You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 157 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 157 Part 2 

As Tong Yao was holding the door knob to her room, she was still debating whether she should let her son reunite with Lu Sicheng in order for the TV drama to have a happy ending. The leading male character in her drama was still soundly sleeping and had just rolled over in her bed.

Tong Yao pushed the door open and went in. She walked over to the bed and sat down right next to the man.

Lu Sicheng semi-consciously felt the bed sink down a bit right next to him but didn’t fully wake up. He reached over to hold her hand-- --The warmth in his thick palm softened her heart and she had decided on the spot that the drama should have a happy ending. She shouldn’t be so harsh……

Tong Yao slipped down from the bed and sat on the rug next to the bed with her hand still in Lu Sicheng’s. She placed her chin on the edge of the bed and stared at his handsome face for a while. Then she called his name.

Lu Sicheng wasn’t in a deep sleep and humphed when he heard his name being called.

Tong Yao thought for a moment before saying: “Captain, I might be pregnant.”

Lu Sicheng’s closed eyes immediately opened.

The dark brown pupils met with the pair of black eyes next to the bed for a few seconds. The expression in his eyes changed from shock to perplexity then dumbstruck in a short period of time-- --After a while, under Tong Yao’s nervous gaze, he nodded and spoke with a deep and hoarse voice: “That’s a much better original excuse than others before. Compared to the one a few days ago when you said you had broken the summer championship cup, this one is more refreshing.”

Tong Yao: “......”

In the past few days, she was so bored that she had made up different excuses to make Lu Sicheng get up and play with her. In a short ten minutes, Tong Yao once again had a profound realization of the meaning of “you get what you deserved.”

While she was still lost in her thoughts, Lu Sicheng yawned and pinched the tip of her nose: “I’ll get up in half an hour.”

He was going to roll over again-- --But before he could turn his body over, Tong Yao rashly pulled her hand out of his and used her two thin arms to force Lu Sicheng to turn his body back: “Don’t sleep! I mean it! My period is two days late! For the past five years, my period always comes in a thirty-day cycle every month and now it’s been late for two days! Lu Sicheng, get up-- --”

Before she finished, Lu Sicheng rolled over to sit up on the bed-- --She was half leaning against Lu Sicheng’s body at the time and the sudden movement almost flipped her back down to the ground. Fortunately, Lu Sicheng reached over with his long arm just in time to pick her up and set her down on the bed. He held her with the blanket in his arms and said next to her ears: “Say that again.”

He sounded quite calm.

Tong Yao wasn’t sure what his reaction would be and became flustered again.

“I know we always have protection, but we didn’t the first time. Aiyo, it actually probably was my fault, I had forgotten to take the pill that time. I know, I know, I know, you had bought the pill, but I simply forgot about taking it since you didn’t remind me later-- --By the time I remembered about it, it was already a few days later. I figured if there’s really a baby, it’s genes had already been decided by then. I was afraid you would nag me if you’d found out, so, so, so I just threw the pill away behind your back……”

As she was talking, she somehow felt a little guilty. Before she finished mumbling, Lu Sicheng had pulled her onto the bed which was still warm…… While Tong Yao was confused by his action, Lu Sicheng had gotten off the bed and was about to turn away. Suddenly he paused, bent over to cover her with the blanket, then turned around to walk away from the bed-- --

Tong Yao thought he was going to walk out of the room and her heart sank.

But the man was only turning to go into the bathroom.

Tong Yao was left by herself sitting on the warm bed and listening to the noise of water running in the bathroom. She was in a daze…...and felt a little at loss as well. All kinds of thoughts went through her head: She had heard that a pregnancy would make a woman silly for three years. If she became so clumsy that she couldn’t even farm properly, how could she bear the responsibility of saving Chinese esports? This was exactly like what they said of a general dying before reaching the grand objective. The Huns hadn’t been wiped out and Mulan got pregnant first. If people found out about this, wouldn’t they laugh their heads off?

No way, no way, it was simply unacceptable-- --

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 5 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 5 Part 3

Liu Mao’s voice interrupted her thoughts. Liu Mao had noticed where Ruan Yu’s eyes had landed and realized that he hadn’t been a proper “host”. He said: “Ah, let me introduce……”

The man on the sofa seemed to hesitate for a second, but he stood up and turned around.

Even though her heart had already told her, Ruan Yu finally froze in place when her eyes landed on the face of the man across from her. 

It was summertime and the room was air conditioned. Yet the blood throughout her body seemed to have surged up in an instant, she felt her body heat up and her head grow dizzy.

It was like the Three Gorges Dam had suddenly opened its floodgates; all she could hear in her ears was the sound the earth shaking.

The two locked eyes in the air. As if she had been burned by something, her hands let loose and the semi transparent file folder she was holding in her arms fell to the ground and all the papers inside scattered on the ground.

He had thin lips, flat eyebrows, and a deep set of eyes. It was that face.

Xu Huaisong?

How could he be Xu Huaisong?

The senior partner Liu Mao mentioned was Xu Huaisong?

Those questions jabbed at the bottom of her heart. Ruan Yu almost wanted to rub her eyes. Liu Mao moving to pick up the file folder brought her back to her senses. She hurriedly bent down and said in a daze: “Sorry…… Let me get them.”

Liu Mao too was quite baffled by the situation. He hadn’t even introduced the two to each other. What was going on with these two people?

Ruan Yu buried her head as she gathered her papers while randomly looking around. She glanced at the pair of polished shoes that were nearby. She seemed to feel the eyes of the man were lingering on the top of her head, it felt like it was boring through her head.

It shouldn’t be Xu Huaisong? Could it be that she was so into the story she was writing that she had mistaken this man for Xu Huaisong? 

Hadn’t he disappeared for eight years already?

She gathered all the papers and held them in her arms before straightening up with the hope that this man wasn’t Xu Huaisong after all. Liu Mao also straightened up and looked at the other two people with a confused look: “You two know each other?”

Xu Huaisong moved his eyes away from Ruan Yu and opened his mouth, about to say something. But before he could utter a word, he heard Ruan Yu rush to answer: “We don’t, we don’t……”

She seemed a little uncomfortable with the answer and cast her eyes downwards after saying so. She didn’t get to see the slightly raised eyebrows on Xu Huaisong’s face.

After a moment of silence, she, while looking down on the floor, heard him say: “En. We don’t know each other.”

Even the voice sounded very much like Xu Huaisong’s.

Ruan Yu felt like she was going to suffocate. Liu Mao was trying to smooth over the incredibly awkward atmosphere and smiled at Ruan Yu: “Then let me introduce him. This is the partner of our law firm, Xu Huaisong.”

Ruan Yu tugged the file folder in her arms tighter, raised her eyes, and nodded at the man in front of her: “How are you.”

Liu Mao introduced Ruan Yu next: “This is our client for the case, Miss Ruan.”

Xu Huaisong nodded: “How are you.”

Judging from the awkward interaction between the two, Liu Mao figured that they probably wouldn’t shake hands. Still puzzled, Liu Mao asked them to sit down instead. 

Ruan Yu walked towards the sofa with unsteady steps.

Actually, a few years ago, when she still had lingering feelings towards him, she had imagined that one day she would see him again-- --She pictured that they would meet at a street with falling flowers, or at an amusement park with a huge crowd, or at a beach where the sea meets the sky.

It should be romantic, gorgeous, and filled with wonderful colors.

It absolutely shouldn’t be like this.

She, a 26 year old “middle aged girl”, was casually wearing a white t-shirt and jeans while holding a stack of papers that contained all her fantasies about his body, and about his soul. Furthermore, she was about to proceed with a deep discussion on the legal issues with this man based on her fantasies.

It was too, too embarrassing.

As Ruan Yu was about to sit on the sofa, she suddenly straightened up. Both Xu Huaisong and Liu Mao, already seated, looked up at her.

Ruan Yu forced herself to calm down, tightened her hold on the file in her arms and looked down at them while speaking in no uncertain terms: “Both lawyers, as the saying goes, one should be lenient wherever it’s possible; with a little forbearance there will be calm and peace, take a little step back and you will have open seas and clear skies; better save one life than build a seven-story pagoda……”

Xu Huaisong’s eyebrows raised up again. The eyes behind his gold rim eyeglasses gradually became darker and darker but quickly returned to normal.

Ruan Yu braced herself as she timidly continued with her lie: “I mean, I suddenly don’t want to file a suit……”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 157 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 157 Part 1

Tong Yao immediately thought about the person who had caused her current trouble.

Instead of picking up the cell phone on the floor, she jumped down from the chair, intending to go to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife then go upstairs to look for the person who was still sleeping in her bed-- --It was already early September, the weather wasn’t as hot as it had been in the summer. Especially in the morning, it was a little damp and coolish. When her bare feet touched the cold floor, she suddenly remembered something. Her expression changed and she pulled her feet back up as she sat back down. Subconsciously, she avoided running around barefoot like she used to.

Then she was stunned by her own “subconsciousness.”

She kept the posture of her feet as she sat in the chair for quite a while. Tong Yao’s face turned from pale to blue then to red. Her feet eventually landed on her slippers. She put her feet inside the slippers and stood up-- --

She had regained her composure by now. She bent down to pick up the cell phone and took a look at it. She had missed a phone call from Jinyang. Tong Yao cleared her throat, pulled some stray hairs to the back of her ears, then lowered her head to start typing-- --

[ZGDX, Smiling: Isn’t it quite normal for a period to be late for a day or two? You think it’s like in the TV drama, late for a day means you’re pregnant? It’s just your wild imagination.]

