Chapter 199: What the tongue tastes like

The opening of a large company is always a big event, such as inviting some of the biggest names in the industry to attend or inviting some of the press to create a buzz.

Three Blues Technology is still a small company, so we can't afford to spend a lot of money, we just want to have an atmosphere, but we still need a sense of ceremony.

Shen Yu and Rika got up early on the morning of 22 February.

Shen Yu wore a suit for the first time in his life, the last time Rika bought it for him, mainly for formal occasions.

Last night, Rika helped him get all the clothes he needed for the day, even the new grey underwear and the new black socks.

The suit was a navy blue two-button slim-fit style, and with a pair of leather shoes, his whole demeanour was immediately different.

He moved his shoulders, still not quite used to wearing a suit, and looked at himself in the mirror, for he was tall himself, and the outfit matched, making him look even more erect and handsome.

Rika had also changed early, she was wearing a nice dress today, on the professional side.

There was a soft knock on the door and Rika opened the door to Shen Yu's room, peeking in with a little head, his big eyes peering in curiously, and his eyes lighting up at the sight of such a handsome man.

"I thought Shen Yu wasn't awake. ......"

"So you're just going to sneak into my room?"

"No, the boss can't be late!"

Rika walks into Shen Yu's room and lifts his hand to help him straighten his collar.

Shen Yu is holding a tie in his hand, his first time using one of these and he doesn't know how to tie it.

"I'll help you."

"Will you ......"

"Of course I can, I learnt it from my mum."

When Rika took Shen Yu's tie, he bowed his head slightly and let her hang it around his neck, and with her deft little hands, she soon had it tied properly and beautifully.

"Is it going to be tight?"

"It's okay."

The two of them packed up and went out together.

The usual starting time is nine o'clock, but since today is the first day of work, Shen Yu and Rika arrived early, at 8.30am.

There are already three or five colleagues waiting at the door.

Shen Yu has been giving training and arranging work plans for the rest of the year because he has not yet started work, and with the company's good benefits, the colleagues who have returned to work after the New Year are full of energy.

"Boss!"

"Hello boss lady!"

These guys are getting more and more unruly, actually calling out Rika's boss's wife in front of Shen Yu.

Rika was very happy to hear this, and without any attitude, he also greeted everyone with a nod of his head: "Happy New Year, everyone!"

Shen Yu also greeted everyone and opened the door to the company, and once inside, we all joined hands to set up the company.

The opening ceremony, red ribbons, ribbons and so on were all ready and with the arrival of colleagues and more staff, the company was soon decorated in a beautiful manner.

The roast suckling pig that we had ordered before was delivered to us, because my parents said we needed to worship the gods for the opening, and Shen Yu didn't know how to do that.

Ke Liangji and Zhao Yage have also returned from New Year's Eve and are helping out in the office.

"Mr. Shen, where do I put this basket of flowers?"

"Just set up the doorway."

"Auntie and uncle, you two go to the lounge and rest and drink your tea, we'll do it!"

Shen Deyou and Zhang Xiaoru are also dressed formally today, after all, it is their son's first business venture, as parents must be present to support it, not to mention Shen Deyou last night also gave Shen Yu an initial investment of 300,000 yuan.

"Eh, well, good luck to everyone."

"No hard work!"

Shen Deyou came to Shen Yu's company for the first time and felt a lot more at ease when he saw the office in its presentable state.

Very often, the ability to do things successfully or not only accounts for less than half of the ingredients, but more depends on the mentality of doing things.

By nine o'clock, all thirty employees of the company had arrived, and at half past nine, the opening ceremony began.

First of all, Shen Yu, dressed in a smart suit and holding incense in his hand, worships the gods of heaven, Guan Yu, the earth and the four directions.

After Shen Yu had finished worshipping the gods, Ke Liangji and Yang Kangjian, who were in charge of setting off the cannon, twisted the cannon in their hands, and the sky exploded with a bang, and everyone applauded.

"Today is a great day for the official opening of Three Blues Technology. Shen Yu, on behalf of the company, would like to extend our most sincere thanks to everyone. I believe that with the joint efforts of all of us, this sailing ship, which has just set sail, will go even higher and farther, thank you all!"

