Chapter 99: The Live Stream Apology

After a long while, watching her supervisor’s increasingly gloomy expression, Zhou Ruoyu, the black-haired, straight-haired little loli who had completely given up on selecting comments, couldn’t help but rest her chin on her hand and ponder.

What she said was true: although she definitely couldn’t take the blame herself, she still had to care about the department’s honor, otherwise she wouldn’t be able to integrate into the team.

For this flame war incident, the girl began to ponder. Thinking it over, she had no ideas. After all, she wasn’t in PR and lacked the professional skills.

But Zhou Ruoyu did have an idea generator: when she really didn’t know what to do, it was clearly time for the little hint to come into play.

‘Appear, my bratty hint-chan!’

The girl, rather chuunibyou, silently recited in her heart, then pressed the small light bulb above her field of vision.

Instantly, the long-lost voice of the bratty little imp sounded in the air.

[Ding-dong! Detected that the fodder host is seeking help. Based on the current situation, this hint provides the optimal solution: Hold a face-to-face live stream apology conference on behalf of Long Yu’s planning department, sincerely apologize, admit we were wrong, and earn the forgiveness and approval of the majority of players. Executing this hint will earn 10,000 success points. Refusing this hint will result in players aggressively attacking, causing the host’s game to go cold~]

Hiss—

No way? Could this old game really be buried if this controversy isn’t handled well?

At that moment, Zhou Ruoyu deeply felt the truth that water can carry a boat but also capsize it.

Game companies should indeed put players first and stop thinking about making money like this.

But what use was it that she alone understood? So many people in the game department were still hoping to exploit the leeks and extract wealth!

Apologize on livestream? What qualifications did she, a junior planner, have? Could she come up with compensation? Would the compensation satisfy players? And… would the company’s decision-makers even be willing to apologize to players and admit they were wrong? All this seemed beyond her control.

Ah… this, this, this…

What kind of apology is this? And a livestream… When the stream starts, a smooth routine of ‘Sorry, we were wrong (bow),’ like a Japanese craftsman’s spirit, right? But could they just brush it off? What if she didn’t get any authority, and the event didn’t change at all? That dry apology—would it be an apology stream or a scolding stream?

Hiss—

After thinking it over like this, looking at the newly issued task, Zhou Ruoyu suddenly regretted it. Why did she click that hint? This task was too hard. Although the reward of 10,000 success points was pretty good…

“So? Got any ideas?” Seeing Zhou Ruoyu seemingly troubled, the supervisor’s eyes lit up, and he immediately asked.

The black-haired, straight-haired little loli awkwardly twitched the corner of her mouth, thinking she was just a newbie, why pick on her? Then she said:

“Uh… I think… most likely we still need to apologize and offer compensation, right? The roulette gacha is for revenue; we can’t cancel it, otherwise the players who already pulled will be even angrier, I know. But… what if we proactively give out a hundred or two hundred pulls? Give players some compensation, and… how about holding a live stream apology conference? It would better show our sincerity and all…”

“Hmm…”

But… a live stream apology conference? They had never done that before, but it seemed it might be quite effective. After all, a live stream was definitely more effective than a dry textual apology, especially since… the Zhou Ruoyu in front of him was quite cute. If they could use her looks to appease the players’ anger and create a gimmick about a beautiful little loli planner, maybe… the problem could be solved?

Thinking this, the supervisor nodded in satisfaction, then turned to Zhou Ruoyu and instructed:

“Alright! I think this proposal is great. I’ll go talk to the other departments. If possible, we’ll hold this live stream apology conference in the next couple of days… But this conference can’t be just an apology. Since we’ll have already released an apology statement and compensation before that, let’s treat it as a… face-to-face exchange. Perfect timing, Ruoyu, you’ll be in charge of hosting. Talk with the players about the design concept of this bunny girl costume, at least make the paying players feel they got their money’s worth!”

“Ah? What? Me… I’ll do the hosting?”

The black-haired, straight-haired little loli was so scared her face drained of color, she almost choked. No… wasn’t this too surreal? She hadn’t even figured out the planning stuff yet, and now she was to represent all of Long Yu to host such a serious controversy event?

She thought she’d at most be an assistant, but… Supervisor, do you really not care about Long Yu’s future? No wonder he was the one who came up with such a controversial roulette gacha…

“Don’t worry, guest, guest. I’ll arrange professional hosts to ask questions. As the supervisor, I’ll also go up and take the heat! But you have to be the main responder… after all, you designed the costume. Hmm, handle this well, and I’ll definitely give you a big bonus. Trust me, how about it? Dare to take it?”

“Trust me, how about it? You in?”

The supervisor had starry eyes. She felt he trusted her a bit too much, but under such enthusiasm, Zhou Ruoyu couldn’t refuse. Besides, she had to complete the task, so she had no choice but to nod in agreement.

So, soon, the crowd dispersed and started working on compensation.

Only Zhou Ruoyu was left, silently thinking about how to run the apology conference. Ahhh, no… She had only been a ‘planner Pal’ for two days, and now she had to switch jobs? Livestreaming…

She had truly never tried this before. At most, she watched other people’s streams, like… Little Vampire Princess, a virtual streamer. It was fun.

But a live apology stream was definitely different from those virtual streamer streams. The latter could just play games or sing to pass the time, but she had to endure the players’ interrogation…

Ah—

What to do?!

The biggest problem was that Zhou Ruoyu felt the players’ anger this time was really intense. That ‘Face-to-Face’ post was almost breaking 50 pages—madness! So… this, this, this—how was she, with her fragile glass heart, supposed to handle such a terrible controversy?

After thinking it over… after a while, Zhou Ruoyu silently opened the WeChat chat window of her nemesis. Hmm… although she had sworn she wouldn’t go to her nemesis whenever something happened, the situation was truly special now!

The girl was about to send a message to vent, but at that moment, whether by telepathy or not, her nemesis also suddenly sent her a message. The content was just one sentence.

[Gu Jiachen: Little bunny, do you want… to come play at my place~]

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