"Eh? Ah, no..."

"Then I will go back today."

Li Nian left the office without any explanation.

Everyone was left looking at each other.

Kato whispered, "It didn't explain what the story was at the end... I'll just say that Li Nian is really mean in this regard."

Then Kasumigaoka smiled.

"Anyway, our script writer seems to have already entered the creative state."

"...Yeah...that's amazing. What kind of development did you come up with? I really want to split that brain with a knife." Gogen smiled darkly.

And Aki simply felt an immense sense of anticipation.

Chapter 228: Yin and Yang have no boundaries

"I am back."

"Oh, it's Li Nian, welcome back."

"Hey, Qingshan."

As soon as she entered Sakurasou, a girl greeted Li Nian. Qingshan was dressed in casual home clothes and an apron, and was cleaning.

Thinking that returning to the doghouse and being greeted with a gentle smile was the epitome of daily life, wasn't it? Li Nian couldn't help but laugh.

"Hey? What's wrong? What's wrong? Is there anything funny?" Qingshan noticed this reaction and looked around himself with a strange look on his face, thinking that there was something wrong with his outfit.

Li Nian said as she changed into slippers.

"Nothing, I just feel Qingshan will be a good bride in the future."

"New new new bride?! Idiot! What are you talking about? I'm gonna beat you up!"

Qingshan, with a red face and shaking violently, felt that he was being teased. He hugged his body as if to guard against a pervert, and angrily waved his little fist at Li Nian as a threat.

"Haha, I'm sorry, my mouth stinks, please forgive me."

The unintentional words from the heart were misunderstood, but it didn't matter because the little girl's reaction made her look even cuter. Li Nian didn't explain and just walked past her with a smile.

"Really?! Don't follow Ren-senpai's example!"

Qingshan was still shouting angrily at Li Nian's broad back. The boy waved his hands. It was unclear whether he heard him or not, as he pushed the door and entered the living room.

"Anyway, let's get a suit first..."

"Yes, I understand!"

Senior Kanda and Senior Mitaka were talking about something while sitting at the table. Li Nian walked over to get some water and asked casually, "What are you talking about?"

"Oh, a big shot just happened to come back. This is an opportunity. You can teach Kota."

"What are you talking about?" Li Nian poured himself some tea, but he could tell that he seemed to have something to ask him, so he sat down at the table.

"Actually, this is what happened. Recently, Sorata has been secretly doing something big."

"what?"

Li Nian cast a doubtful look at Kanda, and Kota hurriedly shook his head: "It's not a big deal! It's just that a game company proposed an activity to collect game plans from the world, and I wanted to participate, so I wrote a plan."

"Another business plan..."

I seem to have calluses on my ears from hearing this word so often recently, and when I looked up, there was indeed a copy on the desk, and it looked very familiar.

"Ugh……"

"You're sighing? What's wrong? Why do you look so tired? Is it possible that things aren't going well on your end?"

"No, I've already thought of an idea. I'm going to work on it soon. I think the results will come out soon."

"Really? As expected of you, you really make me feel relieved."

After reporting his progress to Mitaka, Li Nian immediately cleared the unnecessary emotions in his heart when he saw Kanda's worried expression after seeing his tired reaction, and changed to a comfortable sitting position: "So what? Is there anything you want to ask me? Seek opinions on the project plan? I can give you this, and I'm not bragging, but I've been tormented by a certain guy recently."

"Huh? Oh, no, the project plan itself has been completed."

"Finished? Can I see it?"

"Please."

After Kanda respectfully pushed the copy of the plan over, Li Nian picked it up and glanced at it with familiarity. He didn't have much expectation at first, but as he looked at it, his eyes became serious unconsciously and he spoke in a low voice.

"Compared to him, An Yi was really blown away..."

"……what?"

"I just think the level of completion is really amazing. Kanda, you have produced something really good without making any noise. What experience do you have in the past?"

This is a puzzle game based on the actual route map of trains in Japan. The game is to transfer trains within the specified time and reach the destination at a price not exceeding the specified amount. You will pass a station every two or three seconds, and you must operate smoothly to change the route.