[Ah Mao’s mom: I think it’s you who has a wild imagination.]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Your period is always on time, never misses even a day. Don’t you try to fool me.]

Tong Yao: “......”

[ZGDX, Smiling: damn, you sound like you know me better than I know myself.]

Tong Yao wanted to sound like she wasn’t concerned. But,Jinyang didn’t buy it and ignored Tong Yao’s attempt to deflect by asking directly: [Ah Mao’s mom: Don’t try to change the subject. I can’t stand you young people, didn’t you have any protection while you were doing it?]

Jinyang sounded like “if you said no, I’ll whack you.” Tong Yao couldn’t pretend to be calm after seeing Jinyang’s question. She replied “yes, yes, a lot of protection.” Then she threw her phone down and was too embarrassed to look at it again. She stood up to walk up stairs-- --

She didn’t lie to Jinyang.

Though Lu Sicheng didn’t know how the word abstinence was spelled, he was reluctant to have Tong Yao taking any pills. How could he not have any protection? The condoms they used were not the ones that came from the vending machines on the street corners for one dollar. In theory, the chance they got lucky should be less than 0.1%-- --

The problem was their first time, it happened spontaneously and they certainly didn’t have any protection at the time.

Tong Yao: “......”

Tong Yao was at the top of the stairs when she remembered everything. Her facial expression changed again-- --Lu Sicheng had actually given her the after pill after that first time, but she had forgotten to take it.

Shit, Tong Yao cursed and scratched her hair. She was so stupid-- --

At the time, there were so many things happening at the same time. She was toggling between heaven and hell constantly…… Though Lu Sicheng had bought the pill for her, told her to take it, and she had promised that she would while in a distracted state of mind, she had totally forgotten the whole thing after she was back in her room. When she finally remembered it, several days had already passed.

…………………………….Now, she got her retribution.

It was just like the saying that she got what she deserved.

Tong Yao stumbled to the door of her room. In just the few steps it took to go from the staircase to her door, she had already made 120 episodes for a TV drama named <Esports Storm> in her head. The plots would go from Lu Sicheng leaving her to her mom giving her a good beating before wailing while embracing her. In the end, she independently raised the son who looked exactly like the heartless man and many years later when the son had grown up, she would meet the man on the street somewhere……

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 5 Part 2

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 5 Part 2

Liu Mao sounded a little apologetic: “Miss Ruan, I’m sorry, I will probably have a friend with me later on.”

“A friend with you?” Ruan Yu didn’t get what he meant and thought he was going to cancel the meeting with her.

“It’s the senior partner of our law firm whom I mentioned to you before. He just happens to be back in the country now and is very interested in intellectual property issues. He wants to participate in our case.”

Ruan Yu breathed out a sigh of relief. She didn’t think it would be a big deal.

She said: “No problem.” To make Liu Mao feel more at ease, she added with a laugh: “It’s reassuring to hear that two partners in the firm want to take my case.”

“Hrm……” Liu Mao hesitated.

“Anything wrong?”

Liu Mao gave a hollow laugh: “Well, strictly speaking, he hasn’t taken the national bar examination and isn’t a lawyer in this country.”

Ruan Yu understood now why he was apologetic. He was worried that with an “unprofessional” colleague tagging along, she might feel he wasn’t sincere.

Though it did sound a bit weird, this senior partner didn’t even have a lawyer’s license in this country then was this “investor” here to have fun?

“If you do mind……”

“It’s alright.” Ruan Yu said immediately.

It was obvious that Liu Mao was in a difficult position. If he could get rid of this big shot, why would he need to be apologetic to her?

She certainly didn’t want to put him on the spot.

“Then, we’ll see you later.”

“See you later.”

Ruan Yu put on her shoes and walked out the door. Before she closed the door, she glanced at the calendar on the wall: May 11.

The date seemed very familiar to her. She tried to remember the reason why on her way to the law office.

It was the date in her diary.

When she opened her diary back in the attic of her old family house, on that page: “May 11th, sunny. Today I saw Xu Huaisong three times.”

She recalled the date on the taxi and sighed.

This day ten years ago, all she could think of was Xu Huaisong. Ten years later, today, she was busy again with a lawsuit that started because of him.

She thought she might’ve been an angel in her previous life and when she lost her wings, she fell onto Xu Huaisong so hard that she had to pay him back in this life?

Ruan Yu turned to look outside the car window while feeling sentimental until she saw the black characters on the sign “Zhikun Law Firm.”

The law firm occupied an entire building. The building had a more Scandinavian design, with a plain look.

She got off the taxi and walked to the front desk to tell the receptionist her name. Then she followed the receptionist up to the third floor.

Seeing Ruan Yu had been very quiet, the young man who led her up said with a smile: “Is this Miss Ruan’s first visit here? Our office isn’t a very serious place. You seem shy because you aren’t familiar with this place. You’ll feel better once you’ve been here a few more times.”

Ruan Yu coughed in a low voice and said quietly: “I actually don’t want to come here too many times……”

“......” Who would.

Chen Hui embarrassingly scratched his head and said: “You have a sense of humor.” When they reached the top of the stairs on the third floor, he pointed: “Go all the way to the end. It’s the room to the left. If you have any questions, just look for me. My last name is Chen, you can call me Xiao Chen.”

Ruan Yu said: “Thanks.” She walked to the room and, to be polite, knocked three times at the door.

A voice came from inside: “Please come in.” It should be Liu Mao’s voice.

Ruan Yu opened the door to go in. Liu Mao, who was sitting on the brown leather sofa, quickly got up and came to greet her with a smile: “Miss Ruan.”

Ruan Yu greeted him: “Mr. Liu.” She moved her eyes to look at the other sofa in the room. 

There was another person sitting there.

The person didn’t seem to have any intention of getting up. He was looking at some documents with his back towards her. From her angle, she could only see the back of his head.

With just one look, Ruan Yu was shocked by how familiar his back view was. It was the same queer feeling she had when she saw the date “May 11.”

The person was giving her an odd feeling just from looking at the back of his head?

Ruan Yu was perplexed. Without knowing why, the beating of her heart began to run out of control.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 156 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 156 Part 4

Tong Yao read through Jinyang’s torrent of complaints and replied with a “1” to tell her that she was there-- --

[ZGDX, Smiling: 1]

Jinyang instantly replied.

[Ah Mao’s mom: What does 1 mean? Are you also asking for a whacking?]

It looked like Jinyang was fuming.

Tong Yao shook her head and suddenly remembered that on the day she was invited to play professionally, Jinyang was also babbling like this about her fight with Ai Jia. In the end, she even asked Tong Yao-- --

Yaoyao, if it were you, how would you keep a good relationship with a professional player?......

[Ah Mao’s mom: Yaoyao, you never have fights with Lu Sicheng, why? Damn, why can you have such a peaceful relationship with a professional player? Because you’re the same kind of people?]

Uhm, history really repeats itself. Almost the same questions as then, but Tong Yao’s answer at that time was: I won’t date a professional player.

Tong Yao seemed to see her own words being thrown back at her own face. Tong Yao embarrassingly shook her cell phone in her hand, but couldn’t remove the smile on her face-- --

[ZGDX, Smiling: …...It’s probably because I don’t need him to play the qualifier match for Gold? Shit, you can really fight over nothing. Your guy has probably been losing sleep the past two days because of that ticket to the US. You should forgive him! Don’t you have me here, give me your id. The champion mid will play for you!]

[Ah Mao’s mom: You’re so nice?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: I thought you would tell me to get lost.]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Shouldn’t you be holding your belly in bed shivering? What’s going on, once you hooked up with Cheng Ge, you stopped having menstrual cramps?]

Tong Yao was taken aback.

[ZGDX, Smiling: What menstrual cramps?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: ? ? ? Isn’t today the second day of your period?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: What do you mean? Your period hasn’t come? ?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: I’m just making sure, don’t mind me. But, you do know the fact that when a man and a woman sleep together under the same blanket they can make babies?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Ah, hahahahahahahaha, I can talk about this matter in such a cute way, I’m proud of myself.]

[Ah Mao’s mom: …………………………...Where are you? ?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: ……………...Don’t you scare me. Your period really hasn’t come? Where are you! I’ll be over if your period hasn’t come!]

Tong Yao watched all the messages flying by and was in a daze for quite a while. Then she looked up at the calendar and counted with her fingers-- --The reality was that Jinyang was truly her best girl friend who could clearly remember when her period should be.

However, she was in trouble.

She recalled the underpants she took off while taking a shower in the morning. It was as clean as new.

Tong Yao: “........................................................................”

Her hand shook and the cell phone dropped to the floor. She was shocked-- --

She’s in trouble.

In trouble.

…...In trouble.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 156 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 156 Part 3

The headlines she saw were-- --

[The first two teams to go to S6 from the China region have been decided. ZGDX gets the chance to go to make up for missing it last year.]

[Lu Sicheng: There’s only one target, the championship.]

[Netizens of other countries have commented on this year’s China region: Far behind the Korean region; about equal to the Europeans.]

[Team CK: Got the ticket by doing nothing.]

[That night, the fans of CK and ZGDX were unprecedentedly friendly to each other. YQCB fans chagrined and refused to look at Weibo for three days.]

