Love and Conflict in the Digital Realm: A Tale of Two Hearts

Many years later, when Chi Xia sank into the soft sofa and looked at Yu Ningze frying steak in the kitchen, she would never forget that mild early spring. Everything starts with the app called koi that she still keeps as a souvenir on her phone. It was nine o'clock on an ordinary Monday morning. The golden sunlight swept across Chi Xia's profile, and the soft edges of light fell on the crying face she had just drawn on the blank page of her notebook. The weekly meeting is nothing more than this. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but yawn. Sometimes she couldn't help but think that there was really no need to hold a meeting that even she, a newcomer who had just joined the company less than a month ago, had to attend. She raised her head. At this time, Yu Ningze, director of the R&D Department, was standing in front of the PPT and talking loudly. Although he is a director, Yu Ningze doesn't seem to have the habit of wearing suits. In the early spring weather, a gray T-shirt and a black sweatshirt made his already fair skin almost transparent. The light from the projector hit his body, casting a shadow on his collarbone. I don't know if it's because of his position or his slender figure. Looking at it from Chi Xia's point of view, he can't see the first few words of each paragraph. She couldn't help but crane her neck and look around. Perhaps because of the excessive movement, the pen originally placed on the notebook fell to the ground with a crisp sound. She hurriedly bent down to pick it up, and the moment she straightened up, she seemed to feel the cold eyes coming from the direction of Yu Ningze, landing on her head. Is it an illusion? Chi Xia looked forward, and Yu Ningze was already facing the screen. The center of the PPT screen is the icon of koi, the company's current key project. An app that combines dating and gaming. It has already gone through an offline confidential test and internal beta, and is expected to be launched into a global public beta one month later. worldwide. Chi Xia curled her lips. It sounds very high-end. While Yu Ningze was introducing the adjustments made by the department based on user feedback during the internal testing period, Chi Xia was stunned when she looked at the rabbit-shaped app icon on the screen. Games + making friends, for some reason, Chi Xia always feels weird. How should I put it, there is a feeling of both wanting and wanting. Although Chi Xia has never been exposed to dating software, she still knows a lot about the game. Even her roommate couldn't help teasing her. If she could focus on falling in love, she wouldn't have been a widow until now after breaking up in her sophomore year. However, Chi Xia never cared about it. Love was nothing more than lighting lamps under the sun and keeping vigil with beggars, which was even more tasteless than Cao Cao's tasteless food. However, the gameplay of the app that Yu Ningze was introducing incessantly was different from the competitive games she had played before. As can be seen in the short two-minute demonstration video, users can create a virtual character according to their own preferences, build their own house and garden, and match another player based on distance, personality tests and other technical means to jointly create a warm and happy game. of utopia. This reminded her of those Happy Farms and the like during her student days. But what age are we in now? Are there still young people interested in this kind of gameplay? The next second, the video finished playing, and koi's promotional slogan, accompanied by Yu Ningze's magnetic voice, appeared on the snow-white curtain - love transcends everything. She couldn't help but laugh. Fortunately, no one noticed. Yu Ningze's report ended quickly and was very concise and to the point. Just like the impression he gave Chi Xia, if he could say one less word, he would never waste a drop of saliva. I heard that the company CEO Mr. Ye originally wanted him to be the project manager of koi, but he said that he was just a code writer and couldn't care about other things, so he just gave up the excellent promotion channel to Lao Wang. I don't know whether he should be said to be stubborn or fake, but in short, he is a strange person. Chi Xia lowered his head and continued to draw on the notebook with the water-resistant pen. Unknowingly, he drew the icon of koi. I have to say that the design of this rabbit is quite interesting and unforgettable. Dating software... Chi Xia felt that it was absolutely impossible for her to waste time downloading such an app. It's anonymous and it's an avatar, and it's watering and growing vegetables. If you hope to find true love in this way, it's better to go to the Chenghuang Temple to worship Yue Lao. "What era is it? How can young people like this kind of anonymous dating software?" She couldn't help but tilt her head and think. The next second, the air cooled down as if a vacuum had been drawn. In the huge conference room, even the breathing of the people around him was deafening. Chi Xia raised his head and found that everyone's eyes were staring straight at him. Including Yu Ningze's, that familiar look in his eyes, as sharp as a blade, just like what she had felt the moment she bent down. Only then did she realize that her mouth had bypassed her brain and she spoke out this "arrogant" idea. Want to die. Is it too late to live on another planet? "What era?" Yu Ningze's voice following closely tightened Chi Xia's tense nerves, and she almost didn't dare to look into his eyes. "Ms. Chi, is she very knowledgeable about dating apps?" One question after another made Chi Xia unable to think. In a daze, she seemed to see her great-grandmother waving to her, with a kind face and a gentle light radiating from her body. Before Chi Xia could prepare her words, Yu Ningze made a closing statement: "I hope Miss Chi will do her homework before speaking in the future, thank you."It was only then that Chi Xia heard some strange flavor in his words. Miss Chi? Although she had just joined the company not long ago, some of her colleagues called her Xiaochi and some called Xiaoxia. It would be better to call her Full name. But Miss Chi? There was a burning sensation on her cheek that could not be ignored. She raised her head angrily, only to see Yu Ningze put the page-turning pen back on the table and was about to return to her seat. This farce seemed to end quickly when he