I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

Standing on high ground, Chen Junqian could see perfectly clearly from above that the girl's eyes were filled with longing for him, and he couldn't help but chuckle softly.

"Don't worry, this ladder is sturdy. Besides, with Nianqiu holding it for me, how could I possibly fall?"

"If you fall, I won't be able to catch you."

Shen Nianqiu's cheeks flushed slightly at the teasing remark. After Chen Junqian took his place, she cut several pieces of transparent tape to the appropriate length and handed them to him, then stood on tiptoe to give them to him.

"Here you go, make sure it's stuck on properly."

"Whether it's legitimate or not, you'll have to keep an eye on it for me."

Chen Junqian took the tape, carefully affixed the Spring Festival couplets he was holding to the door frame, then stepped back slightly and turned his head to ask the person below:

"Sister, check if it's tilted?"

"Junqian, move a little more to the right...yes, just a little higher...okay! That's it!"

Shen Nianqiu took two steps back, gesturing carefully with her hands. Watching the bright red couplets sticking neatly to the door frame in the wind, she couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

Chen Junqian jumped down from the ladder, dusted off his hands, and looked at Shen Nianqiu's nose, which was a little red from standing outside for a while. He naturally reached out and gently warmed it with his hand.

Why are your hands so hot?

"Perhaps it's because my heart feels warm?"

Chen Junqian certainly wouldn't say that it's just basic for the male protagonist of a romantic comedy to have a pair of warm hands in winter. In fact, if he wanted to, he could also make them ice cold in a second. After all, some romantic comedy scenes require the female lead to play the role of warming hands and souls. But right now, a warm breath is definitely better.

So instead of restraining himself, he naturally took Shen Nianqiu's slightly cool hand into his own, lowered his head and rubbed her soft hand against his, then opened the pocket of his down jacket and put both of their hands inside to warm them.

In the cramped pocket, their fingers intertwined tightly. Shen Nianqiu let Chen Junqian do as he pleased, only lowering her head slightly, letting the warmth spread from her fingertips to her heart, her eyes filled with undisguised sweetness.

It can only be said that Chen Xi was not there at this time. Every year on New Year's Eve, she would go to her grandparents' house for the New Year, and only come to Chen Junqian's place for dinner and then stay overnight. So for a while, this place completely became a private world for Chen Junqian and Shen Nianqiu. Even if other family members passed by, they would not find their intimate behavior strange at all.

When one of the younger sisters finally arrived after a long journey, it was almost time for the New Year's Eve dinner to begin. This year, Chen Junqian also took the initiative to participate in the preparation of the New Year's Eve dinner, personally making two of Shen Nianqiu's favorite dishes.

Once at the dinner table, Chen Junqian's attention was almost entirely focused on his sister.

Knowing that Shen Nianqiu, as his girlfriend, would inevitably be subjected to a barrage of food being served to her by his elders, Chen Junqian took the initiative to assume that role. He placed the fish he was looking at aside, and carefully removed every bone from the tenderest part of the fish he was eating before placing it on Shen Nianqiu's plate. When he saw Shen Nianqiu's gaze linger on the braised prawns for a moment, he would also silently wash his hands and peel several prawns for her, arranging the glistening prawn meat neatly around her bowl.

"Eat some yourself, don't always think about me."

Shen Nianqiu gently touched Chen Junqian's knee under the table, leaned closer to him, and whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear:

"My uncles, aunts, and Xiaoxi are all watching, I feel so embarrassed."

Chen Junqian turned his head, looking at the girl's slightly flushed cheeks, which were only inches away from his, a smile flashing in his eyes, and answered in a low voice:

"I feel sorry for my girlfriend. They are overjoyed. Otherwise, they wouldn't believe that we are a couple."

Because of Shen Nianqiu's arrival, Chen Xi's seat naturally changed, moving from next to Chen Junqian to diagonally opposite him. Seeing this, she silently poked at the rice in her bowl, feeling that she was increasingly able to understand the limitations of being a younger sister.

It doesn't matter, she has successfully transitioned to the strongest new profession. If she weren't embarrassed to be exposed in front of Shen Nianqiu, Chen Xi would have already remotely directed her father to bring up the childhood betrothal agreement again.

"I've cleared out the room next door these past two days, and the bed is all made up. Nianqiu and Xiaoxi will sleep there tonight, is that alright?"

Just as Chen Xi had expected, no matter how carefree they were, the elders wouldn't let the two, who were already fifteen or sixteen years old, sleep in the same bed again this year. Moreover, since they knew that Chen Xi and Shen Nianqiu had known each other for a long time and were friends, they naturally made this bed allocation plan and said this to the two of them with a smile.

