I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

"This is the content published online; I typed it out verbatim," the secretary said, hands behind her back. "What's wrong, Mr. Cai? Does it contradict the information you received?"

Cai Zhenyi stared at the two applications, then suddenly shook his head and smiled.

He was spouting nonsense in front of Gu Yuqing, talking about "open world" and "the mobile game boom" with great confidence.

That's it!

WeChat mini-games!

"And look at these names, what kind of low-age game is this?" Cai Zhenyi slapped two pieces of paper on the table with a mocking expression. "'Sheep's Goat,' and what's this? 'Merge the Watermelon'! Are they trying to develop the market for preschool games?"

The secretary chimed in, "The underage market is shrinking rapidly right now, so it's definitely not a good idea to get involved in this field."

Cai Zhenyi smiled helplessly, crossed his arms, sat down in the chair, and fell into thought.

Seeing that Mr. Cai was deep in thought, the secretary tactfully withdrew and closed the door behind him.

He was already at the age where he should be thinking about marriage, and his family had urged him to get married several times. He had also been forced to go on a blind date once or twice.

The blind dates were all introduced by people in the social circle; they were all well-off, either the daughters of this boss or the daughters of that high-ranking official.

Dozens of properties and tens of millions in dowry are nothing to her.

His blind dates were all quite satisfied with him, but he always hesitated. He hesitated because he was waiting for someone.

If I could marry Gu Yuqing... then all the promises and assets of my previous blind dates, all put together, wouldn't compare to Gu Yuqing's smile as she turned around in her white veil.

Through his personal connections with the previous generation, he often went drinking with Gu Yuqing's father, Gu Zongyan, and thus knew a little about Gu Zongyan's thoughts and had heard about the bet between the father and daughter.

If Chen Ya, whom Gu Yuqing has her eye on, is just this kind of person, still working on a mini-program after half a month...

He really needs to cultivate a good relationship with Gu Zongyan within the next six months and prepare to take Gu Yuqing in.

You should know that Gu Yuqing is very popular, and he's not the only one eyeing her.

Cai Zhenyi looked at the table and let out a soft sneer.

"The Sheep"...and "Synthetic Watermelon"...

Ha ha……

……

"What? There's another one??"

After staying up all night to finish all the debugging for "Sheep and Sheep", Shi Chuan Dong suddenly heard something from Chen Ya that made his liver hurt.

"Yeah, we planned to make two games from the beginning. Otherwise, why would we be rushing you to finish the game that was supposed to launch during the Qingming Festival?" Chen Ya nodded. "Go ahead and do it. The game is called..."

Ishikawa Takashi's eyes were dark-rimmed and his lips were pale: "Brother Ya, I don't want to hear this right now."

"People always have to learn to face reality. The name of the game is..."

"Could you let me linger on for a little while? Let me immerse myself in this illusory beauty, sob sob sob, my Mashiro, my Inori, my Kanade Tachibana..."

“My advice is to know when to stop going crazy,” Chen Ya said with a smile, “Once the game goes live and makes money, your share of the profits will be enough for you to buy a thousand of their figurines.”

Ishikawa Toru's eyes lit up: "Really?"

“Really.” Chen Ya nodded. “Our investors’ requirement is a profit of more than 10 billion within six months. If we do a quick calculation, if we earn that level of profit, your dividend will be at least tens of millions.”

Ishikawa Tō's eyes glazed over, but he quickly regained his composure: "But with so much money, why don't I go and pick up real girls?"

“That’s probably not enough,” Chen Ya said. “You need emotional intelligence to date real girls.”

Ishikawa Toru was devastated.

He rubbed his face, trying to calm himself down, and asked, "What's the game called?"

"The game is called 'Merge the Watermelon'."

If "Sheep" uses the anxiety of completing the game to stimulate players and make them want to play it repeatedly, then "Merge the Watermelon" is actually the same kind of game.

However, Merge Watermelon is not fraudulent. It is clear from the beginning that it cannot be completed, and it does so more subtly in exploiting players' enthusiasm.

Therefore, it's more like a game.

In this world, although there are games similar to 2048, they are all very old games from a long time ago. If "Merge Watermelon" were to suddenly appear, it would be a refreshing experience.

If "Sheep's Goat" is a game purely for attracting users, then "Merge the Watermelon" should be considered a game for generating profits.

First, fully leverage the traffic generated by "Sheep and the Sheep," and then use "Sheep and the Sheep" to drive traffic to their own game.

With appropriate in-app purchases, this game should be able to generate decent profits.

The game is also small enough to capitalize on the holiday traffic surge.

Therefore, both games need to be completed before the holiday.

After I finished explaining the requirements to Ishikawa Toru, it was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening.

Ishikawa Takashi looked at Chen Ya with expectant eyes and asked, his eyes sparkling:

"Brother Ya, are you staying here with me to work overtime tonight?"

Chen Ya smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

"I won't work overtime."

He'll learn from his mistakes; he has family waiting for him, and he won't forget this time.

I rushed home under the stars. Sure enough, as soon as I stepped out of the elevator, I saw a figure in a long white coat standing quietly waiting in the hallway next to my apartment.

"How long have we been waiting?" Chen Ya asked, his hands in his pockets.

“One hour and twenty-five minutes,” Lu Aiai said calmly.

"I'm not too surprised that you didn't say how many seconds it was." Chen Ya took out his keys and opened the door.

“The error is too great, so there’s no point in saying it.” Lu Ai’ai’s voice was ethereal. Although what she said was so strict and rigid that it was boring, her voice didn’t make people feel annoyed.

Chen Ya didn't say anything; in a sense, he had already gotten used to this girl.

