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Chapter 576: White roses are not as good as red roses! (Day 3 of XXX, please give me a monthly ticket!)

"He Chen, let's have a competition!"

Zhong Bai is very confident. Although she doesn't know how to fish, it doesn't stop her from noticing He Chen's bragging and wanting to compete with He Chen.

He Chen couldn't help but glance at Ruolan.

Zhong Bai's personality is actually very similar to Hu Yifei.

If Ruolan hadn't made it clear that she didn't want He Chen and Hu Yifei to bet, Hu Yifei would have definitely lost everything long ago.

He Chen was also willing to give Ruolan this face and didn't want to embarrass Ruolan too much.

Ok.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Ruolan is the ugliest one in the family and Hu Yifei is not as good as the rest!

It’s just that the simple He Chen can be very considerate sometimes!

The same goes for Zhong Bai.

But she is not as extreme as Hu Yifei.

"Why are you looking at me?" Ruolan squinted at him and said, "I want to compete with you, too."

"You lost?" He Chen became interested.

"If you lose, I admit that you are good!" Ruolan said with a smile: "But if you lose, you must promise me one thing!"

"This is not fair!" He Chen shook his head and laughed: "You always say I'm great and you keep talking about it."

"Huh!" Zhong Bai looked at He Chen with disdain.

"Then let's do this. Whoever loses will agree to something from the other party, not too much." Ruolan's eyes flashed, "But there is a prerequisite. Since you said you are Jiang Taigong fishing and those who are willing to take the bait will be caught, then you have to imitate Jiang Taigong and use a straight hook! How do you think?"

"No problem! It's such a happy decision!" He Chen smiled when he heard it. While speaking, he brought the fishhook in front of Ruolan, bent it with his hand, and then wiped it. The fishhook became straight as a needle.

This move made Ruolan and Zhong Bai stare in amazement.

There is no technical requirement to straighten the fish hook, and anyone can do it, but the straightened fish hook has no signs of bending at all, and even they feel that something is wrong.

"Is this hook straight?" He Chen looked at Ruolan with a chuckle. Seeing that Ruolan had no objection, he threw the straight hook down with a teasing smile on his face.

"No matter how crooked a hook is, I can straighten it into the straightest shape possible in my hands."

"..." Ruolan's mouth twitched. She always felt that He Chen was implying something. Fortunately, Zhong Bai urged her to hurry up and start the game, so she didn't continue to associate it with anything.

They thought it would be an extremely exciting game, but soon Zhong Bai and the others felt bored.

Because when he lifted it up, it was empty and he didn't catch any fish.

This is why many people like basketball but not football, it doesn’t score goals!
"The environment in the countryside is still better. Look how blue the sky is!" Zhong Bai stared at the water surface feeling a little bored. He looked up at the sky, sighed, then let out a light exclamation and asked curiously.

"Ruolan, is this how you got your name?"

"No." Ruolan held the fishing rod and said casually, "It's a pen name!"

Compared to Zhong Bai who gave up quickly due to boredom, she still wanted to win the competition and then get He Chen to promise her something.

After all, opportunities are rare and the advantage lies with her!
"I know it's a pen name. I mean, did the inspiration for the pen name come from the blue sky and white clouds?" Zhong Bai said excitedly, "If so, we are destined to be together! You are the blue sky, and I am the white cloud! We have become good friends under this blue sky and white clouds! By the way, what is your real name?"

"I just picked it randomly." Ruolan sighed softly, and seeing that Zhong Bai seemed to want to ask more, she quickly covered up and said, "Actually, I have used many pen names like this. It's normal for us writers to have many pen names. Sometimes I really can't remember why I chose them that way." "He Chen, what are you laughing at? Do you know?" Zhong Bai was not satisfied with Ruolan's answer, especially because she felt that there was a lot of gossip in Ruolan's sigh. But Ruolan clearly didn't want to talk more, and she had no choice. Seeing He Chen laughing, she immediately placed her hope of breaking the deadlock on He Chen.

"I was laughing because Ruolan was right." He Chen naturally couldn't tell the real reason why he was laughing, so he explained casually.

“Everyone should know that novelists are like this, for example, Lu Xun has more than 180 pen names.

This is just what we know.

There are still many who don’t know!

Do you know what each pen name means?

A lot of times, I just take it casually.”

What he was actually laughing at was that Zhong Bai saw the blue sky and thought it was very blue, so he thought that the name Ruolan was inspired by this. Then what about the name Zhong Bai?

Did I see a very white clock?

If it's true, He Chen thinks Zhong Bai is indeed a very good pen name, and it's the kind he particularly likes...

"That's true." Zhong Bai thought it made sense after hearing it. After all, anything related to writers seemed reasonable, so she quickly put aside the question and continued gossiping.

"So, Ruolan, how many pen names have you used? What are they?"

Ruolan was obviously hesitant, but under Zhong Bai's pleading, she felt that if she didn't tell Zhong Bai, he would not let her go, and maybe he would even turn the topic back to how he came up with the pen name Ruolan.

After all, if she didn't have many pen names, then the pen name Ruolan must have a deep meaning, at least that's what it should mean to her in the eyes of outsiders.

And this is indeed the case.

So she thought about it and finally said one: "There are many, such as Rumei."

"Like a rose?" Zhong Bai praised it upon hearing it: "I know this. Is it as gorgeous as a rose?"

"I guess so." Ruo Lan was startled when she heard Zhong Bai say that. She lowered her head to look at the fishing float on the water to hide the complicated look on her face. Then she stared blankly at her face blurred in the water. She heard Zhong Bai's praise in her ears, 'What a good pen name. It really suits you. Only a beautiful person like you can use Rose as a name.' She sighed again in her heart and opened her mouth, but finally swallowed the self-deprecating words 'White roses are not as good as real roses, white roses are not as good as red roses'.

Just when she was feeling complicated, she saw the float move. She suddenly lifted the fishing rod and saw a palm-sized crucian carp hanging on the hook. It was still jumping around in the air, hooked by the fishing line. This made her quite excited.

Zhong Bai, who was standing next to her, cheered for her: "Ruolan, you caught a fish, you win!"

The two women took the fish down happily.

Specifically, Ruo Lan moved the fish horizontally to her side, put it down, let Zhong Bai go up, grab the still jumping fish, and then take out the hook.

"He Chen, do you admit defeat?" Ruo Lan temporarily suppressed the extremely complicated emotions aroused by the name, and looked at He Chen with joy and pride.

Only then did she truly feel that although the room was shabby this time, it was really quite interesting and different from her previous life.

"How do you know I caught a fish too?" Seeing that she caught a fish, He Chen stopped playing with her and uttered the classic Versailles rhetoric of a fisherman. He shook the fishing rod, and the fishing line floated up. A big grass carp rushed out of the water, causing Zhong Bai to exclaim again.

However, just when Ruolan was still thinking that fish should not be compared only in size but also in order, something even more shocking happened.

He Chen didn't just catch this one fish; this fish was just a signal. He then caught six more big grass carps in a row.

What astonished her even more was that these seven grass carps were almost the same size and identical, which made her think, "It's incredible, could it be God's will?"

(End of this chapter)