I Am a Light Novel Master in Japan Chapter 681

In the afternoon, in the quiet Tokyo city, the lights were turned on early in the single apartment in Shinjuku District. In room 505, a face with dark circles was typing on the keyboard in front of the computer.

The writing of the final volume of "Super Academy War" is still in progress.

"Well……"

Li Yan hadn't had a good sleep for several days. His eyes were bloodshot, and he opened them so wide to prevent his eyelids from drooping that his face looked a bit too scary.

"Huh... I won't let you be lazy, but Mr. Uesugi, the way you are now is definitely too exaggerated."

Suddenly, a girl next to him took off her headphones, glanced at Li Yan, and complained.

"?"

Li Yan suddenly raised his head and looked over, and was shocked to find Kasumigaoka Shiyu sitting not far from him at some point, looking at him leisurely.

"...Teacher Xia Shizi?!" Li Yan was stunned and asked.

Kasumigaoka Shiyu sighed and said: "Yes, Teacher Uesugi, I have been here for more than ten minutes, why should I be surprised?"

"...!" Li Yan quickly remembered.

Kasumigaoka Shiu, a candidate for today's university entrance exam, is now a special person entrusted by the editorial department of Sanwa Bunko to urge a certain old thief to postpone the deadline for a full month.

Li Yan could hardly sit up straight. Almost his entire body turned pale and lifeless. He coded words in a hoarse and painful voice and said, "Teacher Xia Shizi, you really don't have back pain when you stand and talk. I slept less than seven hours for three consecutive days, even if it was a holiday. This kind of suffering is a kind of mental and intellectual torture for any author..."

Kasumigaoka Shiyu yawned, wiped his eyes and said, "Didn't you ask for this? You clearly agreed to publish the last volume of the novel in February, but in the end you deceived your poor hundreds of thousands of readers and fans. This is... You are the only one in the industry, Uesugi Yan, who dares to be so rude to readers, but your readers are still like M and are willing to believe you again and again, while other authors are finished once."

Li Yan's somewhat unconscious fingers stopped, and he looked helplessly at Kasumigaoka Shiyu, who had brought exam materials, computers, and even headphones and skin care products to prepare for the exam, and said: "I didn't mean it, either. Don’t make me sound so perverted.”

"This is a compliment to you, it's true." Kasumigaoka Shiyu exhaled, took out the reference textbook and said.

"...It always feels a little rude to use words specific to sexual fetishes to praise people." Li Yan silently thought to himself.

Kasumigaoka Shiyu sat at the desk in Li Yan's bedroom, looking at Li Yan's books out of boredom, and then looking at the layout of this room, where Li Yan lived. She knew that Yinglili was quite familiar with this environment, but this was her first time coming in.

The Japanese light novel market is the second largest two-dimensional creation market after comics, with hundreds of thousands of practitioners in Japan. 90% of the authors are completely unable to rely on royalties to support themselves, and 10% of the authors can become professional writers. Only 3% of the authors can complete all the stories without being cut in half. As a result, only 1% of the authors can sell more than 100,000 copies in total, and can sell 1.76 million copies in two years of serialization. The author can be described as a monster.

Kasumigaoka Shiha had planned to come over a long time ago to see how Uesugi Yan, who was considered a creative genius by the industry, completed this popular work. So after learning that Li Yan was once again letting the readers off, editor Kagura When Iris Saka couldn't get away, he authorized Kasumigaoka Shiu to come over and supervise.

"However, Uesugi-sensei is certainly very powerful, and part of the reason is that his update speed is quite astonishing. An average light novel author completes a volume in two months to attract popularity, while a popular author will take longer to finish his work. Writing becomes more and more difficult in the future. Some authors simply won’t publish a book for two years. There are even several who do not update until the end of their writing in order to preserve their value... Mr. Uesugi has always maintained a certain speed in updating. , one volume is published in two to three months. At such a speed, it took 11 volumes to earn 1.76 million sales. The sheer tenacity of creation is enough to be called a monster."

Kasumigaoka Shiyu secretly looked at Li Yan and thought.

"that."

Li Yan was silent for a while, looked at the side face of his colleague Kasumigaoka Shiu who suddenly visited and supervised him, and the exam preparation materials she brought over, and asked: "Aren't you going to take the Waseda exam in early April? Why are you so suddenly attracted by Miss Kagurazaka?" Is it really okay for you to come over and supervise me?”

Kasumigaoka Shiu waved her beautiful long black hair with her hands and said confidently: "Of course, I had enough deviation to enter the Waseda Bunbu. What I am doing now is to consolidate the foundation."

"I actually have a question I want to ask Mr. Uesugi."

Kasumigaoka Shiyu began to stare at the surroundings and asked: "When I first entered the door, I always felt that a woman had lived here before. Is it my imagination?"

