I turned reality into a romantic comedy

Of course, Youyou wasn't the type to become depressed after a setback, so Zhong Yu came over to shield her. With Zhong Yu's body providing cover, Xu Youwei, facing the camera lens, grabbed Chen Junqian's right hand on the side closest to her.

There was no need to turn around to look. Xu Youwei knew very well that Lin Mu, who was standing to Chen Junqian's left, did not have the courage or the idea to do so. After calming down from the initial complicated emotions, as one of Lin Mu's best friends who knew him best, Xu Youwei realized that the other party did not have a strategy of 'not competing is competing' at all. Rather, he had not realized this from beginning to end and was still completely as pure as ever.

After realizing this, Xu Youwei's confidence returned to a lot. Just like the saying, "If you go in the wrong direction from the beginning, no matter how hard you try, you will only go in the opposite direction and get further and further away from your goal." Although Mu Mu seems to have firmly occupied a certain ecological niche, in fact, she has only occupied that one ecological niche and has no intention or awareness of going any further.

That is why those words and actions, those objects and memories, though the most solid bricks, cannot build a road to victory. They are merely building castles and towers on the spot. Even if Xu Youwei herself does not have the ability to destroy them, she has no doubt that one day someone else will easily blow them up. At that time, it will be a story of the higher the stack, the harder the fall.

But for now, let's finish taking this photo first.

Even though they had been holding hands for years, just like every time she went to Qinqin's new room and saw the glass bottle filled with paper cranes and little stars, she felt an extra itch in her heart. Perhaps because Mumu was standing right next to them, Xu Youwei held hands extra tightly this time, so much so that she forgot to shout "One, two, three, cheese" with the other students next to her.

[A Deception in the Graduation Album]

The moment the shutter clicked, her fingertips slipped silently into your palm. This seemingly formal graduation photo now holds a little secret known only to you and her. In the neatly arranged rows, the warmth of their intertwined fingers becomes a more authentic testament to their youth than any yearbook or yearbook.

The most precious thing is often not the photo itself, but the reunion ten years later, when other classmates are lamenting how things have changed, and you can still replicate that little gesture under the table, your ear tips still as red as transparent, only your fingertips will no longer tremble to that extent.

Condition for achievement: Secretly hold hands with any female lead who is suited for romantic comedies during the graduation photo.

As the shutter clicked, the same sense of accomplishment flashed through Chen Junqian's mind.

After all, this was the last trip before graduation, and the homeroom teacher had said something like "Happy Graduation" before taking the photos, so it seemed reasonable to fool the system's idiotic review mechanism.

Rather, when the graduation photos are actually taken and the students are lined up in order of gender and height, there won't be any opportunity to secretly hold hands. After all, he will most likely be standing in the last row, surrounded by other boys of similar height. It would be impossible for him to reach across two or three rows and hold the hand of the girl standing in the front row.

On the contrary, another achievement related to the graduation photo scene, titled "The time to confess your love in public is before the graduation photo," seems to have a better chance.

When Xu Youwei first took his hand, Chen Junqian was thinking that Youyou had really been hit hard today, so he subconsciously allowed her to do this to stabilize her mental state. However, he did not expect that, by a twist of fate, it was the former, which he thought was more difficult to accomplish, that was accomplished first.

However, after the group photo session ended, Xu Youwei nervously let go of her hand again, afraid that Lin Mu would notice something amiss.

The road down the mountain was indeed much easier than the road up. Around six o'clock, all the students in Chen Junqian's class returned to the bus in the parking lot at the foot of the mountain. After counting the number of students and confirming that everyone was present, the class teacher informed the driver that they could officially set off for the return trip.

Compared to the bustling and energetic journey there, the bus back from the spring outing was much quieter. The students, who had played all day and were also tired, leaned back in their seats and began to doze off. Lin Mu, who was sitting next to Chen Junqian, was no exception. After a few big yawns, he was also a little sleepy.

However, because the armrests between the bus seats were a bit too obstructive, and given Lin Mu's height, no matter how she adjusted her position or leaned against Chen Junqian, she felt a hard, uncomfortable pressure on her lower back. In the end, she could only give up and lie back flat, letting go of the shoulder of her childhood sweetheart whom she was used to leaning on.

