I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

She subconsciously turned around and took another look at the house.

Living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms of the male and female homeowners, nursery, balcony.

You shouldn't be able to find a room that's habitable anywhere else.

"Please don't get agitated, I never meant that."

Even though she had anticipated her mother's reaction before coming, Shen Nianqiu still felt a subtle sense of shame about "not airing her dirty laundry in public," probably because there was an unsuspecting outsider present. However, her gaze immediately hardened again.

"What I've said is very clear. This may be the last time I call you Mom. Since Mom and Dad both like my little brother so much, why don't you continue being a family of three?"

Having finally gleaned some meaning from Shen Nianqiu's speech, Yang Suling frowned and loudly reprimanded him:

"Where are you going? We've fed you, provided you with food, drink, and sent you to school for so many years, and you just want to say it all in one sentence?"

"I won't go anywhere. I'll still go to school, study, and take the college entrance exam. But that won't have anything to do with you anymore. As for the child support over the past ten years, I'll make up for it once I have a stable income. That's all."

To be honest, before facing Yang Suling today, Shen Nianqiu had thought countless times about how she would talk to her, whether there would be a conflict, or even a fight. She had thought about all of these things and considered how to deal with them.

But when she and Yang Suling actually had their first and last conversation in their lives, Shen Nianqiu felt a sense of calm she had never experienced before.

More accurately, I even felt a bit bored and wanted it to end quickly.

...I want to get back to Chen Junqian's side as soon as possible and spend the New Year with him in Guoning.

"How dare you talk to your mother like that? You have no manners! Are you dating someone outside? You're always hiding in school, not to study, are you? You're such a bad kid."

Shen Nianqiu showed no anger at Yang Suling's angry accusations; instead, she readily admitted to them.

"Yes, I'm in a relationship, but he's probably meeting with my dad right now, though we're talking about the same thing."

Coincidentally, just as Shen Nianqiu finished speaking, Yang Suling's phone rang. She hurriedly picked it up and saw that it was indeed a message from her husband. The meaning was quite clear: if Shen Nianqiu came to her door, she should simply agree to all of her demands.

Otherwise, their family really wouldn't be able to find anyone who could work and earn money.

In fact, it's hard to say that Shen Jian didn't have any issues with Yang Suling. After all, he had witnessed all the mess she had made since she became pregnant last year. If it weren't for the sake of the child, he definitely wouldn't have been able to tolerate Yang Suling quitting her job and staying at home lying down, having to hire a nanny to take care of her.

That is why his message was written in a rather irritable tone, as if he had been angered by Chen Junqian and had nowhere else to vent his anger, so he took it out on Yang Suling.

If things had been like this before, Yang Suling would naturally have taken her anger out on Shen Nianqiu due to the "kicking the cat" effect, but now, that's completely impossible.

Upon realizing this, Yang Suling's face turned pale and then red, as if she was trying hard to force a smile to ease the tense atmosphere on the field, but Shen Nianqiu herself had no patience to stay there any longer.

“I hope Mom will have a good life in the future, just as you expect me to have a good life.”

"Well then, goodbye, Mom."

After saying those last two sentences, Shen Nianqiu turned around without hesitation, bidding farewell to the home and mother she had nominally lived in for seventeen years without a trace of lingering affection. She didn't even glance at her infant brother, nor did she give him any further chance to play the emotional card.

Only after Shen Nianqiu's figure completely disappeared did all the sounds from the outside world reach Yang Suling's ears again. She suddenly felt irritated, grabbed her hair hard, and stormed into her room, slamming the door shut behind her.

The baby, who had just quieted down, was startled by the sudden noise and started crying again.

The hired nanny frowned and began to soothe her gently again, then glanced into the room.

The baby won't remember anything, of course, but she's already an adult.

"...It feels like it's not as good as the ending I wrote in my book in any way."

After listening to Chen Junqian and Shen Nianqiu's stories, Zhu Wenyun, sitting at her desk, initially shook her head in slight boredom, but immediately gave her two friends a genuine smile:

"However, it's the best outcome that it was resolved so smoothly in reality. Congratulations to you both. It feels like this matter can be put to rest for now."

"Yes, but I will continue to keep an eye on things, and we must always have backup plans for Wen Yun."

After bringing Shen Nianqiu back to Guoning, Chen Junqian first took her to visit Zhu Wenyun. The two also took the opportunity to briefly chat with Zhu Wenyun about the end of their trip to Lin'an.

"Speaking of which, what's it like to pretend to be boyfriend and girlfriend in real life?"

Faced with her friend's teasing, Shen Nianqiu subconsciously thought of what she had once told her, "You can be my younger brother's girlfriend," so her tone was also somewhat ambiguous:

"This can't be called pretending, it should be called false claiming? In fact, only a few people know this, and they have never even seen me and my brother together."

"It's not that only a few people know. Maybe not many people know about my sister, but I'm playing the role of a rich second-generation who stands up for his girlfriend. Those older men will probably brag about it to our company when they're drinking, and then it will spread over immediately. But it doesn't have any other impact, since there are a lot of strange rumors about me in the company."

