I turned reality into a romantic comedy

There seem to be quite a few things to complain about; sometimes, the childhood filter can be really strong.

"Has your brother read this book too?"

Seeing that Chen Junqian had only glanced at the table of contents and then returned the book, Chen Xi asked him this question out of curiosity.

"Yeah, I've seen it."

I even watched the second and third parts.

Recalling a mysterious chapter called "Liu Qing Shu" and the subtle plot involving Zhou Yu and Sun Ce that made him throw the book away, Chen Junqian felt a bit listless.

"Which story is your brother's favorite?"

"I don't have a particular favorite. If I had to pick one, it would probably be the one from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. After all, I'd really like to raise a couple of auspicious beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, like a nine-tailed fox or something."

"That's it."

To Chen Junqian's relief, his dear younger sister didn't seem to be heading in any mysterious direction, but instead nodded sincerely and expressed her thoughts:

"I probably prefer the story about the millet pillow because I always have dreams, sometimes sweet dreams and sometimes nightmares. I wish there was a pillow that could only give me sweet dreams."

"But the story also says that if you only have sweet dreams, they will eventually turn into nightmares. Because if you are immersed in sweet dreams, the reality after you wake up will become an even more deadly nightmare due to the contrast."

"Yes."

Still feeling a bit uneasy, Chen Junqian subtly inquired about his sister's opinions on the stories of "The Ancient Mirror" and "The Beauty of Yu." Her response was that the plots were good, somewhat like a retelling of historical tales, adding her own imagination to the gaps in history, but regarding romance…

"Maybe I'm too young now? I don't really understand the feeling of wanting to fall in love with historical figures. If it's a TV series, you can say you like the actor who plays the historical role."

"When I read historical stories, I do think that this person is very powerful and that person is very powerful, but I still can't understand the idea of ​​falling in love with them. If I had to say, it would probably be like falling in love with my imagination?"

At this point, Chen Xi shook her head vigorously, like a rattle-drum.

"Maybe it's because people think this kind of plot is more romantic? Like the ones I've seen before, such as 'Love Through Time,' 'A Step into the Past,' and 'The Myth.' But if I were to date, I would definitely date someone I know very well, or at least someone like my brother."

Chen Xi seemed to realize that she had said something very impressive in a very casual way. She then used the excuse of putting the book back to run back to her room. After a while, she came out again and started watching TV series with Chen Junqian.

2011 should be considered a big year for the explosive release of Qing Dynasty dramas, from Palace at the beginning of the year to Scarlet Heart and The Legend of Zhen Huan in the second half of the year. However, Chen Junqian used to watch them with his mother, but now he watches them with his sister.

However, it must be said that apart from the electronic-sounding theme song "The Power of Love," Yang Mi's "Palace" did not leave a deep impression on Chen Junqian. Although both were produced by Yu Zheng, in his eyes, the quality was far inferior to last year's "Beauty's Rival in Palace." Therefore, after watching two episodes, the two went back to watch "Kangxi Dynasty," which actually had scenes featuring Wu Sangui, whom they had just discussed.

After spending the afternoon playing with his younger sister at Chen Xi's house, and then being invited to stay for dinner by his aunt who had just returned from get off work, Chen Junqian finally got up to say goodbye.

Not long after, Chen Junqian's uncle, Chen Xi's father, who had just returned from a business trip to Lin'an, also came home and began to eat the meal that his wife had left for him in advance. The conversation naturally turned to the matter of Chen Junqian's family, who had come to the house in the afternoon.

"Is your sister-in-law busy with house renovations lately?"

"Well, Junqian will be starting junior high next year, and he'll definitely need to buy a new house in Yunqi Jinyuan to get into Ningzhong High School."

"I know."

My uncle picked up a piece of food and put it in his mouth, chewing it:

"Isn't Xixi going to junior high school soon? Why don't we buy a new house there? It'll be closer to Ningzhong."

"The new company is doing very well, but I'll definitely be much busier than before in the next two years. As you can see, next month I have to go to Xinjiang to contact nut suppliers and stay there for a while."

