Falling Into Your Harem

[Ambitious Game Planner x Scheming, Beautiful Kunqu Dan Performer]

[Wei Tang x Rong Yu]

How a beautiful dan performer fell in love at first sight, carefully laid his plans, and leaped into a fishpond.

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As a planner at a major game company, Wei Tang helped her team create a hit MMO during her college internship. The otome game she later worked on once again smashed its way through the monthly revenue rankings, reaching second place at its peak.

The labels people put on her were always things like "a star sent from heaven" and "born to succeed."

Then she went to work as a cleaner at a theater.

At nineteen, Wei Tang entered Wu Ye Network, a renowned game company, with dreams in her heart.

But no one told her that having her ideas accepted and praised meant the child she created would soon be stripped to the bone.

It turned out that "a few simple changes" meant turning an ink painting into a simple doodle, while keeping the lines and colors in an ink-wash style.

The night she cut off her waist-length hair, tears seemed to develop a will of their own and fell one by one.

The seed in her heart was drowned by lessons in commercialization, and half of her drowned with it.

Fortunately, someone pulled her out: the version of her who worked as a cleaner.

She suggested that Rong Yu combine Kunqu singing with modern music, but there was a catch: "It also depends on whether you're willing to become corrupted like me."

He replied, "Becoming corrupted doesn't necessarily mean turning into something bad, does it?"

She never expected that Rong Yu would be the one to charge headlong into a fight against a crowd of opponents.

She never expected that the penniless-seeming artist's father was an investment banking MD, that one day they would write a song together for people with albinism, or that a cicada who had been plagiarized and smeared could turn into a mantis-eating oriole.

She thought all he had was gentleness.

She watched him take the stage on New Song, watched him win, and watched the comments calling him "hubby" and "wifey."

She didn't know what it meant to like someone, and couldn't tell if she had fallen for him. She only knew she didn't want to see those comments, but somehow her hands and eyes wouldn't obey her, and she kept torturing herself by looking.

She pretended to tease him casually, only to trap herself in her own words.

He asked, "You want to date?"

She set the trap herself and jumped right into it. She said she wasn't keen on romance, then added, "But if I were dating you, I think I'd be more than happy to."

After that, she didn't dare see him again.

When they met again, she tried to clear things up, but someone else pointed out a detail she had long overlooked first.

Her WeChat name was "The Pond Has No Fish," while his had somehow become "Fish."

He asked her, "Would you mind if your pond became a fishpond with only one fish in it?"

Theme: In an age of fast-paced life and commercialization, keeping the core while changing the exterior does not mean becoming corrupted. Intangible cultural heritage can remain traditional; innovative methods are simply a way to keep it alive. Keeping the core while changing the exterior is just a way to survive and be seen. When ideas run deep in games and tradition enters the new and unfamiliar, perhaps they can win through the unexpected.