I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

His younger sister is growing step by step from the little girl who used to sit beside him, flipping through a children's edition of Chinese history and asking him questions, into a beautiful and lovely young woman.

Okay, he decided to support Chisa, his cousin from Grand Blue, for a second for now.

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PS2: Because some people said that Mu Mu on the new cover was too big, I changed the pose again.

Chapter 126: The Little Mermaid Gazing at the Golden Palace (Part 2)

"Hmm? An aquarium? There is one in Sanya. If you want to go see it, you can, since it's still early."

Chen Junqian had just finished showering and changing in the men's shower room when he heard the girls' suggestion to go to the aquarium. Although most of Gu Linguo's remarks were suggestive and made these outsiders blush, they could still extract some good ideas from them.

After all, the fact that it can become a model romantic comedy means that these plots have been tested in terms of romance. For example, Gu Linguo's line, "Brother, take me to the aquarium so I can witness the wonders of the underwater world," made several girls think, "That does seem like a good idea," and that's why they made the suggestion to Chen Junqian.

"But is Mumu okay?"

Seemingly surprised that Chen Junqian had suddenly called on him, Lin Mu tilted his head in confusion and pointed at himself with his finger:

"Huh? Me? What's wrong?"

"Because I took Mumu to an aquarium once before, I feel that the experience is best and more amazing the first time you go to such a place."

"Huh? Really? When? I don't remember. Guoning doesn't have an aquarium, does it?"

"It was the time we went to Qinhuangdao when we were in elementary school."

"Oh, I think I vaguely remember that."

Lin Mu had just nodded in realization when he saw Gu Lingguo sticking out her tongue next to him.

"What's wrong with Lin Guo?"

"It's nothing, it's nothing. I'm just doing some voice-over for you, Sister Lin Mu... or rather, doing some actions. Actually, this is how it should be done in the most standard way."

As she spoke, Gu Lingguo raised her right hand, which was loosely clenched into a fist, and deliberately tapped it lightly on the right side of her head. At the same time, she playfully stuck out her tongue, making a magical gesture similar to the Fujiya trademark.

"Hmm—does it have any special meaning?"

"Because it feels cute, and it fits the 'clumsy childhood friend' type..."

Having already mastered the art of covering her mouth, Chen Xi skillfully led her best friend away in a manner resembling a kidnapping. Still not understanding what was happening, Lin Mu simply continued their previous conversation:

"I'm fine, because I almost forgot about it anyway, it's been several years."

"Alright, let's go then."

Chen Junqian shifted his gaze away from the name of Lin Mu, the person who triggered the romantic comedy achievement "Aquariums are always romantic spots," and announced this somewhat helplessly before starting to contact people about car arrangements and ticket purchases.

After the physically demanding underwater diving session that morning, the group felt completely different upon entering the aquarium. If the real ocean is awe-inspiring and wild, then this aquarium, with its strong air conditioning but dim and hazy lighting, felt more like a carefully crafted deep blue dream. This reminded Chen Junqian of the achievement description: "The greatness of the aquarium lies in the fact that all blushes here will turn into a dreamy deep blue. Whenever the blue light shines through the aquarium and casts flowing ripples on your faces, a creature more mysterious than fish will begin to swim in your chest."

Wow—long live air conditioning!

As soon as Gu Lingguo stepped through the aquarium's revolving door, she opened her arms and let out a heartfelt exclamation. As the one who first proposed the aquarium project, she had been looking forward to it all the way. Now, seeing the giant welcoming tank that was more than ten meters high and spanned two floors, she could not contain her excitement and stood there in a daze, gazing at the dreamlike scene before her.

Hundreds of small silver fish formed a huge storm vortex in the azure water, reflecting the spotlights from above, like a shimmering meteor shower falling on the water.

"So beautiful!"

Xu Youwei couldn't help but exclaim in surprise and quickly took out her phone to start snapping photos.

Chen Junqian shook his head helplessly, checked everyone's tickets like a teacher leading a group, and didn't forget to remind them:

"Slow down, it's dark inside. Don't bump into the glass or get separated."

"It's okay if you get separated. There are no children around, and everyone has a cell phone. This is a public place with surveillance cameras everywhere. Just go and see the areas that interest you. If you're worried, you can go in pairs."

The next second, Zhu Wenyun smiled and rejected Chen Junqian's words. It's unclear which sentence in his words touched a nerve with the girls, but they almost unanimously agreed to the suggestion, leaving Chen Junqian to the back, as if he were being sent to play some JRPG where he had to trigger different heroines in various places.

