I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

However, Lin Mu's actions now are primarily driven by a desire to make Chen Junqian more comfortable.

After being pulled down to lie down by the other person, Chen Junqian could clearly feel the muscles in the girl's thighs tense up for a moment, but then relax, leaving only a soft touch and warmth.

This level of physical contact is definitely not the most intimate in their relationship, but it is something they would never have done before, especially with other people present.

Especially for Lin Mu herself, although it was her idea in the first place, she was at a loss when it came to actually carrying it out. Unlike when she cleaned her mother's and grandmother's ears before, she felt a strange, tingling sensation as her legs rose and fell with the other person's breathing.

Not knowing where to put his hands, Lin Mu simply placed them over Chen Junqian's eyes. But then he suddenly realized that this gesture seemed to be blaming the other's gaze, so he quickly spread his fingers apart and massaged Chen's temples with his fingers. He then lowered his head slightly and asked softly:

"I don't think it's particularly uncomfortable, do I?"

A few strands of hair that had fallen down because he was looking down tickled Chen Junqian's cheek. He half-opened his eyes and found the girl's slightly uneasy eyes through some of the obscured parts.

"No, it's still quite meaty."

Although Lin Mu is petite, she can't be described as slender. After all, she has received all the necessary nutrition since childhood. Besides, if her thighs were so thick they could hurt someone, she would have to be a reincarnated skeleton soldier.

"That's good."

With a soft sigh of relief, Lin Mu gently turned his head around on her lap.

In his previous life, Chen Junqian didn't really like having his ears cleaned. Just like when he was taking a shower and washing his hair, he would always try to rub off the foam and open his eyes as soon as possible. Essentially, it was a manifestation of his dislike of giving up control of a part of his body, a lack of security.

However, he is now immersed in this strange sense of satisfaction, as if he were being controlled by someone else.

After all, it was Mu Mu who was doing this.

I relinquished all control of my body and emptied my mind.

He could feel the soft touch and the refreshing scent. The girl, trying her best, lowered her head and breathed warm air close to his ear.

"Qianqian, turn to the side a little more."

"Relax."

After saying this, she used her slender fingers to gently brush aside Chen Junqian's hair, lightly grasped his earlobe, and brought her face close, gazing intently into his depths.

It felt like someone was watching deep inside my head, and there was an instinctive joy in my soul to confide in others. I didn't have to think about any worries. In the sweet stimulation, I experienced the reality of being truly alive and being taken care of.

My heart was pounding, and I could feel my body temperature rising.

The sounds around me seemed to fade away, and my sense of time seemed to have become weak.

The achievement titled "A Mother Who Wants to Be This Tall" shines with the brilliant light of success at this moment.

Zhu Wenyun, who was sitting there deep in thought and engaged in literary creation, looked at the scene before her and suddenly seemed to have an inspiration. She picked up her pen again and wrote down the sentence on the paper. After finishing writing, she stopped writing and stood there in a daze.

"You are a very lovely person, and you really deserve to meet the best person. I really hope that person is me."

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PS2: The last sentence is also from Wang Xiaobo. I read a lot of his books when I was in middle school.

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Chapter 93: Winter's Trouble Always Comes in Succession (Part 2)

The noticeable drop in temperature makes it easy to feel the approaching footsteps of winter. After several long autumn rains, as the Earth Office entered November, Chen Junqian, who had already started wearing long underwear, continued to spend his peaceful and fulfilling daily life in Guoning, a small county town in southern Anhui.

In fact, each quarter of the past two years has produced a pure slice-of-life anime. After all, compared to school superpower battles or isekai (otherworld) themes, all kinds of everyday life are things that most anime viewers can deeply experience in reality. However, Gu Lingguo, who was watching anime with him, obviously couldn't be as carefree and leisurely as the characters in their favorite slice-of-life anime of the season, "Non Non Biyori". In fact, he had recently fallen into some minor trouble.

A person's time and energy are always limited, and Gu Lingguo was clearly involved in too many other things unrelated to her studies during this period. These included piano lessons her mother enrolled her in, vocal practice she took for club activities, and even a costume making course she sought out to learn out of interest. With all these external factors combined, it was no surprise that she underperformed in the midterm exams in November and her grades were only mediocre.

Gu Linguo knew very well that her current greater 'freedom' was entirely based on her own academic performance, which was only improving. Sometimes, she even considered consciously controlling the rate of improvement in her grades, with a kind of self-important mentality. However, it turned out that she was not a true academic genius like Chen Junqian, who could manipulate scores and rankings at will. So, such thoughts quickly failed.

