I turned reality into a romantic comedy

So this morning I triggered the achievement again after a long time. I just don't know how long it will take to reach the next milestone of 100 times.

"Are you still half asleep? Or is there something on my face?"

Seeing her childhood sweetheart looking somewhat dazed, Lin Mu, sitting on the edge of the bed, reached out and waved her hand in front of his eyes twice, then leaned closer with some concern and asked:

"Or did you not sleep well last night? Qianqian shouldn't be a problem sleeping in a new bed, right?"

"No, I slept well, I'm just a little groggy from just waking up."

As he spoke, Chen Junqian sat up straight in bed, grabbed the clothes from the bedside table, and without any sign of wanting to stay in bed, quickly and efficiently got himself ready. Then he stretched lazily, yawning as he walked out, turning back to ask Lin Mu:

"Where's Mumu? How did she sleep last night?"

"Yeah, it's great. I woke up and it was already light. I thought Qianqian was already up, but he was still sleeping. Hehe."

Because she had no idea that Chen Junqian would stay in bed even after waking up whenever he was with her, Lin Mu simply thought that her childhood sweetheart just liked to sleep in. Anyway, she didn't dislike running over to wake him up every time, and Qianqian liked it too. She remembered that a long time ago, she even tried to wake him up after his afternoon nap, but she didn't do that anymore, since they weren't in the same daycare center anymore.

Compared to the liveliness of last night, the mountain courtyard was undoubtedly much quieter and more peaceful in the early morning. The chilly morning breeze brushed against my face, instantly waking me up. Chen Junqian even had the idea of ​​taking Lin Mu here for a few laps of morning exercise.

However, after thinking about it, it's still the Lunar New Year, so let's not put the child through the wringer at this time. Besides, compared to a year ago, Mumu has indeed made a lot of progress in physical fitness this year. There's still a long way to go before the high school entrance exam's physical education component, so there's really no need to rush.

After brushing her teeth, washing her face, and having breakfast, Lin Mu's parents went out to visit relatives and offer New Year's greetings with gifts. Lin Mu originally wanted to go with them, but since Chen Junqian was going back at noon, she decided to stay home and spend more time with her childhood sweetheart during the last part of the morning.

However, playing games on the tablet together wasn't very interesting. The situation in the countryside and the mountains was different, and Chen Junqian wasn't familiar with the area. He couldn't take Lin Mu for a ride like he did with Xu Youwei. Besides, they didn't have any transportation. The two of them rummaged through their grandmother's house for a while, and finally found what was supposedly the rickety car that Lin Mu used to ride as a child in a corner of a room.

...You know what, Mumu doesn't actually look out of place sitting in it now; there's absolutely no sense of a child driving a big car.

Perhaps it was the fact that this thing, which he hadn't played with in a long time, had awakened his childlike heart, or perhaps Lin Mu was just a child who hadn't grown up yet, that prompted Chen Junqian to encourage him. After who knows how many years, the rocking horse, with its seats wiped clean, once again welcomed its loyal owner.

Just like its name suggests, this toy car for children can be powered by simply twisting their bodies left and right. However, this action was a bit too embarrassing for Mumu, who was already a middle school student, so she soon chose to move forward by pushing off the ground with her feet.

Chen Junqian took Mu Mu to a small, relatively gentle slope near their home. Just like the children having a great time on the slide, Chen Junqian, like a parent watching over a child, watched Lin Mu ride down the slope with great interest and push her back up. It was a bit like a happy version of Sisyphus, except that she was pushing a rocking car instead of a stone.

"This car is still too small to fit the two of us. Otherwise, Qianqian and I could recreate Longkui and Longyang from 'Chinese Paladin 3'."

After playing like this several times, Lin Mu finally rode his little bike up to his side and said this with a hint of regret.

"really."

He reached out and wiped the sweat from Lin Mu's forehead. In fact, Chen Junqian sometimes felt that the other person was more like his younger sister. The key reason why childhood sweethearts and younger sister characters always clash is that the identities of these two types of characters do overlap in many ways, and their ecological niches will conflict.

However, that's just a setting in anime romantic comedies.

For Chen Junqian, who lives in reality, his younger sister and his childhood sweetheart are undoubtedly the two girls he is least likely to worry about...

The thought had just flashed through Chen Junqian's mind when his cell phone, which was in his pocket, rang. It was a call from Escape Plan's new song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky," released in 2011.

"I pray to have a transparent heart and eyes that can shed tears—"

The caller ID on the phone screen showed his father's name, but the first thing he heard after answering was his sister's voice, whom he had just been thinking about.

"elder brother."

"When will you come back?"

