I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

"...I can't say."

Looking at Xu Youwei, who sat across the table smugly and arrogantly, Chen Junqian made a comment, but still handed her his phone from his pocket:

"If you actually send it, you're not allowed to reply randomly."

"Okay, I know, it's just a quick look."

Taking the phone from Chen Junqian, Xu Youwei pressed and held the power button to turn it on. Just as she was about to subconsciously hand the phone back and say, "Qinqin, enter the password," she froze for a moment. She remembered that Chen Junqian's phone screen saver wasn't this one.

Her thoughts raced through her mind for a moment, then Xu Youwei calmly pressed the power button to turn the phone off again, and casually returned it to her.

"The power's out anyway, so let's just forget about it."

This is Zhu Wenyun's cell phone.

she thinks.

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Chapter 55: Mu Mu is rushing to finish her summer homework (Part 2)

There was absolutely no need to add any classic lines like "If you're so capable of stealing a phone, then open the door!" Shen Nianqiu waited leisurely outside the door for a short while before Zhu Wenyun opened the door from the inside, revealing a face with a complex and somewhat unpredictable expression.

Her gaze naturally fell on the phone that had already been hung up, which was still clutched in the other person's hand. Shen Nianqiu walked in confidently, closed the door behind her, and casually sat down on the sofa in the room. She deftly took control of the situation in the other person's territory, gesturing with her chin towards Zhu Wenyun:

"Alright, sit down and let's talk, Zhu, who stole someone else's phone."

"You saw it all along? But you didn't tell Junqian."

To Zhu Wenyun's attempt to drag her into this mess, Shen Nianqiu simply shrugged and said:

“Your younger brother doesn’t know whether I actually saw it or not, but she knows whether someone switched your phone or not. If I send Xu Youwei a message now, you’ll be exposed.”

It can only be said that although Sister Shen's personality is indeed terrible in some aspects, and she is ranked alongside Zhu Wenyun as one of the top three talents, she is definitely outmatched by the other party in terms of action. At least she never thought of the trick of switching the two people's phones. However, it is precisely because of this that she feels that the girl in front of her is more problematic.

After all, a gentleman judges by actions, not intentions. Everyone has various negative or even dark thoughts in their hearts, but most people just think about them. People like Zhu Wenyun, who dare to think and act, are a very small minority, an extreme case.

Because anyone who thinks about it for a moment knows that stealing a phone and snooping on private information is definitely wrong and something that the person involved would hate. But she still did it subconsciously. This situation either means that this is something she has wanted to do for a long time and just happened to find a suitable opportunity, or it means that the other party did not have the process of thinking twice before acting and would just do whatever she wanted.

In either case, it indicates that Zhu Wenyun had some kind of flaw in her personality.

...I just don't know if my younger brother is aware of this.

"So what do you want to do?"

Seeing that there was no way to drag Shen Nianqiu down with her as an accomplice, Zhu Wenyun simply adopted a "what the hell" attitude, placed Chen Junqian's phone in the middle of the coffee table, and asked him directly.

"Just like I said at the beginning, let's be open and honest."

After glancing briefly at the phone that Zhu Wenyun had placed there, Shen Nianqiu looked away and focused her attention back on Zhu Wenyun herself.

"Anyway, you've already gone through everything inside, right? Speaking of which, what was your purpose in doing that? There shouldn't be anything particularly suspicious on your brother's phone, right?"

"Is this answer acceptable so I can see your chat history with Junqian?"

"……All right."

Faced with Zhu Wenyun's seemingly genuine answer, which came out without hesitation, Shen Nianqiu also rubbed her forehead with mixed feelings. She suddenly realized what Chen Junqian meant when he said that the thoughts in the minds of literary girls are always different. So you dared to steal a phone just to confirm something like this? I just can't understand it.

"So, is there anything in our chat history that you're concerned about?"

Shen Nianqiu asked again, trying to elaborate on Zhu Wenyun's reasons and motives for doing this. She could only say that she still found it hard to accept that a girl would actually check someone else's phone for such a reason. She felt that only parents with a particularly strong desire for control would do this, even though the other party was in Guoning.

To put it bluntly, the amount of conversations those two have face-to-face on a regular basis probably exceeds the amount of time she and Chen Junqian can only have for a short while in the evenings.

However, thinking about it from another perspective, it seems to indirectly illustrate that in the eyes of the other party, one has a more threatening position than others.

"It happened earlier than I expected, in 2008..."

Seeing Zhu Wenyun say those words with an almost dejected expression in front of her, Shen Nianqiu covered her face with her hands for the second time, speechless.

Sure enough, she was just a girl with good grades and couldn't understand what this literary girl, who was described in the reports as a novelist and had an amazing reading volume, was thinking. She even started to feel sorry for Chen Junqian, who had to communicate with him every day.

However, it must be said that Zhu Wenyun's current demeanor made Shen Nianqiu feel as if she had punched cotton, leaving her momentarily speechless. She could only continue to press for answers like a caring older sister:

Why would you care about that?

