Echoes of Unrequited Love

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When Cecilia handed me the three–to–four–page proposal, I was quite taken aback, to say the

least.

Gotta give it to her, the girl had got more hustle than I expected in some areas. The formatting and layout of the proposal did have their merits, after all.

But once I got through the whole thing, I started to lose my cool a bit. Her entire spiel was about the four hunky, romanceable lead guys in our game.

In the proposal, she wrote that the character design was key to users‘ top–up amount, and that the hunks‘ looks were of utmost importance.

And Cecilia, who’d never seen a project through to completion, thought our leading men weren’t up to snuff and suggested a total redraw.

That was her first point.

the beholder, and she’d pulled similar stunts before, so I could see where she was coming from. But her next suggestion blew my mind. She wanted to change one of the leads – our guy majoring in finance, the so–called “flatterer” – to a

to icy scholar, with the new

She wrote in her proposal, “It might not reflect

the missus of Rainbow Capital’s chairman, pretty bossy.

closed the proposal gave Cecilia a quick glance, and said, “You’ve certainly done your homework on this, but Director Irwin, if you had taken a closer look

that Hogan didn’t see any issue with our lead’s persona.

a split second before she said, “Xaviera, originally Hogan was just trying to find a project for me to satisfy my school requirements. It was all so sudden, and since

went up a notch as she continued, “he probably never really looked at the project file

hint of amusement. It didn’t seem

what she said wasn’t out of the realm of possibility. And as the game’s planner, now that

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seemed like gilding the lily to us, she had Hogan backing her up, which put the intangible pressure on me.

her, “Director Irwin, if there’s no rush, allow me