Chapter 150 Continued Kiss
The trouble with Xu Sheng was finally over, and I devoted all my energy to preparing my graduate thesis.
Although I am obsessed with the progress of the game at the company and wish I could spend 24 hours a day in the project department to watch every link being polished, there is nothing I can do about it because I am still a "student".
I have to get my degree certificate. This is an explanation to myself, to the school, and to Lin Yan who has always supported me.
Sometimes I stay up late in the lab and receive progress reports and test videos from the company. I feel itchy inside, like a cat scratching.
The brothers at Magnetic Power Studio are incredibly capable, but as the lead creator, I wasn’t there, and I was always afraid of missing out on any key moments of inspiration or decision-making.
But when I calm down and think about it, in addition to Lin Yan's unreserved support and my own perseverance, the school platform and the teachers' guidance are really indispensable to my achievements today.
The vision and background of teachers from prestigious universities are different. Every discussion with my tutor gives me new inspiration, and many of my ideas can even be fed back into game design and AI optimization.
At this moment, I am particularly glad that I listened to Lin Yan's advice and chose to pursue graduate studies.
He said at the time: "Ruirui, you are suitable to settle down and study things. Only when you have a solid technical foundation can you have a broad and long road ahead. There is no rush for the company's affairs, I am here for you."
Looking back now, he had a really far-sighted vision.
During these years of graduate studies, I not only gained an academic degree, but also systematically improved my thinking framework and was exposed to cutting-edge things. This accumulation is of intangible but huge help to entrepreneurship.
Life seems to be like this. The older you get and the busier you are, the faster it goes by, as if someone has pressed the fast-forward button.
That evening, we rarely worked overtime, so after dinner we took a walk together in the neighborhood. The evening breeze blew away the day's heat.
I looked at our shadows stretched by the streetlights on the ground, and suddenly felt a sense of emotion: "Lin Yan, think about it, we have been together for almost four years."
Lin Yan turned his head to look at me, raised his eyebrows, and said with his usual teasing tone: "Why? It's been four years, are you tired of it?"
"Oh, you know that's not what I meant!" I bumped into him in annoyance.
Lin Yan chuckled. He was just teasing me on purpose. "What does that mean?"
"I just feel like...in these four years, both of us, and everything around us, have changed so much."
I whispered, "It felt like I did a lot, but it all seemed to pass in the blink of an eye."
"Yeah," Lin Yan nodded and held my hand. "People always grow in four years. It's normal."
"Right now, I have only one hope," I shook his arm, "for our game to be completed and released soon! I'm so excited that players can experience that world that I can't sleep!"
After listening to this, Lin Yan was silent for a moment, and his tone suddenly became a little sour: "Oh... is there only one hope? It's all games? There's nothing else?"
I was stunned for a moment, not understanding what he meant. "Anything else? I think everything else is going well. The company is doing well, our relationship is good, and my parents are in good health... What else can I hope for?"
Lin Yan pretended to look away as if nothing had happened, and said in a faint voice: "Nothing, I just feel that... sometimes life needs a sense of ritual or something."
This really stumps me.
As for me, apart from remembering to prepare a gift for his birthday in advance, I don’t really have any romantic feelings.
I racked my brains, and the only "important ceremony" I could think of was that when the game becomes a huge success in the future, I must stand in the most dazzling place and declare to the world how important Lin Yan is to me.
So I deliberately raised the corners of my mouth and said in an exaggerated tone, "Don't worry! When my game becomes popular and wins an award, when I go on stage to give a speech, the first sentence I will say will definitely be, 'Thank you to my lover, Mr. Lin Yan! Without him, I wouldn't be where I am today!' Let the whole world know that you are my man! Isn't that a sense of ceremony?"
Lin Yan was amused by me, shook his head helplessly, and reached out to ruffle my hair: "You... forget it, it's too difficult to expect you to come to your senses. I still have to prepare for this kind of thing."
His words were a bit vague and I didn't quite understand them, but I didn't ask any further questions.
Anyway, I'm used to it. Lin Yan can always do well in whatever he wants to do. I'll know when the time comes.
We walked slowly, and when we passed a particularly bright street lamp, Lin Yan suddenly stopped.
"Remember?" He looked at me, his eyes looking particularly gentle under the light, "our first date."
My heart skipped a beat, and my memory was instantly pulled back to that innocent night. "Remember? We were coming back from the movies, around this time, also under the streetlights... but on the university campus."
"Well," Lin Yan's lips curved into a beautiful arc, "I wanted to kiss you at that time, but... in that atmosphere, you actually asked me such an embarrassing question."
My face flushed instantly! He actually still remembered this?! And it sounded like he was going to settle scores later!
"Then... can you blame me?" I argued softly, "Who told you not to explain clearly about your ex-girlfriends back then..."
"Then can you wait until the kiss is over before interrogating me?" Lin Yan smiled and moved closer, his tone full of teasing, "You've ruined the atmosphere."
"I...I just had a brain storm at that time..." I lowered my head embarrassedly.
As he spoke, Lin Yan's gaze had already fallen on my lips, and the hint in his eyes was exactly the same as that night many years ago.
But now, we are no longer the two nervous and expectant young boys back then.
My heart suddenly moved, and as if to make up for the regret of that year, I stood on tiptoe.
However, just when my lips were about to touch his, he took the lead, lowered his head, and accurately captured my lips.
The kiss was gentle and deep, carrying with it the certainty and deep love that came with the passage of time.
The halo of the street lamp cast a circle of warm yellow around us, as if there were only two of us left in the world.
"Hmm..." My legs felt a little weak from the kiss. It seemed like all the oxygen was taken away by him, and my head felt dizzy.
I don't know how long it was before he slowly let me go.
Our foreheads touched, breathing slightly, and looking at our reflections in each other's eyes, we couldn't help but laugh.
The kiss that ended abruptly under the street light many years ago because of a silly question was finally continued tonight.
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