The river city is always cold and gloomy in winter, with layers of clouds and fog blocking the sun. The gloomy weather makes people feel listless.
Yue Qianling stood in the crowded aisle, guarding the printer. All around her was the dull sound of the machine running, but there was a hint of excitement in her eyes.
A few seconds later, she watched the resignation form slowly come out of the printer and breathed a sigh of relief.
A week ago, Yue Qianling submitted his resignation application.
Today is Tuesday, she has submitted the email and will be able to officially resign after completing the procedures in various departments.
So she spoke up in the private group chat.
[Yue Qianling]: Everyone, I'm resigning. I'm completing all the formalities today and I won't be here next week. Thank you all for your care during this time!
The office environment of the game company is not that strict. After this statement was made, colleagues around her did not reply to the message in the group chat, and several eyes were directly focused on her workstation.
"What? You quit?"
"Why do you want to resign when everything is fine?"
"The New Year is coming soon. Why are you resigning now?"
"Isn't the Christmas event coming up? Why did you quit when you haven't even finished drawing the card?"
There were too many people asking questions, so Yue Qianling couldn't answer them one by one, so she could only say in general terms: "I have to go back to school to do my graduation project, and then I may consider returning to my hometown to work."
"Returning to hometown to work" might be a question that many people present had considered, so no one bothered to ask. At most, they expressed shock at Yue Qianling's sudden resignation and turned to ask another person, "Team leader, why didn't you say anything?"
Yue Qianling did not tell other colleagues about this in advance.
Her team leader was the only person who knew in advance that she was going to resign, after all, her signature would be the first one required for the review.
However, given the team leader's personality, Yue Qianling was quite surprised that he didn't tell anyone about this.
"I don't think it's a big deal." The team leader adjusted his bangs and said calmly, "Then let's have a meal together tonight? It can be regarded as a farewell party."
Yue Qianling didn't speak immediately after hearing this.
If we talk about the reason why she resigned, the first factor was this team leader.
I don’t know if he can’t digest food alone or what, but he always suggests that the whole group have a meal together. If you don't go, they will use the idea of teamwork to pressure you, as if not attending the dinner means you are not sociable and you have to accept several hours of ideological education.
Normally, Yue Qianling thought that she was just a senior student who had not yet graduated, so she had to respect her seniors and not cause unnecessary trouble. In addition, all her colleagues came to greet her, so she could only sacrifice her rest time to attend the dinner.
But now.
Yue Qianling smiled and said, "No, thank you."
She took off her work badge, put it in her bag, and looked straight at the team leader.
Those eyes were deep and dark, with thick eyelashes, and even without makeup they seemed full of affection, which was very suitable for conveying the voice-over - everyone has resigned, so let me go.
But the team leader didn't seem to understand what she meant. He took out his phone and started choosing a restaurant: "How about that grilled fish restaurant downstairs? It's very popular and there's a queue. Let me get a number first."
He pressed his fingers lightly a few times before looking up and smilingly saying to Yue Qianling: "Maybe this is the last meal our group will have together. Let's keep in touch in the future."
Yue Qianling stopped talking.
She didn't even want to give the team leader a glance.
After taking the resignation form, Yue Qianling left his workstation.
HC Interactive Entertainment is a three-year-old gaming company. It is not very big, and the various processes are not that complicated. Even a non-compete agreement does not need to be signed.
Now she only needs to go to each department to sign according to the form on the resignation form, and finally get HR to sign and stamp it.
It was only three or four in the afternoon. Yue Qianling calmly went to the tea room to pour a cup of coffee, then sat by the window, unable to hide her excitement.
She turned on her cell phone and howled in the university dormitory group.
[Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks]: Finally freed! ! ! ! ! I'm going back to the dormitory and lying down for three days and three nights! ! ! Play games for three days and three nights! ! !
[Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks]: I want to eat takeout for three days! ! ! No one can take me out for dinner! ! !
After a while, her roommate Yin Xue replied to her message.
[Yin Xue]: Laugh a little quieter. I can hear your laughter even in the World Trade Center.
[Yin Xue]: But have you really decided? Don't think about it again?
[Yin Xue]: HC is so good, the salary is so high, there are so many of us who want to get in but can't. This year, our school only hired you out of dozens of people who went for interviews.
[Yin Xue]: I think your little complaint can be tolerated for the sake of money.
Having said that, Yue Qianling has a lot of opinions about HC as a company.
