I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

For Chen Xi herself, she often couldn't quite understand the long passages in Zhu Wenyun's works, which frequently featured family upheavals, the female protagonist's misfortune, and then being saved by the male protagonist, only to discover that the male protagonist also had his own problems, and in the end, the two of them achieved mutual salvation and moved towards a better tomorrow together.

But the readers seemed to like it, and even Chen Junqian himself seemed to like it, which is why she asked her brother that question at that time.

If you asked Zhu Wenyun to provide the material herself and write a proper story, she probably wouldn't be interested. After all, her relationship with Lin Mu is different, and her interactions with her brother often leave outsiders scratching their heads.

Just like the historical anecdote I just mentioned, what Chen Xi likes most is that the other person can respond to her most accurately every time in the field she likes and is best at, instead of like more than ten years later when a historical drama with a serious production scale was finally broadcast, but when she clicked on the barrage, she saw a bunch of messy comments such as "Support our Rong Yin, Coin (Zhao Kuangyin) can conquer everyone but is just like a doting wife in front of Emperor Rong (Guo Rong)" and "My Qian Gu ah ah ah Xiao Jiu (Qian Hongchu) healed his whole life with his childhood", which once again makes people marvel at how Chinese characters can be combined in such a way.

"elder brother."

This should be the most recent post in a while. The last time was the morning when he first discovered that Lin Mu had recorded a wake-up audio for Chen Junqian. The breath of a real person so close to him was indeed more realistic than any high-end recording equipment. As a result, Chen Junqian opened his eyes almost instantly and met his sister's gaze.

"You're up early today?"

"Did my brother not sleep well because he woke up so early?"

It was quite obvious that his younger sister's attitude and tone were at least two levels softer than usual today, which made Chen Junqian feel a little uncomfortable for a moment. However, remembering that his sister was a bit heavier at this time last year, he instinctively reached out and hugged her like a child. But she actually seemed to be trying to break free.

"I'm not a child anymore, I don't want a hug."

"The one who most likes to say they're not a child is the one who is a child."

Chen Junqian hugged his sister even tighter in his arms while patting her head.

It's fair to say that at least half of his achievements related to head pats were earned with his younger sister. He's incredibly skilled at this move. However, today, his sister didn't quickly push his hand away like she usually does, roll her eyes, and say things like, "Why do you like head pats so much?" or "If you keep patting my head, I'll blame you if I don't grow taller." Instead, she just let him keep his hand on her head.

Although it couldn't compare to Gu Linguo next door, who would automatically lean in and rub against his palm while arrogantly saying, "You're having another bout of chuunibyou, aren't you?", this situation was still quite rare for Chen Xi. Chen Junqian didn't want to break the peaceful atmosphere, and it remained like this for quite a while.

Even without formally asking, Chen Junqian already knew the answer to the question he wanted just from seeing Chen Xi's appearance this morning.

Now all that remains is the work of psychological health analysis.

Once again transforming into a private health consultant, Chen Junqian instantly entered (●—●) mode and began to attempt to conduct inquiries through talk therapy.

“When I took my sister home yesterday, she said that she seemed a little unhappy about what I said about you. She couldn’t figure out why, even though I was just praising you.”

"Yes, so it's my problem, not Sister Nianqiu's problem."

After a night, the younger sister, who had suddenly transformed from a victim to a harlot, seemed visibly embarrassed towards Shen Nianqiu. After all, she was her brother's official girlfriend, but he had only held that title for two days, barely had time to warm up, and now she was about to be taken down by Shen Nianqiu with a higher-ranking profession.

The key point is that she actually has a very good relationship with Shen Nianqiu. The three of them even have their own private group chat. Chen Xi herself has shared a lot of vulgar historical jokes that she was too embarrassed to tell Chen Junqian. On the other hand, this has also helped Shen Nianqiu to make progress in her hard work and breakthrough in the achievement of [0721].

"By the way, when is Sister Nianqiu leaving?"

"Although their school is said to start on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, the second half of the year will be for senior high school students, so they should go a couple of days earlier, probably on the eleventh day of the first lunar month. We made plans to go to the movies together on the tenth day of the first lunar month."

"I see."

