I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

Shen Nianqiu also needs to hold something to fall asleep.

If it were a human, that would be the best, but just like how a certain younger sister only has sex once a year, Shen Nianqiu's frequency isn't very high either, so it's something else.

Previously, it was the other person's chat history, those text messages; later, it became audio.

Therefore, when someone is being missed, it doesn't matter whether they know it or not.

He was already being held in the arms of the one he missed.

In the description of an achievement titled "[Night Raid! Night Raid!]" completed by a student named Youyou, there is the following statement:

Even if you don't end up in the same room for any particular reason, as long as you have the desire to spend the night with the other person, you can find any excuse... For some heroines, none of the above reasons are even necessary. They simply have the idea of ​​a night raid. When the moonlight shines through the gap in the curtains, she will sneak into your room barefoot, carrying a pillow, with your final destination being her embrace.

But perhaps Chen Xi herself never thought that what she did was a night raid. After all, the word "raid" inherently carries a sense of suddenness, and might even make people want to shout lines like "A hundred riders raid the Wei camp, a feat that shakes the world." She just felt that she was simply returning to where she was supposed to be.

Yes, when it's time to be a younger sister, she's a younger sister; when it's time to be a fiancée, she's a fiancée. After understanding this principle, Chen Xi felt his mind suddenly clear. He felt he had suddenly grasped the double standard of the Northern Wei Dynasty, which could be both the Great Wei and the Northern Barbarians, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which could be both the royal army and the island barbarians.

By the time Chen Xi reached the door of the familiar room, she had completely forgotten what she had said to Shen Nianqiu just two minutes earlier. After all, the premise of saying two words and then coming back was that she had to say two words, and the premise of saying two words was that her brother had to be awake. If her brother was already asleep, she would have no choice but to reluctantly not disturb him and instead stay in his bed and wait for him to wake up on his own, right?

Unfortunately, Chen Junqian was clearly still awake at this time.

As soon as Chen Xi opened the door, she heard rustling voices and could vaguely hear phrases like, "Is this okay?", "Yes, I understand," and "Tell me anytime if you need anything."

After she quietly approached, she discovered that the name displayed on the lit-up phone screen was indeed that of another precocious, big-breasted, top student and her childhood sweetheart.

Because he was wearing headphones and talking to Zhu Wenyun, Chen Junqian didn't notice his sister sneaking up in the dark at all. It wasn't until a corner of the blanket covering him was lifted and a warm source, along with a bit of cold air, suddenly hugged him from behind that he subconsciously gasped, making Zhu Wenyun on the other end of the phone a little puzzled:

"What's wrong?"

"I...it's nothing."

Chen Junqian paused for a moment, suddenly realizing that he might be able to get a mysterious achievement here. However, after the two of them finished their conversation, his sister behind him did not make any further moves, leaving his mysterious achievement to die in the womb, and he sat down at a table with a mysterious achievement in progress.

As for why you can determine it's the younger sister, I can only say that this kind of rigorous data issue is something that Chen Junqian, who has been through many battles, can still sense. Moreover, if it were the older sister, she definitely wouldn't have been so obedient as to wait until he finished his call without making any small moves.

Looking back, it was indeed Chen Xi.

"Have you finished the call?"

Along with those words came his sister's action; she deftly removed the earphones from his ears, then leaned in and, while blowing on them, whispered:

"Brother—what are you talking about with Wenjun?"

"Congratulations to Xiaoxi on becoming an ASMR blogger!"

"Don't change the subject."

Although she said that, Chen Xi continued to make various gentle movements with her hands. Sometimes her fingertips circled around his earlobe, sometimes she put them in slightly to touch the ear wall, or she held his earlobe in her palm. All of these were the results of her learning after she praised Lin Mu for not letting her record any audio, saying that she could do it herself. She just hadn't used them much before.

"I talked to her about her family. Her parents came back for the Chinese New Year this year."

"Oh."

Upon hearing that it was a family matter, Chen Xi immediately lost interest. Mainly, she didn't possess Chen Junqian's altruistic spirit of "I'll help you," and with her friend Gu Linguo's successful example, she didn't want to learn about any more extraordinary people. Furthermore, she trusted her brother to handle it properly. So, after saying "oh," she proactively changed the subject.

