Bunny’s on break, human’s gone too, 219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDvbimElGj
The boss is left with nothing to ship——just the script.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO8UcTSfcpO
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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,”219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJV4idGrM49
but the director had been sitting there since 10 a.m.——and it was now 10:30.
No projector. No lights.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHEcQ8IzCU
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——219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFVqeqx2RP
as if preemptively mourning someone’s fate.
On top of the stack, it read:219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuryvxHS2s
Script Request: BL219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtnxrHsxhy
arget Delivery: 3/15 (negotiable)219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4feh66HdaO
Note: No GL. Absolutely NO GL!219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDe4tN39SwY
Today was March 13th.
And something even deadlier than a deadline began to spread through the room——219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOPEVTtvGF
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——219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ecUo3FUFh
but the pen in her hand snapped in two with a clean, audible crack.
The manager glanced at the script title,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Q93p9h5t8
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:219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSqxgfUC23
“I’m not here. I don’t exist. Please let me live through this day.”
And the source of this whole cursed script——219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdaQSEd6D3
the boss himself——
was now quietly shrinking behind the director,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRxRYB0SaS5
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!”219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3bPze0Q7w
the boss wailed, emotions flooding out like a broken dam.
“Waaahhh… I had to let go of my OTP…”219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf2a3Zbkzcm
“My bunny … My sweet, fluffy retriever…”
Before anyone could stop him, he kept talking——219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4hzMi3z7BQ
and somehow, actually pulled out his phone.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGggP2IDlKc
Opened the photo album with trembling hands,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfoOMuZLmpv
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.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzce1C7qGf
The two of them stood by the sea,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZicVCwrhAX
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,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJb8ASvmD5
and somehow come up with a dramatic twist—?!”
He sniffled hard.
“This isn’t just abuse to me…219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy9gYWk9Kk8
it’s abuse to the fans…”
Silence fell across the room once more.
When someone is truly speechless, they laugh.
“Heh.”219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcdpYn7WqR
The screenwriter reattached the keycap that had been smacked off.
“Heh.” 219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQtvyj9ppSh
The art lead bent down and quietly stuffed the broken pen deep into her pencil case.
“……”219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Dhr14Tbi1
The manager said nothing, but had already started searching for exorcism spells on her phone.
“……”219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyEyr6BFC4
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,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhs0X2yhtIY
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,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7685VlZen
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 again219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0prhv16y8v
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.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcmqhT7uckz
But I do know I might die on my keyboard.”
But no matter how chaotic things got——219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRm71BtkL7P
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,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKViAq2QzFU
the boss really did post something.
Just a single photo:219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoehLfulXWY
the backs of the bunny and the human, walking away into the distance.
The caption?219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkmGjs5CvY
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:219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwM2FzGSJmz
"You tossed your OTP just to launch a new series——and now you’re crying about it?"219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Qg9ZClfEY
and then Add to home screen.