“You’re busy with work too. Once Xixi starts junior high, we’ll both be incredibly busy. My parents are getting old, and your parents have passed away a long time ago. Neither of them can take care of the child. It’s better to live closer to Junqian’s family. At least we can go to their house for lunch together and look after each other.”

"Besides, you can see that Junqian is bound to be successful in the future. They're all relatives, and he's willing to take care of Xixi. Listen to me, it'll be fine to build a good relationship with him beforehand."

Then, the man asked his daughter another question:

"Does Xixi want to live with her brother when she's in junior high?"

"miss you!"

Chen Xi nodded without hesitation and then said:

"Dad, Dad, why don't we just buy the house next to my brother's and become neighbors?"

"...That might not work."

The aunt on the other side chimed in:

“When I went to help my sister-in-law with the renovation a couple of days ago, I saw that the house next door was also under construction, so it must have been sold.”

"Then downstairs or upstairs?"

"Okay, I'll ask about it later."

At the same time that Chen Xi's family finalized the purchase of the house, Chen Junqian simultaneously received a corresponding alert in his mind, like a radar detecting a target.

A new female lead suitable for a romantic comedy has been found.

So why are there two?

Chapter 34: It was just like a kiss (two parts combined)

However, what left Chen Junqian somewhat speechless was that the system's notification this time only indicated the number of people. When he tried to look at the specific information and ability ratings of the characters, two garbled characters popped up, indicating that the information could not be viewed.

Having just left his sister's house, Chen Junqian was fairly certain that one of them was Chen Xi, since he could count the number of girls he knew on one hand. But he really had no clue about the other one.

It can't be that the real-life film set here has been invaded by the mysterious power of the Shameful System, and that his good friend Zhong Yu can actually transform into some kind of magical girl in private, right?

Chen Junqian thoroughly reviewed his social circle from the inside out, but even after the summer vacation ended and school started in September, he still couldn't think of who the last person to choose was, so he had to put the matter on hold for the time being.

Anyway, we'll deal with whatever comes our way. Since the system has already detected the other party's existence, this mysterious sixth person will eventually appear in front of him on their own. Let nature take its course.

It's back-to-school season again, and naturally, seating arrangements will change.

However, this had nothing to do with Chen Junqian and Xu Youwei, who remained deskmates. It also had nothing to do with Mu Mu in the front row, who continued to sit there eating chalk dust without fail.

After distributing the brand-new textbooks, exercise books, math notebooks, English notebooks, and other notebooks with Lu Cheng, Chen Junqian returned to his seat and saw Xu Youwei copying the semester's timetable.

She used a timetable she bought from a small shop outside. These timetables came with patterned cards that could be filled in with colored sand and bamboo skewers or small wooden sticks. It was a common toy in those days.

This is especially true for Hsu Yu-wei, who loves painting.

However, playing with this directly at school would easily make a mess of the colored sand everywhere. In addition, it was the time to distribute and receive books, so Xu Youwei did not start her coloring sand painting project at this time. After copying the course schedule for this semester, she started working on the exercise book that had just been distributed.

Unlike last year when she was busy designing her signature, this year Hsu Yu-Wei focused on the words that were already in the exercise book. She would add borders around the strokes of the three large characters "exercise book" with a pen to make them look more three-dimensional. She would also carefully fill in the blank spaces in those borders (such as the middle of the character "book"). Or she would add unnecessary details to the long paragraph about "protecting eyesight, preventing myopia and hygiene knowledge" by turning the two dots on the key point into characters.

It can only be said that children are never short of ideas when it comes to finding things to do for themselves. In their eyes, anything ordinary can instantly become a toy to pass the time.

Lu Cheng, who was sitting in the seat behind Chen Junqian and hadn't been moved this year, tore off a few pages of white paper from the newly issued exercise book and started folding all sorts of airplanes or firecrackers. He even pulled a few boys nearby to compete to see who could fold the loudest firecracker.

For a moment, taking advantage of the absence of the class monitor and the homeroom teacher, the back of the classroom was filled with the noise of them playing with paper firecrackers, which made Chen Junqian turn his head slightly.

