The Three-Life Stone

After returning to the city, Yu Le went to school, while Yu Zhaozhao continued to go to work and home, occasionally going to and from work with Shen Xingzhi.

One day at five in the morning, Yu Zhaozhao got up and jogged to the park, and Shen Xingzhi ran towards her.

"Why did you get up so early today?"

"After spending a few days in the countryside last year, I got used to going to bed early and getting up early."

The two ran around the park and came to the breakfast stall and ordered two bowls of fried noodles.

The plain white noodles are stir-fried with eggs, greens, onions and ham. After adding soy sauce, the whole thing becomes golden. It is delicious and inexpensive.

During the break from the fried noodles, the two went to the stall next to them and bought two cups of soy milk. Shen Xingzhi handed the soy milk to Yu Zhaozhao and asked, "What are your plans for today's break?"

Yu Zhaozhao would take two or three days out of her week to jog. When she was on vacation, she would choose to take a shower after running in the morning to start a day full of energy. However, she had just gone out to play at the beginning of the month, so Yu Zhaozhao didn't have anything special in mind for this vacation. She frowned slightly and said, "I should just clean the house."

"Then come to X Group and wait for me. I would like Miss Yu to give me a private lesson later."

Yu Zhaozhao half-jokingly said, "Why, you want me to go to work even though I'm on vacation?"

"Where? I don't dare to ask Miss Yu to work overtime. I just want to see if Miss Yu is professional." Shen Xingzhi raised his eyebrows and smiled evilly.

After breakfast, Shen Xingzhi followed Yu Zhaozhao back to the community, changed clothes, and went to X Group. Yu Zhaozhao picked up Shen Xingzhi's clothes and put them to the tip of his nose and smelled them. The smell of men's perfume and a faint smell of shower gel filled his nose, and Yu Zhaozhao's face turned a little red.

She cleaned the room, living room, kitchen and other places before taking a shower. She put her changed clothes and Shen Xingzhi's clothes in a basin. This feeling was a little unreal, as if he was just getting along with her in an ordinary way, and everything was so real and yet so unreal.

After soaking the clothes in soap powder, Yu Zhaozhao returned to the living room and turned on the TV "The End of Ten Days". It was said that this was adapted from a novel and became popular on the Internet from 2023 to 2025. Qie Shizili had more than three million readers, and a movie was filmed in the next two years. Some people even read the novel twice to keep it on the hot list.

It was remade into a TV and animation two years ago, but she hasn't had the time to watch it properly.

Take the watermelon out of the refrigerator, cut it in half, put half in the refrigerator, and put the other half on the table, and scoop it out one spoonful at a time.

It starts with an old tungsten filament lamp. Ten young people wake up one after another in that sealed and old environment. Then a man wearing a goat head mask smashes the skull of a handsome and cool young man. Blood splatters and brains flow out. Yu Zhaozhao glances at the watermelon in his hand and sees three or two white watermelon seeds.

——It still tastes delicious.

Sweet watermelon, light fragrance, and scorching sun, what a fresh picture.

There was wind blowing in from both sides. I was eating my favorite food and watching the TV adaptation of a novel I had followed. I glanced at the time. It was one o'clock!

The time watching TV passed quickly. Yu Zhaozhao cooked pasta, coated it with tomato sauce and went back to the TV. What she saw was a man in a red cloak appearing in the air, gently looking at a girl wearing a mouse mask. The next second, the picture was so beautiful.

Even though it was obvious that it was a close-up shot with a borrowed angle and the scene arranged, the red picture, the darkness that filled the sky of the end of the world, Yu Zhaozhao looked at the ketchup in the bowl and smacked his lips.

I finished the noodles in no time and went to the balcony to wash clothes. The show was good, but it was not suitable to watch while eating Dingxi.

The wind from the window blew Yu Zhaozhao's hair, and the slightly wet hair was gradually dried by the wind.

Shen Xingzhi likes to smell like men's perfume, and Yu Zhaozhao likes clothes to smell like soap. Now when they wash their clothes together, Yu Zhaozhao's clothes smell like men's perfume, and Shen Xingzhi's clothes smell like the soap that Yu Zhaozhao usually uses...

The clothes were hung above the balcony. When the wind blew, the whole house was filled with the scent of soap powder. Yu Zhaozhao was in a good mood. She changed her skirt, put on her clothes, and took a taxi to X Group.

Yu Zhaozhao had never been to X Group. After sending the message to Shen Xingzhi, she sat in the waiting area on the first floor lobby, watching short videos on her phone and waiting quietly.