Her mother was always a woman who loved to show off her children. Every time she had a gathering with relatives during winter or summer vacation, she would pretend to be a winner who had just been awarded some kind of award, and casually flaunt her children's achievements as if they were her own.

But actually, Gu Lingguo didn't dislike this much, because at least at these times, the other person always had a genuine smile on their lips, and the way they looked at her always gave her a kind of benevolence.

Following closely behind were the same old polite words, but fortunately, by the time they reached junior high school age, the adults no longer jokingly mentioned Tsinghua and Peking University, the two universities that seemed to be the only ones in the country. After all, a closer and more realistic goal had been set out there: the special admission class of Guoning Middle School.

After navigating the highly competitive middle school entrance exams where students are streamed into different tiers, and even surpassing the high school division of Hejin Middle School (another regular high school), Guoning Middle School's high school division still maintains a clear hierarchy with three levels:

Special admission classes, key classes, and regular classes.

If you get into the special admission class, it's like you've already stepped into the gates of a 211 or 985 university.

This logic has been running smoothly like a formula in the small county of Guoning for over a decade or two. People can clearly distinguish between different levels based on their ranking within the grade at a very early stage. Those who rank a certain number have the opportunity to attend the special admission class, and those who rank a little lower are considered potential students for the honors class. Teachers don't often mention these specific numbers, but students and parents remember them perfectly.

Gu Lingguo's grades this time dropped her from the edge of the special admission class to the top class, which is still considered a good result. After all, it is common for students' grades to fluctuate, and no one can guarantee that they can keep improving. However, for Lin Su, who had already secured a place for her in the special admission class through her relatives, such a result was hard to accept no matter what.

Every evening after school, Gu Lingguo would walk home with Chen Junqian and Chen Xi. At noon, Lin Su would pick her up on her electric scooter, but not in the evening, because school dismissal time and her get off work dismissal time were different, and she also had to go grocery shopping.

The same applies today.

Because she has to go between the choir and the broadcasting department, she is actually slower to get out than Chen Junqian and his sister, who have finished their club activities normally.

Most of the parents at the school gate had already left, so those who remained were even more anxious. They were staring at each student who came out of the school for a long time, from a distance to close up, like a group of farmers waiting to harvest their crops. Chen Junqian, standing there, didn't seem out of place at all. He had grown taller, and the way he was waiting with his bicycle there made him look like a parent picking someone up from school. Behind him was another, even younger child, who had been brought out by this parent to pick up their child as well.

Having an older brother like that would definitely be a good thing for Chen Xi, but it might not be so for her. After all, the kinship of an older brother doesn't belong to her alone. If the other person is her brother, it means that he will also become her mother's nephew or niece. So, thinking about it this way, she decided that it was better to just forget about it.

Although Chen Xi and Gu Linguo weren't in the same class, Chen Xi knew perfectly well what score her best friend had on the midterm exam and what her ranking was in the grade. So, as soon as she went up to her, she anxiously offered some advice:

"Should we report a fake score?"

This is of course an unrealistic idea. After all, Lin Su would always look at Gu Lin Guo's test papers and report cards for each subject. Even though she could hardly understand the knowledge points and questions on them after entering middle school, she could still nitpick and find what she thought were the mistakes and omissions in a self-righteous manner.

Not writing neatly enough, not checking carefully enough, not doing the questions carefully enough, not listening attentively in class... or taking the correct answers that Gu Lingguo wrote in red pen next to the wrong questions afterward and explaining them from the cause to the effect without knowing the reason, or it should be called questioning, these are all things that Gu Lingguo has to go through after each exam.

"There's no point in lying. If you didn't do well on the test, you didn't do well. You can just take it again next time."

Gu Linguo often sees parents in various books and movies who resort to corporal punishment and beatings when their children don't do well in school. She might have thought that it would be better if her own mother were like that, at least then her attitude and views towards her might be simpler, more direct, or even more brutal. But the reality is not like that.

Even though her father didn't drink, gamble, or commit domestic violence, and her mother didn't physically punish, was lazy, or cheat, the family was always stuck together like they were glued together with some kind of superglue. There was always an indescribable awkwardness in their interactions. It was as if everyone felt they had suffered a lot of losses and grievances, but no one felt they had actually gained anything or received any positive feedback. Most of their emotions had been worn down, to the point that even Gu Lingguo didn't feel anything anymore.

But Chen Junqian was not fooled by appearances. At this moment, his perception of Gu Lingguo was slowly but surely declining. The identity of her as the female lead in a romantic comedy was being peeled away little by little, like watching the ugly oxidation process of an apple cut open and placed in the air. A more realistic side was being replaced.

