Chapter 325: Haruno’s vest fell off?
Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, inside Otowa Town Kodansha.
Riho Morikawa hummed a cheerful song and walked into her office with the coffee she had just bought.
This is the independent office that the company leaders arranged for her a few days ago.
Although it is not the time for promotion until the end of the year, the emergence of the new office undoubtedly shows how much the higher-ups value her now. After all, Morikawa Riho is now the person closest to Sawayama Haruno in the company.
The other party's books are selling better and better in the market, and even the second batch of printing has to increase the quantity. All these signs show that Sawayama Haruno is growing into a new generation pillar of Kodansha at an astonishing speed.
As Sawayama Haruno's editor, Morikawa Riho naturally benefited from the latter's work.
"Choice is more important than hard work."
Sitting in a comfortable office chair, Morikawa Riho couldn't help but sigh.
She has been working at Kodansha for several years, but she has always worked in the editor's public office. She thought that if she wanted to sit in such an independent office, she would have to wait for several more years of experience. Unexpectedly, she would be in her current situation just by accidentally signing a book.
No wonder everyone says "If you make the wrong choice, all your efforts will be in vain." It would be better to let Sawayama Haruno come out to write books a few years earlier than to work diligently in the company for a few years. Maybe she could have reached her current position faster.
I just don’t know yet whether the job reshuffle at the end of the year will promote me to department editor-in-chief or independent editor.
Either way, the benefits to her are obvious.
"Wait a few days until the promotion is confirmed, then I'll treat that Kiriyama guy to a meal."
While drinking coffee, Morikawa Riho couldn't help but think about the other person.
Young, rich, good-looking, and good-tempered.
He should be a popular guy in college. Why didn’t I have a classmate like him when I was in college?
“I really want to be younger.”
Morikawa Riho sighed.
What is the other party doing now?
I guess they are enjoying the hot spring. After all, I heard about it the day before yesterday. Plus, I also saw the updates posted by Mine Shiori in the past two days. There is no doubt that they are on vacation outside.
But this guy is genuine.
Shiori had brought one with her, so what would happen if she brought one more? At most, she could just treat him to a few more meals.
Morikawa Riho was amused by her own thoughts. After shaking her head, she warned herself in her heart.
After completely gathering some unknown and hazy thoughts, she slowly turned on her computer.
However, before Morikawa Riho could start her afternoon work, there was a hurried knock on the door.
"Boom boom boom——"
"Sister Riho, are you in the office now?"
A female voice that sounded hurried came into the office.
This voice was not unfamiliar to Morikawa Riho. It belonged to a female employee who had interned under her at the same time as Mine Shiori. Her name was Ishikawa Riko, which was a bit cute and hard to describe.
"Please come in."
Morikawa Riho shouted outside subconsciously.
The door was immediately pushed open from the outside, and the short-haired young intern who came in had obviously encountered some serious problem. After coming in, he looked at Morikawa Riho with a panicked look on his face.
"Sister Riho, something happened."
Ishikawa Riko stammered, "On the Internet, there is a lot of information and reports about Mr. Kiriyama on the Internet."
"Oh, I already knew about this."
Listening to Ishikawa Riko's report, Morikawa Riho seemed a little absent-minded.
She had known about this for a long time. She was the one who introduced her old classmate to Sawayama Haruno when he went to a broadcasting station in the port area for an interview.
It is indeed possible that the other party would release the interview. After all, Norwegian Wood is becoming more and more popular day by day, and the fame of the author Kiriyama Tokai is also rising steadily.
In addition, in order to better sell the film copyright, the company will also help create momentum in the market. After the copyright is sold, the investors will continue to promote Sawayama Haruno's novel in order to make the most profit.
With so many external factors helping Sawayama Haruno's novel to achieve higher sales, one can imagine how popular it is during this period. Posts and videos related to "Norwegian Wood" are emerging in endlessly on the Internet.
Almost everyone around Riho Morikawa was discussing this matter, except the author herself who was on vacation in a hot spring hotel and was unaware of it.
Really, that guy himself doesn't even care about the specific situation, and she still has to take the trouble to help him every day.
"Don't worry about it. It won't have any negative impact anyway."
Morikawa Riho paused and said casually, "Let it go. Maybe we can continue to use the Internet to increase the popularity of the book."
"It's not what Riho-san thinks."
Seeing that Morikawa Riho had misunderstood, Ishikawa Riko suddenly became anxious.
