Mortal Kombat: Scumbag Men Stealing Away Yandere Girls

"I've told you so many times, you have to dry your hair right away, otherwise you'll get migraines when you get old."

He grabbed a large towel and smacked Mengmeng's head, instantly shattering the tense atmosphere.

"Let...me go...Bai Weiran...I want to hit her...Waaah..."

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Qin Ning circled around to Bai Weiran's back, clinging to him like a viper sucking away his life force. She leaned over and planted a kiss on Bai Weiran's left cheek, looking triumphant as if she had just planted a victory flag.

Mengmeng caught a glimpse of this out of the corner of her eye, let out an angry shout, and ran wildly in Bai Weiran's arms. She rolled over and pounced on Bai Weiran's chest. One in front of the other, the two of them exchanged Wing Chun moves on each other's shoulders, making a whirlwind of movements.

As soon as I pinned one down, another started acting up, so I simply stopped pinning them down and let them run wild.

Bai Weiran, sandwiched in the middle, silently recited the Heart-Cleansing Mantra while using his free hand to find an opening amidst the chaotic punches, so as to dry the girl's snow-white hair.

He had only one question: if they fought like this until they were seventy or eighty and still couldn't decide a winner, and Mengmeng couldn't cure her fear of men—wouldn't that really make him stay celibate until he was seventy or eighty?

Xx

Days passed slowly, one by one.

With the Spring Festival, the most important festival in China, approaching, the atmosphere in the company is gradually becoming more relaxed.

Everyone is waiting to receive their year-end bonus, looking forward to the annual meeting, and the Spring Festival holiday. Many colleagues who come to work in the city from other places are all smiling. They can only go home a handful of times a year. Those with families look forward to this holiday to spend time with their loved ones, while those who go back to their hometowns long to see their parents.

Everyone's conversation revolved around topics like travel, food, and sleeping in at home, and smiles were on their faces.

Even a workaholic like Bai Weiran has relaxed his work schedule and is taking his time.

The R&D project has three phases. The first phase is the most troublesome and involves the most iterations. With insufficient manpower, it undergoes continuous testing and prototypes are created. Once the prototype is approved, it enters the second phase, at which point the company's resources are officially injected. The third phase is essentially about validating the product and evaluating the promotional traffic it receives.

The first phase of Bai Weiran's project has been successfully completed after revisions and can now proceed to the second phase, transforming it from a prototype into a real commercial product. This phase also requires a significant investment of R&D manpower, and once the second phase begins, expanding the project team becomes a logical next step.

Anyone who tries to obstruct or trip you up will have to give way automatically.

It's just that it's the end of the year, and hiring has become very difficult.

Most people won't choose to leave at this time either. They're about to receive their year-end bonuses and go on vacation, making it a good time for busy office workers to take advantage of company benefits after a year of hard work.

Unless there are special personal reasons, very few people would change jobs at this time.

The project isn't busy, so hiring is slow.

Bai Weiran has been busy interviewing people who can start work after the New Year.

Amidst this jubilant atmosphere, a bizarre incident occurred at Bai Weiran's project: someone resigned at the end of the year.

The person who resigned was Prince Yu Yu, number two.

They were in a rush to quit, as if they wanted to leave immediately.

It's not related to work. Yu Yu rarely thinks about others or the big picture; she's always preoccupied with her own sadness.

The reason was that his goddess Xuexue confessed her feelings to Wu Ji.

Bai Weiran, a close friend of Wu Ji, only learned about this on the 25th when Wu Ji resigned, realizing it too late.

After her experience with murder mystery games, Xuexue couldn't forget the handsome Wu Ji.

Xuexue's catchphrase used to be: "I don't think there are any handsome guys in our company."

After meeting Wu Ji, he stopped saying that phrase.

But Wu Ji did not like Princess Yu Yu.

Moreover, Wu Ji's famous grass already had an owner.

Despite Xuexue's initiative in striking up conversations and inviting him out, Wu Ji consistently declined politely.

Xuexue's love grew ever deeper, much like the mindset of all princesses who believe that every man in the world should love them. Unable to win her heart, she began to pursue Yuyu.

He posts short essays on WeChat Moments every day.

The story is told in a dreamy yet melancholic style, describing how the gray-haired knight politely gave her a late-night taxi on the roadside, and how wonderful it was to have him.

In game companies, there are far more men than women, and young girls are highly sought after. A large number of male colleagues in the company have added Xuexue on WeChat, and she is present in various project teams. Everyone can see Xuexue's short essays. Her distinctive gray-haired knight identity is so obvious that Wu Ji's identity was quickly guessed.

Most of the male colleagues just laughed it off, remaining rational.

I thought Xuexue was quite cute at first glance, but after chatting with her for a while, I realized she wasn't really my type.

You want to be a princess, but we don't want to be slaves. Goodbye.

But the second and fifth lines broke through the defenses.

Xuexue had just been rejected by Wu Ji. At the beginning of Yu Yu's relationship, Erwu knew that she was feeling down and tried his best to comfort her. At that time, he did not know that the object of his affection was Wu Ji. He only thought that Xuexue had fallen for someone else and was heartbroken. He offered her comfort and care, hoping to use his warm and caring attitude to make Xuexue realize his good qualities.

But Princess Yu Yu cannot be coaxed.

If she were to be so easily appeased, she wouldn't be called Princess Yuyu.

The more you try to appease him, the more you fall into a vicious cycle of logic: "Yes! You're right! I'm great!" and "Then why doesn't he like someone as great as me?"

