I turned reality into a romantic comedy

"Just take the check to the bank to do the business, and I'll go with you."

"That's good."

After Zhu Wenyun breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, she discussed another matter with Chen Junqian:

"Besides the manuscript, I also need to submit a young author profile printed at the beginning of my manuscript's author introduction. I've filled out a copy like this for now. What do you think?"

Chen Junqian took a piece of paper from the other party and looked down at it:

Name: Zhu Wenjun

Age: eleven years old

Physical characteristics: A bit tall?

Favorite food: small steamed buns

Favorite colors: black, red

Favorite animal: Wolf

My favorite piece of music: "Fisherman's Song at Dusk"

Favorite subject: Chinese

Hobbies: Reading and writing

My least favorite thing: Being alone

My dream job: Writer

My biggest wish right now is to write more and better stories.

"I don't think there's anything wrong, but so your favorite music is 'Fisherman's Song at Dusk'?"

"Yes, actually I didn't know what my name was at first. I just thought it sounded really nice when I watched the weather forecast with my grandma every night, and then I looked it up and found out the real name."

For Zhu Wenyun, who has watched the 7:30 weather forecast with her grandmother almost every night since she can remember, this instrumental piece is indeed the music that left the deepest impression on her, so she ultimately chose to use it in her music.

"This song is really nice; it's melodious and relaxing."

It can only be said that because his grandparents also grow crops and vegetables in the fields, Chen Junqian also grew up listening to this music. He nodded in agreement upon hearing this.

After chatting about other things for a while, the two promised Zhu Wenyun that they would invite Lin Mu out for a meal once the royalties arrived. Then, just before the school bell rang, they returned to their respective classrooms.

Elementary school courses are indeed no longer difficult for Chen Junqian. Because of his outstanding performance of ranking first in the grade three times in a row, which is impeccable, the teachers turn a blind eye to his slacking off in class, as long as he does not openly disrupt classroom discipline.

But when it was time for the last Chinese class in the afternoon, another thing that Chen Junqian had always remembered, though he couldn't clearly recall the exact date of the stampede, happened—something that genuinely disrupted the class.

It's about Lin Mu's name.

Before her rebirth, even though they were in the same daycare center at noon, they didn't have much interaction. She only clearly remembered one event related to Lin Mu.

But his current position and his relationship with the other party are completely different from what they were back then.

That's why, before the first student uttered the word 'tomb,' and before the other students in the class began to unconsciously chuckle or even egg each other on, Chen Junqian had already raised his hand high:

"Teacher, may I read it?"

The Chinese teacher, who was also Chen Junqian's homeroom teacher, had no objection to Chen Junqian's self-recommendation. After all, Chen Junqian was one of his favorite students. He could read a text aloud in class, or even just go for a walk and come back saying that Chen Junqian had gone to the bathroom.

Moreover, judging from Xu Youwei's case alone, the other party never makes baseless accusations.

When the homeroom teacher heard Chen Junqian pronounce the word "tomb" so clearly and deliberately, almost emphasizing it, he adjusted his glasses and glanced at Lin Mu, who was sitting in the front row, sensing the other's intention.

"Ahem, Chen Junqian not only read with great feeling, but also distinguished between the front and back nasal sounds very clearly, which is commendable."

"I'm too old to change myself, but your class is different from us back then. Standard Mandarin is very important, so you need to consciously pronounce and correct any issues, such as the 'n' in 'doorway' or the 'l' in 'little stick', as well as nasal sounds. This will not only improve your Chinese scores but also make it easier to communicate with others in the future. Do you understand?"

Just like with Xu Youwei back then, the homeroom teacher once again tacitly cooperated with Chen Junqian to put on a double act.

After this preventative measure, although he would still inadvertently utter the word when lecturing, far fewer students below the podium would chuckle or even heckle at it. Occasionally, a couple of students would immediately receive a death stare from Chen Junqian.

As a prominent figure on campus recently, everyone was still willing to give Chen Junqian face. After all, everyone knew that if things really escalated to the teachers, how could they compare their credibility with Chen Junqian, who was a prospective "Three Good Student," a recipient of the "Heroic Deeds" award, and even appeared on local TV news?

