Chapter 74: First Day in the Planning Department

Uh…

Back at Dragon Wing, on her first day in the Planning Department, little Zhou Ruoyu sat at a large workstation, feeling the curious gazes of her colleagues. For a moment, she felt… a bit awkward.

The girl immediately regretted her decision. Why had she given up a job she was already familiar with, one that even came with a golden finger, to come here?

The customer service department, though tough on the throat, was at least straightforward. Looking around, everyone was on the phone, and it was clear what work needed to be done.

But now… planning? She wasn’t even sure what this job entailed. And Dragon Wing was a game company, which meant she was now a game planner.

Oh no. Wasn’t this even worse? Weren’t game planners the ones who got the most flak online? Waaah…

Feeling doomed, she could no longer bear to look at the comments sections under major game official posts. She could only helplessly watch her colleagues, all typing away at something she couldn’t understand. What were they doing?

Anyway… She truly had no idea what to do. Maybe she could slack off and write a novel?

After a while, feeling frustrated, Zhou Ruoyu was about to pull out her phone and message Dragon Wing’s boss to ask for a transfer back. But at some point, a graceful figure approached her and bent down to speak:

“Hello, excuse me, little miss. Are you Zhou Ruoyu?”

“Ah… yes!”

The black-haired loli looked up instinctively and replied. Before her stood an older sister of similar age, with stylish curly hair dyed half white and half black, and sparkling earrings. Her eye makeup was quite striking.

After a moment, seeing the stunned girl, the older sister smiled playfully, then extended her hand and introduced herself:

“Hello, I’m Ling Bo, a veteran in the Planning Department. I’ve been assigned to mentor you. You can call me Sister Xiaobo. I’ll be guiding you these days. Feel free to ask me anything you don’t understand~”

Ling… Ling Bo Li? Ahem, no, no, don’t think weird thoughts!

“Um… is that so?” Coming back to her senses, Zhou Ruoyu was pleasantly surprised. Back in customer service, she had to figure everything out on her own. In contrast, the treatment here was amazing! And she even got personal guidance from a pretty sister!

Hehe, hehe~

“Then I’ll be in your care, Sister Xiaobo~”

“No problem! Don’t be shy! I heard you were sitting here alone for ages, looking lost like you’d wandered into some strange place. The colleagues were wondering whose girlfriend you were, so cute~ Pfft, they were all discussing how adorable she is. And I agree, you’re really cute!”

Ling Bo pulled up a chair, squeezed next to Zhou Ruoyu, and teased her with a grin. The black-haired loli nervously gulped. Gulp…

Sister Xiaobo… this wasn’t small wave, it was big wave. Ahem…

After a moment, Zhou Ruoyu shook her head repeatedly, remembering the important matter. She scratched the back of her head and sheepishly explained:

“Sister Xiaobo, I wasn’t spacing out. I just… didn’t know what everyone was doing. I’m completely unfamiliar with planning work, so I didn’t know where to start.”

“Hmm, about that…” Sister Xiaobo tilted her head, then shrugged. “Weird, you don’t know anything about it? Ahem… ah… how should I explain it? Well, planning, in short, means coming up with ideas for the company! Game operations need constant updates, new events, features, and we’re the ones who plan all that~”

As she spoke, she turned on the computer screen in front of the girl, used the mouse to open a document, and began explaining:

“See, what everyone is writing is this: a planning proposal! Simply put, you use your words to express your ideas. For example… a game’s basic mechanics, core selling points, how to participate in an event, reward scales, etc. etc. In short, you propose ideas, then hand them over to the art, programming, operations departments to execute~ To put it simply, we’re like the brain! Hehe, pretty cool, right?”

Uh…

Listening to Ling Bo’s explanation, Zhou Ruoyu nodded thoughtfully. It really did sound impressive!

In short, she would propose plans, and other departments would cooperate to produce results, right? So that basically made her the client?

[Awesome, great!]

As everyone knew, the client was the boss, and the service provider was the beast of burden. Her previous customer service department was probably the latter. Even if not, getting scolded by customers every day and dealing with performance pressure made them beasts of burden.

The girl hadn’t expected to get promoted to “boss” so quickly.

Hehehe, Zhou Ruoyu couldn’t wait to boss around the other departments, making them redo their work based on her plans repeatedly, only to end up using the first version anyway~ Ahem… just kidding, she wasn’t that twisted.

Now that she understood, she became much more interested in the position. She quickly turned around and began studying the planning document closely with Sister Xiaobo, determined to do a good job as a planner.

Alright, let’s do this!

What the hell is all this…

After a while, staring at the dense text on the screen, the black-haired loli’s eyes glazed over. Her consciousness drifted away until she heard Ling Bo softly calling:

“Hey, Ruoyu-chan, little Ruoyu?! How did you fall asleep halfway through my explanation? Pay attention…”

“Huh… ah? Ah!”

Startled by the sudden call, the black-haired loli woke with a jolt. She blinked her tired eyes and quickly turned to apologize:

“S-sorry, Sister Xiaobo! I went to bed a bit late last night. Um… could I just study this proposal on my own later? No need to go into too much detail…”

Ling Bo nodded thoughtfully. “It does seem a bit boring to just lecture. Don’t worry, Ruoyu-chan, I’m here to guide you, so don’t feel like you’re troubling me. How about we try a different approach?”

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