I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

However, Chen Junqian is not aiming too high right now, thinking about building the club to a certain level right away. After all, the infrastructure in Guoning is there, and he himself really has no experience before. He is just feeling his way across the river, and even feeling his way across the river from the stone next door, which is the kind of stone from the second dimension.

"The literary society reminds me of the poetry society I joined when I was in college. It was quite interesting."

When Chen Junqian came to the homeroom teacher, the teacher appeared very approachable and chatted with Chen Junqian about his own student days in a friendly tone.

For domestic students, their first exposure to club culture, including student unions, does indeed have to wait until after university. However, Chen Junqian can't wait until then to start his romantic comedy strategy. After all, judging from the looks of the girls around him, by then the series would probably have ended several times already.

"In fact, many middle schools in China also have club culture. Our school is a provincial key school, so we can pay more attention to the spiritual civilization construction in this regard. And this is the application I have prepared. Everything about this club, including its founding purpose, daily activities, etc., is written in it."

As a frequent visitor to the office and the top student in the grade, Chen Junqian's conversation with his homeroom teacher still attracted the attention of many other teachers nearby.

In fact, teachers' offices are often not as serious or even scary as students imagine. Especially after getting to know the teachers, they can come over to enjoy the air conditioning or snacks whenever they want. For example, the Chinese teacher who came over to watch the show asked him if he wanted some rice crackers. Spreading chili sauce or soybean paste on them with chopsticks and breaking them up is Chen Junqian's favorite way to eat them, even though he is in his fifties.

"Wow, they've even prepared the application materials. It's so formal!"

The homeroom teacher initially thought Chen Junqian was just having a sudden whim, but unexpectedly, the other party seemed to have come prepared. After curiously flipping through a couple of pages, the teacher put the book away again.

"Okay, I'll take a look at it for you in a bit. It's about club funds and activity rooms. I've taught so many classes and this is the first time I've encountered someone like you. You can go back to class now."

After completing the first step, the matter moved on to the second step.

In fact, the second step was even simpler than the first. After all, Guoning was such a small place, and the identity of a Brahmin from the county town was equally useful in the school. In addition, Chen Junqian's proposed club was not some messy or unconventional one that would damage the school's reputation. Therefore, the principal gave his proposal almost a green light and officially approved it, thus marking the birth of the first club in Guoning Middle School and even the entire Guoning.

Of course, there was no need to come up with a name, because the official name was simply Guoning Middle School Junior High School Literary Society. Although it was not impossible to add a prefix such as 'daisy' or 'cherry blossom', Chen Junqian, who had already experienced how long it would take for this group of people with naming difficulties to come up with a name, decisively gave up this right and instead started to take charge of the activity room.

In fact, there are quite a few empty classrooms in the school, as well as classrooms that are actually idle even though they have signs on them. However, considering the several agreements between Chen Junqian and Gu Lingguo, he would naturally prefer to find a classroom with its own multimedia equipment to serve as the club's base.

At that time, whiteboard teaching was not yet fully popularized in Guoning. It was only after Chen Junqian entered high school in 2015 that all the teachers got used to using whiteboards for teaching. So, apart from open classes, most of the veteran teachers were still used to teaching and writing on the blackboard with chalk.

The classroom that Chen Junqian finally chose was a place that had previously only been used for open classes. It was not only spacious, but also fully equipped with multimedia equipment such as computers and projectors. On the same floor, there was only one other classroom with a sign that read "Psychological Counseling Room". However, in reality, it was a place that was basically deserted except for the announcement of the name after school, which would be broadcast over the loudspeaker after school.

This can only be described as a very baffling event within their high school, almost like a legendary tale of rule-based schools.

First of all, if students really have problems and want to come here for advice, they can only come after class or after school.

However, it is known that the round trip between here and the teaching building takes seven or eight minutes, and the break time for a class is only ten minutes, so the free time is fixed after school.

But this "mental health teacher" also has the same working hours as their students. Don't ask, the answer is always the same: you finish school, I finish get off work, see you tomorrow.

Of course, since the counselor would sometimes come to the class to give presentations on psychological counseling, Chen Junqian did see this mysterious counselor even once during those three years.

