You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 7 Part 1

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 7 Part 1

How to say it? Xu Huaisong truly didn’t know where to start. Finally, he spoke: “It’s a little complicated.”

“There’s a relationship in this world which is more complicated than an ex-lover?”

“Isn’t the relationship between a debtor and a creditor complicated?”

Liu Mai widened his eyes in surprise, but after giving it some thought, it did look like that kind of relationship.

As a lawyer, he had to deal with all sorts of people and had developed a keen observation ability. Based on what had happened today, he could be sure that Ruan Yu and Xu Huaisong knew each other before.

Originally, he thought the reason the two were so awkward when seeing each other again could only be the fact that the two were “exes.” But after being reminded by Xu Huaisong, he thought he might be too narrow minded.

Liu Mao suddenly understood and stammered: “She…… she owes you money?”

No wonder Ruan Yu was so nervous and pretended to not know Xu Huaisong, while Xu Huaisong had put on a poker face, which was unusual for him.

Xu Huaisong gave a hearty laugh after seeing Liu Mao had believed him: “No.”

“......” Liu Mao felt like committing a crime.

“Let’s go find a place to eat.” Xu Huaisong interrupted him seeing that he was going to ask more questions.

Liu Mao had no choice but to step on the gas pedal. As he was turning the steering wheel, he recalled what happened yesterday.

Xu Huaisong called him yesterday and asked him to use his connections to help him find a certain person’s basic personal and contact information. He asked Xu Huaisong whether it was urgent or not since he was busy preserving the online evidence for a new case which involves copyright and defamation.

Xu Huaisong said: “It’s urgent.” But he didn’t go on, then as if he had thought about something, he asked who was the client of Liu Mao’s new case.

Xu Huaisong was the partner of Zhikun Law Office and did have the right to know about the cases the law firm handles. Liu Mao told him about the case and Xu Huaisong immediately hung up the phone.

When Liu Mao heard from Xu Huaisong again, it was today at the early hour of the morning. Xu Huaisong surprised Liu Mao by telling him that he was at Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

After he had connected all the dots, Liu Mao fully understood now: the person Xu Huaisong wanted to check out was Ruan Yu.

This wasn’t an unexpected reunion. Xu Huaisong had flown back just for her.

However, he had come such a long way back only to be told that she didn’t know him.

Liu Mao thought Xu Huaisong was probably too embarrassed to admit it and didn’t bother getting to the bottom of it. “What should we eat? Western food?”

“It takes too long. Just something simple, I have a plane to catch.”

“To San Francisco?” Liu Mao was shocked.

Xu Huaisong nodded.

So it was a lie also when he said he wanted to find a hotel.

“You just arrived, why do you need to go back in such a hurry?”

“It’s less than 24 hours from now to my client’s court appearance. Should I be in a hurry or not?”

Liu Mao was dumbfounded: “Are you crazy?”

He had spent a dozen or so hours flying here, briefly met her, then another dozen or so hours to fly back to defend his client?

Xu Huaisong lowered the back of his seat to lie down and exhaustedly closed his eyes: “Probably.” He sighed with a laugh: “Who wouldn’t be.”

*

Inside Shen Mingying’s apartment, Ruan Yu curled up on the couch and buried her head in the pillow: “I’m really going crazy……”

After hearing the whole story, Shen Mingying laughed so hard that tears came out: “Where’s the confident person from before that your story won’t be recognized by him?”

“How would I know that this whole thing would catch his attention?” Ruan Yu scratched her hair to sit up: “It’s too surreal, you couldn’t even find it in a novel. Am I dreaming?”

“You know, you look just like how you were at that time?”

Ruan Yu listlessly mumbled: “What time……”

“The day you turned 18 and Xu Huaisong held your hand that night.”

That night, Ruan Yu was so excited she didn’t go to sleep for the whole night. She was also asking herself over and over back then whether she was dreaming.

But instead of being excited like she was then, now she’d go ballistic instead with the same intensity.

Shen Mingying went to the kitchen to cook lunch. When she came back, she saw Ruan Yu tightly holding her cell phone with a deathly pale face: “What to do? That Weibo post which I said the story was based on my personal experience was posted together with that video which clarifies the timeline of the creation of my outlines……”

In other words, she couldn’t delete the Weibo post, nor could she edit the content of the post. Because any changes she made would be twisted by whoever was trying to attack her career.

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.