x
Bunny’s on break, human’s gone too, 14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPm3XYwD1p
The boss is left with nothing to ship——just the script.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4FSjorFEUH
14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLs9ebI0UuZ
The meeting room’s AC was, for some reason, colder than usual today.
The boss had called it an “emergency discussion,”14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexzWQU59pK
but the director had been sitting there since 10 a.m.——and it was now 10:30.
No projector. No lights.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJ7JYZg3ln
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——14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4HdJOMZlte
as if preemptively mourning someone’s fate.
On top of the stack, it read:14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqI3EtMicA
Script Request: BL14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIcOZrHfom5
arget Delivery: 3/15 (negotiable)14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIqMlX5hq4
Note: No GL. Absolutely NO GL!14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJo9mDrElZ
Today was March 13th.
And something even deadlier than a deadline began to spread through the room——14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkziE8PAbz
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——14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXYQIEStyl
but the pen in her hand snapped in two with a clean, audible crack.
The manager glanced at the script title,14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqJMQHuAzW
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:14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMDEpfup8tW
“I’m not here. I don’t exist. Please let me live through this day.”
And the source of this whole cursed script——14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDNqNHGwp3
the boss himself——
was now quietly shrinking behind the director,14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpzDUUfjb8
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!”14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxNYLMqV8J
the boss wailed, emotions flooding out like a broken dam.
“Waaahhh… I had to let go of my OTP…”14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpcruJAPMb
“My bunny … My sweet, fluffy retriever…”
Before anyone could stop him, he kept talking——14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXHuRpiJtKy
and somehow, actually pulled out his phone.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzpBF3EfJV
Opened the photo album with trembling hands,14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10xFFa5dGW
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.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVl24Whkp0
The two of them stood by the sea,14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfum8hHEiW
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,14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmzzFAS8j6
and somehow come up with a dramatic twist—?!”
He sniffled hard.
“This isn’t just abuse to me…14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbYePk0mKn9
it’s abuse to the fans…”
Silence fell across the room once more.
When someone is truly speechless, they laugh.
“Heh.”14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡophmWXlvE2
The screenwriter reattached the keycap that had been smacked off.
“Heh.” 14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS8uskQRe2E
The art lead bent down and quietly stuffed the broken pen deep into her pencil case.
“……”14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLW5sVRMTqw
The manager said nothing, but had already started searching for exorcism spells on her phone.
“……”14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu2h3wvBF5e
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,14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1gnvrUHA4
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,14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGcklEEey6
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 again14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJrWSigzJw
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.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡarAi8S90Zq
But I do know I might die on my keyboard.”
But no matter how chaotic things got——14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMhXmlovSrh
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,14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZcn8Y7Oaq
the boss really did post something.
Just a single photo:14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87Jo0qDsni
the backs of the bunny and the human, walking away into the distance.
The caption?14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lWdb5eIbW
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:14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvFjIhhN8pU
"You tossed your OTP just to launch a new series——and now you’re crying about it?"14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKf3eMMsvGC