Considering their past friendship, Chen Xi was unlikely to do something like confronting the other party during the New Year while they were still here. So, he first inquired about the date Shen Nianqiu left Guoning.

After confirming this, the girl took the initiative to reach out and hug the other person back.

If Zhu Wenyun were to write a story for her someday, she would already have a title in mind: "Eternal Happiness, Never Forget Each Other."

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PS2: "Chang Le Wei Yang" comes from the Han Dynasty cultural relic "Chang Le Wei Yang" tile end, and "Chang Wu Xiang Wang" comes from the seal script engraved on the silver belt hook of the tiger tally, a cultural relic from the Dayunshan Han Tomb in Xuyi, Jiangsu. It was a gift from the King of Jiangdu to his concubine. Both phrases are common blessings in the Han Dynasty, roughly meaning "I hope these happy days will never end, and I hope you will never forget me".

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Chapter 62: Unexpected Events Always Come One After Another (Part 2)

Just as Chen Xi had already decided on the name of her future child... cough, I mean the title of Zhu Wenyun's novel, her best friend Gu Lingguo also quietly slipped out of her house, took a bus and headed in a direction she remembered, clutching a key tightly in her hand.

Because of the events that happened at the welcome banquet a few days ago, one after another, and the bombshell news that broke one after another, everyone had their own questions to ponder. Instead, they temporarily ignored the question of where the "house rented by Chen Junqian" that Shen Nianqiu was currently living in was. Only Gu Linguo guessed where the place was right away.

Although she knew long ago that Chen Junqian would never let her know about or occupy the room in such a large house, Gu Linguo still felt quite concerned when she thought that Shen Nianqiu had moved in now, and might even have taken the room next to Shen Nianqiu's that she herself hadn't even tried to take.

If she hadn't been worried that Chen Junqian might have stayed there overnight and she would have run into him, she would have already gone there with the key yesterday. But to her surprise, he didn't stay there and went home obediently. This morning she also heard Chen Xi's footsteps as he came up to open the door, so she could go there to check on things without worry.

Since she had the key to the room, Gu Lingguo wasn't too worried about Shen Nianqiu getting into her room, and she also believed that Shen Nianqiu was unlikely to do such a thing.

Besides, there's really nothing special about her room. The first impression a normal person would have when they walk in is probably just a bunch of cartoon characters, and the clothes (cosplay outfits) in the closet are all over the place. It doesn't feel nearly as impressive as the first thing you see when you visit Xu Youwei's house – a wall covered in cartoon characters.

However, unlike the other three who were completely distracted by Zhu Wenyun during the meal, Gu Linguo could tell that Chen Junqian had indeed confessed his feelings to Shen Nianqiu at that time. The so-called continued pretense of being a girlfriend was just an excuse. Rather than a fake relationship turning into a real one, it was more like a real relationship turning into a fake one.

To be honest, when Chen Junqian took her home on his bicycle after dinner, there was much more she wanted to say to him than that. She considered pretending not to know anything and continuing to get along with him, as well as directly revealing the relationship between the two of them. She even pretended to be confused and told her senior that if you want to become an excellent male protagonist in a romantic comedy, you shouldn't actually fall in love with someone.

After all, there's no one to reply to in real life, and no affection level reset. If you really like someone, it might mean that your senior's chuunibyou symptoms are getting better.

Come to think of it, it's normal that the other person will soon be a high school student and won't be able to accompany her like before to try her best to recreate the scenes of romantic comedies... But Gu Lingguo would never admit it.

That's why she hesitated for a long time before choosing to say those words in a seemingly nonchalant manner, telling the other person that even if his teenage phase was over, hers wouldn't be.

Thinking of this, Gu Linguo, sitting on the bus, couldn't help but sigh again.

Humans are indeed very strange creatures.

She was doing this because she was both hoping that the other person would actually become a blockhead like the male protagonist in a romantic comedy, and at the same time hoping that the other person could understand the various subtle thoughts hidden under her roundabout words and respond to them. It was quite a twisted feeling of 'I don't quite understand, but I want you to understand'.

Just like what she's about to do.

Just the day before yesterday, she was telling Chen Junqian that she was the female lead in a romantic comedy, so she knew it was his personal message and she wouldn't bother him. But today, he took the initiative to come to her door.