However, unlike the typical romantic comedies in anime and manga where the character is a fresh-faced college graduate with youthful energy, whose white coat can't hide her slender figure and who seems ready to have a classic scene with you in the infirmary, the other character is just an ordinary-looking middle-aged man. So, as they say, reality is reality, and romantic comedies are romantic comedies.

After securing the location and having someone make a sign for the "Literary Society" and hang it at the entrance, the rest was a matter of course.

After all, the situation is completely different from that in Japan and in various romantic comedies. Chen Junqian's literary club was originally a business he set up all by himself. The instructor was his own Chinese teacher, and he made all the decisions about the members. He didn't even have to worry about having to recruit ghost members to make up the numbers when there weren't enough people.

All Chen Junqian had to do was ask the principal and the security guard to let Zhu Wenyun, who had come from Hejin Middle School, into the school after school. The school naturally had no objection to this powerful outsider he had brought in. The feeling of poaching a competitor's talent was indeed wonderful. It was almost impossible not to want to see the other party win awards in the competition by being associated with their school's literary society.

However, this arrangement soon brought new problems, namely Zhu Wenyun's commute, which required her to come from outside every time.

Undoubtedly, Zhu Wenyun herself was reluctant to take a taxi, and taking the bus wasn't very convenient either. Anyway, don't worry about what the inconvenience was. For Zhu Wenyun right now, this was the perfect opportunity for her to replace Xu Youwei in that position. So, after a few quick moves, Youyou was a little dumbfounded to find that after the club was established, she not only lost the time she could enjoy with Chen Junqian after school, but also had to watch helplessly as her childhood sweetheart rode off alone to that place and then brought someone back with her.

Well, this only adds another piece of convincing evidence to the campus rumors related to Zhu Wenyun at Hejin Middle School.

Although there was a slight disappointment at first that Chen Junqian came by bicycle instead of driving a BMW, some people quickly said that this was exactly what dating was all about. Just look how happy the girl sitting on the back of his bicycle was every time. After a few times, it had almost become a regular and beautiful sight there.

With the creation of the club now complete, Chen Junqian finally achieved the goal of creating a club with at least three female protagonists who are suited for romantic comedies. This achievement, which was related to the club's creation, was a solid step towards the next milestone reward.

At the same time, Chen Junqian also officially announced that their literary society's current task is to produce a society journal, or campus publication, before next winter vacation. After all, there are only four people in their society, so it is indeed impossible to produce a society journal. However, thinking about it carefully, Zhu Wenyun's huge pile of messy drafts and Mu Mu's diary combined are probably enough to compile a society journal for a year.

"Let me assign tasks first. I'll be in charge of overall coordination, communication, and printing. Wenjun will be responsible for providing some of the manuscripts, Youyou will be in charge of the cover illustration and overall design, and Mumu will be in charge of soliciting manuscripts."

As soon as Chen Junqian finished speaking, the three girls below asked him their questions in unison.

Zhu Wenyun was the first to speak.

"Even if you ask me to contribute articles, I still need to know what kind of content to write, right? Or are you saying that Guoning Middle School can already openly use articles from 'Fireworks'?"

Then came Hsu Yu-Wei.

"The cover design is one thing, but what is the overall design? It's like telling me that this is movement, this is attack, this is jump, and then I can go and fight the Demon King. And the idea that studying art means you can design is as absurd as studying computer science means you can fix computers."

Finally, it was Lin Mu's turn. His question was the simplest, or rather, he seemed to have completely misunderstood.

"Humble, humble, humble, if you're calling for submissions, how exactly do you do it?"

However, since Chen Junqian dared to issue such a task, he must have already thought of specific measures, so he patiently explained them to them one by one:

"If you're asking about Wenyun, you definitely can't use the style you use for contributing to 'Fireworks.' Just write about some ordinary campus life. Then, I'm going to do a separate interview or essay writing guidance for you. We'll then promote it with a gimmick like 'Shocking! Little-known tips that can raise your Chinese essay score by at least ten points.'"

