I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

To be frank, the cause of the incident is related to her.

After all, she was the only one in this family who could create a slight connection between the two of them. Just like in the promotional pictures of a family of three, the parents always hold the child's hand on one side. Gu Linguo was very suspicious that if the child in the middle and herself were removed, would they continue to hold hands or simply part ways?

Just as Gu Linguo had anticipated, her mother would certainly not hesitate to give her a big credit for Chen Junqian's sudden appearance.

In fact, sometimes even Gu Lingguo herself couldn't understand the other person's thought process.

If her grades improve, it's because the tutoring class she attended worked, the money she spent worked, and she herself worked.

If her grades decline, then all the intermediate steps are omitted, and ultimately it becomes Gu Lingguo's own problem.

Gu Lingguo thought about it for a long time and felt that she should have gotten full marks in every subject from the very first exam since she started school, and become a genius who was born with knowledge. Maybe then the other party would be willing to share some of the credit with her.

However, after celebrating her birthday a few times, Gu Lingguo felt that even if that were the case, her mother would probably just openly attribute the reason to her excellent genes.

Of course, the mother probably doesn't know anything about genes. She would probably still say, "A child is a piece of flesh that fell from the mother's body after ten months of pregnancy," so the credit for the flesh naturally goes to the mother.

Okay, let's get back to the topic. The beginning of each school year is a time for Gu Lingguo's mother to mobilize everyone, especially for her daughter who has made progress in the last semester's final exams. On the one hand, the middle-aged woman highly praised her daughter for not forgetting to study during the summer vacation and for frequently holding study sessions with Chen Junqian. On the other hand, she naturally hoped that her daughter could continue to work hard to achieve even better results in the next school year, while also acknowledging her own role in the process.

But it was at this moment that the father, who had never spoken before at such a time, spoke for the first time:

"Don't put too much pressure on your child, take it slow."

To be honest, even Gu Lingguo herself was a little surprised that her father would suddenly say such things. For a moment, she even wondered if he had gained some confidence or found a way to deal with her mother.

But she was soon disappointed again, because the other party was still helpless against her mother's usual tricks.

However, this is a classic scene in their family. Over the past few years, this father and daughter have become accustomed to their wives/mothers skipping the crying and tantrums stage and threatening to hang themselves. So what does that last sentence mean?

Much later, Gu Linguo heard her father's last words before he left:

"Guoguo, Daddy has gone to work."

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If there were a second person besides his mother who could bring Chen Junqian into the wear-resistant factory, it would undoubtedly be the girl sitting sideways on the back of his bicycle right now.

It's not that all the employees in the huge wear-resistant factory knew that the other person was the chairman's daughter. It's just that for a long time in the past, Xu Youwei, who was unwilling to go home alone, would often linger here until she went home with her father. So, the gatekeepers and security guards in various places basically knew her, and it was no problem for her to bring Chen Junqian in by showing her face.

Returning here after nearly a year, Chen Junqian did indeed have a strong urge to visit the old house where he had lived for twelve years. However, since he himself did not know the exact time of the accident, he thought it would be better to go to the scene of the accident and keep an eye on it first.

Xu Youwei was a little surprised that Chen Junqian wanted to go to the production workshop, but she didn't pay much attention to it. It seemed that some boys were indeed interested in such a huge, rumbling machine. Moreover, it was common for employees who worked the night shift to bring their children, who were worried about being home alone, to come in. After all, the factory's machines were in continuous production 24 hours a day, and every shutdown would be a huge loss.

Why did Qinqin want to come here?

"Because my dad worked in this workshop before he was transferred to Tangshan, and I need to write an essay about my father recently, so I wanted to come and see his previous work environment."

Faced with Xu Youwei's question, Chen Junqian simply made up an excuse to brush it off, his full attention still focused on the several production lines in front of him, trying to find the one that was most likely to have an accident tonight.

To be honest, this was probably one of the most tense moments for Chen Junqian since his rebirth. After all, the system's "versatility" didn't include workshop safety and production knowledge. The machines in front of him were completely unfamiliar to him. He couldn't figure out where the problem was, nor did he know how to solve it.

Little by little, I dug out the useful information from the memory I least wanted to recall, trying hard to remember the conversations between the blurry figures and faces swaying under my parents' portraits, and the factory's subsequent investigation report and results announcement.

"Nearby employees did not press the emergency stop button immediately... The crusher's protective cover interlock device failed to be repaired in time, causing it to malfunction... To save time, they chose to manually remove the material stuck at the crusher's outlet..."

Emergency stop button.

Even though he was accompanied by the factory's "young lady," Chen Junqian didn't ask her anything because she seemed to be visiting such a place for the first time. Instead, he went over and asked another employee who was passing by.

