Cheng Lingxi, who graduated with honors from Tsinghua Institute of Information Technology, did not choose to continue her studies like many students, but found a job as a client programmer in Yixun Company, a leader in the game industry.

But unfortunately, even so, the promise of youth has not been fulfilled.

Because her father, who had been sick for half his life, passed away during the Spring Festival of her junior year.

In addition, two years ago, her mother remarried, and since then, Lingxi has rarely returned to Sichuan, she will send 5,000 yuan on time every month, and she remembers to buy expensive gifts for the elderly during the New Year's holidays, but for some reason, she always can't find much happiness in the harvest.

People have joys and sorrows, and only when we are sad are we willing to look back and think.

The moon is cloudy and sunny, but it is only when it is incomplete that we care more about the night sky.

Life is probably like this, many are not perfect, but make life more real.

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"Xixi, the Sauron (Note (1)) figure you ordered has arrived, and I will deliver it to you after paying the balance of 3,500 yuan."

Early that morning, she was picking out sandwiches at a convenience store when a familiar Taobao seller sent a short message.

I don't know when Cheng Lingxi became obsessed with two-dimensional anime and games, she thought she was influenced by Xiao Yunshen, but maybe this is also a way to alienate from reality and find simple happiness.

"Okay." The little girl, who had no car or a house, agreed without any burden.

"But there's a buyer who wants five times the price, so you can consider checking it out." The seller said, "I don't break the contract for the sake of integrity." ”

"I know you're a good guy hee-hee, I'll pay right away." Lingxi was more lively on the Internet, bowing his head first and handing over the final payment, and then holding the sandwich and preparing to line up to check out.

Taking advantage of this, she unconsciously looked at the company park across the road, thinking of the art director who had recently become popular, and the love that had just improved because of the purchase of the figure had become bad again.

"Do you want breakfast too? Together, right? A familiar voice rang in my ears.

Lingxi raised his head in a panic and looked into Xiao Yunshen's radiant eyes, and his brain was instantly disconnected.

Xiao Dashen, who had no ghost in his heart, was of course calm, and took out his credit card and handed it to the cashier of the convenience store.

"No need." Lingxi came back to his senses, hastily took out twenty yuan in cash and put it on the counter, turned around and left with his sandwich and milk bottle.

Her leg injury hurts badly every spring and autumn, and she moves step by step, and her speed is very difficult.

But Xiao Yunshen didn't catch up recklessly, he was only surprised by this hostility, revealing an inexplicable look.

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After the Spring Festival, Cheng Lingxi's project team is preparing to develop a large-scale 3D mobile phone online game, for which the company is expected to invest a lot of money, and has also hired several talented people like Xiao Yunshen who specialize in the art industry, just want to come out on top in today's increasingly competitive market.

Huang Hongyu, who has already led several successful projects, is naturally full of ambition.

In the morning, Lingxi was in a hurry to complete the game function code he was responsible for this week, and suddenly a message from him came from the internal chat tool: "Sister, you prepare, in the afternoon, Alex is going to take you and Xiao Zhang to the docking meeting with the art department, and the art department wants to determine the specifications of the characters and scenes in the game in the future." ”

"Okay, didn't I give you the report last week?" Lingxi replied casually.

In fact, whether the picture of an online game is good or not, it is subject to the technical problems of the client on a large extent, and the effect of being too rough will be complained by players, but the artist system is too fine, and the performance of the mobile phone or computer cannot withstand it, which is simply more tragic, for which Cheng Lingxi has done a lot of tests with his program manager Alex, so naturally he doesn't worry about how to explain, but ......

She took off her headphones, took advantage of the time when she stood up and went to the water dispenser next to her to get water, and peeked at Xiao Yunshen, who was holding a hand-drawn tablet on the seat to conceive the overall art style of the game, and the taste in her heart was very subtle.

If she had a choice, she could almost look greedily at this person for the rest of her life.

But what about yourself......

It would be better to be transparent in front of him.

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Xiao Yunshen's experience has been frequently reported by the media, so that it is well known: he did not receive an orthodox art education, he dropped out of high school and went to Beijing with a painting folder on his back, but art is completely God's food, mixed with the kung fu of his early twenties, he became a well-known illustrator, from drawing for small magazines, to designing for big magazines and well-known books, and later entering the game industry, working as original paintings and art consultants for many large companies around the world, to now thirty and a half. It has long been a god in the industry.

So although Alex's technical team has always been tough, he is very polite to him, and the whole meeting process is constantly regressing around how to achieve the picture that Xiao Yunshen wants.

The whole discussion was intense, only Cheng Lingxi, who has always been serious, said little, until Huang Hongyu asked her by name, she woke up like a dream and said: "If you want to achieve the effect that the flowers and leaves are stained, dust or fog when the player fights, you need to buy HavokFX's particle technology, but in fact, it will only become a publicity gimmick, and it is impossible to be widely used in the game, after all, the performance of most players' mobile phones is unbearable." ”

"I've heard of this, you can call the business to contact us." Huang Hongyu said: "You just need to make your technical needs clear. ”

"Oh." Cheng Lingxi nodded, and then leaned on his glasses and looked down at the table.

In fact, the meeting was almost underway, and Huang Hongyu was a little too lively and unreliable, and suddenly said: "I found that after Yunshen came, Xiaoxi's whole person was like a dream." ”

Almost all of the men present immediately laughed and coaxed.

Xiao Yunshen was not angry, but curled the corners of his mouth.

But Hua Wan, who helped the director make records, noticed Cheng Lingxi's instantly stiff expression, and immediately interrupted: "That is, my master is now a heartthrob, and he received a love lunch in the morning." ”

"Damn, who sent it?" Huang Hongyu began to gossip.

"The school next door enrolls students.,It's a cute one.,Didn't you go to see it in a group before?" Hua Wan rolled her eyes.

"Tut-tut, when did Yunshen become your master?" Huang Hongyu usually has the best time with Hua Wan, and immediately snorted.

"There's no way, Master looked at all the works of the original artists around me, and I felt that I had good roots and bones, and I was a material that could be made." Hua Wan hummed.

Alex has always been poisonous: "What about the face, it's you who stalk yourself, right?" ”

THEY PACKED UP THE MEETING MATERIALS AND PREPARED TO FLASH PEOPLE, AND FINALLY LET CHENG LINGXI, WHO WAS OVERLY NERVOUS, BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF, AND HURRIEDLY PICKED UP THE IPAD AND WALKED OUT.

Who knew that just after passing the corridor, Xiao Yunshen followed, stopped her and said, "Are you free?" ”

Cheng Lingxi asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" ”

"Let's go, please go downstairs for coffee." Xiao Yunshen showed a very sunny smile.

"No need......" Cheng Lingxi was almost deprived of oxygen, and the palm of his hand holding the iPad was sweating all the time.

"I want to talk to you." Xiao Yunshen was ruthlessly rejected, so he had to get straight to the point: "Work problems." ”

At this time, Cheng Lingxi had no way to refuse, how could he say that the other party's position was much higher than his own, so blindly evaded, unless he planned to resign and quit.

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Note (1): Sauron, the second male lead in the Japanese manga "One Piece", is widely known for his samurai costume and three-sword flow.