Bunny’s on break, human’s gone too, 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wt0YXvklS
The boss is left with nothing to ship——just the script.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlf2nEhSjTc
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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,”30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdx0LCJPFGa
but the director had been sitting there since 10 a.m.——and it was now 10:30.
No projector. No lights.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4A8vBCZpDZ
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——30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALId4xnDXO
as if preemptively mourning someone’s fate.
On top of the stack, it read:30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvv7xBbuL8H
Script Request: BL30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZwizZoFa0F
arget Delivery: 3/15 (negotiable)30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSFLUqIbsq
Note: No GL. Absolutely NO GL!30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCo14J6ICw
Today was March 13th.
And something even deadlier than a deadline began to spread through the room——30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgU3UNbwOj
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——30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQeqG4IOv0k
but the pen in her hand snapped in two with a clean, audible crack.
The manager glanced at the script title,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPnLE1AH0y
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:30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZjWCpBIEc
“I’m not here. I don’t exist. Please let me live through this day.”
And the source of this whole cursed script——30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmue2xBGNiQ
the boss himself——
was now quietly shrinking behind the director,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0p1ap5epMz
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!”30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHq8d0ZMIlo
the boss wailed, emotions flooding out like a broken dam.
“Waaahhh… I had to let go of my OTP…”30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡru5Jfk9flK
“My bunny … My sweet, fluffy retriever…”
Before anyone could stop him, he kept talking——30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETKsuhUCHH
and somehow, actually pulled out his phone.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzclYfEptP
Opened the photo album with trembling hands,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukOnTmYNtn
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.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxw7YPEnft8
The two of them stood by the sea,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFbz57fJYd
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,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9G7WbAzLx
and somehow come up with a dramatic twist—?!”
He sniffled hard.
“This isn’t just abuse to me…30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy9qVUYchda
it’s abuse to the fans…”
Silence fell across the room once more.
When someone is truly speechless, they laugh.
“Heh.”30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4ig8O5DVg
The screenwriter reattached the keycap that had been smacked off.
“Heh.” 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHq0CIYJT1O
The art lead bent down and quietly stuffed the broken pen deep into her pencil case.
“……”30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz47k5A7SlM
The manager said nothing, but had already started searching for exorcism spells on her phone.
“……”30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzVZJ6BrAv
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,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2yxvi6vlqE
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,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrquNidfn2
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 again30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUaEJIqH2v9
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.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPzT9Ri6Je
But I do know I might die on my keyboard.”
But no matter how chaotic things got——30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4HhqBmC2F
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,30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKuRWtPrQXf
the boss really did post something.
Just a single photo:30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJfAMAUoLn
the backs of the bunny and the human, walking away into the distance.
The caption?30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrmqKlDu1E
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:30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucEIXc5yeW
"You tossed your OTP just to launch a new series——and now you’re crying about it?"30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4OA4cR7YXa
