Meeting You Was Fate

With Nathan and Adrian, she had a complete life, and it was this simple happiness that made Mandy understand what family
meant.
The next morning, Adrian, Mandy, and Nathan were having breakfast in the yard. A fresh breeze was gently blowing outside. It
was already late autumn, the most comfortable time of the year. Mandy had always felt fresh in autumn.
Mandy recently found a healthcare porridge recipe online. It was made up of more than ten kinds of grains as well as black
beans, red beans, and millet.
According to the article, she read online, eating this kind of porridge could help maintain one's vitality and beauty and clear toxins
from the body. Today, she prepared it for her husband and her son for breakfast. They were enjoying it together.
She especially told Lillian to go to the supermarket to buy the grains. Lillian bought a huge bag of them. Two days into eating the
healthcare porridge, Mandy liked it very much, but later on, she felt sick of it and did not want to eat it anymore.
Nathan made fun of her for not being able to persist. Because she did not want her husband to look down on her for not being
consistent, she decided to "endure" and just eat the porridge.
Truth be told, Mandy did not really like eating the porridge. It did not really have any taste.
Nathan was reading the paper while eating wonton from his bowl. The wonton's aroma floated in the air and filled Mandy's nose.
Mandy pursed her lips and stared at the large bowl of porridge in front of her. She found it really hard to swallow, so she moved
her eyes and looked at Nathan's bowl.
Nathan suddenly smirked. He looked at Mandy, who looked distressed, and said, "Since the porridge tastes awful, why don't you
just give up and have some wonton with me?"
A flicker of hesitation flashed in Mandy's eyes, but after a few seconds, she said resolutely, "No. It tastes bad, but it can help
maintain my beauty and keep me looking young. The grains are definitely good for my health."
"Mom, why are you being so hard on yourself?" Adrian was eating steamed buns. The savory smell of the meat floated in the air
as well, which Mandy found very tempting.
Mandy was starting to get pissed off at her husband and son. They ate the porridge with her for a week, but after that, they
changed their minds. No matter how much Mandy asked them or even threatened them, they refused to eat another spoonful of

the healthcare porridge.
On several occasions, Mandy went into the kitchen and saw the huge pot of grain. She thought, 'This should be enough for me
to eat for a year.'
"Adrian, do you want to grow taller? Do you want to become more handsome?" Mandy put down the spoon in her hand and
looked at her son with a friendly smile.
Adrian was a frank boy. He nodded and said with bright eyes, "Of course. I want to be as tall and handsome as my father when I
grow up."
"Then you have to eat the porridge with me. You will become as handsome as your father if you eat the porridge," Mandy said
with an evil smile.
Adrian pouted his lips and turned to look at his father. He asked, "Dad, is that true?"
"Yes, it's true. I also ate it when I was a kid," Nathan said after Mandy winked at him.
Adrian paused for a few seconds, trying to point out in his mind what he felt was wrong.
"Well... But the porridge doesn't have any taste. I don't want to eat it," Adrian said, almost complaining.
Hearing what he said, Mandy became angry. She stared at Nathan coldly and said in a complaining tone, "This is all your fault.
You don't want to eat the porridge, and now your son follows you. You have set a bad example."
Nathan laughed and hurried to calm Mandy down. He lowered his voice and said, "Okay, okay, it's my fault. I will have the
porridge with you tomorrow, okay? Adrian, you have to have the porridge with Mom and Dad tomorrow, too, okay?"
Hearing that, Adrian lowered his head and began to eat his steamed buns in silence. He could do nothing but yield to Mandy,
who was the boss in the family. Nathan always listened to her and obeyed her.
Nathan thought, 'Thank goodness we don't have a dog. If we did, it would be more important than me in this family.'
"Are you done, Adrian? It's time to go to school," Mandy asked with a smile, noticing that Adrian had finished his food.
"Yes," Adrian answered.

Mandy was sitting in her office after lunch. Nathan held a high-level meeting at JS International. She did not go to the meeting
because what he was going to talk about had nothing to do with her.
Milla called Mandy to complain to her.
Mandy was happy to receive a phone call from Milla. They had been good friends since she met her in City B. They chatted
every now and then on WeChat and sometimes caught up through video calls.
"Mandy," Milla started as she slumped onto the sofa with a tablet in her hand. "Are you free right now? Can we chat for a while?"
"Yes, I'm free. What's up?" Mandy lounged on her office sofa, gazing at the exquisitely decorated, pattern-engraved ceiling, lost
in thought.
"I've been thinking about divorcing Leo, but the bastard won't agree," Milla grumbled.
With a slight frown, Mandy smirked and said, "Milla, you don't know how lucky you are. Look at how nice Leo is to you. He works
hard every day, and you don't need to go to work. Do you have any idea how many women are jealous of you right now? You
should be content."
"He doesn't love me. Why won't he divorce me? He has another woman in his heart, and I want to set him free. Since he misses
that woman so much, why doesn't he just stay with her?" Milla felt very sad, although she smiled bitterly.
"Women are sensitive, while men are much more hardhearted. If a man says he doesn't love a woman, it means that he doesn't
love her at all. Even if what you said is true, that woman is already in Leo's past. He wouldn't have fought to keep you if he didn't
love you," Mandy reasoned. As the saying goes, onlookers see most of the game.
Although Mandy did not know Leo very well, she could tell that he was a nice man who was polite to people. She could totally
understand what Milla was worried about. She once doubted Nathan as well. Women always became very cautious after finding
the love of their lives.
"I really don't understand why that man wants to keep me around. He really is highly intelligent and adept in scheming. I can't win
against him."