Chen Junqian didn't think too much about nipping the small commotion in the bud, since the person in the front row still looked confused even after class and probably had no idea.

However, he was wrong again this time.

That very evening, after finishing all her homework, Lin Mu, as usual, took out her second Candy House diary from her locked drawer, carefully selected a Sweet Secret series mechanical pencil specifically for writing in her diary, and then wrote down the following in her diary:

【XNUM X Year X NUM X Month X NUM X Day】

Actually, I've always liked my name, but it's really annoying when my classmates pronounce it with the same pronunciation and tease me about it, even though they don't really mean any harm.

However, this shouldn't happen again in the future.

Qianqian is the best!

Chapter 61: The Birth of the Largest Boomerang in History (Part 2)

In the first decade of the 21st century, technological development was so rapid that it could be described as changing with each passing day. It was as if, without us noticing, the mobile phones our parents used had evolved from flip phones to touchscreen phones, and then in an instant, they had evolved into smartphones with even more mature touchscreen technology.

The reason Chen Junqian is making such a remark is that today, the first day of summer vacation, when Lin Mu invited him to his house to play, he found that Lin Mu was already sitting on the sofa playing with his father's new iPhone 4 that he had just bought last month.

Although the iPhone 4 was released in June, it was not officially launched in China at that time. The one that Lin Mu's father had was purchased in Japan by a friend and then sent over. So, in the entire country, Lin Mu was probably one of the first children to play with this iPhone.

Chen Junqian himself doesn't have any particular impression of this phone, since his family never bought one. His biggest memory is probably that two years later, there was a news story about a student selling a kidney to buy an iPhone 4, which became the biggest hot topic at the time.

And I remember that not long after this incident, my parents seemed to be afraid that he would also be led astray by this strange trend, so they promised to buy him whatever Apple products were released at that time after he took the college entrance examination and came of age.

However, none of the three of them were able to live to see the day when that promise was fulfilled, so when Chen Junqian saw the iPhone 4 again, he was also a little emotional.

However, children don't really care about things like phone performance or chip technology. What they care about more is what fun new games they can play on it. Lin Mu was no exception. As soon as he got his father's phone, he started browsing and downloading a whole bunch of games from the app store.

As touch technology matured, the stylus used to assist in clicking the screen naturally faded into history. With the enlargement of mobile phone screens, more and more new-generation mobile games that followed this trend began to emerge, such as Angry Birds, which Lin Mu is currently playing with great concentration.

"Diu—biu".

Accompanied by rather catchy sound effects, one bird after another is launched from the slingshot that is fully drawn by the finger and hits the green pig's head. This kind of game, which is obvious at first glance, does not always need to be translated into Chinese. Children can easily pick it up after playing a couple of levels on their own.

But that's only two levels.

Clearly, for Lin Mu, who can achieve 'amazing results' in jigsaw puzzle games, after passing the first few levels which can be considered tutorial levels, she began to show obvious signs of being out of her depth. After all, she didn't know how to study the characteristics of each bird or the weaknesses of the obstacles, so her gameplay was just a straightforward display of brute force.

Watching the little red birds crash into the iron plate one after another, Chen Junqian felt a faint phantom pain.

"so hard……"

After experiencing several setbacks, Lin Mu stretched lazily on the sofa. Only then did he belatedly notice Chen Junqian standing behind him. However, he didn't seem flustered at all. Instead, he patted the spot next to him with a familiar air.

"Qianqian's here! Sit down, sit down. I'll get you a drink. Here, this is my dad's new phone. It has lots of games on it, but they're a bit difficult. How about we play this one today?"

"Ah."

Since they were already very close, Chen Junqian sat down without any hesitation, drinking the chilled Want Want milk that Lin Mu had brought him, and started playing Angry Birds, which she had gotten stuck on.

Actually, once you grasp the characteristics of each bird and slightly control the force and direction, and instead of aiming to eliminate them directly, you can use obstacles to defeat the pigs, the first Angry Birds game isn't that difficult. However, since this game is not really suitable for two people to play together or for each person to have one life, the two of them switched to another game after advancing a few levels.

