I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

Chen Junqian moved a chair and sat down next to Zhu Wenyun, curiously leaning over to look at the manuscript that the other person was writing halfway through.

"I want to write a scene where the male and female protagonists start eating Pocky from both sides, the kind of Pocky eating method that often appears in novels."

Zhu Wenyun gestured with her hands, trying to explain to Chen Junqian:

"But I've never done that with anyone, and I don't have any Pocky at home. This stuff is ridiculously expensive!"

In terms of thrift and frugality, Zhu has indeed fully inherited and carried forward the traditional Chinese virtues. Even with the income from her writing, she knew that the money was meant for a trip together later, and she wouldn't just squander it.

"I'll eat Pocky... Let me think."

Upon hearing the other person mention the Pocky incident, Chen Junqian's consciousness sank again, and he glanced at a certain achievement in his mind:

The Mysterious Game of Fate

As you bite into the Pocky stick from both ends at the same time, the distance between you gradually shrinks with each bite, and your heartbeats can be clearly heard in the quiet room—this sweet game of courage is more blush-inducing than any confession.

From ten centimeters to one centimeter, every kiss made my heart race. I dared not look directly at her, yet I couldn't help but steal glances. When it came to the last centimeter, should I back down or kiss her lips together?

The sweetest part is never the chocolate coating, but when the Pocky stick was down to its last centimeter, you two both chose to keep going without hesitation.

Condition for completion: Play a Pocky game with any heroine who is suited for romantic comedy.

"If you're looking for a cheaper alternative, I do have an idea."

As a snack connoisseur who frequented the small shops near the school gate with Lin Mu, Chen Junqian quickly identified a plausible substitute in his mind. After saying this, he ran out to buy a pack from a nearby shop and placed it directly in front of Zhu Wenyun:

"Look, this only costs 50 cents, and it's more expensive than Pocky."

"That seems like a good idea."

After taking the CC-Like that Chen Junqian had specially bought and opening the package, Zhu Wenyun's eyes lit up as well. It was a colorful candy snack packaged in a plastic straw. It couldn't be said to be exactly the same as Pocky in appearance, but it could at least be considered a barely acceptable substitute.

Naturally, Zhu Wenyun took one out and put it in her mouth. She then shook her head in Chen Junqian's direction, signaling him to come and try it.

The most sophisticated ingredients often require only the simplest methods, but Chen Junqian was already used to it. So as soon as Zhu Wenyun made a move, he also leaned over and bit his own straw, and then together they started to bite out the candy inside while slowly pushing it forward.

As the distance between them gradually closed, Chen Junqian suddenly realized something.

That is, in the traditional Pocky game, many times when it gets to the final stage, one of the players will be unable to control their shyness and will intentionally or unintentionally bite off the Pocky stick, and then it will end naturally.

But the thing they're holding in their mouths right now can't be bitten through.

Feeling somewhat trapped in his own predicament, Chen Junqian could only slow down and begin to observe Zhu Wenyun's increasingly approaching reaction.

To be honest, from this angle, all you can see are the other person's eyes, their delicate eyelashes fluttering nervously like black butterflies... nothing.

Throughout, Zhu Wenyun's posture remained unchanged. Her eyes remained calmly fixed on the front, on Chen Junqian, while her mouth moved unhurriedly and methodically as she continued to move forward.

Their breaths almost hit each other's faces as they got closer and closer, their noses touching even before their lips did.

"I understand."

However, just as Chen Junqian was about to surrender, Zhu Wenyun suddenly seemed to have a burst of inspiration. She cleanly put down the CC music in her mouth, turned around and went back to her desk, picked up the diamond pen that Chen Junqian had given her, and continued writing.

"If the plot is designed this way, it can lay a very good foundation for later developments, and also reveal the heroine's feelings..."

It can only be said that once Zhu Wenyun entered this state of writing at her desk, she was completely oblivious to the world around her, leaving Chen Junqian alone there, munching on a half-eaten CC drink and lost in thought.

Actually, it's not so much that he was distracted, but rather that at this moment, Chen Junqian realized another drawback of using CC Le instead of Pocky sticks. Unlike Pocky sticks, which are eaten by the female protagonist, CC Le only has the candy inside eaten, while the straw is still there.

Looking at the half-straw that had been in Zhu Wenyun's mouth for a while, both wrinkled and shiny, Chen Junqian didn't feel comfortable just reaching out and taking it out of her mouth. So he simply held it there and found a trash can to spit it in, avoiding direct contact.

The good news is that the system's review mechanism was once again fooled by his actions, allowing him to add another item to his collection.