As it turned out, the other person seemed to think he was young and assumed he was going to press the wrong buttons randomly, so they just laughed it off. It just goes to show that there are too many kids who randomly press things like fire alarm buttons in public places, which left Chen Junqian feeling a bit helpless.

Fortunately, after wandering around for a while, Chen Junqian ran into a coworker who was familiar with his father. He successfully got the information he wanted from the coworker and also found out where the crusher production line was located. Then he dragged Xu Youwei, who still didn't understand what he was doing, over there.

Around 8:15 p.m. that evening.

Gu Yong, who had been working six consecutive night shifts since the beginning of this week, was forcing himself to continue working on the production line. The high intensity of repetitive work and his tired mind caused his judgment and reaction ability to decline significantly. As a result, when the machine in front of him jammed, he did not follow the procedure to stop the machine, but instead opened the protective cover directly.

If the machine's protective cover interlock device were operating normally at this time, then such behavior would only be an improper production practice aimed at saving time. However, at this point in time, the interlock device, which had reached a certain limit, had stopped working and could not automatically trigger the safety function of opening the door and cutting off the power.

At the same time, the machine is not equipped with a second infrared emergency stop system, so it cannot automatically stop when a human body is detected approaching.

That's why, when the tired middle-aged man naturally reached halfway in and put his right hand into the innermost part of the machine, the blade inside was still spinning at a super high speed.

Each production line in the workshop continued to perform its duties, and no employee noticed the accident.

But Chen Junqian was clearly not among them.

"Pull your body out!"

Almost instantly, the sound erupted at a volume several times louder than during the stampede two years ago. Chen Junqian's shout almost startled Xu Youwei, who was standing next to him, and she quickly followed his gaze.

Just as he spoke to stop him, Chen Junqian's finger swiftly and decisively pressed the emergency stop button next to him. In that instant, all the machines on the entire production line shut down, the conveyor belts slowly came to a stop, and all the employees in other sections looked up in astonishment, wanting to see what had happened.

Gu Yong, who was half inside the crusher, was now fully awake, and a cold sweat immediately broke out on his back.

At this moment, the sharp blade had already left two bloody scratches on his forearm and palm. If he hadn't instinctively pulled back after that shout, and if the rotating blade inside hadn't stopped instantly, he didn't dare to think about what would have happened next. He collapsed to the ground almost completely exhausted, his bright yellow safety helmet also bearing several glaring white marks.

"what happened?"

"What happened over there?"

"problem occurs?"

Who turned off the computer?

The surrounding employees rushed to this place, and everyone's eyes naturally focused on Gu Yong, who was sitting on the ground panting heavily, looking like he had just escaped death, and the two children standing near the emergency stop button.

“There are surveillance cameras over there. Just now, this uncle put his upper body inside without turning off the machine, but I saw that the blades inside were still spinning, so I just pressed this button.”

Pointing to the nearby surveillance camera, Chen Junqian took the lead in explaining, while the workshop director, who had rushed over, immediately looked at Gu Yong:

"What happened? Is it as he said?"

"...Yes, I had a problem just now, no, the machine had a problem too, just like he said, the blades didn't stop."

The middle-aged man swallowed hard, clearly still recovering, and his words were somewhat broken. Seeing this, the workshop foreman immediately ordered someone to take him to the hospital to check his injuries. Then, he went over to inspect the machines, his face quickly darkening. He then looked directly at Chen Junqian:

"Whose child are you? What are you doing here?"

"Qinqin and I came here together. That was too dangerous."

Before Chen Junqian could even speak, Xu Youwei interrupted, immediately baring her teeth and making a face as if to say something that seemed inexplicably hostile towards him.

"We are here to see my dad, my dad is Xu Zhiling."

Well, speak of the devil and he appears. At this moment, Xu Zhiling, who had also learned about the situation at the factory, did indeed rush over from his office. He was a little confused when he first heard that it was two children, but after arriving, he realized that it was his daughter and Chen Junqian. He quickly waved and called them over.

"Come sit in my office for a while, I'll be right back."

"I know, I know, Dad, you didn't see it just now. If Qinqin hadn't been there... someone would have died."

It can only be said that Xu Youwei is indeed not very considerate of this kind of topic. After saying this, she pulled Chen Junqian away first, and only after they left the workshop did she pout at him:

"It's always like this."

"What do you mean, 'it's like this again'?"

"Just like that stampede incident, Qinqin always felt like she knew in advance that something was going to happen."

"Hmm... just take it as a premonition, like the Mayan doomsday prophecy."