This was the first time Shen Nianqiu had heard of such a thing, and she asked curiously:

"What strange rumors are these, and there are so many of them?"

"Well, when you have time, you can ask your sister yourself... Let me think, Lin Guo, she should know the most. Let's ask Yun first, I'll go now. I'll settle my sister in first, and then we'll all get together for a meal to welcome her back later."

After waving goodbye to Zhu Wenyun, Chen Junqian took Shen Nianqiu downstairs, intending to take her to his new home.

It was at this time that a package from Shanghai was delivered all the way to the post office in Guoning.

The postman who took the package glanced at the address on it:

"The staff dormitory of Guoning Phoenix Wear-resistant Materials Co., Ltd...wasn't that place demolished a long time ago?"

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Chapter 52: The Miracle Between Us (5k)

As a local courier, he knew very well the old employee dormitory of Phoenix Wear-resistant Materials Co., Ltd., which was actually the area where the wear-resistant factory's dormitory building was located. However, that area had been leveled and developed two years ago, and other companies' factories had already been built there. For a moment, he even wondered if the sender had sent the package to the wrong place.

When the deliveryman made the call, it turned out to be a disconnected number, leaving him even more confused.

However, he thought again that although the old tenement buildings had been completely demolished, Phoenix Wear-resistant Materials Co., Ltd. was still there. Since the package was sent to the wear-resistant factory, the recipient named Shen Nianqiu must be an employee of the factory. In that case, he could just send the package to the factory's courier office and let their staff contact them.

With that in mind, the courier set off on his electric tricycle, taking the package along with the one destined for that area with him.

It's the last few days before the Lunar New Year, and courier services will stop operating in a day or two. But perhaps because of this, there are an unusually large number of people sending packages during these last two days. After rushing to the wear-resistant factory, the courier dropped off all the packages there and forgot to tell the staff before riding away on his electric tricycle.

It was at this moment that the eldest daughter of a certain chairman happened to arrive.

Xu Youwei came to pick up a package for Xu Zhiling. Xu Zhiling said that it contained New Year's gifts for her and her sister, so she came to run an errand for her father. When she arrived, she saw the staff sorting packages looking at one of the packages with a puzzled expression. They were looking at the information on the package and their phones at the same time, as if they were searching for something.

"Aunt Wang, what's wrong?"

"Youwei, are you here to help Chairman Xu pick up a package? Look, it's over there. I picked it out for you in advance. I came across a package with a recipient I can't reach by phone, and the address she filled in is our old employee dormitory. Wasn't that place demolished a long time ago?"

"Huh? Is that so? Let me see."

Curious, Xu Youwei leaned over to take a look. She immediately glanced at the mailing address and was shocked, her eyes widening in surprise.

The deliveryman and the staff here obviously couldn't recognize the address number, but that place was all too familiar to Xu Youwei. In a sense, she had spent almost as much time there as Chen Junqian's family, and two of the walls from that place were even still in her new home.

"Isn't this Qinqin's old home? Who sent this package?"

As she said this, Xu Youwei looked up at the recipient's section, then paused, stunned, because it also listed a name she knew all too well:

"Shen Nianqiu? Doesn't she live in Lin'an? And she just came back with Qinqin today, but why is the package sent from Shanghai, and why is this address filled in?"

A series of questions instantly popped into Xu Youwei's head. However, as the first girl to have read all of Zhu Wenyun's novels (not the most complete because Shen Nianqiu had also read many unpublished manuscripts), she immediately thought of a scene from the book "Dear Forever Dear".

The second major chapter of this book is about the male and female protagonists going to Shanghai to participate in the World Expo. Although Xu Youwei tried to get her good friend Lin Mu to feel indignant on her behalf as soon as she saw it, Lin Mu herself frankly stated that the fact that Qianqian spent half of his time with Shen Nianqiu at that time made Youyou, who had never been to the World Expo and had not even spent a single minute of time there, quite depressed.

But that's not the point.

The key point is that Xu Youwei remembers that the female protagonist participated in an event at the EU Pavilion, where she sent a letter to her future self. Considering Zhu Wenyun's consistent writing style and the almost autobiographical tone of this book, Xu Youwei has no doubt that Shen Nianqiu herself did the same thing back then, and then asked Zhu Wenyun to write this into the book.

Although this seems to be the key point, it is not for Hsu Yu-Wei.

The most important point, of course, is that five years after this incident, the letter from the past was actually sent back. Then, just like in Zhu Wenyun's other novels, where a beautiful girl suddenly appears as a stepping stone for the childhood friend character's awakening, she successfully helps the male and female protagonists break through that final barrier. It's truly a cause for celebration!

Congratulations my foot!

Even though it's still unclear why Shen Nianqiu left Qinqin's old home address in reality, and she and Qinqin are no longer in a romantic relationship, Xu Youwei has no intention of playing the role of helping out a guy she likes, even though he's her ex-boyfriend.