Like Chen Junqian, Zhu Wenyun also won first prize in the last essay competition, achieving the feat of winning it twice in a row.

"Youyou, just treat this like designing a blackboard bulletin board in elementary school. Don't think about designing it entirely yourself. Just find a few decent templates online and modify them. For the cover, I suggest choosing scenery from inside the school as material. For example, the crabapple trees in front of the teaching building or the cherry blossom tree planted at the entrance would be nice."

"Finally, it's Mumu's turn. Because you're the most popular person here, we thought we'd ask you to do this. I'll print out the explanatory leaflets for you first, and then you can go to each class and hand them out to let the other students know what's going on. The specific content of the call for submissions doesn't have to be limited to essays; calligraphy works are also welcome. If Mumu is interested, she can also submit a piece of pen calligraphy."

After explaining the tasks for the three people in an orderly manner, Chen Junqian clapped his hands again to encourage them:

"Alright, if all goes well, we'll be able to see Guoning Middle School's first school magazine before winter break. Then, during the Spring Festival, everyone can take it home and show it to their relatives, displaying their names on the title page. Doesn't that sound great?"

It is now mid-December 2012.

On the other side of the ocean, Fumiaki Maruto, the screenwriter of "White Album 2," has just released the second volume of his new light novel, "Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend."

Meanwhile, on this side of the ocean, Chen Junqian's gang romance comedy began.

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Chapter Sixteen: The Fourth Castle (Two Chapters Combined)

The most important thing for a literary society is, of course, to have books. So after the activity room was established, Chen Junqian began to encourage members to transfer some of their books from home to the literary society's bookshelves at school, which served to enhance the society's image.

Zhu Wenyun was undoubtedly the one who reacted most positively to this measure. After all, she had quite a lot of books at home, and her living space was small. She had previously considered moving some of them to Chen Junqian's place. Now that she had a place to put them at the school, she was naturally quite happy. However, since she was no longer studying at Ningzhong, she could only bring a few books at a time, which was a bit like the Foolish Old Man Moving Mountains, except that she was moving a mountain of books.

Xu Youwei and Lin Mu, who were already studying at Ningzhong, found it much more convenient. However, Mu Mu herself wasn't a child who particularly enjoyed reading, so her bookshelf at home was filled with various handicrafts she had made, rather than children's books. It felt a bit strange to stuff all the comics and magazines she bought into the bookshelf, but thinking that it wouldn't be a problem to secretly hide them in the bookshelf, she brought them over anyway.

Therefore, it was Xu Youwei who actually made the big move. After helping the other party move a whole box of books to the club activity room, Chen Junqian opened the box and the first thing he saw was a neat stack of "Charlie IX".

To be fair, Chen Junqian has always felt that the success of the "Charlie IX" series in the field of children's literature in the past two years is not only due to the fact that the story itself is well-written, but also because the update speed is so fast.

Besides writing style and plot, the most important factor for any commercial writing is high-intensity updates. The "Charlie IX" series has achieved this to the extreme. From January 2011 to the end of 2012, in just two years, the author has already updated and published sixteen volumes. It can only be said that if Jiang Nan had this update speed, he wouldn't have been criticized so badly on the Internet more than ten years later.

As a loyal reader who has been following the series since the first book, "The Ghosts of Black Bay Street," Xu Youwei naturally bought the entire series without missing a single one, up to the latest book, the sixteenth book, "The Tree of Life in the Undying Kingdom." The sixteen books lined up in order on the bookshelf were indeed quite impressive. The two of them arranged them while casually chatting about the series.

Actually, the early Charlie IX series was closer in style to the popular CCTV program "Approaching Science," where no matter how terrifying, suspenseful, or supernatural the events were, they could always be explained by scientific principles in the end, at least on the surface. But the latest two volumes, "The Hunters of Turtle Island" and "The Tree of Life in the Immortal Kingdom," are completely unreserved. However, they are certainly much more exciting to watch. At least Xu Youwei herself doesn't really want to watch the forced scientific explanation at the end anymore. Supernatural is supernatural, so be it.

