I turned reality into a romantic comedy

"elder sister?"

"Yeah, because he's two years older than me."

"That means they're three years older than me. I'm in fourth grade, plus one is fifth grade, plus two is sixth grade, and plus three... wow, doesn't that mean the person opposite me is a middle school student?"

"Oh, they're already in the first year of junior high this year."

"Is the academic pressure in junior high school particularly high? It seems like a lot of new subjects with exams have been added all at once. But at least I can formally study history now, which sounds pretty good, doesn't it?"

"The pressure was indeed quite high before the subject division. It was like going from three subjects in elementary school to nine subjects including physics, chemistry, biology, geography, politics, and history. After the subject division, we could at least learn three fewer subjects."

It has to be said that Chen Junqian is quite good at playing the dual-thread game. On one hand, he is replying to Shen Nianqiu's messages on his phone, and on the other hand, he can answer his sister's various questions verbally.

Because of his sister's series of questions, Chen Junqian was also a little curious about Shen Nianqiu's specific learning situation after entering junior high school. After all, a student's primary job is to study, so he asked her about it as well.

"It's so-so, I can barely keep up. The teacher keeps saying that the first year of junior high is a crucial year for laying the foundation for the high school entrance exam, so I feel a lot of pressure."

For Chen Junqian, who has gone through the entire primary and junior high school education process, the saying that the first year of junior high is the key to laying a foundation, the second year is the watershed, and the third year is the final sprint is also the key year can actually be applied to high school. In any case, every year is considered crucial by teachers, and the goal is to get one more point in the final high school and college entrance examinations.

"Take it slow. If there's anything you need to say, you can tell me directly on QQ. After all, I have a mobile phone now, and I can see messages every night when I get home."

"Huh? Little brother, when did you get a cell phone? Was it a reward from your parents for getting good grades? Or did you save up your New Year's money to buy it?"

"No, it was a gift from a friend."

"That Lin Mu?"

"No, that's not it, it's another one."

"male?"

"Um, a girl."

“…You’re really amazing, little brother.”

Just like Shen Nianqiu on the other end of QQ, Chen Xi, who was lying next to Chen Junqian, also exclaimed, "Brother, you're really amazing!" when she saw the messages Chen Junqian sent. The little girl was even muttering about when someone would give her a cell phone.

"Alright, you can continue playing with your sister. I'm going to take a shower first, and I'll call you later. Remember to send me the phone number for your new phone."

"Well, goodbye sister."

Chen Junqian quickly sent his current phone number and then put away his phone, ending his chat with Shen Nianqiu. Actually, if it weren't for his younger sister clinging to him, he would have liked to chat with her a little longer about her junior high school life. Although she didn't express herself very clearly, he could still sense that her pressure was not as simple as she said.

If possible, he would actually like to help Shen Nianqiu, and perhaps even try to get another achievement from the system.

Let's have a study session together!

Although it's often joked that romantic comedies, aside from their student status, have almost no depiction of studying or taking exams, and the school seems to have become a trigger for various events such as school festivals, cultural festivals, student council activities, and club activities, students' primary job is still to study, and romantic comedies that even use this as their core selling point are not uncommon.

Whether it's being patiently tutored by a high-achieving female protagonist in the library, or having the high-achieving student take the low-achieving female protagonist to their home or other places for private tutoring on weekends, sometimes doing things with someone you like does have a special boost, and study sessions are no exception.

Condition for completion: Participate in a study session (at least one hour) with the heroines who are suited for romantic comedies.

Actually, if we're being honest, the scene in last year's movie theater where he taught Lin Mu how to practice the Hengshui style of calligraphy on a fluorescent drawing board could be considered, but because it didn't meet the time requirement, it wasn't included.

Later, although he wanted to ask Lin Mu to help him achieve this achievement, Mu Mu was indeed somewhat resistant. After all, she had to attend tutoring classes all day on weekends. She finally had time to play with him, and if he asked her to study again, she would probably pout and be unhappy.

"Speaking of which, how are Xixi's grades? I don't think your parents have mentioned them much."

"Because you, my brother, are sitting here at the top of the grade. But my grades are alright too. I got seventh place in the class in the final exam this time."

"That's really good. Here, have some candy."

He casually stuffed a sweet jujube into his sister's mouth. Putting aside his achievements for the moment, Chen Junqian also began to seriously think about this study session. After all, reality is not like the romantic comedy in this achievement. Academic performance is always an unavoidable part for everyone. It can even be said that more than half of the joy and pressure of many people's childhood and school years comes from this.