After a brief congratulatory speech, Shen Yu put his hands to his side and solemnly bowed deeply to all present.

From the moment the applause rang out on the floor, he suddenly felt a heavier burden on his shoulders.

Once it was one person, now he is responsible for the whole company. For the employees it may be a job, but for Shen Yu it is a career.

He turned to Rika in the crowd, who looked very excited, her face flushed, and she was the one clapping the hardest.

When Shen Yu looked at her, she also raised her little fist and lip-synced to him: Go!

Afterwards, Shen Yu and Rika returned to the office and took out the red packets they had prepared for the opening and handed them out one by one with a word of encouragement.

Because the company is now small, Shen Yu can easily remember everyone's name.

Names have a sense of belonging, and the easiest and most effective way to recognise them is to remember each other's names.

There are still a lot of people in the company who don't know each other, but it's still a different feeling to hear Mr. Shen call out his name clearly.

"Okay, everyone, pack up and let's get down to business!"

"Don't get the suckling pig dirty, let's share it for lunch, and the chicken and duck, and the fruit too."

The tables and chairs were put back in order and, with the exception of the fragments of ceremonial flowers, which were not swept up for the time being, everyone returned to their posts immediately after tidying up and got back to work.

Although it was a new company, Shen Yu had already given everyone detailed training and work schedules in the first half of the month, and with so much time to adjust and prepare, everyone had their own thing to do.

The programming department has been working on technical adjustments and new modules based on feedback from players of the first version of Azure.

Shen Yu called his colleagues from the planning and art departments into the meeting room, and Rika joined him, making a total of eight people.

While the dominant gameplay in romance games is storytelling, the core gameplay of Azure is AI interaction, which alone does not work and must be paired with a well-developed worldview and in-game story line.

The meeting was less prescriptive, as we brainstormed together about the content of the next version of the script.

Once the script was decided, it was time to decide on the art style and image. The art department was interviewed by Rika, who was also in charge of the direction for the time being.

The first day of the opening was spent putting in place all the previous work plans.

If things go well, in about a month and a half or so, the second edition of Azure will go live, with more art, music and scenes within the game compared to the first edition, and with the addition of a handheld version.

In the story line, there are three female protagonists in the script, each with a different identity and personality, and the player may encounter Arya, Bertha, Finn or all three when they enter the game.

Players can choose a heroine to interact with and raid based on their preferences, as each heroine has a different story line and it all depends on how the player's actions in the game will trigger scenes out.

It's quite a lot of work.

"We don't promote overtime in our company." Shen Yu said.

Unfortunately, on the first day of opening, the whole company worked overtime until 8pm ......

Shen Yu's face was stony, it wasn't that he had asked his staff to stay and work overtime, after all, he had arranged to go down and put everyone on a very standard daily workload.

In hindsight, the bar seems to have been set a bit high ......

After all, not everyone has the ability to do the work he does. If Shen Yu were to do the work, it would be more than enough to get it done during office hours, but unfortunately everyone is still new to the job and will need a little time to get used to it.

Shen Yu, as the boss, couldn't go home first. If he didn't go home, neither did Rika, and he ordered a cup of milk tea for everyone as a small benefit for working overtime.

Shen Yu is working in the office, he is leading the programming department, and he still has the heaviest workload, after all, he is the only one who can do the core programming now, only now he is done for the day too.

There were two clatters and a soft knock on the office door.

"Come in."

"Mr. Shen ......"

Rika pushes the door open and a small head enters, then looks behind him before walking into his office, a cup of milk tea in his hand.

Once the door was closed, she was much more at ease, taking a sip from the milk tea straw in her mouth and coming over to Shen Yu to pass him the cup she had sipped from.

Shen Yu then took a hard sip from the straw she had been holding and drank half of her milk tea.

"Shen Yu, when do you get off work ......"

Rika took the milk tea back and her little teeth nibbled on the straw, soon leaving a line of cute little teeth marks.

"You're sleepy, huh?"

Shen Yu looked up at her, but Rika didn't look very sleepy, but rather energetic, as if she was looking forward to something.

"I'm not sleepy, you've been busy all day, you're so tired, let me squeeze your shoulders."