She took out her cell phone, searched a few times quickly, and then placed the contents in front of Morikawa Riho.
The latter glanced at it casually, and then froze in place.
It was a set of photos on Instagram, and the person in the photos was Sawayama Haruno. However, what was unexpected was that there was a caption in the photo, which roughly meant that Sawayama Haruno was the famous Kirishima Fuyumi who was in the limelight recently.
"No way" Morikawa Riho was stunned.
Sawayama Haruno's identity was actually revealed by others.
Although they didn't think that the vest could be hidden forever, the fact that it was exposed so quickly was beyond their original expectations.
What's more, they don't know who the person who leaked the information online is, and what specific photos the other party took secretly.
Morikawa Riho realized something was wrong and immediately asked, "Are there any other photos?"
"Yes, you can see it on his homepage." Ishikawa Riko said quickly.
Following her instructions, Morikawa Riho clicked on the homepage and continued reading. The more she read, the more frightened she became.
Because there was another post later, which also revealed that Sawayama Haruno was a student at Tokyo University.
Currently, this post is very popular and has a corresponding tag. The number of likes and comments makes Morikawa Riho feel nervous.
There were even students from the University of Tokyo who responded to the blogger's speculation, claiming that they had seen Sawayama Haruno writing a novel in the school library.
Although this reply cannot fully prove that Sawayama Haruno and Kiriyama Fuyumi are the same person, most people don't care about this. They will only prejudge what they see.
What's more, everything they guessed was true.
In addition to this response from a Todai University student, someone who claimed to be a high school classmate of Sawayama Haruno also commented below.
Fortunately, this high school classmate did not say anything, but just said that Sawayama Haruno was his former classmate.
"This is trouble."
Looking at the content on the mobile phone, Morikawa Riho rubbed her eyebrows and suddenly felt a headache.
"Teacher Kiriyama really hates people knowing his real life," she sighed.
Before Sawayama Haruno signed the contract with her, he explained why he didn't want to write the novel under his real name.
The main reason is that he doesn't want others to disturb his real life.
In the past, Morikawa Riho couldn't understand why he had such an idea, but as the popularity of "Norwegian Wood" grew day by day, she also realized that not using her real name might be a good thing for Haruno.
After all, he is only a few years old and he has written such a literary work. If people outside knew about it, it would definitely cause quite a stir.
Especially his friends and classmates, there will definitely be people who will keep coming to bother him, and it will be extremely troublesome to deal with them by then.
Thinking of this, Morikawa Riho pondered for a moment and said slowly: "Lizi, go see if you can contact this blogger and ask him to delete all the posts."
"If you don't want to delete it, just hand it over to the company's legal department and sue him directly," added Riho Morikawa.
These photos cannot be ignored. After all, Sawayama Haruno is very sensitive about being disturbed in his real life.
In addition, he is about to start preparing his second book. If too many people knew his true identity, it would probably have a certain impact on the creation of the second book.
The best option is to help him delete these photos, reduce the heat as much as possible, and prevent someone from disturbing him in real life.
"I see."
After hearing what Morikawa Riho said, Ishikawa Riko nodded obediently.
She got her phone back, left the office and started contacting the blogger who posted the photos.
And Morikawa Riho began to contact Sawayama Haruno.
“I really can’t rest for a moment.”
Listening to the other party's ringtone, Morikawa Riho felt indescribably depressed.
When the call was answered, she immediately said, "Teacher Kiriyama, I have bad news."
".I'm on vacation now. Can't you tell me the bad news later?"
Haruno Sawayama on the other end of the phone sounded very helpless, but Riho Morikawa did not give him a chance to resist.
"Someone on the Internet revealed your true identity, and also revealed that you were studying at the University of Tokyo."
Morikawa Riho paused and added, "I have already asked someone to contact the blogger urgently, but the post is so popular that many people probably saw it, so I called to remind Kiriyama-sensei that he'd better pay attention."
"Has it been told?"
The tone of Sawayama Haruno on the other end of the phone changed significantly.
"Ms. Morikawa, could you please send me that post?"
"Okay, I'll forward it to you later."
Holding the phone, Morikawa Riho hesitated to speak, and finally said slowly: "Well, Mr. Kiriyama better be careful with the girls around you, because you are too famous now, I am afraid that many people who know you will also know about this."
(End of this chapter)