"Yes, thank you for your trouble, Grandma."

"Of course, if Xiaoxi doesn't like sleeping here, she can go back to the city to sleep and then come back tomorrow morning."

Last year when I went back to the city, I slept with Shen Nianqiu...

Although she was internally complaining like this, Chen Xi still maintained an expression of acceptance on her face:

"No need, no need, I can sleep here with Sister Shen tonight."

Anyway, she had already made up her mind. Once Shen Nianqiu fell asleep at night, she would secretly take her pillow and go to Chen Junqian's place to sleep. The bed there was well-tested and could easily fit two people. She would go back in the morning, or simply pretend that she had accidentally fallen asleep on his bed while waking him up. Yes, that would be perfectly fine.

If Chen Junqian, Shen Nianqiu, and Chen Xi watched two episodes of the Spring Festival Gala last year, then this year's Spring Festival Gala on TV became nothing more than background noise.

On the one hand, it's true that the Spring Festival Gala is getting more and more boring every year, and there's really nothing to watch. Occasionally browsing various forums and seeing netizens' complaints can make people laugh more than those comedy sketches.

On the other hand, the atmosphere among the three of them is completely different from last year.

At this time last year, Chen Xi was wholeheartedly acting cute and childlike, and Chen Junqian had to peel every single melon seed for her and feed it to her. But a year later, she has started to imitate Shen Nianqiu from last year. Her mouth has never stopped moving since she was little, and her hands have never stopped moving. She tries to stick all kinds of melon seeds, peanuts, desserts and snacks to Chen Junqian's mouth with an attitude that would make even the Kitchen God respect her.

"Ahem... I'll go wash up first."

Feeling his teeth were so sweet they could barely open, Chen Junqian quickly raised his hand to stop them, intending to use the excuse of washing up to temporarily avoid the brunt of the attack. However, his sister followed him like a shadow, brushing her teeth and washing her face in sync with him. Then, she immediately brought over a bright red foot bath, sat down, took off her white socks, and soaked her feet in the hot water, deliberately leaving him some space.

However, for Shen Nianqiu, who had already dried her feet after showering, this kind of showing off was neither showing off nor provocation. It felt like a childish act of sulking and didn't really interest her. But at least it made her feel that the other person did like Chen Junqian.

It was precisely because of this that, after she and Chen Xi entered the room one after the other in a somewhat awkward atmosphere, Shen Nianqiu went straight to the point and gave the latter a smile that seemed rather mischievous:

"Xiao Xi probably still wants to sleep with your brother, right?"

P.S.: Thank you for reading and subscribing.

PS2: I feel like the next chapter could be titled "Let's Sleep Together Openly" (or similar).

Touching the day at the beginning of the month

As the title suggests, I've organized the outline, and I feel that this book should end at around 2.5 million words.

Wishing all readers good health and all the best.

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Chapter Sixty-Seven: Sleeping Together Openly and Honestly (Part Two)

It has to be said that it's quite strange that Chen Xi's anime experience over the years has only reached one, given that her favorite older brother and closest friends are both pure anime fans. And considering that this one and only anime is an explicit BL anime, it's even more interesting.

However, considering that all sorts of random historical figures and national projects can also be considered part of the anime/manga/game community in a broad sense, and that they emerged and rapidly expanded their reach in the era of big mobile games a few years later, then theoretically she should be considered a seasoned anime/manga/game… cough, investigator.

Perhaps it was because of that anime that, from a very young age, a seed was planted in Chen Xi's heart, making her realize that the rival called "little sister" must be the childhood friend of a precocious, big-breasted top student next door, because such a person could very well do something as shocking as "Bao Ri Long Mei, are you going to rape me?"

Of course, since the real childhood sweetheart can only be described as a "childhood sweetheart" from beginning to end, Chen Xi has never actually had this kind of attitude towards Lin Mu. Rather, the messy descriptions of her being precocious, having large breasts, and being an excellent student are more clearly directed at the other two, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they are all true.

If Chen Xi had to choose between Zhu Wenyun and Shen Nianqiu again, she would still lean more towards the latter. The reason is simple: Shen Nianqiu is not in Guoning at all.

This is the key reason why she didn't feel anything about the fake couple game between Shen Nianqiu and Chen Junqian not long ago, and even encouraged it. It was definitely not to provoke Xu Youwei.

After all, let alone a fake couple, even if they were a real couple, someone would spend eleven out of the twelve months of the year in Lin'an. If calling each other, video chatting, and recording wake-up calls counts as being in a relationship, then she would have been in a relationship with him long ago, just like her brother had said before.

