I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

"...Oh, you're here too, Yoyo."

"Of course I'm here, and I've been here from the beginning. Qinqin should have heard my grandma talk about my dad, right?"

Well, all we can say is that, in terms of family background and connections, given Xu Youwei's father's status, he could indeed get his daughter an inner-circle ticket.

“My dad wants to see you, but I don’t want him to see you, so Qinqin, come out with me first, so he won’t come knocking on the door later.”

As she spoke, Xu Youwei leaped from the back row of the audience to the front, and without saying a word, grabbed Chen Junqian's hand and tried to lead him out.

"Mumu will come back to see me later."

"I brought my phone. You can just call her in a bit and tell her what's going on."

Seeing that Xu Youwei had once again entered that stubborn state of not giving up until she hit a wall, Chen Junqian temporarily agreed:

Give me your phone.

As Chen Junqian took the phone from Xu Youwei, he was wondering whether to call Lin Mu's father or mother when an unexpected voice suddenly rang out in the ears of both of them, or more precisely, in the ears of all the audience members who had not yet left.

First came the sound of the stadium's public address system being turned on, followed less than two seconds later by a loud male voice:

"Chen Junqian, please proceed immediately to the back door of the gymnasium. Your teammates are waiting for you there."

"To reiterate, Chen Junqian, if you hear this announcement, please proceed immediately to the back door of the gymnasium. Your teammates are waiting for you there."

I don't know if it was because the microphone wasn't turned off in time, or because a child who was also in the broadcasting room was being too loud.

After those two sentences, thousands of citizens of Guoning, including those still inside the stadium and those still nearby, all heard a girl's voice, clear as could be, with a distinct hint of crying:

"Waaah... Mom, I lost Qianqian."

Chapter 73: Don't underestimate the Shura Field, you bastard! (Part 2)

Unexpected situations frequently occur in the broadcasting room.

As a way to highlight the characters' personalities and endearing traits, and to create laughs or heart-fluttering moments by taking advantage of the unique 'social awkwardness' of public places, the various unexpected events in the radio studio are frequently used in various romantic comedies.

Whether it's forgetting to turn off the microphone and letting the entire school hear their cross-server chat or ambiguous conversation, overcoming nervousness to bravely announce their feelings to everyone, or inadvertently revealing their innermost thoughts while searching for someone, the moment the female protagonists stand in the broadcasting room, a classic scene of a romantic comedy is formed, and the show begins.

Conditions for achieving this: The female protagonist, who is suited for romantic comedy, completes any one of the above-mentioned scenarios in the broadcasting room.

Neither Chen Junqian nor Xu Youwei, who was pulling him away, had any idea that Lin Mu would go directly to the broadcasting room to publicly search for someone. For a moment, they even had a subtle sense of déjà vu, as if they had been caught stealing something, and their steps naturally stopped there.

"...Then I'll go to the back door first. Mu Mu seems to be crying."

Because he clearly heard the crying tone in the last sentence that was accidentally broadcast, Chen Junqian also broke free from Xu Youwei's hand and explained with some concern.

"I'm sorry, I really didn't expect it to turn out this way."

Seeing that the focus of the audience's discussion had suddenly shifted from Jay Chou to the person next to her, Hsu Yu-wei was also a little caught off guard and apologized with pursed lips.

"Actually, I didn't expect Mu Mu to react so strongly, considering we were only apart for two minutes. I'm leaving now, see you at school next time."

After saying that, Chen Junqian first returned the phone to Xu Youwei, then turned around and walked towards the back door. He quickly found Lin Mu looking around anxiously nearby.

"Mu Mu".

Hearing Chen Junqian call his name, Lin Mu, unaware that he had just made a fool of himself in front of the entire audience, turned around, saw him, and immediately jogged over.

"Where did you go, Qianqian?"

"There were a lot of people just now, and we got separated for a moment."

Feeling it wasn't quite right to say Xu Youwei had pulled him away at this moment, Chen Junqian gave a perfunctory reply, then proactively apologized:

"I'm sorry to have worried you."

"It's alright, I'm just glad you're okay. I got your autograph."

