Mortal Kombat: Scumbag Men Stealing Away Yandere Girls

Although Guoguo is a senior colleague, she looks young and is humble, and can get along well with everyone. So, Achao didn't add a respectful title like he would when addressing Bai Weiran.

Guoguo watched as Achao excitedly approached, and from behind, he twisted around like a happy maggot that had just eaten its fill. Guoguo couldn't help but feel a little pity for him.

Ah Chao, wake up!

Wei Ran is a complete straight man; he even has ex-girlfriends.

But this ex-girlfriend—sigh, let's not even talk about it, just thinking about it makes me angry for Weiran.

As she slowly followed, Ah Chao lightly patted Bai Weiran's shoulder, his face immediately turning red with excitement, like a little girl who had just touched her idol's hand.

"Brother Weiran, what are you looking at so intently...?"

Ah Chao quickly glanced at the screen.

"...Are you trying out some new game?"

Bai Weiran made no attempt to hide his feelings and nodded with a smile.

"um, yes."

"What game is this? It looks pixelated, but it seems to be from a third-person perspective...?"

"It's a girl raising simulation game. I just wanted to try it out since I had nothing else to do."

"...Girl raising game? Brother Weiran, when did you suddenly start playing this kind of girl raising game? Weren't you always only interested in real-time competitive games?"

Ah Chao sat down on the chair to Bai Weiran's left, his face filled with the adoration of someone talking to their idol, his eyes sparkling.

Guoguo slowly sat down in the chair to Bai Weiran's right, watching this doomed romance end without a trace.

"That's not the case. Experiencing more things can also help with game design inspiration. You can draw inferences from one instance to another. Since you're in this industry, you have to understand that there's no end to learning."

Ah Chao's eyes shone even brighter, and he quickly took out his phone.

"Brother Weiran is right. We should do game development. There's no end to learning. Brother Weiran, tell me what this game is. I want to try it out. I think the pixel quality of the characters is pretty high."

"That's inconvenient," Bai Weiran said with a smile.

"This was made by my friend's studio, and it's still in closed beta. I'm just playing around with it and offering suggestions. How about this: I'll recommend it to you when it's officially released."

Ah Chao gave an "oh" sound, looking regretful for not being able to interact with Bai Weiran more, but quickly cheered up – at least he talked to Bai Weiran more today than usual.

Proceed step by step.

When Guoguo heard about raising a girl, it seemed to trigger her DNA, and she came over to take a look.

"Which studio is this? Looking at the interface... using pixel art for a first-person cinematic narrative style... why not just use detailed modeling? Even simulation games are more detailed than modeling these days. Your friend is still doing pixel art, isn't that too niche?"

Bai Weiran accepted it calmly.

“You’re right, I’ll join in and give them advice.”

At the same time, he turned off his phone screen.

Guoguo wasn't too concerned about the game, because she had more important questions to discuss with Bai Weiran.

"Hey, watch your step. I think Dong Zhengyuan is looking for trouble with you."

"...?"

"Didn't you always disappear from your workstation before? And then you'd vanish right at eight o'clock sharp, we all noticed, and of course Dong Zhengyuan knew too. I overheard Dong Zhengyuan privately going to the HR department to check your working hours, probably trying to use that against you!"

This is the culture of game companies.

One is a hypocrite, the other a true villain.

The hypocrite says: We don't care about working overtime. The creative industry isn't labor-intensive. Overtime doesn't increase output; it just adds meaningless consumption. So we only require accountability. As long as the work is done, no one cares about your working hours.

However, the workload can always exceed the normal working hours of employees.

The real villain says: We're just going all out. There's no overtime pay, but the bonuses will be huge once the project goes live. Working 996007 hours a day is a blessing. Those who don't work overtime aren't the real heroes. They're just lying around doing nothing, worse than animals. We're going to work overtime, no questions asked. If you don't want to work overtime, get out!

【Shih-Le】also promotes the slogan of "no overtime in the creative industry".

However, company rules are one thing, but ultimately it depends on the people who manage them.

Bai Weiran's former boss was indeed a true gentleman; he released him without hesitation and didn't hold it against him.

But after that former leader left to travel the world, Bai Weiran felt that it was very likely that part of the reason was that the leader had made enough money and started to act like a tyrant. Although he was in charge of leading projects, he had tens of millions of stock dividends in his account, was still a veteran employee of the company, had a very close relationship with the boss, and managed projects in a Buddhist-like manner, so no one could do anything about him.

He's the best leader, except for the risk of him running away.

Dong Zhengyuan's combination is the worst.

He's a hypocrite in public, but a true villain in private.

On the surface, they claim they don't have an overtime responsibility system, but they'll secretly have HR check your working hours. The bottom 30% of people in the project team will be called in for a private talk during performance reviews.

Let's not talk about work results, let's talk about your work attitude first.

Even if you do well, if your attitude is bad and you don't fit in, you can forget about getting good performance; you'll just be stuck with a mediocre job.

Bai Weiran often holds meetings with Dong Zhengyuan to discuss research and development. Although many colleagues don't say it directly, they unconsciously show their preference for Bai Weiran. Dong Zhengyuan hesitates to take action against Bai Weiran because of his abilities, but he wants to annoy him whenever he has the chance.

Claiming credit for others' work and deceiving superiors are common occurrences. Guoguo was so angry for Bai Weiran that she jumped up and down several times, complaining of stomach pain.

