C81 Wonderful Fortuitous Encounters

I was just about to add some exercise equipment for myself when my personal coach said that I would be able to endure for a little longer. After increasing my endurance, I would be able to try doing some anaerobic strength training.

I changed into a new tracksuit from Xuanzi and equipped myself with a watch to measure my heart rate. I tied a clean ponytail and prepared to go out to the track.

After three kilometers on the track, I slowed my pace and adjusted my breathing as I walked. When my body had calmed down, I walked to the rest area to grab a water glass from my gym bag to moisten my throat.

The low-key, black-grey sports bag that O'Jia Rui had chosen stood out among the girls' pink-white school bags and the boys' blue-black bags, vividly showing the aesthetic differences between people of different ages.

Not far from my bag, there was a sports bag of the same style, also low-key and unique. Just as I packed my bag and was about to leave, I saw the man I had seen many times pick up the sports bag I had just noticed.

After living with Ou Jia Rui for so long, they had some understanding of the luxury brands. Judging from the material and craftsmanship of the sports bag, it was obvious that it was worth a lot of money. That man's identity was also worth investigating.

However, the reason I came to the B University was to find a quiet place to recharge myself. Naturally, I wasn't too interested in this person's identity.

I raised my hand to check my watch. It was eight in the morning, and when I left, there were still quite a few students who were studying or exercising early. They had just walked into the track.

There weren't any classes this morning, so I calculated that the ingredients in the fridge at home should be used up by now. It was time to go to the supermarket to buy some more.

After returning home to take a bath and change his clothes, he coincidentally received a call from Ou Jia Rui.

"Did you get it?" I calculated the time. At this moment, Ojaru should have just arrived at the Ou Family and was preparing to start his day's work.

While I spread the toast with jam, I put on a headset and a bag of flowers. "Got it. You were too quick."

"Do you like it?"

I was stunned. "I like it."

Ou Jia Rui's mood instantly became extremely joyful. "It's good that you like it. I'm going to work now. Go busy yourself, Zhou Xinyao."

After hanging up the phone, I felt a little funny in my heart. She was obviously 30 years old, but sometimes she still acted like a child.

The advantage of living alone is that it's quiet, undisturbed, and far away from Ou Jingyi and Madame Ou. However, there are pros and cons. Although I am not the type of person who likes lively, living alone for a long time still makes me feel a bit at a loss. Every day, I think about how to enrich my own life.

Picking up the double menu and the bakery brochure that were stacked on the sofa, I wondered how I could improve my own meals without classes. When I set up this apartment, I was thinking about everything, and although the kitchen wasn't as big as the one at Ou's house, it still had all sorts of cooking equipment.

There was no girl who didn't like cute little sweets. She had been living here for almost a week and I hadn't used the oven in the kitchen yet. I looked at the bakery book and tried to figure out what ingredients I wanted to buy.

"Cream, wheat flour, butter, strawberries …" As I read, I made a note in my cell phone memo and stood by the window. I waited for my freshly washed hair to dry in the early summer morning before I made my way out of the apartment building with my shopping list.

Without the use of cars, I walked from the teacher's apartment to the large shopping mall in front of the door. I didn't feel as close to it as I had expected, thinking to buy myself a bicycle when I had some free time. With that in mind, the man I'd just seen on the track was riding past me on his mountain bike.

I watched the retreating figure enviously as I took out a sunscreen from my bag, sprayed my bare arm twice, and continued my walk.

Because it was a Friday morning, many students were in class, so there weren't many people in the shopping mall. Most of them were retired professors or nearby residents who were buying groceries. As I walked through the sparsely populated supermarket, I felt very comfortable.

"Ding dong." When the phone beeped, I was pushing the cart to a corner. There was no one around, so I took out my phone and looked at it while pushing the cart with one hand.

A receipt from the bank impressively appeared on the phone screen that hadn't been unlocked. "Hello, Ms. Zhou Xinyao. Your XX bank's savings card has been deposited with RMB 5 million …"

I didn't have any time to think, and I also knew who did the good stuff. I opened my WeChat, and as I walked, I edited the message I sent to Ou Jia Rui: "Why are you giving me money? I've saved up a lot of money over the years. It's definitely enough for me to study in B University. There's no need for you to do this."

