Jiangcheng Industries headquarters was sparsely lit.
As a company whose primary business was real estate, Jiangcheng Industries had no culture of working overtime. Once the workday ended, most employees had already left, apart from those in a few departments.
In the chairman's lounge on an upper floor, Song Yunyan sat on the sofa with her secretary, Li Zijian, standing beside her. Lu Ban sat diagonally across from them. A projection screen had been hung on the lounge wall, ready to play Lu Ban's video.
"The video is about twelve minutes long. Not very long."
Lu Ban casually offered that explanation.
Secretary Li Zijian picked up the remote and pressed play.
"Is this another horror-themed one?"
Song Yunyan asked curiously. The footage looked like surveillance footage, as if it had been recorded inside a vehicle.
"I don't think it's that scary. It's like Indiana Jones—an adventure story!"
Lu Ban answered immediately.
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Song Yunyan froze for a moment.
She turned her gaze toward the projection screen.
Twelve minutes later, the video ended.
The expressions of the video's first two viewers, Song Yunyan and Li Zijian, were worlds apart.
"Zijian, tell me what you thought."
Song Yunyan rubbed her temples and let her secretary speak.
Li Zijian's expression brightened slightly at that.
"This video was made quite well. It had a thrilling atmosphere, and the special effects were very realistic. That monster at the beginning appeared and disappeared unpredictably, which really kept you on edge. Later on, the appearance of the fish pushed the audience's emotions right to the edge of a cliff. And in the final scene, when the protagonist escaped alive and saw the smile on his teammate's face, it genuinely felt like my heartbeat had missed a beat."
He analyzed the video from every angle, apparently hoping to show