Lin Mu carefully examined Chen Junqian from head to toe again, and only after confirming that he was alright did she feel relieved and hand over the letter with Jay Chou's autograph that she had been holding in her hand:

"Let's go back together, and Mom will drive you."

"Well, go back."

After this little incident, Lin Mu naturally took Chen Junqian's right hand. Even though her hand was smaller, she held it with even more force than when she had held the two autographed papers, as if afraid that Chen Junqian would run away again when she wasn't looking.

As Chen Junqian exited through the back door, he spotted Zhu Wenyun in the crowd. She seemed to have been drawn here by the announcement, so he waved to her to let her know he was alright and hadn't really gotten lost.

To be honest, even if someone were to get lost, it seems more likely that the child next to him would be the one to get lost.

Who is Qianqian waving to?

"Zhu Wenyun, I just saw her. She must have come to check on the situation after hearing the broadcast."

"Oh……"

At this point, Lin Mu belatedly realized that her last words in the broadcasting room had also been broadcast, her voice slightly stammering:

"So, it's that, um, the last sentence."

"I think most people probably didn't recognize who it was, right? After all, it's just a voice. People who aren't very familiar with me probably wouldn't recognize it. It's more like I'm Li Ziming from Class 6, Grade 3 right now."

After being comforted by Chen Junqian using the Want Want Milk commercial as an example, Lin Mu's smile returned.

"I actually have Want Want Milk at home. Can I bring some for you, Qianqian, when you go to school the day after tomorrow?"

"That's fine too."

Since he happened to see Zhu Wenyun, Chen Junqian casually asked Lin Mu:

"Zhu Wenyun has been asking us to have dinner together for a while now, and she's already received her royalties. When does Mumu plan to go?"

"Hmm... Let me think... how about National Day? That's next week. I'll just pick a day when I don't have any tutoring classes."

Speaking of tutoring classes, Lin Mu himself was also a bit tired.

After all, she had already fallen behind in her studies since last year, so she had to continue with tutoring classes this year. Combined with her existing calligraphy interest classes, her time on weekends and even holidays was still a bit tight.

"Okay, I'll talk to her later and ask if Mumu has any particular restaurant she'd like to go to, since Yun said we could choose the place?"

"I don't think it's necessary for her to spend too much money. Let's just pick a place that's relatively inexpensive per person. How about we go for mala tang?"

"I don't think Wenjun would agree to that. There's a new all-you-can-eat barbecue place that just opened on Hejin Road. Let's go there and eat there."

"Hmm, that works too."

After agreeing on the time and specific location, Chen Junqian got into Lin Mu's mother's car. As soon as they got in, Lin Mu was dealt a severe backstabbing attack by her own mother.

"You have no idea how Mu Mu looked at that time. She was almost crying on the spot. She asked her dad to broadcast a message in the broadcasting room to find someone, and at the same time she called me."

While driving, Lin Mu's mother didn't forget to expose her daughter's embarrassing situation.

"Actually, I really wanted to say at that time, 'How could you possibly get lost?' But I guess Mu Mu wouldn't listen at all at that time, so that's how it was."

"No, no, it's just that I got separated from the crowd, which made Auntie and Mumu worry."

"Haha, I'm not worried at all, or rather, there's someone who has already taken on all my worries."

"Ahhhh... Mom, please concentrate on driving. You can't be distracted while driving."

A little embarrassed, Lin Mu lightly kicked the driver's seat twice from behind. Then, she angrily reached into her pocket for candy. She always had to chew on something sweet whenever she was unhappy, and she also slipped one to Chen Junqian sitting next to her.

What she had in her pocket today was watermelon jelly bubble gum. What made it different from other bubble gums was that it contained a sweet and sour red jelly in the middle.

However, Lin Mu seemed to have completely forgotten this point. He put the two together and started chewing them, then used the rigorous methodology of learning by doing to demonstrate that they wouldn't stick together when chewed together, but rather the red jelly part in the middle would melt first.

It's safe to say that another piece of useless trivia has been added to our collection.

Goodbye, Qianqian—

"Okay, goodbye Mumu."

