Fortunate To Meet You (English Ver.) - Chapter 6

In an instant, December was almost over. On Christmas Eve, Liang Zheng slept in the dorm and only woke up at 10 am. She poked her head out of the bed with the face of a pillow and saw Feng Qian dressing in front of the mirror, “Are you going to leave?”

Feng Qian squinted to wipe mascara on her eyes as she said, “Yes. Tonight there is an event, I have to go early to the department to keep an eye on it.”

Liang Zheng sat on the bed, closed her eyes for a moment and saw that the two places opposite her were also empty, “Where’s Xiaoyu and Zhongzhong?”

“Xiaoyu has already gone on a date. Zhongzhong should go to the library.”

Liang Zheng sat beside the bed confused, “What time is it already?”

She reached out to take her cellphone under the pillow, long enough to find it because she was still dazed by the effect of just waking up. Feng Qian finished applying her makeup, took a curling iron to curl her hair. She asked Liang Zheng, “Do you want to come tonight? In the student association hall. I will give you a bag of apples that are very beautifully decorated.”

“Never mind, lately I’ve been eating apples until I’m bored.” Liang Zheng turned on her cell phone and looked at the time, finding that it was not yet 10. She lay back on the bed. Feng Qian said, “Apples on Christmas Eve, are they the same?”

Liang Zheng lay on the bed playing on her cell phone, “Not given by a boyfriend, what’s different.”

Feng Qian turned her head and smiled, “From what you say, it seems like you already want to date, huh?”

Liang Zheng was looking at Weibo, replied slowly, “No, I don’t. Every day studying, I was tired to death, dating whatever.”

Feng Qian said, “It’s because you haven’t met someone you like. If you’ve met, not necessarily.”

Today the student association held a Christmas Eve event, which was quite festive. Liang Zheng lay in the dorm until 11 am, went to the bathroom to take a shower and wash her hair. While getting ready to go out to eat, her cell phone rings. She walked out answering the phone, “Auntie.”

From the other side it sounded a little noisy, it seemed Zhou Yuzhi was outside the house. She asked, “Zhengzheng, are you still on campus now?”

“Yes. Why, Auntie?” Liang Zheng closed the door of the dormitory and turned to go downstairs. Zhou Yuzhi said, “It’s Christmas Eve. There’s no program, right? I’m almost at your campus, let’s go out to eat. This afternoon you accompany me shopping at the supermarket.”

Liang Zheng’s footsteps stopped, stood beside the stairs and asked, “Where have you been, Auntie?”

Zhou Yuzhi said, “It’s almost at the gate of your campus, maybe in 10 minutes. You can leave the dorms now.”

Liang Zheng nodded, “Hmm, I’ll wait for Auntie at the gate. Be careful on the road.”

“Yes, I’ll hang up the phone first.”

Since Liang Zheng’s summer vacation to Beijing, lectures have started until now, every weekend when there is no program, always eat at Aunt Zhou’s house. Today is Christmas Eve, it’s only natural to go there. After leaving the dormitory building, a gentle breeze blew.

Every student who came and went unconsciously shrugged their shoulders, while speaking there was also a cold white steam coming out of their mouths. Liang Zheng walked toward the campus gate, reached out to pull the hat on her jacket.

It’s very cold today. Just came out for a while, my hands were about to freeze.

When Liang Zheng arrived at the campus gate, Aunt Zhou had not arrived yet. She crossed the street and went to the milk tea shop across campus to buy two hot milk teas. After finishing buying it, Aunt Zhou happened to arrive.

Aunt Zhou who saw it, honked the horn across the street. The window was lowered and Zhou Yuzhi shouted with a smile, “Zhengzheng.”

Liang Zheng saw that there were no cars on either side of her, jogging towards it. After getting into the car, Zhou Yuzhi laughed, “Have you been waiting a long time?”

“No, I just came out too.” Liang handed a glass of warm milk tea to Zhou Yuzhi, “Auntie doesn’t drink this? I only added 50% sugar. That milk tea shop is quite delicious.”

Zhou Yuzhi accepted it and smiled, lowering his head to take a sip, “Hmm, delicious. It is Zhengzheng who cares the most.”

Liang Zheng’s eyes curved, she smiled as well. The two of them went to the mall for lunch, then went shopping at the supermarket on the 1st floor.

The supermarket is decorated in a Christmas atmosphere. Even the cashiers and shop assistants wore red Christmas hats, very festive.

Zhou Yuzhi pushed the trolley while chatting with Liang Zheng, “Tonight we eat BBQ, but I’ve never made it. I found a fairly simple recipe on the internet, we’ll try to see at home later. I don’t know whether it will taste good or not.”

Liang Zheng said sweetly, “Everything Auntie makes is delicious.”

Zhou Yuzhi really liked Liang Zheng’s sweet mouth. She smiled and pushed Liang Zheng’s forehead, “You, this mouth is made of honey huh.”

Liang Zheng said seriously, “No, everything I said is true.”

Zhou Yuzhi smiled broadly, bent down to pick up a bottle of fruit juice, “Zhengzheng, would you like to drink orange, grape or apple juice?”