unilaterally crushed Chi Xia. Just a second before Yu Ningze's butt was about to touch the chair, an unexpected sound rang out. The strange atmosphere in the air was lifted, pushing the meeting to a new climax. "I think what she said is very interesting. The man sitting in the front row stood up, walked to Yu Ningze and patted him on the shoulder: "She is not only our colleague, she is also a young person, isn't she?" "After saying that, there was sparse laughter in the crowd, whether it was from sincerity or flattery. After speaking, he turned to the back row, quickly locked the direction of Chi Xia, and asked: "What's your name? The colleague sitting next to Chi Xia lowered his head and reminded kindly: "This is our big boss, Mr. Ye." " She immediately stood up stiffly as if struck by thunder and lightning, and replied: "Mr. Ye, my name is Chi Xia. "Ye Jing, a man who only exists in gossips and legends. There are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, and there may be three hundred days when you can't see others. But Chi Xia thinks this is definitely an exaggeration. After all, she has only been here for a month. She just saw him, didn't she? She originally thought that Ye Jing would be a middle-aged man in his forties with a big belly, but she didn't expect him to be so young. Although she only caught a glimpse of him from the corner of her eye, she thought he must be good-looking. He nodded and asked: "Chi Xia, why do you think young people won't be interested in koi? " Chi Xia didn't know how to speak. To be honest, she was the kind of person who would hide her head under the desk when the teacher said she would pick a classmate to answer a question in class. Speaking in front of everyone, or expressing herself Point of view has never been easy for her. She hesitated, sometimes looking at her colleagues next to her, and sometimes looking down at her toes. Every second was extremely painful. Sliding down from her forehead to her ears, she raised her head and glanced at Ye Jing, who was always watching her. He didn't speak or urge her, but just waited for her answer quietly, so she took a deep breath and spoke slowly. : "In today's fast-paced life style, I think people pay more attention to efficiency..." Chi Xia said while observing Ye Jing's expression. After getting the other party's affirmative look, she continued. : "With traditional dating software, you can see the other person's appearance, job, education and even personality hobbies at a glance, making it easier and faster to conduct preliminary screening. But dating software that cannot see appearance and background conditions means that the cost of trial and error is even greater. "More convenient and faster, I can understand it as more casual?" "Chi Xia didn't wait for Ye Jing's speech, but was defeated by Yu Ningze. He raised his eyebrows and retorted: "Just like going to the market to buy eggs, put all other users into the basket, just based on stereotypes Deciding whether to stay or go, do you think this is a more efficient approach? Chi Xia frowned and asked, "What if I spend a lot of time and get along with the so-called person who is accurately assigned by the system, but find that the other person's appearance is not my cup of tea at all?" That's not in vain. "Yu Ningze glanced at her: "Then have you ever calculated the probability of success in the final success of your so-called 'convenient and fast' social software for those selected by appearance and conditions? " Seeing that Chi Xia didn't answer, he directly gave the answer: "The matching rate for women is 10.5%, and that for men is only 0.5%. " An accurate data left Chi Xia speechless. Yu Ningze continued: "Users may list appearance and education level as options that must be met, but when they meet someone in real life , which is not the criterion they use to evaluate whether they will have feelings for someone. "Narrowing the options into collaborative filtering is fundamentally unromantic. It locks in what it thinks is your preference early on, which is statistically significant but doesn't necessarily lead to surprises. "Romantic, unexpected. These don't sound like words that would come out of Yu Ningze's mouth. Chi Xia was stunned for a moment. "The number of choices sometimes becomes an obstacle. "He looked at Chi Xia with eyes like bottomless sea water. She couldn't see through what treasures he had buried under the sea, so she had to follow the ups and downs of the waves, drowning deeper and deeper. Chi Xia admitted that she could no longer refute it. Him. She had no data to support, and had never used dating software. She just argued randomly through her long life experience and rich imagination. The atmosphere fell into silence again. No one spoke, and everyone just lowered their heads or asked. He tilted his chin and pretended to think deeply. "Okay, okay. "Ye Jing clapped her hands inappropriately: "It's been a long time since we heard our Director Yu speak so many words in one go. My trip here is not in vain. "Perhaps they were amused by Ye Jing's joking words, or they simply couldn't stand the awkward atmosphere. The colleagues laughed one after another, and the air circulated again. Yu Ningze sat back in his seat and glared at Ye Jing. Jing glanced at him and whispered: "You are boring. Ye Jing smiled and said, "Isn't this good?" Meetings are all about listening to everyone's voices. What's the point of showing me PPT every day? I can't see anywhere. "The farce ended quietly, and Chi Xia sat down awkwardly. She didn't hear what was reported next, she only felt a buzzing in her ears. She looked at the back of Yu Ningze's head, who was sitting in the front row, and all she could think of was his powerful words. Romantic and unexpected. Chi Xia fell in love once, which was a bit confusing and confusing. Until the moment they broke up, she didn't know what she had experienced. She wasn't sure she had ever experienced love, and she had never seen true love. But at a certain moment, she felt that these two words seemed very close to true love. This was the first regular company meeting that Chi Xia attended. When she walked out of the meeting room, her legs couldn't stop shaking. It wasn't smooth, but it was finally over. But if she hadn't heard Yu Ningze's cold snort from the depths of her throat when she passed by him, she would have slept better that night. The author has something to say: It's advertising time! ! 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