After dropping Chen Junqian off downstairs, Lin Mu rolled down the car window, smiled, waved goodbye, and suddenly felt that she could write a much longer diary entry for today.

Faced with this moment of heroism, it was also time to put to use the Crown Pen she had recently splurged a fortune on from the stationery store.

Actually, when I looked back and didn't see Qianqian, I felt even more scared than when I saw my failed final exam paper, or when I discovered I had lost two hundred yuan. Seriously.

Facing the crown-shaped pen cap that gleamed under the lamplight, Lin Mu once again resisted the habit of biting off the cap while writing, and continued to truthfully record the day's events and his current feelings in his diary:

[If someone had told me back in the broadcasting room that I could find Qianqian immediately if I cried, I probably would have cried without caring how many people were around. At that point, I wouldn't have felt ashamed. It's strange.]

[Probably because Qianqian has always been such an important person to me.]

I don't want to lose him, I really, really don't.

[...Just thinking about it makes me feel disgusted.]

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Besides fulfilling a favor that Zhu Wenyun had been asking him to do, Chen Junqian also wanted to take a test of a certain achievement for the barbecue dinner during this National Day holiday.

That is, it was already like it was about to be triggered a year ago, but it still hasn't been unlocked to this day, giving off a feeling of being just one step away from getting it on Pinduoduo, which is like a "battleground in progress".

Chen Junqian recalled that during his trip to Jing County about a year ago, this achievement had been faintly shining, but in the end, nothing happened when he returned.

When Shen Nianqiu went to the Shanghai World Expo this summer, on the morning of the day she and Lin Mu first met, which was also when the [Face Wash] achievement was unlocked, Lin Mu seemed to be about to have it triggered as well, but in the end nothing happened.

It was precisely because of these two near-misses that Chen Junqian specifically studied the description of this achievement and the specific conditions for judging success.

It can only be said that, when it comes to unlocking this achievement, the usually idiotic system has maintained an extremely strict review attitude.

But thinking about it, it makes sense, since it is indeed a rare achievement that can be triggered repeatedly.

Secondly, unlike other repeatable achievements whose reward frequency is once, ten times, one hundred times, and one thousand times, the achievement "[Shura Field in Progress]" is considered to be unlocked once for each trigger, which is indeed the best in terms of cost-effectiveness.

If Chen Junqian were to find the reason for the first two failed attempts, he would feel that the first time it was because Xu Youwei came to the rescue.

The second reason is that Shen Nianqiu and Lin Mu had too little time together. Apart from the few minutes they met on the first morning, they basically avoided meeting each other for the rest of the days. Naturally, they could not meet the system's requirement that at least two female protagonists be present.

Having actually watched various Japanese romantic comedy anime and even dabbled in related manga, Chen Junqian's understanding of romantic comedy and the concept of a love triangle has naturally improved compared to last year when he knew absolutely nothing about it.

Unlike jealousy in the Chinese context, a "shura field" (a metaphor for a situation where one person is caught in the middle) would emphasize the specific reactions that follow jealousy. It's not just one person's sadness, but rather the interactive reactions between multiple people, creating a scene that puts the male protagonist in a difficult position while exciting the audience.

After carefully reviewing and thinking it over in his mind again, Chen Junqian, who had already upgraded to a master of romantic comedy and love triangle essays, suddenly realized a problem.

No, no, that's not right.

The most important aspect of a chaotic situation is its unexpectedness, which even the male protagonist is unaware of. If the male protagonist knew from the beginning of the story that his actions would trigger a chaotic situation, then such a chaotic situation shouldn't even be called a chaotic situation.

After all, this achievement is not like those he could easily fool the system with various superficial feints before. As the core part of the entire romantic comedy system, the system's strictness in judging the Shura field has already been revealed.

So unlike other achievements, this one feels more like the kind of achievement where "you plant flowers with care but they don't bloom, but you plant willows without intention and they thrive."

More precisely, the female protagonists should be the main drivers and initiators.

After all, his two previous vague judgments were based on this premise, whether it was Zhu Wenyun's sudden appearance the first time or Shen Nianqiu's secret hug the second time.