After arranging the entire set of sixteen books neatly on the same bookshelf, Chen Junqian ran his fingers along the spines of the books from left to right and asked Xu Youwei with some curiosity:

"Which one of these books is your favorite right now, Yoyo?"

"Me? Actually, I had high expectations for 'Golden Eye of Quetzalcoatl' at first, since it's about the 2012 apocalypse, but the development was just so-so. If I really had to choose, I would probably choose 'The Ghost Princess's Wedding Dress'."

Upon hearing the other party mention the book title, Chen Junqian casually pulled out the thirteenth book in the series. However, he couldn't help but recall a conversation he had with a mysterious female colleague in the office about this book when he reread the series for work in his previous life.

To be honest, when he first read this book as a child, apart from thinking that the story itself was well-written and the atmosphere was well-created, the scientific explanation at the end was not very convincing, the mystery of electric current controlling fungi and cordyceps to manipulate humans was a bit too far-fetched, and the fact that the villain, the ghost princess Yin Ling, did not receive any major punishment in the end, the experience was actually quite good.

But for another group of female readers whom Chen Junqian had never imagined before, this volume held an almost supreme status.

Not only was it the first appearance of Tang Xiaoyi, a highly popular character in the entire series, but Chen Junqian himself had also seen a considerable number of fans of the Ghost Princess in real life and on the Internet, and their various comments left him stunned.

Actually, the former is fine, after all, Chen Junqian himself had fantasized about riding such a big white wolf to go on an adventure when he was a child, but the latter is indeed a realm he cannot understand.

Faced with his colleague's comments, such as, "Unlike the female characters I've seen before who turn evil for the sake of so-called unfaithful lovers, Yin Ling is smart and ambitious. Everything she does is purely out of a desire for power. She's the first person to tell me that a woman, or even a girl, also has a desire for power and wants to sit on the throne of the highest ruling class," and "She represents a value system of those in power. I admit her ideas are naive, but from the perspective of power, I think women, in particular, have the right to pursue their own social value. I remember back then, TV dramas were still about male dominance and female subservience. Yin Ling is a representative of self-reliance for children, especially girls, who don't have to depend on men or love," Chen Junqian could only surrender once again.

It has to be said that this is a classic segment of childhood literature. Everyone hated reading comprehension questions like "What psychological states and hidden meanings does the description convey?" when they were young, but as adults, they love videos like "What dark realities are hidden in the childhood masterpieces you didn't understand?" It's a kind of shooting the arrow before drawing the target.

Of course, Xu Youwei's reason for liking this book was not any of the aforementioned random things. She simply felt that the Chinese elements in it suited her tastes, including the gold-threaded wedding dress, colorful shawl, pearl phoenix crown, and embroidered shoes in the prologue.

Most importantly, just like Zhu Wenyun, who is increasingly obsessed with the remote control device in the Pipilu series that can control others, Xu Youwei now also wants to own such a golden wedding dress that can control others. With just a clap of her hands, she can use an electric device to put the other person's every move under her control.

It's decided, I'll dream about this tonight.

Faced with Xu Youwei, who seemed to have quickly immersed herself in her own fantasy world, Chen Junqian could only wave his hand in front of her eyes twice to change the subject to work:

"Wake up, how's the task I gave you going?"

"Ah, the mission, no problem, progressing smoothly."

"So, have you produced any concrete results or semi-finished products? I feel like I gave you the same answer when I asked you the day before yesterday."

"Hehehe?"

Chen Junqian flicked Xu Youwei's forehead as she tried to fool him, once again experiencing the feeling of being a research group leader in his previous life at university. He could only emphasize it again seriously and earnestly:

"You need to show me at least a first draft by next week, otherwise I won't be spending time with you the day after tomorrow."

"Waaah, Qinqin is so mean."

The moment Chen Junqian uttered those words, Xu Youwei was like a kitten whose fate had been seized by the scruff of its neck. With her weakness held in her grasp, she could only obediently surrender.

"Okay, I'll speed things up these next couple of days."

However, it wasn't just Xu Youwei's side that needed to speed things up. Rather, aside from Mu Mu, who didn't need his attention at all and immediately started carrying out the tasks as soon as they were assigned, the other two people, as well as Gu Lingguo, an unofficial member who hadn't yet joined the department, were all formidable opponents for Chen Junqian.