If Chen Junqian were to choose a game that best represents the advancements in touch technology during this period, it would probably be Fruit Ninja, which they are currently playing.

As a classic game that became a global sensation upon its release, Chen Junqian recalls that the plot of the second season of "Fruit Warriors" was closely related to the game, which in a way could be considered breaking the fourth wall.

However, the most important thing right now is that this game is definitely more suitable for Lin Mu than the educational game Angry Birds.

That's how it was.

But ever since the other party confidently declared that he had completely mastered all the secrets of the game and wanted to compete with Chen Junqian, only to be easily defeated by Chen Junqian using a technique where he didn't just swipe one fruit at a time, but deliberately saved it to form a horizontal line at the last moment before it fell and slashed it off to multiply the score, little Lin Mu has once again fallen into the predicament of wanting to learn but knowing that his hands and brain are bound to fall behind.

All I can say is that after a lot of frantic activity, either you miss cutting the fruit and it falls to the ground with a clatter, or you accidentally kill a bomb thrown at you with a single big slice, ending the game immediately.

Now I understand why the other person only chooses the cooperative two-player games when playing 4399 games with me. It seems that Lin Mu can't handle even slightly challenging games. It feels like if we play a fighting game like King of Fighters, Chen Junqian's mediocre skills could easily combo the other person until he can't move at all.

After playing Fruit Ninja for a while, taking turns with each other's lives, Lin Mu, perhaps because he was really tempted by the sliced ​​fruit on the screen, or simply because he remembered that he still had fruit at home, quickly grabbed a half-cut watermelon from the refrigerator.

After tearing off the plastic wrap covering the watermelon, she took a spoon from the cupboard for herself and Chen Junqian to scoop out the watermelon flesh.

Although after playing for a while, it turned into Chen Junqian feeding her, because don't ask, the answer is that both hands were busy operating and there was no free time.

However, thanks to Lin Mu and Xu Youwei, the achievement "Come... Ah" has been the fastest progressing achievement among Chen Junqian's series of repeatable achievements so far, and has now broken through the 100 mark, moving towards the 1,000 mark.

After all, whether you're feeding someone or being fed, it counts as one time, so it's used up in every sense. Even Zhu Wenyun and Chen Junqian used it up several times when they went to each other's houses and asked Chen Junqian to make fried rice for them.

After the two of them finished eating all the watermelon, spoonful by spoonful, they were pretty much done playing Fruit Ninja. After all, children's interest in new things always comes and goes quickly, and Lin Mu soon started looking for the next game that looked pretty good.

At this time in 2010, many classic games in Chen Junqian's memory had not yet been officially released, such as the Temple Run series that sparked the mobile parkour game craze, as well as subsequent releases such as Subway Surfers, Temple Run, or Ski Safari.

As for puzzle games, the little crocodile prince that he played for a long time when he was a child, who refused to take a bath even if he didn't get a drop of water, has not yet made his official debut. There are still many games that use the design ideas of button mobile games from the past. For example, the game "Doodle Jump" that Lin Mu clicked on now looks very similar to the panda climbing tree game they used to play. By using various platforms, you can avoid monsters and achieve a high score while jumping upwards.

However, Lin Mu found it difficult to master purely puzzle games, whether it was Angry Birds, which he had just played, or Cut the Rope, which looked more complex and made him feel like his brain was about to explode after just a little thought.

All I can say is that when it comes to games, Lin Mu has always adhered to the principle that she plays them for fun, not for them to play her. So whenever she gets a little frustrated or doesn't feel comfortable playing, she either throws her phone at Chen Junqian and watches him pass through the levels, enjoying the satisfaction of being a childhood sweetheart and a proud observer, or she simply changes the channel.

After repeating this process over and over again, Lin Mu probably got a little bored. He tossed his phone aside and casually leaned against Chen Junqian's lap, gently poking his cheek while complaining somewhat discontentedly:

"Why are games these days either about completing levels or getting high scores... they're not fun at all."