Besides, I should be thanking Shen Nianqiu now.

Because if she hadn't spurred him on a few days ago, he definitely wouldn't have done something like directly asking his parents, instantly changing his identity and transferring his talents from the sister team to the fiancée team. He was just short of adding a comment like, "As for my childhood sweetheart, I wish them good luck."

Moreover, not only were they childhood sweethearts, but the largest base crystal she stole should clearly belong to Shen Nianqiu.

That's why, upon hearing Shen Nianqiu's sudden question, Chen Xi instantly made a clean break, seemingly forgetting how she had just been clinging to Chen Junqian, and immediately replied:

"No way, she's so old, how could she possibly want to sleep with him?"

"But you two were sleeping together until last year, right? How come you suddenly grew up after just one year?"

It felt like she was speaking to a child. Shen Nianqiu, dressed in her pajamas and sitting on the bed, propped her chin up and smiled at Chen Xi:

"Wasn't he still clinging to Junqian at night? You don't look like you've grown up at all."

"Don't even mention a year; sometimes growing up can happen in a second."

"Hmm, that makes a lot of sense."

After nodding in agreement, Shen Nianqiu took the initiative to bring up the events of this time last year:

"Speaking of which, I slept in Xiaoxi's room last year."

"Hmm."

At that time, her main concern was preventing Shen Nianqiu from sleeping in Chen Junqian's room.

"Xiaoxi's bedroom left a deep impression on me."

"Many people have said that."

Chen Xi had assumed that Shen Nianqiu would say something like "You have so many books," just like other relatives who came during the New Year. However, Shen Nianqiu unexpectedly brought up something else entirely:

"The most interesting thing is the throw pillows on the bed."

"what?"

"Those two squirrel plush pillows, they must have been produced together. One is placed on the bedside table next to the pillow as a decoration, while the other is the pillow I hug every night when I go to sleep."

"...You can't possibly hug two such big pillows while sleeping, can you?"

"But it's strange to only hold one at a time, when you could change them every day?"

It can only be said that during the Spring Festival, Chen Junqian's family never lacked any New Year's gift packages from the three fierce Xus. Shen Nianqiu casually found a box outside and brought it into the room. At this moment, she leisurely opened a bag of macadamia nuts, and looked at the three cartoon squirrels on the packaging bag thoughtfully, saying:

"It seems like Mumu has one too. I wonder if she sleeps with it every night. Hers is quite cute, with a round face."

"Yes, that was a gift from my brother. I have two because one of them was originally mine, and the other was a gift from him. So I'm hugging it for that reason. Compared to my own things, I should definitely cherish gifts from others more, or rather, it's better to let people know that I like them. Sister Shen, haven't you been wearing the scarf my brother tied for you all winter break?"

"Why is Xiaoxi suddenly spouting such a long string of words?"

Seemingly finding Chen Xi's reaction quite amusing, Shen Nianqiu also smiled slightly.

"I mentioned the pillow because I wanted to ask Xiaoxi if she has a habit of sleeping with something in her arms at night. I don't have that habit, and on the contrary, I find it hard to fall asleep. So I wanted to find out in advance. That's why I asked Xiaoxi if she wanted to sleep with Junqian earlier."

"...Isn't Sister Shen my brother's girlfriend?"

"Didn't Xiaoxi know that we were just pretending to scam red envelopes? Here, a super big red envelope—"

Shen Nianqiu took out the red envelope given to her by Chen Junqian's grandparents from her pocket, waved it in front of Chen Xi to show it off, then got up from the bed, put on her slippers, and pretended to be ready to leave.

"Or does Xiaoxi think my brother and I should take this kind of thing seriously? Then don't betray us tomorrow morning."

"That still won't work."

It can only be said that Shen Nianqiu in her pajamas undoubtedly rekindled a certain resentment in Chen Xi's mind, a resentment that belonged to Kasugano Sora. In the end, she didn't have the strange psychology of Zhu Wenyun. Now that she had one foot in the finish line, she couldn't possibly let Shen Nianqiu pick the peach first.

"So, is Xiaoxi going?"

After finishing her round of conversation, Shen Nianqiu smiled and passed the buck back to Shen Nianqiu.

"...I...I'll be back in a bit to say a few words to my brother!"

Well, with his 'girlfriend' agreeing, Chen Xi couldn't resist his impulse and ran off after saying those words.

Shen Nianqiu, sitting back on the bed, simply shook her head. Then, she picked up her earphones, connected them to her phone, and skillfully opened the audio file that had accompanied her for countless nights. She quickly created an immersive atmosphere for herself.

She just lied.