There is a team leader who always uses after-get off work time for dinner, a chief planner with weird aesthetic taste, a team member who has long hands but always asks others for help, and an air conditioner that is set to 15 degrees in summer and 30 degrees in winter.
If you are not in it, you will never understand how much damage these "little things" can do to a person.
Yue Qianling was originally a delicate female college student, but since she came to work here, she sometimes doesn’t even want to wash her hair.
Anticipating the bleak future life, Yue Qianling decided to cut his losses in time.
I don't need to support a family anyway, so why should I put myself in such a difficult position?
Besides, although Yue Qianling is occasionally a lazy person, he is also a lazy person with dreams.
She has studied art for so many years and has a special liking for the gaming industry, so naturally she wants to have a positive working environment.
As for HC Interactive Entertainment, it made a lot of profit, but all the money it earned was quick money.
Every mobile game is developed by copying someone else's framework and gameplay, then quickly put on the market and quickly flop. A lucky project can even last two to three years. The money did flow in like water, but Yue Qianling was confused from time to time. He had studied art for so many years, so what was he doing now?
On WeChat, another roommate also replied.
[Fang Qingqing]: Oh, actually which company is different? As long as you work, your life is equally hard. At least HC’s salary is high.
[Nuomi Xiaomahua]: Stop trying to persuade me. This is a crappy company and I won’t stay there even if they increase my salary tenfold!
After replying to the message, Yue Qianling walked into the elevator refreshed.
The first department to sign is the administration department.
The elevator door opened, and before Yue Qianling could suppress the smile on her face, she heard a roar coming from the HR director's office opposite.
"You want me to give up my position?! Are you crazy? Are you still going to make the game?!"
"What a brat! You haven't even got your fucking college diploma yet and you dare come up here and take my seat?!"
"Who the hell are you trying to humiliate?! I'm done with it!!!"
Immediately afterwards, a man in his thirties slammed the door and walked towards the elevator angrily.
The HR director followed out and tried to say something, but in the end he just opened his mouth, said nothing, and turned around to close the office door.
Yue Qianling was stunned.
I didn’t expect that resigning – could still be so handsome?
In the moment she was distracted, Chen Yin, the HR who was in charge of her resignation process, came over and called her.
"Yue Qianling? Have you completed the process?"
"No, I'm just going to the administration office."
Yue Qianling looked back at the man and asked, "Which department is this from?"
Chen Yin had nothing to do at the moment, so she just bought a cup of coffee and stood aside chatting with Yue Qianling.
"It's not from your mobile game division, it's from the ninth division."
"ah?"
Yue Qianling widened her eyes in surprise, "How could the people from the Ninth Division make such a mess?"
It’s not that Yue Qianling is making a fuss, but this “Ninth Business Unit” is a very special existence in HC.
Speaking of this department, we have to mention the development history of HC Interactive Entertainment.
The boss is a young woman in her thirties with a very legendary experience.
She once dropped out of school in junior high school because she was addicted to games. It took her family breaking three clothes hangers to finally get her back on track.
After finally graduating from college, her family thought they would no longer have to worry about her, but she rejected all offers and told her family that she wanted to make games.
This made her parents so angry that their hearts almost stopped. Breaking three clothes hangers didn't help, so they finally broke off the relationship.
However, the direction of the story is not very inspiring.
This lady was full of enthusiasm to create China's next-generation 3A games, but she found that the client only paid for the gold miners.
After many setbacks and almost having to sleep on the overpass, this lady came up with a roundabout way to save the situation.
——Make mobile games, earn quick money, and realize your dreams.
The carrier of her dream is naturally the magical "Ninth Business Unit" in the company.
Unlike other business units, even the name reveals its perfunctory nature.
The "Ninth Division" is not the ninth division of HC.
As we all know, the eight traditional arts refer to painting, architecture, sculpture, music, literature, drama, film and dance.
However, video games, which are on the fringe of being unrecognized by the world, are devoutly regarded as the "ninth art".
——The “Ninth Business Unit” came from this.
It has been established for three years and is located on the top floor of the HC Interactive Entertainment building.
They are like a mysterious organization. Although they share all the facilities in the office building, their structure is separate from HC Interactive Entertainment. They have their own independent office system and usually never appear in company team-building activities.
Most importantly, they don’t have any plans to bring a product to market.
In other words, they don’t have any karma! Results! Press! force!
Although Yue Qianling didn't know anyone from the Ninth Business Unit, it didn't stop her from being jealous.
They are a group of industry geniuses who were hired at high prices by the boss, who put all his efforts into supporting them and let them spend huge amounts of money to develop truly next-generation games.
