Bunny’s on break, human’s gone too, 93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5oWiqhW5z
The boss is left with nothing to ship——just the script.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr60mCMS60E
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The meeting room’s AC was, for some reason, colder than usual today.
The boss had called it an “emergency discussion,”93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3dElU9x3I
but the director had been sitting there since 10 a.m.——and it was now 10:30.
No projector. No lights.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJaFBU4VPQ
Just a stack of freshly printed documents on the table.
The pages were still warm, the curled corners holding onto the last breath of the printer’s heat——93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAW9l9IFiQ
as if preemptively mourning someone’s fate.
On top of the stack, it read:93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqvSnQslBv
Script Request: BL93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdO9CwcOIxV
arget Delivery: 3/15 (negotiable)93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dLq1yQGdh
Note: No GL. Absolutely NO GL!93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJf9wbmwbJd
Today was March 13th.
And something even deadlier than a deadline began to spread through the room——93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLi6d6uXYKp
silence.
Then, the screenwriter broke.
“I see. So this is how I die.”
The tone was perfectly calm. But the keycap that flew off his keyboard said otherwise.
“Have I been smiling too sweetly lately?”
The art lead’s voice was gentle, eyes even gentler——93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6fiinMOGt
but the pen in her hand snapped in two with a clean, audible crack.
The manager glanced at the script title,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpE94wMu7aF
then looked up at the boss.
“This time it’s… human, right?”
The director said nothing.
He entered full survival mode: eyes vacant, lips sealed, limbs slowly retreating.
The back of his chair creaked slightly, as if whispering:93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNGDir3XNL
“I’m not here. I don’t exist. Please let me live through this day.”
And the source of this whole cursed script——93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoH5Nzy8Zph
the boss himself——
was now quietly shrinking behind the director,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFS1a5MhZ7Y
desperately trying to suppress his presence.
Then, with a pitiful tone, he tried to defend himself:
“You guys know… we’re still a new company…”
“We really need the exposure…”
The murderous intent in the room collectively spiked.
“I… I really couldn’t say no to the client!”
“They didn’t want GL… and then said it had to be out by the 15th… sigh…”
The director turned his head slowly, eyes beginning to glaze over.
“Today is the 13th.”
“I paid a terrible price too!”93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWi7dPlpLZe
the boss wailed, emotions flooding out like a broken dam.
“Waaahhh… I had to let go of my OTP…”93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvo6pX7Ungc
“My bunny … My sweet, fluffy retriever…”
Before anyone could stop him, he kept talking——93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlc87uzmwio
and somehow, actually pulled out his phone.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfyvqZrSZiR
Opened the photo album with trembling hands,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrKYntofHc
and tapped on a photo like it was the last memory of a lost love.
In the photo, the bunny was clutching her human co-star’s arm with her fluffy little paws.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwWKXJWadu
The two of them stood by the sea,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡalrk3uebcF
glowing in the sunset like they were newlyweds on their honeymoon.
And the boss began to sob.
“They just went on vacation together, do you even realize that?!”
“Just yesterday, they were holding hands on the beach, drawing in the sand!”
“And now… now I have to launch a brand new couple, finish filming in two days,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGTX29P97z
and somehow come up with a dramatic twist—?!”
He sniffled hard.
“This isn’t just abuse to me…93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKuh4HHvrh
it’s abuse to the fans…”
Silence fell across the room once more.
When someone is truly speechless, they laugh.
“Heh.”93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdsK5UEo7M
The screenwriter reattached the keycap that had been smacked off.
“Heh.” 93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ01j1kLjpvb
The art lead bent down and quietly stuffed the broken pen deep into her pencil case.
“……”93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvD813InuSP
The manager said nothing, but had already started searching for exorcism spells on her phone.
“……”93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXZAYJQKKW
The director also stayed silent, though his eyes had shifted——from “I am not here” to “If I strangle the boss right now, we won’t have to shoot this script, right?”
The lights in the meeting room were still off,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY14EX4TmW7
but the atmosphere was hot enough to ignite the stack of papers on the table.
Sniffling, the boss turned to the director and the screenwriter.
“I have an idea.”
His eyes were red, like someone who’d just been hit by a wave.
“What if we made one of them a cop…”
In that instant, the air froze again.
“You sure about that?”
The manager jumped in before anyone else could erupt.
“If you actually cast someone who knows the law,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs3fgENxkHU
I swear they’ll sue you for labor abuse.”
The boss quietly closed his mouth.
The director sank a little lower into his chair.
The art lead took out her sketchpad again93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSrt3HWwP93
and drew a picture: the boss with a pencil stabbed into his head——sharpened to a deadly point.
The screenwriter started checking his calendar.
“How many tens of thousands of words can I write in two days? I don’t know.93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQzFEZgJhp
But I do know I might die on my keyboard.”
But no matter how chaotic things got——93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvCQGcKu8q
the show still had to go on.
At that point, no one could’ve predicted what this production would eventually become.
All they knew was that later that night,93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMpGJub3OO
the boss really did post something.
Just a single photo:93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkdJhD9oKv
the backs of the bunny and the human, walking away into the distance.
The caption?93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHaoYUJlneo
Only five words: My favorite couple.
The post’s most-liked comment came from the director’s anonymous account.
"The most savage reply came from the art lead:93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM22AiYxFIr
"You tossed your OTP just to launch a new series——and now you’re crying about it?"93Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWafG8913Mj
and then Add to home screen.