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Chapter 1442: Chapter 1189: Telling You Who the Killer is Right from the Start

At home.

Lin Yuan, who had just sent out a preview, was quickly tapping on the keyboard, writing the last few thousand words of the novel.

Five minutes.

Ten minutes.

Fifteen minutes.

The hands that could let Xian Yu master various instruments and turn Chu Kuang into a strong code writer finally finished the last waltz on the keyboard, as if this moment froze for a few seconds.

Alright, in plain words.

The new book “The Devotion of Suspect X” is finished.

Previously mentioned, the original author of the novel is Higashino Keigo.

In fact, this person has another notable work called “Journey Under the Midnight Sun”.

In comparison, works like “After School” are less famous, although this novel is also remarkably excellent.

On the contrary, the novel “The Miracles of the Namiya General Store”, which follows a warm and healing style, is known by many due to its domestic adaptation.

In short.

This author should be the most familiar detective novelist to Celestial Dynasty’s readers after Conan Doyle and Agatha.

Although Higashino Keigo is not just a detective novelist but has also dabbled in many non-detective themes and achieved considerable success, like the aforementioned “The Miracles of the Namiya General Store”.

This is somewhat similar to Chu Kuang.

However, this is almost a standard for top-tier writers.

Actually, there are more similarities between them.

Chu Kuang is the king of volumes among the top writers of Blue Star; Higashino Keigo happens to be the king of volumes in the Neon literary world.

His position is a prolific writer.

The super-prolific kind.

Normal writers basically publish one book every one or two years, but Higashino Keigo can write several in one year.

In his most prolific year, he wrote as many as five novels in just twelve months, yet the quality was never low!

Indeed.

Quality is very important.

The rankings of Chu Kuang, Master Lu, and Xu Ping are indeed very close, but the existing pattern cannot be changed just by casually writing a book.

Whether it’s short or long novels.

If any of the three wanted to outdo the others, besides writing fast, the quality of the work must be good.

Without quality, speed is meaningless.

So, is the quality of “The Devotion of Suspect X” good enough?

“This novel is amazing” ranked No. 1!

“Top 10 Classic Detective Novels” ranked No. 1!

“Weekly Literary Detective Novels Top 10” ranked No. 1!

Higashino Keigo’s masterpiece was the only one in the history of Neon literature to win the annual championship of the three major novel rankings.

Annual sales first place.

A splendid chart-topping masterpiece.

Quality is certainly not an issue.

It should be noted that these are not any casual rankings, but a reading trend for the year’s best-selling novels.

Besides.

This “The Devotion of Suspect X” also won the highest literary award in Neon, the Naoki Prize, and the Classic Detective Novel Grand Prize!

At the award ceremony.

The Naoki Prize gave the following comment on “The Devotion of Suspect X”:

“He wrote the deception to its extreme.”

In a sense, detective novels are about deception and revelation, otherwise, why would detective writers be so extreme as to specialize in narrative trickery?

Writing deception to the extreme!

This is the highest praise for detective novels!

This is why Lin Yuan decided to write “The Devotion of Suspect X” and is confident.

And while Lin Yuan was contemplating.

Half an hour quickly passed.

Lin Yuan’s new book was successfully uploaded and published under Chu Kuang’s blog account, ready for its first intimate contact with Blue Star readers!

…

Novel released!

Countless comments from netizens in the comment section were exclaiming:

“It’s out!”

“Chu Kuang really wrote a new book!”

“This is certainly not a novella, the word count is about 150,000, equivalent to a short novel!”

“Has Chu Kuang become a refined typewriter spirit!?”

“Feeling sorry for Master Lu and Xu Ping, why did they get entangled with the volume king.”

“The new book came out so fast, is the old rascal sure he can maintain the quality?”

“Not likely.”

“I think it is very much worth looking forward to, the old rascal’s detective novels, except for those with narrative trickery, are all pretty good.”

“I happen to like his narrative trickery the most.”

“Detective novels, it’s time for everyone to guess the killer again.”

In the discussion.

Netizens clicked on the novel one by one.

…

Qin Continent.

Upon seeing the news of Chu Kuang’s new book about to be published, Master Lu could no longer write, feeling all sorts of restless emotions.

Staring at the blog’s interface.

Seeing Chu Kuang’s novel released, Master Lu also clicked in with red eyes.

Want to break into the top ten?

I’ll see what you’ve written!

Although our rankings are close, it doesn’t mean you can take down Xu Ping with just anything!

Such a short time!

Without polishing and careful research, can you really produce a good work?

Even if you, like me, have been preparing your ideas for a long time, it shouldn’t be this fast, it doesn’t make sense!

…

Coincidentally.

In a room in Zhong Continent.

Xu Ping’s head was buzzing, also unable to peacefully type, choosing to open “The Devotion of Suspect X” as well.

This is a mystery novel!

Mystery requires precision and design!

In terms of creative difficulty, it’s extremely complex!

If Chu Kuang were writing a mid-to-short story in martial arts, Xu Ping might still barely understand, but mystery is different!

