I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

"Since you're also participating in this dictation competition, let's have a contest between us."

"Oh, I'm sorry, if I remember correctly, you're not even a formal member of the Anhui Provincial Team, right? You're just a sparring partner, aren't you? I don't have time to spar with my opponent's sparring partner, could you let me have a turn? I need to go find Junqian."

As she spoke, Shen Nianqiu tried to walk around the other person, and Zhu Wenyun instinctively tried to stop her. Just as their shoulders were about to collide, Chen Junqian, who had finished communicating with the teacher not far behind, finally arrived. He reached out and pulled the two back to a safe distance, then spoke with a hint of surprise in his voice:

"If that's the case, then we can compete in the main competition; there will be opportunities then."

"As for now, since you've come all this way, let's go out for a nice meal. We can talk about it in detail over dinner."

Fortunately, as he grew older, Chen Junqian finally grew taller, so the way he pulled the two girls didn't look too strange. He used one arm on each side to drag the two girls out of the school gate of No. 50 Middle School. After finding a well-regarded restaurant next to the school and getting a private room, he finally relayed to the two girls the latest news from the program team that he had just received from Teacher Zhang.

In addition to the provincial teams, the production team decided to set up a 100-person dictation session at the recording site. Although the main purpose was to highlight how good the main contestants were and how high their qualifications were, it also added three spots for the 100-person group to directly advance to the finals. These spots were awarded to the top three contestants in the 100-person group with the highest overall accuracy in the semi-finals and finals.

In Chen Junqian's memory, the format of dictation by a hundred-person group only appeared in the second season, which was scheduled to be released next year. It was later adopted by CCTV's "Chinese Poetry Conference" and other similar traditional Chinese culture programs, but it did not have the opportunity to directly advance to the finals. Unexpectedly, it was born ahead of schedule in 2013.

...It was as if it had been prepared just for him and Zhu Wenjun.

Thinking of this, Chen Junqian unconsciously glanced at a description of a milestone reward that he had previously found rather mysterious in his mind.

The will of the world will protect you.

The world of romantic comedies is always a gentle fairy tale world, where the characters surrounding the male protagonist always end up happy. So if there is a world will, it must also hope for this. If not, then there must be something wrong with the world itself, and we just need to correct it.

Each successful completion of a romantic comedy achievement will help the system correct the progress of this world. After eighty completions, the system will receive partial favor from the world's will, allowing the host to take another step towards becoming the true male protagonist of a romantic comedy.

Each time you achieve a romantic comedy achievement, you will help the system correct the progress of this world...

In fact, a full year and a half has passed since he achieved his last milestone. Although he hasn't collected eighty yet, he has accumulated a considerable number. Now it seems that this is probably one of the feedbacks from the system's 'corrected world'.

To be honest, if it weren't for Shen Nianqiu and Zhu Wenyun's affair, Chen Junqian would have sincerely wanted to thank them for the revision. After all, he had always dreamed of participating in this program in his previous life, and now he indeed had the opportunity and the corresponding ability.

But Chen Junqian has never hesitated to speculate about the thoughts of his system, which has been in seclusion for a long time, through the worst... or rather, the most romantic comedy filter. No matter how you look at the current situation, it seems that the other party is just correcting the world line in order to achieve the achievement of "Shura Field in Progress".

Despite feeling a slight toothache, Chen Junqian didn't show any unusual expression. He continued to solemnly imitate Captain Dragonfly, defining the scope of the competition between the two equally matched girls in front of him with a firm and fair tone, as if he would definitely be the judge.

"So, as I just said, if you and Wenyun want to compete in this, of course you have the opportunity, and it will be in front of a national audience. Please hold off for now and wait until then to settle things, okay?"

Zhu Wenyun lowered her head, fiddling with the ends of her hair, her tone somewhat sullen:

"I'm fine."

In contrast, there was Shen Nianqiu, who was resting her chin on her hand with a touch of coquettishness and charm, blinking her fox-like eyes and raising the corners of her mouth at him, her tone even more lively.