Lin Mu lay back, and Chen Junqian and Xu Youwei's line of sight became unobstructed. Youyou, who showed no intention of sleeping, lay on her side with her arm propped on the small splint, propping her chin up as she looked at Chen Junqian. It almost gave the impression of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl gazing at each other across the Milky Way.

At first, Chen Junqian was able to play a little game with her, tacitly agreeing that whoever looked away first or laughed first would lose. But today, Xu Youwei showed no intention of looking away from him at all. Even when he turned his head to look at the scenery outside the window for a while and then turned back, she remained motionless in the same position facing him.

"Qinqin".

She was mouthing to him from a distance, calling out his nickname, a code only the two of them knew.

[The Secret Message Between the Lips]

When the whole class is taking the exam with their heads down, when the homeroom teacher turns around to write on the blackboard, when your eyes accidentally meet in the crowd, she will suddenly turn her face to the side, lower her eyelashes, and gently open and close her lips, silently expressing her feelings and confession.

What you have to do is to decipher the secret message hidden between the lips and mouth shapes in this noisy silence, a message known only to the two of you.

The moment a lip-reading confession is correctly interpreted, the whole world pauses for a second, and the instantaneous stop of the heartbeat is the divine seal of approval.

Condition for achievement: Having your feelings expressed by any heroine with romantic comedy potential through lip reading.

The system's censorship mechanisms today seem exceptionally weak.

Chen Junqian subconsciously thought this as Xu Youwei mouthed "Yo yo" in sync with him. After all, all she did was mouth the word "yo" to him, and it was enough to achieve such an accomplishment.

But in fact, the system did not have the slightest problem in reviewing this achievement.

After all, Xu Youwei, who was sitting there with her head down, looking somewhat uneasy and impatient, gently licking her inner lips with the tip of her tongue, knew very well that she had not just been talking about Qinqin.

More precisely, only the first tone is "qinqin".

The rest are all the same kisses.

After a confession that was neither successful nor unsuccessful, she finally found her next target.

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Before we knew it, it was May Day holiday again.

The reason why Chen Junqian was summoned to Zhu Wenyun's house this time was actually very simple. She had recently been reading Jin Shengtan's annotated version of "Water Margin" and suddenly became interested in the person involved. Then she heard the last words he said before his execution: "Tofu and peanuts taste like ham when chewed together."

"...It feels a bit strange."

Zhu Wenyun had specially bought some dried tofu and peanuts, chewed them several times, and then put down her chopsticks.

"It feels a little bit meaty, but I don't know if it's just psychological, just like the Nongfu Spring's 'It's a little sweet' advertising slogan."

"Soy products do indeed taste like meat, and peanuts have the aroma of oil. It was just a magnanimous last message, so there's no need to take it too seriously."

Chen Junqian also picked up a piece of food with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth, chewing it:

"Actually, many of the soy product snacks in small shops outside are also covered with a layer of meat skin. They all have such scary names, but in fact they are just pure soy products. However, they do taste quite convincing."

As the snack kingpin of the convenience store, to prove his point, Chen Junqian turned around, took out a one-yuan coin from his pocket, and ran to a small shop near Zhu Wenyun's house to buy two packs and put them in front of her.

"For example, this mushroom and beef dish and Peking duck are actually all bean products, but they taste pretty good. Mu Mu and I often buy them to eat."

Compared to Lin Mu and Xu Youwei, Zhu Wenyun is obviously the one who eats the least snacks. After all, even the snacks that are most popular among elementary school students are considered junk food with average cost performance in her eyes. Just like how she would definitely buy small steamed buns if she only had one yuan, Zhu Wenyun would hardly buy snacks that cost 50 cents a bag.

"Hmm... not bad."

Watching Zhu Wenyun nibbling on snacks in front of him, Chen Junqian picked up a peanut and put it in his mouth.

"Wen Yun certainly didn't buy these things just because of a single sentence from Jin Shengtan, so is it because the new book has encountered some kind of trouble?"

"Pretty much. I feel like I've fallen into the trap of path dependence again. I subconsciously wanted to write a scene where the male and female leads are cooking, and then I subconsciously wanted to use the story you and Lin Mu wrote, but then I felt it was inappropriate, so I looked for descriptions of food, and then I randomly found this quote from Jin Shengtan."

