A plant that suddenly seemed to lose its spirit.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBrVNeKv1D
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And a group of people trying to save it.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqDb3oRNbY
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Inside the meeting room, it was eerily quiet.
On the table, Agua drooped its leaves—once upright and firm, now limp and hanging over the edge of the moss.
At the head of the table, the Boss—the sole suspect in this case—was sitting upright.
The Screenwriter pushed up his glasses and was the first to testify.
“I remember when we came back from Chiayi yesterday, Agua’s leaves were still a healthy green.”
The Art Lead crossed her arms and studied Agua.
“Yesterday it was still standing perfectly upright.”
The Director turned his gaze toward the head of the table.
“Go on.”
“After we split up in Chiayi yesterday, what did you do to Agua?”
The Boss visibly froze for a moment.
“I-I just brought Agua back to the office…”
Lil’ Pink, sitting on his lap, immediately raised its pig hooves and waved them vigorously.
“Oink! Oink oink oink!”
After hearing this, the Boss nodded repeatedly.
“Yes!”
“When I got to the office yesterday, I thought Agua looked a bit dry.”
“So I gave it a little water…”
By the end of his explanation, he shrank his neck slightly in guilt.
Silence briefly fell over the meeting room
The Manager blinked.
“So we’re not supposed to water it?”
The Screenwriter slowly leaned back into his chair.
“This is way outside my expertise…”
The Art Lead had already pulled out her phone to look it up.
After a moment, she frowned and looked up.
“I just checked.”
“Apparently watermelon-pepper vines need ventilation.”
“It can’t be too humid for too long.”
As her words fell,
everyone’s gaze slowly shifted toward the Boss.
The Boss lowered his head.
Lil’ Pink, sitting on his lap, also quietly turned its head away.
The Art Lead looked at Agua’s limp, lifeless state.
“Should we move it to the balcony?”
The Director thought for a moment.
“But I don’t think our balcony gets any sunlight.”
The Manager twirled his pen.
“Then let’s leave it in the office for observation first.”
“If it doesn’t improve, we’ll move it to the balcony.”
As he spoke, he glanced up at the air conditioner vent on the ceiling.
“And the AC is always on… that should count as ventilation, right?”
After a moment, the Director sighed.
“We can only leave it like this for now.”
Just as everyone was struggling to come up with a solution—
Ding!
The Boss, who had been keeping his head down all this time, had his shoulders tremble slightly.
The next second—
“…Ugh…”
He couldn’t hold it in and burst into tears on the spot.
The Art Lead’s mouth twitched.
“What are you doing?!”
The Boss shakily raised his phone.
“The crystal I bought for Agua… just got a shipping notification… but Agua might not be able to use it anymore…”
“Tch!”
A vein twitched on the Art Lead’s forehead.
“Agua’s leaves are just a little droopy!”
Looking at Agua’s current condition, the Screenwriter muttered quietly,
“…Isn’t ‘a little’ a bit too much of a stretch?”
The Art Lead immediately shot him a glare.
The Screenwriter stiffened.
“I mean—plants are actually pretty resilient!”
“Besides, we specifically chose the easiest plant to care for!”
The Boss sniffed.
“And I still ended up raising it into this…”
“…sob…”
The Screenwriter opened his mouth, then finally surrendered.
“…I’ll shut up.”
Seeing the Boss, already a crying mess, the Director helplessly handed him a tissue.
“It’s okay. It’s our first time raising a plant anyway.”
“We just need to learn slowly.”
The Manager also nodded.
“From another perspective, we did fully document the entire process.”
“That’s also a very valuable experience.”
Lil’ Pink patted his cheek with a pig hoof.
“Oink oink oink!”
The Art Lead also put her phone down, her tone softening for once.
“Don’t cry. We’ll figure something out together.”
“Maybe in a few days, its leaves will stand up again.”
The Boss wiped the corner of his eye.
“…sob… okay…”
In the end,
Operation Save Agua became the crew’s most important task that day.
The meeting continued all the way into lunchtime.
As for Agua itself—
it still hung there quietly, its leaves drooping in silence.
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