After school at noon, Chen Junqian and Lin Mu returned to the after-school care center. Before they knew it, they were already the oldest group of children in the entire center. It was a pity that neither of them had any interest in organizing activities. Otherwise, they could easily gather a group of people to play games like Eagle Catches Chicks or Blind Man's Blind Man.

Incidentally, at this time in September 2011, the most popular animation on the anime world was "Thomas & Friends," so it was once again voted out of the spotlight by most of the children in the after-school program. The one being broadcast now was "Super Beast Force," which had already been aired once in the first half of the year and was chosen by vote.

Before his rebirth, Chen Junqian had worked as a corporate slave and had met a senior screenwriter who had worked in the animation industry in his early years and was now involved in writing short dramas for Douyin. He learned some things about Chinese animation from him.

From the perspective of those who came later, 2011 was indeed a turning point for Chinese animation. This is not to say that Chen Junqian wanted to lament that the quality had declined all the way down since then and that his childhood was gone forever, but rather a more macro-level issue.

Just like the e-commerce companies that Chen Junqian is now investing in, the development of the Internet has started to stir up a storm of change in all walks of life since 2010, and the animation industry is no exception.

To be more specific, it refers to web animation.

In fact, within just this year, two web animations that originated from online games and are essentially fan-made are about to begin to emerge: "I am MT" which is based on "World of Warcraft" and "La La La Demacia" which is based on "League of Legends".

Next year, with the rise of rage comics and "100,000 Cold Jokes" popularized by abstract memes in the early days of the internet, they will also make their debut, taking a completely different path from print comics and TV animation.

Of course, for Chen Junqian and Lin Mu at the moment, these are obviously very distant things. After all, they watch cartoons just for fun and don't really care about the industry behind them. If it's good, it's good; if it's not good, it's not good. The old and the new are essentially the same thing. Didn't we also have garbage cartoons like "The Story of Lei Feng" in the early 2000s that were just trying to get subsidies?

"How's Qianqian's new house going?"

Lin Mu, who had already made eating bitter melon a natural habit, could now do it without changing his expression, chatting casually with Chen Junqian while eating.

"It's under renovation, but my mom is doing most of the work. I've only been to the site twice."

"When will the renovations be finished?"

"I estimate at least three months? Then there's another month or two for ventilation. It feels like we'll have to wait until after next year to move in, maybe even longer."

"Oh, I see. Has Qianqian's room gotten bigger too?"

"Of course, after all, the whole house has gotten bigger."

"After Qianqian's room is renovated, remember to call me when you move, and I'll help you move your things."

More importantly, if that's the case, then she would be the first person to enter Qianqian's new room.

"Sure, but it's still early."

He picked up a piece of food and put it in his mouth. All he could say was that even after all these years, the taste of the food at the boarding school was still so subtle. No wonder he didn't want to go back to school at all after graduating in his previous life.

"After we finish eating, Qianqian, come with me to buy stationery."

"Oh."

As a young lady from a wealthy family, Mu Mu does indeed buy new stationery every year at the start of the new semester. Otherwise, where do you think her arsenal of stationery came from? It's as if Zhu Wenjun would feel heartbroken for a while after just a couple of glances at it.

When the two finished their meal and went outside, the caregiver saw them and casually took out two yuan from her pocket and handed it to Chen Junqian.

"Are you going shopping? On your way back, please bring back a bag of salt for me. Consider the extra dollar a treat from me."

In a sense, after-school care and school are quite similar. Children who are good at studying and obedient always have special privileges. If Chen Junqian wanted to, he could even use his large hands to control what programs are on TV every noon. After all, his aunt would ask him what he wanted to watch before going to the DVD store to buy DVDs. He was truly treated like royalty.

"Okay, thank you, Auntie."

After politely thanking the caregiver, Chen Junqian took Lin Mu downstairs. While playing with the two coins in his hand, he let the topic of buying salt drift to an incident from a few months ago.

