I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

This was first achieved by Zhu Wenyun and Shen Nianqiu.

28. [I was here first!]

There is no hierarchy in love, but there is indeed a first-come, first-served order. Even though there is no essential difference between those who come first and those who come later, at certain times, we still subconsciously use this phrase as a bargaining chip on the chessboard of love.

Whether it's a childhood sweetheart facing a new love interest, a love-struck motorcyclist encountering a coward who can never face his own feelings, or an endless war between a literary girl and an athletic girl, in a battleground where at least two people are facing off, this sentence could be uttered by anyone.

After all, the word "first" has never had just one meaning. The first to meet him, the first to become familiar with him, the first to realize her feelings, the first to fall in love with him, the first to express her feelings... Which one would she be?

Condition for achievement: With at least two female leads who are suited for romantic comedies present, any one of them must personally utter the classic line, "I was here first!"

This was first achieved by Lin Mu and Xu Youwei.

Volume 3: I Want to Accompany You Through Life (2013-2014)

Chapter 1: Childhood Sweethearts Should Always Be in the Same Class (Part 2)

September 1, 2012.

It's the start of another school year.

However, unlike the previous years, this time Chen Junqian was going to Guoning Middle School to register.

Unlike the Experimental Primary School, which requires taking a bus every morning to get there, Chen Junqian's new home is just a short walk from Guoning Middle School, thanks to the location factor he considered when buying the house. It only takes about ten minutes to walk there.

The scenery in front of the primary school and the middle school seemed to be not much different. The breakfast vendors were still selling breakfast, the small shops were still operating, and the bookstores and stationery stores had set up small stalls in the open space in front of their stores, selling various supplies that were essential for the start of the school season, including book covers.

If there's any difference, besides the fact that the students coming and going are noticeably more mature, it's probably that we don't see red scarves anymore.

In Chen Junqian's memory, after entering middle school, what they used to replace the red scarf at Ningzhong was a school badge hanging on their chest. It was also required to wear it when entering the school gate to prove their identity. However, these newly enrolled first-year junior high students had not yet had their photos taken in school uniforms for the purpose of making school badges, so they did not have them yet.

Unlike the situation at the elementary school gates where children of all six grades could stand proudly in front of first and second graders, among students from the first to the third year of junior high, the other person's height suddenly seemed particularly inadequate. Therefore, Chen Junqian had no choice but to walk to the side of the road first and pick up his childhood sweetheart the moment she got out of the car, so that he wouldn't lose sight of her later.

This was something they had agreed on in advance. Even though they didn't know the class assignment results yet, they still had to enter the school together on the first day of school. And what if they could see them together in the class assignment announcement on the school bulletin board?

"Heave-ho!"

With a new schoolbag for the new semester, Lin Mu nimbly jumped out of her mother's car, first turning back to say goodbye to her mother, and then standing directly next to Chen Junqian, who had been waiting there.

She had specially invited Chen Junqian to her house last night to show him her new school uniform, but now, facing the sea of ​​people in front of the school gate, she suddenly felt a subtle distance. Her little hand under the cuff of her school uniform clenched in the air for a long time, but in the end, she didn't dare to reach out and hold his hand. In the end, Chen Junqian reached out his hand and placed it near her fingertips.

Only then did Mu Mu finally become less polite and carefully grasp the hand offered by the other person. Her mind involuntarily drifted back to the scene at home yesterday evening.

Just like the professional clothing that you can get by changing jobs after reaching a certain level in a game, when you wear the middle school uniform which is different from the elementary school uniform you are used to, you always feel that the person in the mirror seems to have grown up a lot all of a sudden, as if they have shot up a lot of height in a single day.

Lin Mu stood in front of the mirror with his arms outstretched, as if trying to make himself look bigger. He unconsciously raised his feet a little, but he still only reached the neck of his childhood sweetheart next to him, making him a whole head shorter than her.

Only then could she truly realize that her height hadn't changed at all two months ago. Not only had it not shortened the height gap between them, but it even felt like Chen Junqian was growing taller on his own, widening the height difference between them.

However, this wasn't entirely without its advantages. At least she could pounce on him with her arms outstretched without worrying about knocking him over, and she could also rest her head on his chest and listen to his heartbeat.

Her tree always had to grow very tall and big, otherwise, whether she was a small tree or a small animal, there would be no good place for her to stay quietly, to feel the sunshine in spring, to enjoy the shade in summer, to eat fruit in autumn, and to huddle together for warmth in winter.

But only when the two of them are alone.

Just as Chen Junqian noticed the contrast between Mu Mu's public and private personas, Lin Mu herself was also aware of her contradictions. Just like yesterday she could hug him while wearing her new school uniform and measure his height with her own, but today she still needed him to take the initiative to hold her hand.

"The school gates are open, let's go check out the class assignments."

Chen Junqian's words brought Lin Mu back to reality. After hearing this, Mu Mu subconsciously clenched her hands and began to silently pray that she could be assigned to the same class as Qianqian again.