Bai Weiran himself was as indifferent as if he were above the heavens, completely unaffected.

Bai Weiran's early departures lately have definitely given Dong Zhengyuan leverage against her.

Bai Weiran thanked Guoguo for tipping him off.

But he was powerless to stop it.

As a working person, it's perfectly normal to suffer some grievances.

Previously, the project's art team had been interfered with by Dong Zhengyuan in various ways, resulting in a lot of messy and haphazard work. After he also added some new and redundant functions to the programming team, the development progress stalled. The bosses above came down one after another to express their concern, and even said to Dong Zhengyuan, "Your abilities are insufficient."

Dong Zhengyuan was deeply worried about losing his producer position and was anxious and wanted to find someone to vent his anger on. He ended up walking right into the line of fire.

Qin Ning's condition was particularly unstable during that period, forcing him to leave his workstation without reason during the day.

Several times when he came back, he was caught red-handed by Dong Zhengyuan waiting at his workstation.

He didn't neglect his work, but he could see the malice in his eyes.

Bai Weiran had a good attitude, summarizing it in one sentence: as long as I'm not fired, it's not a big deal.

Let Dong Zhengyuan say whatever he wants!

Therefore, when Dong Zhengyuan called out Bai Weiran by name at the meeting and openly mocked her, Bai Weiran was thinking about Qin Ning.

He was actually checking on Qin Ning's condition.

He checked her status on his phone, and to avoid being mistaken for a pervert watching a teenage girl's daily life, he added a filter to the spying status.

Pixel filter.

So at first glance, Ah Chao and Guo Guo thought the graphics looked like a high-end pixel game.

This is also beneficial to him, at least it avoids the awkward situation of him going in just as a girl is taking a shower and seeing her clearly in high definition.

After leaving him, Qin Ning's first action was to help Chen Zhengde's cleaning team.

Chapter Seventeen: Mission Failure and Major Crisis!

This matter itself is not difficult to handle.

Qin Ning took out a sum of money and invested it in Chen Zhengde's small cleaning company.

The amount of money is not large, but the key point is not the money itself, but the deeper meaning behind it.

Miss Qin has become a shareholder in Chen Zhengde's small cleaning company, and everyone knows that Chen Zhengde is the benefactor who found Qin Ning.

What is the true value of the Qin Group?

With a powerful backer suddenly appearing, the petty bureaucrat who had originally intended to line his own pocket trembled with fear, forced to put on a fawning smile, and led his relatives to humiliate Chen Zhengde.

It was a real slap in the face; he slapped himself on the left and on the right, with practiced ease.

He clearly suffered a lot of grievances in officialdom, apologizing to people and showing arrogance before becoming obsequious.

Many reporters wanted to follow up on Qin Ning's experiences during her disappearance. At first, everyone guessed that Qin Ning had been kidnapped, and the Qin Group had offered such a high-profile reward. However, the police and reporters waited for a long time, but the former did not receive a ransom call from the kidnappers, and the latter did not get any newsworthy material.

Later, a spokesperson for the Qin Group relayed Qin Ning's statement, saying it was a misunderstanding.

She wanted to be alone for a while, so she went abroad to clear her head and turned off her communication. However, the person in the middle relayed the wrong message, and her family couldn't contact her. They thought she had an accident and it turned out to be a kidnapping incident, but it was all a false alarm.

It sounded far-fetched, but the other party insisted on it, and the group's legal department was watching closely, ready to pounce on any reporter who wrote something wrong. Many people backed down.

Some, unwilling to give up, dug up the last night Qin Ning spent with her tutor, Lin Luo, before she disappeared.

It's no secret in high society that the eldest daughter of the Qin family is madly in love with her tutor; there were signs of this before, and she openly and blatantly indulged in her affections.

When reporters approached Lin Luo for questions, Lin Luo responded coldly.

"Where she goes, she knows best. What does it have to do with me?"

They neither denied nor admitted it.

The reporters got even more excited. If they couldn't write something openly and honestly, surely they could write a short, anonymous article?

Various gossip and rumors suddenly went viral online.

[The heiress of the Qin Group, heartbroken after being rejected by her lover, goes abroad to clear her mind]

[Miss Qin Ning has been missing for several days, and her tutor Lin Luo's words are ambiguous. Is there something going on between them...?]

This kind of gossip is what the audience is most interested in.

A wealthy heiress relentlessly pursues her childhood sweetheart, now her tutor, but he coldly rejects her.

Male viewers can relate to the storyline and find it very enjoyable, wishing they were the male lead.

Women, on the other hand, speak with a gossipy mindset and a critical tone.

Some say that Qin Ning, with her status, is too shameless to go after a man, that she's lowering herself and losing face.

Some say that money can't buy true love, and that forced love is never sweet. Qin Ning is arrogant and extreme; she wants what she wants, but love isn't something you can buy or sell. She deserves what she gets.

After stirring up trouble for several days, Qin Ning remained completely silent, a stark contrast to her previous flamboyant and conciliatory approach.

On the contrary, Lin Luo's exposure to the public eye, seemingly low-key, is actually a low-key way of showing off.

Every time a reporter appears, he has a helpless and disgusted look on his face, but he can't get rid of it. When he gets annoyed by the questions, he will give a few pretentious and aloof answers.