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Because Mu Mu had to stay in her hometown to continue visiting relatives and friends for the New Year, Lin Youfeng drove Chen Junqian back to Guoning. After rolling down the car window and waving goodbye to Lin Mu standing outside, Chen Junqian, urged by his sister to return home, had no choice but to embark on his journey home ahead of schedule, ending his wonderful adventure of the day.

He left yesterday and his sister was perfectly fine, but less than 24 hours later, she completely changed her attitude. He has no idea what happened in between.

With this question in mind, Chen Junqian, who had just returned home, casually dealt with the little monster that came over to be affectionate with him, and then immediately went to find his mother. He then learned that Chen Xi was currently staying at his new home.

"How did you end up over there?"

“If you, as the older brother, don’t play with your younger sister, then she’ll get bored and go play on the computer. She’s not usually like that.”

"Hey, Mom, didn't you agree with me going to Mumu's house for Chinese New Year?"

"So you didn't set the time right. Go on, here's the key."

So, is the other major basis for the fact that younger sister characters and childhood friends can be on equal footing really the parents?

Looking at his mother, whose attitudes toward Chen Xi and Lin Mu were almost identical, Chen Junqian couldn't help but fall into the same thought again, and suddenly he began to understand the purpose of the system in creating two separate pages of exclusive achievements for these two types of characters.

Moreover, compared to the parents in anime romantic comedies who are often missing, either dead or too busy, the attitude of parents in real life is undoubtedly also a key factor in whether a romantic comedy can be made. In fact, it's not enough to just win over the male protagonist; the family situations of the other female protagonists must also be considered. This is also one of the directions he strives for after his rebirth.

Thinking about it carefully, apart from Shen Nianqiu's parents whom he hasn't met yet, he's already half-settled things with the parents of the other five girls. Zhu Wenyun's parents are still uncertain, but her grandmother likes him a lot. As for Gu Linguo, it's a problem with her mother... Hmm, it feels like there's still a long way to go.

Carrying the house key given to him by his mother, Chen Junqian returned to Yunqi Jinyuan. As soon as he opened his door, two pairs of shoes appeared in front of him. It seemed that besides his sister, there was another girl here, who must be the one he had thought of on the way here.

Although his mother said he came to his house to play on the computer, Chen Junqian didn't go to the study where the computer was. Instead, he went straight up to the room and opened the door.

Sure enough, there were two kids on his bed. One was leaning against the headboard, seemingly reading a book, while the other was lying at the foot of the bed flipping through a magazine. If only there were a bunch of figurine fragments scattered on the floor next to them, it would be a scene from a hellish scroll painting that would give any otaku high blood pressure during the Lunar New Year.

Good afternoon, brother.

Gu Lingguo, who was not a brat but a true shut-in, was lying there. When she saw him come in, she lazily rolled over like a seal, held the open magazine high in the air with both hands, looked down at him, and greeted him casually.

"He's back."

On the other hand, he even omitted the single-word address, and deliberately turned his eyes away from his real sister when saying this.

Hey, hey, hey, the "tsundere younger sister" trait was already outdated three years ago, okay?

Because Gu Lingguo and Chen Xi arrived in his room at the same time, Chen Junqian subconsciously assumed that the two had come together, or that Chen Xi had arrived first and Gu Lingguo had followed after finding out. He didn't ask why she was there, but instead sat down on the chair next to him, resting his chin on his arm on the back of the chair, and raised an eyebrow at them.

"Why do they all like to lie on the bed? I don't have a computer to play on my bed."

"whispering sound."

Chen Xi knew, of course, that her brother was teasing her, but the more he did that, the more aggrieved she felt. After all, it was because he had started taking her out to play during holidays a few years ago that she gradually gave up the habit of bringing her laptop to relatives' houses and hiding in her room to play computer games, only coming out for a short while during mealtimes. But after her good brother had done all that, he turned around and left her alone again.

That's awful! She instinctively glared at him.

The younger sister unleashed her glare, and Chen Junqian's defenses weakened!

"Okay, my question."

After all, it was the first day of the Lunar New Year that Chen Junqian had sent his younger sister into the hell of the New Year and relatives. He knew Chen Xi's personality very well. Moreover, according to his mother, she had already come here alone last night. It seemed that she really couldn't survive alone in that kind of atmosphere and environment.

"Stop staring, smile."

He reached out and gently tickled the soles of his sister's feet, which were clad in red socks. The sister immediately and quickly pulled her foot back, but her face was no longer as tense as before. She then gently kicked his knee twice, seemingly having completely calmed down, and began to ask about Chen Junqian's affairs with Lin Mu.

"It's nothing. I went for a walk in the mountains with Mumu, and then we chatted for a while in the evening. I didn't play for long in the morning before your call brought me back."

Are you going again next year?

