At home.
Lin Yuan, who had just sent out the preview, quickly tapped away on the keyboard, writing the last few thousand words of the novel.
Five minutes.
Ten minutes.
Fifteen minutes.
The hands that could let Xianyu play various musical instruments and let Chu Kuang become a powerful coder finally finished the last waltz on the keyboard by floating in mid-air, as if the scene was frozen for a few seconds.
Okay, let’s speak human language.
The new book "The Devotion of Suspect X" has been completed.
The previous article mentioned the original author of the novel, Keigo Higashino.
In fact, this person also has a representative work called "White Night Walk".
In comparison, works such as "After School" are less famous, although this novel is also very excellent.
On the contrary, many people have heard of the warm and healing novel "The Convenience Store of Sorrow" because it has been adapted and remade in China.
In short.
He should be the most familiar mystery writer to Chinese readers after Conan Doyle and Agatha.
Although Keigo Higashino is not only a mystery writer, he has also dabbled in many other subjects that have nothing to do with mystery and has achieved quite impressive results, such as the "The Convenience Store of Sorrow" just mentioned.
This is a bit similar to Chu Kuang.
But this is almost standard for top writers.
In fact, the two have even more similarities.
Chu Kuang is the No. 1 volume king among the top writers on Blue Star; Keigo Higashino also happens to be the big volume king in the Japanese literary world.
This person is positioned as a prolific writer.
The super productive kind.
Normal writers usually publish a book once or twice a year, but Keigo Higashino can write several books a year.
In the year when his creative energy was at its peak, he wrote five novels in just twelve months, and the quality of all of them was quite high!
Yes.
Quality is important.
The rankings of Chu Kuang, Master Lu, and Xu Ping are indeed very close, but the differences between them are not something that can be changed by simply writing a book.
Whether short or medium-length novels.
If any one of the three wants to outdo the other two, he must not only write fast enough but also produce work of good quality.
Without quality, speed is meaningless.
So is the quality of "The Devotion of Suspect X" good enough
"This novel is amazing" #1!
No. 1 in the “Top 10 Honest Mystery Novels”!
No. 1 in "Weekly Literary Mystery Novels Top 10"!
This masterpiece by Keigo Higashino is the only top masterpiece in the history of Japanese literary world in the past that has won the annual championship of the three major novel rankings.
Sales volume ranked first in the year.
A gorgeous masterpiece that tops the charts.
There is certainly no problem with quality.
You should know that these are not just random rankings that any novel can make it onto. Such rankings and awards are the reading indicators of the best-selling novels of the year.
besides.
This book "The Devotion of Suspect X" also won Neon's highest literary award, the Naoki Prize and the Honkaku Mystery Novel Award!
During the award ceremony.
The Naoki Prize's comment on "The Devotion of Suspect X" is:
“He took deception to its extreme.”
In a sense, detective novels are about deception and exposure, otherwise there would not be any mystery writers who would go to such extremes to specialize in narrative tricks.
Able to write a scam to the extreme!
This is the greatest compliment to a detective novel!
This is why Lin Yuan decided to write "The Devotion of Suspect X" and was full of confidence.
While Lin Yuan was thinking.
Half an hour passed quickly.
Lin Yuan's new book has been successfully uploaded and published to Chu Kuang's blog account, and will have its first close contact with Blue Star readers!
…
Novel released!
Countless netizens in the comment section exclaimed:
“It’s out!”
"Chu Kuang really wrote a new book!"
"How can this be called a novella? The word count is around 150,000, which is equivalent to a short novel!"
"Is Chu Kuang's typewriter a spirit?!"
"I feel sorry for Master Lu and Xu Ping. Why are they arguing with the King of Juan?"
"The new book is coming out so quickly, are you sure you can still control the quality?"
“That’s pretty bad.”
"I think it's worth looking forward to. The old thief's mystery novels, except for those few weird ones, are all good..."
“I happen to like his narrative tricks the most.”
"Mystery novel, it's time for everyone to guess the murderer again."
Under discussion.
Netizens clicked on the novel one after another.
…
Qinzhou.
When Master Lu saw the news that Chu Kuang's new book was about to be released, he could no longer write and felt extremely restless.
Staring at the blog interface.
When Master Lu saw Chu Kuang’s novel being released, he clicked in with red eyes.
Want to be in the top ten
I want to see what you wrote!
Although our rankings are close, it doesn’t mean that you can defeat Xu Ping by just writing something!
Such a short time!
Can you really produce good work without polishing it and studying it carefully
Even if you have prepared creative ideas like me, you shouldn't do it so quickly. It's not scientific at all!
…
This is not an isolated case.
In a room in Zhongzhou.
Xu Ping's head was buzzing, and he could no longer type calmly, so he chose to click on "The Devotion of Suspect X".
This is a mystery novel!
What reasoning requires is rigor and design!
It is very complicated in terms of the difficulty of creation!
If Chu Kuang had written a short or medium-length martial arts novel, Xu Ping would have thought it was barely understandable, but the reasoning was different!
So fast!
