Bunny’s on break, human’s gone too, 52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLKJGkqen4
The boss is left with nothing to ship——just the script.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmg7fCvEEH
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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,”52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpKyKPbJfTg
but the director had been sitting there since 10 a.m.——and it was now 10:30.
No projector. No lights.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLQR8LIaW0M
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——52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBm77ARSOIC
as if preemptively mourning someone’s fate.
On top of the stack, it read:52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXHQXGinsC
Script Request: BL52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Y3ivZ15fz
arget Delivery: 3/15 (negotiable)52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPo8HS5jjXD
Note: No GL. Absolutely NO GL!52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5FajuO1Gl
Today was March 13th.
And something even deadlier than a deadline began to spread through the room——52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTjjz6kw3X
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——52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSaT4IyE0vV
but the pen in her hand snapped in two with a clean, audible crack.
The manager glanced at the script title,52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZNKbAWa04
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:52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZZX5ampNxH
“I’m not here. I don’t exist. Please let me live through this day.”
And the source of this whole cursed script——52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCW9VXA3BIf
the boss himself——
was now quietly shrinking behind the director,52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIe9Dfw1I8Q
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!”52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1e4nnx4H0
the boss wailed, emotions flooding out like a broken dam.
“Waaahhh… I had to let go of my OTP…”52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFzOtedMw6U
“My bunny … My sweet, fluffy retriever…”
Before anyone could stop him, he kept talking——52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuenyqNPJ47
and somehow, actually pulled out his phone.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKeb4mGODi9
Opened the photo album with trembling hands,52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRcaTHim7f
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.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhArnZgpDW5
The two of them stood by the sea,52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0DlHkOtXj
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,52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZFQAwmddk
and somehow come up with a dramatic twist—?!”
He sniffled hard.
“This isn’t just abuse to me…52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkbVef9o5R
it’s abuse to the fans…”
Silence fell across the room once more.
When someone is truly speechless, they laugh.
“Heh.”52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARV9vtw0rx
The screenwriter reattached the keycap that had been smacked off.
“Heh.” 52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdDdwx2yVR
The art lead bent down and quietly stuffed the broken pen deep into her pencil case.
“……”52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSai3vsxm32
The manager said nothing, but had already started searching for exorcism spells on her phone.
“……”52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTNnqSA3FKd
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,52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPPEmWsSe4
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,52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0AwJO2MBBo
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 again52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFaP5KhIUii
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.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3cZfbq6u4O
But I do know I might die on my keyboard.”
But no matter how chaotic things got——52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qcV7eUebr
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,52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtirA0spjxA
the boss really did post something.
Just a single photo:52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGTHjzWG8EQ
the backs of the bunny and the human, walking away into the distance.
The caption?52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzt57D2itx
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:52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDn1ZrQj2H
"You tossed your OTP just to launch a new series——and now you’re crying about it?"52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDbsajUO1Le
and then Add to home screen.