[Question: Which team will win the last ticket.]

[LCK: Team TAT got the summer championship again. After the stepladder matches, it will be TAT together with Team OP and Team RP moving onto S6-- --Fans of the Korean region exclaimed that this is the least hopeful year for the Korean region to win the world championship.]

[Get to know the champion mid: The thought process of the major league Mulan, Smiling.]

Tong Yao: “......”

Looking at those headlines, Tong Yao didn’t have the courage to read them-- --She was afraid that she would become too full of herself after she read it. Right now, they couldn’t and were afraid of getting conceited-- --She knew that the real thing only just started after the end of the summer season. The netizens were all praising ZGDX right now, but if they failed to perform well at S6, these same people would then suggest that they swim back from the US without an ounce of remorse.

After leaving the news websites, Tong Yao was wondering what she should do to pass the time till the match stream started. Suddenly, the screen of her cell phone on the desk lit up…… She raised her eyebrows wondering who would message her this early in the morning since she had forgotten people outside of the esport world usually had a more regular schedules than the players. She grabbed the phone and discovered that it was Jinyang and she had already sent several WeChat messages-- --

[Ah Mao’s mom: My friend, that damn Ai Jia is looking to break up again-- --Damn, he even had a fight with me last night! That brat even dares have a fight with me! Just because I said he only got second place in the summer season.]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Guess what, I just said that and this guy got mad! Shit! They had gotten relegated in the spring and now got second place in the summer, what’s wrong with me saying “congratulations”? Is there anything wrong?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: He insisted that I always take your side no matter what. Then even imagined that I was cheering when you killed him during the match!]

[Ah Mao’s mom: I said he was so ashamed that he was getting angry and he refused to admit it, then he really flew into a rage out of embarrassment.]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Then he ignored me and went to bed, saying that there’s a stepladder match to play this morning-- --He carries the keyboard I bought for him to play the stepladder match while being angry at me-- --To hell with the stepladder match. It cost me the chance to move up to Gold.]

[Ah Mao’s mom: ………………………...Besides, I’ve been in Silver for two seasons now and was just about to hit Gold, then he won’t play the matches for me. He even refused to play the qualifier match for me, what do I need a boyfriend like him for?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Damn, my chest hurts from being so angry.]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Where are you?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Are you making babies with Cheng Ge now? It’s so early in the morning.]

Tong Yao: “......” 

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 156 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 156 Part 2

Tong Yao hurriedly got off Lu Sicheng but stood next to the bed and shook him, not willing to let him peacefully fall asleep yet. Lu Sicheng hissed impatiently as a warning. Tong Yao then turned to go to the bathroom. After showering, she deliberately used the hair dryer set on the highest setting-- --As she walked out of the bathroom, she found Lu Sicheng soundly asleep on her bed covered by her small blanket, totally unaffected by the noise.

-- --She could tell that he must have stayed up late into the night playing ranked matches for training.

…...Actually after they won the championship of the summer season, Xiao Rui had given them a week-long vacation. After the week, they would start an intensive closed-door training regimen to prepare for S6. Within those 7 days-- --as long as the players didn’t leave Shanghai or go out to cause trouble, they could basically do whatever they want-- --In the beginning of the vacation, they swore that they wouldn’t touch League of Legends, even if they played games, they would play other games, or they would go see a movie and go shopping. Little Fatty even made up a plan for the whole team to go see a movie first, then go for hot pot……

The first day of the vacation, everyone was having a great time, enjoying their free day.

The second day, they were all exhausted from having too much fun the day before and stayed at base to rest. They all collapsed on the couch looking at each other with nothing to do until dinner time. Finally they had something to do, getting their cell phones out to order take out-- --After dinner-- --they continued to slouch on the couch. Little Fatty mumbled while playing with his fingers: “I’m feeling a little bored.”

Lu Sicheng got up from the couch after hearing Little Fatty, turned on his computer, opened League of Legends, and got into the queue.

Everyone: “......”

Tong Yao: “What about not touching League of Legends for 7 days?”

Lu Sicheng: “I’m bored.”

Lu Sicheng: “Never mind, since it’s vacation, I’ll play Draven to entertain myself.”

Tong Yao: “.......................You’ll entertain yourself, but what about those four other players who get to be on your team? What have they done to deserve you picking Draven?”

Lu Sicheng: “Then, you come too. I’ll allow you to be my support.”

Tong Yao shook her head immediately: “Do I owe my points to you two brothers or something? You two always want to get me to lose my points. I won’t play with you. I still want to be a Challenger on the Korean server!”

Lu Sicheng: “What do you mean? You don’t love me enough after all.”

Tong Yao: “Shut up.”

Thus on the second day of the vacation, these internet addicted young people were all back in the world of League of Legends under the leadership of their captain-- --That night, when Xiao Rui came back to the base after having fun outside the whole day and found all the players were sitting in front of their computers doing solo or duo matches. He was so moved by their “spontaneous training.”

Tong Yao was speechless while remembering what had happened the day before. She changed into clean clothes and moved quietly next to the bed-- --She squatted down next to the bed and stared at the man sleeping soundly in bed for quite a while. Finally, she reached over with a smile in her eyes and lightly pinched his pointy nose tip…… When Lu Sicheng lightly frowned in his sleep, she smiled and released her hand.

She pulled open the curtain and the sunlight shone on his body. She put her bath towel back in the bathroom and left the room. She came down to the first floor which was empty at this hour and sat down in front of her own computer. She turned on the computer and got on a random stream platform waiting to watch the stepladder match between YQCB and Red Arrow.

It was 9:30 in the morning.

The match would begin at 1:30 that afternoon.

It was still quite some time before the match. Tong Yao switched to watch some news in the esports circle-- --The finals of the summer season had just passed. The news was pretty much about the summer season. Any post she randomly opened would be pictures of the day they won the championship…… And as long as there were a group of pictures, there would be the picture of Tong Yao kissing Lu Sicheng while cupping his face.

Tong Yao blushed and clicked her mouse to quickly continue through the news-- --

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 5 Part 1

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 5 Part 1

The next morning, Shen Mingying came to Ruan Yu’s apartment again. She confiscated Ruan Yu’s cell phone and forced her to go to bed. Then Shen Mingying stayed in Ruan Yu’s living room to contact her friends who worked in law.

The incident had gone out of hand. Now the issue wasn’t with “Poem Writer” anymore, but had to do with the writer who posted that long Weibo post, “Su Cheng.”

This person had a falling out with Ruan Yu in the past couple years and it looked like she was taking the opportunity to stir up trouble for Ruan Yu on purpose. Last night, Shen Mingying and Ruan Yu decided to go through the legal process to solve this problem.

Ruan Yu got up after three hours and went to the kitchen to cook brunch for both of them. When she brought pasta and vegetable soup out, Shen Mingying excitedly said: “I’ve made the arrangement. Zhikun Law Firm. It’s right here in Hang City. The lawyer’s digital business card has been sent to your mailbox.”

Ruan Yu replied: “Ok.” After she put down the dishes, she checked her email and her expression changed the very next second: “Is the world really this small?”

Or should she say, is Hang City really this small?

Shen Mingying asked her what was wrong.

Ruan Yu shook her cell phone with a scrunched up face: “This was my blind date from earlier.”

Just a few days ago, Liu Mao had contacted Ruan Yu on WeChat and asked her whether her trouble that day had been solved or not. Since Ruan Yu wasn’t prepared to establish a close relationship with him and didn’t want to trouble him, she simply lied and said it was resolved.

Shen Mingying couldn’t believe what Ruan Yu had told her and asked: “Then, what to do now? I’ve already sent over the details of what has happened.”

What else could she do? Shen Mingying had asked for favors from several people to get a hold of this lawyer. If they would switch lawyers now, it would be an embarrassment for the middlemen.

Besides, according to Shen Mingying’s friends, Zhikun was the best law firm in Hang City and Liu Mao’s specialty was exactly what Ruan Yu needed. They couldn’t just give up the best choice simply because Ruan Yu had lied.

Ruan Yu sniffled: “So be it. Let me contact him.”

When Liu Mao answered the phone, he was obviously surprised. But he was considerate enough not to expose her lie and simply moved on with the conversation.

After they chatted a bit, he said: “Miss Ruan, when would be a convenient time for you? Let’s talk in person.”

Whether he had other intentions or not, Ruan Yu knew it was difficult to explain things like this clearly over the phone. She agreed and said she could go over any time.

Liu Mao checked his schedule and said after a moment of silence: “I have a court appearance today. How’s 10 am tomorrow at my office?”

“No problem. What can I do today to get ready for it?”

“You can take records of all the slander online to a notary to preserve the evidence. I’ll remotely help you go through the process. In addition, don’t announce publicly that you’re thinking of filing a lawsuit just yet so as not to alert the other side. All the other evidence which you haven't published yet, keep it that way as well. Since we’re going to file a lawsuit, we don’t want to tip our hands too early.”

Liu Mao was very confident when talking about things related to his job and his instructions were extremely detailed which earned him Ruan Yu’s trust. Especially when he said “we” in the end, it made Ruan Yu feel secure.

She said: “I understand. Thank you, Mr Liu.”

Liu Mao said: “You’re welcome.” There was another phone call coming in for him. After hanging up with Ruan Yu, he picked up the other call: “Huaisong? Is there any problem with the documents I sent you last time?”

*

It was 8 am the next morning, Ruan Yu was in deep thought in front of her dresser.