Without disturbing Zhu Wenyun, who was writing furiously there, Chen Junqian lightened his pace and leisurely strolled back to his own home from Zhu's house.

The main problem is that my mom has to watch the family's card room every night, so he's basically alone at home. He has a lot of free time and can go out whenever he wants, as long as he's in bed sleeping before his mom comes back.

After washing up, Chen Junqian played on his phone in bed for a while, then turned off the lights, covered himself with the blanket, and soon fell asleep.

Around midnight, his phone suddenly vibrated under his pillow. However, it wasn't a student sending Chen Junqian some strange message at this time of April Fool's Day, but Lin Mu.

[Qianqian, I just dreamt about that.]

I need to speak quickly, or I'll forget.

I dreamt that we were in the same class in junior high and high school.

And then we even sat at the same table.

[In one exam, the answer key for the first five multiple-choice questions was ABBCC.]

【Ahhh, I can't remember anything else】

Okay, time for bed.

Goodnight, Qianqian.

Chapter Sixty-Five: Cowardly Acts Will Not Be Tolerated (Part Two)

In mid-April, when spring was in full bloom, Chen Junqian and his classmates embarked on their last spring outing of their primary school life.

Because Guoning and Jingting Mountain, located in the northern suburbs of Xuancheng, are not far apart, the school rented several buses for the round trip. The students boarded the buses in order of their classes and then began to pass the time in various ways.

Unfortunately, even on the last spring outing, the school still did not allow students to bring any electronic products, including cell phones and cameras. However, Zhong Yu cleverly brought an old-fashioned handheld game console. Although it could only play the simplest games like Tetris and Tank Battle, it was still passed around among the boys sitting in the back row, and they had a great time playing it. Unfortunately, less than an hour later, the homeroom teacher noticed something was wrong and caught him red-handed.

However, according to Zhong Yu himself, he wouldn't feel bad if he lost this thing or if his homeroom teacher confiscated it. After all, he hadn't touched the game console in a long time. He could play it for almost an hour, which was already a glorious retirement. Then he started playing various board games, including Chinese chess, Gomoku, animal chess, and flying chess. These were not within the scope of the homeroom teacher's confiscation.

After taking turns playing a game of Ludo in the spacious seats at the back, Chen Junqian, with a record of shooting down enemy planes eleven times, finally returned to his seat.

Just like the autumn outing he took to Jing County three years ago, Lin Mu was sitting next to Chen Junqian, while Xu Youwei was separated by a narrow aisle. However, unlike back then when she was just watching the two of them, today Xu Youwei was quite active in interacting with Lin Mu.

When Chen Junqian returned, the two were sitting there eating snacks and chatting, looking like they had a very close and harmonious relationship.

"Qianqian is back."

This time, Chen Junqian was still sitting inside by the window, so as Lin Mu spoke, she tried to pull her legs in as much as possible to make room for her childhood sweetheart to go in and sit down.

"Yeah, I got first place. I was lucky today."

Chen Junqian walked into the room and sat down with ease, recalling several scenes from his time as deskmates with Xu Youwei in school.

Just like his current position with Lin Mu, he and Xu Youwei at school also had the girl sitting on the outside. However, unlike Mu Mu, who tried hard to pull her legs in to let him in, Youyou, who liked to tease people, preferred to either leave him only a tiny gap, forcing Chen Junqian to slowly move in by pressing against her back, or deliberately leave a gap first, and then suddenly lean back and trap him there for a while when he was halfway in.

All I can say is that Xu Youwei's greatest wish is for Chen Junqian to stay in his seat and not go out after class.

Whether it was because she also noticed Lin Mu's detail, or simply because they had finished talking, as soon as Chen Junqian returned, Xu Youwei turned around again and began to look out the window at the scenery.

"Qianqian, come have some snacks!"

Chen Junqian had barely sat down and his bottom was still warm when Lin Mu's food was already being delivered to his door.

Coincidentally, this feeding play happened to be the 1000th time that the repeatable achievement "Come... Ah" was triggered, and it was counted as another reward attempt.

And so, nearly three years after his rebirth, Chen Junqian finally achieved his first repeatable achievement. The progress was neither fast nor slow, averaging about once a day.

Although the first person to trigger this achievement was Youyou, who was currently facing away from him and pretending to be melancholy and deep, in terms of the number of times, the biggest contributor among these thousand times was actually Mumu, who had just completed the decisive kill next to Chen Junqian.

The main reason is that they spend too much time together, and they eat lunch together every day. Shen Nianqiu has only met him offline twice so far, and Zhu Wenyun can only browse the internet when they cook together. If it weren't for Xu Youwei's 2012 doomsday shelter plan that started last year, Lin Mu would probably be far behind in progress.

