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Bunny’s on break, human’s gone too, 22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05OpL13YKB
The boss is left with nothing to ship——just the script.22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDyhAhEgsKu
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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,”22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRWwHQuZ2V
but the director had been sitting there since 10 a.m.——and it was now 10:30.
No projector. No lights.22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlho5kAKGg
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——22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAURzujZVS7
as if preemptively mourning someone’s fate.
On top of the stack, it read:22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJCb7D7OuTZ
Script Request: BL22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJfbyRfjG76
arget Delivery: 3/15 (negotiable)22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEFnxgkdQA
Note: No GL. Absolutely NO GL!22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTATwsgQnC
Today was March 13th.
And something even deadlier than a deadline began to spread through the room——22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVIaqvjD4hC
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——22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtXOSb0I5L
but the pen in her hand snapped in two with a clean, audible crack.
The manager glanced at the script title,22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR3fHcf9ZVH
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:22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPGoXcVTKp
“I’m not here. I don’t exist. Please let me live through this day.”
And the source of this whole cursed script——22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBy3X2Rway
the boss himself——
was now quietly shrinking behind the director,22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhql8rPmyUO
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!”22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88zWgBPzHI
the boss wailed, emotions flooding out like a broken dam.
“Waaahhh… I had to let go of my OTP…”22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMWxQ2PlxJ
“My bunny … My sweet, fluffy retriever…”
Before anyone could stop him, he kept talking——22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrXEIOjx98r
and somehow, actually pulled out his phone.22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODWtRBsTL4
Opened the photo album with trembling hands,22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhbOlO74cv
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.22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUv9AjyvA6T
The two of them stood by the sea,22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwTJbG1VWVv
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,22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZxiHUyydh
and somehow come up with a dramatic twist—?!”
He sniffled hard.
“This isn’t just abuse to me…22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLC1mv5Dckb
it’s abuse to the fans…”
Silence fell across the room once more.
When someone is truly speechless, they laugh.
“Heh.”22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27lHYJ8FSZ
The screenwriter reattached the keycap that had been smacked off.
“Heh.” 22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIuYsGAxNu
The art lead bent down and quietly stuffed the broken pen deep into her pencil case.
“……”22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqPniz9t0E
The manager said nothing, but had already started searching for exorcism spells on her phone.
“……”22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJcu6xDMIZ
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,22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ17Y9SpklO8
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,22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡylZPRdNIZe
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 again22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYtk3ib6fHa
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.22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBR7cep8B9
But I do know I might die on my keyboard.”
But no matter how chaotic things got——22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5p5GdPL5Z
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,22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiWvSjqiLkz
the boss really did post something.
Just a single photo:22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjq8ZWELYe7
the backs of the bunny and the human, walking away into the distance.
The caption?22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3EaRKfEpY
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:22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjh2AGisyzf
"You tossed your OTP just to launch a new series——and now you’re crying about it?"22Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIg3LeePYdF