She hadn’t been sleeping well for a few days. If she didn’t put on some makeup, it didn’t seem proper to go out with black circles under her eyes. If she put on full makeup, she was afraid that Liu Mao would misunderstand her intentions.

He was her blind date and she was a bit sensitive about the relationship between the two. She wanted to keep it strictly business this time.

After hesitating for a few minutes, Ruan Yu put on a thin layer of foundation and took the stack of papers Liu Mao had told her to prepare beforehand and walked out the door.

When she was at the doorway, she received a phone call from Liu Mao.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 156 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 156 Part 1

August 26, 2016, ZGDX defeated YQCB and became the winning team of the summer season. Two of the teams to represent the China region in the S6 world finals were decided right at that moment-- --

The first one was the champion of the summer season, Team ZGDX, which would be in the first seeded group.

The second one would be Team CK, having the highest cumulative points of the year, the next in order to receive the second ticket to S6. Team CK would be in the second seeded group.

The China region’s summer competition had come to a close. However, the other 6 teams in the major league ranked third to eighth by their cumulative points would continue to the stepladder tournament to fight for the last available ticket to go to S6-- --Each team’s cumulative points would decide their sequence in the ladder. The seventh and eighth teams would play the first best of five matches. The winner would move up to challenge the team ranked above them and so on. The team that won the very last match would get the precious S6 ticket.

August 31, 2016, Tong Yao was awoken by noisy voices and the roar of a car engine outside the window…… Reluctantly, she opened her eyes and raised her head up from Lu Sicheng’s firm chest. She moved a bit, wanting to find out what was all the bustling outside-- --

But she found herself unable to lift her body up because Lu Sicheng’s arm was resting on her waist which was as heavy as a dead log. 

She roughly pushed the arm off of her. After considering for three second, she was kind enough not to push the owner of the arm off the bed as well-- --Tong Yao got up from bed, opened the window, and looked down. It was the players of the team next door who had all dressed in their uniforms and were ready to go somewhere with their backpacks on their shoulders.

Tong Yao squinted her eyes and yawned.

…...Then she remembered that it was YQCB’s turn to play stepladder match today.

She was reaching over for her cell phone in order to send a message to Ai Jia to wish him victory. But before she had turned around, a warm big hand landed on her calf from behind-- --Tong Yao shivered when the hand rubbed her calf. She turned her head and saw the man behind her had woken up with sleepy eyes. It looked like he hadn’t had enough sleep.

His hand though kept moving upwards from her calf, passed her thigh, and reached into her sleeping gow, landing on her bottom.

“................................................”

Tong Yao’s forehead twitched.

“What are you fussing about so early in the morning?” The man’s voice was deep and hoarse from sleepiness: “You go to bed early and get up early like an old lady. Are you 19 or 90 anyway?”

“I’m 90.” Tong Yao pushed the hand that was moving around on her bottom away: “You won’t even let go of an old lady’s butt, are you an animal? Take your hand off!”

Lu Sicheng had been playing ranked matches till 3 o’clock in the morning and indeed didn’t have the energy to keep teasing her. He moved his hand away after humphing a couple of times. He grabbed his pillow closer, pulled the blanket over him, and was getting ready to go back to sleep-- --But Tong Yao, who was still leaning against the window, turned around to get on top of him and touched his face to say in a small voice: When I fell asleep last night, I was all by myself.”

Lu Sicheng removed the hand on his face with closed eyes: “En.”

Tong Yao reached over again to touch the stubble on his chin: “I woke up with one more person on my bed and I was almost pushed to the ground…… What’s the matter with you? Don’t fall asleep, get up. You climbed onto a nice girl’s bed in the middle of night. Let me ask again, are you an animal?”

Lu Sicheng couldn’t appease her and grabbed both of her hands instead. He opened his eyes again: “What are you talking about…… Your door wasn’t locked, so I came in. I didn’t do anything, just held you as I went to sleep, what’s wrong with that?”

Tong Yao: “Oh, so you blame me for not locking the door-- --Like a thief crying thief…… You really didn’t do anything?”

Lu Sicheng took a look at Tong Yao who was sitting on top of him with her two bare legs showing outside her sleeping gown. He calmly said: “If I had done anything, you shouldn’t be getting up and down like this now.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Sicheng: “Get off me.”

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 4 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 4 Part 3

Ruan Yu also didn’t feel any relief after she reposted Xu Huaishi’s statement. She had misgivings about the other author’s unwillingness to disclose the source of her story. She decided to wait and see if Shen Mingying could come up with anything from the coffee shop.

But Shen Mingying came back to tell her that the coffee shop hadn’t found any of her personal items. Shen Mingying had called the police in order to get access to the surveillance tapes of the surrounding areas. But the flash drive was such a tiny item that they probably wouldn’t be able to notice anyone acting suspiciously in those video tapes. They could file a report at the police station, but since it had happened over a month ago, the police probably wouldn’t be able to come up with anything either.

Though Ruan Yu was able to declare her innocence, she was still uneasy about the missing piece of information.

Soon enough, Ruan Yu didn’t have time to worry about the missing piece.

Not too long after the statement was posted, her Weibo account was swarmed once again by malicious spammers. They claimed that Ruan Yu had paid “Poem Writer” to get a bogus apology statement.

The spammers who made up the story about the fake statement engaged in a heated argument on Weibo with the people who chose to support Ruan Yu after reading the statement.

It was a chaotic situation underneath Ruan Yu’s Weibo post.

Then on Sunday morning, a writer from Jinjiang posted a long comment on Weibo. Though this person didn’t name Ruan Yu specifically, it was quite clear to the readers that this person was talking about Ruan Yu. The person said that Ruan Yu not only plagiarized the new writer but also bullied her, forcing her to give up her pen name. The poster claimed that Ruan Yu’s actions were a shame to all the creative writers.

This long post had magically gone viral. It was quickly reposted all over the internet and by that evening, it was on the trending list.

Xu Huaishi was keeping track of the situation as it developed. By Sunday evening, she had realized the seriousness of the incident.

Any reasonable person would have chosen to believe Ruan Yu by now. The people who chose to claim otherwise obviously had ulterior motives. They were deliberately slandering Ruan Yu trying to mislead the public opinion.

Xu Huaishi carefully retraced how this whole thing had started. She was a newcomer with a newly registered username, didn’t have a fan base to speak of, and her published story had only minimal exposure. Someone had intentionally stirred the whole thing up to begin with.

She and Zhao Yi had been too naive about the whole incident.

Xu Huaishi was a little scared now. She intended to contact Ruan Yu again and wrestled with properly wording the message.

But before she could send her message, she noticed that Ruan Yu had refreshed her Weibo post: [Comments and private messages are temporarily turned off]. 

Ruan Yu also posted a screenshot underneath the new message. It was a private message sent to “Wenxiang”. The sender’s profile picture and id were blurred and the message sent was a threatening picture.

The picture was filled with splashed paint with several bright red hand prints that gave a threatening feeling. The caption was [Plagiarists must die!]

Just by looking at the picture on the cell phone, Xu Huaishi was so shaken that she almost dropped her phone on the floor.

Her hands started shaking. She didn’t even hear the piercing bell ringing for evening self-study. She rushed to the restroom in the classroom building. She shut herself in one of the stalls in a fluster and dialed Xu Huaisong’s phone number.

It was already past 3 am over in San Francisco. It was an emergency, she couldn’t wait.

The other side answered the phone. Xu Huaishi immediately spoke haltingly: “Ge…...I, I’ve made big trouble!”

Xu Huaisong hadn’t gone to bed yet. There were a lot of people talking in English on the other side of the phone. It seemed that Xu Huaishong was flipping through some papers as he spoke. His response seemed somewhat perfunctory: “What’s wrong? I’m going to have an emergency meeting in five minutes. If it’s nothing serious then……”

“It’s serious!” Xu Huaishi insisted. When she opened her mouth again, she sounded like she was about to cry: “Ge, I’ve caused a big trouble for Ruan xuejie……”

It became quiet on the other side. After a while, Xu Huaisong asked: “Who?”

She said while sobbing: “Ruan Yu. Ruan xuejie. You don’t remember her?”

It was quiet on the other end again, for a much longer time.

Xu Huaishi was about to speak again when she heard footsteps coming from outside of the restroom. She was afraid of being discovered that she had used her cell phone during their self-study period. She quickly held her breath and kept quiet.

After a little while, the noise from the other end of the phone disappeared.

Xu Huaisong seemed to have walked to a quiet place and continued to ask: “What are you crying for? Spell it out.”

Xu Huaishi couldn’t talk. The girl who came to use the bathroom hadn’t left yet. She had to keep quiet and breathe calmly.

Xu Huaisong asked again: “Where are you?”

The tone of his voice was getting annoyed. Xu Huaishi hurriedly hung up the phone and sent a WeChat message to him instead: [I’m hiding inside the restroom in school. There’s someone here. Let’s talk here. First, let me show you a picture.]

She shared the picture of the wall in the piano room with him and added: [Two nights ago I found this inside the piano room 301 at the school’s arts building.]

On the other side of the screen, Xu Huaisong, well-groomed in a smart navy blue suit, stood in the brightly lit hallway outside the meeting room. He clicked open the WeChat chat with a frown.

A white lady walked over on her high heels. She called him: “Hanson.” Then she handed him a thick stack, over a hundred pages, of loose papers and told him those were the documents he had asked for.