If we were to rank the students' grades, Zhu Wenyun would undoubtedly be an excellent student, especially after he guided her to gradually correct her slow writing speed in impromptu essays. Her grades have consistently ranked among the top in her class and even her grade.

Next up is Xu Youwei. What's most interesting about her grades is that they only started to improve after they became deskmates last semester. Her grades even became an example for the homeroom teacher, who emphasized the importance of deskmates helping each other, learning from each other, and making progress together. Now she's definitely among the top students in the class.

Lin Mu... well, Mu Mu's grades are indeed quite worrying. If she was in the middle range when they first met last year, then as she gets older, she has to be ranked below average. Otherwise, her parents wouldn't have continued to send her to tutoring classes. In fact, not sending her to any more classes is already a sign of their tolerance.

If it were another parent who pushes their child too hard, they would probably confiscate all their phones and computers and not let them touch them until their grades improve.

Therefore, after considering all factors, a study session does seem to be feasible.

Furthermore, theoretically, gathering people together would increase the chance of triggering the achievement "[Scandal Field in Progress]".

As a newly emerging animation master, Chen Junqian understands one principle well.

If you want to trigger a chaotic situation, it's best to do it before everyone grows up and enters adolescence, when they are still children.

After all, he didn't want to receive a 'goodbye' text message from a girl on Christmas Eve, accompanied by the sound of a kettle boiling.

Chapter 4: Children will think of anything to make themselves happy (Part 2)

It can only be said that Chen Xi is not a big fan of the Spring Festival Gala. However, in fact, Chen Junqian himself has not watched the Spring Festival Gala once since 2014. In addition, this year he and Shen Nianqiu could not watch it together and complain at the same time. So this year's Spring Festival Gala quickly became background noise. The two of them began to find something else to pass the time in order to get through the long night of New Year's Eve.

If it were at Chen Junqian's house, there would be a full range of games such as Monopoly, Animal Chess, Chinese Chess, and Ludo. He and Lin Mu had played countless rounds of these games. But in the rural countryside, they could only search through drawers and cabinets for a long time before finding playing cards and mahjong tiles.

After all, the routine activity after relatives come over for dinner during the Chinese New Year is usually playing cards and mahjong, so Grandma Chen Junqian's family also has a few sets of mahjong sets on hand.

As the saying goes, adults have their own way of playing, and children naturally have their own way of playing. Chen Junqian and his sister soon picked up a few decks of cards and started playing a game called "Little Cat Fishing," which required absolutely no skill and was purely based on luck.

Basically, each person draws a card from their deck and places it on the table. If the card matches the value of a previous card, both cards, along with the other cards in between, are taken back. This continues until either player has drawn all their cards. It's a purely casual game that adults wouldn't think you're gambling.

Of course, the thrill of catching a big fish and getting back a dozen or twenty cards in one go is still there, and you don't even have to think about it.

While playing "cat fishing" with his sister, Chen Junqian unconsciously recalled the scene of playing cards with his roommates after he went to university. It wasn't until then that he realized that the names of JQKA in playing cards were different in different places.

For example, he has always called the sequence "十JQKA" since he was a child. However, some of his roommates pronounced Q as "圈" and others pronounced K as the letter K. It can only be said that the dialects in different places are indeed quite amazing.

Having grown slightly tired of playing cards, Chen Xi turned his attention to the smooth, rounded mahjong tiles:

“My parents usually don’t let me touch this, even though they play mahjong all the time. They get scolded if I just watch them play.”

Chen Xi stacked several mahjong tiles into a trapezoid shape like building blocks, then pouted in dissatisfaction.

"Aren't they still playing it now?"

Chen Junqian, who had never played mahjong before his rebirth and did not know the rules of mahjong, could only remain noncommittal about this. However, while helping his sister complete the mahjong blocks, he remembered the small business opportunity of mahjong machines.

Because Chen Junqian's own mother is a mahjong enthusiast, he knows very well that at a time when the price of electric mahjong machines has just been driven down by domestic brands and the e-commerce boom, most mahjong parlors in a small place like Guoning have not yet introduced mahjong machines on a large scale. After each round, the four people at the table have to hand-wash the tiles. This can be seen from the joke in Zhao Benshan's 2008 Spring Festival Gala skit "Torchbearer" that playing Tai Chi is "shuffling, drawing, looking, playing, and winning".