Because his class in his previous life was Class 5, when Chen Junqian squeezed to the front of the bulletin board using his height and physical advantages, the first thing he looked at was the list of students in Class 5. Then he saw his own name at the top of the list, which was arranged alphabetically. It seems that even after being reborn, he is still in Class 5.

"I'm in Class 5."

Upon hearing Chen Junqian speak, Lin Mu, who was methodically searching for his name one by one from Class 1, immediately shifted his gaze and began searching the student list of Class 5.

“ABCDEFGHIJKL……L, Lu Cheng, the class monitor is here too! Lin, Lin, Lin, I'm in Class 5 too!”

Lin Mu, scrolling down alphabetically, actually found his name on the list of students in Class 5 and instinctively called it out:

"Qianqian, we're in the same class again!"

Even though the bulletin board was crowded with first-year junior high students and the place was noisy and bustling, Lin Mu's voice was still a bit too loud. The entire room fell silent for a moment because of it. The many eyes that were cast at her subconsciously successfully scared Mu Mu back behind Chen Junqian. Fortunately, she was small and it was easy for her to hide. However, she couldn't help but smile. Her other hand was almost twisting the hem of Chen Junqian's clothes into a pretzel.

"Where's Weiwei? Is she here too?"

After calming down a bit, Lin Mu didn't forget to ask about Xu Youwei's condition.

"No, she's in Class 4."

To be honest, Chen Junqian was initially surprised to see Lin Mu, who was not in the same class as him in his previous life, assigned to the same class as him. He even thought that the system had successfully attacked the world's will and was going to bring Xu Youwei over as well. However, after looking at it several times, he finally found Youyou in the list of students in Class 4, and found Zhong Yu in the Z after X.

If it weren't for the fact that the last female lead with romantic comedy potential had been confirmed to be Gu Lingguo, Chen Junqian would have seriously doubted whether his good friend was actually some kind of magical girl. After all, he and she weren't in the same class in junior high school in his previous life. So, besides Mu Mu, you were also the one who elbowed someone in the timeline?

"The class next door... isn't far away either."

After instinctively offering this word of comfort, Lin Mu belatedly realized that Xu Youwei wasn't even there, so he quickly added:

"It's quite convenient for us to go visit her."

Yes, us.

"Let's go, let's go check out the classroom."

Yes, us.

Lin Mu seemed completely immersed in the joy of continuing to be in the same class for the next three years of junior high school. At this moment, all that remained in Lin Mu's mind was this blissful reality, and he kept saying "we" over and over again.

"Let's go then."

Having already seen the class assignment list, the two saw no need to linger there any longer, so they squeezed through the crowd and headed towards the first-year junior high school building.

Guoning Middle School has many more students per grade than elementary school, so each grade has its own dedicated teaching building. This year, there seem to be sixteen classes in the first year of junior high, with about sixty students per class. There are four classes per floor. Class 5, where he and Lin Mu are, is on the second floor, while Class 4, where Xu Youwei is, is on the first floor. So, although they are said to be next to each other, they are actually on different floors.

After all, it was only the first day of school, and the homeroom teacher hadn't met each student in the class yet, so the seating chart hadn't been arranged. The students who had arrived in the class simply picked empty seats and sat down temporarily. When Lin Mu saw this, he quickly pulled Chen Junqian to sit with him, feeling quite satisfied with being deskmates for half an hour.

Suddenly finding themselves in an unfamiliar environment, the students would still try their best to sit with familiar people, so Zhong Yu and Lu Cheng walked in together and sat directly behind them.

"What a coincidence, Qian'er! The three of us brothers are in the same class again."

As Zhong Yu said this, he couldn't help but glance at Lin Mu sitting next to Chen Junqian. Mainly, he remembered that a few months ago, a certain classmate Xu was sitting in this seat, and he always felt that the corners of his mouth were harder to suppress than the AK47 in CF, or even the AK74 which was worse.

"Indeed, how was your summer vacation?"

"What else can we do? No summer homework means we can have a blast! I even took some time to go to Jingxian to spend a week with my girlfriend. What about Lao Lu?"

"I went on a trip with my family and traveled abroad."

"Damn, they all went abroad? Where? Europe?"

"Besides Guoning, or simply overseas, I only went to Shanghai for a short trip."

"That's really foreign. Are you still planning to be the class monitor in junior high, Lao Lu? I'll definitely be the first to support you, okay?"

"Yes, I want to be the class monitor, and in addition to being the class representative for a major subject, I also want to be the Young Pioneers brigade leader in elementary school, and I need to join the Youth League in junior high school. I've already thought it all out during the summer vacation."

"You're invincible."

After chatting with Zhong Yu and Lu Cheng, whom he hadn't seen for a while, the class was almost all present when the bell rang for the morning reading session. After more than ten years, Chen Junqian saw his familiar junior high school homeroom teacher again.

The situation in their Class 5 was different from the other classes, mainly because their homeroom teacher was not the teacher of the three main subjects of Chinese, mathematics and English, but the history teacher. This female teacher, surnamed Wang, was about forty years old and looked quite kind. In fact, she was. Chen Junqian later chose humanities in high school largely because of her influence.

