I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

"For example?"

For example, in the *Old History of the Five Dynasties* compiled by Xue Juzheng of the Northern Song Dynasty, the following is written about Shi Chonggui, the last emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty who was captured by the Khitan: "Traveling ten thousand miles, growing old in poverty and desolation, none of the shameful rulers of fallen kingdoms throughout history have been as disgraceful as you. A thousand years from now, how will you be shamed? Alas!" In other words, "Your entire family was captured by barbarians and exiled to a place ten thousand miles away, where you died in poverty and desolation. None of the last emperors of fallen kingdoms throughout history have been as disgraceful as you. A thousand years from now, how shameful will you be? Our Great Song truly feels sorrow for you."

Feeling as if some special XP had awakened, Chen Junqian saw a very subtle smile on his sister's face:

"And so, we all know what happened next."

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A million-word reflection

It's been less than five months since the book was released on April 21st, and it's already reached a million words. This is also the fastest book I've ever written. Thank you all for your continued reading and support. It's because of your love for this book that it has come this far. After all, when the book was first released, the results were really bad, and it was almost impossible to continue writing. But perseverance is indeed a victory. I sincerely thank every reader!

I'd like to take this opportunity to reveal the titles of the last two volumes. As for the university arc, I'll see if I want to continue writing it after the main story is finished. As I said in my book launch announcement, I hope to read this story to the end with every reader. The outline I've already written is enough to guarantee that the final volume will be at least two million words, and it will explain everyone's story in detail.

Volume 4, "But I'm Not a Girl from the 2D World" (2015-2016)

Volume 5, "Just When My Heart Was Opening to Love and I Met You" (2017-2018)

Wishing all readers and their families good health and all the best!

Chapter 80: Let's Change the World (Part 2)

[National Tournament]

Local qualifiers, national preliminary rounds, and the final!

Summer training camp, secret training, the key to victory!

Effort, friendship, perseverance, victory!

When the spotlight illuminates the national tournament stage, when sweat soaks through the school name on your team uniform—you step onto the battlefield carrying everyone's expectations. From the struggles of the local preliminaries to the glory of the national stage, every victory is etched with the passion and sweat of youth. Even in the world of romantic comedies, the national tournament is an indispensable part of the story.

[Condition for achievement: Lead the team to the final of a national-level competition and win the championship in any event]

Sinking completely into the seat back of the plane bound for Beijing, Chen Junqian glanced once more at the achievement that had been flashing through his mind ever since he boarded the plane.

The system's localization has been somewhat effective, because Chen Junqian vaguely remembered that when he first saw this unlocked achievement, it was written as "[Charge into Koshien]", but obviously there is no such classic event in China that often appears in various Japanese literary and artistic works, so it was vaguely changed to the National Tournament. However, in terms of difficulty, it is actually no less challenging.

Strictly speaking, the fact that he was able to trigger this achievement through a competition like the "Chinese Character Dictation Competition" is already a testament to the system's incompetence in reviewing applications. However, it must be said that if he could achieve it through this opportunity, it would be like getting something for free. After all, compared to competing with the incredibly competitive domestic geniuses in serious essay, math, or English competitions, Chen Junqian has always felt that he has a better chance in this area.

All I can say is that if it weren't for the age requirement and the inappropriate filming location, he might have even applied for a spot in the professional League of Legends league to achieve this. Maybe he could even become the subject of a meme later on: "Instead of becoming a professional player and making a name for himself, he's just beating up middle school students in a small county like Guoning?"

It is October 2, 2013. In the early years, the S-series process was indeed not slow at all. It started in mid-September, and the semi-finals were already over. Just thinking about a friend who was full of confidence in Royal Club's entry into the finals and thought that they could play a full five games against SKT again, Chen Junqian had already begun to prepare to accept the whole set of championship skins that his friend had bet on.

After everything was on track, Chen Junqian sometimes thought about what industry he should pursue in the future. For a long time, he used the process of elimination, only thinking that he should not do this in the future, but he never had a definite idea of ​​what he should do.

Or perhaps, he has too many things he wants to do, too many choices, and he wants to try everything that interests him. After all, it would be too boring to spend his adolescence following the same path as in his previous life after being reborn. After reducing the things he must avoid, what he needs to do now is to add as much as possible to his daily life.

In fact, after unlocking the first three milestones of the Romantic Comedy achievement rewards, Chen Junqian became much less motivated to achieve various Romantic Comedy achievements, and he no longer had the idea of ​​completing achievements just for the sake of completing them. So even though Gu Lingguo, who could have allowed him to farm multiple achievements a day in every aspect, was included as the female lead, he did not immediately start a large-scale achievement farming operation. Instead, he began to think about the Romantic Comedy achievements themselves in light of his current situation.

