Chapter 18: Life is Full of Surprises Everywhere (Part 1)

Today's weather was gloomy as ever, and the sky began to drizzle again, carrying a hint of chill. As gloomy as the weather was...

Zhou Xiaoru's face.

Last night, she suffered from insomnia again...

She didn't know if she was incompatible with Tengyuan Company, or if her fate clashed with that Plague God Gu Liyan, but she had only been working for a few days and had already suffered from insomnia for several days in a row.

Before she knew it, she had already been at Tengyuan for nearly two weeks.

Today was the last workday of the week, and she decided to take advantage of this day off to go have her fortune told!

She had heard before that a girl in the class next door went to visit an ancient town in A City and met a fortune-telling master who was exceptionally accurate!

She wanted to go too, but Jiang Bufan and the others all said that those things had long been debunked and were not to be trusted!

Last week, the "scene of intimidation" from Gu Liyan lingered in front of her eyes like a ghost every single day...

It was just that she didn't know if her "kind" reminder had any effect.

How cruel it is for a lover to be two-faced and disloyal behind one's back! If no one told him, wouldn't that be even more cruel!

Although the vast sea had dried up and the current partner had long since become an ex, she was still a competent ex.

Zhou Xiaoru arrived at the company with a somewhat "heavy" heart; today she was more than half an hour earlier than yesterday.

After having many previous lessons, she tried her best to avoid the morning rush hour every day, and even more so to avoid running into that man again!

Fortunately, with her caution and careful planning, she seemed to have successfully avoided the awkward situation of meeting again!

After arriving at the Personnel Department office, her colleagues hadn't arrived yet. Checking the time, it wasn't even seven-thirty, so she organized the work she had on hand these past few days once more.

They say the early bird catches the worm, but she had been working for less than two weeks and her feathers were already falling out all over the floor!

Zhou Xiaoru felt her blood pressure had risen quite a bit.

Going to work every day was like being a secret agent! Getting off work felt like receiving a general amnesty!

Sigh... working like this day after day, not only was she on pins and needles, but she was also becoming neurotic! Hopefully, today will pass smoothly too...

Zhou Xiaoru prayed in her heart!

She crawled over so early every day at the risk of her life just because she was afraid of running into that pair of "back-to-back" lovers on the road or downstairs; she didn't want to be their cannon fodder again!

In the future, she would avoid them as much as possible. The waters of a wealthy family were too deep, and as a non-swimmer, she shouldn't dive into them, or she wouldn't even know how she "died."

For this reason, every day before leaving the house, she would chant "Amitabha" all the way, just praying for the Bodhisattva to bless her so she wouldn't run into those two again!

She was truly afraid that before she finished her internship, her blood vessels would burst and be ruined by the affairs of that pair of gay friends!

However, this life...

It's always the good things that don't come true, and the bad things that do!

The more you fear something, the more likely you are to encounter it...

The surface looks calm and tranquil, but in reality, it hides surging undercurrents!

This piece of wisdom would soon be vividly demonstrated in Zhou Xiaoru's life!

The early bird catches the worm...

But she forgot the second half of this saying!

The early worm gets eaten by the bird!

And she was... that worm!

Not long after, the sound of hurried high heels rang out outside the office.

Personnel Department assistant Ada ran hurriedly to Zhou Xiaoru and the others' office.

Seeing the panting person, Zhou Xiaoru greeted her, "Morning, Ada."

As soon as she saw someone in the office, Ada said, "Thank heavens, I thought no one had arrived yet. Xiaoru, could you do me a favor?"

Seeing her anxious face, the warm-hearted Miss Zhou didn't even think about it and quickly got up from her seat and walked over.

"What is it? Tell me."

"I was in a rush when I came up just now and left a document in my car. I need to go to the Finance Department to reconcile accounts right now, and there's a morning meeting in twenty minutes. I don't have time to go get it. Could you help me go to the underground parking lot and get the document from my car?"

As she spoke, she had already handed over the car keys in her hand...

When Zhou Xiaoru heard that she was asked to get a document from the car and was even given the car keys, what a great trust this was to her!

She took the keys and said obligingly, "Okay! I'll go get it for you!"

"Thank you. My car is red, it's very easy to find. The document is in a bag on the passenger seat, just bring the bag over."

"Okay, don't worry, go do your work, I'll bring it to you once I have it."

"En, once you get it, send it directly to the conference room on the seventeenth floor."

"Okay."

Zhou Xiaoru took her phone and, without delaying for a moment, quickly took the elevator down to the underground parking lot on the first basement level...

Today was Friday, and Tengyuan Company held a routine morning meeting every such day to report on the week's work.

The people attending this meeting were all senior executives from various departments of the company; grassroots employees like Zhou Xiaoru naturally didn't need to attend.

Soon, she went down to the first basement level...

In the spacious parking lot,

It was quiet...

The underground parking lot,

In movies or TV dramas, is a place of god-like existence...

For example,

In horror movies, a female ghost will definitely appear here.

In action movies, a fierce gunfight will definitely happen here.

In idol dramas, perhaps a scene of a domineering CEO chasing after Cinderella will play out here.

And in romantic life ethics films, this place is not just the ultimate venue for beautiful encounters, couples kissing, or husbands and wives arguing...

It is also...

The best place for an affair!

In short, here...

Anything is possible!

