Chapter 67

Two intersections outside the gate of Maofang Middle School, a Mercedes S60 was parked under the overpass, and passing students occasionally looked over.

Actually, in this small county, few people really understood cars or paid attention to them, but the pressure from money could still be perceived.

People passing by on bicycles avoided it by eight feet, almost walking on the motor vehicle lane; if they scratched it, they would have worked for nothing for a year.

In the car, Qian Yarong looked back helplessly and glanced at her sleeping daughter.

Lu Siwen, who should have been full of energy early in the morning, was curled up on the car door like a kitten, her face still carrying fatigue.

It didn't look like she had slept all night; it looked more like... she had played all night.

She must have stayed up late reading miscellaneous books again; Qian Yarong knew Lu Siwen's hobbies very well.

But even so, when she went out, Lu Siwen still asked to park under this overpass; she wanted to wait for "Student Zhai" to go to school together, but the car arrived and the person fell asleep.

Just as Qian Yarong was thinking about how to handle it, she saw the boy Lu Siwen was waiting for, flying poker cards while heading toward the overpass.

With a flick of his finger, the poker card flew diagonally upward while spinning, and then flew back into his hand.

It had to be said that it really had a visual effect.

It was absolutely foolproof for deceiving girls, Qian Yarong couldn't help but think in her heart...

Plus that micro-fiction contest... which high school girl could withstand this kind of test...

"Siwen? Siwen?"

Lu Siwen had no response, and seeing that the little boy was about to walk away, Qian Yarong could only lower the car window and shout: "Student Zhai? Wait a moment..."

Zhai Da turned his head, stuffed the 【Joker Poker】 back into his pocket, and walked down from the overpass.

"Hello, Auntie."

"Siwen is waiting for you, but it seems she fell asleep."

Zhai Da looked back and waited for the follow-up...

Thinking, so what? You should wake her up... I can't go in and sleep with her...

Qian Yarong looked at Zhai Da, her heart moved, and she said with a smile: "She might be tired from studying TOEFL last night; this child... there are only a few months left before going abroad, so she might be a bit anxious."

It seemed like she was explaining, but in reality, she was taking advantage of Lu Siwen being asleep to reveal a little information.

The reason for this was self-evident.

Zhai Da suddenly realized, but he wasn't surprised.

Going abroad, it fit the other party's family situation very well; in this day and age, as long as there was some economic strength, basically everyone would plan for this path.

Zhai Da didn't have any subjective thoughts about this; as for whether a girl like a blank sheet of paper could withstand round after round of impact from the outside, frankly, it wasn't his turn to express an opinion.

At least there was no reason to express an opinion in front of her mother.

"And Student Zhai? Do you have a direction for your college entrance exam application?"

Zhai Da shook his head: "Fill it out after knowing the scores; it's not too late to see after the results come out."

Lu Siwen in the back seat heard the movement and rubbed her eyes; Qian Yarong stopped the topic at the right time.

Lu Siwen woke up in a second after seeing Zhai Da, looked at the Longines crescent moon on her hand, quickly got out of the car, and pulled Zhai Da's sleeve toward the school, leaving Qian Yarong with only a "Goodbye, Mom."

Watching the two light backs, Qian Yarong showed a smile.

She wasn't a bad mother, but she might be a realistic mother; since they weren't on the same path, it was also happy to briefly draw some friendship, even if it was briefly drawing some love, she could accept it.

As long as it didn't affect her planning for Lu Siwen's life.

A tightly fitted plan.

On the overpass, Lu Siwen was still immersed in last night... to be precise, the excitement caused by it: "Student Zhai, I finished 'Long Road of Manman,' it's written so well!"

"How can you write so well and so specifically! You know so much about hospitals and patients... You must have checked a lot of information, right?"

Zhai Da nodded absentmindedly: "You could say that."

That movie only provided a context, and he didn't remember the details so clearly; more of it was accumulated after Yu Xiaoli got cancer in his past life and he spent half a year revolving around the hospital.

But it wasn't a good memory.