His eyes were on his cell phone screen but reached over with the other hand to take the papers. His fingers let go of the papers suddenly when he opened the picture and clearly saw the English letters on the wall.

The pages scattered all over the ground, spreading out like snowflakes, making a mess of the hallway.

Inside the narrow and silent hallway, Xu Huaisong could hear his own heart thumping, loudly.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 155 Part 5

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 155 Chapter 5

Tong Yao’s hand mechanically kept clicking on the mouse.

Watching the health bar of the nexus decrease little by little, Tong Yao couldn’t hear anything her teammates were saying in her headphones. When the nexus health bar disappeared and she saw the nexus exploding, her brain went blank with the bang-- --

From the corner of her eyes, she saw Little Fatty push away his keyboard and jump up. He darted over to Old Cat and picked him up.

Old K took off his headphones with a beaming smile, spread his arms wide open to join the top and support in a bear hug.

Someone took off Tong Yao’s headphones. The person pulled her up from the chair, hugged her, and kissed her-- --Burning kisses landed on her cheeks and lips.

The person hugged her, then all her teammates were embracing each other-- --

The glass door of the sound proof room was pushed open. Ming god, Lu Yue, Xiao Rui, and the coach all rushed into the room. Everyone had a beaming smile on their faces. The wild chanting of the audience also flooded into the room as the door opened. They were chanting “ZGDX” and the sound seemed to have split the quiet night sky……

Commentator A: [The champion of the summer season finals! ZGDX! ! ! Everyone please stand, let’s give them our warmest round of applause-- --]

Commentator B: [Please, on behalf of all 12 major league teams, make up the regrets of so many years and take back the glory that belongs to us! The Chinese major league will never bow to the world! ! ! ]

Surrounded by her teammates, Tong Yao came to the center of the stage in front of the trophy. Confetti fell from the sky, landing on her head and shoulders…… When she touched the slightly cool silver trophy, Tong Yao finally came back to herself again-- --

She lifted up the trophy.

Then she felt her feet leave the ground; someone behind her was holding her up……

It was the exact posture from the <The Lion King> when the baboon lifted up the newly born Simba.

The lighting on the stage was rather dazzling. Tong Yao squinted her eyes ever slightly and looked up. Behind the radiance reflected from the trophy was the packed audience. She looked downwards and met a pair of smiling dark brown pupils……

-- --She was finally beaming in happiness.

She threw the trophy to Little Fatty and used both of her hands to hold the smiling face of the man who was tightly holding her. When he lowered her down a little, she lowered her head and trembly kissed his lips. Warm fluid gushed out of the corners of her eyes.

She had done it.

……

August 26, 2016, ZGDX defeated YQCB 3 : 1, winning the summer season championship. They became the first confirmed team to represent the China region in the S6 world tournament. 

On stage, the young people who held the trophy together were all smiling and looked so bright. People had doubted them and overburdened them with high expectations. They had cried and hesitated but in the end, they stood there with straight backs under those expectant gazes……

They were finally shining.

This was the end and would be a new beginning as well-- --

A short distance away, right at that place, they swore they would, with their own hands, silence any doubts about the strength of the China region!

The top of the world in their dreams!

They would move towards that place-- --

Get ready to set sail again.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 155 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 155 Part 4

Tong Yao was extremely anxious as she looked at the destroyed nexus turret, the base that only had a nexus standing, and the 40 seconds on her respawn timer: “I suggest to change our fighting song to <The March of the Volunteers>[1] for the next round, alright? We won’t feel ashamed even if it’s put in the montage…… I feel like the reason we’ll lose this round has a lot to do with that lousy song you just sang. Who started it? I blame you for it!”

As Tong Yao was talking, all her teammates were preparing to move on to the next round. Old Cat and Old K kept retreating from the other team which still had their mid intact. Fortunately, Old Cat was tanky enough now and the minion lane had soaked most of the damage for them. After a while, the two of them were forced back to their own base by the other side’s mid, top, and support that were now supported by a lot of super minions-- --

Tong Yao still had 15 seconds left till she respawned.

The commentators mumbled: “Is it over? Is it over?” ZGDX’s minions charged out of their base and Ai Jia and Rongrong moved forward to farm them.

Tong Yong still had 10 more seconds until she respawned.

After Ai Jia and Rongrong cleared away the minions, they moved towards the nexus. In the meantime, Old K, regardless of the danger, thrust into the other side’s three-men group and tried to control Ai Jia, but was instead slain by Ai Jia. Ai Jia however only had a fifth of his health left.

It was 5 seconds before Tong Yao respawned.

Commentator A: [It looks like this round’s over.]

Commentator B: [YQCB’s starting to push the nexus-- --But, something’s not right, ahhhh, Smiling is about to respawn, ahhhh!]

When YQCB was half way through destroying ZGDX’s nexus, Tong Yao respawned.

She dashed out of the base, used e, q first to kill Ai Jia; then w, r, and cast ignite to kill Rongrong; and finally blasted Liangsheng, the only player left-- --On the big screen, the big words Triple Kill appeared. YQCB had been aced!

The entire audience jumped to their feet, boiling with excitement. The commentators also stood up from their seats!

Old Cat and Tong Yao cleared the minion lane. The base at this point only had less than 100 health points-- --

The new minion wave appeared and Lu Sicheng respawned!

Tong Yao handed over the left over minions to Old Cat, then went with Lu Sicheng straight towards YQCB’s base-- --

Commentator A: [They’ve come back! Ahhhhhh, come back! ! ! ! ]

Commentator B: [Can they do it? Can they? Smiling and Chessman have reached the other side’s base-- --Ah, the esports’ Condor couple! Huang Rong and Guo Jing![2] Diaochan and Lu Bu!][3]

Commentator A: [They’ve started to take down the nexus turret with good speed! ! Ah, Pope’s respawned, but it’s no use. This time Cheng Ge has his Heal at the ready! Pope’s dead! ! What a comeback with only 50 health left on their nexus! ! ! ! ! ! The repeat of a classic move from three years ago! ! ! ! Today! !  ! ! Tonight! ! Right at this moment! ! ! !]

From the moment she respawned, dashed out of the spring, got a triple kill, rushed to the other side’s base with Lu Sicheng till the time they took down YQCB’s nexus turret, killed Pope, continued to blast the enemy nexus, Tong Yao hadn’t said a word. She just felt her heartbeat quicken, her adrenaline level explode, and that she couldn’t see anything in front of her except the enemy’s red nexus-- --

It felt like she had even forgotten how to breath.

Suddenly she remembered something she said in an interview when she first started to play professionally. At the time the reporter asked her: Tong Yao, as the major league’s first female professional player, why did you choose “Smiling” as your id?

…...She remembered how she had answered the question-- --

[Because my favorite professional player is Team We’s Weixiao[4], Guo Xuecheng, the king. He’s the well deserved number one ad in the world. He’s the one who said “don’t give me money, I want to play professionally,” deservedly respected by all the esports world. I know it was the greatest regret in his professional career that he didn’t get the world championship in S2. Later on he retired without having another chance to go back to the S series finals…… Therefore, I hope, one day, I can take the name “Smiling” back to the world stage.]

-- --Finally, one day, the name of “Smiling” was going back to the world stage!

[1]: China’s national anthem.

[2]: Their referring to the couple in a famous wuxia story called The Legend of Condor Heroes, (神雕侠侣 / shén diāo xiá lǚ).

[3]: This time it’s a couple from the Three Kingdoms, a period of Chinese history that is most commonly known from the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

[4]: Just a reminder, Weixiao (微笑) means “smile” in Chinese.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 155 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 155 Part 3

At 62nd minute and 11th second, Chessman successfully killed YQCB’s jungler Xbang. ZGDX took the chance to initiate the fight for Baron when YQCB was missing one player. They took down Baron, pushed YQCB’s inner turrets on both top and mid lanes plus the inhibitor on bot.

At 65th minute, ZGDX tried to push towards the inhibitor on top but was forced out by a wave of minions. YQCB took the chance to counter attack and caught ZGDX’s ad first, then aced ZGDX.

At the 65th minute, 30th second, YQCB moved up to ZGDX’s base, pushing all three lanes, destroying the inhibitor at mid, and took down the nexus turret at their base.

At the 66th minute, 30th second, ZGDX’s ad and mid respawned one after another. YQCB knew that the chance to wipe out the enemy base was gone and immediately retreated.

At this point, the only thing that ZGDX had left in their base was their nexus. They could lose the match at any moment if they lost a single teammate-- --

ZGDX was back into the corner once again.

It would be a fight to win or die at this moment.

At the 70th minute, after farming a wave of minions, Tong Yao dropped her mouse to quickly move her wrist around before holding on to her mouse again: “I can’t do it. Even if this is the win or lose round, even if I think of the ticket to S6, even if there’s the chance to go abroad for free-- --I’m so tired.”

Little Fatty: “Aiya, I’m also very tired. Damn, in my professional life, I can count with one hand the number of rounds that have lasted longer than 65 minutes…… Now, whoever wins the match will be winning not by skills but through will power.”

Old Cat: “No, no, no, don’t slack off, hang in there, finish this in ten minutes. I know, I can’t stand thinking that if we lost this round, we’ll have to play another one-- --After clearing this wave of minions, let’s do it, live or die. Fatty, come, sing a song first to help us get over this. One, two, three, go!”