Liang Zheng also bent down and looked at her, pointing at the purple transparent juice bottle, “Grape juice.”

“Good.” Zhou Yuzhi took a bottle of grape juice and put it in the cart, “We’ll see another.”

The two of them shopped at the supermarket for almost an hour. After paying the bill and leaving with several large and small packages in hand, it was almost 3 o’clock when they arrived home. Liang Zheng carried the items to the kitchen and asked, “Auntie, do you want to put these food ingredients in the refrigerator?”

Zhou Yuzhi was parking the car outside and said, “No need, just put it on the kitchen counter. Wait for me to come and then we’ll clean up.”

“Fine.” Liang Zheng replied as he walked into the kitchen. Who would have thought that as soon as she reached the kitchen door, she saw Zhou Xu come out with a can of beer in his hand. Zhou Xu saw it too, their two eyes met each other.

Liang Zheng looked at Zhou Xu’s pair of indifferent eyes, remembering the incident that night in the study room. This young man did not bother to hide his frustration with Liang Zheng.

As if her heart was pierced by something, she immediately stepped aside and approached the kitchen door to make way for Zhou Xu.

Zhou Xu didn’t see her either, walked past her and walked straight out of the kitchen.

“Uh, you didn’t go today?” Zhou Yuzhi finished parking her car and got in with her luggage. Seeing her son come out of the kitchen, she asked perfunctorily.

Zhou Xu replied ‘hmm’, going straight upstairs.

Her husband and son have the same personality, Zhou Yuzhi is lazy to wait on him. She happily walked into the kitchen, “Zhengzheng, tonight we are a big cook. You have to help me.”

Liang Zheng was tidying the groceries, she bowed and smiled, “That’s for sure.”

She put the peppers in her hands, zipped up her jacket as she walked out, “Auntie, I’ll go up first to change clothes. I’ll come down later.”

“Yes, go on.”

The house was warm enough, not as cold as it was outside. Liang Zheng went upstairs to change into comfortable home clothes. She pulled off her long hair. Rolled up her sleeves as she went down to the kitchen to help Aunt Zhou cook.

Because there was still plenty of time, Liang Zheng and Aunt Zhou chatted while they slowly prepared the food. The two of them talked about everything, Zhou Yuzhi connected very well with Liang Zheng.

“If you say that A Xu’s personality is like his father’s, but not completely the same. He’s been like that since childhood. Always cold towards anyone, and this disease the more he grows up the worse. Sometimes I wonder why this child’s personality is so annoying. He was haughty, high-willed, high-taste, never respected anyone at all. ”

Liang Zheng was chopping vegetables and thought to herself, Zhou Xu is indeed a little arrogant. She can feel it already.

But, smart and talented like that, plus he is also handsome … being arrogant also has capital.

Christmas Eve dinner is extravagant. Liang Zheng can’t drink alcohol, she only drinks good grape juice.

Uncle Zhou didn’t say much, Zhou Xu was even more pitiful.

Fortunately Liang Zheng and Zhou Yuzhi were very close. The two of them continued talking and the atmosphere on Christmas Eve didn’t turn out so bad.

After finishing eating, Liang Zheng helped Aunt Zhou clean up the kitchen.

Halfway through, Aunt Zhou called Zhou Xu into the kitchen and asked him to take out the trash.

When Zhou Xu returned to throwing out the trash, he sat for a moment with his papa in the living room before going upstairs.

Zhou Yuzhi and Liang Zheng walked out when they finished tidying up the kitchen. When she saw that her son’s figure had disappeared, she asked irritably, “Where’s A Xu? Has it go upstair again?”

“Hmm.” Zhou Papa nodded, “The research data is still unfinished.”

“Why do you do that every day?” Zhou Yuzhi frowned in annoyance.

In the past, once Liang Zheng heard Uncle and Auntie Zhou mention abou Zhou Xu, she would always lengthen her ears.

Now, she didn’t really want to hear it. Even if she did have some (unnecessary) interest in Zhou Xu in the past, from the second she had felt Zhou Xu irritated with her, that interest had already evaporated.

She and Zhou Xu were two different people, tens of thousands of miles apart. Two people who sort of made friends would not be possible.

She sits aside to arrange the Christmas tree very seriously, hanging colorful gift boxes over the Christmas tree.

“Zhengzheng, help me bring A Xu coffee. Maybe tonight he will stay up again.”

Liang Zheng had just finished arranging the Christmas tree and was taking photos. Aunt Zhou came out of the kitchen carrying a cup of coffee. Liang Zheng was stunned, before she could react, Aunt Zhou already handed her the coffee cup, “I go up first to take a shower. After cooking, I feel like this body smells of oil.”

Liang Zheng, “…”

Zhou Yuzhi handed Liang Zheng the coffee cup and went upstairs to take a shower. Liang Zheng took the coffee cup and sat in front of the Christmas tree, silent for a long time. God only knew how much she didn’t want to be alone with Zhou Xu at this time.

To be honest, she was now somewhat afraid of Zhou Xu. The coffee in her hand was very hot. She really doesn’t want to go there.

