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Bunny’s on break, human’s gone too, 17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3NOmQYwG0
The boss is left with nothing to ship——just the script.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjwOsFj34l
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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,”17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizCPzJKm3r
but the director had been sitting there since 10 a.m.——and it was now 10:30.
No projector. No lights.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3UnNPhzuyd
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——17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBKIDNFEPjS
as if preemptively mourning someone’s fate.
On top of the stack, it read:17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7nOGM4AX06
Script Request: BL17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9vi7OroWTv
arget Delivery: 3/15 (negotiable)17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBN86qNnig
Note: No GL. Absolutely NO GL!17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9S8LE0tDps
Today was March 13th.
And something even deadlier than a deadline began to spread through the room——17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj6eATD3HSZ
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——17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZQMuvCohg
but the pen in her hand snapped in two with a clean, audible crack.
The manager glanced at the script title,17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXiShfzc8y
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:17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyk6ZKRvLZC
“I’m not here. I don’t exist. Please let me live through this day.”
And the source of this whole cursed script——17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaoUXmVrfjK
the boss himself——
was now quietly shrinking behind the director,17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqurXqgIcGK
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!”17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIAbKbnbgGI
the boss wailed, emotions flooding out like a broken dam.
“Waaahhh… I had to let go of my OTP…”17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWQma9QbQ9H
“My bunny … My sweet, fluffy retriever…”
Before anyone could stop him, he kept talking——17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSdUesRtsy
and somehow, actually pulled out his phone.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi4DWC8UN3U
Opened the photo album with trembling hands,17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1hczY2k02f
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.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHr4aQYk19
The two of them stood by the sea,17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7jRx1ZkM1
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,17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ99g0mskhSI
and somehow come up with a dramatic twist—?!”
He sniffled hard.
“This isn’t just abuse to me…17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI1TsNehxAe
it’s abuse to the fans…”
Silence fell across the room once more.
When someone is truly speechless, they laugh.
“Heh.”17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu5AOh7XQHt
The screenwriter reattached the keycap that had been smacked off.
“Heh.” 17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMND3GSVxvM
The art lead bent down and quietly stuffed the broken pen deep into her pencil case.
“……”17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJWONl7XJ5
The manager said nothing, but had already started searching for exorcism spells on her phone.
“……”17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6U1afvOJjb
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,17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZVc62w06fY
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,17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyFBSfard4
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 again17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgJuJZKrgM
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.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVthJudUFi
But I do know I might die on my keyboard.”
But no matter how chaotic things got——17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE2rT4BQNjO
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,17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZk32mpyrm
the boss really did post something.
Just a single photo:17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRbVbEaHCYS
the backs of the bunny and the human, walking away into the distance.
The caption?17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQoVULLHou
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:17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2zshvib1r
"You tossed your OTP just to launch a new series——and now you’re crying about it?"17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsK9FnMt0i9
