I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

Thus, the three-stage achievement titled "Campus Star" was fully unlocked and achieved.

Meanwhile, the winter break of 2015 arrived as scheduled.

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PS2: The latter half of this chapter contains things that I actually did and accomplished, and they are still very memorable to this day.

PS3: Here's the cover image, a modified version of Mu Mu using AI.

Chapter 40: A Love Triangle? Really? (5k)

On the second day of winter vacation, Chen Junqian got up early. After Chen Xi woke him up, he went back to sleep in a daze. He quickly finished washing up, had a quick breakfast at a breakfast stall outside, and then pushed his bicycle out of the shed and rode out of the gate of the community in a few steps.

His task today was to go to school to help the homeroom teacher with the follow-up work after the final exams, which included sorting and classifying the papers that had been graded by the whole grade, finding the papers from his own class and recording the scores, etc. In fact, this was not his job in previous years, mainly because the class monitor, Lu Cheng, was always too eager to improve and took on all these tasks. But this year, he was personally selected by the homeroom teacher.

As for the reason, it's not hard to guess. After all, when Chen Junqian led the rebellion in the grade, he didn't deliberately try to hide it or act secretly. Although the school was quickly forced to cancel the winter break make-up classes due to public pressure, it was still easy to find out who was in charge. Being called over to work overtime this time is just a small punishment. After all, they can't really do anything to him, the top student in the grade who has brought glory to the school.

However, Chen Junqian didn't go alone today. His homeroom teacher said he could bring someone to help, so he also invited Lin Mu along. The main reason was that Youyou wasn't in his class, and it felt awkward to ask a student from another class to help with the task of transcribing the grades for his own class. Moreover, Xu Youwei herself wanted to see her grades later, so no matter how she did, Chen Junqian and Lin Mu, who had seen the grades in advance, didn't need to tell her.

It can only be said that Xu Youwei was indeed tormented by her academic performance after entering the third year of junior high school. She herself is the kind of person who is very playful, but she is also very clear about this. So she has been trying her best not to give up and is determined to persevere until the end of the high school entrance examination and be successfully admitted to the senior high school of Guoning Middle School.

From this perspective, it could be said that the other party was the earliest candidate to prepare for the summer after the middle school entrance exam this year. In terms of mentality, she was actually not as good as her best friend Lin Mu. So much so that Chen Junqian sometimes worried that something unexpected might happen in the following semester. After all, he had seen too many cases in his previous life of stretching his mind to the limit and then snapping and collapsing.

Although Xu Youwei's last resort was to buy her way into the senior high school of Guoning Middle School, Chen Junqian still felt that it would be best to get in through the regular entrance exam, even if it was just a regular class, because of the huge news that their class of 'Class 17' had caused in the end.

Thinking this, he rode his bicycle to Lin Mu's house. The wheels came to a sudden stop at the foot of the residential building, making a soft hissing sound. Chen Junqian stood up and stopped the bicycle steadily. He took out his phone to check the time, sent a message, and then rang the clear bell on the handlebars towards the familiar window on the third floor.

"Ding-ling-ling—"

Less than two minutes later, hurried footsteps echoed in the stairwell, and the unit door was quickly pushed open, with a girl wrapped up like a white glutinous rice ball rushing out.

"So cold, so cold, so cold, I'm dead!"

Lin Mu hunched her shoulders and buried half her face in the beige hand-knitted scarf, revealing only her clear, doe-like eyes and her slightly red nose. Today, she was wearing a snow-white long down jacket and holding two steaming thermos cups in her hands.

"Qianqian, you're here so early? I thought you'd sleep in since it's a holiday. Here, my mom asked me to bring you some soy milk. She got up early to make it herself with a soy milk maker and added red dates."

As she spoke, Lin Mu ran to the car and shoved one of the thermos cups into Chen Junqian's hand, her voice still carrying a hint of sleepiness.

Chen Junqian took the thermos, feeling the warmth from his palm. He opened the lid and took a sip. The rich sweetness spread across his tongue, warming him up a bit. Watching his childhood sweetheart, who was struggling to get onto the back of his bicycle because of her bulky clothes, a smile involuntarily crept onto his lips.

"There's nothing I can do, Lao Wang just wants me to go early. Also, who was it that confidently declared on QQ yesterday, 'I'm definitely willing to sacrifice my holiday time to go with Qianqian to be punished'?"

"That's what they say... but it feels weird to have to go to school during the holidays."

Lin Mu, having finally climbed onto the back of Chen Junqian's bicycle, first handed him her thermos, hanging it securely in the front, and then expertly grabbed the pockets on both sides of his down jacket with both hands:

"Alright, let's go, Qianqian."

"Hold on tight."

Chen Junqian agreed, put his feet on the ground, and the bicycle started moving steadily again.

A cold wind howled and rushed towards them, but Chen Junqian's broad back almost blocked all the cold wind. Lin Mu huddled behind him, watching the sycamore trees rushing past on both sides of the road. His drowsiness was blown away by the wind.