Turning his head to the side, the facial features reflected in the window mirror clearly showed a childlike innocence.

There's probably not much difference between 24 and 27 years old, but the difference between 14 and 17 years old is quite obvious. Moreover, Shen Nianqiu is the kind of tall girl with a mature temperament, and she doesn't go through puberty as early as Zhu Wenyun.

But you can still tell she's very cute.

Of course, there are no beauty filters like in anime in real life, and a character's appearance is not determined solely by the artist's or production company's art style. Therefore, it is clear that her gradually developing facial features are quite beautiful, which may be the reason why she can play an anime character with such confidence in front of Chen Junqian.

After all, just like the idioms "Xi Shi holding her heart" and "Dong Shi imitating Xi Shi," the lines and gestures in romantic comedies are inherently quite exaggerated. Gu Linguo, a novice voice actress, is well aware of this, because many well-known voice actors adopt different performance styles when voicing the same characters in animation and live-action films.

Gu Lingguo had actually summarized some tricks that she could replicate in real life. For example, when she accidentally bumped into someone, even if it didn't hurt, she should cover the bumped area and complain softly and continuously, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch." She also learned to use reduplicated words or deliberately prolong her tone when talking to people. And if she did the wink and stick out her tongue properly, it would also be very useful...

There are many ways to highlight cuteness, but the most effective one is to genuinely fall in love with someone. Girls become more adorable when they are in love, and they start to pay more attention to their makeup and appearance. That deep-seated affection makes girls dazzling and irresistible. Almost every romantic comedy episode portrays this feeling.

But maybe the same goes for boys.

Gu Lingguo herself also felt that Chen Junqian had become more attractive recently. Just by listening to his stories about going to Lin'an, she could almost imagine what the scene was like by combining it with her own experience.

very nice.

The only pity is that she is not just an audience member who cheers for the story from the sidelines, but also a female protagonist in the story who doesn't know when her next personal episode will be.

That's why she took the initiative to come to my door today.

I realized this once again, even though this was the last thing I should expose to that person.

...She's definitely not a girl from the world of anime and manga.

"Okay, now it's time to get up. My parents will be getting up soon."

After letting his sister lie on him for several more minutes, Chen Junqian finally spoke, and then sat up straight on the bed, picked up the sweater from the bedside table next to him, and put it on.

"Actually, Xiaoxi doesn't need to care too much about whether others know that you are not my biological sister. My sister and Wenjun already know."

"Huh? How did they know? Did my brother tell them?"

"My sister's side of the story is because my chat history with her from a few years ago was dug up again. Wen Yun deduced it herself. She thinks that if you were really my biological sister, I definitely wouldn't treat you this way."

What's your relationship dynamic?

Upon hearing this, Chen Xi merely furrowed her delicate brows slightly and asked in a puzzled tone:

Is there something wrong with the way we interact?

“Normally, siblings would not interact like this.”

"But most of us in this generation are only children. However, a couple of years ago, the two-child policy was relaxed, and many of my classmates suddenly had younger siblings who were more than ten years younger than them. Their way of getting along is indeed different from ours."

It's safe to say that she truly deserves to be the system's chosen female lead with the highest adaptability to initial romantic comedies. Chen Junqian discovered that his younger sister's personality still had a touch of naiveté, but he didn't intend to continue on that topic and instead asked:

"Xiaoxi, what do you think of our current way of getting along?"

"It's fine, I've gotten used to it, but I guess I should change things up a bit..."

Perhaps thinking that she had gone from being a younger sister to being betrothed to someone she had married in childhood, Chen Xi's voice grew softer and softer as she spoke. Suddenly, she felt it was necessary to talk to her best friend Gu Lingguo about it again.

After all, although the other person's dating experience seemed unreliable no matter how you looked at it, Chen Junqian always seemed to enjoy it. For example, strange nicknames like "Onii-chan" were very useful, at least better than her being a blank slate.

Thinking this, Chen Xi took her leave and prepared to go back and change her clothes before chatting with Gu Lingguo.

