Former Sunborn Writer Caught Working on ML-Heavy Game Journey of the Millennium — Four-Month Stint Timeline Raises Eyebrows, Players Debate Blame

A game famous for its pure "Master Love" (ML) content — where every female character dotes on the player — and a company notorious for shoving NTR (netorare, aka "your girl gets stolen") plotlines down players' throats. These two polar opposites apparently share a common link: one person. This revelation on NGA's gossip board (瓜版) left the community absolutely gobsmacked.

It all started when a player dug up that the event story writer for the mobile game Journey of the Millennium (千年之旅) previously worked at Sunborn — the parent company behind Girls' Frontline (少女前线) and Neural Cloud (云图计划). The OP summed it up perfectly: "An all-female ML game and the NTR-obsessed Sunborn having a connection? Never in my wildest dreams."

But the timeline is where it gets spicy. The writer only stayed at Sunborn for about four months before bailing — prompting one commenter to quip, "Just four months? Barely past the probation period and already dipped." Sharp-eyed players further noted that the writer joined Journey of the Millennium last March, a full seven months before the infamous "Mrs. Raymond" scandal — Sunborn's widely mocked NTR storyline — blew up last October.

This timeline split the community into two camps. One side speculated the writer "sensed the explosion coming and ran early" — implying Sunborn's internal dysfunction was already visible behind the scenes. The other camp pushed back: "It was never about talent. Even the best writing gets vetoed by the lead writer and producer. The Mrs. Raymond disaster is on the locusts (蝗虫, Sunborn's nickname among haters) to bear, not this person."

What makes this even juicier is Journey of the Millennium's own spicy backstory. Before a major overhaul, the game earned the nickname "Millennium of Cuckolding" (千年之绿) — because one of the heroines was betrothed to another man via some ancestral oath, and the protagonist acted like a complete pushover, refusing to fight for her. The female lead was literally more proactive than the male lead. One commenter roasted: "Before the rework, this game was on the same level as the infamous NTR disasters — basically a 'Millennium Turtle' (千年王八, slang for a guy who accepts being cucked)."

However, cooler heads tried to put out the fire. A player familiar with both games broke it down in detail: the writer was clearly from the Neural Cloud team, having worked on "Requiem of Dusk" (薄暮葬曲), a Neural Cloud event story for the character Luto that was generally well-received. On the Journey of the Millennium side, this writer wasn't responsible for the early main story that caused the game's disastrous launch — that was an earlier writer's mess. The later event stories? "Pure ML energy — the female characters practically want to sleep with the player." Verdict: "This doesn't count as gossip. Lock the thread."

The OP wasn't having it though, replying: "I never said the Journey of Millennium writer did anything wrong — I'm just shocked by the connection." Other commenters piled on: "Then post this in the general gaming forum, not the gossip board." What started as a "revelation" quickly devolved into a philosophical debate about what qualifies as actual drama.

At the end of the day, talent migration in the gaming industry is perfectly normal. But when someone from the "NTR headquarters" shows up in the "ML sanctuary," the optics alone are enough to set the community ablaze — regardless of whether there's any real scandal. Whether this writer is "the smart one who fled early" or "a talented person whose work got buried by bad management" remains a mystery only the writer themselves can answer.