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This article comes from the official account of Wechat: ID:paperji, author: fleeting years like ink

Isn't it a headache for your partner to be addicted to work, to work overtime, to work after work, and to work after work?

Of course, I know this question may be too early for many of you here, but to put it another way, you should feel the same way. I don't know since when, when organizing team building among friends to gang up, the most common excuse for pigeons has quietly become, "Oh, I don't get off work until 10 o'clock. I sleep in the company. I really can't come." It's really frustrating.

The week before last week, a Mini Game called "if you can go home earlier" quietly went viral on Steam, telling the story of young white-collar workers in their rising career who ignored their wife's feelings because they were focused on their work, and finally made their wives get fed up and "play dead" in a very special way to take revenge.

By the way, the game, which is transplanted from domestic mobile games, has a high score of 9.3% on the TapTap platform and 95% praise rate after logging in to Steam.

As a pixel wind decryption game, the overall game form of "if you go home earlier" is not complicated. At the beginning, the protagonist's problems are presented to the players-every day when he comes home, his wife will appear in front of him in a different way.

That's about what it looks like.

What the player has to do is to figure out what the dead wife is doing according to the theme tips on the blackboard when entering the door and those unusual details in the room, and then find ways to meet her requirements.

Most of the time, it's not difficult to figure out what your wife wants. You only need to turn around her "body" twice to get the answer.

On the contrary, it is the decryption process, which can be said to have its own characteristics as a small volume game. The first few checkpoints only need to find a few items in the room to click on to clear the customs. However, with the progress of the game, the difficulty of decryption has also increased. Players need to face puzzles that include puzzles, digital memory, object combinations, English words, temporary responses and other elements, plus the need for all kinds of pre-clues and the combination of different props, which makes the game more difficult.

Of course, most of the time, the wife will affectionately label the refrigerator in case the player is really confused by her tricks.

In the middle and later stages of the game, the reason and way in which his wife pretended to be dead became more and more strange, such as vampires, Egyptian idols, time machines, death, and so on. Bring a little fantasy to the whole game-- we'll just go home from the next shift and have a rest. Can you stop being such a jerk and live in the company like this?

Although on the surface, the whole story of the game is a joke between the wife and the protagonist, reminding the protagonist to take more care of her family, it is not until the end of the game that we can get in touch with the real reason for her prank operation-originally, the wife already knew that she had a heart attack and was dying, so she tried to make the protagonist accustomed to her own death by such means of pretending to death in order to usher in the day of real separation.

It is not until this moment that the true meaning of the game name "if you can go home earlier" is presented to the players: it is not that the wife hopes that her husband can go home earlier to spend more time with his family, but that when he gets home and sees his wife lying on the ground, the husband hates that he did not come back early to take his wife to the hospital in time.

The overall atmosphere of the game is therefore covered with a layer of sadness.

However, this series of imaginative death stories are not all imagined by game developers, but there are real people in reality-it is not a lie to say that art comes from life.

On the Japanese website Yahoo Zhihui bag (similar to what Baidu knows) on July 17, 2010, netizen kkajunsky posted a request for help telling a story that has troubled him for a long time: what if he comes home every day to find his wife pretending to be dead?

In this post for help, he gave a vivid account of his experience.

When I got home, I found my wife lying on the ground. "

"I was startled at first, but then, because I did this every day, I said, 'get up quickly' and it's over."

"so the next day she spit blood from her mouth, and a week later the blood stained her shirt."

"later, she put a plastic bag over her head and pretended to be killed by a homemade crocodile."

"now that she's cooking with her head pierced by a bow and arrow, what does she want from me?"

I can see that this netizen really looked confused. I don't know if he had offended his wife or how, so he had to go to Yahoo to ask for everyone's advice. However, to his surprise, this question received nearly a thousand answers and a large number of retweets both inside and outside the site in a short time after it was released. Among these answers, most people said they envied having a wife who loved them-but kkajunsky didn't understand it.

In the "Best answer" under the post, the respondent briefly analyzed his situation for kkajunsky.

"your wife is so lovely that she wants to give you a little cure after a hard day's work."

"I think she would be very happy to see you smile."

"she wants to bring you a new life, too. she's a great person."

Before kkajunsky could figure it out, something even more unexpected came-- a few days later, a well-known Japanese composer called in, hoping to use it as material to write a V song and match it with MV. After that, the second creation is innumerable.

Not only songs, but later cartoonist ichida also created a cartoon of the same name, which has been published for five years and is very popular with fans.

By 2018, the story had been adapted into a live-action comedy film that attracted a lot of attention-it was a real trip as a post for help.

However, the subject kkajunsky himself has maintained a confused expression of "what's going on? let's just ask a question" during this series of derivative events.

Of course, it is not unreasonable for this problem and the cultural and entertainment works derived from it to become popular all the way. Apart from the reason why the wife's operation of pretending to be dead is very cute, a series of demands it expresses-- hoping that the family can be happier, hoping that the family can spend more time with each other, and so on, can easily resonate with the working group.

As far as my own feelings are concerned, even if I haven't embarked on the road of social animals myself, I can't help but feel lonely after seeing that my friends who usually hip-hop with me gradually reduce their contact because of their work.

That is to say, as "if we can go home early" conveys, while we still have time and energy, cherish more time to get along with family and friends. Maybe one day, the happy time will be gone.

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