After saying "See you tomorrow" to his sister, Chen Junqian also got up, went to the sink to brush his teeth and wash his face. Today is the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the day after tomorrow is New Year's Eve. Shen Nianqiu will also go back to her grandmother's house in the countryside with him at that time.

Last year, my sister went back to her house in Yunqi Jinyuan to sleep on New Year's Eve. But this year, her boyfriend is coming to our house as her girlfriend, so it wouldn't be right to let her go to the city to sleep in the middle of the night. However, his family probably wouldn't be so carefree as to let Shen Nianqiu sleep with him directly. So, the most likely outcome is that he will sleep in one room by himself, while Shen Nianqiu and Chen Xi will sleep in another room.

But all I can say is that a certain classmate, Youyou, has already proven one thing with that shining "Night Raid! Night Raid!" achievement: where I sleep at the beginning doesn't mean where I'll sleep in the end. Maybe in the middle of the night, a sister saying "Of course boyfriends and girlfriends should sleep together" and a sister saying "I've always slept in this bed and automatically went back to my original bed after using the bathroom" will randomly appear.

Then, as usual, on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, I went to Xu Youwei's house with my dad. In the afternoon, we went to Lin Mu's hometown to celebrate the New Year. Before I knew it, it had been two years since I last went there for the New Year. It really made me feel like time had passed by too quickly.

Just as Chen Junqian was thinking about Mu Mu, his phone, which was in his pocket, chimed. Someone had sent him a message. He took it out, turned on the screen, and saw that it was indeed a message from Lin Mu:

"Qianqianqianqian—shall we bring Weiwei up to the mountain to celebrate the New Year this year?"

"Mumu says this every year, but Youyou always disagrees."

It's even less likely that they'll agree this year.

After all, the other party is trying to find a way to bring us together.

Of course, Chen Junqian couldn't say those two sentences to Lin Mu, so he just muttered it to himself. Then he saw that the other party replied at lightning speed, even attaching a Xu Youwei version of the 'Full of Confidence.JPG' emoji. He could practically see the other party's smug look through the screen.

"Don't worry about this, Qianqian. Weiwei will definitely be willing to go to the mountain with us for the New Year this year."

"Is Mumu really that confident?"

"Because I have a reason that she absolutely cannot refuse, and it took me a long time to find it, Qianqian, look."

Along with the message came a picture. When Chen Junqian opened it, he saw a large bag of fireworks and firecrackers, all of the kinds they used to play with as kids.

“I’ve already inquired. Although fireworks and firecrackers are banned now, it’s not strictly prohibited in all areas. It’s definitely not allowed in the city, and Qianqian’s hometown in the countryside is also under the control. But my hometown is in the mountains, which is even more remote. Just two miles to the west, there’s a place where we can set off firecrackers, and nobody cares. My grandparents set off their New Year’s Eve fireworks there two years ago.”

“Isn’t Weiwei’s favorite thing to do? I remember she used to visit you in the countryside every year, so if we invite her to come along this time, she definitely won’t be able to refuse. I’ll just tell her, ‘If Weiwei doesn’t come, then it’ll just be Qianqian and me playing.’ I don’t believe she won’t come then.”

It's no wonder they've been good friends for so many years. Although Lin Mu herself didn't seem to realize it, Chen Junqian couldn't help but chuckle when he saw what she said.

To be honest, it wouldn't be a big deal if it were anything else, since he'd spent the New Year alone at Lin Mu's place before. But Xu Youwei definitely believed that her best friend wouldn't do something as despicable as a "night raid!" In fact, she probably wished she could take the lead and personally make Mu Mu do such a thing.

However, just like the wall in Xu Youwei's house, setting off fireworks does have a rather special meaning for Youyou. This can be seen from the fact that all the achievements related to the fireworks festival in Chen Junqian's mind were triggered by her. So, as Lin Mu said, this might really be something that Xu Youwei can't refuse.

"I think it's a good idea, Mu Mu, why don't you go ask her?"

"Mmm! Actually, I've always wanted to set off fireworks with Qianqian, I'm so, so, so excited—"

After ending his conversation with Lin Mu, Chen Junqian keenly noticed a sudden flash of a certain achievement in his mind, like a prompt or a warning.

Of course, some people will get lost at the test of courage event.