubtedly make both sides unfavorable and may directly tear down the covenant. Of course, this is mainly because Murakamikuraki has not yet fully developed his strength relationship, otherwise it will turn into an enemy.

"Why are you so confused? Anyway, Kotanshe is also its main competitor. There are not many good opportunities. If you don't take action, you will have no chance."

After thinking for a while, Zhao Chen finally made up his mind that he became an allies with Kotanshe, that is, to jointly resist the threats of the three major societies. However, the world society is now completely mature. Even if the three major societies are successfully merged, as long as he is present, the alliance will not have much effect. What's more, Murakami Murakami is not very famous at present, and Kotanshe may not tear up the covenant if he finds it, because Murakami Murakami is 35 years old this year and has not shown any potential for transcendence.

Fame and potential can be said to be the standard for measuring cartoonists or novelists. Murakami Murakura has achieved not very good results after five years of entering the industry, at most it is a bit famous. As for potential, you cannot pray too much for a 29-year-old writer to enter the industry. After all, the probability is very small. No novels written in the past five years have been very popular, and most of them are short stories. It can be said that whether it is fame or potential, Murakami Murakura is nothing at all.

It is precisely because of the current situation of Murakami Murakami, Zhao Chen is more open-minded and believes that even if he poached Murakami Murakami, Kotanshe would probably not turn against him. Of course, if Murakami Murakami becomes famous in the future, Kotanshe will become necessary, but at that time, the daylily will be cold. At least Zhao Chen believes that the world is enough to gain a foothold in novels.

In order to solve the problem of Murakami Village, Zhao Chen directly made an appointment with Murakami Village. Murakami Village is a middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance, with yellow and black skin, and looks like a person who is not good at speaking.

Speaking of which, most writers and cartoonists are not good at speaking. The main reason is that after staying home for a long time, they lose interest in speaking. They often use words such as um, ah, oh, and the more serious the writer is, the more so.

"Hello, Mr. Murakami!"

While the two looked at each other, Zhao Chen took the lead in greeting him.

"Hello, Teacher Zhao Chen, I have long admired your name. I met today. It is so much better to be famous for meeting!" Murakami Murakami has rich experience and has also inherited the sleek and politeness of most island people. When I met Zhao Chen, I came to flatter him without any trace.

"Uh." Zhao Chen didn't expect that Murakami would be the opening remark. The other party will be a famous writer in the future, so how could he flatter such a flattery? However, Zhao Chen obviously forgot that celebrities are also human beings, and there will be such times before they become famous, especially Zhao Chen's experience is very legendary.

"Teacher Zhao Chen, is there anything you are going to come here specifically this time? I will definitely help if you can help!"

In Murakami's opinion, the other party is Zhao Chen. This is a legendary figure. As long as you can have some connections, the benefits to you can be said to be endless. Murakami's thoughts so.

"Mr. Murakami, this time I took the liberty to come over. I mainly hope to cooperate with you. You can take a look at this outline first!"

Zhao Chen took out a draft, which was full of dense words. This was the outline he completed in one day. The title of his work was "The Forest of Norway"!

"The Forest of Norway" is a work by Murakami Murakura in 1987. It is also his representative and famous work, and is ranked among the world famous works. After this novel was launched, it sold more than 10 million copies in island countries. The simplified Chinese version in mainland China also sold 7.86 million copies in 2004, causing the "Murakami phenomenon"!

As for the total sales of the world, there are probably tens of millions of copies. There are only a few books in the history of the island country where novels can have such sales.

To be honest, Zhao Chen remembers the plot of "The Forest of Norway" very clearly even if he doesn't need to read it. There is no way, this world famous book contains ooxx content. Although it is not much, it is impressive and deserves to be written by an islander.

Murakami Muraki was obviously surprised. He thought about the purpose of Zhao Chen coming to him, thinking that Zhao Chen wanted him to adapt the comics into a novel, because he did do this. But he didn't expect to cooperate, but even so, Murakami Muraki was a little excited. Although Zhao Chen's main business is a cartoonist, he also has two works, "The Legend of the Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and "2010 Space Odyssey". The latter was written with Clark, the science fiction master, and his strength in the novel can be imagined.