"Okay, but—"

She deliberately dragged out her words until Zhu Wenjun couldn't help but look up, then slowly raised her chin at Chen Junqian:

"If it's a competition, there has to be a prize, right?"

As she spoke, the girl, who had just turned sixteen and was about to enter high school, extended her right index finger and gently touched her delicate lips, which seemed ready to be taken at will:

"If I win, will you give your older sister a kiss?"

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Chapter 41: None of them are easy to deal with! (Two chapters combined)

This was the second time Chen Junqian had heard such a direct request for a kiss in a while, but unfortunately, the first person to say it to him was Zhu Wenyun, who was sitting opposite Shen Nianqiu at the moment.

It can only be said that the imagination of Chinese people is always leaping forward on this level. As soon as Shen Nianqiu said this, Zhu Wenyun had already completed the transformation from white arms to thighs and then to other things. After all, the association effect of lips is always greater than that of white arms at certain times. What's more, Shen Nianqiu himself was deliberately teasingly tapping his fingertips twice.

"If you want to use this as a prize, then if you really lose, Wenjun will also receive the same reward."

To immediately draw the attention of the two people on the field to himself, Chen Junqian spoke while looking at Zhu Wenyun:

"What do you think, Wenjun?"

"It's strange to use something like this as a reward."

Well, if you hadn't said something like, "Girl, kiss me when I become an idol-style teen writer," I might have actually believed you.

Chen Junqian could actually understand Zhu Wenyun's retreat. It wasn't that she was afraid of competing with Shen Nianqiu in the Chinese Character Dictation Competition; she simply didn't want to create an unnecessary problem or variable. After all, she had already made another promise with him about kissing, and there was a high probability of achieving the goal by proceeding step by step. There was no need to add another uncertain gamble to her life.

But Shen Nianqiu, of course, wouldn't let Zhu Wenyun, who was showing signs of backing down, get away with it. She immediately smiled sweetly and nodded at Chen Junqian.

"It's okay if she doesn't come. Let's just consider it an agreement between you and me, okay?"

When Zhu Wenyun heard Shen Nianqiu trying to bypass her and Chen Junqian to make a private appointment right in front of her, she felt a throbbing pain in the veins near her forehead and unconsciously uttered a line almost identical to one she had written in her novel:

"Don't say things like that. What do you know about what's between him and me?"

"Everyone who needs to know knows. In the beginning, she was just a girl that my brother bumped into at the market. If Junqian hadn't taken the initiative, your interaction would have only happened once. I've known about this for years."

"Back then, my younger brother would talk to me about you guys almost every week. And someone even liked to write the plot into books. Didn't I already say last time that reality is different from novels? My brother's social network wouldn't be so narrow as to only have one girl his own age. It seems that even after another year, you still haven't figured this out."

As Shen Nianqiu spoke lightly, he once again brought to the heaviest worry in Zhu Wenyun's heart a heavy weight: the two of them had indeed known each other and become acquainted much earlier than the two of them. What she couldn't refute was that the plot points that had been hidden in her own books and stories were also cleanly and neatly picked out.

She was never the one who initiated the relationship; in fact, she initially only wanted to avoid it. Just as the other person said, if Chen Junqian hadn't shown such high initiative and drive at that time, forcibly bringing the two of them closer, none of what happened later would have occurred.

Considering her current thoughts and actions, it seems she tends to emphasize things the less there is to say.

It can only be said that the information asymmetry is indeed one of the key reasons why Zhu Wenyun was repeatedly defeated by Shen Nianqiu. In fact, if she knew even a little bit about Shen Nianqiu's family situation, she could easily deduce Shen Nianqiu's personality and thinking from his behavior and speech, and then pick out the truth that Shen Nianqiu himself did not want to face, just like Chen Junqian did. But she really knew far too little about Shen Nianqiu.