Card and chess rooms are never a business that makes you rich, but you can make a little money. If you can be the first to try something new, the results will probably be even better.

While Chen Junqian was thinking, Chen Xi had already finished building a small mahjong tower and then invited him to play a game of drawing tiles, except for the mahjong tiles on the top floor. The two of them would draw out one tile each, and whoever finished drawing all the tiles and the whole tower collapsed would lose.

It has to be said that children's creativity and imagination in this area are truly limitless, and Chen Xi is no exception. Anyway, Chen Junqian never hit her. In the blink of an eye, the whole building collapsed with a crash. You know what, it was actually quite stress-relieving to watch.

After finishing this game, Chen Xi had another brilliant idea. He asked Chen Junqian to help him shuffle all the mahjong tiles over and then stack them into a square. Finally, they flipped them over, creating an offline version of the mahjong matching game.

However, no matter how energetic a child is, there is always a limit. After about 10:30, Chen Xi started yawning uncontrollably, her eyelids drooping, and she looked obviously sleepy.

"Why don't you go lie down on the bed for a while? I'll wake you up to set off firecrackers at midnight."

"No, I promised to stay up with my brother until midnight."

Chen Xi, who was using both hands to pry open her eyelids and looked like she was making a face, was already lying on her side and sliding onto Chen Junqian's lap, as if to say that sleeping here for a while could be considered as not going to bed early and therefore not breaking the contract.

When Chen Junqian gently nudged her shoulder and she opened her eyes, her brother was already on his phone, seemingly making a call to someone. However, he put the phone down temporarily and patted her head.

"Let's go, it'll be midnight in five minutes. My dad and the others are coming back to set off firecrackers. Let's go to the yard, the snow is getting heavier."

Upon hearing that the snow had intensified, Chen Xi suddenly perked up a bit. He rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked out the window. Sure enough, compared to the light drizzle a few hours ago, it had now turned into a large, visible snowflake, falling steadily from the sky and earth.

"Well, let's go."

Sitting up straight again from Chen Junqian's lap, Chen Xi rubbed her slightly sore neck and looked towards her brother:

"Did your thighs go numb from being pressed down? I think I slept for more than an hour."

"It's alright, Xixi is very light."

After all, the physical abilities of a two-dimensional sports student are undeniable. Let alone lying down for an hour, Chen Junqian probably wouldn't feel anything even if he lay down all night. The only thing that's a little worrying is that this kid has wasted another achievement. I wonder if the embarrassing system will reissue it after the information is officially entered.

【Knee pillow! Knee pillow! 】

As the saying goes, "When drunk, one can lie on a beauty's lap; when awake, one can wield power over the world." In reality, the male protagonist of our romantic comedy only needs to achieve the first half of the saying, which is to use a lap pillow!

Whether it's resting your head on the lap of a tolerant, older sister-like heroine, or offering your knees to a younger sister-like heroine seeking comfort, whether it's chatting and rubbing against her close, or simply closing your eyes to feel her breath and take a nap, these are all excellent romantic comedy scenes.

Conditions for achieving this: Have a lap pillow with a heroine who is suited for romantic comedies, or have a lap pillow placed on your lap once (for at least ten minutes).

Other achievements associated with this one include "After a lap pillow, of course you have to clean your ears."

After stretching his legs a little, Chen Junqian stood up from his seat without any discomfort and went to the yard with his sister. A thin layer of snow had already piled up on the ground, making him look forward to tomorrow.

As the New Year's countdown ended on the TV in the room and the clock struck twelve, along with the fireworks and firecrackers from Chen Junqian's house, the entire countryside and even the surrounding villages for miles around were filled with the sounds of firecrackers exploding one after another. Magnificent fireworks turned the sky into daylight. Chen Xi next to him covered his ears, and together with Xiao Guai, who was frightened by the firecrackers and running around, they stomped through the snow in the yard for a while before running back into the house.

"Did you wake your sister up?"

"Yes, she's playing in the snow outside."

Taking advantage of this moment, Chen Junqian finally had the opportunity to run to a secluded corner to continue Shen Nianqiu's call. Even if his parents saw him, he could just tell them that it was a cell phone that Chen Xi had brought. It was perfect.

"It's raining here too. I think it'll probably pile up a bit by tomorrow morning."

"Yes, but once it's built, I'll have to help my sister build another snowman."

"I'm starting to feel a little envious... Happy New Year."

"Well, Happy New Year."