"?!"

When Li Yan heard this, he immediately looked at Kasumigaoka Shiyu who was staring at him suspiciously with an expression of disbelief.

What's going on, what's going on with this keen observation!

"It's just a woman's intuition." Kasumigaoka Shiyu seemed to know what was causing Li Yan's shock, and replied.

"No, no, no, you misunderstood. You said there is a girl living in my room. It's absolutely not the case!" Li Yan turned pale and started to quibble.

After all, if the news about Alice's residence was spread, it might be involved in a criminal case. Even if they are innocent, who would believe such a truth? He has already been involved in many scandals. This one more thing will really make things worse. It is impossible to lose one's reputation.

But for Kasumigaoka Shiyu, how could she not understand Li Yan? If a man with bad conduct really committed misconduct, he should be more calm and deceive women. In most cases, Li Yan's processing ability is quite good. Excellent, but this aspect is too poor.

"Let's not talk about this anymore. Now, where did you write it?" Kasumigaoka Shiyu put her chin on her hand, flipped through the reference materials at random, and asked.

"This...this...this...is about 80% complete. There are still more than 30,000 words left, and all the plots will be completed."

Li Yan looked at the progress of the outline with his sleepy eyes and said.

"Really, then it can be completed in about a week, but the editorial department requires you, old thief Uesugi, to complete it within three days, so please work hard." Kasumigaoka Shiu nodded and said.

"What, three days?!" Li Yan asked after his heartbeat stopped.

"..."

At this time, Kasumigaoka Shiyu remained silent and began to review carefully.

Li Yan maintained a hesitant look. He originally planned to ask Kasumigaoka Shiyu to persuade him about the situation in the editorial department, but he did not dare to disturb Kasumigaoka Shiyu's review state at this time. He could only continue to face the computer after struggling for a moment in his heart. Write the final storyline.

However, Li Yan didn't know that the top student girl who was looking at books and sleeping would occasionally look at Li Yan's serious expression on his writing.

The creator's expressions can't help but show different expressions depending on the different plots he writes about.

Li Yan, who had dark circles under his eyes, gradually became nervous and fierce. He seemed to be writing a scene of fighting. He suddenly regained his composure and seemed to start writing the daily plot parts again. Sometimes he was talking to himself and nagging. This was just trying his best. Capturing the character's tone and thinking expresses...

It should be said that in the eyes of others, it was like someone going crazy after being insomniac for too long. So, the creators are all madmen, that’s it. So, she was a little curious about what it was like when she was writing.

The girl's Yanran smiled slightly and continued to look at her reference book.

After the events in February, everything calmed down.

When his assistant's contract expired, Li Yan and his assistant Alice completed 70% of the progress after being delayed by a major and dangerous incident, but Alice... no, Ziyuan, who finally told him about Alice's real name Tera Yuko still needs to help Victoria completely eliminate the absconding criminals but did not renew her contract. She moved out here yesterday.

By chance, Kasumigaoka Shiyu came to visit today.

Finally, after burning for several hours and finishing saving with trembling fingers, Li Yan immediately lay on the table and knocked over the empty jars of various refreshing drinks. After the last trace of enthusiasm in his whole body was exhausted, only Miaomiao was left. White smoke.

Li Yan rested for a long time before regaining some strength. He got up and thought that he should find some dinner. He also thought that the editors were really unscrupulous and sent a candidate to supervise him. In the end, he didn't do it at all. I dare not sleep in the middle of the exam, and I dare not tell a nervous exam preparer that I am going out to collect materials...

When the prospective candidates come to supervise him, Li Yan himself is also assisting Kasumigaoka Shiyu in maintaining a state of review, work and study. It is more efficient for two people to supervise each other and accompany him than for one person to do whatever he wants.

Li Yan only felt that his scalp was heavy and painful, but in the end, his first work was just one step away from being completed. Li Yan didn't know why, but while he was filled with emotions, his heart felt empty.

"Teacher Xia Shizi, it's already 8:20 now, you should go back..."

After Li Yan lay on the table and rested for a few minutes, he saw the time displayed in the lower right corner of the computer and said to Kasumigaoka Shiyu.

But as soon as he turned his head to look, he saw Kasumigaoka Shiyu already lying on the table, sleeping soundly. Her beautiful back was slightly undulating, and her snow-white and delicate face only revealed her pair of closed eyes and her slender and curved lips. Eyelashes.

Li Yan, who was sitting aside, stared at Kasumigaoka Shiyu with messy hair and a complicated expression on his face.

Obviously he seems to be the most sleep-deprived person here, but the one who sleeps so peacefully and peacefully is the supervision representative who is preparing for the most important university exam...

"Am I the only one fighting alone in the end?" Li Yan thought in shock.