Whether it is fun or not is another matter. As for the plan itself, it sets out three items: "concept", "object" and "benefits". Simple and clear words are used to explain the ideas very well. From the layout to the content, it is a plan that is very comfortable to look at, and you can clearly understand what kind of game Kanda wants to make.

He originally thought that it was the same kind of eye-catching garbage that he had seen when Amaki first proposed the project plan, but it was obviously not the case. He had to admit that this project plan gave him a surprisingly decent impression.

Kanda scratched his head with an embarrassed expression.

"No, I'm a complete newbie. This is my first time dealing with game production. I was able to achieve this thanks to Akasaka's help."

Ah, is that so? ...Did that programmer help? Indeed, I remember that he was also a professional, an excellent talent who had already worked in the industry, and must have participated in some game projects. With such a guy helping, I can understand why Kanda was able to come up with this plan.

"But that guy actually has such a kind heart?" Li Nianqi asked.

"Ahahaha...Akasaka is actually a good person. It's just that Li Nian has only moved in a short time ago and we haven't had much contact."

"Really? I misunderstood."

Li Nian's impression of Ryunosuke was still at the level of "a otaku who never goes out and is isolated from the world". She thought he was a heartless and tearless person who didn't care about others. But now it seems that is not the case.

"Isn't that good? How about handing in the proposal as it is?"

"I have already paid."

"Really? Is there anything else I can help you with?"

"To be honest, I have already passed the initial review and got the opportunity for an interview."

"...You really did accomplish things without saying anything?"

Li Nian was really surprised. It seemed that he had been preparing for a long time, but he had never noticed that Kanda was doing such a thing before.

"Really? I just heard the news too. I think it's amazing. He's so capable of taking action. Kota is really awesome." Mitaka stretched out his hand as if he was showing off his own child.

Slapping away Mitaka who was trying to touch his head with a smile, Kota said dissatisfiedly: "Don't treat me like a child."

"It's quite amazing. This way of survival where one gets everything done silently, compared to someone who carelessly involves others, really moves me..." Li Nian sighed sincerely.

"Someone?" Kanda tilted his head in confusion.

"Don't worry about it... So what's going on now? Your proposal has been approved, and you've got the interview opportunity. What else do you want me to do for you?"

"Ah... it's like this. I need to give a speech on the day of the presentation. I've only ever given a speech in front of the class, and I was so nervous that my whole body was shaking. When I thought about having to face a bunch of adults afterwards, I was sure to mess it up, right?! So now I want to ask Senior Ren for some advice."

"Now that you mention it, we do need to make some preparations for this."

"So can you give some advice to Kota, our great exorcist?" Ren asked with a smile.

At the beginning, it was Senior Ren who called Li Nian to ask for help, but Li Nian didn't know what he was thinking.

"What does speaking in front of people have to do with my job as an exorcist? Shouldn't you, the oldest and most slick-tongued person, be better at this? If you want to give me some advice, it's to quickly teach Kanda your philandering oral skills. Then you might be able to get a high score from one of the girls on the judges."

As if he didn't hear the sarcasm in Li Nian's words, Senior Ren just clapped his hands and cheered.

"Oh! That's a good idea. After learning it, maybe I can also help Kota lose his virginity or something."

"It's not good at all! I'll get low scores from the male judges! So I don't want to learn it and I don't want to bother Senior Ren!" Kanda slammed the table with a red face, "Please be serious, I'm serious."

"Alright, alright, no kidding. I really think that you, Li Nian, can help Sora better than I can. After all, he looks like a big shot."

Although Ren was smiling, it was hard to tell how serious he was, and what he said also left Li Nian confused.

"Ha...what kind of spirit is that?"

Li Nian just felt that Mitaka Ren was talking nonsense again, but for some reason, after hearing what he said, even Kanda looked at him as if he agreed with what he said.

"That's right."

"Kanda?"

“Hmm… How should I put it…” Recalling how Li Nian had talked to him in the past, Kanda said, “I feel like when you talk to people, Li Nian, you have a vaguely condescending vibe.”

"Oh, are you saying that I look down on you guys? This is a misunderstanding."

"No, no, I just feel a kind of inexplicable magnanimity, as if nothing can stump this person, and he always has a way to come up with something... a feeling of competence?"