The quality will definitely be affected!
What’s the point of writing fast if there is no quality
…
at the same time.
Countless colleagues in the writer circle were also shocked by Chu Kuang’s sudden news of his new book!
"Depend on!"
“He actually wrote it!”
"Is this a plan to make it into the top ten before the end of the year?"
"Isn't that too much of a stretch?"
"It's quite a long article, this tentacle monster!"
"Look at the level of books this King of Volumes has written."
“I think this book might not be simple.”
"Why?"
"Because reasoning is what Chu Kuang is best at, even better than martial arts!"
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This moment!
Start reading!
The main text of the novel appeared before the eyes of countless people on Blue Star: At 7:35 in the morning, Ishigami left the apartment as usual. Although it was already March, the wind blowing in his face was still quite cold. He buried his chin in his scarf and walked out...
The novel is set in Chuzhou.
This can be heard from the naming style of the characters in the novel.
The story at the beginning is not complicated. The first chapter tells about a middle-aged man named Ishigami who would deliberately take a detour to buy lunch at a store every day before going to work.
Because Ishigami has a crush on the female clerk in this store, who is his neighbor Hanaoka Yasuko.
Ishigami is an ordinary high school teacher, while Hanaoka Seiko is a twice-divorced hostess who lives with her daughter.
That evening.
Her ex-husband Togashi suddenly came to harass Hanaoka Yasuko for money.
Yasuko Hanaoka had no choice but to give the money, after all, calling the police was useless for such a matter.
However, even though Hanaoka Seiko gave a lot of money, her ex-husband Togashi was still not satisfied. He even threatened that in a few years he would send his stepdaughter, Hanaoka Seiko and her first husband's daughter, Hanaoka Misato, to a place of entertainment to work as a hostess and earn money.
The conflict broke out instantly!
Misato Hanaoka hit Togashi with a vase, but the child was limited in strength and Togashi was only injured.
After being injured.
Togashi, who exploded with rage, immediately grabbed Misato's hair and slapped her hard.
In order to protect her daughter, Seiko Hanaoka strangled Togashi's neck with the electric wire of the heater in desperation, and finally cooperated with her daughter to kill her ex-husband Togashi who had been harassing them.
Murder!
…
The novel has only reached the second chapter at this point.
Countless readers who wanted to use their clever little brains to guess who the murderer was were dumbfounded.
Meow meow meow
Who is the murderer
Yasuko Hanaoka and her daughter!
Chu Kuang clearly stated it in the first two chapters of the novel, leaving no chance for readers to guess!
The other side.
Xu Ping and Lu Yang, who also saw this, were also stunned.
It was said that this was a detective novel, and he revealed the answer to the mystery right at the beginning
Although these two people do not specialize in writing mystery novels, their reading range covers a wide range of mystery novels, and they have read quite a few mystery novels in their lifetime!
However.
In their understanding of the mystery genre, they deeply understand that it is undoubtedly very difficult to create a mystery novel that reveals who the murderer is at the beginning of the novel!
"Depend on!"
“What a bold way to write it!”
"The writing difficulty of Chu Kuang's challenge this time is a bit scary. He tells the readers who the murderer is right at the beginning. How can we deduce this?"
“Awesome!”
"This old thief's thinking process when writing books is completely different from that of normal people. Poirot and Sherlock Holmes, which one doesn't slowly solve the case, letting the readers follow the protagonist to infer the identity of the murderer based on various information?"
"Is there another murder case behind this?"
"Putting the murder aside for now, I feel that Togashi deserved to die. He harassed his ex-wife for money after the divorce. He is really a piece of shit."
"really."
"I want to know how this mystery novel is going to be deduced later. After all, the clues are obvious and the murderer is easy to identify."
…
Between discussions.
Many people continued to look down.
The protagonist of this novel, Ishigami, the neighbor who has a crush on Hanaoka Seiko, appears again. He lives next door and when he heard the noise, he immediately came over and knocked on the door to inquire.
Jingzi could only open the door.
She lied that there were cockroaches in her house.
Ishigami asked back, "Did he kill him?"
Readers who read this will feel a chill in their hearts for some reason. Ishigami’s words seem to have a hidden meaning. Has he discovered something
“Have you eliminated the cockroaches?”
Ishigami added a sentence that made his statement seem like he was trying to cover up something.
Hanaoka Seiko managed to fool him, but soon Ishigami knocked on the door again: "I was wondering what decision you have made. If you want to call the police, I have no objection, but if you don't have this plan, maybe I can help."
reader:
Yasuko Hanaoka:
There's something wrong with this stone god!
Ishigami seems to have known that Hanaoka Yasuko and her daughter had just killed Togashi!
However, this middle-aged high school teacher, who was ordinary when he first appeared and didn't even have the courage to talk to Hanaoka Seiko, now had a calm expression and made all the readers cry instantly with one sentence:
"Women alone can't handle the bodies."
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ps: Thank you for the reward from the little big baby boss. I bow down to him ▄█?█●. I wish the boss happiness, health, success and good luck. Keep writing!