"Hey, Qianqian."

Lin Mu's voice sounded somewhat faint in the wind.

"What's wrong?"

"Do you think Teacher Wang will give you a hard time today? After all, you caused all the teachers in the school to lose more than half a month's worth of tutoring fees, and you also ruined the school leaders' grand plan."

Speaking of this, Chen Junqian casually repeated the explanation he had given Zhong Yu before, and then comforted her with another remark:

"It's okay. Besides, the holiday is already over, and what's done is done. Furthermore, if the school really wants to punish me, everyone in the grade will stand up for me. Who doesn't want a holiday?"

"Yes, yes, our great hero Chen. But you actually kept those things from me at the end of last month. If it weren't for the announcement on the loudspeaker that the make-up classes were canceled, and the boys in our class practically worshipped you, I wouldn't have known about it at all. Lin Guo even knew before me. She's not even in our grade, is she?"

"But people did help. As for why I didn't tell Mu Mu, it's because I always felt that you weren't that opposed to tutoring?"

Chen Junqian naturally couldn't bring himself to quote Zhong Yu's exact words, "Lin Mu's voice sounds too childish," so he made up a reason on the spot. Lin Mu himself tilted his head thoughtfully upon hearing this.

"That makes sense. After all, I have to go to tutoring classes during my holidays. If I take tutoring classes at school, at least I can see Qianqian and Weiwei every day and chat with them during breaks."

Hearing Lin Mu mention tutoring classes, Chen Junqian also felt a bit emotional. Mainly because he had never attended any tutoring classes since his rebirth, and it was obvious that he would not enroll in any in the future. This situation was extremely rare among middle school students in China. The key reason was that if the protagonist of this romantic comedy had to spend weekends and holidays in tutoring classes, then there would be no point in starting the romantic comedy.

However, for someone like Lin Mu who is constantly attending cram schools, the chances of seeing his childhood sweetheart on weekends are actually less than when they were in school, which is something that can't be helped.

"But tutoring classes are always more flexible than regular school classes. If Mumu really wants to chat with me or Youyou, she can just send us a message. I should be free this winter break, right?"

"Wow, even Qianqian himself sounded uncertain."

"Because my schedule is often uncertain, maybe tomorrow Lin Guo will drag me to record a video, the day after tomorrow my sister will say she's going on winter break and we can meet up, and I'll also ask about Yun's new book. Oh right, I remember her new book is going to be released today. Maybe we can buy it at the bookstore after we register our grades."

"Hmm, it's today? I'm so excited!"

"Are you so excited because Wenyun said one of the female leads is based on Mumu?"

"Hmm, that's part of the reason, but the idea of ​​a prototype sounds weird. Wenyun said that the character's past experiences were just based on what happened between me and Qianqian. She's been wanting me to lend her her greeting cards and diary because of this, but I can't let her see them, it's too embarrassing."

"really."

"Besides, I think Wenyun's writing is definitely better than mine. Maybe the content she writes on this topic will be even more moving to readers than mine..."

"There's no need to compare these things. She's writing for the readers, and you're writing for me."

"……Um."

Riding his bicycle with Lin Mu, he entered the school. Each class had people coming over to copy the scores. Although it wasn't as lively as usual, it was still quite bustling. People were flipping through stacks of papers to find their own or familiar papers, and the exclamations and Versailles-like reactions upon seeing the results made for a rather lively scene.

Walking to the office on his class's floor, Chen Junqian found his class teacher, Ms. Wang, already sorting through the exam papers. He knocked and casually said "Report," only to be met with a glare and a teasing remark, "Here comes Chen, the great hero!" Then, Lin Mu, who had been standing obediently behind Chen Junqian, peeked out and sweetly greeted Ms. Wang, "Hello, Ms. Wang." Ms. Wang's expression instantly underwent a dramatic change, transforming into a warm, benevolent smile.

"Oh, Lin Mu is here too! Come in, come in! It must be cold outside, right? Look at you, you even made a special trip to help out, unlike some people who you can't even get rid of by asking."

Chen Junqian watched from the side and couldn't help but grimace:

"This discrimination is too obvious... I protest, this is sexism."

Lin Mu suppressed a laugh as she walked in, untying her scarf as she helped organize the exam papers:

"It's alright. Qianqian actually arrived quite early. He came to pick me up from my house, which is why I was a little late."

"That's true, otherwise I would have come here long ago."

Chen Junqian handed half of the answer sheets from the Chinese language exam to Lin Mu, his tone filled with familiar intimacy.

"Let's pick out the students from our class first. Then you'll be in charge of reading out the scores, and I'll be in charge of registering them on the computer. We can't let someone like you, who doesn't even understand the basic functions of a Word document, be using the computer."

"No, no, I already know how to sort data by size in one click."

"hehe."

Seeing the two people already chatting and laughing in front of him, Teacher Wang first pretended to be serious and tapped the table, then straightened his expression and looked at Chen Junqian, saying:

"Alright, alright, stop flirting here. Junqian, I called you here not only for work, but also for something important to put a tight rein on you."

