Chapter 35 (1/2)

Chapter 35: Home-Wrecker

Just by looking at the crystal clear rice grains in the other customer’s bowl, and comparing it with the greasy rice grains in his own bowl, he knew right away that his Egg Fried Rice had too much oil. There was even a thick layer of it pooling at the bottom of the plate, beneath the rice.

The eggs and rice were fairly scattered, while some still stuck together in clumps and were not properly spread out. There were very rice grains that were perfectly wrapped by the eggs. Furthermore, it even had a slight taste of MSG.

This is what one would call the difference between heaven and earth.

Regarding the seaweed soup, it was too sad to even mention it. Apart from the turbid soup, the seaweeds inside were diced into tiny pieces. It looked like plain water with scattered pieces of low quality seaweed, the ones that cost 1 RMB for 1 kilogram. Having gotten used to the superb seaweed soup in Yuan Zhou’s restaurant, Wu Zhou could taste the strong flavor of bleaching powder in the soup, which made it difficult for him to swallow.

The pickled radish had been mixed with black pepper oil, sugar and MSG. Previously, Wu Zhou felt it tasted pretty good, but now it almost made him throw up. He couldn’t taste any bit of the delicate flavor from the radish due to the offensive combination of inferior seasoning oil, too much sugar and strong taste of MSG.

One should never compare, for comparing will only cause pain.

Wu Zhou wept in his heart. He kept hypnotizing himself, forcing himself to believe that what he was eating was the Egg Fried Rice cooked by Yuan Zhou. However, the more he imagined, the more he recalled the former flavor. When he returned to reality, the formerly decent taste instantly became hard to swallow.

Having gotten back to his room, he put down the briefcase and collapse on his bed. Then, he slept like that until the next day.

“Dong Dong Dong”

While Wu Zhou was well asleep, a knock on the door woke him up.

“God, my girlfriend is here. I haven’t even changed my clothes.”

He changed into pajamas in a hurry and pretended that he just got up. Then he went to open the door.

“Hey, there you arrive. Have you had breakfast?”

There stood a short-haired, slim and delicate featured girl dressed in a white one-piece dress. She was Zhuang Xinmu, the girlfriend of Wu Zhou.

“You stayed up late last night? It’s already ten. I guess you must have worked overtime again last night. You didn’t even give me a call,” The short-haired girl looked at Wu Zhou and showed him the breakfast bag in her hand, then she started question him..

“No, no. We got off work earlier than usual yesterday.” Wu Zhou never lied to his girlfriend.

“Then why do you look so tired?” Zhuang Xinmu looked at Wu Zhou doubtfully and went up to the table in the living room, placing the breakfast there.

“It’s all because I have been working too hard these days and fell asleep once I got home last night. Next time, I will definitely call you first. Let me go wash up.” Scratching his head, Wu Zhou rushed into the bathroom quickly.

The apartment was close to the city highways, thus the rent wasn’t expensive since it was not near the city center. Considering that his girlfriend would come by every week, Wu Zhou had rented a suite for convenience, and also because they wouldn’t be disturbed. Small as the apartment was, it had everything necessary.

“Ah, this guy!!!”

While saying that, she started to tidy up the rooms.

As a young man who had a girlfriend, Wu Zhou naturally didn’t wash his clothes even though he had a washing machine. Zhuang Xinmu was now looking for his dirty laundry in the rooms and sorting them into categories. She then put them all into the washing machine.

Since breakfast was still placed on the table, it was not the right time to sweep the floor. So she just picked up all the litter scattered across the floor and cleared away the stuffs on the sofa as well. It was then when Wu Zhou came out from the bathroom.

“Come have breakfast,” Zhuang Xinmu called him.

“Ummmm”

“Thanks, sweetheart.” Wu Zhou went up and kissed on Zhuang Xinmu’s cheeks in a flattering manner.

“Ok, ok. Eat now. Otherwise, it will be late.”