Zhou Xiaoru stood at the elevator entrance, first observing for a while...

This place was truly cold enough; she was wearing a knitted sweater today, with thermal underwear added underneath, yet she still couldn't help but shiver from the cold.

In two more days, it would be the Qingming Festival; wouldn't a female ghost in white suddenly pop out from somewhere!

Uncontrollably, she rubbed her arms, which were feeling a bit daunted, and cautiously stepped out...

While walking, she muttered to herself, hoping she wouldn't run into some executive having an affair here instead of running into a ghost.

Her eyeballs darted around, looking left and right, looking just like a QQ icon coming online.

Suddenly, she stopped in her tracks! She slapped her own head hard!

She really was scatterbrained; how could she have forgotten the main task!

She had come to help Ada get the documents, and now it felt like she was playing Tomb Raider.

She hurriedly started looking around for Ada's red sedan, and finally, after searching for several minutes, she found that red Chery QQ...

Meanwhile, at the entrance of the parking lot, two shiny luxury cars, one black and one blue, drove in one after the other.

As soon as Zhou Xiaoru heard the sound of the cars, the alarm bells in her head rang loudly!

It couldn't be such a coincidence! Could she be that unlucky! Why did she have such an ominous premonition!

She comforted herself in her heart that it was absolutely, definitely impossible; she had specifically checked her horoscope this morning.

Five stars for work luck today, five stars for wealth luck, five stars for love luck...

With a strong comprehensive index of fifteen stars, it shouldn't be such a coincidence that she would run into that pair of "gay friends" again...

But she had forgotten that her health luck was only...

One star!

No matter how strong the other luck indices were, they couldn't compensate for that missing health!

What is most important in life!

Of course, physical health is the most important!

A few minutes later, Miss Zhou would thoroughly understand the profound meaning of this sentence!

She hurriedly took the document bag from the passenger seat and closed the car door...

Seeing the two cars slowly approaching not far away, Zhou Xiaoru's first thought was...

If only she had a turtle shell, how great that would be; she would shrink into the shell without hesitation and with peace of mind, and never come out!

Subconsciously, she immediately crouched down and hid beside the car!

In Zhou Xiaoru's eyes, these two cars were a hundred times more terrifying than a female ghost!

How lucky she was! She had been working for less than two weeks, and she had already ridden in the cars of the company's two big bosses!

Heaven really was "not thin" on her!

She cursed, "Damn! How could I run into them like this?!"

This was truly more "dog-shit" than having dog-shit luck; she could run into these two anywhere—should she go buy a lottery ticket!

With a "whoosh," she felt her blood pressure skyrocketing!

Holding her breath, crouching in the gap between the two cars, her ears were pricked up, and her attention was highly focused!

It seemed she could only come out after those two left.

She had to hold it in! Hang on! Persist!

She listened quietly as the two cars turned off their engines, followed by the sound of car doors closing.

At this moment, the two cars were parked not far in front of the row of cars where Zhou Xiaoru was...

Just then, a man's voice came over. (Su Poyang's)

"Yanyan, it seems like it's been a while since I've seen little Ruru," it really felt a bit boring.

Little Ruru?!

Upon hearing this form of address, the person hiding not far away almost burst out cursing!

At this time, another pleasant man's voice came over. (Gu Liyan's)

"What are you trying to do again? Don't always tease her."

"Oh? Are you feeling sorry for her?"

"Su Poyang!"

"Alright, alright, don't be angry. I'm only paying special attention to your ex-girlfriend because of you, aren't I?"

"You will only make her misunderstand more and more by doing this."

"What misunderstanding? She didn't misunderstand; I've always cared about you the most."

Gu Liyan was truly speechless at this moment, thinking of that girl from last week and her nonsensical words; he wanted to laugh every time he thought of it.

Supor Dianfan Guo? To think she could actually come up with that...

Thinking about it, it seemed he hadn't seen her since he took her home last time...

Gu Liyan knew that Zhou Xiaoru must be deliberately avoiding them.

And in Su Poyang's eyes, his cold cousin was also getting on in years and still hadn't found a partner.

Unlike him, he never had a dry spell, and he had never lacked a girlfriend.

He felt that Zhou Xiaoru was excellent! She was a perfect match for his unromantic, repressed cousin!

It's been a while since I last saw that little white rabbit; is it time for him to find another opportunity for these two...

Gu Liyan looked at the person with a smug expression on their face and couldn't help but narrow his eyes...

"What are you plotting again!"

Su Poyang snapped back to reality and hurriedly changed the subject, "Right, there are some issues with the data in the document you gave me yesterday. Let's discuss it in a bit, and I'll bring you the jacket you left at my place yesterday while I'm at it."

"Fine."

On the other side, the person still crouching didn't dare to move at all; just a moment ago she was shivering from the cold, but now she was sweating buckets from the heat!

Zhou Xiaoru felt as if this clothing had thorns on it, pricking her until she felt uncomfortable all over...

Can these two go somewhere else to chat? Her legs had gone numb from crouching!

She muttered in her heart, "Scumbag Gu! You're still sleeping with him! Don't you know you've been cheated on a long time ago? And it's that kind of emerald green! Green enough to shine and glow! Green enough to make your heart panic!"

Truly pitiful, sad, and lamentable!!!

But before she could finish lamenting for Gu Liyan, the very next second, she found herself in a situation worthy of a tragic song and tearful story!