"My brother doesn't seem surprised at all that I'd come tonight."

"Because I'm your brother, I'd be surprised if you didn't come."

"Ok."

Is Nianqiu already asleep?

"Brother, don't mention her."

"You change your expression so quickly."

"Don't mention her, Onii-chan."

"This trick isn't 100% effective either."

"……All right."

Chen Xi snuggled into Chen Junqian's arms, looking quite annoyed, and then whispered:

"Sister Shen isn't asleep, and she's the one who asked me to come here... So does Brother know what she's thinking? She clearly likes Brother. She was the first to say I've grown up. It's definitely not because she thinks I'm still a child that she felt comfortable letting me come here and sleep with you like before."

"Hasn't Xiaoxi already given the answer to the question?"

"Huh? What?"

"Because Nianqiu likes me, and really likes me a lot, especially... and her liking is quite unique."

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Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Rope Bondage Artist (Two-in-One)

This should be the first time that Chen Xi has woken up earlier than Chen Junqian on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Perhaps because she had been repeatedly telling herself to wake up early the next morning before she drifted off to sleep last night, the sky outside the window was only just beginning to lighten when she suddenly woke up from what seemed to be a nightmare, around five or six o'clock.

In Zhu Wenyun's new book about childhood sweethearts, which was just released last year, she mentioned the following theory:

That is, people are always willing to define their dreams of people they like, are close to, or want to see as beautiful dreams. But in fact, if the other person is not within reach when you open your eyes, then it is essentially no different from a nightmare. This is because the plot and impressions in a dream are often like a snowflake falling on a red-hot stove in winter, which will disappear completely in an instant, leaving only a vague feeling that makes people feel lost.

But if that person is nearby and you can see them the moment you wake up, then even if it's a vivid nightmare, you can often get comfort from them immediately.

She managed to share her beautiful dreams with others and to be comforted by others when she had nightmares. The premise for both is that the other person is actually by her side. Therefore, Chen Xi really likes the scene in the book where Xue Ya desperately tries to grasp the last bit of impression of her dream the moment she wakes up and sends a text message to the male protagonist to share it in a daze. Moreover, she has no doubt that the prototype of this character, Lin Mu, has also done this many times.

However, she always stood in a position even closer than her childhood sweetheart.

Looking at Chen Junqian's profile so close to hers, Chen Xi suddenly felt an urge to kiss him for the first time in her life. Once this thought appeared, it grew wildly like vines, so much so that by the time she came to her senses, her lips were already almost touching his.

But won't my mouth be too dry?

Before finally moving closer, all sorts of random thoughts began to pop into Chen Xi's mind again.

She wasn't interested in discussing whether the cold in the south or the north was dry or damp; she simply felt a bit parched when she woke up this morning. This feeling became even more pronounced after she realized it, and she could no longer ignore it.

Is it because I didn't drink water or wash up this morning?

It can only be said that after failing to actually do it at the very beginning, Chen Xi fell into a state of indecisiveness again. In the end, when Chen Junqian woke up due to his stable biological clock, the first thing he saw was his sister who seemed to be turning into a woodpecker but never actually pecked anything.

"what?"

"...Nothing."

Chen Xi was almost startled by Chen Junqian's sudden opening of his eyes, but she pretended nothing had happened and denied it, even reaching out to cover his eyes again.

"I haven't even called you yet, how could you wake up on your own, brother?"

"What about the second half of the sentence?"

"What's the second half of the sentence?"

"For example, 'Am I the master of this Chen family, or are you the master?'"

"hehe."

"Can't you give our 7.6-rated, high-quality domestic production, 'New Three Kingdoms,' a little respect?"

After Chen Junqian's witty banter ruined the last bit of the romantic atmosphere, Chen Xi sighed helplessly, feeling that her brother would nag her for at least another ten years about her request to watch the new Three Kingdoms series.

"So, did Xiaoxi not sleep well last night? Why is she waking up so early today?"