They even went so far as to steal phones to peek at other people's chat logs.

"Because then we wouldn't be the earliest childhood sweethearts."

Well, compared to a childhood sweetheart who was chosen by the system but didn't care much about such things, Zhu Wenyun was definitely the girl who would pay special attention to this setting. After all, she had already written a novella specifically around this setting. But after she had just finished controlling her childhood sweetheart to kill the characters who suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the book, she turned around and found that the one who appeared out of nowhere was herself. That was indeed a bit hard to accept.

Even though Zhu Wenyun is often described as an atypical literary girl, no matter how atypical she may be, she is indeed a literary girl at heart, and her literary youth is a genuine and authentic presence.

Simply put, she wants a destiny-like romance with the boy she likes, where no one else is around, but she doesn't want things to progress too quickly. What she longs for is a love that goes through a long wait, preferably with twists and turns along the way, before finally being obtained, as if it wouldn't be sincere or touching enough otherwise.

Although Zhu Wenyun herself knew that this was an extremely pretentious or even sentimental idea, she had lived a life of everyday life, surrounded by fields, markets, and libraries, and always felt that words like love and romance were already very pretentious. For her, the fantasy of the soul was actually more important than physical contact, and only in this way could she find true happiness.

However, it was obvious that Shen Nianqiu couldn't understand this idea, so he simply thought, "Ah, this girl is really troublesome," and the atmosphere between the two fell into a moment of silence.

The moonlight outside the window shifted slightly, casting dappled shadows on the floor through the curtains. Shen Nianqiu sighed softly, rubbed her temples, and finally broke the silence:

"Okay, I think I know what you're thinking."

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhu Wenyun across from her finally raised her head, as if she had found an opportunity, and once again took the initiative to ask Shen Nianqiu:

"And what about you? What are your own thoughts? What are your own feelings towards Junqian?"

This question startled Shen Nianqiu slightly. She hadn't expected the topic to suddenly shift to her, let alone hear such a direct question from Zhu Wenyun. However, she quickly recovered and confidently declared to her:

"I like him, that shouldn't be hard to tell, right?"

"really?"

"How am I supposed to prove it to you? If you think it's fake, then after I beat you in the finals, when I make him kiss me, I'll specially reserve the closest seat for you so you can see it with your own eyes?"

“I don’t think it’s true love if someone says ‘I like you’ so easily.”

It's fortunate that Zhu Wenyun isn't a fan of anime or manga, otherwise she would have thrown out those theories about real and fake items from the first season of "My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong As Expected" which had just finished airing. However, even this denial, made out of a literary mindset, still inadvertently made Shen Nianqiu's expression become somewhat subtle.

She wasn't a reincarnated person, so of course she didn't know what kind of help she had given Chen Junqian in the timeline before his rebirth, or what kind of impression she had left on him. For Shen Nianqiu herself now, what she could see and feel was actually Chen Junqian's unconditional kindness, closeness, help, and promises.

Compared to Guo Ning's childhood sweetheart trio, Shen Nianqiu is actually the only one whose relationship with Chen Junqian is one-sided, or even more obviously a relationship of helping and being helped. Chen Junqian, who is already successful in his career, can make promises to her twice that she can come to him anytime, anywhere, or that he will support her, but she can't even give a reply of equal weight.

Lin Mu and her younger brother have business dealings within their family. Xu Youwei's father is also the direct superior of her brother's father. Even Zhu Wenjun, who is in front of her, carries her brother's certain aspirations and hopes in literature. Moreover, to put it another way, the cell phone that her brother has been using for almost three years was also bought for him by Zhu Wenjun with her royalties.

But she had nothing.

When you have nothing, the simple feeling of liking someone, and even your own self-worth, will actually depreciate, because it's like putting all your eggs in one basket. Whether it's active or passive, whether you're truly willing to be devoted or just have nothing left to do, no one can say for sure.

She was clearly the older sister who was two years older than him.

Moreover, even her feelings for Chen Junqian were something Shen Nianqiu felt she couldn't tell him in person anytime soon. Just like what Zhu Wenyun subconsciously denied, she hated being used as a substitute by her parents and ended up finding a 'substitute' herself. This secret, known only to her, was the truth of the '2008' that Zhu Wenyun cared about.

Just as the two people in the room fell into an awkward silence once again, Chen Junqian's phone dinged on the coffee table, indicating that someone had sent a new message on QQ.

Shen Nianqiu and Zhu Wenyun, who were sitting on the sofa, both turned their gazes over at the same time, and then they were both stunned when they saw the message and the spokesperson.

It was a message from 'Zhu Wenyun'.

To be precise, the message came from Zhu Wenyun's account:

"Hmph, you actually took Qinqin's phone secretly, now I've caught you!"

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"So, you mean you want to go to Junqian's old house?"

Seeing the two young women running into his office together, Xu Zhiling, sitting in his office chair, was also a little puzzled and asked with interest:

"What's wrong?"