Just like the [National Tournament] he is seeing now, at first glance it seems to have nothing to do with romantic comedy. It doesn't even mention the most common "female protagonist with romantic comedy adaptability" in the achievement conditions. But if you think about it more deeply, you will find that this achievement is actually the background of a certain scenario category. The related summer camp, secret training or the scene of the competition can easily give rise to a large number of other romantic comedy achievements.

The backgrounds for these scenarios are actually quite diverse, including cultural festivals, school festivals, sports festivals, open days, school trips, and fireworks displays. This is because these scenarios, which resemble romantic comedy DLCs or expansion packs, often correspond to the non-daily aspects of everyday life.

If Chen Junqian were to define the romantic comedy he envisioned, it would probably be like this: like the CG scenes in a visual novel, capturing an extraordinary moment from everyday life, making it one of the brightest stars among the many mundane memories of youth.

Perhaps reality and the world of anime are different, and the domestic and Japanese worlds are different, but these adolescent psychological symptoms and thoughts should be similar. Just like how Chen Junqian and his classmates would feel a strange feeling and a hidden excitement because of a sudden storm.

Compared to the possibility of a storm arriving at an unknown time, leaving students with an extraordinary experience entirely up to fate, Chen Junqian now prefers to take the lead in planning and organizing such events.

In fact, this idea had already begun to sprout when he founded the club. As he grew older, more and more other ideas began to emerge and flourish in Chen Junqian's mind. If we were to summarize it with the cringeworthy lines of a middle school student of this age, it would probably be that he had begun to shift from changing himself to wanting to change the world.

It's not just about my own youth; I want everyone around me to have a more exciting and fulfilling youth, a time that will bring a smile to their faces when they look back, creating more memories beyond studying and exams.

I checked the total number of achievements that have been completed so far once again.

Include those achievement rewards that can be triggered repeatedly.

Chen Junqian has triggered 71 achievements so far, and there are only 9 more to go before the next inexplicable milestone reward. Considering the upcoming [National Tournament] and the existence of Gu Lingguo, it shouldn't be long.

This progress is faster than he had imagined, or rather, much faster. After all, Chen Junqian initially estimated that he would have to wait until high school to achieve the 80-times achievement, but judging from the current situation, he already has a good chance of achieving it directly this year.

Even now, Chen Junqian still doesn't understand what the vague mention of the World Will's favor in this milestone reward means, what its function is, or how powerful it is. Is it some kind of bug-like world modulation mode, or is it just a custom-made Lucky Heaven Gu for him alone?

After all, even the reborn are powerless in the face of the overwhelming forces of the times.

Chen Junqian looked down at his phone screen, which was already in airplane mode, and wondered if Shen Nianqiu had replied to the "See you in Beijing" message he sent before boarding the plane.

Unlike his previous life, where he was clueless and didn't understand what happened from the beginning to the end of this connection, Chen Junqian, after being reborn, was able to clearly trace and deduce Shen Nianqiu's life trajectory from the beginning by working backward from the timeline through his interactions with her.

More than three years have passed since the two first met in person at the Shanghai World Expo. Just one month later, in November, the "two-child policy" will be officially launched, allowing couples where either spouse is an only child to have two children. This policy, which is being tested, will be implemented and followed by various provinces in 2014.

Chen Junqian had already visited Shen Nianqiu's home and had glimpsed the family atmosphere and environment. So, if he was not mistaken, in his previous life, Shen Nianqiu's parents should have chosen to prepare for pregnancy, get pregnant, and give birth in the same year that the policy was officially implemented.

When he finally sought to talk to her again in 2015, Shen Nianqiu's younger brother should have been born a few months earlier. Considering that it was also Shen Nianqiu's senior year of high school that year, it was easy to imagine that the other party's subsequent complete loss of contact could lead one to another dead end. After all, Shen Nianqiu in her previous life had never received any promises or protection from him. After all, Chen Junqian himself was indeed just a 'younger brother' two years younger than her at that time.

In the novel "Dragon Raja," Lu Mingfei tells Nuonuo "not to die," which costs him a quarter of his life.

Then.

What price must be paid to ensure that a person 'does not die' while also 'living well'?

Chen Junqian didn't know.

But he has to do it.

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Shen Nianqiu looked up and saw that black and white portrait again. As time went by, even the black and white in the photo seemed to have been carved out with a knife. The black became blacker and the white became whiter. It was completely different from the color photos taken in the photo studio with all kinds of clothes and backgrounds that she had seen in the other rooms.

The child inside has been transformed into a three-dimensional sculpture over time, standing there day and night, silently watching the people living in this house go by day after day.

However, today Shen Nianqiu felt as if he had been hit hard by something coming straight at him. It was the force of an extraterrestrial object, like an asteroid hurtling towards Earth and wiping out all the dinosaurs.