Little Fatty: “Come ~ Be merry ~ There’s a lot of time anyway ~”

Tong Yao: “? ? ? ?”

Old Cat: “Come ~ Romance ~ There’s a lot of ignorance anyway ~”

Old K: “Come ~ Roam about ~ There’s a lot of directions anyway ~”

Lu Sicheng: “Come ~ Be affected ~ There’s a lot of sceneries anyway ~”

Tong Yao: “.............................................”

Tong Yao never knew that Team ZGDX’s fighting song would be like this. She also never thought that she would be using her ultimate to initiate a team fight amidst her teammates’ singing……

Lu Sicheng: “Ad, ad, let me insta-ki…… Go to hell, why hasn’t anyone told me the other ad has Heal?”

Little Fatty: “If we wait any longer, Ai Jia’s hourglass would be ready. Their mid’s hourglass is more terrible than Heal…… Look, Pope’s health is low, their jungler’s health’s low. Cheng Ge, go get them, ahhhhhh!”

Tong Yao threw her mouse: “I’m dead.”

Little Fatty also threw his mouse: “I’m dead too. Oh, no; oh, no, we’re going to lose. Comrades, let’s gather our stuff and get ready for the next round-- --”

Amid Little Fatty’s nagging, Lu Sicheng successfully killed the other side’s ad and jungler. YQCB had only their support, mid, and top left and all three of them were battered. The enemy mid, Ekko, had a little more health than the other two because he had been keeping his distance most of the time. Their top had already used his Guardian Angel once-- --

Lu Sicheng: “Old Cat, Old K, both of you go back a little, go back a little, try to drag on a bit longer…… Maybe we can do another fight.”

After saying so, Lu Sicheng also died.

Only Old K and Old Cat were left to resist the enemy-- --To make things worse, a large wave of minions was moving over from the enemy side, the top duo had no choice but to pull back……

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 4 Part 2

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 4 Part 2

Ruan Yu was fully awake by now. She patted Shen Mingying and showed her the cell phone.

“Was the outline really leaked?” Shen Mingying said while rubbing her eyes after reading the message.

The two of them had actually thought about the possibility of the outline being leaked in the beginning. But, except for Shen Mingying, Ruan Yu only showed her outline to one publisher which she had worked with for many years. Besides, just based on the outline, it couldn’t be possible to have so many exact details.

Therefore, they couldn’t draw any conclusions yet.

Ruan Yu frowned: “Could it be possible that my computer’s infected?”

Shen Mingying had become fully awake after rubbing her eyes: “Ah.” Then she pressed down on Ruan Yu’s shoulder: “The flash drive! That day, at the coffee shop, did you take the flash drive back?”

Ruan Yu’s eyes twitched, jumped off the bed, and rummaged all over for it. Half an hour later, she knelt on her bed, about to cry: “Can’t find it……”

That day, her mom came over rather suddenly and she had to rush to go back to meet her. She truly couldn’t remember whether she had taken the flash drive with her. Shen Mingying also left the coffee shop soon after Ruan Yu, carrying only her own laptop.

Both of them held their foreheads.

If it was just the outline that had leaked, it wouldn’t cause a situation like this. Only the flash drive would cause such damage since it contained most of the details she had found in her diary.

A minute later, Shen Mingying looked up: “I’ll go to the coffee shop. This time don’t keep quiet, try to negotiate with the other author.”

Ruan Yu nodded. She understood what Shen Mingying meant.

Though the other author had offered the best solution for her side under the current situation, she couldn’t let such an abominable offense of stealing and selling outlines from a studio go.

She sent a message over: [How are you? I would like to know from which studio that your friend bought the outline from?]

On the other side of the screen, Xu Huaishi, with dark circles under her eyes and messy hair,  dialed Zhao Yi’s phone number: “What to do? How do I reply? I told you your lousy idea won’t do……”

“Oh, then just tell her the truth.”

“No way!”

If she let Ruan Yu know about the truth, then she probably would have to let her brother know what she had done. She said: “My brother is really, really mean…… He’ll kill me!”

“Isn’t your brother a lawyer? How can he kill you knowing the law?”

“He can cut off my spending money. What’s the difference between that and killing me!”

“How about this, you tell her that your friend can’t disclose that since they have a confidential agreement. For the moment, she won’t be able to find your personal information unless she knows someone who has some ‘grey connections.’”

“But, I would feel so terrible for Ruan xuejie……”

“You’ll be apologizing publicly, delete your story and your pen name. To her, this should be the best result. If you tell people about this incredible coincidence, I’m afraid no one would believe you!”

Xu Huaishi was still hesitating: “What if my brother still likes Ruan xuejie and thinks that I’ve done a good deed, maybe he’ll reward me instead of punishing me?”

“Are you joking? It’s been eight years, how could he still like her? You think your brother can live his life with only the memory of a crush from the past? Doesn't he need a sex life?”

“Oh, you’re right……”

“Well, if you want to tell him then do it. Just remember that you can’t expect to have a good life afterwards.”

Xu Huaishi shivered and decided to listen to Zhao Yi.

As Zhao Yi had expected, without any information from Xu Huaishi, Ruan Yu couldn’t get to the bottom of it for the time being.

Xu Huaishi didn’t know how much Ruan Yu had believed her. After a few rounds of negotiation, a message came from Ruan Yu: [Please just release the statement for now.]

It looked like Ruan Yu hadn’t given up on getting to the bottom of this issue, but in order to get over the controversy and minimize her loss, she had decided to have the apology released first.

Xu Huaishi felt so sorry for her and apologized over and over. Then she released the statement on Weibo which Ruan Yu rigorously edited. A few minutes later, she saw “Wenxiang” repost the statement and attached some of the chat history between her and Ruan Yu.

Xu Huaishi didn’t feel relieved at all.

She told one lie because she couldn’t face the consequence, yet now she had to cover that lie with even more lies. Though it looked like she had done whatever she could to make it up to Ruan Yu, somehow she felt even more uneasy.

She sighed and hid herself under the blanket like an ostrich.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 155 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 155 Part 2

ZGDX players were having a good time in their voice chat. Tong Yao gladly joked about the current situation as she farmed: “If I were sitting down there watching the match, I would have gone to the bathroom for the third time by now.”

Lu Sicheng turned to take a look at her.

After a short pause, he said: “Kidney deficiency?”[1]

Tong Yao wrinkled her nose while Little Fatty laughed: “Young people should know abstinence.”

Lu Sicheng very seriously said: “Uhm. I haven’t done anything these past few days anyway. You have to ask her what she has done.”

Tong Yao’s cheeks were burning hot. She cursed silently and annoyingly called Lu Sicheng’s full name: “A lot of people backstage are listening! Shut up!-- --Backstage people, that just now can’t go on the montage. I don’t want to receive dead mice or dead cockroaches. Besides, there are many underaged fans in the esports circle!”

Old K: “Hahahahahaha!”

Old Cat: “What are you laughing at. I can’t handle Rumble, can’t you come up and help me! If I don’t get tanky enough, who’ll shield you in team fights!”

At the 30th minute, both mids initiated a team fight. Maokai tied up the other side’s mid before he could use his ultimate to run away, then ZGDX blasted him to death. The first blood happened after 30 minutes into the match. After the kill, YQCB retreated and ZGDX didn’t give chase and instead they turned to take down their first drake.

ZGDX was temporarily in the lead with 1 kill and 800 gold, a slight lead which could be overlooked at this point in the match.

At the 35th minute, YQCB was tired of dragging the game on and changed tactics. Four of their players pushed to mid as a group to keep Tong Yao there while Rumble went to bot by himself in an attempt to push ZGDX’s inner turret at bot.

At the 36th minute, Rumble teleported to mid and all five players worked as a group to fight Baron. Old K swung by the top of Baron’s arena. The moment Baron’s health was about to hit 0, Little Fatty flashed over and headbutted the five enemies. Old K went down the arena at the same time and cast smite-- --

ZGDX successfully took down Baron!

The moment of ZGDX’s counter attack had arrived-- --

The audience all looked quite calm, unsure whether the major league teams were all really weak or this match was too splendid, both sides were taking turns being on the offensive again. It’s a turn-based game all over again.

At the 40th minute, destroy a turret.

At the 45th minute, destroy a turret, destroy a turret, kill an enemy, and destroy another turret.

At the 50th minute, destroy a turret, destroy a turret, clear out the last outer turret, attack the inhibitor turret. Ah, someone got killed. Retreat after they lost a player, be steady, be steady-- --

At the 60th minute, Tong Yao: “Dang, dang, dang, dang! Let me report the time, it’s now at the 60th minute of the game. Congratulations, this round has turned into the legendary bladder round where everyone has a full bladder…… Let’s interview our handicapped Captain Lu Sicheng: Captain, does your hand hurt?”

Lu Sicheng: “It’s alright. But if we lose this round after hanging around till this point and have to play another round, I’ll probably lose my temper.”

As he was talking, he finally saw the other side’s jungler in front of the bush he had been hiding inside for a while now. Lu Sicheng jumped out of the bush and took down the jungler while he was surprised!

Everyone: “......”

Tong Yao: “Let me translate. The captain said if we don’t win this round, everyone will die.”

Lu Sicheng: “Don’t push it. The other side’s jungler’s dead. Come get Baron.”

[1]: 肾虚 (shènxū) means kidney deficiency or a weak kidney. Apparently it’s also used to imply that someone isn’t good at sex or doesn’t have much sex.