A woman wearing high heels and a decent hip skirt came to where Yu Zhaozhao was. Her name tag read "Receptionist Zhou Yi": "Hello, ma'am. Do you have an appointment with anyone?"

Yu Zhaozhao said without hesitation: "Yes."

"Excuse me, who did you make an appointment with? I'll help you contact them."

"Shen Xingzhi."

Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment and his expression changed slightly: "Please wait a moment."

Yu Zhaozhao didn't think too much about it and just responded to the staff's normal greetings.

Not long after Zhou Yi finished talking on the phone, another woman with light makeup, bright red lips and big wavy hair came down. Zhou Yi called out "Sister Ting" and stepped aside. Sister Ting nodded and stopped at Yu Zhaozhao: "Are you looking for Mr. Shen?"

Yu Zhaozhao was a little uncertain: "Shen Xingzhi...Mr. Shen?"

"If you are here to seek cooperation with our President Shen, we can still have a good talk, but if you have other thoughts, please go back this way." The woman was domineering.

"I'm sorry, Shen Xingzhi asked me to wait here. You don't have to worry about me. I'm just sitting here and it won't have any impact."

Cai Ting looked at Yu Zhaozhao and determined that she was not a client she had seen before. She only knew Shen Xingzhi's name and didn't know anything else. She might be an admirer. She became bolder and said in a sarcastic tone, "Miss, I'm talking to you here to give you face. It's not good for you to stay like this."

Yu Zhaozhao looked innocent and speechless: "This is a public reception area. First, as a customer or employee's family member, I am waiting for someone here normally. Second, I didn't do anything unusual."

"If you were a client, we would respect you, but since you directly mentioned Mr. Shen's name at the beginning and didn't say anything else, it's hard for us not to doubt your motives."

"With so many of you wasting time here, why don't you just let me sit here quietly? We'll know what's going on in a while. What else can I do alone? At most I'll sit here for a while and then leave!"

Seeing that the woman was still trying to get more aggressive, Yu Zhaozhao took out his cell phone and showed Cai Ting Shen Xingzhi's WeChat, which displayed the two most recent messages.

Yu Zhaozhao: I’m here and sitting in the lobby.

Shen Xingzhi: It will be fine in a moment. Thank you for your hard work.

Cai Ting didn't know that the man had Shen Xingzhi's personal WeChat, so she felt guilty. But the next second, she was annoyed. After all, she was the young and beautiful one, and any discerning person would have made a wise choice. She looked at Yu Zhaozhao provocatively with a bit of contempt in her tone: "Why, do you want to say...you are Mr. Shen's girlfriend?"

What is inferiority complex? It is a beast that can devour everything you have, making you timid and cowardly, and making you feel that the things you were proud of the last moment are worthless the next moment.

For some people, inferiority complex is ingrained in their bones, because the slightest sign of it can pop up and swallow you whole.

So when faced with Cai Ting's ridicule, Yu Zhaozhao's first reaction was to escape.

She suppressed her emotions between breaths: Shen Xingzhi, it was you who chose me, it was you who pursued me, it was you who affirmed me, and it was you who asked me to come here. Although we haven't spent much time together in the past few years, I believe you won't waste time lying to me, so even if you are a president, I am still your girlfriend.

After giving it a psychological hint, Yu Zhaozhao felt Cai Ting's hostility, which was the hostility between the same sex. Sure enough, he discovered more when he calmed down.

Yu Zhaozhao dialed Shen Xingzhi's number and responded to the woman boldly, "Yes, I am indeed Shen Xingzhi's girlfriend. As for whether he is the same person as your Mr. Shen, I don't know."

The woman's ridicule continued, but Yu Zhaozhao had already put the phone to her ear: "Did you hear that?"

Shen Xingzhi hummed softly.

"What do you think? Am I right?" Yu Zhaozhao listened quietly to the voice on the other end of the microphone, regardless of the woman saying things like she was shameless behind her back.

"Sorry, I'll be there soon."

Yu Zhaozhao didn't know what Shen Xingzhi meant specifically. She straightened her back, took a deep breath, and looked at the woman. "Shen Xingzhi will be here soon. If he says that I'm not worthy, I will leave by myself instead of you saying it a hundred times here."

Yu Zhaozhao was very stubborn. No matter what the situation was, she wanted to hear what Shen Xingzhi said with her own ears. If he was really just interested, then she would give him freedom instead of using this method to make her back down.

Being together is sudden, if we separate...

If we break up, it doesn't seem to be a big deal. People won't be together for a lifetime, but it's just a breakup in advance. It's enough to have so many happy times.