They are a group of people that the boss holds in his heart.
So Yue Qianling didn’t understand why that big brother had such a quarrel with the HR director.
"Do you think the Ninth Division is really eating for free?" Chen Yin took a sip of coffee and said slowly, "There has been no progress in development for seven months. If it were another company, they would have packed up and left."
As she said that, she turned her head and glanced at Yue Qianling meaningfully, "But our boss has connections, and he didn't kick us out. He just spent a lot of effort to find a new lead developer."
Yue Qianling raised her eyebrows, indicating that she was willing to continue listening. Chen Yin naturally did not hesitate to speak, "The new lead developer is not very old, probably about the same age as you..."
Hold.
Yue Qianling felt a numbness on his forehead.
He is about the same age as her, so he must have just graduated from college, or even not graduated yet.
He is going to be the main developer of a 3A game. No wonder the original developer was so angry.
Isn't this humiliating?
Unless that person is a genius.
But who among the people in the Ninth Business Unit is not a genius in their field?
"So..." Chen Yin suddenly patted Yue Qianling on the shoulder, "You see, this world is so cruel. The guy just now was once a big shot in the gaming industry. He has achieved so many results in more than ten years of work, but he can't get this one project off the ground. He will be beaten to death immediately by the younger generation. So I still advise you to think about it carefully again, and don't waste your growth opportunities by changing jobs."
"Okay, thank you Sister Yinyin, I'll go get my stamp first."
“…”
The entire resignation process went smoothly and every detail on the resignation form was signed.
Yue Qianling took a deep breath of the air of freedom and went to find Chen Yin with a smile on her face to get the last red seal.
Seeing her so happy, Chen Yin actually felt it was a bit of a pity.
After all, as an artist, Yue Qianling's painting style is deeply loved by the boss, and his output pass rate is the best among all the artists in the company. If she left, it would be troublesome if the boss asked them to find someone else based on Yue Qianling's standards.
And out of selfishness, she also likes Yue Qianling very much.
So, before stamping her application, she asked again, "Are you really not going to reconsider? If you resign, you can't be rehired within three months. What if you can't find a better job? If you regret it now, I can help you cancel the process."
regret?
Yue Qianling smiled and shook her head, "No, I've already thought about it."
Having said that, Chen Yin was powerless to try to persuade him to stay and opened the drawer to look for the official seal.
At this moment, Yue Qianling suddenly felt a dark shadow looming beside him.
When she turned her head and her eyes met the person next to her, all the gears of her thoughts stopped turning in an instant, and only her heartbeat quickened.
Gu Xun stood beside her without knowing when.
He was wearing a black pilot jacket, which made him look tall and straight, and his shadow was stretched extremely long by the light, so the moment he appeared, he gave Yue Qianling a subtle feeling.
The light was so bright that it was blinding.
Yue Qianling looked at his profile intently.
He didn't pay any attention to the people next to him. He only raised his hand and took out an A4 paper when the receptionist opposite asked him what he was doing.
"Reporting to the Ninth Division."
As soon as he finished speaking, several people in the Human Resources Department looked up from their desks and focused their eyes on Gu Xun.
Some people are like this. Even if they lower their heads and hide their faces in the backlight, and their exquisitely carved faces cannot be seen, their aura can make people firmly associate them with the word "attractive".
The sight of the scene can prove this conclusion.
What's more, he was talking about "the ninth division" at this time.
The only one who will report to the Ninth Business Unit today is the new chief developer who “hasn’t even got his university diploma yet”.
The only female employee who met Gu Xun face to face was distracted for a moment, then confirmed that she had heard correctly and quickly began to check the information form.
At this time, Gu Xun noticed that a pair of eyes were fixed on him.
He tilted his head and when he lowered his eyes and saw Yue Qianling, he was a little surprised.
But there was no trace of surprise, just a raised eyebrow.
"Why are you here?"
Yue Qianling suddenly came back to his senses.
When she was about to speak, Gu Xun had already retracted his gaze and reached out to take the form handed to him by HR.
Obviously, he was not very interested in why Yue Qianling appeared here.
But he didn't know that in the short minute that he appeared, Yue Qianling's psychological world had undergone a drastic change.
It turned out that Gu Xun was the humiliating person mentioned by the eldest brother.
Then HC Interactive Entertainment is a really great place!
Not leaving!
I won’t leave even if you kill me!
But--
When Yue Qianling finally remembered why he was standing here and turned back to look at the table,
Chen Yin has already stamped her resignation form with a bright red stamp.
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