He had previously treated Lu Aiai like any other girl with a quirky personality, but after what happened with Gu Yuqing, he became more clear-headed.

Now it's time to start thinking about how to gradually distance myself from this girl and let her slowly drift away from my life.

It wasn't that he completely forced her out of her world—Chen Ya wasn't the kind of person who didn't believe in pure friendship between men and women.

It's certainly possible for men and women to have platonic friendships, but men and women who have platonic friendships would never go to each other's homes for no reason.

Chen Ya knew his own constitution; whether intentionally or unintentionally, girls who were close to him would unconsciously fall for him.

He used to get away with pretending to be stupid, but when he encountered Gu Yuqing, who has a clear sense of right and wrong, he insisted on making things clear, and almost ended up hurting her.

He was in a good mood after talking things out with Gu Yuqing today. He hoped that he could take advantage of this momentum to clarify his relationship with Lu Aiai as well.

This is a great test of one's wisdom.

"I've come to see you today because there's something I need to discuss with you," Lu Aiai said.

Chen Ya opened the door and let Lu Ai'ai in: "Let's talk inside."

"This is a very serious matter." Lu Aiai took a deep breath.

"Okay, whether it's serious or entertaining, let's go inside first."

"boom!"

After closing the door, Lu Aiai took another deep breath: "It's about my research..."

"Research? What research? You even do research?"

Chen Ya asked the question, but then realized that universities now offer a lot of extracurricular and in-class research, involving group discussions and projects on specific topics. It's not something particularly high-class or sophisticated.

He thought that Lu Ai'ai's research was of this type.

"My research is about...about..."

Lu Ai'ai suddenly became hesitant and stammering. This beautiful physics major, who was full of scholarly air, had always been scientific and liked to express everything with precise language. She had always regarded ambiguity as a major taboo in life, but at this moment she became vague and unclear.

"Hmm?" Chen Ya stared at her with a more serious look.

It seemed like she had taken too many deep breaths just now. At this moment, Lu Aiai suddenly felt a rush of blood to her brain and even felt a little dizzy.

She dared not look Chen Ya in the eye; doing so would only make her more dizzy.

"It's about you," Lu Aiai finally said.

"About me?" Chen Ya was puzzled.

“Yes, about you,” Lu Aiai nodded repeatedly, telling a harmless little lie, “My research project is about you.”

Chen Ya was even more confused and began to suspect that this was a symptom of Lu Ai'ai's fever that morning.

Lu Ai'ai's little lie, scientifically speaking, is a grossly flawed fallacy, but for her at that moment, it felt like a relief:

"There are still some things about you that I don't understand or don't quite understand. As for how to study you, I have already written half of my research proposal and I am refining the experimental procedures. I hope you can cooperate with me."

Chen Ya never expected the topic to be so entertainingly serious, and asked, "Why are you studying me? Aren't you a physics major? You're not a biology major."

“Individual phenomena also have a response to the macrocosm, and I oppose your sectarianism, which is detrimental to the development of science.”

"Fine." Chen Ya said indifferently, changed his shoes and got himself some water. "Do whatever you want."

“Well, the first thing I need your cooperation on is to record your various physiological signs,” Lu Aiai pointed to Chen Ya’s clothes and then to the ground. “Now, take off your clothes.”

Angrily asked for leave

I've been quite busy these past few days, and I only slept for three hours yesterday, so I won't be able to update on time today. I'll just make a note of this and make up for it later.

Chapter 334 is such a romantic statement.

Lu Aiai pointed to his body, then to the ground:

"Take off your clothes."

She acted as if it were a nurse at a hospital conducting a physical examination, expecting him to undergo a rigorous series of tests.

"Harassment?"

"It's not harassment, it's academic research," Lu Aiai said earnestly. "First, a thorough understanding of the physiological characteristics of the research subjects is the foundation for developing a reasonable research process."

Chen Ya quickly moved away from her: "Oh, I'll lend you my recent medical report."

"No."

Chen Ya hadn't gone far when Lu Ai'ai grabbed his waistband, pulling the rope out quite a bit.

“Data like height and weight, which can change at any time, is meaningless. What I need to observe is something more fundamental, something closer to the real you.”

Chen Ya's face twitched: "The kind of thing you're talking about, the kind that can be seen as soon as you take off your clothes?"

"Uh……"

This rhetorical question clearly startled Lu Aiai for a moment; she wavered, but quickly regained her resolve.

"You might not be able to see it. But you can try."

"...I am glad you have this Edison-like tenacity, but I must remind you that human experimentation is illegal."

“It’s not a human experiment, it’s just a record,” Lu Ai’ai said, pulling out a Fujifilm camera from somewhere. “After recording your physical condition with this, take it back and study it carefully.”

"...Isn't that even stranger?"

Chen Ya flicked her forehead with his finger.

Lu Aiai pouted, seemingly surprised and finding Chen Ya's uncooperative attitude quite troublesome.

She gestured with two fingers to indicate a very small distance and said, "I never imagined you would be unwilling to sacrifice yourself for science, even for such a small amount..."

"What kind of sacrifice for science is this?"

Lu Aiai rested her chin on her hand: "Shouldn't we apply for research funding as a reward for volunteering?"

"You can scam funding like this?!" Chen Ya suddenly realized, "Wait, where are you, an ordinary student, going to apply for funding?"

"..."

Lu Aiai remained silent. She wasn't very good at lying, so she simply didn't answer.

Chen Ya thought she was sulking because she didn't say anything, but fortunately he didn't want to delve into the matter.

“If you just want to stay at my place, then go ahead. My sofa is rarely used, so it’s perfect for you,” Chen Ya said. “No need for excuses like ‘research’.”