She almost lost her balance and instinctively looked at the photo and statue on the wall. After all, the one on the wall was the fourth person in the family. So, who was this person who suddenly appeared and was being held in her mother's arms?

Then, she heard the baby in the swaddling clothes cry out again. Shen Nianqiu felt as if she had been hit hard once more. The gaze of the sculpture on the wall and the crying of the child on the ground attacked her at the same time. The death of the former and the life of the latter produced a strange chemical reaction. They began to merge into one before her eyes.

Shen Nianqiu's eyes seemed to have gradually adjusted to the sudden, intense light after the initial shock, and she was able to open them a little bit to peek. So she looked up and down, and turned her head away from the scene that seemed like a resurrection.

She had never met her brother, which was to be expected, since he had died before she was born. But she never felt that he had really disappeared; she just felt that he lived in the wall, as if there was a small cave behind his portrait. Shen Nianqiu even felt that he would live longer than any of them, and live forever, since he would never grow up or grow old.

Even when she and her parents grew old, fell ill, and died, the other person still watched them quietly from the wall in the image of a child.

But now it seems like the people on the wall have come down.

The last ray of light outside the window disappeared just as perfectly, and the whole house fell into sudden darkness. The faces of her father and mother seemed to gradually melt into the darkness, rippling outwards in circles. Their flesh and bones became an indestructible part of the building, along with frozen time, making her suddenly realize that she herself seemed to be a formless ghost that had been wandering inside for the past ten years or so.

To be honest, at that moment, Shen Nianqiu was even a little happy for her parents, especially her mother.

After all, over the past decade or so, she had witnessed firsthand this most tragic, self-deceptive transference in the world. She watched her mother speak to that photograph, that bottle, that umbilical cord, like a Christian weeping and praying before a cross.

Sometimes Shen Nianqiu felt that her mother might be like those psychic wizards in Harry Potter, using these mediums to establish connections with others. The other person preferred to show their love to these inorganic things without reservation, but only taught her the skill of loneliness, letting her stumble along, crawl, glide clumsily, sway, and fall, and then return to some kind of terrifying calm.

Now, more than a decade or so has passed since that person became a blur, and yet the other person has suddenly reappeared in front of him.

"This is your younger brother... Come here, call him 'sister'—"

The words that rang in her ears finally made Shen Nianqiu sit up abruptly in bed, her back covered in a cold sweat. She woke up from this vivid nightmare, but her heart was still pounding fiercely in her chest, and her heavy breathing could be heard clearly in the quiet room.

I instinctively reached for my phone on the bedside table, and the lit screen showed a message from someone else.

After taking several deep breaths while sitting on the messy bedsheets, Shen Nianqiu finally replied to the other person's message:

See you in Beijing!

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Chapter 81: We Will Win! (Bonus Chapter 6.5/40)

More than a month later, they returned to Beijing. Since most of the contestants had been eliminated, the only teams that remained in the finals were the Zhejiang and Guangxi teams, who had fought their way through the semifinals. The rest were the three best-performing contestants from the 100-person team and the five members who were revived in the individual best revival competition, for a total of only eighteen participants. Therefore, the accommodations prepared by the production team for the contestants and their team leaders who had traveled from afar were much better than last time. They no longer had to share rooms with others as before; all the accommodations were single rooms.

Although the finals will not officially begin until the day after tomorrow, on the evening of October 4th, the related pre-event promotion and publicity work has already begun in full swing. Chen Junqian had just checked into his hotel and, after unpacking his luggage, turned on the TV in his room and saw his face on CCTV.

"Since its premiere in August 2013, the show has garnered significant attention from hundreds of media outlets and sparked heated discussions among tens of millions of netizens. Chinese character writing has become a hot topic throughout the summer, and the preservation of national culture has become a nationwide movement. With 160 outstanding middle school students, 13 increasingly exciting competitions, and three months of arduous effort to reach the peak of vocabulary learning, the final chapter is finally here! Tune in to CCTV-1 (General Channel) and CCTV-10 (Science and Education Channel) at 8 PM on October 4th for the grand finale of the 'Chinese Character Dictation Competition'!"

Just as Chen Junqian was enjoying watching the promotional video that had started airing, he immediately heard a knocking sound coming from the direction of his room door. At this time, the only person who should be coming is Zhu Wenyun, since Xu Youwei is being taken by his father to check into another hotel nearby, and Shen Nianqiu has not yet arrived in Beijing and should still be on the plane.

Upon opening the door, it was indeed Zhu Wenyun. Since her emotional breakdown and clear outburst last time, she had returned to her usual self. It's fair to say that without a deeper understanding of what kind of person she is at school and at home, it's easy to be fooled by her literary girl appearance at first glance. If this were some kind of two-dimensional romantic comedy world, she would inherit all of Kasumigaoka Utaha's titles, both high and low. And let me tell you, the little Zhu he carefully nurtured is also a novelist.

