SCT-Novel Chapter 243: The Start of the Second-Year Arc
Chapter 243: The Start of the Second-Year Arc
Chapter 243: The Start of the Second-Year Arc
In 2012, before the popular Q&A community, Zhihu[1], fully opened its registration, the members of C Site’s development team surely had one burning question they wished they could ask:
【What is it like to discover that your boss is a high school student?】
When Mei Fang made his first appearance at C Site’s inaugural offline meetup, he stunned all of his employees. If it weren’t for his fluent responses to all matters related to C Site’s operations, no one would have believed that this young kid, who hadn’t even fully grown up yet, could actually be the boss of C Site.
“Mei... Boss Mei must be a rich second-generation kid from a very wealthy family, right?”
“Don’t call me Boss Mei. We’re all friends here, let’s work together in harmony.”
Mei Fang was approachable and lacked any air of a typical boss. While this could have been risky for the company, fortunately, Lin Youxi and Mei Yue were willing to play the role of the “bad cop,” so things remained in balance.
“So, should we keep calling you ‘Young Miss’? I don’t think I can say that anymore...”
“How dare you disrespect our Fangbao? Fangbao! Look at this person, we should fire him immediately!”
“‘Fangbao’ doesn’t work either... it’s too corny.”
Previously, Mei Fang had been using Lin Youxi’s account to pose as the ‘Young Miss’ and chat with everyone, but now he needed to come up with a new name, though nothing had struck him yet.
Lin Youxi chimed in from the side, “If you can’t think of anything better, let’s just call him ‘Webmaster Fang’ for now. It suits him.”
“Since Boss Mei is the webmaster, who among Yuanbao and Young Miss will be the director’s wife? Hahaha——”
The young crowd burst into laughter, while Xia Yuan blushed and tried to calm down the teasing.
“That won’t do... we’re still high school students! We’re not allowed to date yet.”
“I get it! This is the classic ‘My Tragic Love Triangle with My Childhood Sweethearts,’ right?”
The bond between Mei Fang, Xia Yuan, and Lin Youxi felt like something out of a light novel, and these seasoned otakus at C Site eagerly jumped at the chance to reference it.
After enjoying a hearty meal, everyone gathered at the office building where C Site was located. Here, Mei Fang reintroduced the company’s organizational structure.
First off, C Site was actually maintained and operated by two companies: Lin Xi Technology, the main entity of C Site, and Ximilu Games, an independent game studio that leveraged C Site’s traffic to publish games. The studio was responsible for globally popular titles such as Flappy Bird, and the moderately famous Reigns and Life Restart Simulator.
At first, everyone thought Mei Fang was just a rich second-generation heir with too much money to spend, so while they admired him, there was a bit of underlying disdain.
However, once they learned that the entire C Site was funded by Mei Fang’s own game development efforts and that his family was just “ordinary” (at least financially), they began to hold him in genuine respect.
“He started learning to code in elementary school and was already thinking about creating games and websites as a teenager. Meanwhile, I was still playing in the mud.”
Mei Fang didn’t ask about the result of the confession. But on the night before they left, Zhang Ming sought out Mei Fang and invited him for skewers.
The two of them sat at a barbecue restaurant next to the hotel, eating grilled food and drinking Sprite (since high school students are not allowed to drink alcohol), quietly bringing this rare gathering to a close.
All their emotions were poured into that bottle of Sprite.
Later, Mei Fang thought back and realized that the Zhang Ming he had known in his previous life had always seemed to be a boy with no ambitions, just coasting along, showing no interest in girls. He had thought Zhang Ming would always be like that, but now he realized he was probably wrong.
What boy is born with nothing but games on his mind?
Even Mei Fang, in his previous life, had once been attracted to Liu Xiaoyu.
And so, as the summer vacation ended and the new semester began, the second year of high school arc, full of various changes, officially opened its curtains.
Translator's Notes:
Similar to Quora. ↩︎ First-party game refers to a video game developed by the same company that publishes it. ↩︎
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