Such speed!

The quality will surely be affected!

If there’s no quality, what’s the use of writing fast?

…

Meanwhile.

Countless peers in the writers’ circle were also shocked by the sudden news of Chu Kuang’s new book!

“Damn!”

“He actually wrote it!”

“Is he trying to break into the top ten before the year ends?”

“That’s too much of a stretch, right?”

“And it’s quite lengthy, this tentacle monster!”

“Let’s quickly see what level this volume king has written.”

“I think this book might not be simple.”

“Why?”

“Because mystery is Chu Kuang’s most proficient field, even surpassing martial arts!”

…

At this moment!

Reading begins!

The text of the novel appeared before countless people on Blue Star: [At seven thirty-five in the morning, Stone God left the apartment as usual. Though it was already March, the wind blowing in his face remained quite cold. He buried his chin in his scarf and stepped out…]

The novel’s background is in Chu Continent.

This can be told from the style of the character names in the novel.

The opening story is not complicated. The first chapter describes a middle-aged man named Stone God, who deliberately takes a long route to buy lunch boxes at a shop every day on his way to work.

Because Stone God has a crush on the shop’s female clerk, who is also his neighbor, Hanaoka Yasuko.

Stone God is an ordinary high school teacher, while Hanaoka Yasuko is a bar hostess who had been divorced twice, living with her daughter.

That night.

Her ex-husband Togashi suddenly showed up to harass Hanaoka Yasuko, seeking money.

Hanaoka Yasuko had no choice but to give him money as calling the police wouldn’t help in such matters.

However, even after Hanaoka Yasuko gave him quite a bit of money, ex-husband Togashi remained unsatisfied, threatening that in a few years, he would push his stepdaughter, Hanaoka Misato, the daughter of Hanaoka Yasuko and her first husband, into nightclubs to earn money.

Conflict erupted instantly!

Hanaoka Misato hit Togashi with a vase, but being a child, her strength was limited, and Togashi was only injured.

After being injured.

An enraged Togashi immediately grabbed Misato by the hair and slapped her violently.

To protect her daughter, Hanaoka Yasuko, in desperation, used the electric wire of a heater to strangle Togashi, eventually, with her daughter’s help, killing the ex-husband who had been harassing them.

A murder case!

…

At this point, the novel has just reached the second chapter.

Countless readers, trying to play smart by guessing who the criminal was, were dumbfounded.

Meow, meow, meow?

Who is the criminal?

Mother and daughter Hanaoka Yasuko!

In the first two chapters, Chu Kuang clearly wrote it out, not leaving any room for readers to guess!

On the other side.

Similarly stunned upon reading this were Xu Ping and Lu Yang.

A promised mystery novel, and he reveals the culprit at the start?

These two, although not specialized in writing mystery novels, have a broad reading spectrum, having read numerous mystery novels in their lifetime!

However.

In their understanding of the mystery genre, they deeply know that revealing the culprit at the start in a mystery novel signifies an undeniably high level of creative difficulty!

“Damn!”

“An audacious writing style!”

“Chu Kuang’s challenge in writing this time is somewhat terrifying; telling readers the culprit from the start, how is any reasoning supposed to happen?”

“Amazing!”

“This old rascal’s thinking process for writing books is entirely different from normal people. Isn’t Poirot and Holmes usually slowly investigating, allowing readers insight into the identity of the criminal based on various information along with the protagonist?”

“Could there be more murder cases later?”

“Let’s leave murder cases aside, I feel Togashi deserved death for harassing his ex-wife for money after divorce, truly despicable.”

“Indeed.”

“I really want to know how this mystery novel plans to proceed with the mystery; after all, the clues are clear, and the criminal is easy to pinpoint.”

…

As discussions continued.

Many people continued reading on.

And the male protagonist of this novel, who is Stone God, the neighbor who secretly liked Hanaoka Yasuko, appeared again. He lived next door and heard noises from that side, immediately coming over to knock and inquire.

Yasuko had no choice but to open the door.

She lied, saying there was a cockroach in the house.

Stone God asked back, “Did you kill it?”

Reading up to this point, readers inexplicably felt a chill in their hearts; Stone God’s words seemed to have an underlying meaning. Could he have discovered something?

“Did you exterminate the cockroach?”

Stone God added a sentence, with a bit of a hint of covering up.

Hanaoka Yasuko barely managed to fool him, yet soon Stone God knocked on the door again: “I was wondering if you had decided on whether to call the police. I have no objections if you decide to do so, but if you don’t have such intentions, perhaps I can be of assistance..”

Readers: ?

Hanaoka Yasuko: ?

This Stone God is strange!

Stone God seemed to already know about the incident of Hanaoka Yasuko and her daughter killing Togashi!

Yet, this middle-aged high school teacher, who seemed plain when he appeared and didn’t even have the courage to converse with Hanaoka Yasuko, now had an incredibly calm expression, and then, with one sentence, instantly floored all the readers:

“Women alone cannot handle a corpse.”

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