"Even if we go, it won't be on the first day of the Lunar New Year."

"Hmm, that's more like it."

In fact, Chen Junqian knew that his sister only needed him more these days when there were many people around. For example, when she went to Lin'an for two or three days on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year last year, the other party did not have such a big problem, because the New Year was basically over by then.

and……

Chen Junqian glanced at Gu Linguo, who hadn't said much and was just smiling as she listened to the siblings' conversation, without making a sound. He vaguely felt that his sister's strange attitude today was related to Gu Linguo's presence.

In his view, Gu Linguo's biggest problem is that while she appears sunny on the surface, she is actually a black hole that endlessly radiates negative emotions. She is even more negative and pessimistic than Xu Youwei. If Youyou is someone who needs to be fully wrapped up in terms of emotional intelligence to be comfortable to get along with, then Gu Linguo cannot be affected in the slightest on a mental level. Otherwise, she will easily be dragged into the quagmire and abyss in her thinking.

Being too intimate with someone you barely know will naturally have this effect, and Gu Linguo, or rather, the child, is the one who likes to be too intimate with someone you barely know. In fact, from the other person's perspective, the two of them are not even close friends, because the child has been silently watching him for a long time without his knowledge. That's what's really interesting.

Perhaps only by solving this problem can we achieve our goal.

Only then will the system truly be willing to include her among the heroines of this real-life romantic comedy.

Therefore, he took the initiative to step forward and regain control.

"Lin Guo has been learning piano recently, right? May I take a look?"

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PS2: Because many people have been asking, and there is indeed a part of the plot that requires images, I will create a group later and notify everyone at the end of the chapter as soon as possible.

Chapter 30: Anything that doesn't conform to my ideas is feudal superstition (Part 2)

Parents in Guoning are not usually willing to enroll their children in music-related extracurricular classes. For this small city in southern Anhui with a permanent population of only 300,000, everything must be geared towards education. That's why it has taken so long to build such a key middle school with an almost 100% undergraduate admission rate, and a student who gets into Tsinghua or Peking University every two years. Naturally, all the other training classes that have sprung up like mushrooms after rain are also learning-related.

In the past two years, when the crackdown on after-school tutoring classes was not very strict, almost all the teachers in Chen Junqian's class who were allowed to teach were teaching. Even if the policy on teachers running after-school tutoring classes in schools is implemented in two years, parents and teachers will still tacitly reach an agreement and move their positions like guerrilla warfare, either in underground parking garages with the roller shutters closed, or in teachers' homes, all vying with each other to rush towards the two single-plank bridges of the middle school entrance examination and the college entrance examination.

Against this backdrop, Gu Linguo was naturally curious as to why her mother had suddenly enrolled her in a piano tutoring class. However, she didn't even need to ask; her mother had already explained the reasons to her in detail.

To be honest, the mother and daughter communicate quite a bit, but most of it is just one-way chatter like this. For Gu Linguo's mother, Lin Su, she is the kind of person who doesn't want her daughter to not notice her good intentions. When she calls her daughter and father to dinner, she will say, "I serve you two at home every day," and "You only need to be waited on hand and foot." When she comes home from get off work, she will say, "I work myself to the bone to earn money outside, and all of it is spent on you." There are countless other things she says about her daughter's studies and life.

This time, her reason for 'doing what's best for Gu Lingguo' was based on a past experience of hers, and she was advising her daughter on so-called life lessons in the tone of someone who had been through it all.

Gu Lingguo knew that her mother had always looked down on her father, otherwise she wouldn't have insisted on adding her own mark to her name. But she really didn't expect that after so many years, her mother would still hold a grudge against another boy she met many years ago.

According to Lin Su herself, if the boy she liked back then hadn't met another girl who could play the piano, her life wouldn't be the way it is now. The other girl quickly caught the last wave of the last century and made a fortune, and she also became a wealthy lady.

Like many women, Lin Su initially wanted to be a boss, and then a boss's wife. But when both of those paths were exhausted, her last remaining choice was to become the boss's mother.

So if you don't live up to my expectations, I'll continue living in this house.

Being able to hear such words from one's mother, this feeling of incongruity is just as strange as the brand-new, shiny electronic keyboard that Lin Su wipes several times a day, which sits next to the old bookshelf that has been used for more than ten years.

Just like Maslow's hierarchy of needs, after confirming that her daughter's grades had reached a good standard and that she had found a free after-school tutor like Chen Junqian, Lin Su's next task was to cultivate and nurture a bit of aristocratic temperament in her.

Just like the theme song "Dark Fragrance" from her favorite TV series "The Story of a Noble Family," she was determined to implant such a fragrance into her daughter's bones. So whenever Gu Linguo practiced the piano in front of her, Lin Su would also join in and entertain herself.

