Love Began with the First Meeting

mind-boggling.

Under the extreme duress Anna subjected her to, Elsa finally told her version of the story. Oddly enough, even she sounded confused about what actually happened yesterday. Anna's heart hung in the air while she was listening attentively. After all, the story was simply "Elsa," Anna said with a caring look, "were you truly third wheeling in others' relationship?"

Clenching her teeth in anger, Elsa defended herself, "Not me! Definitely not me!"

Then, as if nothing was wrong, she turned on the computer and clicked on the "Dragon" icon. As she kept looking over the loading bar, she was surprised by a sudden realization. 'Why am I in such a hurry to open the game? What am I doing?'

Feeling concerned over Elsa's blatant ignorance, Anna said, "Elsa... Are you going to go for that 'Silent Sorrow' to console yourself?" Elsa continued to ignore her with a blank look on her face. Although her eyes were on the screen, she seemed to be lost in deep thought. Anna sighed, "Elsa, I didn't think you and Allen would be able to make it to the end, but I knew you liked him. I know it's normal to experience a number of relationships before you eventually find your true love. But, please, take my advice. Don't indulge yourself in any relationship, or else, I promise that you will be the one that gets hurt in the end."

Elsa turned her head around to look at Anna. Her mouth dropped in a gape, failing to find the words to respond with. "You have broken up seven times. Will the eighth be your lucky number, your 'true love'?" "Aww!!"

Anna felt as though she had been struck by lightning!

"Fine." Anna shook her head in disbelief. "You win!" Elsa's lack of empathy rendered her speechless. Frustrated, she smiled bitterly, cursing in her heart, 'Elsa, I was talking about you! You didn't need to pass judgment on me like that!'

Anna realized that there was no point trying to talk sense to Elsa, so she went back to her own desk and turned on her computer. She clicked on the "Dragon" icon and logged into a different server called "Dragon Leaping Over The Wind", which was just as big as "Dragon Yelling To The Sky".

Elsa sensed Anna's dolefulness in appearance and attitude. Pursing her lips, she turned to look at her screen again. She knew what Anna had meant, but... when she saw Sweet Dream standing in the Peach Blossom Forest, the Little Bun thought to herself in anger, 'I won't develop a relationship with another player in the game again! Even though, I had good chemistry with Allen, he was the one who brought me into this game in the first place. So that doesn't count. I can't deny the fact that I am grateful for Silent Sorrow. But, I am not going to fall in love with a virtual character. Besides, the real person behind this character could be some horny old man. Who knows?'

While she was in a deep contemplation about what she was going to do with Silent Sorrow, she realized that something bad had happened... She was trapped in the Peach Blossom Forest. She... she didn't know how to get out!

'Oh no! Silent Sorrow, you never told me how to get out of here! Should I just wait in the Peach Blossom Forest for you to come and save me?'

Meanwhile, Charlie was in a terrible sneezing fit that put him in an even bigger predicament. The department managers of the game looked at him with concern, earnestly hoping that Charlie would not fall sick... They still had to submit an important proposal tomorrow. Time was of the essence.

Red-nosed and sniffling, Charlie carefully looked over the maps that were going to be added to Dragon. All of a sudden, Little Bun's face appeared before his eyes.

Just at that moment, his phone vibrated. After briefly glancing at the caller ID, he smiled tenderly and picked up the call. "Yes? What happened?"

"Charlie, Charlie..." Evelyn sounded overly excited. There were two things in the world that could stimulate her interest like that: one was Addison and the other was food.

As she had already seen Addison, he couldn't have been the reason. Charlie then concluded that the reason for her excitement must have been food.

Just as he had anticipated, Evelyn chattered excitedly, "Do you remember Mike from France? You know, the famous chef? Well, the Gu's Corporations invited him to be the head chef at their anniversary ceremony next week!"

Charlie chuckled, happy to find his sister so excited over the good news. He was visibly elated which made everyone in the Dragon department envious of Evelyn.

"Okay, I will take you to the ceremony," Charlie replied gently.

Lying on the couch, she giggled and answered, "Right! That's the answer I wanted to hear!"

"Sure, no problem," said Charlie, "just promise me that you'll be a nice girl. Anyway, I am still busy at the moment. I'll take you back to the school after I finish my work here."

"Okay! I probably shouldn't disturb you now!"

Before Charlie could say anything else, Evelyn hung up the call. Charlie shook his head, amused by his sister's reaction.

In the air-conditioned room, time passed quickly as they tirelessly discussed the details with each other. Due to time constraints, they had to order in food for lunch. After having only a few quick bites, they returned to their discussions as they were in such a hurry. "The rival companies are starting to entice our users to their games. In my opinion, merely opening up a few new maps will not be enough to sway the mind of the majority," Charlie expressed his opinion, furrowing his eyebrows and tapping his finger on the table. When the game was first created, they had attracted a lot of players with only a few big servers. He and Evelyn also played in the server "Dragon Yelling To The Sky", not only to kill time, but also to encourage more people to play.

In the span of just one year, the game had reached its peak. As a result, the players had gotten used to the faces of the virtual characters, the maps and the items in the game. In fact, the most dedicated players had more or less explored everything in the game, so the game had lost its element of surprise.

The team fell silent after hearing what Charlie had just said. They knew he was telling the truth, but to solve this issue... They couldn't think of anything creative that could give the game a boost.

Scanning everyone's forlorn face briskly, he took a deep breath and bit the bullet. "Merge the servers!"

Gasps of shock and disbelief filled the room as soon as the words left his mouth.

"Sir," a girl in the development team asked, "which servers do you plan to merge?" She shook her legs under the table, involuntarily, anticipating to hear something shocking.

And Charlie delivered as expected...

"Dragon Yelling and Dragon Leaping!" The bomb Charlie dropped just now exploded in their hearts.

Suddenly, the sound of incoherent mutterings filled the room as everyone glanced at each other in disbelief. Those two were the largest servers of the game. Setting aside the minor issues with the merge, there were some huge obstacles they would have to address before they could go on with the merge.

"Awesome!" The girl snapped her finger. "That's brilliant! By merging two of the largest servers into one enormous server, we will be creating the biggest gaming server in the country. Players are going to flock from everywhere to try out the new virtual world! I think we can open up a new channel in the server after the merge as well!"☐☐☐☐☐☐☐