Qinyang arrived at the supermarket quite late. She quickly made her way through the aisles to get all that she needed for her sukiyaki. She strolled through the meat section to look for her favorite cut of beef for the meal.
‘Hmm... What should I get? The strips or tendons?’
Her greedy heart told her to take both and she did.
Meanwhile, a man not too far from Qinyang had entered the supermarket a few minutes after her.
Fengyuan looked around to see what he could buy for the starving wolf. He didn't want to cook for him because he felt rather lazy, so he settled on purchasing him some frozen pizza.
As Qinyang turned around to head towards the cashier, she noticed a man standing at the precooked food section for quite a long time. That carefree and bright presence he carried had been hard to ignore when he walked in after her earlier. Out of curiosity, she walked towards him and saw that he was having a hard time choosing between the Hawaiian chicken and triple cheese pizza options.
Qinyang's presence seemed as if it had appeared out of nowhere, surprising the man on the spot. She smiled and pointed at the box on the left.
"This one tastes better. It was released a few months ago and it’s much better than the triple cheese one."
As she spoke, her light, vanilla scent wafted towards Fengyuan’s nose. Her fair skin was as white as a swan’s feathers, and her eyes were as beautiful and deep as the ocean. He could have sworn he was witnessing a real-life angel with her hair draped over her shoulder like that.
‘She is a beauty…’
Fengyuan grabbed the box on the left as he bowed and joked to her in gratitude.
"Thank you. If it weren’t for you, I’d have been stuck here till tomorrow without any pizza."
Qinyang chuckled, "No problem."
Her smile struck the man's heart.
Qinyang observed the man, who was wearing a business suit.
Assuming he had just come from work, Qinyang added, "Sir, even though it is late at night, you shouldn't eat unhealthy food."
‘She must really be a goddess. I must ask her name.’
Caught in his own thoughts, he didn’t hear what she said.
Before he could ask, a sudden announcement sounded from the speaker: “Dear customers, the store will be closing in 10 minutes. Please make your way to the nearest counter to complete your purchase. Thank you."
Qinyang’s eyes widened. She started jogging in place.
"Oh no! I haven't grabbed the cabbage yet,” she called as she rushed off to the produce section, “Goodbye, it was nice talking to you!"
Watching her beautiful figure disappear from his vision, Fengyuan sighed, for he had lost his chance to ask the goddess' name.
_________
The car door opened and Fengyuan plopped down upon the seat. Without even looking, he could sense that the person beside him was irritated. The temperature in the car had dropped not because of the air conditioner but because of the cold aura emanating from the other person. Junting was glaring at him for being so slow.
Fengyuan faked a laugh, feeling the chill through his blazer, "I didn't know what to pick."
He glanced at the rearview mirror, signaling with his pupils at Driver Chen to start moving.
Feng Yuan tried to calm the icy wolf down, "I managed to pick a good pizza. A woman recommended it, and she was so damn pretty! Like a goddess! I didn't manage to ask her name, though..."
Junting wasn't listening to the man's nonsense because he wasn't in the mood. He stared out of the window, and without knowing it his eyes became fixated on the supermarket's entrance.
A woman walked out the door carrying her groceries. Lee Junting stared at the woman for a while.
'
She looks familiar... Like her... Impossible... I looked for 7 years to find her.
' Squinting his eyes to get a clearer view, the temperature in the car began to warm up again and the glass became foggy as he thought of her. The car started moving and the figure of the woman became blurry.
Fengyuan heaved a sigh of relief and tried to peek at the man beside him. He noticed
Junting was distracted by something.
"Is there something interesting outside?"
Junting closed his eyes as thoughts of the woman he had been searching for appeared in his mind again.
“Nothing,” he said.
'Where are you?'