In the brief time that Xu Youwei had just left and Shen Nianqiu hadn't arrived, Zhu Wenyun felt a little lost, especially after seeing that Chen Junqian's phone on the table next to him was still the same old model. She sat there so nervously that she didn't dare to take her own phone out of her pocket even slightly. It took her a while to find a topic to talk about:

"I ran into Teacher Zhang when I arrived."

"Yes, a member of the Anhui team successfully broke through in the revival round, so it's normal for Teacher Zhang to come along."

"She and I talked about the New Concept Writing Competition in person, and she did think my idea was pretty good. After all, the Chinese Character Dictation Competition is a hot topic recently, and it is also based on my personal experience. If I can write well on this topic, there shouldn't be any major problems in passing the preliminary test."

In fact, from the perspective of Chinese character dictation alone, Zhu Wenyun does have a lot to say. After all, her own name has been mispronounced countless times since she was a child. It is clearly the "yun" of Wen Tingyun, but some people will subconsciously pronounce it as "jun". Using this as the starting point for the whole article should be quite good.

"However, the results two days from now will truly determine the ending of this article. After all, the mentality of winning and losing, as well as the specific plot descriptions, will definitely be different. After all, I have worked so hard for so long, and I still hope for a good ending. At least I hope that the loss will not be too crushing, since the finals will be broadcast live, and my family will probably be watching it too."

Upon hearing Zhu Wenyun mention her family, Chen Junqian took the opportunity to inquire about her parents.

It's strange, really. He's known Zhu Wenyun for so long, but he's never met her parents even once, so he has no idea what kind of people they are.

"Because my parents only come back during the Chinese New Year, and every time they come back, they take my grandma and me back to our old home in the mountains for the New Year. After all, our house in the city doesn't even have a place for the two of them to sleep. If Junqian wants to see me, he can come to my old home next Chinese New Year. Didn't you just go to Lin Mu's house last year?"

"Let me think about it... I'll talk about it when I have the chance. I'm just really curious, what do you think about your parents, Yun?"

"My parents are fine, except that we don't see each other very often, but we do call each other regularly. And nowadays video calls are very convenient. After I went on TV, they praised me for a long time, saying they would buy me two new outfits when I came back for Chinese New Year this year. Actually, I have enough money myself, but my grandma won't let me tell them."

After listening to Zhu Wenyun's words, Chen Junqian nodded thoughtfully.

As a fairly common group in China, Chen Junqian has encountered many left-behind children, both short-term and long-term, throughout his life. He has seen both mentally healthy and mentally unstable children. During a charity event where he was giving books to children, he even encountered a little boy who tugged at his sleeve and asked, "Uncle, can you give me a phone that can play King of Glory?" Different left-behind children have different attitudes toward their parents, and online opinions have changed in tandem with the changes in this group over the past two or three decades.

If Chen Junqian were to make a judgment, it would mainly depend on whether the parents of the left-behind children voluntarily left their children behind or were forced to do so. In the early years, due to the choice of migrant workers to go to the city for work, a large number of left-behind children were born. At that time, the main reason was that the children were forced to live with their grandparents in their hometown due to economic reasons.

But at the time before his rebirth, some parents did indeed voluntarily hand over custody of their children to their elders, and then went to work in other places to continue their life as a couple. They ate out as usual, bought clothes as usual, and were very carefree in a sense. They did not interfere much with their children's education or even their psychological problems. It seemed that buying some new clothes and snacks for the children during holidays was enough. Chen Junqian had such examples among his own relatives, which left a deep impression on him.

Judging from Zhu Wenyun's words, the other party's parents should generally fall into the first category, which is the norm for the older generation. However, he always remembered that Zhu Wenyun's grandmother had been keeping it a secret from her since she earned her first manuscript fee, and it seemed that she was still keeping it a secret to this day. So it always made people suspicious. It seems that he should find an opportunity to have a good talk with the other party's grandmother next time.

Frankly speaking, the more girls Chen Junqian met, the more he realized the impact of one's family environment on their growth. Perhaps as they grow up, the personality traits shaped by their family environment will be painfully reshaped and changed, but at the age of a middle school student, they will still be affected. After all, a student's world consists only of school and home.

After chatting with Zhu Wenyun for a while about their parents, Chen Junqian received a message from Shen Nianqiu saying that his sister had just gotten off the plane and was now on her way to the hotel in a car provided by the production crew.

Although it wasn't said, the meaning was obvious: she wanted him to go to the door to meet her.

"Sister Nianqiu is coming. I'll go downstairs to meet her. I'll ask Yun if she wants to come along."

Zhu Wenyun simply shook her head. After what happened last time, she also had a new perspective on the relationship between the two.

"I'm going back to my room to prepare for the final the day after tomorrow. Let's eat together then."

"it is good."