26 Chapter 26- A Meeting of Minds (1/2)
Relating to Episode 20 of Love O2O
The dialogue from the meeting has been pulled directly from the series.
To Mei's surprise, not much was said when they returned to work the next day. Well, at least, not much was said about KO carting him off in the middle of the day. A lot was said, however, about KO's 'chivalry'.
”Hey! Mei-ge! You're back today?”
”We thought KO would keep you home for at least one more day.”
”Hmm... especially considering how worried he was about you yesterday.”
”Worried? About me?” Mei felt like someone had stopped the earth from turning and he was left trying to adjust while everyone else had already found their feet.
”That's right, Meiren.” Yu Ban Shan came up behind him and slung an arm over his shoulder. ”He told laosan he was taking you home because you had a fever.”
Mei pointed at himself. I had a fever before that pervert got a hold of me?
”Hmm. He emailed the office to explain yesterday afternoon and made sure we all knew that you'd gone home against your wishes.” Wang Wei joined the teasing. ”We never knew you were so dedicated. Staying to work when you were sick.”
Was this feeling in his stomach the same instinct that makes ants climb higher before a heavy rain?
”Yeah, Mei-ge. So industrious. A workplace paragon.”
”Eh... you look red. Do you still have your fever? Are you sure you should have come to work?”
Ban Shan, under the guise of testing Mei's temperature, pinched his cheeks. ”Maybe KO should take you home again and put you back to bed?”
His cheeks felt hot enough to spontaneously combust, and Mei stammered a denial. Denial of what? He wasn't sure. But somehow he extricated himself and reached the illusion of safety at his desk. Dropping his head on his arms he sighed. It wasn't my fault!
That afternoon, Xiao Nai called a meeting between himself and the programming team. Bei Wei Wei had successfully completed Newbie Village Task One, and a copy of her report was handed to each programmer.
”We've adjusted our game to make it compatible to all phone models.” Hao Mei scowled as A Shuang reported on the issue, not acknowledging Wei Wei's involvement in the report. KO saw the fury building in Mei's eyes and, when the younger man opened his mouth, kicked him under the table. Mei jumped and turned his glare on KO. The hacker returned it calmly, and Mei made a visible effort to bite his tongue.
Unaware of the byplay next to him, A Shuang continued. ”But due to a display card problem on two phone models, the screen will black out occasionally. These two models aren't very common, so perhaps we can leave it for now.”
You knew it wasn't a very common problem when you set the task to Saosan. You made her waste two days, confirming what we already knew just because you're a misogynist! Silently railing at A Shuang, Mei was careful not to look in KO's direction until his inner rant was over. One of these days he would work out how he always knew what Mei was thinking, but until that day came, he would have to take preventative measures.
”Hmm. I spoke to Feng Teng this morning and we've brought forward our product launch to the end of September. So we must try and solve all the problems quickly.” Xiao Nai looked past Hao Mei to address A Shuang directly.
”Ah.” A Shuang nodded.
”After a month of hard work we've already finished the first stage of our demo. But there's still room for improvement. For example, the smoothness of fighting actions, as well as other connections.” The insane perfectionist at the top of the table looked at the programmers, and Hao Mei felt moved to object; he knew which one at the table would be given that job.
”I don't think it's necessary to rush it. Our game's operation smoothness is already much better than many other games. Also, not everyone has an eye for flaws, like you do laosan.” He pulled a little on his tie and caught KO looking at him strangely. The hacker abruptly focussed his attention on the wall behind Mei's shoulder. ”Who would notice such a slight lag when they're playing? I'm very confident that we'll win the bid. Perhaps we can adjust it after we've enhanced the game?”
Xiao Nai raised an eyebrow at Hao Mei's confidence, and he got the feeling that laosan had seen through the façade to the real reason he was so confident; he just didn't want to get stuck doing fiddly codes and miss out on the real fun of designing the meat of the game.
”I'll do it.”