For something to happen, it does not have to have a result to be considered as happening.
Just like the time when the prey is not aware of the hunter's approach before being captured by the hunter. Something that seemed to have a predetermined outcome has already happened.
——If there are no surprises.
The 30th day of the twelfth lunar month. Yunling got a bad divination at a fortune-telling stall.
Someone told her not to worry, because there will be noble people to help her.
She didn't really believe in divination, and she wasn't sure who this noble person was.
But not long after that. She did meet someone who changed the course of her life.
In other words, she had already encountered it before that.