And this wasn't just an assist anymore; it was a game-winning shot.

At least that's how it is in the book.

The staff here, of course, had no idea that in such a short time, Xu Youwei had already been thinking of a whole bunch of random things. Seeing that Xu Youwei seemed to recognize the recipient and could immediately recall who the address belonged to, they simply handed the package to her.

"Does Youwei know the recipient? Could you contact her to come and pick up the package?"

"Ahem... I know her, I know her, I'll give her the package myself."

She almost forgot about her original task. After running out the door with the mysterious package for a while, Xu Youwei belatedly realized that she had to come back to pick up her father's package as well. Then, she ran back to her father's chairman's office with both packages in her arms.

"Huh? Why are there two packages? I don't remember asking the store to pack them separately."

Xu Zhiling, who was sitting inside handling official business, was also taken aback when he saw this. Xu Youwei did not explain to him. After returning the other party's package, she immediately sat on the sofa as if facing a formidable enemy and stared blankly at another package placed on the coffee table.

"Is this Youyou's own package? What did she buy? Why was it sent to the factory?"

Although Xu Youwei's relationship with her father had always been somewhat lukewarm due to her mother's situation, they both knew that the other cared about them, and at least on the matter of how to deal with Chen Junqian, they were absolutely on the same side. Therefore, when faced with her father's question, Xu Youwei hesitated for a moment before deciding to answer indirectly, or rather, ask:

"Dad, what do you think of Qinqin?"

"You suddenly brought up that kid. Oh, this isn't the New Year's gift you bought for him, is it? Well, he's doing a good job. He's been receiving gifts since Christmas, and then it's New Year's Day, his birthday, and the Lunar New Year again."

"It's not a New Year's gift..."

"That's a Valentine's Day gift! It's tomorrow, isn't it? So what did I buy? And is this a confession? Can I take pictures? It feels so meaningful."

It has to be said that the only parent in the entire Guoning family who can discuss Valentine's Day gifts and confessions so frankly with a daughter of this age is probably Xu Zhiling. In fact, theoretically, there could be another family, but unfortunately, the childhood sweetheart herself wouldn't take the initiative to bring up such topics.

"...To be honest, it feels more like a gift that someone else gave to Qinqin."

Xu Youwei muttered this listlessly in a low voice, and waved her hand in a bit of annoyance:

"It wasn't something I bought. This is a complicated matter to explain. I should have known better than to help you pick up the package from the courier station. Now I'm the one having to make this choice. To put it simply, it's like another girl asked me to deliver a love letter to Qinqin."

“What’s so troublesome about this? You, Yoyo, what you love to talk about most is how many girls you helped Chen Junqian stop from confessing to you every April Fool’s Day, right? This time, just like before, we can just not hand it over to him. Besides, that kid himself has always been too lazy to get involved in this kind of trouble, because he won’t agree anyway.”

"But this time is different. It's not a confession from a girl that Qinqin doesn't know or understand at all. And if I had to say... I think he would say yes."

As she spoke, Xu Youwei herself lay back like a salted fish. If Chen Junqian hadn't just given her some advice earlier, and if she hadn't been in that lazy state at the beginning of winter break, she would probably be in a completely different mood right now. No, if she were still like that, she probably wouldn't have received this package at all.

"Huh? Are there girls like this? Could it be Lin Mu?"

Without a doubt, even for Xu Zhiling, the first person he could think of who would make Chen Junqian unable to refuse his confession was Lin Mu. This was mainly because he also knew that Lin Mu had a good relationship with his daughter, so he felt closer to the truth. He had already imagined a dramatic love story in his mind: Lin Mu wanted to confess but was too shy, so he asked his daughter for help, which in turn put Youyou in a dilemma.

"It's not Mu Mu, Mu Mu would never do such a thing."

After saying those words unconsciously, Xu Youwei realized with a sense of wanting to cry that she had actually intended for Mu Mu to do this, but now it seemed that even she, as Mu Mu's wingman, didn't trust Lin Mu? She felt utterly doomed.

The thought of Shen Nianqiu using this reply that transcends time, just like Zhu Nianxia in the novel, to unlock her full potential and, a few days later, hold Qinqin's hand and officially announce to her and Lin Mu that they were in a relationship, immediately brought back to Xu Youwei the moment when, faced with the staff's questions, she chose to proactively admit that she knew the recipient and took the package back.

Indeed, I could have simply not told them about the package.

After all, the World Expo was five years ago. Even if Shen Nianqiu had written the letter back then, she probably wasn't sure if she would receive a reply. So even if she didn't receive one in the end, she probably wouldn't think much of it and would just feel that the organizers had failed to do their job.

"If it's not Lin Mu, then it must be that girl named Zhu Wenyun."

On the other side, Xu Zhiling had already proposed the next alternative answer. As we all know, rumors in schools are never just spread within the school. Many times, students will tell their parents about these rumors as topics of conversation after meals.