Chen Junqian paused in sorting the papers, then looked up and answered:

"Yes, please go ahead."

"It's February now. After the winter break, it will be March. The selection exam for the special admission class of Ningzhong High School will start after May 1st. If you pass, you will be admitted to the special admission class in advance. Every year, the school will promote it to Jinzhong. In previous years, we had more than 30 places and they had more than 10. But every year, our school ranked first in the city. This year, you have to keep this position. That's what the school wants."

As the best class in the best high school in Guoning, a small county that places great importance on education, Ningzhong's special admission class is basically home to the most elite group of top students in the city. Once you get in, you're guaranteed admission to 211 or 985 universities. Every year, the top scorers in the city's and even the province's college entrance examinations come from there. Therefore, for Ningzhong and Jinzhong, in terms of college entrance examination pass rates, in addition to the general high school admission rate, the special admission class admission rate is also of great importance.

"I know."

Chen Junqian nodded, abandoning his previous nonchalance, and seriously agreed.

"Good to know. I've already seen the final exam results. You're still first in the grade. Everyone thinks you're definitely going to Tsinghua or Peking University. Guo Ning went to Peking University eight years ago."

"Old Wang, I haven't even taken the high school entrance exam yet. Why don't you mention that there's someone next door who won first prize in the New Concept Writing Competition? That really does give you extra points."

"You mean Zhu Wenyun? She'll be in the special admissions class at Ningzhong High School, so you two could be classmates and save yourselves from having to run back and forth like this."

When Teacher Wang got to this point, Lin Mu, who had been squatting down next to her organizing the test papers, also had a slightly unfocused look in her eyes, and her hands paused for a moment.

After saying all this, Teacher Wang considered his task complete. Looking at his proud student's confident demeanor, though he didn't say it aloud, his eyes were full of satisfaction. He picked up the thermos on the table and shook it.

"Alright, you two check the scores here first. I'm going to the administration office next door to get some hot water. While you're at it, you two also sort out the papers for Class 4 next door. Be careful and don't make any mistakes."

"Understood, teacher."

As soon as Teacher Wang closed the door, the large office fell silent, with only the occasional soft sound of water flowing from the heating pipes and the rustling of the two turning over papers.

As time passed, the sunlight outside the window gradually shifted its angle, becoming softer and full of a dusty texture. After sorting the test papers, Chen Junqian and Lin Mu quickly began to report the scores and register them according to their previous division of labor, working together quite well.

"Zhang Wei, 93 in Chinese..."

"Wang Xiaoli, Chinese language score 88..."

The two worked together seamlessly. As soon as Lin Mu announced a name and score, Chen Junqian's slender fingers had already finished typing on the keyboard.

After working for a few minutes, Lin Mu suddenly stopped talking again. She was holding a neatly written answer sheet and began to look at it from top to bottom.

"You saw yours?"

Chen Junqian stopped what he was doing and turned his head to look at her.

Lin Mu's lips curled into a handsome smile as he handed the test paper to Chen Junqian:

"It was seven or eight points higher than I expected. It's really hard to estimate a score in Chinese."

"Of course! Wen Yun, a first-prize winner in the New Concept Writing Competition and a well-known novelist, has only ever passed a Chinese composition. Yu Hua himself has also complained that he couldn't get full marks in his novel reading comprehension either."

"Yes, yes, keep going, I feel like the ranking has definitely improved this time."

Urged on by Lin Mu, Chen Junqian quickly entered all the scores of the students in the class into the computer. Then, under her slightly nervous gaze, he pressed the sorting button, and Lin Mu's name was quickly placed in the top half of the list.

"Thirteenth place! But the grade rankings haven't come out yet..."

"Based on past practice, there should be at least three hundred people, probably around two hundred and ninety."

As they were talking, the person in charge of transcribing scores from Class 4, who was sitting at the desk next to them, had also finished recording all the scores for their class. Chen Junqian then went over and asked someone to take a look at Xu Youwei's total score.

"It's alright. Youyou's class ranking is about the same as last time, and her grade ranking shouldn't change much either. You should have a good New Year. As for your total score, it's seventeen points lower than Mumu's."

"That's good."

Lin Mu was genuinely happy for her best friend's stable grades. She didn't know when it started, but she gradually became able to accept the fact that her friend's grades were now better than Weiwei's, even though for a long time before, Weiwei was the one who was better at studying.

Just then, Teacher Wang, who had supposedly gone to get water but hadn't quite found out where, walked back in. Looking at the neatly arranged table on the screen, she noticed Lin Mu's improved total score and ranking, and nodded with considerable satisfaction.

"Lin Mu has made great progress this time. You two are quite efficient. Alright, now that you're done, you two can go back first."

Upon hearing this, the two bowed and quickly left the office, taking their exam papers and answer sheets with them. They then headed straight for the bookstore near the school gate, where they immediately spotted Zhu Wenyun's new book on the promotional shelf.