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 4 Part 1

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 4 Part 1

Because Ruan Yu likes Xu Huaisong, everything has been answered.

When Xu Huaisong wrote in the draft box “You’re so petite, why choose basketball for PE”, or when he was wondering “What rule did you break that made them punish you by standing on the stage”, if he had walked to the back of the piano, he would know the answer.

Yet, he didn’t.

He didn’t know that all of those seemingly random coincidences had been planned by Ruan Yu through various means. All those nights when he was having a hard time falling asleep, she was also thinking of him.

Xu Huaishi turned on the flash on her phone and took a couple of pictures of the wall. Suddenly she shouted: “Whoo wow-- --Zhao Yi, this is so moving-- --”

Zhao Yi trembled with a start and reached over to cover her mouth, but he was too late. The security guard who was patrolling the hallway downstairs heard the noise and immediately rushed upstairs with a high beam flashlight.

Zhao Yi, with eyebrows crossed, blamed her in a low voice: “I think your IQ is also quite moving!”

Xu Huaishi was dejectedly brought by the security guard to the Moral Education Department.

The director of the department, Zhu Feng, thought the two of them were dating. No matter how the two explained, he insisted on calling both of their parents.

Zhao Yi wasn’t a stranger to the director. The director pointed at him and signaled that he would take care of Zhao Yi later. He turned to look at Xu Huaishi: “You first. Your parents’ contact information!” As he was talking, he picked up the phone on the desk.

“Mr. Zhu, I’m wrong……”

“You don’t want to give it to me? Then I’ll ask your room teacher.”

The number the room teacher had was Tao Rong’s cell phone number. Flustered, Xu Huaishi hastily gave the director the number: “209-***-****!” Then she lifted her eyebrows and quickly added: “It’s this number. My parents are in the US!”

She thought the director would give up calling her parents with a foreign phone number. Yet Zhu Feng humphed and dialed the number with an added “001” to that number. The call went through, Mr. Zhu used broken English to say: “Hello, I’m……”

A male voice on the other side interrupted him in Chinese just in time: “How are you?”

Mr. Zhu quietly cleared his throat and introduced himself. Then he explained Xu Huaishi’s offense to the man on the other side.

Xu Huaishi nervously held her breath trying to hear what the other side was saying.

She had called her mother while in the milk tea shop to tell her mother that she would be late going home because she was having dinner with her girl friends. She absolutely couldn’t let Mr. Zhu call her mother right now. She was hoping that her brother would be kind enough to give her a break.

Yet, the very next second, she heard Xu Huaisong’s merciless voice come from the phone: “It’s inconvenient right now for me to take care of this issue. Please call this number to contact……”

It looked like her brother was going to give Tao Rong’s cell phone number to the director. Xu Huaishi jumped up trying to grab the phone. Zhu Feng gave her a stare, Xu Huaishi could only stomp her foot and yell at the phone: “Ge, you’re so mean!”

This person deserved to fail at his puppy love! Xu Huaishi decided that she would never let her brother know that Ruan xuejie liked him!

*

It was one o’clock after midnight, Ruan Yu and Shen Mingying were lying in bed under the blanket. They were staring blankly in the air while holding their cell phones in hands.

It had been over 24 hours since this whole thing started. Rumors were all over the internet. Though she had tried to clarify things, she still couldn’t completely put an end to the malicious speculation as there was always someone with ulterior motives. Shen Mingying worried about her staying in her apartment all by herself and came over to stay with her.

In the evening, they had noticed that the other author had “read” the message Ruan Yu had sent. They thought they would hear from the other author soon. Yet, up till now, there was no reply from the other side.

They had asked a friend to prepare a comparison column to counter the one posted online, but it wasn’t ready yet. They had done all they could do. As for now, all they could do was wait. There was nothing else they could do.

They eventually fell asleep from exhaustion. The next morning, Ruan Yu started searching her cell phone under the blanket the moment she opened her eyes. After unlocking her phone, she was surprised to see the message from “Poem Writer.”

The message was sent at 2 am that morning.

A Person Writes Poems: [How are you. I’m terribly sorry for causing you trouble. <Her Eyes Can Smile> isn’t my original idea. It’s based on an outline my friend bought from a studio. If my story has infringed on your rights, I’m willing to make a public statement to explain it. I’ll apologize to you publicly and delete my story and my pen name. The following is the statement I’ve drafted. Please look it over. I hope I can minimize your loss as much as I could. Once again, I’m very sorry.]

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 155 Part 1

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Hello Everyone!

Just wanted to inform our readers that Chapter 155 is marked by the author as being the end of the main story. However, there are 35 or so side story chapters left that essentially continues the story from where they left off which we'll be translating.

You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 154 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 154 Part 4

About 4 minutes and 30 seconds into the game, Lu Sicheng took a look at his experience bar, then checked the movements of the other team. The ad’s creep scores on both sides were exactly the same; neither of them had missed a single minion. They were going to move up to level 4 soon, yet Li Junhe was still happily farming and didn’t seem to have any intention of moving forward to tower dive-- --It was well known to everyone that Li Junhe had a habit of tower diving once before reaching level 4. But it looked like he had actually snuffed out this personal habit of his……

The last time Lu Sicheng had seen him so restrained was at the finals of the S5 world tournament.

“K god, since you’re here already, why bother leaving now? Why go to top, Old Cat can take care of himself, the other side’s jungler probably is on his way to top now……………” Lu Sicheng said flatly: “Looks like Li Junhe won’t be tower diving this round. It seems like he really wants to drag his support with him to victory.”

Lu Sicheng paused before heartlessly continuing: “Too bad, with me here, I won’t let him to do that.”

Everyone: “......”

Lu Sicheng had just finished talking, when Little Fatty started to exclaim “the other team’s ad”-- --Right at that moment, both ads had reached level 4. Lu Sicheng immediately cleared the minions and moved up. Little Fatty also mercilessly hooked “the other team’s ad” with his q and then recast his q before moving forward to cast their e, followed by exhaust!

Li Junhe’s Ezreal swiftly retreated while Liangsheng’s Bard slowed Lu Sicheng and then cast exhaust on him for good measure. Bard shielded Ezreal so he could retreat-- --But at that moment, Old K’s Gragas jumped out of the bushes to cast e and flashed to block the pair from reterating. Lu Sicheng took the chance to take out his spear to attack and kill Li Junhe. He successfully got a kill!

The audience was cheering and clapping. At the same time, ZGDX’s voice channel was in state of excitement-- --

Old K: “Nice!”

Old Cat: “Nice!”

Little Fatty: “See that amazing hook! There’s no wind at Summoner’s Rift today! The hook won’t be blown off course!”

Tong Yao: “Alright, alright. I’ll just stay here this round. You can carry.”

Lu Sicheng had taken down the other side’s ad, ensuring an advantage at bot. It was uplifting  news for the team.

ZGDX was able to push forward with overwhelming momentum afterwards. It was smooth sailing for them for the rest of the game-- --

Since YQCB dreaded Lu Sicheng becoming too strong while at bot, Ai Jia had to move down from time to time, leaving Tong Yao the freedom to develop much as possible at mid…...When YQCB realized it, Diana had already grown to the point that no one could stop her. In every team fight, she could smoothly cut into the rear and kill the enemy carry, then grab Thresh’s lantern and escape from the fight. She could move in and out freely, coming and going like the wind.

Top Old Cat’s Gnar was quite tanky by now. When his rage meter maxed out, he turned into a small hill blocking the enemy’s path.

In comparison to his teammates, Lu Sicheng didn’t have much of an outstanding performance but he had successfully attracted the attention of the other side so that his teammates could develop. His most important function seemed to be throwing Little Fatty out to initiate team fights or throwing Little Fatty away after he had thrown the lantern to Tong Yao so Tong Yao could come back after she had finished her rampage……

At the 35th minute, ZGDX successfully destroyed YQCB’s nexus.

Just like what ZGDX was talking about before this round, ZGDX had pushed the team next door to the edge of the cliff with a score of 2 : 1. Tong Yao as Diana had earned 7 kills, 0 deaths, and 10 assists and became the well deserved MVP for this round.

Tong Yao: “I’m still the handsome Tong.”

Lu Sicheng took off his headphone and lowered his head to take a look at the girl next to him, who had a slightly reddish face and barely concealed high spirits. He smiled: “In the next round, YQCB will ban Twisted Fate, Leblanc, and Diana.”

“No problem, no problem. There’s more champions similar to Diana. There’s Ahri, anyway I can play them all.” Tong Yao waved her hand: “They can’t ban them all.”

Lu Sicheng didn’t say anything, only lifted his hand to pat her head rather indulgently. Tong Yao seemed to have come alive again.

Something seemed to flash in Lu Sicheng’s eyes as if he was about to say something, but he kept his silence, only the corner of his lips quietly curved up.

He watched her push open the door of the soundproof room, then used her shoulder to push  the opening a little wider so she could squeeze out. Then she reached to the back to pick up his hand quite naturally-- --Just like numerous times before, they walked down the stage to the break room shoulder to shoulder with fans cheering behind them.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 154 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 154 Part 3

Once the game started, Tong Yao heard her teammates ping at the bushes. She felt that she had suddenly become frighteningly collected-- --Playing Diana now, she no longer had any anxiety over every single little mistake. She no longer had to worry about getting a lucky chance to kill Ai Jia or trying to take advantage of any mistakes he made during the laning phase.

