There's a big problem with dreams in this world.

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Chapter Two: Fresh Lemon and Raw Coconut

"Click..."

Lu Qing gently closed the door and looked up at the sun.

The summer sky is very blue, with only wisps of clouds that look like they've been cut off floating in the air. Although it hasn't rained in the past few days, the air doesn't feel dry.

Lu Qing's bare arms and legs could feel the breeze blowing. Perhaps it was because of the hot weather that the breeze, which was usually hard to notice, seemed even cooler.

Wearing sandals, Lu Qing walked towards Fang Qingrou's location. She took out her phone and gently opened the location information that Fang Qingrou had sent her.

"I'm at the barbershop on the street next to the commercial city. Just come over slowly." On a social media app, a chibi-style girl with short, light blonde hair and a white flower on her head said this, along with a chibi-style blue twin-tailed girl sticking out her tongue and smiling emoji.

"Okay, I understand." Lu Qing smiled gently and replied in the same way.

Since there was no rush, she decided to walk there slowly, since it wasn't far from where she was.

"Da da da..."

The sandals made a light, tinkling sound on the smooth pavement, much like Lu Qing's mood at that moment.

After the dream game disappeared, she felt a sense of relaxation. Perhaps she preferred her current relaxed and ordinary life to the dream game where she could die at any moment.

If the dream game had already disappeared when she first traveled through time, what would she do?

To become a plagiarist and reach the pinnacle of life by copying works from before my time travel?

That's ridiculous. Without the Dream House, she'd be an ordinary person who can neither draw nor sing, practically without any special talents.

After reading so many, she only really remembered a few, but it seems unrealistic to expect her to copy them out.

Please, even if it's a time-travel story, the online world is still very complex, okay? How could you possibly pull out a book that's absolutely amazing?

"This should be it..." Coming back to her senses, Lu Qing looked at the location information on her phone and then looked up.

"Ah, I've got it!" A smile appeared on her face as she looked at the barbershop with its red signboard in front of her.

The door to the barbershop was open, and as soon as Lu Qing walked in, she caught the attention of the barber.

"Hey beautiful, want a haircut?" the barber said with practiced ease.

"No need, I'll find someone." Lu Qing replied, gently shaking her head.

"No haircuts..." The barber looked at Lu Qing's long, silvery-white hair with some regret and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

"Looking for me? Looking for me!" Fang Qingrou said hurriedly as she sat in the barber chair inside the shop.

"Okay, then you can sit on that chair over there," the barber said to Lu Qing.

"Mm." Lu Qing nodded slightly, then sat down in the spot the barber had indicated.

After waiting for about eight minutes, Fang Qingrou, who had finished getting her hair cut, came to Lu Qing's side.

"It's all done~" Fang Qingrou said with a big smile.

"Where are Hao Meng and Muir?" Lu Qing stood up and walked out of the store with Fang Qingrou.

“They…” Fang Qingrou tilted her head slightly, then pointed to the milk tea shop across the street and said, “They’re in there now.”

"Shall we go buy a drink too?" Lu Qing said after looking up at the sun.

With her current physical condition, she certainly wouldn't feel that the weather was hot. But what girl could resist the urge to drink milk tea in the summer?

"Let's go, let's go!" Fang Qingrou said, hugging Lu Qing's arm as if she were quite happy.

"Ahem, be careful!" Lu Qing said, her face slightly flushed. Fang Qingrou's actions drew the attention of many people on both sides of the street.

"Hehe..." Fang Qingrou chuckled softly, then whispered in Lu Qing's ear, "The sandals are really pretty~"

"Well......"

The Luqing was capsized by the Qingrou submarine!

When Lu Qing came to her senses, she found that they had already entered the milk tea shop. Hao Meng and Mu Er were sitting in the corner of the shop, each with a half-finished cup of milk tea in front of them.

Besides the two girls, there were several other girls in the shop, as well as two boys wearing school uniforms from a nearby middle school.

Well, even boys, how can they resist the temptation of drinking milk tea in the summer?

“Okay, while I was waiting for Fang Qingrou, you two were already drinking.” Lu Qing said as she came to Hao Meng and Mu Er’s side.

"Yes, it was Muir who brought me here..." Hao Meng said, her fingers constantly twirling around her falling hair, her ears burning red.

In contrast, Muir, who was betrayed by Hao Meng without hesitation, did not change much in expression and said, "We are also waiting for someone while we are sitting here, it's just that the positions are different."

"..."

Although she didn't mean to complain about the two of them and was just joking, Lu Qing still felt speechless after hearing Muir's words.

"Little Deer, what would you like to drink?" Fang Qingrou walked over with her phone at this moment. This milk tea shop requires you to scan a QR code with your phone to make a purchase, and she had already opened the purchase interface.

"What kind of weird names are these..."

Scrolling through Fang Qingrou's phone screen, Lu Qing felt a headache coming on from the list of milk teas whose names and pictures made it impossible to guess what they tasted. She vaguely felt like she was about to suffer from decision paralysis.

"Um!?"

As if she had discovered something, Lu Qing's eyes lit up, and she pointed to the first item on the store's recommendation list: Fresh Lemon and Coconut, and said, "I want this."

"Then I'll have the second one, the jasmine milk tea," Fang Qingrou said with a smile after Lu Qing made her choice.