"I wanted to film the environment inside because recently a lot of people online have been saying that my brother is some kind of mysterious rich second generation with a powerful family background, which is why the production team is promoting him so much. So I wanted to go and prove that my brother used to live with his uncles and aunts in a cramped apartment building for more than ten years, okay?"

Following the lines Gu Linguo had taught him beforehand, Chen Xi said this while simultaneously raising the camera he had brought from Chen Junqian's place. Gu Linguo chimed in, echoing his words:

"Yes, yes, and I heard that my brother's house wasn't rented to other employees after they moved out, so it should be fine, right?"

"Yes, Yoyo did ask me to keep that house."

Observing Xu Zhiling's reaction, Gu Lingguo confirmed in her mind that the relationship between Xu Zhiling and Xu Youwei was indeed just so-so. He seemed to have no idea what Xu Youwei had done in that house, and had simply put it aside temporarily according to his daughter's request.

"Wait a moment, let me call and ask Youyou."

After thinking for a while, Xu Zhiling made a phone call to his daughter, but unexpectedly received an automated message saying, "Hello, the number you dialed is currently switched off..."

It can only be said that Hsu Yu-Wei is indeed not one to play double standards. Not only did she turn off Chen Chun-Chien's phone today, but she also turned off her own phone. So when Hsu Chih-Ling called twice, all he could hear was the same busy signal.

Looking at the two young girls waiting expectantly with their cameras in his office, and considering that his daughter did seem to have a good relationship with them, and that this was also for Chen Junqian's sake, Xu Zhiling hesitated for a while before finally nodding and agreeing to Chen Xi and Gu Linguo's request.

"Okay, I'll have the driver take you to the logistics department to get a spare key."

"Okay, thank you, Uncle."

Gu Linguo and Chen Xi politely thanked each other before leaving the office together.

As Gu Linguo took the camera from Chen Xi, she unconsciously tightened her grip again.

She was indeed going to take some photos of Chen Junqian's room, but what would the final result be?

That depends on what Hsu Yu-Wei put inside.

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Chapter 56: Are You Sick? (Two Chapters Combined)

To be honest, Chen Junqian had already noticed that Xu Youwei's expression and movements were somewhat unnatural when the two were having dinner at the restaurant. This strange atmosphere continued until the two returned to their hotel. Her gaze would still intentionally or unintentionally glance at his phone in his pocket, which was really hard not to notice.

So, after returning to his hotel room, Chen Junqian casually did as Xu Youwei had told him at dinner, placing his 'dead' phone on the bedside table and charging it. Then, he said he was going downstairs to buy a drink, leaving her alone in the room for the time being. After estimating that it was about time, he returned and found Xu Youwei lying on the bed with her back to him, playing with 'her' phone.

Upon seeing this scene, Chen Junqian frowned uncomfortably. After all, just like the joke, "If I suddenly die, remember to delete my computer hard drive and browsing history," for modern people, electronic products like mobile phones and computers that store private information have a strong sense of private territory. Even close couples or spouses have broken up or divorced because of this issue.

Although the mainstream trend of this era still sings of "marry a man like Grey Wolf, he's a role model" or "wife is the most important, husband is the most foolish," Chen Junqian is, after all, a reborn individual who has traveled back from a completely new version more than ten years in the future. Even if the system defines him as the male protagonist of a romantic comedy, being gentle and kind is definitely not a reason for any bottomless concessions. After all, reality is not a romantic comedy, as can be clearly seen from the fact that almost all the female protagonists in this circle are barely adaptable.

However, just as Chen Junqian always felt that the earlier the achievement "The Shura Field is in Progress" was triggered, the easier it would be to resolve, he would also naturally hope that these extreme aspects of the girls' personalities could be exposed as early as possible. The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, and the second best time is now, so that it would be easier to resolve and correct them.

With this mindset in mind, just as Chen Junqian was about to snatch his phone from Xu Youwei's hand and coldly reprimand her, he suddenly realized upon closer inspection that what she was holding didn't seem to be his phone at all. Instead, she was using it to chat with "himself" on the other side.

But it was only a moment of confusion. After reviewing the events of the day in his mind, Chen Junqian quickly understood what had happened. He resumed the actions he had stopped, and while his classmate Youyou was still engrossed in intimidating the other party, he snatched the phone away and made a call.

"Qinqin?"

Startled by his action, Xu Youwei almost leaped out of bed. However, before she could finish her sentence, Chen Junqian, with his stern face, gestured for her to be quiet and gave her a glare. Feeling a little guilty, she looked away and sat there hugging her knees, muttering to herself:

"I was planning to tell you about this when you got back anyway."

Meanwhile, in the hotel, Zhu Wenyun, who had just exchanged a few words with Xu Youwei, received another unexpected phone call. However, this time she didn't have the courage to hang up as she had before, because at the same moment the call came in, Xu Youwei sent a short message in her private chat window: "It's me, Chen Junqian, Zhu Wenyun, answer the phone."