To this day, he could still clearly recall the never-ending "beep" sound in the ICU ward, and he could understand every number and wave on the "monitor."

Although pushing back the timeline, Yu Xiaoli definitely had no problems now, but he still decided to find a way to take his mom to a first-tier city for a comprehensive check-up after the college entrance exam, and ensure it happened at least twice every year thereafter.

Lu Siwen didn't know what Zhai Da was thinking, and said joyfully: "In the end, Lin Manman and Lu Tu succeeded in fighting the disease, right?"

Zhai Da didn't speak, just looked at Lu Siwen.

Lu Siwen covered her mouth in surprise: "Didn't succeed? They worked so hard!"

Zhai Da thought to himself, I'm the author, okay... Whether they succeed or not isn't just a matter of a line of my writing.

If I go crazy, I can just say they were both sent to another world by a mud-truck.

For example, in web novels from his past life, there were even endings where the male lead looked in the mirror and died from his own handsomeness...

The story of 'Long Road of Manman' actually wasn't complicated; it came from real events in his past life, and was later adapted into a movie.

Of course, if you calculate the timeline, that real event hadn't happened yet either.

Young uremia patient Lin Manman, because of long-term low-quality life and deteriorating health, coupled with the hopelessness of waiting for a kidney transplant, recorded a "marriage proposal" video one day when her pressure exploded and her emotions collapsed, and sent it to a tumor/terminal illness group.

If they could match, she was willing to marry a tumor patient with a terminal illness and become husband and wife, accompanying him to fight the disease; if the other party died, she would accept a kidney transplant as his wife and take care of the other party's parents in their old age.

Although she soon felt guilty because of her own immorality and withdrew the video, it was still seen by one person, the other person in the story's name, Lu Tu.

The story that followed revolved around the two of them fighting the disease together, and the sparks of love that collided.

At the same time, it also explored disease and human nature, society and family affection.

However, Zhai Da copying a movie meant it was impossible for it to be exactly the same; movies and literature had different ways of expression, and he couldn't remember it so clearly, so this story was at most 60% like the movie.

The heroine's name was changed, and some content that conflicted with the sense of the era was also revised; for example, there was no WeChat yet, so the heroine's video was sent in a QQ group, and a "never remarry for life" clause was added to the promise.

Another very important part was that about half the time in the movie was driven by "comedy" as the background, such as various misunderstandings, nonsense, the male lead's strange accent and even stranger personality; these things weren't convenient to copy into the novel, and text couldn't even write about "strange accent."

Zhai Da downplayed the comedy part and instead focused on the tragedy; the male lead no longer had a silly attribute, even though he had a piece of brain tissue removed because of a brain tumor...

So the final direction of the whole story would become very "sad."

The ending he arranged was for one person to live alone, living on lonely and strong.

After all, it wasn't a web novel; a tragic ending was better than a happy ending.

It was estimated that girls of Lu Siwen's age would cry their hearts out in the end...

By the way, novels with this theme had women of Lu Siwen's age as the main audience.

Due to the effect of 【The Literary Girl's Pen】, this content was judged as "original" by the system, and emotions would be injected during the writing process, so the quality was exceptionally high.

It allowed a certain "copywriter" who had never written a long story to have a significant improvement in level, and some content even he himself felt was moving.

I wrote this damn well.

He felt his writing was no worse than those famous authors; after all, he was cheating.

But Lu Siwen noticed that Zhai Da was planning to end it as a tragedy, and she felt terrible; she was already completely immersed in it, and Lin Manman and Lu Tu felt like they really existed, tugging at Zhai Da's sleeve and begging constantly:

"Let them succeed in fighting the disease~ I beg you!"

It had to be said that this aggrieved look was very pleasing to the eye, but...

"No, the more warm it's written, making the happy ending look exceptionally beautiful and longing, and then suddenly giving the reader a hard stab at the end, the more depth the story seems to have, right? Writing is like this!"

Lu Siwen was stunned...

She really wanted to test if Zhai Da's mouth was 38 degrees.

How could he say such cold words...