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Especially the single-player story mode—it's considered by Bai Qianqu and many others to be one of the pinnacles of FPS games.

Bai Qianqu looked at the game with a somewhat complicated expression.

The reasons are so complicated and ridiculous that he couldn't have created such a masterpiece.

That's right. With Bai Qianqu's current skill level, making a small game wouldn't be a problem for him. He could even grit his teeth and make Angry Birds or Plants vs. Zombies.

But Titanfall 2 is a true AAA title! It not only has a story, but also voice acting, modeling, rendering, and even motion capture!

These are all indispensable!

But even if he knew how to create clones, it wouldn't work! He simply doesn't know how!

This feeling is like having a powerful artifact but the system telling you that the attribute values ​​are insufficient to use it—it's truly frustrating.

It seems I must open a game studio in the future. Let professionals do professional things, and I can be a hands-off boss. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

However, money is definitely essential for making games, so this matter needs to be considered carefully.

After figuring it out, Bai Qianqu looked at the third purple prize.

"My Sky?" This prize surprised Bai Qianqu as well; he hadn't expected to draw such a song.

As a pop song, it topped the charts on major music platforms for nearly 24 months after its release, receiving unanimous praise.

The reason it became so widely popular is actually related to its simplified singing style. After all, you can sing along after listening to it a few times, allowing many people who didn't know how to rap to sing it perfectly in time with the rhythm.

It can be said that this song played a significant role in promoting rap music.

As for the last purple prize, to be honest, Bai Qianqu couldn't remember what it was for a moment. When he read the contents, he was immediately shocked! A look of fear appeared on his face!

A butcher returned home late at night, his basket empty of meat, with only bones remaining.

As soon as this opening appeared, a line of text popped into Bai Qianqu's mind:

Memorize the entire text.

Indeed, this short story titled "The Wolf" is from Pu Songling's collection of classical Chinese short stories, "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio".

The story of the wolf from "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" has been selected for inclusion in Chinese language textbooks in many regions, becoming a nightmare for countless students.

The requirement to memorize the entire text, consisting of four large characters, felt like a curse weighing on the students' heads, sending chills down their spines.

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Chapter 96 Temporary Transfer

However, even setting aside the issue of memorizing the entire text, "The Wolf" is still a good short story. The philosophy it contains is very educational, otherwise it wouldn't have been selected as teaching material in so many Chinese language textbooks.

Since its publication in 1765, *Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio* has been published in numerous editions over the following 200 years. It has had a profound influence not only domestically but also internationally. Since the 19th century, it has been translated into more than sixty foreign languages, including English and German. It has been included in encyclopedias of major countries worldwide, thus becoming a highly acclaimed world classic.

"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" brought ancient Chinese short stories to a new level. Although there have been many other classical Chinese short stories since then, it has been difficult for any to surpass it.

Moreover, since the 1920s, there have been more than 70 film and television adaptations of the novel, the most famous of which is the "A Chinese Ghost Story" series, some of which are childhood nightmares for many people.

Bai Qianqu obtained two versions of "The Wolf": one in classical Chinese and the other a translated version in modern Chinese.

Looking at the reward in her hand, Bai Qianqu fell into deep thought.

Although I was incredibly lucky to win four prizes this time, the only ones I can actually use right now are "My Sky" and "Plants vs. Zombies". I can't work on "Titanfall 2", and I don't know where to send "Wolf". I'll leave them for now and deal with them later. I'll finish "The King's Avatar" first.

As the end of the month approached, Bai Qianqu noticed that everyone in the company seemed to be busy. Not only were executives like Bronya and Raiden Ryoma having meetings every day, but even ordinary employees like Li Yang were starting to work overtime every day.

Bai Qianqu was puzzled because he had not been assigned any tasks, and it seemed that he was the only one in the entire composition department hall who had nothing to do.

It was only after asking Bai Qianqu that I learned that because there are only three months left until the Chinese New Year, many singers will choose to release songs during these last three months.

For no other reason than to avoid the War of the Gods. It can be said that these last three months are the last chance for ordinary singers. The big shots have all been drawn away in the last month, so these three months are actually peaceful, and no monsters will appear to disrupt the competition.

Therefore, these three months are also known as the welfare period, and the new singer competition also starts in November of that period.

There are many singers who are against entropy, but most of them are just ordinary singers. They release songs in clusters during this period, so the company will naturally be busier.

Young singers don't have the resources to find professional songwriters, so they can only select from the company's music library. Once they find a suitable song, they apply to the company, which then helps them contact the song's creator. After both parties reach an agreement, the lyrics are written and the song is performed.

However, with more singers, the song library was not enough. Therefore, Raiden Ryoma ordered the composition department to have all composers below Grade A contribute a song to the company's song library for the many singers to choose from.

Bai Qianqu wasn't assigned any tasks because he had already written a song for Ying, which meant he had completed his task, so Raiden Ryoma didn't look for him.

Bai Qianqu was initially quite pleased with himself, thinking he could continue to slack off, but his good fortune didn't last long before he was summoned to the office by Lei Dian Long Ma.

“Originally, this wasn’t your job, but Cocolia found out you were free, so she insisted on borrowing you to help out in their lyric writing department.”

Upon hearing Lei Dian Long Ma's words, Bai Qianqu felt as if she had been struck by lightning.

Is this the infamous, dreaded temporary transfer?

Unscrupulous and heartless capitalists!

But there was nothing he could do; when you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. So he obediently went to the lyrics department to report for duty. Fortunately, Cocolia didn't assign him many tasks; it was just checking the lyrics.

In Cocolia's words, judging from Bai Qianqu's current songwriting abilities, she is fully capable of working as a lyricist, and a simple lyric check is child's play.