In this small, self-sufficient world created by the sound of the piano, where there was no sunlight, she had reached a kind of self-deceptive reconciliation with herself. So much so that whenever she went out to work as a housekeeper and greeted all kinds of clients and villas, Lin Su could calmly tell herself, like a little monk reciting scriptures, that she could become like that in the future.

Her daughter will be successful, or even if she isn't, she can find someone successful and become the boss's mother or the boss's mother-in-law.

And so, on the afternoon of the second day of the Lunar New Year, when she returned to her new home in the city after visiting relatives in her hometown, she saw this scene as soon as she opened the door.

For a middle-aged woman with a limited level of education, it's natural that she couldn't come up with any elegant sentences or adjectives like those in classical Chinese prose. Just like her thoughts on the art of the piano, she could only come up with the words "elegant" and "aristocratic."

Therefore, she could only use the simplest words to describe it.

A boy, a piano.

It looks good and sounds good.

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In fact, even though the system's "versatility" endowed Chen Junqian with basic piano skills and abilities, this was indeed the first time he had tried playing the piano in real life. Therefore, he did not play with the same powerful flair as Lang Lang, a piano master he had seen on TV who could probably shake off half a pound of dandruff after playing a piece. He simply sat there and played a soothing little tune.

Even so, it was still quite a shock to the two girls listening in. After all, they had never known that Chen Junqian could play this kind of instrument before. This was especially true for Gu Lingguo, who had been learning piano for some time. Having already entered the field, she knew Chen Junqian's level was definitely high enough to take an exam, and at least at level six or above.

But clearly, within her own intelligence network, Chen Junqian had never come into contact with these things before, or perhaps it was in a place she didn't know about, even before that?

"call--"

He gently placed his palms on the piano keys, pressing down the last chord as softly as if caressing velvet. Only after the lingering sound faded away in the twilight did Chen Junqian finally stand up from his seat. He stretched his ten fingers in the air, still captivating the two girls' attention, as if beautiful notes could rise from there again just like before.

"When did you learn this, brother?"

He was indeed a little surprised, and Chen Xi even called out to her brother after a long time, asking him with a curious look.

“I’ve watched a lot of online lessons, and I’ve practiced with Youwei before when we played together. She has a piano at home.”

We used a classmate named Youyou, who is indeed wealthy and owns a piano, as a temporary shield. However, the piano in her family was intended for her younger sister, and it's a genuine, high-end brand piano worth at least tens of thousands of yuan. We can see it every year when we visit her family on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

"Oh, that's amazing. You seemed even more handsome than Xin Nan just now."

"Then I won't summon any Flame Dragon Armor."

Seeing Chen Junqian and Chen Xi laughing and talking, Gu Linguo wanted to subconsciously join in the conversation, but as soon as she turned her gaze, she held her breath and saw her mother standing there.

"Mom, you're back."

It was almost like a fixed instruction; if you didn't greet the other person when they came home, you would receive a complaint like, "I worked myself to the bone outside and came home to have to put up with your attitude." So Gu Lingguo immediately went over and greeted them like that.

"I brought my friends over to my house."

Since Chen Junqian and Chen Xi, who came today, were neighbors and had been brought home once before, Gu Lingguo didn't introduce them further. After speaking, she stood there with her head down, waiting for her mother's reply. However, after a long time, she didn't receive a reply. She looked up in surprise and saw that her mother was still staring at Chen Junqian not far away.

"Happy New Year, Auntie. This is my younger sister. I apologize for the sudden visit. Did you just come back from visiting your relatives?"

Compared to Gu Lingguo, who would instantly fall into various negative states in front of her mother, and her sister who was equally unable to handle her, Chen Junqian's demeanor was much more natural. While holding his sister's hand, he took the initiative to greet her, and then carefully closed the electronic keyboard again.

"I just tried playing this electronic keyboard, and the quality is quite good, and the pitch is very accurate. It must have cost a lot of money."

Based on his understanding of Lin Su, he expected that once he brought up this topic, she would immediately and readily claim the credit, satisfying her vanity slightly before making a hasty retreat. However, this time Lin Su did not take the opportunity to back down, but instead asked the same question as Chen Xi had asked earlier:

"Have you studied piano before?"

"I wouldn't say she's studied systematically. If Lin Guo practices for a little longer, she should be able to reach this level."

To avoid becoming someone else's child or a tool to put pressure on Gu Linguo, Chen Junqian acted modestly while emphasizing the other person's talent.

"Ah That's good."

Unaware of what she was thinking, Lin Su, whom Chen Junqian had assumed would linger a little longer, uttered this seemingly random sentence and then turned and left.