After exchanging New Year's greetings at the very moment the Lunar New Year arrived, Chen Junqian hung up the phone, put it back in his pocket, and called out to his sister:

"Alright, alright, Xixi can go to bed now. Weren't you so sleepy just now?"

After setting off the firecrackers at midnight, the family went back to their rooms to sleep. Chen Xi, who had been jumping around outside just moments before, suddenly became like Ultraman after his last beam of light, collapsing onto the bed without even taking off her clothes. In the end, Chen Junqian had to coax her to at least take off her down jacket before she finally rolled into bed and, wriggling around, threw her sweater out.

After folding the clothes his sister had thrown out and placing them on the bedside table near her, Chen Junqian took off his own clothes, crawled into bed, turned off the light, and prepared to sleep. However, a short while later, he felt a foot suddenly slip out from under his blanket and rub against his stomach playfully.

Chen Junqian, of course, wouldn't tolerate his sister's provocative behavior. Without saying a word, he stretched out both hands, one hand holding her ankle to control her, and the other hand responding without hesitation with two tickling attacks. When he released his hands, she indeed knew she had to back down and quickly withdrew.

However, when Chen Junqian opened his eyes again the next morning, Chen Xi, who had no sleeping posture whatsoever, was not only lying on one leg, but half of his body was in his bed.

His own blanket only crookedly covered his upper body, and the lower half was somehow tucked up to him. His soft, white feet were right next to him, within easy reach. If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't get the achievement, Chen Junqian would have liked to take the socks from the side and secretly put them on his sister, so he could get the achievement "Please let me put your socks on you".

Paying homage to Emperor Ai of Han, who in history would rather cut off his sleeve than wake his lover Dong Xian, Chen Junqian got out of bed quite carefully. After putting on his clothes, he gently closed the door and went to the back to use the water pump to wash his face and wake himself up.

After he finished washing up and even helped prepare breakfast, Chen Junqian, under his grandmother's instructions, went back to his room to wake his younger sister.

It's true that waking someone up is not an easy task, especially in winter. Although Chen Xi looked like she was awake in bed, she didn't seem fully awake. She had been wearing a sweater for a long time without putting it on, and she even looked like she was about to fall asleep again.

Hearing his grandmother calling him to eat, Chen Junqian didn't hesitate and immediately pulled his younger sister out of the blanket like a kitten. He let her sit on the edge of the bed, still half asleep, and then grabbed the sweater and thermal underwear next to him and put them on her. He did the same with her pants, spreading them out on the side of the bed beforehand, tucking her legs in, and then helped her stand up and pulled her up again.

Three to five minutes later, apart from her hair still being a little messy and her eyes not being fully open yet, she had at least put all her clothes on, and Chen Junqian quickly led his sister out of the room.

A gust of cold morning wind blew in her face, and Chen Xi finally seemed to wake up a bit. She then reached up to tidy up the unruly tufts of hair sticking up all over her head, muttering a self-justification:

"It was too noisy last night, and I didn't fall asleep until very late."

"Yes, yes, you should go brush your teeth and wash your face first. I have to go out to visit relatives and friends for the New Year soon. You can play at home by yourself for a while."

Since the two of them had no kinship, the relatives that Chen Junqian was going to visit for the New Year were not Chen Xi's relatives, so he couldn't bring them along. However, Chen Xi had come to Chen Junqian's place to avoid the New Year's greetings that she didn't like at all, so she nodded knowingly and said that she would just wait for him to come back at home.

However, this doesn't mean that you only need to visit relatives during the Spring Festival. Just like in previous years, many people who wanted to use his father's connections would come to Chen Xi's house during the Spring Festival to try to build rapport. Compared to previous years, Chen Jun also needs to visit one more relative who is not a relative on the first day of the Lunar New Year this year.

That was Chairman Xu, who entrusted him with an important task at the end of last year and took the initiative to promote him to be the head of the branch factory.

Actually, Chen Junqian didn't need to be brought along, since it was just a matter of thanking the leader for promoting him. But considering that he might be using his son's connections, Chen Junqian still brought him along.

However, to be honest, this was actually Chen Junqian's first time visiting Xu Youwei's home.

Of course, at this time, the young lady, who was also lying in bed hugging a teddy bear, was unaware of this.

Because she was still reliving the dream she had last night after watching the movie "2012".

If after the apocalypse, only these two humans are left on Earth.

...Well, there seems to be no other way!

Chapter 5: Oh right, so I was actually Mu Mu's friend after all (Two Chapters Combined)