Later, Xuexue's essays became increasingly explicit, and Erwu learned of Wu Ji's existence.

The heartbroken Prince Yu Yu, despite his pain, was determined to stand up for his princess.

She went and confronted Wu Ji, scolding him for toying with Xuexue's feelings.

Wu Ji: Subway, old man, cell phone, question mark?

Wu Ji is usually all smiles, but anyone who can do planning has a silver tongue. Er Wu's fighting power is no match for him. With just a few words of greeting without any swear words, Er Wu was completely defeated. Er Wu ran back to Xue Xue with a heavy heart and told her that Wu Ji was a terrible person and not worth her liking at all. She told Xue Xue to forget about him!

As a result, Xuexue found out that Erwu had gone to cause trouble for her knight. She became angry and scolded Erwu, saying that Erwu had bullied Wu Ji.

Heartbroken, Erwu resigned before the end of the year.

Bai Weiran doesn't check his WeChat Moments and doesn't have Xuexue as a friend.

Wu Ji didn't care about this at all and wouldn't tell Bai Weiran.

Although Guoguo knew, she felt that Xuexue's matter was a girl's private matter. Although Bai Weiran was a good friend, he was also a grown man, and it was not very ethical for him to gossip about girls' private matters, so she never mentioned it.

So much so that Bai Weiran didn't even ask anyone to understand the whole story until Erwu had already resigned.

Indeed, relationships between people are often a mess.

He pressed his forehead and slowly, gently sat down in the conference room to advise Erwu to postpone his thoughts of resigning.

**

Today's update is a long, thick, and powerful chapter.

Here's a guessing game with no prize: who do you think will be the first to get Wei Ran's first blood?

(A) Qin Ning

(B) Mengmeng

(C) Xia Yanle

(D) An unknown female protagonist

The prophet who guessed correctly will come back and kill you all with a woodcutter's axe (o゜▽゜)o☆

Chapter 42 The Old-Fashioned Journey East and West

Bai Weiran couldn't say he liked Erwu, but he didn't dislike him either.

When he was first transferred to Dong Zhengyuan's project, Dong Zhengyuan asked him to work with Erwu. Erwu was responsible for helping Bai Weiran get familiar with the project. At first, Erwu was quite friendly to Bai Weiran and taught him carefully. But Erwu soon discovered something - Bai Weiran knew more than him.

Once he gets Bai Weiran familiar with the project and gets her up to speed, the two of them will be on the same starting line, and he will pale in comparison.

Erwu began to sabotage Bai Weiran, deliberately making his demands unclear and vague in explaining the project details, creating trouble for Bai Weiran in an attempt to slow down his learning of the project matters—but as it turned out, it was pointless to create trouble for a talented person.

Bai Weiran was confused for a very short time, but quickly sorted things out.

The Second Five is a typical modern version of "eliminating the strong and helping the weak".

They can't stand those who are better than them, they like those who are weaker than them, they like to act as teachers, and they treat those above them as inferiors.

Average ability, likes to engage in petty workplace maneuvers, has many emotions and is full of complaints. The advantages are that he is quite meticulous at work, works overtime diligently, and is a donkey who likes to grumble and complain.

Like a chicken rib, it's tasteless to eat, a pity to throw away, unusable for reuse, barely passable for grinding grain.

After Bai Weiran became the producer, he assigned Erwu to modules of lower importance and did not make things too difficult for him.

The two have no connection, so out of sight, out of mind.

Now that Erwu is about to leave, Bai Weiran has no intention of trying to persuade him to stay. He advises Erwu to postpone his decision to leave, suggesting that he wait until at least the annual meeting and holiday are over.

From now until the end of the Spring Festival holiday, projects are in a relaxed state, so working even one day is a bonus. Not to mention the Spring Festival holiday, which is the longest and most legitimate paid leave of the year besides the National Day holiday.

If I quit now, not only will it be harder to find a job, but I'll also lose some of the money the company pays me.

Office workers, adjust your attitude, don't be hard on yourself, and don't be hard on money.

In a moment of anger, only the company benefits.

But Bai Weiran's persuasion was interpreted by Erwu as another form of swagger.

He slammed his hand on the table, his face flushed, tears welling in his eyes, his expression one of deep frustration and resentment, before erupting in anger.

"Bai Weiran, I've put up with you for far too long!"

"…………???"

"You're so self-righteous. You reused a copywriter to manage the project and overturned the core mechanisms set by the previous producer, completely changing the game. This game isn't fun at all. It's just you few having fun with the gameplay, system, and stats. Bah! I say this is a run-of-the-mill Frankenstein's monster."

Erwu was originally one of Dong Zhengyuan's confidants. Bai Weiran had a knack for being sarcastic and eccentric. Since Bai Weiran became a producer, out of a sense of workplace etiquette, he also learned to keep a low profile.

But Yu Yu's passion for his work life couldn't be contained. Every time she saw her former colleagues, whom she had mentored, become equals to her and were promoted to producers by their superiors, her dissatisfaction level soared.

What gives him the right?

In what way am I inferior to him?

I don't think his new direction is good at all.

He was relegated to a peripheral module, neglected and underutilized, which fueled his discontent every day.

Xuexue's situation was the trigger; after suffering setbacks in both her personal life and work, this "Prince Yu" finally snapped.

He glared fiercely at Bai Weiran and uttered a classic quote.

"This kind of project is better off abandoned!"

"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, Bai Weiran, you just wait and see!!!"