"I'll go back with you in a bit. After all, your mom always thinks I'm the one tutoring you. I can't just take the credit for every good test score and shirk responsibility for every bad one, can I?"

This little joke seemed to brighten Gu Lingguo's expression a bit. She tightened her grip on the shoulder straps of her backpack, looked up at the darkening sky, and said:

"I wish the final exams could be held in a couple of days."

Unlike other students who generally have a negative attitude towards exams, once she does poorly on a test, Gu Lingguo can't help but pray that the next exam will come soon. After all, her situation is unlikely to change until the results of the next exam are released, just like a deserter on the battlefield who can only wash away his shame through the next battle.

"There are still more than two months to go, let's not think about it for now. Let's eat a grilled sausage first to fill our stomachs, here you go."

Compared to when they were in elementary school, when the sausages outside the school gate only came in the original flavor, the sausage machines outside the middle school gate have now evolved to include two new flavors: corn and cartilage. Chen Junqian and his sister prefer the corn sausage, but Gu Linguo prefers the crunchy cartilage sausage.

In Chen Junqian's own memory, it seems that in the next two years, they also tried the flavor of black squid sausage. However, because the appearance and taste were not very popular with students, it was eliminated from the market after only a short period of time. In fact, he himself thought that the taste was quite novel.

Interestingly, in the first few months after his rebirth, he was penniless and relied almost entirely on Xu Youwei for food. But now that he has enough assets to buy all the snacks at the school gate convenience store, he's the one who treats Gu Lingguo and his sister the most.

Of course, there's also Mu Mu, who always tries to sneak a candy from him during the long break after each morning exercise session.

Thinking of this, Chen Junqian raised his right hand again. The bandage from a month ago had long been removed, but he had to admit that during the days he was injured, he did feel a certain charm of a childhood sweetheart in Lin Mu. Although he said that she would take care of things outside and his sister would take care of things at home, when it came to the actual execution, this balance was completely broken. He even experienced being woken up by the two of them at the same time for the first time since his rebirth, creating a famous scene in his mind where two wake-up achievements jumped at the same time.

"I'm not so badly punished as to not be allowed to eat dinner... If I really am, I'll climb over the balcony and go find you, brother."

Gu Lingguo muttered these two sentences to herself while calmly accepting the grilled sausage Chen Junqian offered. She and Chen Junqian were neighbors, so compared to the female lead in "Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions" having to climb down a rope from top to bottom, the straight-line distance might be shorter. Seeing her eager look, Chen Junqian always felt that one day she might actually stage such a scene of climbing over the balcony.

"Don't do anything dangerous like that. I'll come knocking on your door, and your dad's here."

If there is any significant change in Gu Linguo's family compared to her previous life, it is probably Gu Yong's successful survival and the change in his mindset brought about by his brush with death. This has at least transformed the loose one-on-one relationships in Gu Linguo's family into a subtle trend of two-on-one, allowing the situation to be somewhat balanced.

"Yes, that's why I said from the beginning that there's nothing to worry about. It's just that I did poorly on one exam. The main problem is that I've been busy with too many things lately, so I've fallen a little behind in my studies. I'll just catch up on the final exam."

As she spoke, Gu Lingguo took another big bite of the crispy sausage in her hand, her teeth crunching as she chewed the cartilage inside. Her lips were glistening with a little bit of oil that had seeped through, and she seemed to be in a much better mood. She then turned around and started chatting with Chen Junqian about anime-related topics that Chen Xi only vaguely understood.

"The animation adaptation of Whitebeard 2 is a bit mediocre. I was quite looking forward to it, and the online response and buzz are not high, even though the original work has such high praise."

It's almost as if they deliberately created some kind of timeline. The TV anime of "White Album 2" was officially released in the fall and winter season of 2013 as part of the October season. Chen Junqian and Gu Linguo, two old viewers who had played the original visual novel, naturally started watching it as soon as possible. However, after a few episodes, they did feel that it was a bit mediocre.

"The situation with visual novel adaptations is that there have been fewer and fewer of them in the last two years. Judging from the current progress, it would be good if this season could at most finish filming the high school arc of the prologue. Hopefully, they can do a better job of filming some of the famous scenes later on."

"Well, I've been learning piano for almost a year now."

I always felt that Gu Lingguo's words had a hidden meaning, but the other party was not a piano prodigy who had been trained by her mother since childhood, and her younger sister was not a famous school beauty who had to work after school by dressing up, although she was indeed very good at singing.

"How about we tell your mom that your grades have slipped because learning piano has distracted you?"

"It seems pretty good?"

"After all, it was her choice."

In this way, Chen Junqian gradually calmed Gu Linguo down by chatting with her, while the two of them pushed their bicycles together on the not-so-long way home from school.

The weather is becoming increasingly bleak; winter is fast approaching.

The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee concluded on November 12, 2013.

The policy allowing couples where one parent is an only child to have two children has been officially launched.

Zhejiang Province took the lead in responding and actively following suit, becoming the first province in the country to officially implement the "selective two-child policy".

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Chapter 94: So I've already said it's all about suppression (Bonus Chapter 8/40)

Shen Nianqiu continued to live on campus rather than commute to high school, even though her home was not far from the school. Both she and her parents tacitly agreed to let her live in the school dormitory.

Compared to junior high, I feel that my high school life hasn't changed much. Apart from the national dictation competition finals that aired last month, which gave her some minor fame, the school Shen Nianqiu attends, Hangzhou Foreign Languages ​​School, is a provincial-level key high school directly under the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education and one of the first batch of key characteristic schools in Zhejiang Province. It certainly doesn't lack such honors. If Shen Nianqiu had won the championship, that would have been somewhat noteworthy, but her tied runner-up finish obviously can't compare to the attention garnered by other awards such as the gold medal (first place) in the International Olympiad in Informatics and the Yau Mathematics Award for High School Students.

To be honest, the biggest advantage is the increased exposure, since it was broadcast live on CCTV-1, which gave Shen Nianqiu and the other students from the Zhejiang team a lot of exposure to the nation. However, as the program finishes airing, this online fame will naturally fade over time, and it will probably be brought up again when the second Chinese Character Dictation Competition starts next year.

Such fame tends to last longer offline, or rather on campus. After all, schools are not like the ever-changing trends of the modern internet. Even though Hangzhou Foreign Languages ​​School has a decent campus atmosphere as a key provincial high school, Shen Nianqiu did receive quite a few overt and covert advances in the two months since the start of the semester. However, things calmed down considerably after she made it clear that she had no intention of dating during high school.

After all, reality isn't some urban superstar with a powerful background where every few steps you can find a rich young master who instantly becomes a lecherous man with every passing girl, displaying a fanciful mix of infatuation, possessiveness, covetousness, and a touch of lewdness in their eyes. Those who are willing to relentlessly pursue and fawn over a girl who is rejected are always a minority. Moreover, Shen Nianqiu's daily routine is unwavering, consisting of nothing more than the classroom and dormitory. Indeed, as she said, it's impossible to tell that she has any desire to be in a relationship.

However, that is certainly not the case.

Shen Nianqiu and Chen Xi had a good relationship since their first meeting with Guo Ning, as had her relationship with Gu Linguo. It was as if they were deliberately trying to create a clear rivalry with Guo Ning's childhood sweetheart trio. The three of them also had their own private group chat, where Chen Xi would often share all sorts of strange and unusual historical jokes she had collected, treating it like a repository of materials.

If the bedroom jokes in "Xiaolin Guangji" were too early for a junior high school student like Chen Xi, then they were just right for a high school student like Shen Nianqiu. After all, in ancient times, girls her age would already be married. Therefore, when reading the jokes shared by Chen Xi, Shen Nianqiu was completely unfazed.

Of all these, the one that impressed her the most was a joke called "Thanking Duke Zhou," which was included in the "Girls' Style" collection:

The story goes that a young woman, on her wedding night, cried and asked her sister-in-law, "Who invented this marriage ceremony?" Her sister-in-law replied, "The Duke of Zhou," because it was originally the Duke of Zhou's ritual. The young woman then cursed the Duke of Zhou. A month later, when she returned home to visit her family, she asked her sister-in-law again, "Where is the Duke of Zhou?" Her sister-in-law said, "He's an ancient man, long dead. Why are you looking for him?" The young woman replied, "I want to thank him."

It can only be said that Shen Nianqiu's current mood is quite similar to that of the girl in the story who wants to thank the Duke of Zhou (a figure associated with sleep deprivation).

However, she didn't even need to change her attitude, because from the very first time she had already tasted the sweetness and couldn't wait to thank the Duke of Zhou (the god of sleep).

Unfortunately, Chen Junqian is not here.

Thinking of this, Shen Nianqiu couldn't help but stick out the tip of her tongue and gently circle it around her lips, as if she was still reliving that night more than a month ago.

Not only the first time, but also the second, third, fourth, fifth, and even the sixth, seventh, eighth, and tenth times were all with her.