"I guess it's because I was searching for 'how to make simple food taste good' back then? Being able to make tofu taste like meat is really impressive, but I don't actually have that skill now."

Upon hearing this, Chen Junqian stroked his chin and offered his own suggestion and idea:

"Actually, I've been asking you about your serialization, Yun. I feel that if you really want to focus on food and the kitchen, you don't need to start with these simple ingredients. Considering the style of 'Fireworks' and the age and living environment of its readers, these things might not be very popular."

"How should I put it? It's just not youthful enough, not dreamy enough, not sweet enough, not fantastical enough. Girls who read novels also want to fulfill their own desires through the stories. Being too realistic will make people lose immersion."

Faced with Chen Junqian's suggestion, Zhu Wenyun also showed a thoughtful expression:

"So what Junqian means is?"

"You can write it in a more girlish style. The same scene and plot, just change the kitchen stove and home-cooked dishes to a bakery oven and desserts, and the feeling will be completely different. Desserts, cakes, ice cream, bread... these images have already been given all sorts of meanings by various literary and artistic works, haven't they?"

"But I won't do those things."

Rather, it's more accurate to say that Zhu Wenyun never touches cakes except on her birthday each year, let alone makes them by hand and incorporates them into her novels.

Chen Junqian was also aware of the other person's perfectionist nature—they insisted on mastering the techniques themselves before writing to feel satisfied with the final product—so he simply nodded naturally in agreement.

“I’ll teach you. I have an oven in my new kitchen, and e-commerce is very convenient now. There’s no problem buying all kinds of raw materials and molds.”

Even disregarding the dessert baking skills included in the multitalented achievement reward, Chen Junqian himself had relevant experience in his previous life, so teaching a novice like Zhu Wenyun would be no problem at all.

The little steamed buns are indeed delicious, but he hopes that Zhu Wenyun can maintain this core essence and transform them from the little steamed buns that cost one yuan to buy ten into a more beautiful red velvet cake, a fluffy and light soufflé, or a Mont Blanc, Opera, and Madeleine.

Only in Zhu Wenyun could Chen Junqian truly experience the joy of nurturing.

So, since she has decided to try to become a so-called 'teen idol writer' in the future, he is of course willing to turn her into a better, more lovable, and more lovable girl made of sugar, spice, and some other good things.

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Chapter 71: I Was Here First (Part 2)

Unlike junior high and high school graduation, which require a major exam to graduate, elementary school graduation season is generally quite warm and relaxed. By the end of May, some students had already bought yearbooks from small shops and started asking others to fill them out page by page during breaks.

Chen Junqian thus became the busiest person in the class. Every time the bell rang, before he could even get up from his seat, classmates around him would hand him all sorts of yearbooks, which made Xu Youwei, his deskmate, look at him with a bit of surprise.

Even so, Xu Youwei herself had no intention of buying a yearbook. She wasn't familiar with the other classmates, and she believed that her relationship with her two close friends would continue after graduation, so a yearbook was completely unnecessary.

But Lin Mu's thoughts were clearly the opposite of hers, or rather, Mu Mu had already regarded the process of filling out the yearbook as another round of question and answer. After all, apart from those questions that she was very familiar with, such as birthdays, zodiac signs, contact information, and home addresses, there were many more strange and interesting questions in the yearbook that she was interested in and hoped to get answers from Chen Junqian.

Mu Mu, who was not short of money, even bought seven or eight yearbooks, each with different questions. Then she tore a page out of each one and handed it to Chen Junqian, planning to bind them together and put them in her diary after she got them all back.

What was your first impression of me?

The most unforgettable thing that happened to me at school.

A secret I wanted to tell you

Describe me in three words.

Let's make a promise to do something together in the future.

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All that can be said is that Chen Junqian spent the entire break time dealing with the messy yearbook questions handed to him by his childhood sweetheart. Xu Youwei next to him was a little tempted, but she was the kind of person who always wanted to do things differently from Mu Mu, so she quickly looked away, as if out of sight, out of mind.