"I don't really understand, I just understand that you guys think too highly of me for some reason."

"Okay, enough of the business bragging." Ren put his hands together and said, "Anyway, can you give me some suggestions?"

"You call it a suggestion..." Li Nian frowned and thought for a moment, then said to Kanda, "Instead of just talking, why don't you practice speaking with us as your audience?"

So, everyone moved the tables and chairs in the dining room to create a rough meeting venue. Li Nian and Ren served as judges, asking questions and letting Kanda start speaking to them based on the project plan.

Kanda was eager to try it at first, thinking that he should be able to do well in giving a speech since he had written a good plan. But when he actually started, he immediately realized the difficulty. He was full of enthusiasm and spoke quickly, but the result was that he finished the speech in five minutes out of the fifteen-minute time limit. The second practice that followed took him twenty minutes to finish. After repeating it three or four times, he was able to control his time, but the content of the report became lacking in some places.

During this time, Nanami had finished cleaning, Misaki, who had been playing somewhere, came back, Mashiro came downstairs to ask Kanda for food, and teacher Chihiro was off work. As a result, one by one, they joined the judges' panel and commented on Kanda's performance during his speech.

"Don't have pauses like "hmm" or "ahh" at the end of a sentence. It doesn't sound good." Nanami, a volunteer voice actor, made the reminder based on the audience's feelings.

"Think carefully before you speak. The content should at least be understandable to people." Li Nian frowned and asked him to think before speaking.

"Relax, relax. Are you afraid of facing us? You are too nervous." Ren felt helpless towards Kanda who was stiff all over.

"I feel like he's not like my ordinary junior. Not interesting at all~~" Misaki seemed uninterested.

"Why are you using stiff honorifics to explain? It's boring." Teacher Chihiro sneered at Kanda's overly respectful way of speaking.

“ZZZZZ~~~” The one who fell asleep while listening was Mashiro.

——"That's all for today."

Finally, Renyi called a halt, and Kanda collapsed into a chair, exhausted.

Qihai was going to work, but the others were bored and lost interest and left halfway through. The only ones left were Ren and Li Nian, who had made the suggestion at the beginning.

The first day of practice was a disastrous failure and the situation was terrible.

Kanda looked up at the hanging lantern with extremely empty eyes.

"If you give it a try, you'll know there are many things that need to be corrected. Digest them well and continue later, Sorata."

Ren felt that he should give this junior some personal space to think, so he patted him on the shoulder and got up and left.

Li Nian also understood this principle, but he did not follow Sanying and left. He pushed a glass of water over and said, "Moisten your throat."

"Thank you." Kanda's voice became hoarse as he spoke. He took the cup and drank it down in one gulp. After moistening his dry throat, he recovered a little bit of his energy. He sat up from his lying position, but still looked dejected and low: "I didn't expect speaking to be such a difficult thing..."

"That's not."

"But I still feel very rewarding... I know a lot of things, and I can prepare notes later. If I have everything I want to say ready, I can make it easier to understand the beginning, development, transition and ending, and sort out the key points... I can also adjust the order of the content of the plan according to its importance, and rethink what to say in which part."

The words he whispered were meant to help him continue thinking about countermeasures for the future.

It can be seen that Kanda really takes this matter seriously.

Set a goal, work hard for it, rack your brains, and endure pain - even so, enjoy it.

Li Nian looked at the young man quietly, lowered his brows, showed a thoughtful expression, and suddenly asked.

"When did you start planning this?"

Kanda was slightly startled, then raised his head and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, it has something to do with classmate Li Nian. When I was with you and took Mashiro to see senior sister Kasumigaoka, I picked up a book on game production and read it. Because it is aimed at beginners and the explanations are easy to understand, I felt that I could do it, and I like playing games, so I became interested. Later, I saw the event "Let's Make a Game" on the Internet... and I participated in it on impulse."

"...I'm interested in being a teacher since I'm still young." Li Nian said with a smile.

"Isn't it?" Kanda agreed with a smile.

Then there was a brief silence.

Kanda's smile faded and he looked down at the white cat Xiaoguang who was crawling and rubbing against his legs.

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