Cheng Cheng and the Cicada

Chapter 7 Analysis

Tonight was unusually quiet.

Perhaps because of the cooler weather, the night market stalls downstairs were no longer noisy.

Lin Xian opened his eyes.

He looked at the ceiling.

He didn't get up for a long time.

He didn't even want to expose any of his skin from under the covers, feeling an all-over discomfort.

It was like…

Being stripped naked, having your scars torn open, having your most unspeakable secrets dragged out and displayed for everyone to see.

It truly made his skin crawl from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head, giving him goosebumps.

Lin Xian rubbed his feet, wriggling around in bed to wrap the blanket even tighter around himself.

His heart was filled with mixed feelings…

Embarrassing moments from adolescence were definitely the last thing any guy wanted to bring up.

Especially when it came to nascent feelings.

"So damn embarrassing."

If he hadn't been desperate and had no other choice, he wouldn't have been willing to dredge up this old, rotten sesame seed of an embarrassing story.

Luckily, it was just a dream. Anyway, it would reset tomorrow, and no one would remember.

But never in his wildest dreams would he have imagined that even after losing all the face he had, the safe's password would still be wrong! It really made Lin Xian wonder if this was even his safe.

"Whatever, whatever."

Lin Xian scratched his head, threw back the covers, and sat up.

"Time to get down to business."

Dreams were ultimately fake; it was more important to grind away in reality.

After putting on his pajamas, Lin Xian turned on the desk lamp and sat down at his desk, sketching the Keke Cat he had remembered from his dream onto a piece of paper.

The design of the [Keke Cat] itself was simple and exquisite, with not too many details, making it very easy to draw.

In less than 20 minutes.

Lin Xian had completed the front, side, and back views of the Keke Cat on the paper.

Whether it was the details of the limbs, clothing, tail, shoes... Lin Xian restored everything according to the memories from his dream, 1:1.

"Perfect."

Lin Xian wiped his hands, blowing the eraser shavings off the table.

"With such a high degree of completion, I can easily hand it in tomorrow."

Looking at the drawing of the Keke Cat in front of him…

Lin Xian couldn't help but think of Big Face Cat again.

After these two nights of dreams, he had completely figured out the grudges between Big Face Cat and the password expert CC.

*Shua.*

Lin Xian took out another blank sheet of paper and began to sort out his thoughts on it:

[Story Flow]

1. Big Face Cat's daughter was killed when she was six years old. He wants to avenge his daughter and needs a lot of money.

2. Password expert CC wants to enter the bank vault. Her purpose is to open Lin Xian's safe and get the things inside.

3. CC deceives Big Face Cat, saying that there is a lot of money in the bank, so the two agree on a contact code and prepare to meet and cooperate to rob the bank.

4. Big Face Cat always wants to kill the others and take all the money for himself; CC, on the other hand, will kill Big Face Cat after entering the vault, after all, there is no money inside, and Big Face Cat will definitely not spare her, so she has to strike first.

5. In the end, Big Face Cat didn't get the money, and CC didn't open the safe. Both lose.

*Pa.*

Lin Xian closed the pen cap.

Looking at the analysis he had written.

This was the story of Big Face Cat and CC. They were like NPCs in a game world, repeating this plot day after day, year after year.

Lin Xian was well aware…

Although he had only played with them for two nights.

But Big Face Cat and CC's grudges had been cycling countless times over the past twenty years, starting and ending on time every night.

If he didn't participate in it, their ending would be the same every day.

"But…"

Lin Xian tapped the paper with the pen.

"I am the only variable."

All along.

Lin Xian had been treating his dreams like an RPG game, which was a very interesting experience.

Everyone in the dream was an NPC.

They each had their own plots and tasks, and Lin Xian could participate in them as much as he wanted, to understand a story, to participate in an event, to change an ending.

After all, in a dream, you could do whatever you wanted, reload indefinitely, and try countless times.

Therefore, Lin Xian rarely encountered unsolvable problems or unfinishable tasks.

But this time…

"It's pretty difficult, there are too many things I don't understand."

*Shua.*

Lin Xian took out another sheet of A4 paper and wrote on it:

[Unsolved Mysteries]

1. What exactly is hidden inside the safe?

2. What is the password for the safe?

3. Why did CC save me? Her attitude towards me is also very subtle and strange.

"That's it for now."

Lin Xian looked at these three questions in his mind.

He felt that the first two had no clues or breakthroughs at all.

As for the third question…

Why did CC save him, and why was her attitude towards him so subtle?

"It feels like she's not meeting me for the first time, at least she never thought about killing me."

"But it's hard to say, she doesn't know me at all."

"Actually, she trusts me quite a bit, and is willing to listen to me and try so many passwords."

"It's hard to say, is she just grasping at straws?"

His thoughts began to run wild again, worthy of being nominated for the Mao Dun Literature Prize.

Lin Xian yawned.

"Let's go to sleep. You can't take things in dreams too seriously, there are too many unreasonable things."



The next day.

Company conference room.

Everyone looked at the drawings on the table, shocked and stunned!

"This... wasn't it just a draft yesterday? How did you directly come up with the three views today, with such a high degree of completion! We can start production and printing directly!"

"Are you stupid? Lin Xian just casually drew a draft yesterday, which doesn't mean that he only started designing yesterday! Now the design draft is so complete... Lin Xian must have been working hard in private for at least two months."

"It's so cute, I've never seen such a beautiful kitten! I said yesterday that the cat designed by Lin Xian has great potential! As long as it is refined and colored... it is definitely no worse than Hello Kitty!"

"From a professional point of view, the design language of this cat has surpassed the current era by decades. I can't imagine... which girl can resist buying such a cute cat? Lin Xian is truly amazing!"



Usually, when President Zhao Yingjun was present, everyone was relatively restrained and never dared to discuss so loudly.

But today, the results that Lin Xian brought out were so shocking that the inner shock could not be suppressed at all.

First, the efficiency was fast.

Second, the quality was high.

If everyone didn't know the inside story, they would have really thought that Lin Xian had plagiarized the finished product of another company!

Today, Zhao Yingjun was dressed in black, dressed particularly smartly and heroically, with an aura that kept ordinary people away.

But now, looking down at the design draft, she also had a gratified smile on her face:

"This is truly an extremely excellent brand image, several times stronger than I imagined, than I expected."

"It can be seen that Lin Xian has put a lot of effort into the design of this cat. I suddenly feel that it is too wasteful to just use this cat as a mascot and print advertisements. Now I have new ideas."

"However, before that... we must first give this cute cat a name."

Zhao Yingjun looked up at Lin Xian, her eyes full of affirmation and appreciation.

"Lin Xian, since you designed this cat, you can give her a name!"

Everyone looked at Lin Xian.

Many colleagues in the design department secretly gave Lin Xian a thumbs up.

"The name of this cat…"

Lin Xian rested his chin on his hand, seeing the meeting logo of the "Rhein Brand Image Design 7th Discussion Meeting" on the big screen…

"Since the company's new brand name is Rhein."

"Then the name of this cat will be [Rhein Cat]."