Experimental Primary School doesn't have a graduation performance, but instead, sixth-grade students will be allowed to hold a celebration in their class on Children's Day this year. After the homeroom teacher announced this news, Lu Cheng, as the class monitor, began his last recruitment drive, since someone had to put on a show for the celebration.

Of course, the performances alone couldn't keep the atmosphere lively all day. After all, none of the elementary school students in their class had learned musical instruments since elementary school, nor could they sing or dance. In fact, it was quite courageous of them to dare to howl in front of the whole class. So, at Chen Junqian's suggestion, most of the time was replaced with games.

Various mini-games are a common element in romantic comedies, but reality is reality. Even though Chen Junqian's achievement list has many mini-game related items, he can't actually come up with any random King's Game or Truth or Dare at the class's graduation celebration. He feels he'll have to wait until a small group gathering later to try.

As this is the last holiday that sixth-grade students will spend at school, and possibly their last Children's Day, the school has unusually relaxed its restrictions on snacks and even electronic products. Even the homeroom teacher, who always emphasizes this aspect, has given subtle hints, making many students quite excited.

After all, while playing on a mobile phone wasn't new to them, playing it at school was quite novel. If mobile online games hadn't yet taken off at that time, the scene would probably have instantly turned into a five-player squad of various MOBA mobile games offline.

Speaking of MOBA games, since the Chinese server of League of Legends was launched in the second half of last year, it has accumulated considerable popularity thanks to the Tencent platform. Chen Junqian himself was drawn into the game by Zhong Yu this summer. Throughout junior high school, he listened to Zhong Yu's constant talk about "instantly exploding and completing a solo kill" and duo-queued with him until they reached the highest rank of Platinum.

The day before Children's Day, after school, under the command of class monitor Lu Cheng, all the students emptied their desk drawers before leaving. They then dragged the desks around the perimeter of the classroom, arranging them in two rows, leaving a large open space in the middle of the classroom, making final preparations for tomorrow's celebration.

As Chen Junqian stepped out of the classroom, he could hear the creaking sounds of desks and chairs being dragged from all the other classrooms in the corridor. He subconsciously stopped and glanced back at the classroom behind him. The desks and chairs had all been arranged, and Lu Cheng was leading the students on duty to hang balloons as decorations.

Then, Chen Junqian looked towards the sky outside the corridor and remembered a sentence he had seen in his previous life:

Sometimes when I look up at the sky, the world seems no different from when I was nine years old. I'm puzzled, so I just keep looking at the sky and don't want to look at the world anymore.

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On Children's Day, after the seating order was shuffled, everyone still huddled together with their friends. After all, every table drawer had been emptied, so it didn't matter who used whose table. Lin Mu, carrying a big bag of snacks, excitedly sat down next to Chen Junqian, and together with Xu Youwei sitting on the other side, they formed the left and right protector lineup that hadn't been around for long.

After all, once this summer vacation is over, the three of them will likely no longer be in the same class, let alone continue to be deskmates, so they should cherish these last few days even more.

In contrast to Lin Mu, who only brought a large bag of snacks, Xu Youwei brought a camera and started fiddling with it as soon as she sat down, seemingly intending to record the entire celebration and then edit it into the clips she wanted later.

After all the students had arrived and found their seats, the homeroom teacher came to the classroom and announced the start of the Children's Day celebration. Lu Cheng, who was acting as the announcer, called out his own name as the first program. Zhong Yu waved to him and Chen Junqian with a grin. This was their trio's duet segment, and the song they chose was Xiao Shenyang's "The Laughing Swordsman".

Of course, although it was supposed to be a duet, Zhong Yu was the loudest for most of the time. Chen Junqian initially tried to bring Zhong Yu back to the right pitch, but eventually gave up. During the fast-paced rap section, he and Lu Cheng simply shut up, letting Zhong Yu improvise. Zhong Yu rattled off the rap lyrics in one breath: "I ride a little donkey, with a crescent-shaped blade on my back. I've only mastered the first move of the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms... My mom says winning or losing isn't important, having fun is."

It's safe to say that even students who have heard this song probably wouldn't understand what the other person is rapping about. However, Zhong Yu felt good about himself, because, as he just sang, being happy is the most important thing.