On the contrary, Shen Nianqiu could easily obtain information about Zhu Wenyun from Chen Junqian. Moreover, Zhu Wenyun herself was the kind of girl who liked to stuff her own experiences, which were mostly true and partially fictional, into her works. The more a writer likes to have their fantasies and experiences seen and amazed by more readers, the more likely they are to have their personality flaws and weaknesses seen through a glimpse, because writing is inherently a process in which personal biases are easily and naturally added.

"Actually, it's nothing. I think any feelings and bonds are formed through daily interactions. No one can immediately decide that someone is irreplaceable. If someone is, it only means that what she wanted in the first place wasn't that one, but the first one, and she just happened to meet him. Or maybe she was just looking for a substitute. I think you understand this best, right?"

After Zhu Wenyun was defeated and left the stage, Chen Junqian, as the referee, had no choice but to step in and clean up the mess himself. He first gave his sister a tactful reminder, and then took the initiative to change the subject, talking to her about her current situation with vocal training. This subtly signaled to Zhu Wenyun, who was standing silently by, that she actually didn't have much interest in literature and was only participating in the Chinese Character Dictation Competition because of her good Chinese language scores. With this two-pronged approach, he finally brought the atmosphere back on track.

"As for the bet and reward we just discussed, I think you two are being a bit arrogant. If it's just a bet between the two of you, I do feel disrespected. But if it's a bet between the three of us, I might end up with the highest ranking. So we need to make that clear from the beginning."

After his rebirth, Chen Junqian has been diligently learning and exploring how to handle the emotional entanglements and conflicts between the girls. He has come to realize that even in romantic comedies, the male protagonist must be at the heart of the story. If the male protagonist is completely inactive or marginalized, the ending may turn out like in "School Days," where the tension between the female protagonists becomes increasingly sharp, ultimately leading to a complete loss of control.

Therefore, it is essential to bring the core of the emotions, the core of the conflicts, and the core of the story back to oneself, especially when facing these two girls who have both been rated as D in terms of personality adaptability by the system.

"And compared to kissing others, I definitely prefer the feeling of being kissed, especially if I end up winning against both of you..."

Just like Shen Nianqiu had done, Chen Junqian deliberately dragged out the tone before pointing to his cheeks with both hands:

"How about we take turns, one for each of us?"

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The summer vacation of 2013 was undoubtedly a very important time for Chen Xi. In addition to saying goodbye to her primary school life and becoming a middle school student, she also finally moved with her mother to the new house in Yunqi Jinyuan that she had longed for for a long time. Her older brother Chen Junqian and her good friend Gu Linguo lived on the floor above her. Just thinking about it made her very happy.

However, when Chen Xi, who had just moved in, knocked on her brother's door to visit, she was warmly welcomed in by Wang Hongling. The first thing she saw was Chen Junqian, whom she rarely saw, who was currently rolling around on the bed like a salted fish, muttering strange things like "Ahhhhh... I'm going to die".

"What are you doing, bro? Are you too tired after coming back from Hefei?"

As the girl who could sleep in the same bed with Chen Junqian every year during the Spring Festival, Chen Xi naturally had no reservations about the bed in Chen Junqian's room. She sat down on it naturally and used her hand to stop Chen Junqian, who was still wriggling there. She shook his arm and asked him.

"Probably, but it's just mentally exhausting."

It's fair to say that while Chen Junqian may have a lot of ideas about how to recreate romantic comedies in real life, the actual struggles in putting them into practice are something only he knows. Asking a single woman who hasn't been in a relationship in her previous life for over twenty years to say "one for each of you" to two girls in front of him is indeed extremely difficult. If his facial expression management and emotional control were both up to par, he probably would have already given up and couldn't hold back by then.

Even so, just like the male protagonist in the anime "Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions" who, when recalling his past chuunibyou experiences, would lie on the sofa or bed, pounding his chest in embarrassment, unable to speak, Chen Junqian himself still can't easily avoid this matter. Perhaps in another two years, after experiencing many battles, he will truly develop the super thick skin of a male protagonist in a romantic comedy. But for now, let him be embarrassed by himself for a while.

