***
Shui Yi is looking up seated on her chair in her office who was signing documents.
Zhi Li called "lady Carina" ,no reply, she called again and again "Lady Carina!!" She yelled.
Zhi Li's shout led Shui Yi to strike a long strike with the pen she was holding to sign the documents
"Damn" said Carina, she flipped the paper luckily it was a blank paper.
"We have a meeting today, mam!" said Zhi Li
"Let's go" said Carina picking up her mask , gloves and ear pods on the table.
*****
In the dim light of the room Shui Yi is sitting legs crossed in her usual distant seat, compared to other seats in the meeting, with her gloves and mask on. It's a monthly report meeting.The sales department is presenting the company's statistics. The department heads sat leaving two seats on Shui Yi's left and right, this is a norm for them form the beginning since Shui Yi asked to do so.
Qiachi from the strategy department was presenting charts on The Night House' popular games.Shui Yi is checking the contents of the meeting from the file on the table.
"Give me those charts" asked Shui Yi "Why isn't there a hard copy in the file."
Qiachi halted, his face went blank "Mam...I didn't print any hard copies" he said.
"Then go print!!" Shui Yi narrowed her eyes.
He went out with the pendrive.The others continued with their discussions.After some time he returned with the copies.when Qia chi was approaching her, Shui Yi gestures with her index and middle fingers a fast sweep in the air, Zhi Li got up from her seat and took the copies from Qia chi and handed them to Shui Yi. This was to stop him from approaching Shui Yi.Shui Yi examined the charts, the same time she paid attention to the discussions of the meeting she looked down to the sides.
***
"Hmm" Carina coughed to gather everyone's attention at the end of everyone's report and started saying
"From the charts, our first game 'Flames Kiatou' is the most popular of all. But the other games from our company barely keep up.....
Ding Ling's game is keeping with Flames Kaitou but our company's games themselves don't??!!!"
she continued
"We can't...like this, I'm sick of your lame ideas" everyone in the room felt cold, Shui Yi intimidated them.
"I want ideas, more creative, anyone in the company can submit their ideas. Two weeks...in two weeks I want ideas for 'Flames Kiatou 2' you should know what that means right"
Lady Carina threw an impossible task at her employees.Flame Kiatou is the first game developed by Night House.It's a popular record braking game as the most played game in the industry, it's popularity is long-term, it kept up the record of most played since its launch; almost for three years. Other games couldn't beat this record by Flames Kaitou after their creator's exaggerated bragging "This Game we developed, will definitely beat Flames Kaitou".Those were great but they just couldn't break Flames Kaitou's record. After many failures to break it's record by other companies competing for three years with Night House now it's said "it's impossible to even make a game that could create same record as Flames Kaitou"
"Mam! It's nearly impossible " said a girl behind Team Leader Jiang
Shui Yi's eyes widened, she turned abort, facing the wall. Her body shivered rubbing her hands, trembling she took out medicine from her pocket, breathing heavily
|Clank|
The bottle with medicine fell from her hands unable to hold it properly because her hands were trembling so much.Shui Yi bends and picks it up from beside the chair's wheels, her whole body is trembling, she wrapped her legs around the chair's leg, and eats some pills. Her fingers fidgeted a tiny stress ball from her gloves' pocket on the chair between her legs.
"I told you to sit tight and listen" Qiachi murmured
Zhi Li on noticing Shui Yi goes to her and says "I'll send them away now"
Shui Yi with her hand shaking gestured Zhi Li to not adjourn the meeting.
Shui Yi clams down and after a few minutes she stops trembling, taking a deep breath and putting back the ball in the gloves' pocket and wipes off the sweat on her neck with a wet tissue in her pockets.Shui Yi turns abort back facing her employees.
"Who is she?" Her eyes narrowed.
The girl stood up and as she was about to let out her voice to answer Shui Yi shut both ears with her fingers and closed eyes.
"I didn't ask you!!" she said
The girl's mouth snapped shut at shui Yi's reaction.
Shui Yi looked at Qiachi, standing at the screen, and she asked again "Who–is–she–!!???" and let her hands down.
"Ah! She is the intern we recruited—" said Qiachi
"Intern?" Shui Yi exclaimed.
For The monthly meetings not just interns but regular employees are also not allowed in the meeting. This Meeting involves the Team leaders and Vice Team Leaders of all the departments. Shui Yi is now enraged that intern entered the meeting.
" I brought her in so that she could learn more she has so much potential in —" said Qiachi
"Mr Qiachi you should bare the consequences" said Shui Yi "someone with potential said something so stupid??!"
Shui Yi is not against Mr Qiachi's idea to increase the scope of learning for the intern. Shui Yi avoids strangers, a particular set of people, this new intern is one of them. It's not her intention to avoid them, her condition complies.
"Mam—" Qiachi face turned pale he had shut his mouth with just that as Shui Yi put back on her ear pods.
Every time she did that it was like her saying 'Now shut up'
After that she got up and left.
|| "There she goes–again!" said Miss Angela
And you kept quiet throughout the meeting–again!!" said Mr Dan with a straight face "Must I be the only one to talk"
"Sorry for troubling you sir" said Miss Angela, guilt written on her face. She looked at the girl and said " Miss–?!!"
"Sun Ya" the girl replied
"Join me for a cup of coffee" she said. ||