"Where are we going next?" Lu Qing asked, sitting down next to Hao Meng and Muir.

"Let's just take a walk. I'd like to see a movie. There's an anime movie that I've been really looking forward to seeing coming out soon," Fang Qingrou said.

"I, I can do anything..." Hao Meng said softly.

“I don’t care,” Muir said, waving his hand.

"What's the name of the movie?" Lu Qing asked curiously.

"This!" Fang Qingrou took out her phone and showed the three of them the movie's promotional image.

Magical Girl: Eternal Tale

As you can tell from the title, this is a movie about magical girls, and the movie cover does indeed feature several girls dressed in gorgeous outfits.

Sunlight streamed through the gaps between the leaves, creating ripples on the ground. The magical girls sat or stood on the grass, which was covered with fallen, golden leaves, with a huge tree trunk behind them.

On the shoulder of the pink-haired magical girl stood a mascot that looked like a rabbit, but wasn't.

Whether it was her imagination or not, Lu Qing felt that the long-haired, black-haired magical girl standing at the back of the poster seemed to have a cold look in her eyes.

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Chapter 3: Magical Girls Aren't All That Great After All

"Magical Girl, wouldn't that be a bit...?" Hao Meng looked conflicted and a little embarrassed.

Muir saw through Hao Meng's thoughts and said while gently biting his straw, "There are so many people in the movie theater, no one will care about us."

“Even if there aren’t many people, there are still the three of us together,” Fang Qingrou added.

Lu Qing glanced at Fang Qingrou indifferently without saying anything. Jinghu City is not some remote small town; it is almost impossible for the movie theaters here to be empty.

However, correspondingly, movie tickets should sell out very quickly...

"Are there still tickets for the movie?" Thinking of this, Lu Qing looked at Fang Qingrou and asked.

"Don't worry," Fang Qingrou chuckled softly after hearing Lu Qing's words. "I already bought the tickets before we even came!"

"So you had already decided to watch this movie from the very beginning, right?" Lu Qing couldn't help but say, seeing how well Fang Qingrou had prepared.

"I haven't even seen the original version of this animation. Is it okay for me to go straight to the theatrical version?" Hao Meng suddenly asked.

"It's okay. Most anime movies are understandable even if you haven't read the original work," Fang Qingrou explained to Hao Meng.

Despite Fang Qingrou's frequent outings, she is actually a very seasoned anime fan who has watched countless anime series.

Besides anime, Fang Qingrou has also posted a lot of game guides and gameplay videos online. Because of her superb skills, sweet voice, and lively personality, she has a lot of fans.

The group chatted in the milk tea shop for a while, and after Lu Qing and Fang Qingrou received their milk teas, they left.

With nearly half an hour to go before the magical girl movie started, they had plenty of time, so Fang Qingrou decided to continue strolling around the streets to see if she could buy anything delicious or fun.

As they strolled along the street, a girl handing out flyers on both sides of the street caught Lu Qing's attention.

The other person was rather short. Judging from Lu Qing's extraordinary eyesight, he was about 1.55 meters tall. He had beautiful long, light red hair and was wearing what appeared to be an inexpensive light white T-shirt and a pair of light gray shorts.

Although she wasn't very tall, her body proportions were very harmonious. The thighs exposed below her shorts were smooth and alluring, and they looked a little fleshy. I wonder if her little fleshy thighs would jiggle if I patted them.

"Hmm, judging by the looks of it, it's a C..."

Looking down at her toes, Lu Qing once again clearly felt the gap between the worlds.

"No, no!" Shaking her head, Lu Qing looked at the top of the other person's head, which was what she was more concerned about.

On either side of the girl's head, there was a horn that curved downwards and then grew upwards to form a semi-circle.

An ordinary person might see those horns as decorations, but in Lu Qing's opinion, those horns were not decorations at all; they clearly grew out of her head.

Perhaps it was obtained in a dream game, something like bloodline.

Looking at the other person's light red hair, Lu Qing couldn't help but recall the red-haired demon king she had encountered in the opera dream. She wondered how the other person was doing after all this time.

If the dream world still exists after she leaves...

"Hello, would you like a flyer?"

"There's an event going on recently!"

The red-haired girl approached Lu Qing, looking somewhat nervous, her eyes darting around as she spoke.

She must have just started working not long ago, Lu Qing thought, and didn't pay too much attention, smiling as she took the flyer from the girl's hand.

"Thank you, thank you!" the girl said excitedly after Lu Qing took the flyer.

"You're welcome," Lu Qing chuckled lightly. It was just a flyer; it might not be of much use to her, but for the person handing it out, it was their job.

Watching the red-haired girl turn and leave, Lu Qing seemed to see the shadow of the Demon King from the past in a daze. Perhaps it was just because she happened to think of the Demon King, but she actually felt that the girl and the Demon King were somewhat similar.

"Huh, what's this...?" Lu Qing looked at the flyer in her hand and realized that it was from the internet cafe she had gone to when she first transmigrated. It seemed that the internet cafe was having some kind of promotion or discount event.

After the dream game disappeared, the nutrient tanks in the internet cafe became useless. Running an internet cafe these days isn't easy, Lu Qing sighed, shaking her head.