Bai Qianqu's face darkened immediately, but Cocolia didn't give him a chance to speak and went straight to a meeting. Just then, Xing came to deliver something, so Cocolia asked Xing to take Bai Qianqu to his workplace.

Walking through the lyric writing department's office hall, Bai Qianqu noticed that there were significantly more people in the lyric writing department than in the composition department, because composition requires some professional knowledge, while lyric writing is much broader.

Seeing Bai Qianqu's sullen expression, Xing couldn't help but laugh gleefully, "Hahaha, who told you to be so capable? Don't you know the principle that the capable should do more? Luckily you can't sing, otherwise believe me, you'd have to sing songs too!"

Bai Qianqu was speechless. Writing lyrics and singing, you don't let anyone else earn a single penny, right?

“But don’t underestimate the importance of lyrics!” Xing added, “You know, for a good song, not only is the melody very important, but good lyrics are also indispensable. When our company selects a melody, we often write several sets of lyrics for it! So the workload of the lyric writing department is huge!”

Bai Qianqu asked with some confusion: "Generally speaking, shouldn't the lyrics be written first and then the music composed for them?"

“That’s the general situation.” Xing said dismissively. “You should know the current market situation. Many listeners only listen to the melody and don’t care about the lyrics at all. As long as the melody is catchy, they will buy it even if there are no lyrics. Of course, the order of lyrics and music is not fixed. It mainly depends on which one is more suitable.”

As the two walked through the hall into the corridor, Xing suddenly stopped and looked ahead with some apprehension.

Bai Qianqu was puzzled and followed Xing's gaze. She saw a girl with long light blue hair standing in front of them, looking at the two of them expressionlessly.

Upon seeing Bai Qianqu, the girl spoke: "Hello, my name is Lilia. Are you Teacher Quyin? Minister Cocolia asked me to assist you with your work. Xing, you can go back now."

Xing was immediately displeased upon hearing this.

"Hey! Minister Cocolia clearly told me to take him to his work location, and I was going to make sure I got him there. What's with you suddenly taking over halfway through? You're the one who should step aside now!"

Lilia remained expressionless, but showed no intention of moving aside.

"Xing's task is complete, and there is no need for her to continue following Teacher Quyin."

"Huh? What did you say?!"

The two stared at each other, neither willing to give an inch. The tension instantly filled the corridor.

Bai Qianqu sighed helplessly. It seemed that these two were always at odds with each other, no matter where they were.

The argument between the two quickly attracted the attention of many people, and Bai Qianqu knew that she could no longer stand idly by.

Chapter 97 Lyricist Lilia

Just as Bai Qianqu was about to step forward and say something, Cocolia returned, probably having forgotten something. Upon seeing a large group of people gathered in the corridor, her expression immediately darkened.

"Don't you guys have anything to do? What are you all doing gathered here? Are you not getting enough work?"

Upon hearing Cocolia's words, the onlookers' expressions changed drastically, and they all ran away without looking back.

When Xing heard Cocolia's voice, she shuddered and uttered a harsh remark while shrinking back.

"Hmph! I'll let you off the hook today!"

With that, Xing turned and ran away.

Seeing this, Lilia tried to run away, but Cocolia grabbed her by the back of her collar.

"Where do you want to go, Lilia?"

"I started feeling my eyelids twitching halfway there, and I knew you two were going to cause me trouble!"

Lilia quickly said, "I'm so sorry, Minister Cocolia! Rosalia ate the cookies in your office last time! Lilia knew nothing about it!"

Cocolia's face darkened, and she was about to lash out, but seeing Bai Qianqu beside her, she forced herself to hold back.

"I'll settle the score with you later." With that, Cocolia released Lilia's collar and put on a smiling face again as she looked at Bai Qianqu.

"I'm sorry, Xiao Qianqu, my useless subordinates have made you laugh."

As she spoke, she glared at Lilia, who then looked away, feigning innocence.

"fine."

Seeing that Bai Qianqu didn't seem angry, Cocolia breathed a sigh of relief.

She went to great lengths to borrow Bai Qianqu from the Thunder Dragon Horse; it would be a loss if she scared him away.

“It’s like this, Chiku.” Cocolia tried to soften her tone. “Lilia has only recently joined the lyric writing club, and she’d like you to take a look at some of her lyrics.”

Bai Qianqu nodded indifferently, since it didn't matter whose lyrics it was, since it was all about looking at the lyrics anyway.

Cocolia smiled with satisfaction, then pulled Lilia along and led Bai Qianqu to an empty room.

As soon as Bai Qianqu entered the room, she saw a stack of papers on the table and couldn't help but gasp.

Cocolia said somewhat embarrassedly, "There's a task from above. Everyone in the lyric writing department has to write a song. Right now, I'm most worried about Lilia. Her thinking is too unconventional, so many people are unwilling to show her songs. This time, I'll have to trouble you to help her pick out a song that's at least passable and can be used to get the job done."

Bai Qianqu immediately recalled the lyrics of the song she had heard in front of Lei Dian Long Ma's gate, and her face instantly became complicated.

Goodness, if all the songs here are like that, it's definitely not for the average person.

That kind of aesthetic art is still too advanced for people today.

Cocolia looked at Lilia beside her and said in a deep voice, "Lilia, you must study hard with Teacher Quyin! With so many lyrics, I refuse to believe that you don't have a single one that you can be proud of!"

Lilia gave a pitiful "Oh".

"I have to go to a meeting, Chiku, I'll be going now."

After Cocolia left, Bai Qianqu sat down at the table and casually picked up a lyric sheet to read.

But you don't know until you see it, and what you find is quite shocking.

The lyrics in his hand looked like this—

Ah, fifty years from now

We will meet again.

Sent to the Hall of Rebirth