Deceiving Li Sinan

Chapter 145

Riverside Gardens—

"Gu 'Dog' Ran! Get back to your room and stop getting in the way!"

Ye Zhenzhen's elegant eyebrows shot up. Holding a dripping wet mop, she slammed it heavily onto the floor, looking very much like a fierce warrior holding the pass alone.

She had changed into a light pink loungewear set. Her long hair was casually tied up in a bun, with a few loose strands falling by her neck, making her neck look even more slender and fair.

Who would have thought that the top student of the grade, usually as aloof and unapproachable as a snow lotus on Mount Tianshan at school, was currently standing barefoot on the floor, looking as beautiful as a little chef.

Gu Ran held up a freshly opened ice-cold cola, leaning against the doorframe with an innocent face. "Ye Zhenzhen, you have to have a conscience. I'm supervising... oh, wait, I mean I'm trying to help you share the housework. It's one thing if you don't appreciate it, but why resort to personal attacks?"

"Gu 'Dog' Ran, you're asking for it!"

Ye Zhenzhen raised an eyebrow, tossed the mop aside, and reached out to pinch the soft flesh at Gu Ran's waist.

"Hiss! Ow, ow, ow! Ye Zhenzhen, are you trying to murder your husband?!"

Gu Ran cried out while reaching to grab the girl's wrist.

But the clever girl had long perfected this combo. Predicting his prediction, she backhanded him, grabbed his ear directly, and pulled it up!

"Call me big sister! And... and go back to your own room! If you dare come out before dinner, I'll break your legs!"

Feeling the girl's ruthlessness, Gu Ran sucked in a breath of cold air, catching a glimpse of her slightly red ear tips from the corner of his eye.

Catching her off guard, he grabbed that mischievous little hand, gently rubbing his thumb over it, and leaned in with a cheeky grin.

"Ye Zhenzhen, why are you blushing? Are you saying no with your mouth but actually feeling ecstatic in your heart? Making me call you big sister, you're a bit of a pervert."

As Gu Ran spoke, he exaggeratedly rubbed the goosebumps on his arms, his expression practically begging for a beating.

Hearing these words, combined with Gu Ran's expression.

The thin-skinned girl's face turned beet red. "Pah! You... you're shameless! Who's ecstatic? I think you're just itching for a beating!"

With that, the girl raised her hand in embarrassment and anger, pretending to strike.

"Ah, I suddenly remembered I have a multi-million dollar project to negotiate. I'll go back to my room first."

Knowing when to stop, Gu Ran quickly slipped into the bedroom and locked the door behind him before the embarrassed and angry girl completely lost it.

With a click.

Outside the door, Ye Zhenzhen paused for a moment. Gently touching her burning red cheeks, she muttered softly at the door, "Sh... shameless guy."

Gu Ran leaned against the door, listening to the commotion outside. The image of the girl looking so embarrassed she wanted to die flashed in his mind. The corners of his mouth curled up, and he let out a soft chuckle.

This girl, still so easy to tease.

......

Returning to the computer, the summer cicadas chirping through the cracks in the window sounded a bit noisy.

Gu Ran put away his playful smile, his eyes becoming calm.

He didn't rush to write code. Instead, he opened the QQ account named "GRGameStudio".

This account currently only had one person added—Li Sinan.

At this moment, in a bachelor apartment in Qinglin County A.

Li Sinan sat dejectedly at her desk. The half-written self-criticism letter in front of her looked particularly glaring.

As a young English teacher at the best high school in the county, she should have had a bright future.

But just the day before yesterday, several parents jointly protested to the Education Bureau, reporting her for "indecent dressing," "seducing male students," and some even spread rumors that her private life was chaotic.

Those parents didn't care about the truth at all. They only saw their children's grades dropping, and the beautiful female teacher became the original sin.

"So ridiculous..."

Li Sinan tugged at the corners of her mouth in self-deprecation, her eyes turning sour.

She wanted to quit this terrible job, but in such a closed-off small county, in her parents' words, losing a tenured position was like losing half your life. The gossip alone could drown a person.

Just then, the QQ avatar in the lower right corner of the computer suddenly started bouncing.

[GRGameStudio]: Who I am isn't important. What's important is, are you interested in changing your environment and changing the world?

Li Sinan froze.

She remembered this account. It suddenly added her two nights ago with the note "Producer of Temple Run."

Temple Run. She had heard about how insanely popular this game had become recently on the overseas App Store.

It was currently the most popular mobile game in the world, bar none.

Why would a big shot of this level look for a small-town teacher like her?

Li Sinan hesitated for a moment and typed a line: [Who exactly are you? Why are you contacting me?]

Sitting in front of the computer, Gu Ran's mouth curled into a playful smile.

He didn't answer the question about his identity. Instead, he directly sent a file package.

It was the preliminary concept draft of "Fruit Ninja" and a piece of extremely hardcore underlying rendering code.

[GRGameStudio]: Who I am isn't important. What's important is that I read the paper you published in the school magazine about combining digital media art with English education. Your aesthetics are very on point, and your basic coding logic is also very solid.

[GRGameStudio]: We need a lead artist, and we also need a core operations person who can understand technical language.

Li Sinan clicked on the file.

Just from the first glance, her breathing became rapid.

It was an interaction logic she had never seen before!

Fingers swiping across the screen, fruits exploding, juice splashing... This extremely stress-relieving and creative gameplay was simply a genius concept!

What shocked her even more was that piece of code.

Concise, elegant, without any redundancy, like a perfect work of art.

[Li Sinan]: Did your company... really develop Temple Run? To be honest, I have indeed run into some trouble recently...

Like grasping at a lifeline, Li Sinan briefly recounted her experience.

Through the few simple lines of text on the screen, Gu Ran could feel her helplessness and despair.

[GRGameStudio]: That was just a practice piece. My goal isn't just to make a game, but to define the future lifestyle of the mobile internet.

Gu Ran activated his "top-tier bluffing" mode.

From the explosion of the mobile internet, to smartphones eating into the PC market, and then to the future hundred-billion-dollar blue ocean of the mobile game market.

He dismantled the famous business cases from his past life and turned them into highly provocative text.

To Li Sinan, the person on the other side of the screen seemed like a prophet standing in the clouds, looking down at the torrent of the times.

This dimensional-strike level of vision gave her goosebumps.

[GRGameStudio]: Ms. Li, rather than wasting time writing a self-criticism for those idiots, why don't you follow me and see what the world will look like in ten years.

[GRGameStudio]: Punching Rovio, kicking the Penguin Empire. It sounds difficult, but actually, all we need is a fulcrum.

On the other end of the screen, Li Sinan froze entirely in her chair.

Looking at the humiliating letter of apology at hand, and then at the blood-pumping words on the screen.

The scales in her heart instantly tipped.

On one side was a swamp of decay, oppression, and prejudice.

On the other side was a sea of stars and the ambition to change the world.

[Li Sinan]: But... I'm just an English teacher in a small county town. I'm afraid I won't be up to the job. Plus, I haven't resigned yet, and going to a big city is too far.

[GRGameStudio]: Are you worried about leaving your hometown?

Gu Ran paused for a moment, then typed faster.

[GRGameStudio]: What if I told you the company is right at your doorstep?