Bunny’s on break, human’s gone too, 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVCJoubEU4
The boss is left with nothing to ship——just the script.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCj6aBY7hV3
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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,”319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnl7qIg1atF
but the director had been sitting there since 10 a.m.——and it was now 10:30.
No projector. No lights.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPWmP3Ehiv
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——319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjQSOvMEtU
as if preemptively mourning someone’s fate.
On top of the stack, it read:319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWwTNQbuF9E
Script Request: BL319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gmg28ZW6n
arget Delivery: 3/15 (negotiable)319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7q8GcxSwm
Note: No GL. Absolutely NO GL!319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUqEkhwikHe
Today was March 13th.
And something even deadlier than a deadline began to spread through the room——319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9MhasQZxr
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——319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg6z4qbWGNt
but the pen in her hand snapped in two with a clean, audible crack.
The manager glanced at the script title,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQsIwEjIkSc
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:319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOOfoYoiTBL
“I’m not here. I don’t exist. Please let me live through this day.”
And the source of this whole cursed script——319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI1J6oXMjDn
the boss himself——
was now quietly shrinking behind the director,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZsnAoykttn
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!”319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvAoQf5LT5b
the boss wailed, emotions flooding out like a broken dam.
“Waaahhh… I had to let go of my OTP…”319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKsEaD7CPX
“My bunny … My sweet, fluffy retriever…”
Before anyone could stop him, he kept talking——319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxsnReLI21G
and somehow, actually pulled out his phone.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUynmOyMuEt
Opened the photo album with trembling hands,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcWATGInBQB
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.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPvEfq1sgU
The two of them stood by the sea,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhNq1EsPu2
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,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9SHIHRCKHw
and somehow come up with a dramatic twist—?!”
He sniffled hard.
“This isn’t just abuse to me…319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9M0nBg8s0k
it’s abuse to the fans…”
Silence fell across the room once more.
When someone is truly speechless, they laugh.
“Heh.”319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwCkVUrBzP
The screenwriter reattached the keycap that had been smacked off.
“Heh.” 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOjhD4f5rP
The art lead bent down and quietly stuffed the broken pen deep into her pencil case.
“……”319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnZJhmTzHo
The manager said nothing, but had already started searching for exorcism spells on her phone.
“……”319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zKENhvA6J
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,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9uMekDhfC
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,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe2Y3JqRNbU
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 again319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRPiFqrkhT
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.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0LqyLzyLc
But I do know I might die on my keyboard.”
But no matter how chaotic things got——319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1LLrOJk2Ez
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,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRie2IsLHBP
the boss really did post something.
Just a single photo:319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRudRN6X8gw
the backs of the bunny and the human, walking away into the distance.
The caption?319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09b4cwjUVF
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:319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4vRmUx1E50
"You tossed your OTP just to launch a new series——and now you’re crying about it?"319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxRIMste9FU
and then Add to home screen.