Rika puts the milk tea on his table top, goes around behind his chair and puts two small hands on his shoulders, gently rubbing and squeezing him.

Shen Yu wanted to say she wasn't sleepy, but after having her shoulders squeezed by the little secretary, she leaned back comfortably in her chair and breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Is the door closed ......"

"Don't worry Mr. Shen, it's tightly closed ......"

Rika suddenly lowered his head and gave Shen Yu a kiss on the cheek before they both looked out of the office door together, feeling incredibly stimulated.

"Stop it."

"It's not like anyone saw ...... it's after hours ......"

"You want to go back?"

Rika shook his head, "I'll wait for you to come back with me, is Shen Yu's work done?"

"It's done long ago, I'm already working on tomorrow's work."

Shen Yu sighed and said, "Everyone is still working overtime, it doesn't seem good if I leave, I'll take you back first and then I'll come back."

"No no, I don't want to be at home by myself."

Rika shook his arm and said, " When Shen Yu's work is done, then he should go back early because people might think, "How can I leave when even the boss hasn't left yet, and if Shen Yu goes back, everyone will almost go back too."

It was only when Rika mentioned it that Shen Yu remembered.

Previously, I often saw the community complaining about how the boss was still in the office after work and then no one in the whole company dared to leave.

When it came to him, it was the other way round. He saw that the staff had not left and Shen Yu was sorry to leave.

"OK then, I'll pack up and let's go back."

"Mmmmmm!"

Rika was very happy, and I don't know what came to her mind, but her big eyes rolled around and she stared at his lips every now and then.

"What's wrong? Is there something on my mouth?"

Shen Yu wiped his mouth with his finger curiously, there was nothing there.

"No!"

Being the reserved young lady that she is, Rika would not remind him of this and went out of the office with a grunt.

Shen Yu gathers her things and comes out of the office too.

Most of the colleagues who worked overtime were from the technical department and the art department, and they all basically consciously stayed overtime, after all, the task was not done and they were too embarrassed to drag the team's feet.

"Let's all put the work in hand aside for now, go back to bed early and get well tomorrow so we can work."

When they didn't leave, Shen Yu came to kick them out. After all, it was the first day of business and they weren't familiar with it yet, so they didn't want to get too tired and lose their motivation.

Shen Yu and Rika finally left the office and returned home after nine o'clock.

Rika wanted to take a shower and go under the blanket, but Shen Yu dragged her out for a run, and he prepared a small bamboo strip to smack her little butt whenever Rika tried to be lazy.

"Whew ...... I can't ...... let's run it out for the day shall we ......"

"It's only a kilometre! Who was it that said we should run every night?"

"But I'm so tired today! I can't I can't ......"

Rika, the big sloth, said he wouldn't run and climbed on his back to give him a lift.

It was a beautiful moonlit night as Shen Yu carried Rika along the An Jiang walkway, with occasional envious glances from pedestrians.

"If Shen Yu carries me every night, Rika runs every day, in spring, in summer, in winter, and in the rain."

"Lazy out of the realm you are."

"My feet are so sore from running ......"

"You just want me to wash your feet, don't you."

Rika is not heavy and it is easy to carry her. Shen Yu holds her thighs up and lifts them, Rika's arms are around his shoulders and her face is resting next to his cheek.

Having just finished exercising, both of their faces were sweating a bit and when their faces were pressed together, the sweat mingled.

Rika nibbled lightly on his ear.

Then in his ear, in a nice little whisper, he said two words, "Husband ......"

I don't know whether it was her bite or the word that shocked her, but Shen Yu's ears turned red with flesh.

These two words were like magic, and Shen Yu's heart fluttered so violently that a tingling sensation began to spread from his ears to his whole body, and he couldn't help but stop in his tracks.

"Why are you suddenly calling me that ......"

"Reward you."

Before he could react, Rika on his back twisted and turned, jumped off him, came around to his body, stood on tiptoe, wrapped her arms around his neck and took his lips in her mouth.

She closed her eyes and her soft little tongue burrowed in, a little rusty, like an intrusion into a strange world, until it touched softly with his ......

Shen Yu knows what the tongue tastes like.

Sweet.

It is also very moist.