"I'm hungry."
Having said about enough, Wu Wei's stomach growled. He stood up.
"What do you want to eat? Hotpot or barbecue?"
Wu Wei was highly skilled at this.
When asking a girl out for a meal, don't ask whether she wanted to go.
Just ask what she wanted to eat. The results were much better.
"The cafeteria, I guess."
Shen Yunshi said with smiling eyes.
'Shocking! The campus belle actually agreed to eat at the cafeteria with a guy!'
'Does anyone know who this guy is?'
'Beat up Young Master Xiang! Dating the campus belle! Who exactly is he? Why is he so badass?'
'The campus belle is pursuing him? Who is this guy? Anyone who knows, please explain!'
'...'
In the dorm, Zhang Zhiyuan and his two brothers stared at the posts on the school forum, growing more alarmed the more they read.
"Third Brother, what's going on here?"
Liu He asked.
"I really don't know!"
Lu Bian looked utterly innocent.
"I admit that Fourth Brother asked me to arrange a meeting with the campus belle,"
"but halfway through, I left with my girlfriend! I really have no idea what happened after that!"
"A meeting? About what?"
Zhang Zhiyuan asked in confusion.
"A commission."
Lu Bian pointed at the Zhiyou page on his computer.
"Aren't we making this game? Wu Wei wanted to hire the campus belle to make a set of illustrations for the backgrounds. It was business!"
"Business?"
At the same time, in the girls' dormitory, Fang Jin was also "interrogating" Shen Yunshi.
"And business just happened to run until dinnertime?"
Her face was practically screaming disbelief.
"You talked from eleven in the morning until the sun got off work. Tsk tsk, Shishi, don't tell me you and that Wu Wei..."
As she said this, Fang Jin's face filled with teasing.
She made Shen Yunshi blush furiously!
"I-I really was discussing business with him!"
"His game concept is really interesting, and he has a lot of unique ideas about illustration! Besides, he's not that kind of person!"
"So... so that's why we talked for so long!"
Shen Yunshi hurriedly explained.
"Oh, oh, oh, look how anxious our little Shishi is!"
Another girl in the dorm teased.
"Already making your boyfriend sound good?"
"Exactly, exactly."
Fang Jin giggled.
"What a glowing review! I've never seen you praise any other guy this much."
"And you still say there's nothing going on?"
"Hmm?"
The three girls crowded around her together, looking ready to force a confession out of her.
Shen Yunshi was on the verge of tears.
Now, even jumping into the Yellow River wouldn't wash her clean.
That night, all was silent.
Shen Yunshi lay in her curtained bed, tossing and turning.
Her dorm mates' words kept echoing through her mind.
Yeah.
Why did I instinctively defend Wu Wei, a man I'd only met once?
Shen Yunshi felt her face grow a little hot.
No matter how she turned, she couldn't fall asleep.
Amid her shyness, inspiration quietly began to bloom.
Shen Yunshi sat up.
She carefully fetched her laptop and connected her drawing tablet.
Opening her art software, Shen Yunshi wrote the name of one of the game's levels onto the line art—
p4—Love Letter.
"Right, flip the vortex icon. It can add a little more fun and difficulty."
"Old Second, are you dumb? A rabbit obviously means fast, and a turtle obviously means slow!"
"Old Wu, can you see if this design works? Like you said, fold it at the variation."
"I think this piece has too strong a sense of rhythm. Putting it in the eighth stage would make it too easy. Either move it earlier or replace it."
"Old Zhang, come over here. Why can't I figure out the movement logic on this side?"
"..."
In Wu Wei's dormitory, preparations for the new game were underway at a feverish pace.
The four brothers each performed their own duties, working together under Wu Wei's lead as chief designer.
Like construction workers, they kept building the tower of this sanity-shattering game higher and higher.
Wu Wei hadn't recruited these three brothers for nothing.
Before, when they had no serious work to do, their abilities hadn't stood out.
But once they formed a studio, their capabilities were completely unleashed.
New gameplay ideas, improvements to the game's feel, and unique insights into game art all sparked intensely through their repeated clashes of ideas!
At the same time, the three brothers gained a new understanding of Wu Wei through the project!
In Zhang Zhiyuan's words, Wu Wei was simply a natural-born devil for this type of game!
At every critical point, he could always come up with ideas that would wreck players' mental state.
Take the game's rhythm changes, for example.
Wu Wei chose to start with four steady eight-count measures, then added two consecutive heavy beats to the fifth eight-count measure.
The sudden acceleration caught players completely off guard while also forming a large loop.
And just when players thought they had mastered that rhythm—
at the same point in the next loop, he would viciously leave out half a beat!
Forget players encountering the game for the first time—even they, who had played it more than ten times during testing, sometimes couldn't react in time!
And in the later stages, Wu Wei added all sorts of speed changes and reversals!
The rhythm of the game was already as fast as a machine gun later on, and simply keeping up with it was difficult enough!
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