Chapter 82: The Vengeful Yaqing
"Hehe... hmph heh heh hahahahahaha!!!"
From a low chuckle to an uninhibited, crazed laugh. Salome and the other women heard the laughter coming from Yaqing's office and looked at each other, no one speaking first. The atmosphere was awkward.
"The boss... he hasn't gone crazy, has he?" Shabu asked cautiously.
"It's very possible to have a mental breakdown due to online harassment. If we don't check on Lord Yaqing, he might do something foolish," Rita said, pulling up an article on her phone.
"Should we take him to the hospital?" Patrick suggested.
"For a psychiatric evaluation?" Cheng Lixue asked.
"For a neurological one!"
Salome, the highest-ranking among the women, pushed open the door.
Yaqing, who was on a video call with Kalpas, looked up in confusion. He was holding a cup of instant noodles and had just taken a bite, the noodles not even bitten through.
Somehow, this scene feels a little familiar.
Looking at Yaqing's clear eyes, which showed no sign of mental disturbance, Salome, Shabu, and Patrick, who had just entered, were all stunned.
Rita and Cheng Lixue, who had deliberately stayed a step behind, saw that things were not right and immediately slipped away.
The two sides stared at each other in bewilderment. Extremely awkward.
In the quiet office, only Kalpas could be heard laughing wildly on the video call. Yaqing had deliberately let him see him eating instant noodles. In the eyes of a five-star chef, this was like someone refusing to eat at home and preferring to eat instant noodles at the company.
"Hahaha, Yaqing, you've angered a..."
"Gotta go, Kalpas, something suddenly came up," Yaqing ended the video call, gentlemanly wiped his mouth with a napkin, and asked, "Why did the three of you suddenly come to my office?"
"Um, Yaqing, I came to deliver a proposal. By the way, has the script been finalized? Does it still need revisions?"
Salome, as expected of a director, unlike Shabu and Patrick beside her, lied without batting an eye, inexplicably pulling a proposal from behind her back.
Patrick also caught on and added, "That's right, Yaqing. I just came to get the next script. The modeling and concept art departments need the character designs from the script to start designing."
Only Shabu looked blankly at the two who suddenly had official business, when they had all just been slacking off outside the office out of curiosity.
"The script is finalized," Yaqing said, his fingers tapping on the laptop's keyboard. Thinking of the negative reviews of the last movie, he smiled faintly and turned the laptop towards the three women.
Seeing Yaqing's familiar smile, the three women's hearts shivered. Having worked together at Schicksal for seven or eight years, every time they saw him smile, it meant someone was about to have a bad time.
Patrick couldn't help but mutter to himself.
He's not going to write an ending where the entire main cast is killed by Kiana, who has become the Herrscher of the Void, and then a sobered Kiana is unable to die, is he? No, am I being a bit too extreme?!
Patrick shook his head.
The three women leaned over to look at the script. There were no pictures, just lines of dialogue. It couldn't even be called a novel, with only emotional cues and no descriptions of the setting.
After reading the script, the three women were silent.
They looked at Yaqing as if he were a demon.
Yaqing spun a coin in his hand, looking at the three women staring at him with a half-smile. That gaze seemed to ask: Is it sharp enough? Since the audience didn't think so, then let's just add more knives.
"This is too ruthless," Shabu exclaimed. The audience had complained that the last movie wasn't tear-jerking enough, and now he was directly going for a whole movie of tears. What a vengeful man.
"Ruthless? I don't think it's ruthless enough," Yaqing said, sitting on the sofa.
"Are you the devil?" Patrick couldn't help but ask.
Yaqing spread his hands.
Salome, Patrick, and Shabu didn't remember how they left Yaqing's office. By the time they came to, they were already standing outside the door.
"He's really gone crazy..." Shabu whispered.
"Don't say that. I think he might have been angered by the failure of the last movie, so he's preparing to take revenge on the audience," Patrick said, telling Shabu not to mention this topic again.
"First he takes a stab at the first movie, and then... never mind, let's not talk about it. With this plot development, no matter who's name is on the script, they'll get flamed by the audience," Salome shook her head.
"Heh, do you really think the boss will put his own name as the scriptwriter?"
"He has no choice," Patrick explained. "If this movie still uses Welt's name as a stand-in for the scriptwriter, then in the eyes of the audience, it will confirm that Yaqing is inferior to Welt. That would be too great a loss."
"By the way, has anyone seen Kiraro?" Shabu asked. Shigure Kira was currently assigned to the voice acting department and was considered her subordinate, but she hadn't seen her come to work today.
Salome said, "I remember Kiraro asked Yaqing for leave yesterday. I heard she went to Shenzhou."
"What for?"
"I don't know. Maybe for a vacation."
The three women were waiting for the elevator.
"What a pity. If Kiraro had gone a few days earlier, she could have met Director Cecilia. If she goes to Shenzhou today, Director Cecilia is just about to return to the European headquarters. She's probably already boarded the plane."
...
Shenzhou, Canghai International Airport.
Cecilia held Siegfried's arm. She wore a white shirt with loose-fitting denim trousers, her long hair tied in a high ponytail, looking very capable. She listened to the boarding announcement on the broadcast.
"Dear, we're boarding. Did you bring the gifts for little Sirin and the Overseer?" Cecilia reminded him.
Siegfried replied, "Of course I didn't forget. Otherwise, Sirin would be crying and making a fuss again."
"Mmm~"
After boarding, Siegfried and Cecilia switched their phones to airplane mode.
Half an hour later, the passenger plane from Nagazora Third Airport had just landed at Canghai International Airport. Shigure Kira, without any luggage, trotted to the waiting hall.
"Sorry, the number you have dialed has been switched off..."
Hearing the emotionless female voice from her phone, Shigure Kira was stunned. But she didn't give up and went to the ticket counter to inquire.
"Excuse me, has the passenger plane from Canghai Airport to Munich already taken off?"
The front desk girl at the ticket counter showed a polite smile and said, "Yes, ma'am. The flight to Munich at 12:48 has already taken off. Would you like me to reschedule you for the next flight at 1:36?"
Hearing this answer, Shigure Kira felt as if all the strength had been drained from her body. A black aura emanated from her as she muttered to herself, "Why... why again and again... why... why."
The front desk girl was scared, thinking she had encountered some kind of mental patient.
"Yaqing, you and I are mortal enemies!!!"
Shigure Kira could no longer contain her emotions and roared at the sky.
Everyone waiting in the departure hall was startled and looked at Shigure Kira with strange eyes, all silently moving away from her.
Join my patreon For Early access to Chapter : patreon.com/TheWorldGod
Tiamat 200 Chapter (Final)
Honkai 366 Chapter
Lobotomy 110 Chapter
MushokuTensei 160 Chapter
'Pure Evil' Simulator Chapter Ending
Crossover Fic Blapterue-Eyes Chapter Ending