novelraw Chapter 136: Come Here, Let Me Hug You
Chapter 136: Come Here, Let Me Hug You
Seeing Tang Yao shift her legs.
Chu Yuxin snapped out of it, her gaze slowly lifting, and met Tang Yao’s slightly flustered and annoyed eyes.
“What are you looking at?”
Tang Yao’s bright eyes reflected Chu Yuxin’s figure as she straightened her back, forcing herself to maintain her composure.
Chu Yuxin felt a bit guilty and instinctively replied, “Uh… I just thought your legs are really long.”
Of course, that wasn’t the real reason.
It was because she’d just watched that collab video, and thinking of all the comments, she suddenly felt that—even as another woman—she really wanted to cling to those legs…
Whether spiritually or materially, hugging these legs would be a great move.
Her boss was honestly so admirable…
When she heard Tang Yao say “disgusting” in that video, she finally understood why so many people in the 二次元 loved her… And she had an extra layer of filter compared to normal viewers.
She knew what Tang Yao looked like in real life—the face, the figure—every aspect was top-tier.
Rich, and good at everything.
Even able to have children… wait, she could have children.
It’s just… the image wasn’t exactly pleasant.
Because not many people seem worthy of her. And also…
Chu Yuxin thought of Tang Yao and Li Xue together… yeah, the two of them being together was at least more acceptable.
Anyone else would just feel like… some weird defilement.
“Long legs? What do my legs being long have to do with you?”
Tang Yao gave her a slight glare. “You were browsing ANF during work, weren’t you?”
“Eh?”
“What do you mean ‘eh’?”
Tang Yao reached out her hand. “Lower your head.”
“……”
Chu Yuxin pulled a face and leaned forward slightly, lowering her head.
Tang Yao straightened her back, stretched out her slender finger, and firmly pressed on her thick eyebrow. “You were slacking off at work, huh? I’m docking your pay!!”
“...Don’t!!”
Chu Yuxin immediately panicked, flailing her arms. Her thick eyebrows twitched upward, but Tang Yao held her down tightly. “I’ll give you the legs back, okay…”
“This isn’t about the legs! And I don’t look at short stubby ones anyway.”
Over time, Tang Yao had gotten familiar with most of the staff, including Chu Yuxin in front of her.
She might be a genius, but she was also obsessed with money.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t go on about moving computers every single day…
“If you don’t want your pay docked, then forget that video now.”
Tang Yao raised her voice a little—half speaking to Chu Yuxin, half to the other staff nearby: “No thinking about it, no talking about it, that was purely a commercial activity. I was playing the role of Rin Tohsaka. None of her actions have anything to do with me personally…”
Chu Yuxin squinted her eyes. “Oh…”
Calling them short stubby legs was too much!
Sure, not as long as yours, not as shapely, not as perfect in form…
Fine.
They are short stubby legs.
“If you’ve got nothing better to do, go check on the Dou Pai situation. See if they need your help. What are you slacking off for, watching videos?”
Having reached her goal, Tang Yao let go of Chu Yuxin’s thick eyebrows. “Once the Christmas event wraps up, the studio’s focus will shift slightly in that direction.”
“Mm.”
Chu Yuxin’s face froze at those words…
Her relaxed mood vanished.
“Relax, I’m here, what are you afraid of?”
Tang Yao glanced at her expression and seemed to guess her thoughts. She said directly, “I said Dou Pai won’t repeat the same mistakes. Just focus on your work… If things really don’t work out, we’ll revisit it after testing the revamped version. If you still think there are issues then, bring them up with me.”
“……”
Chu Yuxin stared at Tang Yao’s fair and beautiful face, and after a long silence, gently nodded.
Ever since joining Avalon Studio.
She had always felt that making games with Tang Yao and making games with Si Jinliang were completely different experiences…
At first, she thought the difference came down to skill.
After all, one knew a bit about card games but was clueless in most other areas.
The other—besides coding herself—seemed to know everything.
She could write project proposals, draw concept art, define requirements, handle marketing, and now even voice act…
But gradually, she felt like that wasn’t the whole story.
Because even putting aside the difference in ability.
Si Jinliang was still utterly outclassed…
Their biggest difference wasn’t just capability—it was confidence.
Tang Yao had an incredibly strong sense of confidence.
She seemed convinced that the games she made would succeed.
Even when all the folks who’d jumped ship from Mingyu Tech were pessimistic about Dou Pai, she still confidently said, “Trust me.”
That was something Si Jinliang would never dare say.
Because saying something like that meant taking full responsibility on yourself.
Most ordinary people, faced with that kind of situation, would instinctively try to “persuade” instead.
Because in a group setting, personal responsibility tends to blur…
Success is great.
But failure…
So saying something like that.
Takes more than just courage.
Si Jinliang really wasn’t a qualified boss. He lacked Tang Yao’s confidence, decisiveness, and courage.
But on the other hand, Tang Yao wasn’t some autocratic tyrant either. She didn’t even have the vibe for that…
Tang Yao never suppressed the opinions of her staff.
How to put it.
She seemed to have a kind of magic, able to infect everyone around her—make them believe that as long as they followed her, they’d succeed.
Maybe it should be called… charisma?
“What are you thinking about? What did you come here for again?”
At that moment.
Tang Yao interrupted her thoughts and looked toward the concept art in her hands.
Chu Yuxin came back to herself, looked down at the concept art, quickly adjusted her mindset, and started her report.
Soon.
Tang Yao sent off this clueless dork who always said the wrong things.
She let out a sigh of relief.
That should count as brushing it off, right?
Thinking that.
She glanced around… nope, apparently not.
Tang Yao realized the others were still looking her way. She sighed, quickly wrapped up her work, and started packing to go home.
Forget it.
Time to escape!
Anyway, the video was uploaded, all the prep work for FGO’s new version was done—next up was just waiting for the new version to go live and see how it performed.
Pretty soon, everyone would be too busy to care about this anymore.
As for Dou Pai’s project proposal—writing it later wouldn’t hurt.
It was almost New Year’s break, anyway.
……
Tang Yao escaped home.
But clearly, it wasn’t just studio staff who’d watched the video—the cool and quiet girl at home had watched it too.
Because the moment Tang Yao walked through the door, Xun’s eyes also fell on her legs.
But home wasn’t the same as the office.
She was her little sister, after all.
Tang Yao rolled her eyes at her sister, changed her shoes, walked over to the couch, sat down, and raised her pair of stunningly long, straight, and shapely legs. “You want in too? Come on, let me hug you.”
Tang Xun: “……”
She looked at her sister, who was lifting her legs on purpose to tease her, and somehow looked even more delicate and cute because of it.
She felt that those viewers had seriously underestimated the charm of the voice actress behind Rin Tohsaka.
And did this person even realize how attractive she was…?
Well, it was fine that no one saw her like this…
Actually.
Being underestimated wasn’t a big deal.
Because that one game video alone already had more than enough impact.
At the same time that Tang Yao got home.
First, on the site, the Rin Tohsaka plays the game video really started gaining traction.
When Su Deqiang watched it, it had just broken 100,000 views.
Now, it was already at 300,000—and had skyrocketed to #1 on the site rankings.
And what did that mean in the old-school otaku basecamp? It meant that every single user on the site, as long as they were online, would end up watching the video!
FGO’s name would spread with every replay, embedding itself deeper in people’s minds, pulling in wave after wave of new players.
And outside the site… was starting to catch fire too.