Faced with her brother, who was rambling incoherently and rolling around on the bed like Brownian motion, Chen Xi made a clean and decisive stop. She took off her shoes and placed her legs, one on top of the other, on his back and the back of his calves, causing Chen Junqian to pause again, lying face down on the bed and continuing his self-imposed isolation.

"Brother, how about we go out and have fun with Lin Guo in a couple of days?"

"I'm busy."

Chen Junqian rolled over halfway onto the bed, peeking out a little bit of his mouth, and helplessly refused his sister's request:

"I'm going to Beijing in a couple of days."

"Beijing? Going there for tourism? But I've never heard my aunt mention it."

"They're not going on vacation, they're going to compete, or rather, to record a TV show?"

"On TV?"

"Yes, I'll be on TV. It should be airing on August 2nd, on CCTV-1, Friday nights at 8 pm prime time, called 'Chinese Character Dictation Competition.' If I can advance smoothly, Xixi might see me on it."

"What if things don't go smoothly?"

"If things don't go well, just think of it as a trip to Beijing... No, can't you expect anything good from your brother?"

“Because if my brother advances, he will definitely stay in Beijing for a long time to continue recording the show, so it would be better for him to come back and be with me sooner, even though I just moved here.”

Perhaps because there was genuine emotion in it, Chen Junqian even heard the affectionate term "brother" from his sister's mouth again after a long time, a term that had disappeared for some time. However, just as he was about to turn half of his body over to see her expression, the bright red socks that were a special feature of his birth year once again blocked his view, making the exposed ankle part look exceptionally white.

"Oh, I'm sorry."

Seemingly completely unprepared for Chen Junqian's sudden turn, Chen Xi instinctively shifted her foot slightly, quickly apologized, and then obediently pulled both legs back, curling up with her head resting on her knees. She then changed her wording slightly:

"Okay, I was just kidding. I definitely hope you can advance, and it would be best if you could win the final championship, after all, you're my brother... So what kind of competition is that?"

"As the name suggests, it is Chinese character dictation."

At this point, Chen Junqian, who had finally sat up in bed, gestured with his chin towards his sister and asked her:

"When Xixi is reading history books, have you come across any names of people, places, or historical terms that are particularly easy to misspell or are relatively obscure?"

"let me see……"

Hearing Chen Junqian say this, Chen Xi also tilted her head slightly, looking thoughtful, and quickly thought of one:

“Wan Qixie definitely counts, right? He was one of the treacherous officials who knelt in front of Yue Fei Temple along with Qin Hui and his wife. He was quite well-known, and most people can’t even pronounce those three characters correctly.”

"Indeed, but this word isn't difficult to write. I know how to write it. If I actually pass the exam, then I'll credit Xixi for it."

After this seemingly serious discussion, Chen Xi brought up the topic of seeing Chen Junqian's elementary school graduation photo, because she had taken one herself when she graduated two months ago, but felt it wasn't very good. As she searched for Chen Junqian's photo by looking through the names, she suddenly remembered a Soviet joke she had recently seen and shared it with her brother:

It is said that when Khrushchev visited a farm, he saw the pigs were behaving well and, on a whim, stood among them and took a picture.

But when the newspaper was ready to publish it, the editor struggled with the title of the photo.

"Comrade Khrushchev was with pigs?"

No.

"A pig is with Comrade Khrushchev?"

That's not good either.

Therefore, after the newspaper was published, the caption under the photo was:

[The third person from the left is Comrade Khrushchev.]

"So, Xixi means that when I become famous in the future, this graduation photo will also be dug up and published in the newspaper with the caption 'Chen Junqian is the seventh from the left in the first row'?"

Chen Xi simply made a face at him:

"Do you think all the other classmates standing next to you are pigs? Let me see, you have Xu Youwei on your left and Lin Mu on your right, hmm..."

She certainly didn't bring up this topic out of nowhere.