But as it turns out, reality is not a game, and the tourists around him are not all NPCs who cannot be talked to. The cost of striking up a conversation with a modern woman is always lower than that of a man. At least, Chen Junqian only lingered in front of a certain aquarium for a little while, and he could hear a woman next to him deliberately raising her voice, talking about the types of fish in it, and occasionally throwing glances at him, trying to get his attention.

I heard that in bars you can order a special drink to indicate that you don’t want to get to know or chat with anyone right now, but there are obviously no such convenient props in the aquarium. Chen Junqian even encountered two volunteers asking him if he needed help within two minutes. The situation only improved a lot when someone came to his side as a female companion without making a sound.

The main light source in the aquarium was deliberately dimmed, and all the brightness came from the aquariums of various sizes, thus giving each visitor a soft and hazy blue halo.

Today, Shen Nianqiu was wearing a pure white French-style halter dress with a thin sun-protective cardigan over it. Reflected in the huge bodies of water on both sides, her already fair skin appeared even more radiant. Her long, flowing hair was casually draped over her shoulders, exuding an unadorned charm and purity.

"Let's go take a look at the undersea tunnel."

It was as if Shen Nianqiu was deliberately trying to impress the others around her. She tiptoed slightly and whispered in Chen Junqian's ear.

"Well, let's go."

"This place feels so classic... even the fish here is."

After entering the underwater tunnel, Shen Nianqiu couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

Beneath their feet was a slowly moving escalator, and above and all around them was the deep blue sea and all sorts of marine life. A huge manta ray flapped its cape-like fins and glided silently over their heads, its white belly resembling a giant smiling face.

"But you'll still feel a flutter in your heart, right?"

"Yeah, I feel like I can remember it for a very, very long time."

Although it wasn't explicitly stated, Chen Junqian could sense that Shen Nianqiu was referring to a childhood sweetheart with a bad memory. However, it wasn't out of jealousy or envy, but rather out of simple relief, or even relief.

Sure enough, the next second, he heard the other party's true intention:

"The first time really does need to be remembered by both people to count, right? Memories that only one person remembers are the most useless things in the world."

"so?"

"So those that I don't remember don't count."

They could feel Shen Nianqiu's entire body leaning against them. Even a huge grouper outside the glass curiously cast its gaze towards them, swimming over and scrutinizing them.

"But Mu Mu will keep a diary."

“I’ve read her diary, no, I should say she read a little bit to me. It’s actually very simple, often just a single sentence.”

"It would be strange if she could write a lot, after all, Mu Mu is not Wen Yun, and she can write longer and longer these days."

"But the more recent the memory, the clearer it should be. From this perspective, the more distant the memory, the more words should be written about it, otherwise you will easily regret it and cry."

"I feel like my older sister has been corrupted by Wenyun."

"But in the end, the only one who made Mu Mu cry was her younger brother from the very beginning."

"Then you must help me when the time comes, sister."

"If I can help, I definitely will."

After replying with a smile, Shen Nianqiu pulled Chen Junqian into the jellyfish exhibit. The entire exhibit was designed like a maze, with cylindrical glass tanks about the height of a person all around. Inside the tanks, there were no miscellaneous items, only a few or even dozens of crystal-clear moon jellyfish with skirts as soft as silk, opening and closing extremely slowly.

Accompanied by the ever-changing neon lights inside the cylinder—fluorescent pink, deep blue, glacier blue… the entire space seemed like an alien fantasy world devoid of gravity, filled with a sense of romance.

After turning a corner in the dimly lit corridor, the view suddenly entered a more tranquil, even somewhat mysterious, circular exhibition hall. The air conditioning here seemed gentler, and the water wasn't illuminated with dazzling colored lights, but rather displayed a deep, serene blue that was closest to the natural ocean.

In the center of the exhibition hall was a huge semi-immersive water column tank, with almost no other visitors around.

Shen Nianqiu curiously approached the thick glass wall and peered inside with wide eyes. At first, she only saw clumps of giant seaweed swaying gently with the current, but then, a huge, grayish-brown creature, like a slow-moving miniature submarine, glided out from behind the seaweed.

The creature looked rather comical, with a round, chubby, streamlined body, no dorsal fin, and a crescent-shaped tail resembling that of a dolphin. Its thick lips, like a vacuum cleaner, were slowly and methodically chewing on the cabbage leaves fed to it by the staff. Its small, bean-like eyes revealed a kind of innocent and naive foolishness.

"Is that a manatee?"

Chen Junqian walked up behind her, and the two stood very close, almost embracing each other. He watched as the girl's eyes crinkled with delight at the creatures in the jar, and the corners of his mouth also turned up.