It must have been around March of this year, when the news of the Fukushima nuclear power plant leak in Japan had just come out. Many people were caught up in a salt-buying frenzy, and even their small county town was no exception. I remember that my aunt made Chen Junqian buy fifteen bags of salt in one go, although nothing happened in the end.

First, he went to the convenience store next door to buy some salt to prevent forgetting. About three months later, Chen Junqian took a girl to the stationery store near the school gate again. However, unlike last time, Lin Mu was much more familiar with choosing stationery than Zhu Wenyun, but she was also much more indecisive. She soon fell into decision paralysis and started asking Chen Junqian to help her make a decision.

Of course, after much deliberation, Mu Mu's preference for cute and adorable art styles remained unchanged. So, after buying another diary from the Candy House series, she chose an equally cute black and white pig pencil case.

When Lin Mu went to pay at the counter, his gaze suddenly seemed to be drawn to a magnet, locking onto the merchandise on a nearby counter.

It is sold as a set of two pens bundled together, with corresponding patterns on the pens and the caps can be combined to form a heart-shaped couple's pen set.

However, after much hesitation, Lin Mu ultimately decided against directly telling Chen Junqian that they should buy that one. Instead, she planned to secretly buy it herself later and then find a reason to give the men's version to Qianqian one day.

In fact, these couple pens are easy to spot in class, and then all sorts of rumors will spread, which may eventually turn into a case of puppy love and end up in front of the teacher.

Lin Mu has never had his parents called in once since he started school.

Thinking of this, she reluctantly withdrew her gaze and then paid for the diary and pencil case she had bought.

However, Chen Junqian saw through his childhood sweetheart's little thoughts. After all, Mu Mu was never one to hide her feelings very well. So, he was a step behind, went to get one of those couple pens, paid for it, and then came out to hand it to Lin Mu, who had wanted it at first sight.

"Look, I could tell Mumu really liked it when we were inside. If you're worried about people gossiping, just use it at home. I only use it at home too."

Lin Mu was a little surprised that Chen Junqian would actually buy it. She stood there for a while, then took it with a smile, opened the package, separated the two pens with their caps together, and took the women's pen.

However, instead of returning the other pen immediately, she found it amusing and put the caps of the two pens back together, making them form a heart shape again.

"Qianqian, don't you think this looks like the two of them kissing? Look, like this, kissing."

Upon hearing the word "kiss," Chen Junqian initially thought it was Xu Youwei calling him. He mentally complained again about the nickname she'd given him, while also looking somewhat helplessly at Lin Mu, who seemed to be having a great time playing with two pens, constantly piecing the caps together and then separating them. He reached out and patted her head.

"It's time to go back. I need to take a nap, otherwise I'll be sleepy again in the afternoon."

If it were Shen Nianqiu who said something like that, he would probably question the other person's intentions. After all, the two are separated by phone and QQ, and the other person does sometimes tease him like that. But Lin Mu is different.

"And if you keep bending it like that, you'll easily break the pen."

"Oh... here you go."

Upon hearing this, Lin Mu, slightly disappointed, returned Chen Junqian's pen. She had just been worried about being accused of puppy love and having her parents called in, but now she casually asked him:

"What did Qianqian mean when he said he was afraid of gossip and used it at home?"

"It's nothing. If Mumu wants to use it at school, then she can use it at school."

Faced with his childhood friend, who had once again passed the buck back to him in such a mean way, Lin Mu silently pursed his lips before continuing to ask:

"If I use it at school, will Qianqian use it with me at school too?"

"will not."

Upon hearing Chen Junqian's crisp and decisive denial, Lin Mu became somewhat anxious. Almost instinctively, she stopped and grabbed his hand, her voice becoming increasingly hurried.

"why?"

"Because even if only you, Mu Mu, use it, everyone can guess in an instant that the other one is in my hand."

Lin Mu's mood had fluctuated wildly in just a few seconds. Then, as Chen Junqian rubbed his head, he chuckled and boasted:

"Yes, because everyone knows that among the boys in the class, I'm only closest to Qianqian."

As she spoke, she looked at Qianqian's face again, and then gently poked him with the pen in her hand.