As the apple of her parents' eye since childhood, Lin Mu has hardly experienced any major setbacks, nor has she ever had any extreme thoughts. Even though her name is sometimes teased by other classmates because of its homonym, it is still her most cherished treasure.

That's why she couldn't understand Xu Youwei's words and actions, and thus felt the urge to help her.

Although he is the same age as Xu Youwei and Zhu Wenyun, Chen Junqian can indeed see more of a childlike side in Lin Mu.

When they care about something, they are incredibly persistent, but after a slight setback, they quickly give up, like a three-minute burst of enthusiasm. Even though they often can't truly grasp the subtle thoughts of those around them, they never give up trying to understand and help them in their own way.

"Actually, there are games that are purely casual, without any competitive or level-based elements. Let me look for some..."

Faced with his childhood sweetheart's little complaint, Chen Junqian picked up the phone she had tossed aside and, following the clues in his memory, quickly found the game in the app store. It had only been released recently, and even the producer hadn't expected it to reach the top of the global App Store download charts by the end of the year.

As an electronic component that was rarely noticed by game developers and producers at that time, the microphone's application in mobile games had only been seen in one game before.

To my shame, when I was a child, Chen Junqian also played that game with other kids on a relative's phone out of curiosity. It was called "Blowing the Skirt," where you could blow air into the microphone and make the skirt of the girl on the screen flutter.

Of course, he would never let Lin Mu play this kind of game, and it wasn't even in the Apple App Store. What Chen Junqian downloaded at this time was "Talking Tom," which made the most of the microphone on another level.

"what is this?"

Looking at the phone screen that Chen Junqian showed him, Lin Mu lazily raised his head and saw a rather crudely modeled gray cat standing upright. Apart from that, there were only a few buttons, and it was impossible to tell how to play it.

Curious, I reached out and touched its head, and Talking Tom started purring contentedly. I poked its head hard, and it fainted again, only managing to get up from the ground after a while. If I poked its foot, it would let out a loud "Ouch!" And if I clicked on other buttons on the screen, it would make real-time reactions such as scratching the screen with its paws, trying to catch a bird to eat but failing.

But Talking Tom's reactions were limited to only a few, and after trying almost all of them, Lin Mu felt that this game, which lacked any level-based or competitive elements, was getting boring again. Chen Junqian, however, smiled and brought the phone even closer to her mouth:

"Just say something to the microphone."

"Huh? Why?"

Lin Mu had just finished speaking with some confusion when she saw Talking Tom on the screen put his hand to his ear as if listening intently. Two seconds later, she heard him repeat her words in a slightly shrill, high-pitched voice, truly like a cat's:

【Hmm? Why?】

"Yes, the game is called Talking Tom."

As he spoke, Chen Junqian took back his phone, deliberately whispered something into the microphone, and then pointed it back at Lin Mu. A moment later, he heard the grey and white Tom the cat repeat in its strange voice:

[Has Mumu packed all her things for her trip? We're leaving next week!]

"This is fun!"

Perhaps because humans are inherently repeaters, Lin Mu also sat up straight from Chen Junqian's lap with great interest, turned around and read a passage to Talking Tom, then showed it to Chen Junqian.

[All the clothes are packed. Qianqian, can we go buy some snacks for the road tonight? Just like last time, I'm planning to...]

"Hey, where did the rest go?"

"Because it seems that it can only record continuously for a maximum of 30 seconds now, and Talking Tom can't remember it if it's longer."

As he spoke, Chen Junqian pointed to a camera-shaped button in the upper left corner of the screen:

"Click this button and you can save the recording file."

Frankly speaking, this was the key factor that propelled Talking Tom to global fame, as it cleverly utilized the internet's traffic and dissemination capabilities. As more and more players shared Talking Tom's repeated lines on various social media platforms, the game became a global phenomenon.

"I'll give it a try—"

Following Chen Junqian's instructions, Lin Mu first clicked the record button in the upper left corner, and then spoke to Talking Tom:

"It's July 5th, 2010. Lin Mu and Chen Junqian are having a lot of fun together. We want to stay together and be this happy forever."

After a while

Talking Tom nodded and repeated: