I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

Lin Mu, who hadn't kissed anything at all, thought Chen Junqian was deliberately avoiding her. After opening her eyes, she said this with a mix of dissatisfaction and annoyance.

"Qinqin didn't dodge, it's just that Mumu, you missed the target, I saw it."

After Xu Youwei explained, Lin Mu realized he had made a blunder. The little courage he had managed to muster vanished. However, he still felt it was too embarrassing to end things like this, so after thinking for a moment, he covered his mouth with both hands, brought his fair and soft palms to his lips, and quickly and forcefully kissed them a few times. Then, to the astonishment of the two men, he firmly pressed his two hands, still warm from her lips and soft breaths, onto Chen Junqian's cheek and forehead.

"One, two, three! Alright, passed!"

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Chapter 74: A Night Watched by the God of Romantic Comedy (Part 2)

Perhaps frightened by the dare punishment, both Xu Youwei and Lin Mu kept choosing truth during the rest of the game, almost turning the game into a game called "Truth or Dare." However, the truth questions they drew were all quite ordinary. So when Chen Junqian rolled the lowest number and had to accept the punishment, he directly chose dare.

Seeing that Chen Junqian had actually chosen the dare, Lin Mu, who was still desperately trying to cool her cheeks with the back of her hand, leaned over halfway and looked over like a curious little squirrel. Then, her clear eyes widened again.

Xu Youwei, unable to suppress her trepidation, leaned closer. After seeing the words on the card, her voice trembled slightly as she softly read them aloud:

"Truth or Dare: Use your phone to send a love confession text message to the first person of the opposite sex in your recent call history."

After reading this short sentence, Xu Youwei's heart skipped a beat, and her fingertips, hidden at her side, unconsciously dug into her palm.

Who was the first person of the opposite sex Qinqin spoke to recently? Did they call today? Did they call back when they tried to reach her last night? Does it count if the call didn't go through due to bad signal?

"This punishment..."

Lin Mu's cheeks, which had finally cooled down a little, suddenly showed signs of rekindling.

She swallowed hard and secretly glanced at Chen Junqian out of the corner of her eye. Her childhood sweetheart didn't react much, not even frowning. Under the tense, curious, and thoughtful gazes of the two girls, he calmly took out his phone from his trouser pocket and unlocked it.

The screen's light illuminated his handsome features, and Chen Junqian's tone carried a hint of nonchalant lightness:

"Alright, a bet's a bet. Let me see who the first unlucky one is."

At that moment, driven by their innate sensitivity to gossip and a certain hidden tension they dared not even think about, Lin Mu and Xu Youwei almost simultaneously and unconsciously craned their necks, bringing their heads to Chen Junqian's phone screen from either side and holding their breath.

Chen Junqian didn't try to protect her; instead, he simply placed his phone flat on the table, letting them examine it.

Then, he gently tapped the green call icon with his fingertip and opened the call log.

The moment the interface switched, three pairs of eyes simultaneously fell on the top row.

White background, black text, clear and concise, prominently displaying a line of records:

【MuMu - 14:13 today (connected)】

That was a call record from this afternoon, before Chen Junqian brought Xu Youwei and Lin Mu to meet up. Lin Mu took the initiative to call and ask where they were.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment, and the subtle sound of the air conditioner blowing warm air was amplified infinitely.

"..."

"..."

"..."

After a brief silence, the living room was instantly filled with the explosive atmosphere of a romantic comedy.

"It was me?"

Lin Mu leaned back tactically, and his already flushed face instantly burned even more, reaching the base of his neck and the tips of his earlobes. The level of his blush was so obvious that no artist needed to add a couple of red and black diagonal lines to show it.

She waved her hands erratically in the air, her words incoherent, her tone and phrasing becoming increasingly disordered.

"How could it be me! What, how did this happen? The three of us are in the same room! No, no, this absolutely doesn't count! Qianqian, let's draw another one."

"No, Mumu,"

Although she felt a little disappointed, Xu Youwei still used the most joking tone to hide the complex emotions in her heart and said:

"These are the rules of the game. Since you're in first place, there's nothing we can do about it. When you were being punished just now, you even did a kiss, cough, an indirect kiss. Qinqin can't go back on her word, can she?"

She deliberately emphasized the words "indirect kiss" very softly, yet precisely reminded everyone of the ambiguous moment just now, which also bore Lin Mu's mark.

"What can't be calculated?"

Chen Junqian, one of the parties involved, also proactively expressed his opinion.

He rested his chin on his hand, turned his head slightly, and focused intently on his childhood sweetheart, who wished she could disappear into a crack in the ground. It could be said that after the achievement of "King's Game" was lit up, he had already mentally prepared himself for what the game would be like tonight. Therefore, Chen Junqian did not feel embarrassed about this coincidence; on the contrary, he thought it was a pretty good opportunity.

His fingers tapped lightly on the screen, and the boy deliberately dragged out his words, his tone a mix of teasing and gentle banter:

"Yoyo's right, a bet's a bet. Are you ready to receive a confession text message, Mu Mu?"

"Chen Junqian! Stop fooling around!"

He did seem both embarrassed and anxious. Lin Mu even called out his name for the first time. In his panic, he grabbed a soft cushion next to him, initially seeming to want to throw it, but ultimately covering his burning face with it. The muffled sound coming from behind the cushion conveyed a sense of shame on the verge of collapse and a desperate, irrational state.

"Just send a period to get by! Send an emoji or something! Don't send random text! There are 'I like you' emojis in Vivi's collection, right? Just send that one!"

Unexpectedly, she even had a role to play here. Xu Youwei, who had finally calmed down, felt like she had been stabbed in the heart again. She patted her best friend's arm in dissatisfaction and decided to help Chen Junqian come up with ideas to continue provoking Lin Mu.

"How can sending a period be called a confession text message? It's so insincere. Let me give you some suggestions. What do you want Qinqin to send, Mumu? Is it 'I like you' or 'Be my girlfriend'? Hmm? If Mumu doesn't answer, I'll have Qinqin send it to you."

Lin Mu gasped sharply from behind the cushion, feeling a rush of heat to her head and her heart pounding violently in her chest, as if it were about to burst out. Even though she knew this was the punishment part of Truth or Dare, the thought of receiving those two sentences from Chen Junqian in a moment still made her brain turn to mush.

"You...you can post whatever you want! I...I'm not going to see it!"

Lin Mu shouted with his eyes closed, his toes curling up in embarrassment and shyness.

Seeing Mu Mu's unusually soft and gentle demeanor, Chen Junqian's smile widened. He leisurely exited the call log, opened QQ, and found the pinned chat interface of the user with his cat as the profile picture and the nickname "Sen Mu".

His fingertips hovered above the 9-key keyboard, ready to type those words that he had thought about countless times in his mind but had never been able to say aloud.

The air was thick and sticky, like honey that wouldn't melt. Although Lin Mu had covered her face with a cushion, she couldn't help but peek out one of her red eyes, nervously watching his hand suspended in mid-air through her fingers. The atmosphere had reached its peak, and her heartbeat was deafening in the silent living room.

Chen Junqian suddenly felt that this scene was too familiar, or rather, too familiar.

If tonight's show really is some kind of romantic comedy special, then it should be happening now—

"I have crossed mountains and seas, and I have walked through crowds of people..."

The phone screen, which was originally on the QQ chat interface and about to type a character, suddenly started to vibrate violently without warning. A huge caller ID pop-up window brutally occupied the entire screen, and the ringtone set by Chen Junqian, "The Ordinary Road," started playing. Pu Shu's deep voice almost instantly pierced all the pink bubbles that were about to rise in the room.

The phone vibrated and buzzed in Chen Junqian's hand.

In the center of that brightly lit screen, three extremely conspicuous characters flashed:

[Zhu Wenyun]

...I knew it would turn out like this.

As a seasoned connoisseur who has watched countless romantic comedies, Chen Junqian is already used to this kind of plot where the tension is so high that it's just about to break through the final barrier, but it's unexpectedly broken. However, if it actually happens to him, he still feels like he has a lot of complaints to keep to himself, and even has a subtle feeling that someone has been corrupted by fate.

Just like that, Lin Mu, who was frantically excited and burning up behind the pillow a second ago, clearly saw that name through the edge of the pillow. All her movements froze instantly, and even her eyes, which were glistening with shyness, stiffened slightly.

The indescribable emotion and throbbing in her heart, which had been churning like boiling water and seemed about to overflow, was suddenly doused with a bucket of icy cold water, making her shudder. The emotion got stuck in her throat, making her eyes suddenly sting.

"Calling at this hour..."

Lin Mu slowly removed the pillow from her face. The color in her previously flushed cheeks faded visibly. She lowered her eyes, and her voice returned to its usual calm.

"Qianqian, answer the phone quickly, it might be urgent."

Xu Youwei was also taken aback, but when she saw who was calling, the nerve that had been taut to the point of breaking because of the confession scene not only relaxed strangely, but she even felt a secret sense of pleasure, as if she was glad that Zhu Wenyun's call came at just the right time.

"Yes."

Xu Youwei took over the conversation very naturally, her tone unusually relaxed, as if she were offering a kind reminder.

“I remember Wen Yun mentioned that her parents came back for the Chinese New Year this year, maybe that’s why. As for the punishment… well, there’s no rush.”

"Okay, I'll take it."

Without intending to avoid the two of them, Chen Junqian chose to stay indoors and answered the call from Zhu Wenyun. Soon after, he heard the familiar voice on the other end.

"Hey—did I disturb you? Actually, I wasn't planning to call you tonight, since you were at Mumu's place, but I had a really good time, so I wanted to share it with you."

In fact, even if the phone is not on speakerphone, if it is in a quiet place and people are close enough, the people next to them can hear what is being said on the other end of the phone. Lin Mu and Xu Youwei were no exception, and they heard Zhu Wenyun's words clearly.

"So, is Wenyun so happy because all the family matters have been resolved?"

"It's come to a temporary end, I guess. Luckily, Grandma has been on my side the whole time. So if they want to act like parents to their children, Grandma can teach them a lesson. After all, when it comes to supporting elders, they haven't even taken care of Grandma themselves. Anyway, I grew up with Grandma, so it's okay for her to enjoy most of the money I earn. Besides, they still owe me money."

He could tell that she was genuinely happy. Although Chen Junqian didn't know exactly what had happened at Zhu Wenyun's house on the first day of the Lunar New Year this year, he could still roughly reconstruct the scene and the content of the conversation, and he was sincerely pleased for her.

Unlike Shen Nianqiu, Zhu Wenyun was indeed the girl who tried to solve her family problems on her own from beginning to end. However, the fact that she chose to call at this time to share this news made her intentions quite obvious. In this respect alone, she was still the same girl she was a few years ago, without changing at all.

Yes, that's how it is simply when it comes to seeking praise.

Although sincerely praising one girl in front of two girls who had just been playing Truth or Dare seemed a bit abstract, Chen Junqian was already used to it, so he spoke up without any hesitation:

"That's great. I knew Wenjun could do it. You can tell me the details next time you have time, okay?"

"Of course, because I wanted you to know about this as soon as possible, that's why I called Junqian. Actually, Grandma has been mentioning you all day, saying that instead of giving my royalties to them, I should just give them to you to buy a house as a dowry. That's what she said. Okay, that's all. I'll hang up now."

Without giving Chen Junqian time to react or answer, Zhu Wenyun quickly hung up the phone after saying those words. When Chen Junqian's phone screen returned to the call log, the call log that had been displayed earlier that afternoon had been replaced by Zhu Wenyun's, which was listed as "Just Now".

So theoretically, if he were to continue with this dare punishment, he should send the confession text message to Zhu Wenyun.

Realizing this, Chen Junqian calmly shuffled the cards into the deck:

"I was interrupted just now, so that doesn't count. I'll draw another one now."

Completely oblivious to what Zhu Wenyun had just said on the phone, Lin Mu and Xu Youwei's attention was once again drawn to Chen Junqian's actions.

[Exchange a piece of clothing with each of the two people of the opposite sex sitting to your left or right.]

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Chapter 75: The God of Romantic Comedy is Satisfied (5k6)

"W-what clothes? Exchange clothes?!"

Upon seeing the details written on the Adventure Card in Chen Junqian's hand, Lin Mu dropped the cushion in her hand onto the carpet with a thud. Her face, which had already lost most of its blush, instantly turned even redder than before, making one wonder if she was about to spontaneously combust.

Exchanging clothes with her childhood sweetheart and having to change on the spot was clearly beyond Lin Mu's expectations. She subconsciously covered the neckline of her sweater, which wouldn't have revealed anything anyway, and suddenly regretted taking off her down jacket because she was hot.

Compared to Lin Mu's panic, Chen Junqian quickly regained his composure after his initial surprise. He leaned back on the sofa in a relaxed posture and suddenly realized the charm of the King's Game plots in romantic comedy anime. These scenes of using games to engage in embarrassing play were indeed quite interesting many times, especially for some tsundere heroines who said one thing but meant another.

Although Mu Mu is not this type, in a sense, it is still very pleasing to the eye to observe the various reactions of this kind of harmless and innocent female protagonist. At least Chen Junqian himself had a lot of fun.

"Rules are rules; you can't keep cheating, can you?"

"Qianqian—"

Well, just like when his younger sister won him over with a simple "Onii-chan," after Lin Mu called him that in such a coquettish and pleading way, Chen Junqian felt that some of the weird thoughts in his heart were extinguished again. He subtly gestured towards the direction of her feet, hoping that Mu Mu would understand what he meant.

However, while Lin Mu was still wondering why Chen Junqian was suddenly looking at her feet, Xu Youwei, who was sitting next to her, stood up very naturally. Today she was wearing a beige knitted cardigan with a close-fitting turtleneck underneath.