Chapter 2

Li Yunzhou, who had already prepared himself to get hit, touched the badge in his hand and looked at me strangely.

All the company employees present froze.

Only Guan Yan showed a hint of surprise and anger on her face.

I smiled at the two of them and said, “Why would I hit someone?”

I patted Li Yunzhou on the shoulder and said, “With this little build, I’m afraid I’d kill him and end up in jail.”

Li Yunzhou trembled.

Didn’t I already know that those loyal dogs of yours were just waiting for me to hit you?

They wanted to leave behind evidence and hand it over to the police back in the country, trying to put a stain on my life path.

I wasn’t going to give them that chance.

Guan Yan grabbed the badge in front of her and questioned me, “Gu Qiancheng, what do you mean?”

“You flew to America just to throw a childish tantrum at me? Take it back!”

Looking at her angry eyes, I only wanted to laugh.

“Isn’t this what you wanted?”

“Give everything, everything, to your first love, and lift him all the way up. Isn’t that what you wanted?”

“Now I’m giving him the chance to accept the award, and even giving him the lead planner position too. Why are you unhappy again?”

“Who exactly is throwing a childish tantrum?”

Guan Yan looked at me, unable to say a word, only muttering “you, you, you” over and over.

That green-tea man, Li Yunzhou, stepped forward and stood in front of Guan Yan as he looked at me.

“Ms. Guan is only doing this for the good of our company. Mr. Gu, you shouldn’t be throwing a fit either.”

“The future proposals still have to be made by you, Mr. Gu!”

I quickly stepped back and kept my distance from him.

Without answering him, I just looked at Guan Yan.

Guan Yan seemed to finally react, and directly stuffed the badge into Li Yunzhou’s arms.

“It’s fine. Since he’s given the position to you, just do your best with it.”

“You were already going to revise the proposal anyway, and now that you’re starting from scratch, you’ll definitely be able to do even better!”

Li Yunzhou smiled and accepted the badge Guan Yan handed over.

Li Yunzhou probably still thought he could really make game plans.

Game planning isn’t just about coming up with an idea and calling it a day. From level design, story, stats, and gameplay to art style and so much more, everything has to be taken into account.

Every time I wrote a proposal, I had to pour out all my effort, just to make the game I had in mind.

But Li Yunzhou didn’t care. Every time he got my proposal, he would casually change a few things and then hand it off to his people.

No matter what question you asked him, he would claim not to know. Aside from his title as a star producer, he knew absolutely nothing.

And yet he actually thought making a proposal was easy, that as long as the art and programming were fine, everything would be enough.

He still thought he had finally pushed me out and that all was well, never imagining what was waiting for him.

Without the lead planner, the whole company would be headless. He wouldn’t be able to make a single game.

Guan Yan turned to me and said, “Fine. Since you’re an old employee, I won’t fire you.”

“The company still needs someone to clean, so I’ll give you a $2,000 raise. Go rest a bit more.”

Cleaning?

Me, the lead planner who won Best Story at the World Game Competition, and she wanted me to go clean?

If I wanted to work for a game company, they’d all be fighting to hire me.

And she still had the nerve to say she was giving me a raise. That was just another way to humiliate me.

No matter how much extra money I got, I’d still be the guy cleaning toilets.

As long as I stayed in the company, I would definitely be ganged up on by the two of them, and there would be absolutely no good ending for me.

“I already said I’m quitting. You don’t need to insult me by talking about cleaning toilets.”

I looked at Guan Yan and said, “I don’t want severance. I only want my last proposal back.”

That proposal was the result of all the knowledge I had spent my whole life accumulating, and it was also the most perfect game in my mind.

Guan Yan frowned and said to me, “I can give the proposal back to you, if you go apologize to Yunzhou. Then I’ll return it to you.”

Apologize?

They took my proposal, took my place, and went to the award stage I had dreamed of, and now they wanted me to apologize to her.

I walked up to Li Yunzhou and slapped him hard across the face.

“This is my apology to you. Like it?”