"I was just afraid that I would oversleep and then Grandma would suddenly fling open the door and see the two of us sleeping in bed together. Although I could argue that I came to wake my brother up, I decided to let it go."

The main reason is that Shen Nianqiu is still here.

"Alright, Xiaoxi can go back to her room and get dressed now. I'll close my eyes and wait for you to wake me up."

“My brother used to dress me at this time of year.”

"...Is it possible that your clothes aren't with me right now?"

"Go get it, I'll wait for you to come back here."

Chen Xi just pursed her lips at this. She was essentially the kind of person who didn't have a particularly strong possessive desire, and besides, the object of her affection wasn't Xu Youwei. Shen Nianqiu had taken the initiative to ask her to come over last night, so she was naturally willing to return the favor this morning.

"Anyway, it's still early."

This basically means that it's perfectly fine for him to stay there a little longer.

Having understood his sister's thoughts, Chen Junqian promptly put on his clothes, got out of bed, and went directly to another room. With a solemn air and a certain fanservice-related achievement in his mind, he opened the door.

It can only be said that as everyone gets older, the frequency of triggering the achievement "[Of course, there must be fan service in romantic comedies]" is getting higher and higher. Even a certain childhood friend who is completely immune to this achieved a breakthrough on Christmas last year. It feels like it will be easy to reach the trigger limit of 1,000 times in no time.

Because they had always slept together whenever they were together in the past, this was truly the first time Chen Junqian had ever seen his sister sleeping. And in that instant, along with the fanservice achievement, another rather abstract achievement flashed into his mind:

【Rope Bondage Artist】

As a common element in romantic comedies, ropes, when combined with beautiful girls, always seem to have a synergistic effect. Whether it's the heroine who ties herself up with ribbons and delivers herself as a Christmas present, or the heroine who accidentally gets tied up for various reasons, as long as the world-building allows, even noodles can sometimes become props to showcase the girls' beautiful curves.

[Condition for achievement: Witness any heroine from a romantic comedy genre being bound by ropes]

Now that things have come to this, Chen Junqian no longer wants to complain about the stupid judgment mechanism of this stupid system. He just silently walks forward and tries to untangle the headphone wires that are wrapped around Shen Nianqiu's neck and wrists in a mess.

Whether it was because the headphone wire had become completely tangled and impossible to untangle after a night, or because the reality he was in was almost being elbowed into the romantic comedy world described in the achievement description, in any case, after Chen Junqian had been adjusting for a while, when Shen Nianqiu woke up on her own, her two hands were inexplicably tangled together by the intertwined headphone wire.

Looking at his sister, who was giving him a subtle look after waking up, Chen Junqian could only offer a futile explanation:

"...It's not good to sleep with headphones on."

"Oh, I thought it was my younger brother who liked this kind of play."

Shen Nianqiu deliberately raised her two loosely bound hands above her head, and nodded tolerantly, her figure appearing even more prominent in this posture.

"You didn't sneak over here while Xiaoxi was still asleep, did you?"

"No, she woke me up, and she also asked me to come over, although the reason was just to get her some clothes."

"I see."

After stretching lazily, Shen Nianqiu took the initiative to untangle the tangled headphone cord, set it aside along with the headphones, and sat up from the bed.

"There's nothing I can do. I don't have anyone to sleep with, so I can only listen to the other person's voice to pretend that they're next to me."

As she spoke, she leaned against the soft cushion at the head of the bed like a spoiled child and raised her hands towards Chen Junqian, seemingly wanting him to help her put on her clothes.

"Yes, yes, it's my fault, please give me your hand over here."

Chen Junqian patiently took Shen Nianqiu's sweater from the side, but soon found that the dressing method he used on his sister in previous years was completely ineffective. After all, unlike the former's genuine, budding beauty, this one was already a mountain range with a full range of shapes and sizes. In addition, Shen Nianqiu herself didn't want to move her hands at all, so when Chen Junqian helped her put on the sweater from top to bottom, he could only use his hands to go around each joint, pull the front and then the back, and finally smooth it out from top to bottom.

"satyr."

"If my sister had just cooperated a little, we wouldn't have gotten into trouble."