Liang Zheng experienced inner turmoil there for a moment before finally getting up to accept fate, bringing this coffee upstairs. Arriving at the 3rd floor, at the door of Zhou Xu’s room, she hesitated for a moment.

Finally she sighed silently, raising her hand to knock on the door. “Come in.” Zhou Xu’s voice sounded from within, Liang Zheng took a deep breath before reaching out to open the door.

Zhou Xu sat at the study table near the window, his laptop on and his hands dancing rapidly on the keyboard. On the side of the laptop was a notebook, on which were written several numbers. Liang Zheng walked over with coffee, “That … Aunt Zhou made coffee for you.”

Zhou Xu replied ‘hmm’ and didn’t turn his head, “Just put it here.”

“Oh.” Liang Zheng nodded, put the coffee on the table. She looked at Zhou Xu, wanting to explain that that day she had not carelessly walked into the study room without permission. She already had Aunt Zhou’s permission before entering there.

Just opened her mouth, but looking at Zhou Xu who was seriously doing his job, the words only reached her throat and was swallowed again.

Fear of bothering him.

Zhou Xu basically found her noisy. If you bothered Zhou Xu while he was working on assignments, Zhou Xu would find herself annoying even more. This guy is really hard to serve.

Liang Zheng suddenly also felt a little annoyed, she turned around and left.

Finally, because her movements were a little rushed, her hand accidentally nudged the coffee cup on the table. The coffee cup turned upside down and made a loud ‘peng’ sound, all the coffee liquid in it spilled out.

Because the coffee cup was so close to Zhou Xu, as soon as it dropped, all the coffee almost spilled all over it onto Zhou Xu’s clothes and pants. Laptops are also not free from disasters, coffee spills over the keyboard too. Zhou Xu immediately pushed the laptop away as he rose to his feet.

Liang Zheng was also afraid of the series of events, she unconsciously immediately lifted the cup and hurriedly took a tissue to frantically wipe the laptop keyboard. Who would have thought she had barely touched the laptop keyboard, her wrists being held by a strong force.

She looked up and looked at Zhou Xu, “Sorry, I didn’t mean it, let me help …”

“Exit.” Before he finished speaking, Zhou Xu cut off her words. There was an extremely cold look in those eyes. Liang Zheng froze there, her mouth still open. Want to say something, but no words can come out.

Zhou Xu stared at her for a moment with a cold face, finally hurling Liang Zheng’s hand violently, “Get out.”

Liang Zheng looked at him for a while and said in a low voice, “Sorry.”

When she finished speaking, she turned and took the cup. Immediately walk outside.

As soon as Liang Zheng left, Zhou Xu was standing at the study table. Seeing his messy study table, his heart was very upset. He pulled a lot of tissue to clean the coffee liquid on the table, then also cleaned the laptop keyboard.

Finally when he looked down, he saw a large stain of black coffee on his white shirt. He immediately frowned and his heart became much more irritated.

Zhou Xu hated anything troublesome by nature. Plus he’s a pretty bad hygiene maniac. This great chaos caused by Liang Zheng made his mood very bad. He took off his shirt and threw it on the chair, then went to take a shower annoyed.

Ten minutes later, Zhou Xu came out of the bathroom and changed into a clean black short-sleeved shirt and black sweatpants. He went to the study table and there was still coffee liquid that hadn’t been cleaned. He frowned again and pulled back some of the tissue to clean them.

However, if that cup of coffee is all spilled on the table, even if it is cleaned there are still slight stains on the table. Another important issue, this entire room is filled with the aroma of coffee and won’t go away for a long time.

Zhou Xu was extremely upset. He carelessly threw away the tissue paper in his hand and lifted his laptop. Finally, when he just picked up the laptop, he just realized that under the laptop it was also wet with coffee liquid. As soon as his hand touched that, his hand was also exposed to the coffee liquid.

Zhou Xu immediately frowned and cursed in annoyance. He pulled out a tissue to clean his hands, picked up the notebook next to the laptop and went to the balcony.

The wind was blowing outside the balcony, Zhou Xu went out to find the wind, trying hard to suppress the irritation in his heart. He sat on a chair against the wall, his legs leisurely lifted onto the tea table opposite him.

It’s snowing outside. The night, the snow heavier.

Zhou Xu sat there, but did not feel cold. He looked at the snow for a moment, lowering his head to look at the expressive data on his notes. There was some coffee liquid that also spilled in his notebook.

Zhou Xu frowned and rewrote some of the numbers in his experimental data. After he finished rewriting, his eyes involuntarily fell on the dirty coffee stain beside him, suddenly feeling irritated again.

Zhou Xu sat on the balcony for 10 minutes before getting back up and entering the room. He threw the notebook on the tea table and the snow light reflected it.

Bounce two lines of words up there. The writing is a bit messy, but there is an emphasis that even penetrates the back of the paper.

Just by looking at the power of writing, you can see how upset the person who was writing was. The two lines of sentence are …

I’ve never been so upset with someone

When will she stop coming to my house?