Sure enough, after school, he had just ridden his bicycle to the club's activity room with Zhu Wenyun, and before he could even chat with Xu Youwei about the cover design, she casually said to him, "I'm having writer's block, sorry."

"How about we take a break first? Have some snacks or something?"

Because there was a convenience store at school, the club's funding was quite sufficient. In addition to books, Chen Junqian also stuffed a lot of snacks and drinks into the activity room. As soon as he turned around and took them out, Zhu Wenyun picked up her pen again and lowered her head to the manuscript paper, seemingly about to start writing.

If you look a little closer, you'll see that what the other person is writing on the blank manuscript paper is a continuous string of "Hey me, hey me, hey me, hey me." Chen Junqian even thought about getting Zhu Wenyun a laptop specifically for writing, since copying and pasting might be easier that way.

Incidentally, since Zhu Wenyun herself still doesn't like Pocky which is ridiculously expensive and not cost-effective, the two of them have been trying hard to find many alternatives to it over the past period of time. The stick-shaped biscuits that Chen Junqian is currently feeding her with chocolate sauce are one of them.

Actually, if we were to make a Pocky nine-square grid, I feel like shrimp chips could also be included?

He pulled a cookie out of the packaging, dipped it in the included chocolate sauce, and then, being careful not to block Zhu Wenyun's view, held it next to her face. He then put the tip of the cookie near her lips, and the next second, the whole cookie was bitten into the girl's mouth with a strange crunching sound.

Don't ask, it's a skill I developed after playing Pocky games a lot.

His fingertips inadvertently touched the other's lips, but it was much better than the near-lip-to-lip kiss during the Pocky game. Seeing the words "Again, again, again" on the manuscript, Chen Junqian had no choice but to continue his feeding mission, only regretting that the system's achievement limit was only one thousand times.

However, this time did not last long, because Xu Youwei was not blind. Soon, she called Chen Junqian over again, saying that she wanted to show him the two crabapple trees she had drawn at the entrance of the teaching building during the day's break. By the time Mu Mu, who had finished distributing today's flyers, arrived late, the entire activity room had already become an observation site for Chen Junqian's back-and-forth movement, leaving her a little dazed.

"All the flyers have been handed out. There are more interested people than I expected. Quite a few students also want to submit their work, since it can be printed in the book."

Since there were no outsiders around, Lin Mu simply found a table and sat down, her two little legs swinging in mid-air. Her lively tone made the atmosphere in the activity room much more relaxed. Chen Junqian also broke free from the cycle of his own thoughts and came to her side to take some of the manuscripts she had temporarily collected.

The creative desires of junior high school students are stronger than he imagined. The manuscripts collected so far include various forms of writing, such as prose, modern poetry, narrative essays, and classical-style poems. Regardless of the quality, the variety is certainly rich and colorful. Otherwise, why would the essay topic at the end of each Chinese exam always specifically state "all forms except poetry"? Because some students really love to write poetry, even if it's neither ancient nor modern, and it's somewhat like the style of General Zhang Zongchang.

"Thank you for your hard work. Let me see if there are any reliable ones that can be published."

As soon as Chen Junqian found an empty seat, Lin Mu hopped down from the table and followed him. Unlike Xu Youwei and Zhu Wenyun, who were still working, she had already finished all her tasks for the day. So, she naturally came over, stood behind her childhood friend, put her head on his shoulder, and looked at the collected manuscripts with Chen Junqian.

As it turns out, this kind of "chuunibyou" (middle school syndrome) symptom isn't just limited to Japan, like the currently popular anime "Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions." There are also a lot of severe cases in China. Among the manuscripts he had were even beginnings similar to web novels. And the hardest part wasn't the original works, but all sorts of fanfiction. Not only were there male-oriented fanfictions like "Battle Through the Heavens" and "Douluo Continent," but Chen Junqian even saw a very mysterious article like "EXO: The Twelve Emperors Belong to Me." After reading it, he felt like he was going to suffer a work injury.