Xu Youwei was about to retort, "Do you think I'm still a child who would believe this?", but then she remembered that the two of them were indeed still happily playing that doomsday plan. Saying it out loud would be like destroying their worldview, so she could only suppress it and glare at him with a slightly resentful expression.

"Could this great prophet Qinqin predict whether the end of the world will really come in two months?"

"I don't know, but whether you come or not, I will definitely be by your side to see the result together. That's for sure."

"And then what?"

What does "then what" mean?

"So, even if the end of the world doesn't come, does Qinqin still know what will happen between the two of us?"

"do not know."

He genuinely didn't know, since the two had almost no connection in their past lives.

Chen Junqian simply turned his gaze to the factory area and the adjacent employee dormitory.

What he knew was that in two years, after failing the environmental investigation and audit assessment, and with its performance also declining sharply, the wear-resistant factory would shut down half of the machines and chimneys that had echoed throughout his childhood, sweeping those things, along with the nearby tenement building, into the dust of time.

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Chapter Seven: Tonight You Are My Hero

Xu Youwei had been to her father's chairman's office countless times. In the past few years, every time she dropped Chen Junqian off at home, she would come here directly. If her father was there, they would go back together; if not, she would wait here and go back with him. She rarely wanted to go back to that house alone, and she didn't even like Chen Junqian going there.

After the two sat down in the office, Xu Youwei was still preoccupied with what had just happened. Rather, ever since the stampede, she had sensed something was amiss with her detective instincts. However, since her mind was still fixed on the perspective of a classic detective, she naturally couldn't think of anything related to rebirth. So she just kept looking at Chen Junqian suspiciously, trying to see something on his face.

However, as she looked at him, she couldn't help but feel a sense of relief, which explained why so many other girls at school liked him. Before, because they were so familiar with each other, she didn't really observe her childhood friend. But now, if she stared at him intently, she could indeed feel that as he grew older and his features and figure matured, he was exuding a certain charm that belonged to the opposite sex.

"Is there something on my face?"

"There are some."

As she spoke, Xu Youwei reached out and touched Chen Junqian's face, carefully tracing the contours of his features with her palm before reluctantly withdrawing her hand.

"Okay, that's all for now."

This somewhat ambiguous gesture made the atmosphere in the office feel a little more romantic, but it was quickly interrupted by Xu Zhiling, who rushed back to ask about the details and thank Chen Junqian.

The real-time monitoring footage has been retrieved, and the machine malfunction and Gu Yong's injuries have indeed proven that Chen Junqian's actions were entirely correct. If it had been any later, the situation would have spiraled out of control. At that point, let alone shutting down a production line, the entire factory's production and public image would have suffered even more severe damage.

However, unlike his overly curious daughter, Xu Zhiling himself did not intend to ask Chen Junqian why he pressed the stop button at that time. After all, he only cared about the result, and he was already handling the follow-up matters.

"We will re-examine the safety measures throughout the factory, conduct relevant publicity, education and drills. As for Gu Yong himself... the factory also bears responsibility for his injury. In addition to covering all medical expenses, we will consider transferring him to a more relaxed position. After all, after such an experience, he probably won't want to go back to the production line for a while."

After briefly sharing his thoughts with Chen Junqian, Xu Zhiling then proactively told him:

"Gu Yong has been taken to the hospital. His injuries aren't too serious. He said he wanted to thank you in person, but he was too flustered and forgot about it. What are your thoughts on this?"

"Then I'll go check on him."

Although Chen Junqian himself didn't think it was a big deal, it was a life-saving matter for the other party. Just like his uncle-in-law went all in with him on three fierce dogs without saying a word after the stampede incident, this kind of favor really needed to be expressed in person. Even if he didn't go now, he would probably be found at his home in a couple of days.

"Okay, I'm going to see him in a bit anyway, you can come with me. As for Youyou, it's getting late, go back to sleep."

"I do not want it."

In situations where no one else is around, Hsu Yu-wei never gives her father any face. After all, their relationship is quite delicate, and Hsu Chih-ling doesn't want to forcefully interfere. So, after being retorted like this, Hsu Chih-ling, too lazy to argue further, simply waved his hand.

"Then you can come along, but don't go into the wards and cause trouble."

After making this decision, the three of them went downstairs. The driver had already driven the car nearby. Xu Zhiling sat in the passenger seat, while Chen Junqian and Xu Youwei sat in the back seat.

This seems to be the first time Chen Junqian has ridden in Xu Zhiling's car, and it's with Xu Youwei. In the past, this kind of scene has mostly happened with Lin Mu, ever since the two of them squeezed together in the back seat of the car three years ago to play the puzzle game that came with the phone back then.