After Zhong Yu's show ended, Chen Junqian showed no intention of leaving the stage, because Lu Cheng, who had gone back to act as the announcer, immediately called out his name again. This time, Lin Mu pulled him and Xu Youwei to announce the duet.

After all, Mu Mu has always been very confident in her singing ability. This time, she was even more determined to show off in front of the whole class. She dragged Chen Junqian and Xu Youwei to sign up for "Hello Tomorrow," a song by the Milk & Coffee duo that showed signs of becoming a graduation classic as soon as it was released last year.

But all I can say is that the melody is good, the lyrics are good, and the song is good. It's just that the singer has a slightly subtly problematic side. It's the kind of situation where as soon as Lin Mu starts singing, the atmosphere built up in the intro over ten seconds completely collapses, while Zhong Yu in the audience suddenly gets excited again.

Unfortunately, without the original karaoke recording enabled and the scoring system completely locked, Mu Mu's singing level was basically like this. However, Chen Junqian was already used to it and quickly picked up where Lin Mu left off. But after singing just two lines, he found that Xu Youwei was also standing there looking like she had forgotten the lyrics, so he had to continue singing. After another round, Lin Mu also pouted and stopped singing, feeling very discouraged. The two girls stood there on the left and right, clapping along. Anyone who didn't know better would think they were backup dancers on stage, just watching Chen Junqian sing alone.

Chen Junqian, who switched from singing in a chorus to singing solo, could only sing the entire verse: "When I grow up, I can only run. I'm so afraid of falling in the dark. Hello tomorrow, I smile through my tears. The more beautiful it is, the more afraid I am of getting it." After the song ended, he received spontaneous applause from all the students in the audience, which was quite like a max-level master coming to the newbie village to stomp on fish.

After all, even a singing level with perfect basic skills is still too much of a disadvantage for a pure amateur elementary school student. It's just that Chen Junqian knows an older sister who is even more skilled in this area, so he is not very clear about his own level.

Regardless, Chen Junqian's opening remarks at least heated up the atmosphere of the entire venue. However, after returning to his seat, he still had to coax his childhood sweetheart, who was still not quite overwhelmed.

"I can not accept."

With a sense of turning grief and anger into appetite, Lin Mu opened the large roll box in his hand, cut off a piece and threw it into his mouth, while protesting to Chen Junqian. However, he did not forget to cut off a piece for him and Xu Youwei as well.

"Qianqian must have known all along that I'm a bad singer, and he just wanted me to embarrass myself here. Besides, you've never told me that you sing so well."

Even though she had already gathered all sorts of information about Chen Junqian from the random questions in the yearbook, the more Lin Mu interacted with him, the more she realized that there were still many hidden treasures about her childhood sweetheart that she hadn't yet discovered. She herself didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

"Could I just say that Mu Mu sings badly? Besides, who said Mu Mu sings badly? She sings absolutely wonderfully."

In response, Chen Junqian simply adopted a "let me see who's saying Mu Mu's singing isn't good" attitude, and also glanced at Xu Youwei, somewhat curious as to why she had suddenly stopped singing on stage earlier.

"I just thought you sang better, so I let you sing."

Although he said that, judging from the barely suppressed smile on his face, it seemed that he had used all his strength to suppress his laughter after hearing Mu Mu speak, which was why he couldn't keep up with Chen Junqian's words. He could easily be accused of being disloyal to Mu Mu.

"I feel like Qianqian could easily get a score of over 90 in a karaoke bar."

As she said this, Lin Mu finally remembered that she had asked him to go to karaoke around this time last year. She could only say that she was not the type of person who could remember every word they said. After all, she and Qianqian talked countless times throughout the day. It wasn't like they could only secretly send a few messages under the covers at night, let alone reheat and savor them over and over again. It was a situation where one person was suffering from drought while the other was suffering from floods, and the well-fed man did not know the hunger of the starving man.

"We can go together this summer, Vivi too."

"Oh, let's go together sometime."

The three of them ate snacks and chatted for a while. In fact, the program list was not long and was quickly finished. Only a few students were willing to go on stage to perform. Next was the game time that Chen Junqian suggested.

Playing games is always more interesting than performing, and there are prizes to be won, so it quickly motivated the students in the class. Even Chen Junqian and Xu Youwei were pulled up by Lin Mu again.