After giving a brief self-introduction on the podium, Teacher Wang didn't rush to arrange seating. Instead, she asked all the students to move the new books from the office. There were many more textbooks for junior high school than for elementary school, so almost the entire class pitched in, some moving and some distributing. By the time all the textbooks and workbooks were in hand, almost the entire morning had passed.

Chinese, mathematics, English, moral education and law, history, geography, biology, and even physics and chemistry will not be formally added to the main subjects until the second year of junior high school. The content that junior high school students have to learn has suddenly expanded from three subjects in elementary school to seven. The thick textbooks piled up together suddenly pulled Mu Mu back from her fantasy to the cruel reality, making her recall the fact that her academic achievements were only at an average level.

A student's primary responsibility is indeed to study.

In a sense, the middle school entrance exam three years later is even more significant to them than the college entrance exam afterward, because the middle school entrance exam in Guoning is the simplest 50/50 split: the first half of the students can continue to attend regular high school, while the second half can only choose vocational high school or go directly into employment.

Guoning only has two regular high schools: Guoning Middle School High School Division and Hejin Middle School High School Division. The former is more excellent than the latter, so every year some parents of students who are a few points short of the cutoff score will spend money to buy their children's admission to Guoning Middle School High School Division at a cost of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan.

It was precisely because of this that Chen Junqian had a deep impression of the fact that on the eve of his high school entrance exam in his previous life, his homeroom teacher had said that this was their first chance to earn money for their family. If they passed the exam, they could save money, and saving money was the same as earning money.

Undoubtedly, as time goes by and they grow older, the academic and practical pressures they face will only increase, to the point that Chen Junqian himself is starting to doubt whether he can still create a romantic comedy with a happy ending for everyone on this real-life stage.

After all, the more actively Chen Junqian tries to understand those two-dimensional romantic comedies, the more he realizes that the other person's life is completely separate from his junior high and even high school life in China. But what he needs to do now is to combine them as much as possible in his own way.

If there are no events, create them; if there are no stories, create them.

Cultural festivals, sports festivals, school celebrations, national tournaments, club activities...

Even without those unlocked achievements in the system list.

Chen Junqian certainly hopes that his youth can be more exciting.

"Boom boom boom——"

A soft knocking sound came from the right window.

Xu Youwei stood there, maintaining the gesture she was making, her expressionless gaze fixed on him and Lin Mu, who was still pretending to be her temporary deskmate, through the window, slowly mouthing the word 'come out'.

Ok……

It's not that I need this kind of excitement, you know.

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Chapter Two: The Changed Worldline Again (Part Two)

Without a doubt, the current class assignment result is the one that Xu Youwei herself least wants to accept.

In her mind, the best outcome would naturally be that she would be in the same class as Chen Junqian. The second best outcome would be that, like in elementary school, the three of them would remain in the same class. The next best outcome would be that neither of them would be in the same class as Chen Junqian. The last best outcome would be that only Lin Mu and Qinqin were in the same class.

As it turns out, loose alliances formed by an external enemy can crumble instantly once the threat is eliminated. After all, even childhood friends need to be ranked according to their seniority. In the future, when faced with a newcomer, you can simply start by saying, "I've been his deskmate and classmate since kindergarten," and he'll back down in the blink of an eye.

However, she has indeed lost the opportunity to say that now. It's like when a golden road is cut off halfway through, and when she looks up, she finds that someone else is still walking. This feeling of both fearing that her sister is suffering and fearing that her sister is driving a Land Rover has swept over Xu Youwei. So much so that even though she knows that the seats in each class have not been assigned yet, when she sees Chen Junqian and Lin Mu sitting together here, she still subconsciously knocks on the window in front of her and mouths the words "come out" to him.

That's why, when Chen Junqian actually walked out of the classroom and stood in front of her, Xu Youwei didn't know what to say. After all, class assignments are a matter of random luck, and it's more accurate to say that her being able to sit next to Chen Junqian for the last two years of elementary school was a result of human intervention.

Even if we weren't assigned to the same class...

After a long while, Xu Youwei finally uttered a hesitant, defeated-sounding voice, her tone dry and strained:

"Let's go home together after school."

Compared to elementary school, Ningzhong's school dismissal time is much later, but there is still no evening self-study in the first and second years of junior high school. It will be a regular practice from the third year onwards. So theoretically, the two can still continue their after-school adventures like they did in elementary school. Therefore, even though Chen Junqian knew that Youyou in front of him was probably just pretending to be pitiful and obedient, he had no reason to refuse. However, he still made things clear in advance.

"It can only be after school in the evening, and we can't stay outside for too long. After all, there is much more homework in junior high school than in elementary school. If we play outside for two hours like before and then go home to do our homework, we will have to stay up very late. Most importantly, it's only for this year."

Why only this one year?

Xu Youwei wasn't surprised by the first part of Chen Junqian's words, since she was assigned to the same time slot after school when she was in elementary school. However, the last sentence, "just for this one year," did catch her off guard, and she subconsciously asked him a question.

"Because my younger sister will be starting junior high school in a year, I have already promised my aunt and uncle that I will go home with her after school at noon and in the evening, or more precisely, I will take her to our house for dinner."