"Dugong, that is, the biological prototype of the famous legendary 'mermaid'."

"Mermaid... Come to think of it, there are related lyrics in the new song my brother wrote for me."

"After all, The Little Mermaid is a classic fairy tale, and I feel like everyone should have seen it when they were young."

As he spoke, Chen Junqian took out his phone from his pocket, tapped the screen a few times, and then held the screen up to Shen Nianqiu's eyes.

"I didn't have a chance to show it to you while we were outside. How about I check it myself?"

Shen Nianqiu was stunned for a moment, her gaze focusing on the screen, which contained high-definition underwater photos that Chen Junqian had just exported from the camera.

The background of the photo is the pristine, crystal-clear Jelly Sea in Sanya, with golden sunlight beams dancing across the water. In the center of the picture are two people wearing diving gear. Although the girl's hair is disheveled and her mask covers most of her face, her slender figure is still visible. Unlike the poses of the previous girls in the group photo, Shen Nianqiu is not making a peace sign. Instead, she awkwardly makes half a heart with one hand against the side of her face. The boy next to her is looking at her sideways and cooperating with her, his hand, which is a size larger than hers, firmly resting on her hand to form the other half of the perfect heart.

The endless bubbles rising around the camera filled the photo with a unique sense of summer and the seabed, a feeling that made Shen Nianqiu's heart skip a beat.

"Send it to me, I want to use it as my profile picture."

"Yes, I sent it to my sister."

Just then, the dugong that was feeding seemed to take a liking to the two uninvited guests. It slowly swam toward the glass wall, and its huge body stopped in front of Shen Nianqiu. Through the thick glass, its small eyes stared at her innocently, and its thick lips were still moving comically, making it hard for her to imagine the connection between the dugong and the mermaid.

In this gentle blue light, where only the sound of flowing water could be heard, Chen Junqian suddenly stretched out his free hand, and through the glass, his fingertips lightly touched the tip of the dugong's nose, and then, following the direction of the water, gently slid to the illusory profile of Shen Nianqiu reflected in the glass.

"Speaking of which, how's your practice going, sister? You're going to officially record the song in a couple of days."

"Hmm, it should be fine."

As if wanting to prove something to Chen Junqian, Shen Nianqiu unconsciously tapped the glass lightly, slowly tracing the patterns of the water ripples, while naturally humming the melody of the song he had written for her.

The only sound in the exhibition hall was the extremely faint sound of filtered water flowing, the atmosphere so gentle that it seemed as if time itself had been slowed down. The girl turned her head slightly, half gazing at the adorable dugong in the water, and half using the reflection in the glass to look at the tall and handsome silhouette beside her. Her heart suddenly softened like a pool of spring water, and her voice became as gentle as if she were holding a mouthful of melting seawater:

"I heard Sleeping Beauty was buried... The Little Mermaid is gazing at the Golden Palace..."

She hummed very softly, singing as if it were a whisper.

"Sleeping Beauty escaped the torment of life... The little mermaid used sunlight as eyeshadow... and threw herself into the embrace of the foam..."

The girl's voice trailed off in the cool air, yet it seemed to carry sparks. A beam of light from the top of the aquarium refracted across the water's surface, dappling Shen Nianqiu's long, fluttering eyelashes like a layer of shimmering gold.

In fact, Shen Nianqiu stopped reading fairy tales a long time ago. At first, she felt that the stories in them were too beautiful and clichéd, but now she feels that they are even more melancholic than those in reality.

After all, she met her prince without losing her voice.

I can still hum songs to him now, clearly conveying my love.

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PS2: The most classic example of someone who became famous overnight in the live streaming industry from 15 to 17 should be "Once Upon a Time".

Chapter 127: So I'm Kato Megumi! (4k5)

As if it were pre-arranged, after emerging from that tranquil, deep blue exhibition hall that seemed to belong only to him and Shen Nianqiu, and as the white noise seemed to vanish instantly, replaced by the vibrant, bustling sounds of the aquarium's main corridor, Zhu Wenyun appeared out of nowhere and stood to Chen Junqian's left, speaking to him proactively:

"There's a penguin enclosure up ahead, wanna go?"

"Penguin...go ahead."

Upon hearing the word "penguin," Chen Junqian's mind went blank for a moment, mainly because he remembered Gu Linguo's synopsis, "April 2015 New Anime Finale Rant," which she had painstakingly written just over a week ago. In the spring of that year, besides many new works, what they were most concerned about was actually the second season of "My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong As Expected," which was released after two years.