Even so, even if the outline in his hand is average, Murakami Muraki would agree, because Zhao Chen's fame alone can bring a lot of sales to the novel. This alone can make him completely famous.

No one doesn't like to climb up, but there is no chance. Now that he has the chance, Murakami Muraki will naturally not let it go. But even so, he still picked up the draft and started reading it. He really thought in his heart that he would agree as long as the outline plot is not too bad.

The outline is relatively simple, but it also has a lot of profound connotations.

In the novel, Naoko, the first lover of the protagonist Watanabe, was originally the girlfriend of his good classmate Muyue in high school, but later Kiyue committed suicide, and Naoko lived alone. A year later, Watanabe met Naoko and began dating. At this time, Naoko had become quiet and shy, and a trace of darkness flashed through her eyes from time to time. The turning point of the story happened soon. On the night of Naoko's 20th birthday, the two had sex, and Watanabe realized that Naoko was actually there, but unexpectedly, Naoko disappeared from where to go the next day.

It was not until a few months later that Naoko wrote to her that she lived in a spiritual sanatorium far away in the mountains. When Watanabe went to visit, he found that Naoko began to have the plumpness and beauty of a mature woman. He also met Reiko, who was in the same dormitory as Naoko. Before leaving, Watanabe said that she would always wait for Naoko.

Not long after, he met Midoriko in a small restaurant. Because Midoriko asked him to borrow class notes from "History of Drama Ii", the two gradually became familiar with each other. When Midoriko's father passed away, Watanabe began to date Midoriko in the lower grade. Midoriko was completely opposite to the introvert Naoko and seemed very pure and lively.

During this period, Watanabe was undoubtedly very depressed and confused. On the one hand, he never forgot Naoko's lingering illness and tenderness, but on the other hand, he could not resist Mizuko's bold confession and charming vitality.

It was not until soon after that the bad news of Naoko's suicide came that Watanabe was hiking around in a daze. Finally, with the encouragement of Naoko's patient Reiko, he understood everything and began to explore his future life.

According to the letter, Naoko originally wanted to give her the first time to her boyfriend Kizuki, but unfortunately, Naoko was still dry when they were about to ooxx, and even if she tried her best, she couldn't wet. The protagonist Watanabe's luck was undoubtedly excellent. Naoko was quite wet on her 20th birthday, and after that, Naoko was taken away by Watanabe for the first time. Except for this time, Naoko still couldn't wet later. Is this the legendary protagonist's halo working?

Murakami Muraki looked very carefully when he saw that part, and even looked up at Zhao Chen with a strange look, but he didn't say anything, but continued to look at the outline.

A novelist may not be able to write novels that have been famous in history, but their vision is unique. Murakami Muraki soon became addicted to the world described in the outline, and he finally woke up until he finished reading it.

"Mr. Murakami, how about it?" Zhao Chen asked after taking a sip of coffee. He was very confident. After all, "The Forest of Norway" was originally a work by Murakami Muraki three years later, so it would naturally be quite consistent with his intentions.

Murakami Muraki looked at Zhao Chen with a strange look, but said, "Very good, I think if I write it, it would be at least a best-selling novel."

"This is for sure." Zhao Chen couldn't help but complain in his heart that even if "The Forest of Norway" is really useless, he can still push it to the position of a best-selling novel with his fame. Of course, he would not care about Murakami's true thoughts.

"Mr. Murakami, you should also know one thing. As long as you are a partner with me, you must sign in to Tianxia Society. Otherwise, Tianxia Society will have many contracted novelists and have many good writing skills. I will not look for you because of this. I am interested in your potential."

Hearing Zhao Chen's words, Murakami nodded. He also knew about this matter and understood the truth. If Zhao Chen cooperated with other comic bookmakers, it would undoubtedly help other comic clubs cultivate talents. As long as they were not fools, they would not do this.
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