Chapter 497: Chapter 494: Top Student
With Zhang Hao’s assurance, He Qianhui didn’t press him with questions anymore.
"Hao, I made your favorite sweet and sour ribs today, and steamed fish, and I even bought a roast chicken for you."
All these dishes were Zhang Hao’s favorites and were also what He Qianhui was best at cooking.
Over the phone, Zhang Hao kept thanking her, but He Qianhui couldn’t handle his enthusiasm.
"Alright, alright, no need to thank me anymore. If you keep it up, there won’t be enough time to cook, you go on with your work."
After hanging up the phone, He Qianhui thought that there was plenty of time left, so she wasn’t in a hurry to start cooking.
Instead, she first went back to the living room, turned on the TV, and pulled out the yoga mat that had been gathering dust for half a year.
She started doing workout exercises along with the fitness expert on the TV.
By six-thirty, He Qianhui was sweating profusely and hurried into the kitchen to cook dinner.
At eight-thirty sharp, as soon as she heard the sound of the door, He Qianhui quickly reached for the spatula and came out.
As expected, she saw Zhang Hao had arrived.
"You’re really punctual, said you’d be back at thirty past and here you are at thirty past, not a second off."
Zhang Hao glanced at the clock on the wall and said with a smile, "Of course, everything is under my control, is dinner ready or do you need my help?"
To this, He Qianhui shook her head, "You don’t need to help, but you can go rest for a bit, dinner will be ready soon."
When He Qianhui said dinner would be ready soon, Zhang Hao had actually already smelled the aroma of the food.
"Good, I’ll give your cooking a proper tasting in a bit."
He Qianhui snorted, thinking to herself, did her cooking even need a tasting? It was an unquestionable success.
But since he had said so, He Qianhui felt she still needed to have some confidence in her culinary skills.
"Listen to how you talk, as if my cooking has gone bad or something?" He Qianhui countered.
Seeing her displeasure, Zhang Hao quickly changed his tune, "No, no, I didn’t mean that, I trust your cooking, but as the saying goes, even a horse trips, what if the sweet and sour ribs aren’t as good as before?"
Tired of his rambling, He Qianhui quickly pushed him into the bathroom, telling him to hurry up and shower so they could eat afterward.
Zhang Hao was pushed into the bathroom, and before he could say anything, He Qianhui had already brought him his change of clothes: "Come out when you’re clean."
Seeing this, Zhang Hao didn’t want to say anything else, so he obediently went to shower as arranged by He Qianhui.
Indeed, after a busy day and another meeting, he felt uncomfortable even to himself because of all the sweat.
He couldn’t blame He Qianhui for despising him, and while changing clothes, Zhang Hao still didn’t forget to chatter with her.
"Guess who I ran into when I was coming up today?"
He Qianhui, busy in the kitchen, couldn’t quite hear what he was saying but responded intermittently.
"Who else could you have seen? Our female neighbor again?"
At this point, Zhang Hao opened the bathroom door, "No, it wasn’t her, this time it was that old lady with the white hair."
He Qianhui was indifferent, "So what if you saw her? Did she say anything to you?"
"She didn’t really say anything, just mentioned you," Zhang Hao said.
Upon hearing this, He Qianhui immediately came to the outside of the bathroom door, "Mentioned me, mentioned what about me?"
"Mentioned that you moved back to live, or said that you found a new boyfriend, but I think..."
"That aunt knew so much about this, it must have something to do with you, right?"
By this time, the food in the pot was ready, just waiting for Zhang Hao to finish his shower and come out to eat.
So He Qianhui didn’t need to keep watching in the kitchen and simply stood at the bathroom door.
Chatting with him in a half-interested manner, "Yeah, I told her about it, did you also say something to her?"
Zhang Hao shook his head at the air in front of him, "What could I possibly chat with her about? I just responded when she brought it up, saying ’she is my girlfriend.’"
"Then that aunt acted as if she had heard some shocking news, asking questions left and right."
"She even told me she had originally planned to introduce someone to you, but then heard you already had a new person."
"So she had to drop that idea. Did you not tell that aunt that I am your significant other?"
He Qianhui opened the bathroom door, leaning on the doorframe, "I didn’t tell her, after all, you weren’t living here before, and even if I said it, she might not know who you are."
"But maybe it’s just a coincidence that she ran into both you and me."
"If I just unilaterally said I had someone, that aunt might not have taken it seriously."
"But with your own confirmation, the matter is now set in stone, and I don’t need to say much more in front of her."
"Sometimes I really wonder what these aunts are after, why they love meddling in other people’s affairs so much."
Zhang Hao picked up the thread, "If I remember correctly, that aunt has a grandson, about my age."
"Nowadays, to find a suitable match for their grandchild, they really don’t consider much."
He Qianhui caught the underlying meaning in Zhang Hao’s words and quickly inquired.
"What do you mean by that, ’don’t consider much’? Am I the kind of person that requires a lot of consideration for a man to marry?"
Zhang Hao realized his words were not quite right and quickly corrected himself, "That’s not what I meant. Her grandson, I heard, is quite the scholar."
"However, his academic career didn’t pan out, and he ended up delivering food."
"I heard he graduated from a prestigious university and had the option to study abroad during his sophomore year."
"But his parents felt that their son should graduate early and start earning money for the family."
"Such a talented person, just wasted like that. It’s clear he could have had the opportunity to make a salary of a million a year; now even a hundred thousand a year is too much to ask for."
He Qianhui chuckled, "How do you know all this? Did you go around gathering gossip before you came back?"
Zhang Hao did not deny it, "Maybe I am just a bit luckier than you. When I came back, I happened to run into the aunt’s grandson, wearing his uniform."
"If you didn’t know me and weren’t with me, would you consider getting in touch with that aunt’s grandson?"
Seeing that Zhang Hao’s bath was only halfway done, He Qianhui immediately went in and turned off the water.
Zhang Hao, covered in bubbles of shower gel, urged He Qianhui to quickly turn the water back on.
With one hand on the switch, He Qianhui looked at him, "So according to you, you hope I get together with that aunt’s grandson?"
"You said he’s young and a scholar, although this scholar hasn’t shown his capabilities, maybe all he needs is an opportunity."
"What if I could provide him that opportunity? Maybe then he could also rise quickly. I could go talk to that aunt right now and tell her I’ve broken up with you."
As He Qianhui said this, Zhang Hao quickly apologized, "No, no, even if he’s a scholar, he’s already in his twenties."
"What opportunity could he have now? Besides, even if there are opportunities, his talents might not be appreciated. Just stick with me, I’m your real potential stock."
