When Qin Fanglu arrived at the "Secret Base" cafe, some people had already gathered at the door.
A waiter guided Qin Fanglu upstairs from the back door and said, "Mr. Cheng is waiting for you on the second floor."
The secret base was empty at this time. Qin Fanglu walked through the game area and comic area with ease and found Cheng Kai next to a semi-open booth.
Cheng Kai was wearing a simple white T-shirt and jeans, his hair was a little messy, and he was wearing a pair of black thin-framed glasses. He was leaning lazily in the booth.
When he saw Qin Fanglu, he stretched out his hand from a distance and spread out his palm, as if asking for something as a matter of course.
"If you don't come, my store won't be able to open today." Cheng Kai complained.
Qin Fanglu took out the five signed drawings from the folder and handed them to Cheng Kai.
"You set the time, I'm not late." Qin Fanglu raised his hand to look at his watch.
"I know, I know." Cheng Kai couldn't stand Qin Fanglu's stubborn rationality, so he waved to the waiter and said, "Go open the door."
Cheng Kai was so drunk that he was in a bad mood. He kept mumbling, "And I don't want to be single? I do want to be single, but I still have so many games to play and so many cute paper wives to support... Hey, if my wives knew that I was going to the third dimension to go on blind dates with other women, would they be angry?"
Seeing Qin Fanglu didn't respond, Cheng Kai continued crying: "My dad even started looking for a man for me. They said I must bring a living person home before I turn 30. Do you think that's outrageous?"
“Not far off the mark.”
Qin Fanglu: "No, they have many husbands and can't take care of you."
A few waiters nodded and went downstairs.
Adults have adult worries.
The store opened, customers poured in, and the room became noisy.
Qin Fanglu promised at the time that as long as Cheng Kai did what he said, he would definitely give the coffee shop free publicity.
Both of them are in their twenties and have their own careers. The content of their conversations is definitely not just about anime and games like in their student days.
Qin Fanglu glanced at him and said, "Not really."
So Cheng Kai wanted to open a two-dimensional themed cafe, purely for his own interest.
"Thanks to Mr. Dadan for donating five autographed paintings." Cheng Kai clinked glasses with him with a smile, "We expect the customer flow tonight to increase by 20%."
Qin Fanglu didn't even raise his eyebrows: "First, when you watched a movie together in the dormitory before, you had a good chat with your roommates, which means that humans are attractive to you and you like living people; second, you are still single, which means you haven't met someone you like. So you should meet more people, both men and women, so that the possibility of meeting someone you like can be increased."
—This is what Cheng Kai wanted to complain about.
"Do you know how many blind dates I've been forced to go on this month? Six! My mom is really brave. The girls are all bank executives, physics PhDs, and awesome lawyers. They're beautiful and rich. I look in the mirror. Am I worthy of them?"
Cheng Kaifang lowered the beige curtain of the booth and drank the sake in the glass.
Cheng Kai was shocked and said, "You bastard! You not only kill me, but also destroy my heart!"
Cheng Kai lived a casual life and liked playing games. After graduating from university, he simply opened an independent game studio, which became popular for unknown reasons. As the game company grew bigger and bigger, Cheng Kai felt that he had lost the pure happiness.
Qin Fanglu poured two glasses of sake and raised his glass lightly: "Celebrate the opening of the secret base."
"… "
Cheng Kai was speechless: "I shouldn't have told you this."
Qin Fanglu shrugged: "I'm telling the truth." Cheng Kai sighed: "I really envy you. Your mother is so open-minded. I guess she will never urge you to get married and have children in her life."
Qin Fanglu nodded calmly: "After all, I can only be hard against two-dimensional creatures, she already knew that."
Cheng Kai spat out a mouthful of wine.
During the turbulent adolescence, every child will more or less be exposed to some forbidden fruit-like film and television works.
While the majority of heterosexuals were huddled in their dormitories, blushing over sharing action movies, and a few homosexuals were panicking over discovering their own minority sexual orientation, Qin Fanglu was at home watching the CG animation of Octopus x Siren on the screen with a calm expression and a hard cock.
Qin Fanglu has a wide range of interests, including men and women, men and men, women and women, he doesn't care about life or death.
He also likes monsters, animals, aliens, ghosts, and machines.
In short, only paper creatures can arouse Qin Fanglu's physiological impulses.
Qin Fanglu has a clear definition of himself: he is an extremely rational paper-sexist.
Qin Fanglu didn't think he was strange.
The world is so big and there are so many sexual orientations. What's so strange about papersexuality
Cheng Kai said angrily: "You are so indifferent to living people, your subordinates must have a hard time! The boss is like a robot, only knows how to work, without any humanistic care."
He had just cursed casually, but he didn't expect Qin Fanglu to really calm down and seem to be reflecting seriously.
"The turnover rate in our department has increased by 2.3% in the past two years. It may be a management problem on my part." Qin Fanglu reflected, "Cheng Kai, how do you usually do it?"
I no longer feel sleepy when talking about Cheng Kai. Others can criticize him for making bad games, but they absolutely cannot say that the atmosphere in their company is bad.
"I get along well with the employees, and they give the company atmosphere a five-star rating." Cheng Kai said proudly, analyzing Qin Fanglu bluntly, "You must be that kind of cold boss. The only communication with employees is meetings. You don't chat with them, and there are no team-building activities, right?"
Qin Fanglu: "Yes, what's the problem?"
A company is a place to work, not a place to party.
Cheng Kai shook his index finger like a professor: "Your company is now very large, so you should pay more attention to shaping your corporate culture. Although many employees don't like activities like team building, appropriate and interesting team activities can enhance cohesion and bring you closer together. You have to retain good employees, you can't be a lone commander, right?"
Qin Fanglu thought for a moment, thinking about the welcome party his subordinates had prepared for the new kid tonight, and suddenly felt that what Cheng Kai said made sense.
He seemed to be a bit derelict in his duty. Their company often had its own groups organizing activities, and official gatherings of the Ministry of Science and Technology were very rare.
The store was already carrying out the first round of guest draws, and laughter could be heard everywhere.
Qin Fanglu tilted his head and said, "It's your own store, it's the first day of opening, why don't you go check it out?"
"It's a rare opportunity to catch up with you, so we have to chat for a while." Cheng Kaifang put down his glass, "I'll go join in the fun now, want to join us?"
Qin Fanglu stood up and said, "Come back later. I'm in a hurry now."
Although he was in a hurry, Qin Fanglu still took several beautiful photos of the secret base and the scene of it being packed with guests.
Cheng Kaixin understood: "I understand, hurry back to draw robots making love?"
Qin Fanglu actually shook his head: "Go to the party organized by the employees themselves."
Cheng Kai:
(End of this chapter)