Perhaps because she didn't get to put down the money transfer on her phone just now, Ou Jia Rui replied back to me in a second: "It's nothing. I'll prepare some pocket money for you to reserve when you're outside."

I felt really helpless. I wanted to continue arguing, but I also knew that once Ou Jia Rui made a decision, no one would be able to change their mind. I silently planned to not touch this money and just find a chance to return it to Ou Jia Rui.

Just as I was about to put my phone away and put it in my bag, the shopping city just turned the corner of the shelf. I didn't look up to notice the road in front of me, but I bumped into someone who had just walked out from behind the shelf.

The man was carrying a rather large shopping basket filled with expensive foreign wine and ingredients. Fortunately, I had found the situation in front of me in time to stop my shopping cart from crashing into the person. However, the shopping basket in his hands wasn't as lucky.

I looked at the broken bottles and broken fruit and vegetables all over the floor and felt sorry for myself. I hated myself for looking at my cell phone so anxiously.

I lowered my head and apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't see the road just now, did you hurt yourself?" The person I bumped into also looked upset. It was probably because the items I had meticulously selected were destroyed just like that.

However, it was fortunate that the person was still magnanimous. He only sighed lightly and said, "Sigh, I don't have any problems. It's just that the pile of items I bought..." The voice was strangely familiar to me, and when I looked up, I saw that it was the man who had recently been the focus of the crowd. Although I did not know his name, I was not the least bit unfamiliar with his charming face.

I called over the shop assistant from the supermarket to help clean up the mess, while expressing my apology, "Sorry, let me pay for all of this. I'll go to the cashier's counter with you later." He did not reject my offer to compensate him, but instead refused to buy another set of the same items for me to pay for.

There was an awkward look on my face that I hadn't felt in a long time, as if I had been mischievous when I was young and smeared with ink on the desks of a classroom, and I was discovered by a passing dean to be familiar with the embarrassment of poverty and inferiority, but the only difference was that I was now able to bear the cost of my inadvertence.

The man walked beside me, glancing at my shopping cart as if to ease the mood, and picked up a box of mozzarella cheese. "How can you eat this? I feel like I've been able to see you at the gym a lot lately. If you eat this box of cheese, then you've wasted two hours."

Perhaps it was due to my pride as a girl, I said in a shady tone, "I'm not going to exercise to lose weight and improve my physical fitness."

Realizing that his words weren't particularly pleasing to the eye, he shook his head and laughed, "That's right, a slender girl like you really doesn't need to worry about her figure. Oh right, we've always been seeing each other recently, and I'm so beautiful that I'll tell you my name. Zhou Xinyao, my name is Zhao Yuhao."

I asked, "How did you know my name?" Since it was Ou Jia Rui who came to school, I tried to keep a low profile when I was studying. I didn't want others to know my name and my relationship with the president of the Eu Group.

Zhao Yuhao cracked his mouth into a smile, revealing a mouthful of pure white teeth. Let alone a little girl, even the aunty who came to the shopping mall to buy groceries couldn't help but stare at him with a smile.

"Although I didn't take a good picture of your wedding, I happened to be a guest at your wedding, so I know your name." To be able to participate in the Ou Family's wedding, one's identity must be either rich or noble. These words verified my previous speculation regarding Zhao Yuhao's identity.

I arranged my expression and emotions. "Hello, I'm Zhou Xinyao."

"Yes."

There weren't many people in the mall, and soon the line in front of the cash register came to us. I looked at the screen of the cashier's computer and once again regretted my recklessness, feeling my heart bleed as I swiped my card.

"Alright, you can go and buy what you need now." I mentioned my big shopping bag, and said goodbye to Zhao Yuhao before turning around to leave.

Zhao Yuhao was also a person who was easy to talk to, "Okay, then I'll go buy some more. If we're fated to meet again, then we'll see each other again." He walked back into the supermarket and waved at me.

After meeting three times in a day, I thought that my fate with Zhao Yuhao had been overdrawn. The next time I would meet him would at least be when I went to the gym next week.

What I didn't expect was that soon we would meet again, and this reunion was something I hadn't expected.