After choosing Diana, her mission became clear to her and that was staying alive and developing as best she could until level 6.

There were no longer any stray thoughts distracting her.

She was very steady in the laning phase, very cautious even when she was exchanging blows with the opposing mid, and avoided initiating any fights-- --She had asked Old K on her own to place wards defensively to secure her side of the lane.

…………………………...All these moves made Ai Jia rather uneasy. When Tong Yao was taking her time farming, Ai Jia was mumbling-- --

[YQCB voice channel]

Ai Jia: “Why hasn’t she come up? Shit, she ran away right after that exchange. What’s going on? Damn! This isn’t like her! Guys, something’s not right. The other side’s esports Mulan has been possessed by Lu Yue!”

YQCB’s support and captain Liangsheng: “Don’t yell, don’t yell, its giving me a headache. She took Diana, so she has to focus on developing, what else can you do?”

Ai Jia was still yelling: “She can’t. She suddenly became smarter, I can’t beat her now!”

Liangsheng was about to say what happened in the last round didn’t really prove that Ai Jia could beat her. But before he was able to say anything, he heard the team’s ad Li Junhe click his mouse, pinging the jungler to retreat. Li Junhe used Chinese to say briefly: “This round, no tower dive.”

Liangsheng gladly said: “Heard that? Even this trouble maker has enough discipline to hold himself back from tower diving-- --In comparison, Smiling picking Diana to focus on developing is far from something surprising. Stop yelling now. This round we’ll focus on farming. Try to learn from the Korean region. They usually don’t engage in fights. But once they start fighting, it’s always a fight amongst titans, profound and with substance.”

Li Junhe: “Me, Korean, with substance.”

Liangsheng: “You don’t have it. Except for you.”

Li Junhe: “......”

It was bustling at YQCB’s channel. On the other side, ZGDX players were also quite chatty and noisy since the one who threatened to pull off their tongues was no longer around-- --

[ZGDX voice channel]

Tong Yao: “Click a, q. Oh, he looks pretty annoyed that I left after my q!”

Lu Sicheng took a chance to move his camera to take a look at mid. Then he chuckled: “You didn’t get any advantage out of it. What are you so happy for?”

Tong Yao: “I’m optimistic.”

Little Fatty: “I admire that a woman’s heart is as fickle as the changing weather, changing all the time. Just an hour ago, you were pitifully facing the wall on that chair with coffee in hand deep in thought about your misdeeds in the break room. And now you’re optimistic-- --Ah, Thresh with the Blood Moon skin really looks good. After winning this round, Cheng Ge, give me money to buy this.”

Tong Yao: “Why can’t you buy it yourself?”

Little Fatty: “We’re all close to him. You already have a Maserati and won’t let me have a skin! You’ve gone too far! I slept with him for two years, why can’t I be worthy of a skin?”

Lu Sicheng: “Speak nicely and stop talking dirty.”

Little Fatty: “Ming god isn’t here. After he’s gone, I don’t know why but my desire to stop being a human being becomes especially strong.”

Old K interjected: “This round Li Junhe seems pretty quiet. It looks like he isn’t going to tower dive-- --Ah, it’s so irritating that we can’t type during the game. Otherwise I could ask him whether he’ll tower dive or not. If not, I’ll go help Old Cat at top.”

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 3 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 3 Part 3

Xu Huaishi and Zhao Yi used the excuse that they had forgotten their homework in their classroom and were allowed to retrieve them. They ran towards the school archive building in the afterglow of the setting sun.

At this hour the archive was already closed. Zhao Yi used various excuses to pester the guard at the door and Xu Huaishi looked for the right moment to slip through the gate, making her way to the second floor.

The building was empty, the glow from the sunset came through the window, lighting the hallway, and the leaves on the trees outside the windows cast mottling shadows on the floor. Xu Huaishi tread softly and even breathed lightly as she turned a few corners. Finally she reached the wall which had all the names of alumni from all the classes throughout the years.

First High School had been established close to 50 years ago and this archive building was built over 20 years ago. The wall was crowded with pictures.

Xu Huaishi focused on the column for the class of 07. She reached over with her index finger to go over the pictures one row after another. Her heartbeat quickened, from nervousness, the sense of adventure, and excitement.

To a seventeen year old girl, compared to being detestably plagiarized, she was more willing to believe in her subconscious that there was a secret that had been buried for ten years.

But the very next moment, she heard steps coming from the staircase. A middle aged man’s exasperated voice could be heard: “Which class are you from? What are you doing here after school, uhm?”

Xu Huaishi screeched, turned around, and ran, without having the chance to get a good look at the pictures. She ran down from the other staircase in a fluster.

The man ran right after her. She staggered down the stairs but saw there was another man standing at the gate when she had reached the lobby. She had no choice but to turn around, as she began to despair, she heard a familiar voice coming from the lady’s restroom: “Come here!”

She dashed over and saw Zhao Yi was right outside the window. She threw her backpack out to him, then pushed herself up with both of her hands against the window sill and jumped out of the window.

Zhao Yi caught her, carried her backpack on his shoulder, and dragged her by the arm as they ran to the grove behind the school archive.

The two of them quickly disappeared. The guard was left behind yelling and stamping his foot.

Zhao Yi stopped running after noticing that they had gotten away safely. He threw down Xu Huaishi’s backpack and fell down onto the grass. He said while catching his breath: “Xu Huaishi…… is there a long lost family in the archive building, why do you have to sneak in at this hour? You can make a request on Monday to go in. Your family can’t run away, right?”

Xu Huaishi was also catching her breath and took a while before replying: “If I don’t get to the bottom of this, I won’t be able to sleep the whole weekend!”

After saying so, she also fell onto the grass and said in irritation: “I just missed it by this much!”

“No matter what, you’re on your own now!”

Xu Huaishi certainly knew that it would be impossible to try to sneak into the archive building now. To ask her brother directly would mean to let him know that she had published his private “crush history” online behind his back. The consequences of that would be even more horrific than getting punished and writing a self-reflection report at school.

So she really had to suffer for a whole weekend?

She was unwilling to give in. She kicked her legs in the air a couple of times. Then she suddenly recalled something and said: “Wait, wait……”

In addition to the message from Wenxiang, she could also look for clues in Wenxiang’s story to prove that Wenxiang is Ruan Yu.

She remembered that she had read a scene in the story while she was still at the bus stop. In the story, the male lead “He Shiqian”' would go to the school’s arts building to play piano at break times and the female lead “Lin Xisheng” had written down a row of English letters -- --LXSXHHSQ, which means “Lin Xisheng likes He Shiqian,'' on the wall of the piano room He Shiqian used most often.

Which would mean……

The sun had completely gone down the horizon. Xu Huaishi pushed herself up from the ground and took a look at the round dome of the arts building which was disappearing gradually in the darkness. She said: “Zhao Yi, have the walls of the arts building been repainted in the past few years?”

Zhao Yi didn't know where she was coming from and said: “Our school is so stingy. I don’t think they have.”

“Then, let’s take a risk one more time?”

“......”

Fifteen minutes later, Xu Huaishi checked her cell phone while arching her back on the spiral staircase of the arts building. She said: “I found it. In the story it said it’s room 401, the wall behind the piano!”

After saying so, she pushed Zhao Yi, gesturing for him to lead the way while repeating: “401, 401.”

Zhao Yi frowned and lowered his voice to say: “401 is the painting room. How can it have a piano in it?”

“Hum?” Xu Huaishi was taken aback.

Could it be possible that the author made the room number up so as not to be too realistic? Then, didn’t it mean that they had to go check room by room?

“Hurry, think again!” Zhao Yi rushed her in a small voice.

Think again, think again.

Xu Huaishi held her head and tried hard to recall the story. Moments later, something flashed by in her head. She said: “Do you know from which piano room one can see the second classroom on the fourth floor of the classroom building?”

She remembered in her brother’s draft messages, he had mentioned that when he looked out from the piano room, he could see that girl leaning against the railing in front of her classroom enjoying the sunlight.

“The west most one, room 301!” Zhao Yi quickly determined.

“That’s it then, let’s go!”

The two of them lowered their bodies and swiftly went to the third floor.

The door to room 301 was locked. Zhao Yi sighed: “Do you have a hairpin? The thin kind.”

Xu Huaishi pulled off one from her hair. Then she used her cell phone as a flashlight for him.

Five minutes later, the door unlocked with a click. She was ecstatic and rushed to the back of the piano with her lit cell phone.

Xu Huaishi was slender enough to squeeze in between the piano and the wall. The light from her cell phone lit up the old and yellowish white wall. Though the paint in some areas of the wall had peeled off, the line of English letters written with correction fluid was still clear to see right in the middle of the wall.

-- --RYXHXHS

Zhao Yi, unable to squeeze further in, glanced over the letters from outside and tried to make it out: “ri, ya, xiu, hei, xiu, hei…...she?”

“......”

Xu Huaishi turned to stare at him. When she turned back to face the letters again, she was almost overwhelmed with emotion.

Her index finger lightly touched the rough finish of the wall as if she was afraid to break it. She said it softly: “It’s…...Ruan, Yu, xi, huan, Xu, Huai, Song.”[1]

[1]: To keep in line with the original language, each English letter matches the start of a Chinese character’s pronunciation. “xi huan” (喜欢) means “like(s)” in Chinese.

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