She suddenly leaned closer and asked me, "You do development, what specific area are you in?"

I felt a tightness in my chest and pretended to be indifferent: "Just... the tech part, I guess..."

The girl’s eyes lit up: "Is it AI? Recently, GPT has been all the rage, you must be working on large models!"

I cleared my throat: "No... not really..."

"Then it must be back-end development at a big company, right? Something like microservices architecture, handling massive concurrency..." Her eyes sparkled.

I awkwardly shook my head: "Not that direction..."

She blinked: "It’s not front-end work, is it? Effects, responsive design, componentization..."

I quickly waved my hands: "No... not that either..."

She suddenly leaned in and lowered her voice: "Could it be blockchain development?"

I shivered, nearly dropping my mouse.

Her expression became complicated: "Are you really into on-chain stuff? Smart contracts, consensus mechanisms, DeFi, ZK... those?"

I pursed my lips and nodded reluctantly.

She was silent for three seconds, her expression growing cold: "So you’re the type who... writes code by day, trades coins by night, and issues Tokens on weekends?"

I quietly defended myself: "I... I only write contracts, I don't trade coins..."

"So you’re the one who goes around saying things like 'redefining production relations', 'the financial paradigm of the future', yet can’t even get a DEX to run smoothly?"

I felt my face flush: "That’s because the RPC is unstable... it’s not my code..."

She took a step back, as if she saw some unidentifiable creature: "You’re not still using Ethereum’s mainnet to deploy contracts, are you?"

I swallowed hard: "Sometimes... I also use Solana..."

Everyone around turned to look at me, some giggled, some sighed.

I got heated and stood up shouting: "Don’t look down on us blockchain developers!"

The voice echoed in the office area, lingering like gas fees on-chain.

I shouted with a red face: "We are building a decentralized future! We want on-chain transparency! Code is law! We use contracts to change the world order!"

"Even if we are doubted, mocked, and monitored... we have never given up on our dreams!"

The girl’s expression was complicated: "...so how many holders does your Token have?"

I paused for a moment, looked down and said, "...three, my mom, myself, and I forgot whose address the other one is."

(At this moment, the sound of footsteps from a leader and a sigh came from a distance: "Another blockchain developer...")