Chapter 21: Relatives (Requesting Monthly Passes)

"President Zheng, good morning."

Seeing Zheng Can, Shen Siyuan greeted him out of politeness, not very enthusiastically.

"Good morning."

Zheng Can was much more enthusiastic than before, even casting a probing glance at Shen Siyuan.

But Shen Siyuan pretended not to see it.

Zheng Can was a complicated person; in short, Shen Siyuan did not like him very much.

His ability was not strong, relying entirely on flattery; he could sit in his current position solely due to his extraordinary relationship with the president of Guanghui Animation.

As a leader, he lacked much of his own opinion, changing orders by morning and evening, causing the entire Online Game Department to often do useless work on many matters, which made many people quite dissatisfied with him.

Compared to the Single-Player Department's thriving state and rising wages every year, the Online Game Department was in a state of decline with wages unchanged for three years; at every annual meeting, they had to suffer the leader's pointed criticism, making anyone feel displeased with him.

Seeing Shen Siyuan walk towards the Operations Department, Zheng Can turned his head and greeted Jiang Wenxin.

However, compared to Shen Siyuan, he appeared even more enthusiastic.

"Accountant Jiang, good morning."

But Jiang Wenxin merely nodded indifferently; seeing this, Zheng Can did not get angry, instead enthusiastically asking again if she had eaten breakfast.

Jiang Wenxin's status within the company was extremely special; even Zheng Can, as a company executive, had to wear a smiling face.

Jiang Wenxin casually responded with a couple of sentences to him, then walked straight towards the Finance Department.

Watching her departing figure, Zheng Can turned his head to look in the direction of the Operations Department.

Sitting at his seat, Shen Siyuan turned on his computer, threw away the garbage bag containing his eaten breakfast, then took out his phone, only to discover several unread messages.

Opening them, he found that Ding Youguang and Zhou Zheng had proactively created a group chat and were bombarding it with messages.

"Brother Shen, you know Accountant Jiang..."

"Shen Siyuan, big shot, did you hook up with a rich woman? Don't forget us when you get rich..."

"You hid it so tightly; you wouldn't be some young master from a certain family coming to the company to experience life, would you..."

"You absolutely must not take it seriously..."

"We are all brothers in the same trench; you cannot detach yourself from the masses..."

"Speak, are you a poor guy just like us..."

Watching the two of them, one sentence after another, Shen Siyuan was amused by them.

"Just acquaintances; you two don't want to imagine so much," Shen Siyuan replied.

"Just acquaintances?"

"Look at you, is that human speech you're saying?"

"I know her too; why didn't she ask if I ate breakfast?"

"Saying she bought too much, that bag wasn't even opened; do you think we're blind?"

"Ahhh, you really deserve to die; you finally embarked on this niche track, the future is bright..."

"Although Accountant Jiang is rich and beautiful, Shen Siyuan, oh Shen Siyuan, one cannot be like this; pfft, I look down on you, unless you introduce her to me..."

"Really just acquaintances; you two stop talking nonsense; Accountant Jiang thinks I'm a nice person and said she wants to introduce me to a partner," Shen Siyuan said.

There was nothing to hide about this matter; they were in the same company, seeing each other every day; given Jiang Wenxin's attitude towards him, someone would discover their relationship sooner or later, so it was better to say it openly.

"Introduce a partner to you? On what grounds?"

"Not to mention others, in what way am I not better than you? I'm more ambitious than you, handsomer than you; why doesn't she introduce one to me?"

"My salary is higher than yours, my skills are better than yours, I code like art; why doesn't she introduce one to me?"

"Believe it or not, I have no time to chat nonsense with you; I'll finish the fishing game planning proposal this morning."

Speaking of serious matters, the two of them became serious and stopped joking.

Shen Siyuan thought this matter was over, but not long after work started, Zhou Chuan sitting opposite sent a message asking.

"What is your relationship with Accountant Jiang?"

Hearing this, Shen Siyuan was stunned; he didn't expect this news to spread so fast, but quickly realized it must be Zheng Can who came to ask.

After thinking for a moment, he sent a message saying: "She is a distant relative of mine."

Then he opened his phone and contacted Jiang Wenxin via WeChat, asking her to align their story.

Jiang Wenxin replied almost instantly, directly agreeing.

She was currently messaging her husband, talking about this morning's events; until now, she was actually still in a state of shock.

They had originally thought Shen Siyuan was just an extraordinary person with some special means, but extraordinary people are still people.

But what he displayed this morning was already beyond the realm of what a human could possess.

It was both a Guardian and supernatural powers; especially the divinity on Watching Dou Dou, which was obviously extremely extraordinary at a glance.

Previously, Jiang Wenxin had appeared very calm, but actually her legs were a bit weak, and she was constantly thinking about Shen Siyuan's identity in her heart.

This was also why, even though Zheng Can greeted her with his status, she only perfunctorily responded, because at that time she simply had no mind to deal with the other party.

"I never heard you say that before."

Hearing Shen Siyuan say this, Zhou Chuan was also somewhat surprised.

"You two didn't ask either," Shen Siyuan said.

Zhou Chuan sent a dog-head emoji, then stopped asking further, presumably going back to Zheng Can.

Shen Siyuan didn't bother with him anymore, but opened the fishing game planning proposal and continued to refine it.

The gameplay of fishing is very simple, but the planning proposal is not simple.

First, the types of fish and points must be considered; besides this, different fish have different capture difficulties.

Additionally, one must consider when certain fish appear and at which levels, and so on.

Beyond that, Shen Siyuan also re-optimized the points leaderboard; besides the top ten receiving rewards, points could also be used to enter a lottery.

This was mainly to prevent players with no hope of reaching the top ten from slacking off, ensuring their points had a use and needed to be spent.

As a result, there were many more things to consider.

By the end of the morning, Shen Siyuan hurriedly produced a first draft of the plan and sent it directly to the group chat of several people.

Li Qunfang had also been added to the group by then; the group name was changed to 【Fishing Enthusiasts Fishing the Great Thousand】. The name was very chuunibyou yet imposing. Shen Siyuan had thought Ding Youguang changed it, but later learned it was Li Qunfang who changed the name.

"Let's try a first draft first. As for images of various fish, we can find resources online or extract them from other fishing games. @Li Qunfang, you will adjust and modify these resources later; this way, our project progress will be faster..."

"Shen Siyuan's idea is good."

Hearing this, Ding Youguang was also overjoyed; he hadn't thought of this point.

Don't blame Shen Siyuan for being unethical; in fact, game companies do this all the time. One game's code can be skinned dozens of times and then launched as a new game to make money.

As for the various fish resource images, they wouldn't use them directly but would treat them as "references," which was already quite professional.

Shen Siyuan gave further instructions; his portion of the work on this project was now complete, with at most some optimization and adjustments needed later.

After a busy morning, he naturally slacked off in the afternoon to kill time. However, when it was time to get off work, Lin Manzhi stopped him, reminding him to meet Jiang Tingyu that evening.

"I won't forget. I'm heading over right now," Shen Siyuan said.

But after he left the company, he found Tao Guangxia waiting at the stairwell.