He took the Maltesers that Mu Mu fed him and chewed them. Ever since they watched "The Living Buddha Ji Gong" together last summer, Chen Junqian's childhood sweetheart has developed a fondness for all sorts of strange black pill-shaped snacks. Not only the Maltesers he is currently eating, but also Monkey King Pills made with dried tangerine peel. Every time she feeds him, she almost shouts "Stretch Leg and Stare Eye Pill" to him.

"What were you talking about with Youwei just now?"

"It's nothing, just girls talking."

"That's it."

When Lin Mu brought up the topic of girls, Chen Junqian's first thought was Zhu Wenyun, because if he remembered correctly, she should be menstruating these days.

Unlike other girls, probably because she arrived the earliest and there was no one else in the family besides her grandmother, Zhu Wenyun would talk to Chen Junqian about these things from the very beginning. After so long, Chen Junqian himself could remember which days of the month it was.

Although Zhu Wenyun herself is not the type of girl who experiences severe menstrual symptoms, intense discomfort, or even menstrual cramps, climbing a mountain with this debuff is indeed not an easy task. Once they reach their destination, they can arrange to go up together.

While Chen Junqian was thinking this, Lin Mu was somewhat dissatisfied and leaned over to pout at him, saying:

“How could Qianqian say ‘never mind’? Although it’s a topic for girls, before the word ‘girls’ is used, it’s a topic for me and Weiwei. What’s there to be embarrassed about?”

Chen Junqian felt that Lin Mu's argument was full of flaws, but he didn't really know where to begin. He could only say that Mu Mu was indeed very good at making sound arguments, so he nodded in agreement.

"Okay, so what is it?"

"Of course it was a confession! Weiwei just told me that on April Fool's Day, the first of this month, a girl confessed to you, Qianqian? Really?"

"Yes, there are, but I politely declined them all."

Besides receiving several anonymous messages online on QQ, Chen Junqian did indeed encounter a gank offline, just as Xu Youwei had said. However, Xu Youwei and Zhu Wenyun did a pretty good job as his protectors, especially the former, who was almost more stressed than him, the person involved. It felt like she could say several "Are you okay?" at any moment and then take Yang Mi's place to film the Liuliumei advertisement on the spot.

"Confessing your feelings on April Fool's Day seems weird, right? What if the other person says yes and then says 'Happy April Fool's Day' in return?"

Lin Mu was clearly the girl who couldn't understand the logic behind confessing on April Fool's Day. After all, the logic behind confessing on April Fool's Day lies in the fact that the person involved doesn't have enough confidence. It's like the "poisonous milk" effect—essentially, it's about pretending not to care. As for whether they really don't care, only the person involved knows.

But Mu Mu certainly couldn't have thought of that. After all, confessing one's feelings was a very important matter to her, and choosing April Fool's Day would only be incomprehensible to her.

If sincerity is disguised as lies and jokes, then it certainly isn't sincerity.

"I feel like most people are just holding onto the mentality that if they succeed, they'll make a killing, and if they fail, they won't lose anything?"

"I don't really understand."

Although Chen Junqian offered another explanation, Lin Mu still seemed somewhat unable to accept it and continued to express her own thoughts:

"If I were to confess my feelings someday, I definitely wouldn't choose April Fool's Day. Am I planning to be a fool or an idiot myself?"

Hearing Lin Mu bring up the topic of when she was going to confess her feelings, Xu Youwei, who was sitting at the other end of the aisle, stopped pretending to admire the scenery and immediately turned around to ask:

What if Mu Mu confesses her feelings one day and no one hears her?

What does "not being heard" mean?

"Um, it's like something unexpected suddenly happened, like smoke... a train whistle, a car engine starting, or some other loud noise that drowned out your voice."

Feeling that mentioning fireworks at this moment was a bit like admitting guilt, Xu Youwei hesitated for a moment before giving a few other examples, then propped her face up and waited for her best friend's response.

"The chances of this happening are very small. After all, even girls who confess on April Fool's Day will specifically call Qianqian to a quiet corner. If you really want to confess, you must make full preparations beforehand and take into account all the external factors that may affect you."

Hsu Yu-wei, who was simply pursuing romance, was dealt a blow, but she still stubbornly continued to ask:

"But what if such an extreme situation really happened?"

"I don't think that will happen."

When asked this question, Lin Mu remained steadfast in his answer:

"That only means that you didn't prepare carefully or decide to confess in the first place. Otherwise, unless it's a situation where both of you suddenly can't hear anything, even if you're under the noise of car horns like you mentioned, as long as you're willing to shout it out loud in his ear, he can definitely hear you."